WEBVTT - Buck’s First Thoughts - 1/11/21 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:04.120 You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.520 Show podcast. Get more from Buck by following him on 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.440 social media at Buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.760 It's only going to get worse. I wish I could 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:18.360 say otherwise, but we are not at the end of this. 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.760 If anything, we're just in the opening phases of the 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:27.840 left's attempts to completely silence conservatism online. I think it's 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.560 important that we all establish some rules here, some principles, 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:37.199 like the following. Everything is now political. Your enemies do 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.400 not seek to convert you, but to destroy you. Your 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:45.400 basic freedoms are under assault, and we're losing winning matters 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.720 a lot. This is an ideological street fight, and you 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.680 should act with honor, but expect none in return. Those 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:53.519 are principles that I've put out that you will need 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:58.360 to remember in the days and weeks ahead, because the 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:04.040 Left is now unleashed, and they're using their most powerful companies, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.759 They're most influential and wealthy corporations to do it at 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.399 a time when you've already seen a Democrat consolidation of 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.760 government power. What are the issues that we've had here 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.880 for a while. I think is that in the media, 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.280 we talk a lot about social media, and people who 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.000 are just trying to go about their lives think that 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:27.119 there's some exaggeration. Oh how powerful can Facebook and Google 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.240 really be? Well, we're seeing now they are more powerful 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:35.040 than really any government. They have more influence, certainly than 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.959 any media corporation. They're among the wealthiest companies in the world, 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:43.200 and they are oligopolists. There are a handful of companies that, 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:48.400 for all intents and purposes, control the Internet, and they 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.480 have decided openly. I mean, it's been going on for 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.200 a while, but now they're just saying that this is 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.760 what's gonna this is what's happening. They're not hiding it anymore. 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.320 They're not pretending, Oh, it's just the algorithm, it was 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.760 a mistake. No, they're saying, we are purging you. If 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:08.560 you're a Trump supporter who is too vocal about your 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:12.200 concerns about the election, or if you're somebody who wants 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.800 to battle against lockdowns and mask mania, we will get 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:17.960 rid of you. We will erase you from the Internet, 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:25.080 destroy your business, and also silence you in the process. 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.920 This is a level of censorship, my friends. This is 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.920 a level of control over the flow of information that 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.880 until recently, would have been unthinkable. How could anyone do this? 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:40.799 How could they be so effective in deciding what the 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:45.440 boundaries of acceptable political debate and conversation are. That's what's 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:50.960 happening here. We have been talking about creating, as I've said, 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.280 unsinkable aircraft carriers or free speech. And before any of 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.520 you pointed out, I'll just admit it, I didn't realize 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.400 how easily they'd they'd be sunk, or at least they 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.840 would try to do it. Parlor Rumble and other sites 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.000 out there that have tried to take a free speech perspective, 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:12.960 they're not right wing sites by mission. That's not true. 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.320 You keep hearing this in the media, their places where 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:19.680 people on the right, where conservatives have been growing in 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:24.239 number because we're not allowed to disagree with the Democrat 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:28.560 left consensus. On the other big social media sites. I mean, 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.400 they may very well have delivered the election to Joe 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.240 Biden just by suppressing the Hunter Biden story. The way 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.920 that they did will never know. But then when you 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:39.960 add on top of that the way that they adjust 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.600 the algorithms, you add on top that the way that 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.920 they try to tilt the playing field in the favor 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.200 of Democrats all the time. We can't really account for 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:53.120 this because people believe, because we've been led to believe 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:57.120 by these companies that they are free and fair and 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:01.560 that they are just trying to to provide services to people. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.800 They're not pursuing an agenda beyond profit and growing their 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.080 user base. And profit is fine, growing users is great, 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:14.440 But no, they're evangelists for the left. Google, Facebook, Twitter, 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.920 Amazon evangelists for the left, and those companies put together 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:23.600 are such a huge portion of what is even possible 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.760 on the Internet. If you don't have a single social 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.320 media account, you understand how much this affects you. Google 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:35.680 can cut off if it wants to, all adds to 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:39.080 any website that it chooses to do so, it can 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:43.040 make your website go bankrupt in a matter of weeks. 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.080 So if you're saying, well, block, I don't, I don't 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.320 use social media, I don't really care as long as 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.080 I can still get my favorite authors and writers and 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:56.160 commentators and support their content, what I'm telling you is 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:00.400 no that they won't be able to either. They won't 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.200 be able to do there. I mean, thankfully I'm on 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.120 terrestrial radio as well as having a podcast and a website. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.000 You know, you can go to bucksexen dot com and 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.880 please do so because my ability to tell you all 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.440 I've been saying for all please bookmark it be you know, 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.000 make bucksex and dot com a site that you're checking 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.000 in to see. You can always listen to the show 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.520 there too, on demand. It's very easy. There's a pop up, 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:22.720 just click the play button. You can do it from 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.279 your smartphone. I'm telling you this because it's really a 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.239 matter of time right now. Before my what was almost 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.400 five hundred and I was getting getting close to five fifty. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.760 I think fouls in Twitter, and anyone tells you they 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.120 don't pay attention to their Twitter following, who's on Twitter 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.880 and as a blue check is a liar? A liar? Okay, 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.200 that's that's ridiculous. I've seen some people who even cares, 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.320 please let's see and then that's all they care about. 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.760 It's all just one big vanity project for them anyway. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.440 But I've I've been losing I think at this point 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.960 I'll be close to one hundred thousand Twitter followers down 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.800 in a week. In a week, it's a lot of 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.960 people to no longer be able to reach in any capacity, 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:06.840 And I know some of them are bots, and there's 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.200 all these theories out there, But if they weren't doing 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.560 a purge of conservatives, explaining me why it's only happening 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.440 to conservatives at that, I would like to know if 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.559 it were just Russian bots they were they were taking 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:21.600 off the off the Internet, and the way that Amazon 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.839 can go after people now is even in some ways 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:31.240 more frightening. You need servers. There's an actual technological infrastructure 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.600 that has to be in place for you to have 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.080 any kind of website, for you to do any of 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.000 these uh, any of this conservative content that I'm talking 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:40.600 to you about. If you don't if you don't have 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:45.440 the servers, you can't do anything. They are now denying 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:50.839 people access to servers, right, And that's what's happened to Parlor, 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:56.160 for example. It wasn't just Amazon and Google and UH 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.240 and Twitter all effectively saying you know, they're they're going 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.599 to be target This is a competitor. I mean, there 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:06.200 are rules. There are laws about collusion and about monopoly 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:11.440 for a reason because ultimately the consolidation can be anti competitive, 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.520 so it can produce an outcome that is the opposite 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:18.480 of what you want. A free and competitive market. They 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:22.720 all came together. But it's even worse than that, because 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:27.280 not only did you have these tech bands come together 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.560 against against Parlor in the way that they did, but 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:35.560 they also the secondary order effects are that your lawyers, 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.560 your accountants, you know, other people that work for your company. 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.800 Once you're targeted and targeted by Amazon and Google and Facebook, 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:48.640 you're radioactive. Nobody wants to go near you. And that's 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:53.080 also why you've seen all these other corporations like Marriott 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:58.080 is suspending donations to Republican senators who voted against certifying President, 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.680 like Joe Biden for example. I mean, you know, Marriott Hotels, 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:07.840 City Group, the huge financial services company, right, City Group, 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.880 the huge bank. They've decided they're going to cut off 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.800 donations from City Group, also to a number these senators. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.480 And this is this is all out purge. That's what 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.000 we're going through right now, and it's the beginning of it. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.120 How is this going to make things better in the country? 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.360 Ask yourself that question, how will this bring us together? 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.760 Where is the spirit of unity that we were told 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.920 was going to come about? When Joe Biden whens you know, 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.400 the the eighty to ninety percent, and that's what the 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:43.600 polls are showing of Republicans who condemn who just outright condemning, 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:45.120 and you should know that's what the number is. It's 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:51.400 eighty to ninety percent of Republicans condemn the the Capitol 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.440 Hill riot, separate from the protest, but the riot on 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:59.160 Capitol Hill. That's not going to save them though, meaning 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.640 there's still going to be consequences. They're still going to 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.439 be targeting of anybody on the right as part of this. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.600 This is why I've been warning for years about how 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:11.120 the left has expanded the term white supremacy, for example, 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.000 to be if you oppose a firm of action, I mean, 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:20.640 that's a white supremacist position. If you oppose racial preferences 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.720 in hiring or in admissions for schools or whatever, that's 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.240 white supremacists. They expand this. It used to be for 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.800 neo Nazis. Now it's for anybody that has a position 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.079 touching on a whole range of issues that the left 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:36.280 that the Democrats don't share. They smear everybody. And what's 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.480 really concerning are these early stage move I mean, there's 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.960 so much here, these early stage moves to make a 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:48.760 big push on domestic terrorism, and by that you know, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.920 they're going to be going after people on the right 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.120 who aren't really engaged in a terroristic activity, but they'll 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:00.560 abuse this. They'll be a tremendous mission. Cree. There's already 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:04.760 laws against all terrorism, there's no there's no legal terrorist. 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.400 But what they want to do is increase the surveillance 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.720 state and make harsher penalties for people that don't even 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.480 do anything illegal, let's say, but who are running their 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.800 mouths about something, and they want to increase surveillance. They 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.720 want to have a chilling effect on the opposition to 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.280 the Biden administration. That's really what this is. They will 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.760 abuse this tool. And I was somebody who was working 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.160 in the War on Terror, and yeah, there were abuses. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.680 So this happened under the Bush administration, but it wasn't 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:37.480 abuses against Democrats. It was abuses around the world and 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:41.880 the international arena. Right, That's what we've all seen Democrats, 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.360 you know, we were so upset and we learned all 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.680 these stories about about black sites and waterboarding and the 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:53.200 mass surveillance state, which did affect all Americans. Democrats now 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:57.360 are planning to do to use that same overreach playbook. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.839 But they're planning to do it for domestic political purposes 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:06.160 against their fellow Americans. That's really the plan here. This 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:11.920 is going down a very dark and dangerous path. And 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:16.400 I think it's really necessary if you to understand. We 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.400 complain about this, We appeal the principle. We say, hold 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.600 on a second, guys, this is reckless, this is bad, 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.360 this is unfair. You're penalizing a lot of people under 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:29.000 false pretenses. And you know what their response is good, 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:35.959 you deserve it. They don't care. They think your ideas. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.720 The Democrats, the left have convinced themselves that your ideas 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:44.120 that they want to suppress are not just wrong, they 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.440 are a danger and they need to be destroyed and 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.199 you need to be punished for them. That's the prevailing mentality, 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.840 that's the overwhelming sentiment of the left. Falls into that category. 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.760 It's not I don't like what you say, but I 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:59.520 understand that you have a right to say it, and 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:04.560 you should not face concerted consequences to ruin your business, 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.360 your life, your reputation around it. No, they've moved into 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:13.680 the destruction of anybody who stands in their way, and 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.760 they feel good about it. And if there are people 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.000 that get caught up in this, that are ruined or 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:24.000 that go bankrupt, to have their reputations destroyed. That's collateral damage. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.560 They're absolutely willing willing to pay. Because if you're on 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.800 the right, there is no such thing as collateral damage. 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:33.160 You're on the wrong team, you should suffer. I'm telling you, 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:37.480 this is the attitude. That is how they feel. I 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.400 also want to talk about what can we do about this? 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.920 What is the path forward? People keep saying to me, 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.400 we'll buck you. You're telling us about the problems, What 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.120 about the solutions? First me who don't understand the full 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.760 scope of the problem, Because the mobilization that is required 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:56.280 on our side to tackle these issues is massive, and 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.760 we are now out of power, and it is only 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.840 fair to point out that Republicans didn't do a damn 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.320 thing about this for four years, and now we are 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.280 exactly where some of us were warning we'd be. Where 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:15.439 you have political power and private sector tech power colluding 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:20.480 and consolidating to eradicate right wing views. That is what 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:25.640 is happening right now, and we are finally seeing it 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.680 at a time when we're in the worst position we've 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.760 been in four years to do something about it. So 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.760 I want to be clear on that there are people 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.520 in positions of power who are supposed to be on 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:42.520 our team who let us down. Here this is the truth. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.280 I told you all, speak the truth. The Trump administration 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.920 did not do a damn thing about this, and here 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:50.560 we are. How many times did we talk about it? 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:56.199 Section two thirty What's going to happen next? Nothing was done? 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.280 And now we the people have to figure out a 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.040 plan of action to return this country to some sense 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:11.120 of political equilibrium because this this can deteriorate very rapidly. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.079 And I do not get worried easily about the future 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:18.800 of this country. If this trend continues of really punishing 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.080 political enemies in the way that they're already doing and gone, 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:26.200 it's gonna get much worse if this trend continues. I 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.400 don't know what happens this country, but I am worried. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:33.040 Thanks for listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.640 the latest news and information from Buck by heading to 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:40.680 Bucksexton dot com. What do I think is coming next? 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:43.560 I want to talk to you about what we should do, 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.360 but I want you to also understand where this is 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:52.240 all heading. You're going to see an escalation until we submit. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.440 It used to be build your own app. And it 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:58.960 took us too long on the right to do it, 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:00.960 but we did. We we have an app that's just 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.040 it's free speech. It's not actually even conservative or right wing. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.360 But build a place, you know, it's the private businesses. 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.600 Build a place that you know, you can have the 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.160 free speech you want. So we did, and then they 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.680 shut they shut that down. And if we say, okay, 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.440 well we're going to have our own you know, we're 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.400 going to create our own ad sales company, they're gonna 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.400 go after not only they're going to try to boycott 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.640 companies that that partake in conservative ad sales to support 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:30.560 media and voices out there like mine. They're also going 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.400 to then say, well, we're going to cut off your servers, 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:36.280 which has already happened. I mean is essentially we're heading toward. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.560 The left has so much dominance of the Internet that 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.160 the answer is going to be too bad, build your 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:46.400 own Internet. That's unacceptable in society. All of a sudden, 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.360 you'll notice the left or a bunch of free market absolutists, right, Oh, 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.120 there's no no need for regulation, no need for government intervention. 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.880 Isn't that so convenient? The people that tell you bake 0:15:56.000 --> 0:16:00.920 that cake. Christian put you know, a satanic phallic symbol 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.400 on on some cupcakes or something, because because we say so, 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.160 you have to, right. I mean, they made the guy 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.400 at Masterpiece Cake Shop actually write satanic messages. I mean 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.600 you've been told that he denied service to a gay couple. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.680 That's actually not true, that's a lie. He didn't want 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.920 to write messages like there is no God, or you know, 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:25.520 to do something that's contrary to his faith. And they 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:29.480 want to make you submit. You know, it's not baked 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.960 that cake. It's baked that cake, and write what we 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:37.240 say as part of your business, or else the government 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.960 comes down on you, right, or else the government attacks you. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:48.200 And then beyond that you have the left telling us, oh, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:52.040 but now we want free market absolutism. Now, now we 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:57.320 want there to be the destruction, the destruction of conservatism 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.840 through the principle that we've established power, we have an 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:07.480 effective monopoly, and that's what's gonna end up happening. That's 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:09.840 where they want to take this. So I would just 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.040 say to you all, this is they're going to escalate. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:18.120 They don't they don't care that this attacks very fundamental 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.440 free speech principles in this country. There's free speech as 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.920 an issue of law, and then there's free speech as 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.600 a cultural issue. There's free speech as something that we 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:34.399 have in in society. And sure enough, what they're doing 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:39.240 is the eradication of that culture. And they're they're open 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.520 about that. They're going for it. They are not held 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.320 back at all by shared principle on this. So just 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:50.679 understand that their plan is to make this much much worse. 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.160 Understand that their next steps and all of this are 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.399 going to be to punish anyone who does not come 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.000 to heal, and that's going to be a lot of 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.480 us that could be that could be me among them. 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.320 And that's why you need to get ready for this 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.240 and find ways to support the content and the voices 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.680 out there that you like directly, and not to rely 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.879 on social media to find what people are saying and 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.920 what they're up to. You're in the freedom hunt. This 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.720 is the Buck Sexton Show podcast from More Bucked. Head 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.440 to Bucksexton dot com and remember to subscribe to the podcast. 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.360 What can we do about it? I understand that's that's 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.480 a question that we should all be asking right now, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.520 and I've been getting it a lot recently because asking 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:40.800 what can we do about this? The answer is, for one, 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:42.680 I think we have to take stock of the fact 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:46.399 that one one of our big problems with the Trump 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:50.200 administration on the right. And people may not really enjoy 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.720 hearing this, but everyone listening to this knows it's true. 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:57.840 There was no internal criticism allowed of Trump from within 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.240 the team. I don't mean never Trumper, Oh, I hate 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.879 Trump stuff. I mean, hey, I really want the MAGA 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.120 agenda to succeed. I want Trump to be a very 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:10.240 effective president while in the Oval office, to follow through 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.439 on the promises that he made to his voters. It 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.040 would be better to that end if he did more 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.760 of this, or if he focused on this, or if 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.240 he stopped listening to and fill in a couple of 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:25.880 very obvious blanks there. That was shut down. People who 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.720 were the run of the mill Trump supporter generally did 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:31.680 not want to hear that stuff. And if you did that, 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.040 and I can tell you from personal experience, you got 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.960 people saying, why, why don't you really support our president? 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.280 So what do you mean, of course I support our president. 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.920 If a coach tells you you're throwing into double coverage 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.080 too much, hate your tight end, you know, running across 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.760 the middle. Is he playing for the other team or 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.560 your team? You know, if he sees a couple of 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.440 interceptions that happened and he tells the team we got 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:56.959 to go to the time, is he playing for the 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:01.000 other team or your team? We forgot this. There was 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.679 it was a lack of willingness to push Trump in 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:06.760 the right And I'm gonna tell you I got I 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.320 got tired of trying a few times, and I probably 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.440 should have kept pushing, but a lot of people would 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:13.040 have just tuned it out, would have been mad at me, 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.560 And I figured, okay, well, I'll focus on what I 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.240 think is going well about the administration and try to 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:22.919 try to hammer home those gains instead of looking at 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.240 what's not going well and say that we need more 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.840 of a focus on this. But now here we are 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:33.639 in a place where we've got nobody, nobody who is 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.000 really in much of a position of authority in the 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:38.200 political sense to do much about this at the federal 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:42.199 level and the Biden administration. Remember, you're just seeing the 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.960 private sector action right now, which is which is very powerful. 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.000 But soon we'll be in a place where the actual 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:54.760 political apparatus is taking this same approach. Soon we'll be 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:59.840 in a place where the Biden administration is leveraging openly 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:06.119 the big tech oligopolists and federal law to shut you down. 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.680 What do we do about this? Well, going back to 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:13.000 what I mentioned before about bake that cake or else, 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:15.400 and remember it's not It wasn't bake the cake. It 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.679 wasn't about not selling to people. It was about the 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:22.880 message on a cake that is contrary to one's religious beliefs. 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:24.959 That was That was really the heart of the issue. 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:27.720 And the left, Oh, and the same people, and I 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:29.320 don't have to keep going with that analogy, the same 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:33.240 people that want to make nuns pay for birth control. Right, sorry, nuns, 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:35.439 you gotta pay for birth control. That's not free market. 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:38.600 So under what? Under what auspice is? Well, what is 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:43.760 the justification for making nuns by birth controls? Public good? 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.720 That's what democrats say, it's it's public good, public health. Sorry, 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.119 so you have to do it. Well, isn't it for 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:53.199 the public good to be able to have free and 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:56.480 open political debate? He's in it for the public good 0:21:56.480 --> 0:22:00.600 to have the internet like the phone lines, And imagine 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:04.280 if the phone company was privately owned in such a 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:08.560 way that the Democrat owners in the weeks before an 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:12.160 election could just shut off all shut off all phone 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.719 service to every GOP outreach effort, every GOP campaign all 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:21.760 across the country. That would theoretically be private sector action, right, 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:25.199 But no, we've established that there are utilities. It's necessary 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:30.040 for society to have phone lines as a source of free, 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:34.480 open communication for people to use. Right the same way 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:37.080 that you know, we've done that, We're going to have 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:40.399 to approach more aspects of the Internet this way. And 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:42.760 the only answer friends is regulation. If you think the 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:45.560 answer is free market, we'll get ready for the Democrats. 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:47.359 And when I say free market, a kind of free 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:52.080 market absolutism, you'll see the Left use they're built in 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:54.960 advantage right now to destroy the Republican Party. But we're 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:56.399 not even gonna be able to get our pants on 0:22:56.440 --> 0:23:00.000 and get out the door before they'll have complete online 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:04.399 dominance that has been used to destroy the voices of 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:06.760 opposition to the Biden administration. It's going to be all over. 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:10.280 We're not gonna be able to build their own internet 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:12.960 in the next you know, the next two years. So 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:17.280 there needs to be for one, just the kind of 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:20.000 public outrage and at least put the Democrats on notice. 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:25.320 We see what they're doing and it's disgusting. Beyond that, though, 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:27.480 if you're looking for for action, you need to have 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:31.600 at the state level. You need to have state governments 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:34.679 that start to add in state legislatures, have to add 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:40.959 Republicans as a protected status under law for things like 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:45.080 you know, doing doing transactions for and with banks and 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:48.480 you know, online servers. And this is what what Democrats 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:51.120 have done, and they've created this whole extra this whole 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:54.280 all these extra layers of law that say that because 0:23:54.400 --> 0:23:56.720