WEBVTT - Buck’s First Thoughts - 1/12/21 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 --> 0:00:14.319 Welcome friends, Great to have you here with me on 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:19.440 The Buck Sexton Show. I am very concerned, as you know, 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:26.440 about this trend of censorship that's happening all across social media, 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.480 because you have to remember, they're not going to be 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:34.040 judicious in the application of this. They're not going to say, okay, 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.960 only the really bad people on the right, and there 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:42.080 are certainly some only those people are going to be punished. No, 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:46.640 there's going to be mass purges not only of individuals, 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:51.240 but also of ideas, in some cases, ideas that are 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.200 really central policy debates. We should have seen this coming 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.680 because it wasn't the election. You have to remember, it 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:04.760 wasn't the election that was the original reason for online censorship. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:12.960 It was COVID nineteen lockdowns and mask effectiveness, right, And 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.520 that's a different thing, isn't it than just saying anything 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:20.119 outright about masks if you even question the effectiveness of them, 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.320 something that in the beginning of twenty twenty, as you've 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.560 no doubt heard me talk about many times, doctor Fauci 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.960 suggested there was essentially no effectiveness. That was what Fauci said. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.400 They can pretend he didn't. But now if you even 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:38.680 question it, you are d platformed, you're attacked, you are banned, 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:43.040 you're censored. And we have been led to believe through 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:48.520 four years that the real threat of authoritarianism, and the 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:52.440 heart of authoritarianism, is the concept of you must obey. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.600 It is not about your consent. You must obey, and 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.240 there are there are threats. There is eventually the threat 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.760 of force attached to this, But even in the earlier stages, 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:06.800 it's obey or you can't speak out without fear of 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:12.240 being censored by platforms. Obey or maybe you can't even 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.840 conduct your business anymore. You'll be boycotted. Obey or you 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:20.800 won't be able to use banking services, You'll be kicked 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:25.120 out of essential parts of day to day life until 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:29.520 you submit. You must submit or else. We've been told 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.600 for four years that the big threat of this came 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.160 from Donald Trump and the right when all along, and 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:40.160 there's really no serious disagreement about this. All along, there 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:45.400 has been a complete opposition to this president from the media, 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.480 from Silicon Valley and from much of corporate America. Look 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.400 at what happened during the BLM riots and protests. There 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.160 were lawful BLM protests, to be sure, but there were 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.680 also a lot of riots, a lot of destruction of property, 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:03.600 a lot of assaults on police. Corporate America was almost 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:10.800 uniformly supportive of those protests. Corporate America was sending them money, 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.480 and there was no condemnation of political violence or riots. 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:20.720 Social media allows you to say things like racist cops 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:25.119 murdered this person, and then when we find out more 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.200 facts and we know that it's not actually not a 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.760 murder and it was not motivated by racism based on 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.320 anything that we know, there's no fact check run on that. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.360 There's no additional context that's put out there. So we 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:41.520 know that there is a capricious application of the terms 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.680 of service, whether it's about COVID lockdowns or BLM and 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:50.160 political violence. They're playing games, folks. They're not applying these 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:54.880 standards honestly. In fact, they're weaponizing the standards against one side. 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.200 Where does the greatest concern of authoritarianism come from? Look 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.840 show me a regime around the world, either today or 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:08.160 in history that was truly an authoritarian state. And ask 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:12.920 yourself this question. Was the press such as it was 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.960 in complete opposition to the ruling party or totally doing 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:23.599 the bidding of the ruling party, And you'll come to 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:26.800 a very straightforward conclusion. Now, there may be some opposition 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.760 papers here and there, a little bit there may be. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.960 But do you ever have the entirety of the corporate 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:39.640 establishment and the information establishment and the intellectual class, so 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:44.040 to speak, completely united against a truly authoritarian regime. No, 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:49.840 because you couldn't have. You couldn't have such a governing 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.200 a governing system. You couldn't have somebody in total control 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.720 with so many powerful forces arrayed against them. I bring 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.000 this up between because my concern now is that we're 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:06.839 heading toward what is supposed to be a benevolent authoritarianism 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.400 of the left and the Democrat Party, but will end 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:14.200 up just being the authoritarianism. That's what we're actually going 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.520 to get. They think it's for our own good. We 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.880 have to censor bad ideas. Got to keep you safe, 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.960 so you can't question lockdowns or masks. Got to get 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.400 rid of political violence. But we're only going to do 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.480 it from the right. And by the way, I support 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.200 the elimination of political violence, but I do think it 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:34.280 should be supported in all kinds of politics and from 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:40.039 all sides of the aisle, and from American political conversation 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:45.320 and discourse. So notice how there's there's just a complete 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.719 lack of understanding of what will really happen, what we're 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.760 facing when you have a government that's coming into power 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.760 here that is almost messianic. I mean, it has a 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.719 zeal to do things in your life. Save what you 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:06.120 all about Trump, much of his governing philosophy, whatever however 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.240 you want to describe it, involved letting people do what 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.480 they were going to do, and he wasn't trying to 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.520 get all up and everything that your life is about 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.880 day in and day out. That's about to change your choices. 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.520 Your freedoms are going to be under assault in unprecedented 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:28.240 ways from people who believe that even if they're not 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:32.279 helping you, they're helping society. You see, they're assisting, they're 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:40.960 advancing the collective. And so whatever whatever downfall this this creates, 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:46.320 whatever downside this creates for you, is irrelevant, and they're 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.560 going to be echoed by everything. Everything you're seeing in 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.200 the mainstream media, everything you're going to be seeing from 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.800 Silicon Valley. I mean, if you wanted to create an 0:06:55.800 --> 0:07:00.640 authoritarian America having Silicon Valley and nine five percent of 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:08.960 the journalistic establishment and a truly angry and emboldened Democrat Party, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.520 it's it is a concern. It's a worry because they're 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.440 not saying this would be a perfect opportunity for Joe 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:21.440 Biden and the Democrats to say, everybody, we are reconciling 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.360 as a nation. The election is over. Joe Biden one, 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.440 he will be president, Kamala Harris will be vice president, 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:32.400 and we're gonna be a good administration for all Americans. No, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.160 we're not purging, we're not settling scores, We're not doing 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.320 any of that stuff. And I tell you this, it 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:42.400 would be if a lot of people would be very 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.520 receptive of that message, including I think a lot a 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.120 lot of people who are Republicans. They would say, okay, 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.280 and if they took those actions in good faith, Wow, 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.840 wouldn't it be nice. I would rather actually live in 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.600 America where we can debate policy issues, but by and large, 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:04.200 politics as much less an obsession of individuals where and 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.240 it has to be for some folks because you've seen 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:11.320 I mean, they've the lockdown mentality has destroyed countless lives 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.680 this year, and so politics, even if you didn't care 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.280 about it before, it cares about you. So it's been unavoidable. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.320 I would prefer us to go to a place where 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.600 it's more of a of an intellectual and curiosity hobby. Right, oh, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.960 what's going on in politics today? Right before you check 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:31.440 out the sports section or look at what soap operas 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.080 you're gonna watch. I don't know how many of you 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.920 watch soap operas, but you get the idea. I think 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.600 that would be a healthier place for us to be 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.680 as a country, where you know, yes, we have our politics, 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.560 but we have these other areas of public life where 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.680 we don't have to always be an R or a 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:54.559 D or whatever else people are. But here's my warning 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.560 to all of us. I don't think that's where we're 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:01.440 heading at all. I think everything is going to be 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:05.120 even more political because the people that think that Donald 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.560 Trump was a fascist and that they believe that his 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:12.120 supporters have to also pay a price, and that price 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:17.400 is not just losing the election, which is very very disconcerting. 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.000 And yeah, he lost. It's done, it's over, Okay, it's finished, 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.400 and that hurts to say for a lot of people's 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:30.920 that makes them pretty depressed. But that's not sufficient in 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:32.280 the eyes of the left. There has to be a 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:36.840 whole other level here. They want a repudiation not only 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:41.640 of Trump ideas, but of one's former support for this president. 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:45.160 That's where this is all going. They want total and 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:53.079 complete submission and the acceptance of our tech overlords and 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.439 their view of what is acceptable speech. This is the 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:02.439 biggest threat to day to day individual freedom i've in America, 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:07.360 certainly since the darkest days of nine to eleven and 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.520 the the lockdown and crackdown afterwards on a whole host 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:16.960 of activities and ideas. But with this one, it's not 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.080 that out. There's not that there's al Qaeda, there's some 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.960 external enemy. The enemy that the Democrat sy is is internal, 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:27.160 and they're they're pushing this with an increase in domestic 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:32.360 terror investigations and prosecutions, referring to not just people that 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.720 broke the law and storm the Capitol and the rioters, 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:41.560 but referring to anyone running around DC as a terrorists 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.040 or terrorists in waiting. They're going to be very broad 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.360 with how they apply these definitions and They're going to 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:51.520 be very ruthless with the way they try to exact revenge. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.760 So I want us all to be prepared for this. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.560 This is going to be a challenging time for those 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.960 of us who do not agree with whatever the Biden 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.840 Harris agenda is going to be, and who fight against 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.559 the lockdowns, who fight against the digital tyranny that is 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:10.160 upon us. Now we are on We are on defense 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.560 big time, and a lot of us got used to 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.480 being on political offense for a few years, but the 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:19.400 pendulum has swung far to the other side. Now. This 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.320 is not a cause for despair. It's just a cause 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:26.680 for looking at the reality and preparing for it, understanding 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.480 who you trust, who you're alongside, and how we move 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.480 forward together. And a big part of this is the 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:38.280 battle over tech and over social media and the Internet, 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:45.080 which is the biggest advancement in human communication certainly since electricity, 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.520 and before that, you'd have to say the printing press, right. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:52.319 I mean, this is enormous and we cannot allow this 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.480 to become dominated by one set of beliefs. And I 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.679 believe that it'll really tear the country apart if that's 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.080 allowed to continue, or if that's allowed to continue on 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.280 its current trend, and with that, I'm glad to see 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:09.360 that there's the beginnings at least of a resistance and 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.680 a pushback to the crackdown from Facebook and others. Let's 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.200 dive into that. Thanks for listening to The Buck Sexton 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.880 Show podcast. Get the latest news and information from book 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:25.240 by heading to buck Sexton dot com. Well, we know 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:29.959 this was organized online. We know that we again took 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.240 down qan on Croud Boys, stop this deal, anything that 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:38.000 was talking about possible violence last week. Our enforcements never perfect, 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.720 so I'm sure there were still things on Facebook. I 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:47.240 think these events were large organized on platforms that don't 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.640 have our abilities to stop hate, and don't have our 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.480 standards and don't have our transparency. But certainly to this day, 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.160 we're working to find any single mention that might be 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.640 meaning to and making sure we get it down as 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.880 quickly as possible. This is just not true. That's the 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:09.040 Facebook CEO Cheryl Sandberg when she says that this can't 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.040 be done on Facebook, or that this wasn't done on Facebook, 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.800 or that there have not been violent riots planned and 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:22.000 executed using platforms like Twitter and Facebook. That's just not accurate. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.880 I mean, you look back at news stories stretching back 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:29.360 for years. There's been all kinds of horrible stuff, horrible 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:34.720 stuff that has transited the the servers and platforms and 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.480 put on your screen, from Facebook, from Twitter, from these 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.840 because their platforms, and they have this Section two thirty 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.640 protection that allows them to be platforms, but they are 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.120 now acting as publishers because they're taking editorial lines and 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:56.360 they're not they're not applying standards without politicization. So they 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.760 want to have it both ways, and that's the fundamental 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.960 issue here, and they're getting away with it. They're getting 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.760 away with it. When she says that the Capitol Hill 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:11.840 riots we're not organized on Facebook, that's a very you 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.680 know that, that's a very interesting position for it to to take. 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.760 How would they how would they even know? And how 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.640 quickly are they taking things off? You're really going to 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.480 tell me that Facebook, with its billions of users and 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.680 all the people that gathered together and went to DC 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.400 and anybody who was talking about criminal activity, they didn't 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.080 they didn't use Facebook. It was all on parlor. That's 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:38.440 the allegation. They better prove that one. I want to 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.040 see the proof, because I know that Facebook has been 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.200 used to plan geehottest terror attacks. I mean, you look 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.080 at these other platforms. There's all kinds of horrible stuff 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:52.920 going on. But we don't hold the phone companies responsible 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.360 for what any lunatic, you know, if a if a 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.360 mafia boss calls in an assassination, you know, a hit 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.760 on somebody using a phone, we don't blame the cell 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.680 phone company. Oh I didn't you want to stop this? 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.400 It's impossible to have perfect moderation, and that seems to 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:12.240 be the standard that they're holding Parlor to where they 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.960 pulled down violent content or incendiary content. Maybe they're not 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:20.000 as efficient as Facebook, but they haven't said, well, let's 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.800 just increase your efficiency. You know, when you're talking about 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:27.400 Amazon Web Services AWS pulling Parlor off the Internet, it 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.360 isn't Oh, we'll work with you so that you guys 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:32.880 we can all agree. I want the rules of the 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.560 road here, and you're going to enforce them. It's no, sorry, 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.240 you're done. We think there's too much violent stuff on 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:44.520 your site. Twitter is full of horrible stuff. Horrible stuff 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:50.200 they've got, uh, you know, Iranian politicians and and and 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.360 you know Russian dictator and they've got all kinds of 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:58.880 wacko awful propaganda on there calling for genocide against human beings. 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.480 I the Chinese commun his party can spee whatever nonsense 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.240 they want on Twitter, and they don't get any you know, 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.000 push back from these authorities. So we know that the 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:12.280 standard is a let's crush conservative standard. And it reminds 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.240 me right now. It reminds me a little bit of 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.840 how conservatives were completely you know, put on their back 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:24.960 feet and scared after the shooting, the shooting of I'm sorry, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.200 the incident with George Floyd. It wasn't a shooting where 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.080 where the knee was on his neck, in his back, 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.960 and then blm, riots happened and all of a sudden 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.920 everybody was WHOA, you know, I maybe maybe cops are 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:40.400 racist and maybe we should do some big legislative effort 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.720 here to address this and new training everything, and said, 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.680 hold on a second, this is one incident. Let's look 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.200 at all We didn't have all the facts, as you know, 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:48.920 we only saw half that video. The other half of 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:53.760 the video was important, important to see. But people were scared. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.320 And the left is they're very adeptit this. They're very good. 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.800 They go after people intentionally in bad faith on the right, 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:06.000 if they just wanted to purge the crazies. A lot 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:07.720 of people that sit around and say, all right, I mean, 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.560 you know, Q is a bunch of wackos. I you know, 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.399 I don't even I don't even know what Q believes, 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.800 and Q is insane, So don't you know that's not 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.680 my problem. A lot of people sit around and say, well, 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.439 what's the but no, for them to really gain political power, 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.080 for the left, for the Democrats to fully leverage what's 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.080 going on, they gotta go after some people that they 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:33.320 know are opposed to any kind of political violence, that 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:38.800 they know denounced immediately and would always going forward denounce 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.640 a riot in the Capitol building. They got to get 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.800 some of those people, because that sends a message to everybody, 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.320 To the vast majority of conservatives, to the ninety nine 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.720 point nine percent of conservatives who would never raise their 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.679 hand in anger against a police officer over a political issue, 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.080 the left sends a message to all of them, and 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:04.600 get you too. You think, just because you're ethical and 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.159 honorable and don't support political violence and don't support breaking 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:13.520 laws because of election discontent, that you're safe or that 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:18.520 you'll be allowed to speak. No, No, friends, authoritarians always 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.600 have to make an example of the compliant as well 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.520 as well as those who disobey. Thanks for listening to 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:30.040 the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest news and 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:35.640 information from Buck by heading to buck Sexton dot com. 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.800 Do you have any concerns that Congress will be distracted 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.800 if this trial goes forward instead of focusing on the 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:46.600 cabinet and coronavirus? Yes, I do have concerns, but so 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:53.480 does Speaker Pelosi. Misforcome is a pretty good legislator, and 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:55.920 he is doing what he thinks he needs to do 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.720 to be disruptive of President Biden. But I will send 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:05.439 him McConnell uh nex Belos is smarter than that. We'll 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.399 take the vote that we should take in the House, 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.320 and she will make the determination as win as the 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.280 best time to get that vote, to get the managers 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:20.399 upon it and move that legislation over to the Senate. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.200 It's just so happens that if it didn't go over 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:28.520 there for one hundred days, it could. Let's give President 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.120 and LEC Biden the hundred days he needs to get 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:35.840 us the gender off and run in and maybe we'll 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:41.480 send the articles sometimes after that. It's not even gonna 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:45.240 be done when Trump leaves. They're already the Democrats already 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.720 signaling this to you, not not going to let this go. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:54.080 And I've I've read that the Attorney General Bill Barr 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.840 had advised the President not to pardon himself, and I 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.560 understand the legal rationale for that. And I'll say I 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:04.879 became worried about the President's about how the president was 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:08.359 doing when when he started to turn on Bill Barr, 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.120 which as you know, I would I would not do, 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.560 and I did not. I did not agree with that, 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.439 and I became even more worried. We returning on Mike Pence, 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:24.520 who I think is has been an amazing case study 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:28.800 and somebody who has maintained his composure and his dignity 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:33.080 and his decency through just a maelstrom. I don't mean 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:37.679 just recently, I mean for all four years, all the 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:39.720 attacks on the left and everything to put against Mike Pence. 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:42.640 Let's not forget Mike Pence. Everything he's shown us so 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:47.600 far is that he's a good man who's trying his 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:50.159 best in a very difficult job. I believe the same 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.600 thing is true of attorney Attorney General Barr, and I 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.119 said all along, maybe he didn't appoint a special counsel 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:00.320 on Hunter Biden because he had already looked at what 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:02.560 was going on there and he didn't see he didn't 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.879 see any federal crimes to investigate. It's possible. Friends, I 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:08.600 know this stuff does not get This doesn't get a 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:10.440 lot of a lot of clicks, a lot of love 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:14.800 and conservative media. But I'm telling you the truth. I'm 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:16.639 telling you the truth because I am your friend, i 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:21.280 am your ally. I'm here with you shield's eye, and 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.080 you know, the continuation of the persecution of Trump, you 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.840 can bet on that that's going to happen. I mean 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:31.360 here there you had when we started this out at 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.920 Congressman Clyburn saying that they want to do this after 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:38.080 the hundred days of Biden's agenda. I'm also going to 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:40.800 tell you right now be prepared for this. There was 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.880 a lack because of some of the personnel decisions. There 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:50.080 was a lack of focus and efficacy when Trump came 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:52.760 into office to pursue I'm talking about the very beginning 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:56.560 in twenty seventeen after the inauguration, to pursue agenda items 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:58.639 that needed to get done. You know, we did not 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:00.840 have a repeal and replace of a bomacare we did 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:04.240 not get. We got fifteen miles of new fence or 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:07.840 wall at the border, hundreds of miles of upgraded fence 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:10.560 or wall, but we needed more new wall. There were 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:13.320 things that were left undone because there was a lack 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:15.880 of focus. All we really got where tax cuts and deregulation, 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:18.120 which is great, and I praised them, and I don't 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.960 walk back from that at all. I still think those 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:24.080 were very good moves. But understand that the Biden administration 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:25.800 is going to undo all of that now and then 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:30.160 some So what do I see happening here? They're going 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:34.600 to pursue as the Democrats do, remember with Obamacare twenty 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:37.400 starting two thousand and nine, going all the way through. 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:44.320 They're going to pursue with ruthless efficiency, a transformational agenda 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:47.640 that the left approves of. It won't be as radical, 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:49.640 I think as some of this stuff we're concerned about 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:53.159 right now, not yet at least, because they're going to 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:57.440 use this moment in time to run up the scoreboard. 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:02.760 For sure, that's what's going to happen. And they're they're 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:06.280 also going to continue to go after Trump and they 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:09.680 will not be satisfied. Until he and I I believe 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:14.600 his family as well are in legal jeopardy, and also 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:17.359 that his supporters. But I mean supporters, I don't just 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:19.880 mean his voters. I mean there's seventy five million Trump voters. 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:21.960 I think it's gonna be hard to you know, to 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:25.360 go after all of them, but I mean the top 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:29.159 people in his White House. There there are there's going 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:33.280 to be ramifications for them from the left professionally once 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:35.240 they once they leave this White House. I think that's 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:38.720 also very much going to be the case. So with 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:42.360 all of that, I would say that there was one 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:45.800 thing that Jim Kleibern mentioned when he was going into 0:23:45.800 --> 0:23:48.040 his whole Donald Trump, how We're going to get Donald 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:52.720 Trump and wait one hundred days, and that is there 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:56.679 needs to be a renewed national focus on just what 0:23:56.800 --> 0:24:00.800 exactly is going on here with coronavirus and what a 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:03.879 complete debacle the vaccine rollout has been so far, and 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:07.600 people who are trying to blame the federal government are delusional. 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:12.160 It is not. The federal government has delivered the vaccine 0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:16.679 at a five to one rate of the actual distribution 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:19.600 the vaccine, and the distribution has been left up to 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:23.280 the states. That was the decision that was made. And 0:24:23.760 --> 0:24:28.600 I remember this, Governor Newsom in California, Governor Cuomo in 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:33.879 New York was saying that he wouldn't even distribute the 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:40.640 vaccine until his own state health authorities had approved it. 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:44.600 So he was taking not even just the right to 0:24:44.640 --> 0:24:47.000 determine who gets this and how quickly, he was going 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:53.720 a step beyond that to taking this end and saying 0:24:53.720 --> 0:24:56.720 that he might delay it. That's the kind of power 0:24:56.760 --> 0:24:59.960 that he said he had. So it's up to the state. 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:02.840 And some states West Virginia comes to mind, there are 0:25:02.840 --> 0:25:07.320 others have been really efficient at this, Others have been 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:11.440 a disaster. It's going to be very difficult for us 0:25:12.040 --> 0:25:17.880 to talk about freedom as a general political issue when 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:21.639 we do not have individual day to day freedom in 0:25:21.680 --> 0:25:25.520 our lives because of their response to COVID nineteen. We 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:28.440 all need to understand that we've got to get this 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:32.520 country reopened. And a huge part of that. I've been 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:34.960 telling this all along. You know, they all you're anti science, 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:37.680