Speaker 1: You are entering the Freedom Hudge, massive protests in France
Speaker 1: that look to put some difficulties into enacting the green
Speaker 1: agenda of President Matt Kron. What does this tell us
Speaker 1: about big government and environmentalist whackos here at home and
Speaker 1: the rise of socialist among the Democrats. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that a much more coming up on the Buck Sexton Show.
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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. Hundreds of thousands of protesters weeks now
Speaker 1: of this in France, and you might be saying, well, Buck,
Speaker 1: what does France have to teach us about anything? We'll
Speaker 1: let me tell you a few things. One if France,
Speaker 1: as you know, is more of a democratic socialist country
Speaker 1: than we are, though not that much more to the French.
Speaker 1: The Europeans in general, but also the French in particular,
Speaker 1: are very into their social welfare state and their benefits
Speaker 1: and their government interventions. And also the green movements. Remember
Speaker 1: it is the Paris Climate Accords that President Obama was
Speaker 1: so very, very proud of. It is the French and
Speaker 1: the Europeans who were said to be leading the way
Speaker 1: on the environment. Well, it's a very important lesson as
Speaker 1: these protesters are battling an out with French police on
Speaker 1: the streets of major cities across that whole country. And
Speaker 1: the lesson is summarized as follows. When people who are
Speaker 1: having a hard enough time paying their bills are told
Speaker 1: that they're going to have to pay even more for
Speaker 1: gas and yes, other goods that are made with or
Speaker 1: transported with gas with oil because of the need to
Speaker 1: fight climate change, those people tend to get pretty annoyed.
Speaker 1: And that's what's happening right now in France. The way
Speaker 1: the media is reporting on this is just classic, instead
Speaker 1: of making it clear to your casual observer that this
Speaker 1: is really a reaction to the ineffectual bureaucraticism of Emmanuel Makran,
Speaker 1: who was the centrist left favorite candidate of the elites
Speaker 1: and of the establishment in the most recent election. This
Speaker 1: is somebody who is supposed to be a political tacticians,
Speaker 1: supposed to understand markets, supposed to know how to engage
Speaker 1: in good governance. This is what the state is so
Speaker 1: always say they want they want someone who is calm,
Speaker 1: cool and collected, has the right views and understands systems
Speaker 1: and bureaucracies well enough to implement them. It's really the
Speaker 1: progressive dream in this country, mc kroll. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like Beato, except mc crals actually had to earn a living.
Speaker 1: From what I understand, Beato just got to marry a billionaire.
Speaker 1: That's a fun job. I should I should try that
Speaker 1: job that I'm going to marry a billionaire routine. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: you have these yellow jackets, no relation to the bees.
Speaker 1: It is because they are in fact wearing these high
Speaker 1: visibility jackets as a symbol of their of their protests
Speaker 1: in France. And they're running around and they're very upset,
Speaker 1: and they're upset because mac kroll, in his infinite wisdom sarcasm,
Speaker 1: has raised the price of a gas producer. Mike, what
Speaker 1: is it now? You said right before we came on,
Speaker 1: seven dollars seven dollars a gallon? Right now in the
Speaker 1: US there are a number of states with gas stations
Speaker 1: with at least one gas station. Heard this today on
Speaker 1: Fox Business. I think you're at under under two dollars
Speaker 1: a gallon. You're paying seven dollars a gallon for gas
Speaker 1: in France and they just added a thirty cent per
Speaker 1: gallon climate change fighting tax. And then there's a fight,
Speaker 1: as this always happens, right, they take the money and
Speaker 1: just parallel all the things I'm talking about. The Democrats
Speaker 1: in this country are basically the French political establishment in
Speaker 1: their own country. Right. The Democrats here mirror image everything
Speaker 1: that the French political establishment wants that the European elites won.
Speaker 1: In fact, democrats in this country often point to countries
Speaker 1: like France but more soda, Denmark and Sweden with their
Speaker 1: massive social welfare state, their tremendous government intervention in the markets.
Speaker 1: They see, we could do it like them. And this
Speaker 1: is always the response to look at Venezuela, it's a
Speaker 1: socialist hellscape. Now they say, well look at ten market.
Speaker 1: I say, okay, well, let's let's look at these places.
Speaker 1: Let's look at what's going on in France and sure
Speaker 1: off on the issue of climate change. People who are
Speaker 1: having a hard time don't want to be told they
Speaker 1: have to pay more money in a way that's really
Speaker 1: going to affect them. It's really money out of their
Speaker 1: pocket because there's a need to fight climate change. This
Speaker 1: climate change thing really is some kind of a mental
Speaker 1: illness at this point. I the fight climate change, how why?
Speaker 1: Because we're going to stop the temperature from being raised
Speaker 1: one degree or two in a hundred years. Does anybody
Speaker 1: really think the different technologies we use today for energy
Speaker 1: are going to be the same in twenty years, in
Speaker 1: five years. Does anyone really think that there's a human
Speaker 1: being alive today who knows what a modern economy looks like,
Speaker 1: how it functions, what it's right. Think back, I think
Speaker 1: back seventy years from where we are right now, and
Speaker 1: then look seventy years in the future. I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody could have imagined if if they were to go
Speaker 1: back to nineteen fifty, that I'd be sitting here talking
Speaker 1: to you while I have, you know, a computer. I
Speaker 1: have two computers, one on my desk, one in my hand,
Speaker 1: my phone, both of which are more powerful. Either which
Speaker 1: more powerful than all the computing power of the entire
Speaker 1: modern world. Right, I mean, you know that's we have
Speaker 1: changed so dramatically. Mean this idea they can project in
Speaker 1: the future. This is why that climate change report that
Speaker 1: came out last week or the week before it was
Speaker 1: just such nonsense. It's look at the most dire prediction possible,
Speaker 1: look seventy years out in the future, and and then
Speaker 1: tell us that we need to change our lives now. No,
Speaker 1: and the French have had enough. They're they're up at
Speaker 1: arms about this, and some of these protests got really nasty.
Speaker 1: Mean now there's there's footage you can see it. It's
Speaker 1: tear gas and there protests are getting beat with batons.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're really going after the cops. Some woman
Speaker 1: was an elderly woman was killed. You actually got hit
Speaker 1: by a tear gas canister in her home. But you know,
Speaker 1: these protests are ugly, and there's they're vandalizing the Arc
Speaker 1: de Triomphe, you know, up there with the Eiffel Towers,
Speaker 1: the most famous and visible symbols of all of France.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is really combustible stuff there. And do
Speaker 1: you know who's the most upset by this? I mean,
Speaker 1: do you know who's at the core of the so
Speaker 1: called yellow jacket movement in France? People who don't make
Speaker 1: so little that they qualify for government assistance, but don't
Speaker 1: make enough that they can pay their bills. Kind of
Speaker 1: reminds you of the people that don't like Obamacare in
Speaker 1: this country, right, not enough that you get free stuff
Speaker 1: for subsidies you know you got you've got too much
Speaker 1: money for that, but not enough that you can comfortably
Speaker 1: pay your bills and be independent, even though you're working,
Speaker 1: even though you're producing, even though you're being a productive
Speaker 1: member of society. You know, the government can make things
Speaker 1: just too hard. The government is not always helpful. In fact,
Speaker 1: that government is generally unhelpful when it comes to you
Speaker 1: paying your bills. The government wants to take from you.
Speaker 1: It is not assisting you in paying your bills. And
Speaker 1: the French people know this, and you know this is
Speaker 1: the group. Also, I would note that in a in
Speaker 1: a social socialist democrat or democrat socialist, all the same
Speaker 1: crap state, the people that really suffer the most are
Speaker 1: those who are struggling but working. They're the ones who
Speaker 1: really suffer. And you see this and with the Occasio
Speaker 1: Cortez and the Bernie Sanders just mythology. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: either so bad at math that they can't be very smart,
Speaker 1: or they're just kind of being cynical and really lying
Speaker 1: to all of us all the time. Because this idea
Speaker 1: that the numbers can work out. It's just flatly, simply
Speaker 1: not true. It is inaccurate to pretend that all you
Speaker 1: have to do is have the rich pay for the
Speaker 1: kinds of programs that people want in France to fight
Speaker 1: climate change, an issue that shouldn't even be under discussion.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is just nonsense. Fight climate change. You
Speaker 1: know that. You know that they push fighting climate change
Speaker 1: to justify the gas tax raise. And then the media
Speaker 1: in this country is saying, oh, that it's just because
Speaker 1: gas prices are going up, that's why they're riding. No,
Speaker 1: they're forcing. This is just like what Obama want to do.
Speaker 1: Remember you know electricity prices will skyrocket. That's what Obama said.
Speaker 1: This is what they want to do. This is destructive
Speaker 1: to productivity, This is destructive to wealth. But they think
Speaker 1: they're so smart they know better than you, whether it's
Speaker 1: Matt kran or Obama or Sanders or you name it,
Speaker 1: that the pain that you have to suffer and the
Speaker 1: private property that the state is appropriating from you, stealing
Speaker 1: from you, the theft that's occurring under the guise of
Speaker 1: combating an imaginary foe climate change that's going to melt
Speaker 1: the world, that upsets people, right, It upsets people when
Speaker 1: this happens, and that the theory that the people that
Speaker 1: are making these decisions are so smart, so much better
Speaker 1: than all the rest of us, that they know better,
Speaker 1: and that your suffering doesn't matter, Your pain at the
Speaker 1: pump for your gas or just trying to pay your
Speaker 1: bills doesn't really matter because they've got something bigger and
Speaker 1: better in mind. That is the root fallacy from which
Speaker 1: all the rest of socialism's misery grows. That collectivist impulse
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well this is gonna this is gonna harm
Speaker 1: some people, but it's gonna be better in the long run,
Speaker 1: and we know better, so we're just gonna do this thing. No, no,
Speaker 1: this is this is state intrusion into the market. This
Speaker 1: is the state involving self in ways that is just damaging.
Speaker 1: There's no offsetting gain here. This is not oh, we
Speaker 1: need taxes for a military. This is some of us
Speaker 1: have this idea and we want the people to fund it.
Speaker 1: And the elites don't really care about this, because you know,
Speaker 1: the real difference in society that you get from those
Speaker 1: who are working in those who are don't have to
Speaker 1: care about these democratic socialist policies are. You know, the
Speaker 1: people that a little more or a little less money
Speaker 1: doesn't really change their lifestyle. You know, their taxes go up,
Speaker 1: a little bit down a little bit doesn't affect them,
Speaker 1: versus people with taxes going up or down means they're
Speaker 1: going into debt or not. They can get that house
Speaker 1: payment down or not, they can send their kid maybe
Speaker 1: to school or not. I mean, it really matters. And
Speaker 1: so when you look at these protests in France, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's I think a warning of what is
Speaker 1: to come in this country because when people start to
Speaker 1: understand what the real costs of these very appealing slogans.
Speaker 1: Remember Thomas Soul, the great part about socialism is that
Speaker 1: it sounds good. The bad part about socialism is that
Speaker 1: it doesn't freaking work. And in France, you know, they
Speaker 1: they tend now, they're tending toward bigger government, raising taxes,
Speaker 1: doing these things. And sure enough, you know people, Yeah,
Speaker 1: combatant climate chain sounds great until you actually have to
Speaker 1: pay some money in combatant Then you realize it's all
Speaker 1: a big joke. You don't want to do it anymore.
Speaker 1: So I understand the frustration of these yellow jacket protesters
Speaker 1: by the way, it's they're far left and far right,
Speaker 1: as I understand that they're represented in this. This is
Speaker 1: an uprising of everyday folks. This is an uprising of people,
Speaker 1: a political insurgency of people who recognize that the French
Speaker 1: state is messing up. They want mccron to stop, to
Speaker 1: step down. They're sick of this ineptitude on display from
Speaker 1: the government. The government isn't giving them, is making promises
Speaker 1: that it can't follow through on. People's taxes keep going up.
Speaker 1: The taxes people can keep going up. Their quality of
Speaker 1: life is going down, their expenses are going up all
Speaker 1: the time. You know, remember the current generation of youth
Speaker 1: activist types, you know, people in their twenties and their thirties.
Speaker 1: They're the ones who are just realizing, oh, the modern
Speaker 1: welfare state as we know it. Those bills are really
Speaker 1: just coming due ten twenty thirty years from now, and
Speaker 1: these states to meet their obligations are going to have
Speaker 1: a crushing tax burden on the youth. I hate to
Speaker 1: say it, but you know, like the boomers in this
Speaker 1: country of kind of looted the national treasury, and the
Speaker 1: future generations the ones that have to make up for
Speaker 1: the shortfall. That's just the truth. In the French and
Speaker 1: European states, they're realizing they've got the same problem that
Speaker 1: have enough young people working, that have enough people paying
Speaker 1: in and you can raise taxes and raise taxes, and
Speaker 1: they created this millionaire's tax was a disaster because they're
Speaker 1: really rich. People just leave this is there's there's something
Speaker 1: going on to you, there's something very troubling about this,
Speaker 1: this movement in France because it's also coming out of time,
Speaker 1: just like how they point to the rise of nationalism
Speaker 1: in Europe and Trump and you know, oh gosh, there's
Speaker 1: a correlation between this discontent and the recognition that the
Speaker 1: social democrat state in Europe is crumbling and also doesn't
Speaker 1: give people a sense of purpose and isn't culturally vibrant
Speaker 1: enough to sustain itself over the long term, especially with
Speaker 1: large amounts of immigration coming from very disparate cultures. There's
Speaker 1: echoes of what's going on here in this country with
Speaker 1: the rise of socialist movements. All right, I have to
Speaker 1: I've am passionate about this stuff. We'll get into more
Speaker 1: of this um and uh, you know, I just I
Speaker 1: find that so I apologize by other guys as you
Speaker 1: can tell them I'm coming down with a cold, so
Speaker 1: my voice is it's going to be a little to
Speaker 1: be a little sketchy during the show today, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to drink as much teas as they possibly can. But
Speaker 1: these these socialists in Europe versus the socialists here, they're
Speaker 1: going to have a very big problem to deal with them.
Speaker 1: That is, they're creating this sense of impending utopia, but
Speaker 1: they're telling me, they're not talking about how we're going
Speaker 1: to pay for this. And once, you know, once they
Speaker 1: if they get into powers they have in Europe as
Speaker 1: they have in France, if they get into power here,
Speaker 1: if in twenty twenty we have the rise of social
Speaker 1: socialist democrats in America and in a more open fashion, um,
Speaker 1: we're going to see a lot of discontent similar to
Speaker 1: what's happening on the streets of Paris and across France.
Speaker 1: Because we don't have the money to pay for this.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot more show comments. Stay with me.
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Speaker 1: The government takes everything from us. They steal from us.
Speaker 1: We have to pay for everything. We are overtext. We
Speaker 1: hope that the protests will change things. The rising cost
Speaker 1: of fuel is going to trigger a civil war, and
Speaker 1: I like amongst of the citizens we are already we're
Speaker 1: fed up with paying so much all the time. It's
Speaker 1: become the new normal. By paying so much, it's just
Speaker 1: not possible anymore, that's right, a bunch of French people,
Speaker 1: one hundreds of thousands. By the way, the support for this,
Speaker 1: just so you know that I'm not This isn't like
Speaker 1: some little small group of radicals. The support for these
Speaker 1: yellow vest protests that they've been able to measure via
Speaker 1: polling in France is like seventy to eighty so most
Speaker 1: of the country, a huge majority of the country supports this.
Speaker 1: They're saying, these guys are right, this is bull crap.
Speaker 1: What's going on? And you hear are these French people
Speaker 1: that any who are saying they're taxing is too much,
Speaker 1: They're taking too much of our stuff. Remember in this country,
Speaker 1: we started a revolution because the man was taking too
Speaker 1: much of our stuff. In fact, also the man had
Speaker 1: given a monopoly for the East India Company with tea.
Speaker 1: But the man was taking too much of our stuff,
Speaker 1: eating out our substance. I believe from the Declaration of
Speaker 1: Independence is the verbiage used. People don't like it when
Speaker 1: the state is getting too greedy, and the state in
Speaker 1: France isn't just getting greedy, it's delusional. You're gonna start
Speaker 1: taking people's money to fight climate change. This is like saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: I've got an idea. Let's have a forced collection of
Speaker 1: citizens where we take money from them and then we
Speaker 1: make a big bonfire and light it on fire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds like a great idea. That's what they're doing
Speaker 1: in France under the guy's a climate change. This movement
Speaker 1: has given rise to major demonstrations and also unacceptable violence.
Speaker 1: I have understanding for these fellow citizens, but I will
Speaker 1: not give anything to those who want destruction and disorder,
Speaker 1: because the republic is both public order and the free
Speaker 1: expression of opinions. It's not quite as a not quite
Speaker 1: as catchy when the translator, as I say, but that
Speaker 1: was Emmanuel Macron, Emmanuel Macron, who is saying, of course,
Speaker 1: you know, the violence is bad, but he has simply
Speaker 1: for the people, blah blah, all the things you would expect.
Speaker 1: This is what's happening, is that the the in the modern,
Speaker 1: the modern social democrat state, he's running into the issue
Speaker 1: of how do we pay for all this stuff? And
Speaker 1: how does unsustainable debt get handled? I mean, this is
Speaker 1: where you also have Occasio Cortez say, yeah, let's just
Speaker 1: spend thirty trillion dollars, want to make it one hundred trillion.
Speaker 1: The people that are pushing these policies don't understand what
Speaker 1: these kinds of numbers would do to the overall economy.
Speaker 1: They just don't have enough of an understanding of how
Speaker 1: this would affect the private sector, the pressures this would
Speaker 1: put on investment, on hiring, on innovation, on productivity, on
Speaker 1: doing stuff that people want. I mean that the basis
Speaker 1: of commerce. You know, there can be a level at
Speaker 1: which it is just simply too much, and we're quickly
Speaker 1: approaching that. But there is a really interesting piece and
Speaker 1: made me think of all this over the weekend, called
Speaker 1: the tax the rich delusion of the Democratic Left by
Speaker 1: this guy Brian reedal Ever, hear anyone left spell out
Speaker 1: exactly how they're going to pay for Medicare for all,
Speaker 1: free college and the rest didn't think so, And he
Speaker 1: just he just crunches the numbers. And it's not really
Speaker 1: that hard and exercise to do. And remember, you've got
Speaker 1: people rioting on the streets of major French cities, defacing
Speaker 1: the arc that we offen, squaring off in pitch street
Speaker 1: battles with riot police, and it's because of a raise
Speaker 1: in the gas tax. Now, and you have widespread national
Speaker 1: support for the people that are doing this right, I
Speaker 1: love in the media says raising gas prices. No, it's
Speaker 1: the government camelot, it's exactly. It's essentially a carbon tax,
Speaker 1: that's all it is. It's the French version of a
Speaker 1: carbon tax. It's okay, we don't like CO two in
Speaker 1: the air, so we're gonna tax it. You know, you
Speaker 1: tax more of it, you get less of it. That's
Speaker 1: the idea. It's it's a punitive tax for the environment.
Speaker 1: And people are already struggling and they're like the environment. Really,
Speaker 1: he's just gonna make everything more expensive so we can
Speaker 1: all what have you know, solar panels on our rooftops everywhere.
Speaker 1: Whenever I make jokes about solar those two with solar
Speaker 1: panels live in Arizona or something that always write me a
Speaker 1: a book. My solar panels are great. I'm sure they are.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying when you start to look at the numbers,
Speaker 1: here's here's what really comes into comes into stark relief
Speaker 1: right away. Here's what he writes. Quote, let's again with
Speaker 1: income taxes. Remember this is to pay for all the
Speaker 1: stuff that the social democrats want in Europe, and in
Speaker 1: this case, this is to pay for the Occasio Cortez
Speaker 1: Sanders war in wing of the Democrat Party. Free college,
Speaker 1: free healthcare. What else is free? There's something else that
Speaker 1: I'm missing. Now those are the big ones. Free college,
Speaker 1: free healthcare, other free stuff too. They'll figure that out
Speaker 1: in time. When you start to look at it, it it
Speaker 1: gets scary, though. Here you go. Let's begin with income taxes,
Speaker 1: he writes. Imagine one hundred percent tax rates on all
Speaker 1: income earned over the one million dollar threshold. That's politically impossible,
Speaker 1: but for the sake of argument, imagine it. Even that
Speaker 1: would add just five percent of GDP and revenues until
Speaker 1: people quickly stopped working at that income. Slightly more realistically,
Speaker 1: doubling the top tax two taps brackets to seventy and
Speaker 1: seventy four percent would raise at best one point six
Speaker 1: percent of GDP. Show you might say, okay, Bucky raised
Speaker 1: one point six percent of GDP and taxes to deal
Speaker 1: with things, all right, So let's now look at what
Speaker 1: it would cost. When you look at what it would cost,
Speaker 1: you find out that even if the twenty seventeen and
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen tax cuts in defense spending hikes expired, The
Speaker 1: CBO projects a baseline budget deficit running to five percent
Speaker 1: of GDP over the next decade. And that's when you
Speaker 1: start to get into the far left wish list that
Speaker 1: we're talking about here. Forty two trillion dollars democratic agenda
Speaker 1: so far the left and Okazio Cortez I've come with
Speaker 1: two trillion dollars in tax increase. And now why I
Speaker 1: am we talk about Okasio quartets. She's just saying what
Speaker 1: other Democrats want but aren't willing to say yet. All right,
Speaker 1: you know she also wants free electricity. There you go,
Speaker 1: free electricity. That's gonna be great, universal jobs and housing.
Speaker 1: As a human writer, just a few more things on
Speaker 1: our platfor Oh dude, free, it's gonna be free, every free.
Speaker 1: Everything's going to be amazing. And what do they want?
Speaker 1: Forty two trillion dollars of a democratic socialist agenda, single
Speaker 1: pair of healthcare thirty two trillion, A federal jobs guarantee
Speaker 1: six point eight trillion, student loan forgiveness one point four trillion,
Speaker 1: free public college, eight hundred billion, infrastructure a trillion. How
Speaker 1: the heck do you pay for all that? Will? They say?
Speaker 1: Tax the rich? But as I explained before, even if
Speaker 1: even if you took every single dollar earned over a
Speaker 1: million dollars, which would actually be a tax on the rich.
Speaker 1: Usually what they do is say we're going to tax
Speaker 1: rich people, and then all of a sudden, you got
Speaker 1: people that are making two hundred grands who are being
Speaker 1: taxed like they're rich. Well, you know, I got news
Speaker 1: for them. The average janitor in the New York this
Speaker 1: is a true story. The average janitor in the New
Speaker 1: York City public school system with overtime makes ninety three
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year. So if you have a janitor,
Speaker 1: let's say, married to a school administrator with some seniority
Speaker 1: in the New York City public school system, that's a
Speaker 1: household income of let's say, easily one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: to one hundred and sixty thousand dollars a year, maybe
Speaker 1: a little more, maybe a little less. We call it
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty k. Are people making one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty k living in a major city rich. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that not doing well. They're doing well, but
Speaker 1: are they rich? Should be paying sixty seventy eighty percent
Speaker 1: of their income above you know, fifty grand in taxes
Speaker 1: or above forty grand in taxes because because here's where
Speaker 1: we're all and here's where this is all heading. This
Speaker 1: is where things are going to get really ugly. The
Speaker 1: numbers don't add up. The rich can't pay for this.
Speaker 1: I don't mean can't like it's not fair. I don't
Speaker 1: mean can't like politically it won't happen. I mean they
Speaker 1: do not have the money to pay for this. It
Speaker 1: does not exist. You could confiscate every dollar that the
Speaker 1: rich earn over a million dollars a year, and you
Speaker 1: would not be able to fund all of these proposals because,
Speaker 1: you know what, there are a whole lot more people
Speaker 1: making sixty sixty grand than there are people making six
Speaker 1: hundred grand. For obviously, the real money is the middle class.
Speaker 1: That's where the real tax dollars can get got if
Speaker 1: you will, that's where they can get the money. And
Speaker 1: we already have the most progressive tax code of any
Speaker 1: of the OECD countries. We already have. Trying to you know,
Speaker 1: these are I'm trying to remember the numbers of the the
Speaker 1: top of my head, but I don't want to give
Speaker 1: you the wrong ones. The top twenty percent of taxpayers
Speaker 1: earned fifty three percent of income but pay sixty nine
Speaker 1: percent of all federal taxes, including eighty eight percent of
Speaker 1: all income tax So basically twenty percent of the country
Speaker 1: is paying ninety per cent of the income taxes. The
Speaker 1: bottom forty percent of earners earned fourteen percent of the
Speaker 1: income will paying no income tax and less than five
Speaker 1: percent of all federal taxes. So we already have a
Speaker 1: very progressive tax code. So see, this is where this
Speaker 1: whole movement and this is big, this is this is
Speaker 1: going to be at the center of the fight for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and you're seeing it play out in a
Speaker 1: different context and they've got their own political ecosystem. But
Speaker 1: in France right now, people want stuff. It sounds good,
Speaker 1: but they don't want to pay for it. People want
Speaker 1: free stuff that somebody else is going to pick up
Speaker 1: the tab for this. This is sound. They got healthcare
Speaker 1: through This is the whole premise of wealth redistribution. The
Speaker 1: government knows how much you need, what you need to have,
Speaker 1: and will be better at allocating those resources than you
Speaker 1: or than market. This is collectivism. Now people would say
Speaker 1: to me, Buck, what about social security? We already have
Speaker 1: a Yeah, I know, we're already trending toward a democrat
Speaker 1: socialist state. That's happening. It's been happening after the last
Speaker 1: sixty years or so, maybe more than that. Some whould
Speaker 1: argue the last hundred years, but certainly last fifty or
Speaker 1: sixty years, since the nineteen sixties, the Great Society programs,
Speaker 1: we have been moving in this direction. And the time
Speaker 1: when you get real revolutionary fervor is when it's not
Speaker 1: when people are just scared or when there's deprivation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously people can get unsettled, and there can be unrest
Speaker 1: just because of scarcity because people are destitute or you
Speaker 1: have enough of a net. But but that also can
Speaker 1: keep people busy because they're trying to make ends meet.
Speaker 1: You have real revolutionary, combustible stuff when people have unmet
Speaker 1: expectations and a sense that they have been wronged. That's
Speaker 1: when they mobilize. And what you're going to see with
Speaker 1: the middle class in this country if the Democrats have
Speaker 1: their way, is there are all these promises, and if
Speaker 1: they start to get more of them, if they start
Speaker 1: to implement some of this, what will happen very quickly
Speaker 1: is they'll realize, oh, we can't pay for this, and
Speaker 1: then either the tax rates on the middle class will
Speaker 1: become outrageous. So it'll be what they have in Sweden
Speaker 1: or Denmark and a sixty seventy percent, and you know,
Speaker 1: go spend some time or there. Not a lot of
Speaker 1: people that I think you'd really, you know, really want
Speaker 1: to change places with if you're somebody that enjoys individual
Speaker 1: rights and freedom and private property. I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: a bad place. I'm saying I don't think as an
Speaker 1: American and that's what you'd want. But the middle class
Speaker 1: is gonna have to pay sixty percent of their income,
Speaker 1: all income to the state, and then they'll realize, we'll
Speaker 1: hold on a second. Now, my quality of life is
Speaker 1: really going down, and we don't have a government bureaucracy
Speaker 1: that's efficient enough to deliver on these services. So then
Speaker 1: the services aren't going to be as good as we're promised.
Speaker 1: So now you're gonna have people that are paying more
Speaker 1: money than they were told they'd have to pay, getting
Speaker 1: services that aren't nearly as good as they were told
Speaker 1: they would be. And we're talking about tens of millions,
Speaker 1: we're talking maybe the majority of the American people, at
Speaker 1: least the majority of the American taxpayer. And then things
Speaker 1: go one of two ways. They either realize the error
Speaker 1: of this trajectory and scale it back, or they double down.
Speaker 1: They do what democrats always do. Oh, the only answer
Speaker 1: is a bigger state, even more taxes, even more government control.
Speaker 1: And this is to borrow from Hyak, the road to serfdom.
Speaker 1: This is how it happens. No one gets on the
Speaker 1: road to serfdom thinking, you know, what's going to be
Speaker 1: awesome when the state controls every aspect of my life
Speaker 1: and I have no real control over my destiny and
Speaker 1: the property that I have is just what the state
Speaker 1: allows me to allows me to keep. Now that's a
Speaker 1: it's a it's generally a gradual process toward that from
Speaker 1: a free society, and it's descent into into fascism from
Speaker 1: a free society or relatively free society as those freedoms
Speaker 1: are lost. Most places never even get to that point.
Speaker 1: But this is this is the macro dynamic that's playing
Speaker 1: out in America, in Europe, and it is going to
Speaker 1: be It's going to get ugly. It is going to
Speaker 1: get ugly. I've got more on this than Also I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk about immigration and Trump's discussion with Shiji and
Speaker 1: Ping about China and where all that's going. We have
Speaker 1: a Jampack show. We'll be back in just a moment.
Speaker 1: But Buck, you might say, we don't have people as
Speaker 1: crazy as some of these street protesters in France. We
Speaker 1: don't know, oh no, But of course we do, right
Speaker 1: We already have an anti fum movement in this country
Speaker 1: right now, anti fuzz pretty fringe. But what if we
Speaker 1: did have a major economic recession, downturn, collapse. What if
Speaker 1: their revolutionary rhetoric all of a sudden was supported not
Speaker 1: just by hard left democrats but by mainstream democrats as well.
Speaker 1: Do you think that they are committed enough to go
Speaker 1: the distance and try for real unrest. I can't answer
Speaker 1: the question. I can only say that they certainly are
Speaker 1: crazy enough. Our friend Andy No, who some of you
Speaker 1: know from Quilette, which is an online publication of a
Speaker 1: journal of I think controversial thought might be a good
Speaker 1: way of putting it, which means it's interesting to read.
Speaker 1: Andy was out at Seattle anti FA protest over the
Speaker 1: weekend and we had to bleep some of this out,
Speaker 1: but they recognized our friend Andy. We had a moment
Speaker 1: last week, I think, to talk about what he saw
Speaker 1: in Portland. Well, this is now in Seattle, and this
Speaker 1: is what one of the American Antifa Seattle protesters said
Speaker 1: to And you know about this moment in our politics,
Speaker 1: play one. I can see in your eyes that you've
Speaker 1: got in Asian descent. Check your history. The history shows
Speaker 1: you that you can't trust your enemy, but that you're
Speaker 1: using your enemy against us, spying. Because it's coming. It's coming.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing the energy. That's why they keep checking on you.
Speaker 1: You understanding because they want to know, because I'm known
Speaker 1: to do this for real, because some of us didn't
Speaker 1: really come to talk. So it's really come to die.
Speaker 1: I dude, are you willing to die for a YouTube? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's what's gonna come. That's coming to you, dude,
Speaker 1: to fill that energy. So your heart's pounded. I'm here
Speaker 1: to let you know judgments here and he's spying and
Speaker 1: doing his part. It's gonna get you. End up, death
Speaker 1: is coming to you. The anti foot protester says, some
Speaker 1: of us are ready to die for this stuff. He
Speaker 1: says now might just be rhetoric. Probably is, but he's
Speaker 1: certainly not a very well adjusted individual. And it's troubling
Speaker 1: that there are so many people. I mean, if he
Speaker 1: were to say that over a loudspeaker in front of ANTIFU,
Speaker 1: do you think any of them would have told him, Oh, no,
Speaker 1: we're not about that, We're not about threats or violence.
Speaker 1: They run around in paramilitary gear, pushing stuff, lighting stuff
Speaker 1: on fire, breaking things, tackling people, punching people. Pretty sure
Speaker 1: they're okay with violence. Now, when you have a revolutionary
Speaker 1: faction in a country like ours that is stable and
Speaker 1: doing well, you could say, oh, we can ignore them.
Speaker 1: It's fine, but things change. Small factions of hardliners and
Speaker 1: extremists can be very opportunistic. And go back and read
Speaker 1: the history of revolution in Russia. You'll see the Bolsheviks
Speaker 1: were never very popular, never had widespread support, but they
Speaker 1: were very committed. I'm not saying that Antifa is about
Speaker 1: to take over roughly half the world, but we do
Speaker 1: need to keep an eye on the more extreme leftists
Speaker 1: while we have this problem of a crushing debt and
Speaker 1: a social welfare state that can't pay for itself. Looming
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Speaker 1: make any firm predictions. I'm just saying the timetable matters.
Speaker 1: The immediacy of their actions matter. The broad scope, both
Speaker 1: structural A three discussed as well as the tariffs and
Speaker 1: the lord tariff bearers. All that needs to start fast,
Speaker 1: and we will be tracking it. We will be tracking
Speaker 1: it because we've had promises in the past from China. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: and the promises have not worked out. Now, in the
Speaker 1: spirit of goodwill, and again the president, she's amazing presentation
Speaker 1: to President Trump Saturday night, in that positive, optimistic spirit.
Speaker 1: We have strong expectations, but we must track this on
Speaker 1: the China issue. He's been talking about this way before
Speaker 1: he ran for president, and this is a major issue
Speaker 1: for him. And again, I think this was a breakthrough
Speaker 1: moment for the two presidents reaching this agreement. The President
Speaker 1: is determined to continue to move forward on our economic
Speaker 1: path and I think this was a great breakthrough. And
Speaker 1: now the two teams have a lot of work to
Speaker 1: turn this into a real agreement. So President Trump met
Speaker 1: with his counterpart, Chinese Premier, President Shi Jinping by it's
Speaker 1: always great to go with president because that way, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry to go with premier because that could be the
Speaker 1: Prime Minister or the president depending on the country. Otherwise
Speaker 1: you end up talking about you know, President Merkel or something,
Speaker 1: and that everyone makes fun of you. But you say
Speaker 1: premier instead of prime minister, then you're fine. So that's
Speaker 1: a that's an important, little little trick. Anyway, Chancellor Miracle
Speaker 1: is really I think the way she's referred to. So
Speaker 1: you know, there you go. Where were we? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 1: talking about China. So China and the US have agreed
Speaker 1: to a short term diplomatic trade ceasefire, if you will.
Speaker 1: They've decided they're going to give this three you know,
Speaker 1: the ninety days, three months to try to work something
Speaker 1: out here where they're not going to just keep on
Speaker 1: slapping bigger and bigger tariffs on each other. This was
Speaker 1: down in Buenos Aires. I really want to go by
Speaker 1: the way. I always want to check out one sr
Speaker 1: was here, really good things, but Trump also did something
Speaker 1: that might put the Chinese somewhat on edge here. Um,
Speaker 1: they remember their economies that are really really toughier, Their
Speaker 1: markets gotten walloped. It's been bad. But Trump appointed Lightheiser
Speaker 1: to run this whole thing. And you know he's gonna
Speaker 1: be Robert Lightheiser, who was a US trade representative. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be the guy negotiating with Beijing. This means that
Speaker 1: you're not going to see Trump back down. I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna see or you're not gonna see the administration
Speaker 1: back down. They still think that they're going to win
Speaker 1: this thing. That's why Trump tweeted out my meeting in
Speaker 1: Argentina with President she Off China was an extraordinary one.
Speaker 1: Relations with China taken a big leap forward. Very good
Speaker 1: things will happen. We're dealing from great strength, but China
Speaker 1: likewise has much to gain if and when a deal
Speaker 1: is completed level the field. So here is how I see.
Speaker 1: Here's a concern that I have. China is playing a
Speaker 1: long term game, and we are operating not just in
Speaker 1: four year election cycles, but really in twenty four hour
Speaker 1: news cycles. China views itself as our only real strategic
Speaker 1: or rather they are only real strategic threat over the
Speaker 1: long term, and they're right. The Chinese economy US economy
Speaker 1: for single nation states, the EU is the technically the
Speaker 1: largest economy in the world. Well that's not really fair.
Speaker 1: I mean, because the EU is a whole lot of
Speaker 1: countries and they don't get along a lot of things,
Speaker 1: and their separate nation states. For single nations, China and
Speaker 1: the China and the United States or are the biggest,
Speaker 1: and the Chinese view their economic power as essential to
Speaker 1: their long term hard power military military force. That understand
Speaker 1: that if they become dominant as an economic power, that
Speaker 1: essentially military power will follow. Because one, they got a
Speaker 1: massive and disproportionately male population, a young and male population,
Speaker 1: and they're going to have very advanced armaments, and you
Speaker 1: know they could if they eclipse us economically, the assumption
Speaker 1: is that they will also eclipse US militarily. It's just
Speaker 1: a question of when. And that also factors into what
Speaker 1: they're really willing to do here. I think that there
Speaker 1: is a zero sum nature and much of the Chinese
Speaker 1: thinking on this. They're not looking and this is where
Speaker 1: I think there might be a flaw in the administration's approach,
Speaker 1: although maybe Trump understands this very well and that's why
Speaker 1: he's taking this approach so that they expose this mentality
Speaker 1: from the Chinese. The Chinese are not looking to find
Speaker 1: a world I mean, this is a very America. We're
Speaker 1: number one, but we want everyone to be great kind
Speaker 1: of view. The Chinese government, you know, the Standing Committee
Speaker 1: and Chiesi and Ping, they're not hoping that America and
Speaker 1: China come to some agreement where everyone's just making more
Speaker 1: money and everything is cool. They want to beat us.
Speaker 1: They want they want to win. They're not just looking
Speaker 1: for win win. They want to win. And that is
Speaker 1: a different mentality and a different strategic goal than certainly
Speaker 1: what previous administrations have gone and they're trying to achieve.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's not enough to just say to them, well,
Speaker 1: if if you stop this and we have much freer
Speaker 1: free trade, not perfectly free trade, but we have much
Speaker 1: free or free trade, then then there's the real Then
Speaker 1: there's the real possibility that you know, everybody will be wealthier,
Speaker 1: everybody will be better off. The truth is that they
Speaker 1: want I think that the intellectual property theft, it's a
Speaker 1: perfect example I'm talking about because that involves also military
Speaker 1: and trade secrets. They're not going to stop doing that.
Speaker 1: They're not going to stop. They may try to put
Speaker 1: in place some public modifications to those policies so they
Speaker 1: can say they've stopped. Well, there's no way they're gonna stop.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's no aspect of the Chinese government
Speaker 1: that has any authority, what sevice gonna say, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what instead of getting closer and closer to America
Speaker 1: in terms of its military, it's trade secrets, it's commercial
Speaker 1: applications of technology all the time, and doing so for
Speaker 1: pennies on the dollar of what the US spends an
Speaker 1: R and D and just the you know, blood, sweat
Speaker 1: and tears of its entrepreneurs. We could just take that.
Speaker 1: Instead of that, we're going to do it ourselves and
Speaker 1: try to catch up in the old fashioned way. Let's
Speaker 1: have a fair fight. China doesn't want a fair fight.
Speaker 1: They don't want to fair fight economically, and eventually they're
Speaker 1: not gonna want to want a fair fight militarily, either
Speaker 1: whether it's with US or the Indians or who knows.
Speaker 1: But you know, the Chinese have grand ambitions as a
Speaker 1: people and as a nation, and they want to be
Speaker 1: number one, and that means number one at our expense.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's what our side hasn't really grasped yet.
Speaker 1: That's what our team, uh, you know, in this country,
Speaker 1: not just the Trump administration, but I think in general,
Speaker 1: just American foreign policy has a hard time dealing with
Speaker 1: you know, we like to think of this world, you know,
Speaker 1: one where nationalism is is considered a bad thing. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the rest of the world that is perfectly willing to
Speaker 1: embrace nationalism. Um, you know in the e the EU
Speaker 1: being the only place we'd say, oh no, buck, they
Speaker 1: like their super super state. Well one is you know,
Speaker 1: the Brexit with the UK, but also all those countries
Speaker 1: within the U s to all have a very strong
Speaker 1: sense of their own national identity. You know, they have
Speaker 1: an economic union, but not a political union. So there's
Speaker 1: just not it's not the same approach that the Chinese
Speaker 1: are taking to this that we would if we were
Speaker 1: in their shoes, which is just let's just aim for
Speaker 1: overall prosperity and favorable relationships with our you know, with
Speaker 1: other countries and all the rest of it. No, no no, no,
Speaker 1: they actually want dominance, and dominance is going to cause
Speaker 1: you know that the quest for cominence with China is
Speaker 1: going to cause friction. One more point here about the
Speaker 1: Chinese talks that are just wanting to throw in there
Speaker 1: before we get onto a little bit of a discussion
Speaker 1: about what's going on in the border, and that has
Speaker 1: to do with actually the fentyel epidemic. Plate ten. One
Speaker 1: topic that we'll bring up will be the fentinel problem
Speaker 1: that we have in the United States, which is a
Speaker 1: tremendous problem. Asking the President to do something about that,
Speaker 1: I think you'll be able to. If you put that
Speaker 1: on a restrictive category, we'll be able to pretty much
Speaker 1: shot the great deal. To criminalize it in China would
Speaker 1: be a great fate. See what's happening is fentanyl as
Speaker 1: being made in commercial style laboratories in China, transshipped from
Speaker 1: China to Mexico, and then from Mexico, the cartels are
Speaker 1: moving fentanyl illegally in the United States and selling it's
Speaker 1: killing a lot of people, a lot of Yeah, the
Speaker 1: opid epidemic is partially hero which is also coming via Mexico.
Speaker 1: But for the opioids that are in pill form fentyl
Speaker 1: and car fentyl, which is even more powerful than a
Speaker 1: normal fentyl, that stuff is being made in China and
Speaker 1: somewhat in Mexico itself and then going across the border.
Speaker 1: So you know, the Chinese have a hand in preventing
Speaker 1: the poisoning over seventy thousand Americans. Do I think that
Speaker 1: they're really going to crack down on this all that much? No,
Speaker 1: I think China is just fine. As a general notion,
Speaker 1: of you know, it's better for my enemy to be suffering.
Speaker 1: I don't think China is too worried about our opioid
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Speaker 1: is a very complex situation because mister Putin is clearly
Speaker 1: a slow learner. He is not recognizing that what he
Speaker 1: is doing actually creating the animosity against his people. He's
Speaker 1: not acting in the best interests of the Russian people,
Speaker 1: and he is actually causing NATO to rearm and to
Speaker 1: strengthen the democracy stance, the unified stance of all the
Speaker 1: democracies together. Dealing with someone that we simply cannot trust.
Speaker 1: Has the relationship worsened since you've been Defense Secretary, There
Speaker 1: is no doubt the relationship has worsened. He tried again
Speaker 1: to muck around in our elections this last month, and
Speaker 1: we are seeing a continued effort along those lines. Lots
Speaker 1: to unpack from what Secretary of Defense Maddis said. Theres
Speaker 1: lots that we have to get into now. One, let's
Speaker 1: just get right to it so we don't let this.
Speaker 1: You know, we don't miss a beat. Russia meddled in
Speaker 1: the midterm of life. How many people have heard that
Speaker 1: anywhere before? Why do you why do we all think
Speaker 1: that's why is that we're just hearing now about Russian
Speaker 1: meddling in the midterm election, and in such a kind
Speaker 1: of a blase who cares way right? I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying Maddis doesn't care, but this isn't the usual
Speaker 1: hair on fire, Oh my gosh, Russian meddling in the election.
Speaker 1: You know, Maddis is saying, this guy's being a punk,
Speaker 1: he's being difficult, he's causing problems for us. But he's
Speaker 1: also saying, look, you know, this is the sort of
Speaker 1: the way, this is kind of the way it is,
Speaker 1: and when we're trying to deal with Putin, we need
Speaker 1: to understand that he's a bad guy. But if the
Speaker 1: Democrats hadn't just picked up almost forty seats in the
Speaker 1: House of Representatives, don't you think we'd be told all
Speaker 1: over the place, Oh my gosh, there was an attempt
Speaker 1: at Russian meddling, and almost certainly an additional Russian meddling
Speaker 1: beyond that, of course we would this would be there
Speaker 1: would be a non style story if Republicans had held
Speaker 1: the House and gained seats in the Senate. The Russian
Speaker 1: medalings just like with Hillary, and when she lost the election,
Speaker 1: everyone knew there was Russian medaling beef I ever knew
Speaker 1: the Facebook. It was only after she lost that there
Speaker 1: was this need to oh my gosh, what are we
Speaker 1: gonna do? And so terrible, Oh Hillary, sorry, might because
Speaker 1: of my scratchy voice right now, I can't do the
Speaker 1: Hillary voice. We'll just come out like a like a
Speaker 1: wounded duck noise or something. Does that even sound like
Speaker 1: a wounded duck? I don't know what that was. But Maddis, though,
Speaker 1: never wanted to shy away from a great one liner.
Speaker 1: He said the following play fifteen. We are Americans. We
Speaker 1: are not spectators in the art of history. We make history.
Speaker 1: Reagan said it best. I do not believe, he said,
Speaker 1: in a faith that will befall us no matter what
Speaker 1: we do. I do believe in a faith that will
Speaker 1: befall us if we do nothing. America will sustain our
Speaker 1: military's warrior ethos because we must. With Congress and industry partners,
Speaker 1: we will hold the line, and we will send a
Speaker 1: simple message to any potential advertary not today. Your military
Speaker 1: cannot win it, so don't even try it. That is
Speaker 1: absolutely the case right now. That's good that we have
Speaker 1: somebody of Maddie's stature, and who commands as much respect
Speaker 1: within the military as he does to say it that said,
Speaker 1: this is this is not inevitable. Our economic dominance is inevitable.
Speaker 1: Our military dominance is certainly not inevitable. And you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot that's in the process of changing right
Speaker 1: now that people don't spend much time thinking about. But
Speaker 1: you know, here's an example. Hypersonic weapons sound like they're
Speaker 1: going to be increasingly a large part of the offensive
Speaker 1: military capabilities of major developed nations, and that changes the
Speaker 1: game in terms of missile defense technology. You know, what's
Speaker 1: what is possible when you have missiles, including nuclear missiles,
Speaker 1: that go a whole lot faster and can get around
Speaker 1: traditional defenses. Think about how that begins to change the
Speaker 1: dynamic of what we have had for a while here,
Speaker 1: which is a sense of relative stability among the at
Speaker 1: least the nuclear armed states with the exception of North Korea.
Speaker 1: And the only thing really keeps Pakistan stable in our
Speaker 1: eyes is that India's right next door looking at them
Speaker 1: like you want to go, we can go, we can
Speaker 1: do this, and everyone just sits around them holding their
Speaker 1: breath saying, oh my gosh, please don't do this. I
Speaker 1: guess you can't say anything and hold your breath. You
Speaker 1: get the basic idea. Oh, and then speaking about future
Speaker 1: nuclear states and how things could go very badly, very quickly.
Speaker 1: You have a General Keen and General Jackino or Fox
Speaker 1: talking about what's going on with the Iran I've got
Speaker 1: to say this is I've got to say, this is
Speaker 1: one of the areas where the administration has received you
Speaker 1: received all this pushback. Oh, our European allies, and you
Speaker 1: know with the randal, if we if we step out
Speaker 1: of the Randal, all these terrible things are going to happen.
Speaker 1: None of these terrible things happen. None of these terrible
Speaker 1: things happen. Play seven, three weeks after the president was inaugurated,
Speaker 1: iron test fire a ballistic missile, and clearly what he
Speaker 1: did is he sanctioned them right away and told them
Speaker 1: that we were not going to stand for their continuing
Speaker 1: aggressive and malign behavior in the region. We're slapping some
Speaker 1: pretty hard sanctions on the Iranians. And now we're now
Speaker 1: we're into the energy and the oil part of it.
Speaker 1: Their economy is struggling, their currency is in free fall,
Speaker 1: their inflation is spiraling out of control. There's fuel, food
Speaker 1: shortages on a regular basis, that there's power shortages that
Speaker 1: are coming up almost weekly, and civil unresting the nation
Speaker 1: is growing. So the Iranian regime, for the first time
Speaker 1: since they took power in nineteen eighty, they clearly are
Speaker 1: feeling pressure that they have never ever felt before. He said,
Speaker 1: it's the most pressure Iran's ever been under. And this
Speaker 1: is why the Obama deal was so egregious. Now, never
Speaker 1: mind just that the palates of cash traded for US
Speaker 1: hostages and the decision to essentially allow the rest of
Speaker 1: US media's policy and interest just fall into disrepair because
Speaker 1: they didn't the Obama team didn't want to upset the
Speaker 1: Irani and Molas. The sanctions were working, I mean the
Speaker 1: Iranian the Iranian government was in really bad shape, and
Speaker 1: there was a sense that, you know, unrest was coming,
Speaker 1: and you know, it would be great if we could
Speaker 1: mean it would be such a fantastic thing for the
Speaker 1: Irani and people and for the whole world if there
Speaker 1: could finally be you know, how about a revolution where
Speaker 1: the good guys win. You know, we're the result, our
Speaker 1: country is the result of a revolution. We're the good guys.
Speaker 1: Weren't How about that in Iran, it would really be
Speaker 1: a counter revolution in a sense that what happened in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy now but pressure on the regime to get
Speaker 1: them to comply with the reasonable expectations of the international community.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is good, not sending US troops, not
Speaker 1: putting our people in arms way, you know, economic warfare,
Speaker 1: which is what we're doing. We're waging economic warfare against
Speaker 1: the Iranians and doing so right now pretty successfully. But
Speaker 1: not a lot of media coverage of it. Because can
Speaker 1: you imagine if people become aware that Trump's policy in
Speaker 1: Iran is just more sounds, just better decision making than
Speaker 1: anything the Obama team with Kerry and the rest of
Speaker 1: them were able to cook up. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: that is one of the nightmares of the establishment left.
Speaker 1: It turns out Trump is a great foreign policy president
Speaker 1: and that Obama isn't even in the same league. Well, definitely,
Speaker 1: we need more wall, we need more manpower, We need
Speaker 1: Congress to fix the loopholes in the laws. Until those
Speaker 1: loopholes are fixed, this situation is not well, in particular
Speaker 1: with the family units and the ability to come to
Speaker 1: this country and be released into the United States while
Speaker 1: awaiting a court date that is long down the road.
Speaker 1: We need Congress to act and deal with the immigration
Speaker 1: laws and see if they can fix that situation for us. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: the pole factor is going to continue to be there
Speaker 1: and these individuals are going to keep coming. So that
Speaker 1: was a border patrol Carlo Provost. I remember interviewing her
Speaker 1: not long ago. It's a very serious lady, very very
Speaker 1: much all about law enforcement. And this migrant caravan folks
Speaker 1: has not gone away. The media coverage of it has
Speaker 1: temporarily died down, but this is still very much an
Speaker 1: issue that needs to be resolved. You have, just the
Speaker 1: last day, you have a group of Hondurans in the
Speaker 1: caravan scale the Mexico border wall in Tijuana and then
Speaker 1: they were taken into custody. So people are still trying
Speaker 1: to sneak across. And what I'm hearing, and I was
Speaker 1: speaking to some sources today about this, I'm still really
Speaker 1: hoping to be able to get to the border. I
Speaker 1: try to go last week. Of course, this week I've
Speaker 1: got I'm sick. I got a Christmas party every day
Speaker 1: pretty much this week, and you know, I guess partied
Speaker 1: a little hard this past weekend for miss Molly's birthday.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to play a little bit of catch
Speaker 1: up now. But you know, I want to get down
Speaker 1: to the border and see for myself what's going on
Speaker 1: and bring you all that firsthand knowledge about the caravan.
Speaker 1: So I'm working on that. I'm gonna try to talk
Speaker 1: to the powers that be tomorrow about getting me down there,
Speaker 1: even even just for a few days, to really see
Speaker 1: with my own eyes what's going on, and I would
Speaker 1: just do the show from don't worry, I'll do the
Speaker 1: show from down there. We've got a good station at
Speaker 1: San Diego that I can I can be be live
Speaker 1: at her for a few days. But you've got people
Speaker 1: scaling this fence. What I'm being told by my sources,
Speaker 1: and I mean there's all there's photos this by the way,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is happening. People are sneaking across the
Speaker 1: border at the fence. And what you're finding out is
Speaker 1: that there's all so an effort right now, there's a
Speaker 1: there's an effort to kind of gather together at one
Speaker 1: part of the border, and more people are showing up.
Speaker 1: You know, you have six thousand of them that were
Speaker 1: that have gathered together and more showing up, and the
Speaker 1: idea is that if enough of them get to the border,
Speaker 1: to just think about how this plays out, and it's
Speaker 1: really very it's very Ilynsky, it's very Elynskyite, and what's
Speaker 1: going on here. If enough people get to the border
Speaker 1: at one time, and then they strategically pick weak parts
Speaker 1: of the wall, they pick weak parts of the wall
Speaker 1: to go to, and then all at once they rush, right,
Speaker 1: they try to rush the border. A lot of them
Speaker 1: are going to get in, a lot of them will
Speaker 1: get border patrol because there's simply too much border, not
Speaker 1: enough agents. And once they get into the interior of
Speaker 1: the United States, I mean, it's it's all over here.
Speaker 1: You're never going to find them. By the way, I
Speaker 1: saw the Pew survey data that just I think it
Speaker 1: just came out today about illegal illegal particularly illegal immigrant
Speaker 1: Mexicans in the United States. And sure enough, who wants
Speaker 1: to guess, who wants to guess? How many? There are?
Speaker 1: Eleven million? Oh wow, the number is the same as
Speaker 1: it was last year and the year. You know, they
Speaker 1: have these charts that show up and down, and their
Speaker 1: claim is that there are a million fewer illegal alien
Speaker 1: Mexicans in the country now. And there were in two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, but that there are I guess a
Speaker 1: million more non Mexican illegal aliens the country. That's why
Speaker 1: that the number essentially stays static at eleven million total.
Speaker 1: It's just more Central Americans and fewer fewer Mexicans overall sold.
Speaker 1: I just I don't believe the number, and not because
Speaker 1: I'm a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe the number because
Speaker 1: the number doesn't make any sense. It's unrealistic to believe
Speaker 1: that that number just stays where it is for all
Speaker 1: that time, just because I just don't believe that. I
Speaker 1: just don't think that that may for all the reason
Speaker 1: I've told you. And also those math nerds at mit UM,
Speaker 1: you know, they crunch the numbers. I'm sorry, not MT
Speaker 1: at Yale. They crunch the numbers, they realize. But what
Speaker 1: happens if we're at the border. Here's the other, the
Speaker 1: other possibility. What happens if at the border the sorry,
Speaker 1: my voice is starting to film me a little bit.
Speaker 1: Team the different groups that have gathered there rush and
Speaker 1: let's say there's an incident. You know what if somebody
Speaker 1: in the border patrol tries to stop a few migrants
Speaker 1: and they you know, a group of them, attack of
Speaker 1: border patrol agent and he feels like his life or
Speaker 1: her life, whichever we're talking about, with that border patrol
Speaker 1: agent is truly in jeopardy and draws a firearm and shoots.
Speaker 1: You know this, this can happen. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: not an unforeseeable situation. And now, I mean, the moment
Speaker 1: you have any kind of lethal force incident at the border,
Speaker 1: you're going to have them. You're going to have the
Speaker 1: activist left completely lose their mind, and then they're gonna
Speaker 1: be talking about, you know, shoot on site, militarized border,
Speaker 1: you know, racist, Nazi border patrol, all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, you know, no one is forcing Democrats to
Speaker 1: answer hard questions about what should be done with these
Speaker 1: thousands of people who have gathered there. The Trump administration said,
Speaker 1: you have to show up at a legal port of
Speaker 1: entry to get into the United States. You can't just
Speaker 1: run into the country and at any point along the
Speaker 1: US Mexico border. And we've got thousands of people that
Speaker 1: think that they're just going to come through, and there
Speaker 1: are probably thousands more gathering. We're not even really sure
Speaker 1: think about how quickly they went from a remember this,
Speaker 1: how quickly did they go from a thousand miles away
Speaker 1: to at the border. It was a matter of days,
Speaker 1: you know. Oh god, there were so many, so many
Speaker 1: stupid pundits out there running around talking about how you
Speaker 1: know they're they're so far away, and the people that
Speaker 1: are making an issue of this, or you know, they're
Speaker 1: they're just fear mongering. And I'm no, they're not fear mongering.
Speaker 1: It was true, as we know. And that's why I
Speaker 1: was happy that I had a chance to go on
Speaker 1: The Tucker Show and talk with him about how we've
Speaker 1: just been lied to all along about this caravan and
Speaker 1: and you know, we're being lied to about it right now.
Speaker 1: We're being lied to about it, and the Congress isn't
Speaker 1: doing a damn thing about it. Congress is just it's
Speaker 1: just so useless on the issue of immigration, just so
Speaker 1: so worthless. They don't take enough action when it come
Speaker 1: well on immigration in any in any way, you know.
Speaker 1: And now, but we're being told that they've they've pushed off,
Speaker 1: they've pushed off dealing with the possible government shut down,
Speaker 1: the budget fight till the friday, the Friday before Christmas. Oh,
Speaker 1: the Friday before Christmas. That's because that's when they're going
Speaker 1: to really take a they're gonna take a stand. That's
Speaker 1: when they're going to decide. Oh, I've I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: create a big political storm right before Christmas and New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve and Buck's Birthday by the way, very important day.
Speaker 1: You know that's not gonna that's not gonna happen. You know,
Speaker 1: there's not going to be any fight really over the book.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess, I guess I could be right here.
Speaker 1: Here's what they're saying. Lawmakers plan to extend funding through
Speaker 1: December twenty first. Okay, so they're passing a very short
Speaker 1: budgetary fix, and the disagreements over whether whether to fund
Speaker 1: President Trump's proposed border wall are what's pushing this right. So,
Speaker 1: so here's what CNBC says. The Republican controlled Congress hope
Speaker 1: to strike a deal with Democrats this week, even as
Speaker 1: President Trump's demand for five billion to fund his proposed
Speaker 1: border wall raised the prospect of a partial government shutdown.
Speaker 1: George HW. Bush's death and funeral range and shifted focus.
Speaker 1: Trump was set to meet with Senator House Democratic leaders
Speaker 1: and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Plosi on Tuesday morning. That's
Speaker 1: layed until next week because of the death year, and
Speaker 1: Senate Democrats have said the old greeted, but no more
Speaker 1: than one point six billion dollars towards border security and fencing,
Speaker 1: but not the physical wall that Trump seeks. This is
Speaker 1: just this is just Democrats not wanting Trump be able
Speaker 1: to follow through on a campaign promise. This is just
Speaker 1: Democrats deciding that the President of the United States shouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to adequately defend our southern border. Because if
Speaker 1: you think about this for a moment, if President did
Speaker 1: get that wall built, I think then he even cruises
Speaker 1: to reelection. If we're in the midst of over session,
Speaker 1: I think, if President Trump gets that wall built, where
Speaker 1: we're in for four more years at Trump and the
Speaker 1: Democrats know that if you can't make the argument now,
Speaker 1: meaning if Republicans aren't willing to explain why we need
Speaker 1: a border wall right now, it's it's never going to happen.
Speaker 1: And it's never going to happen because there's no better time,
Speaker 1: and time is running out, and once once you have
Speaker 1: even more Democrats in the House, then it's even less
Speaker 1: likely that you would get any kind of concession because
Speaker 1: right right now, it's really just about how much money
Speaker 1: and where the money is going to be spent. But
Speaker 1: there's supposed to be some kind of action on the
Speaker 1: border wall they're supposed to be or not on the
Speaker 1: wall on the border. They're willing to pay for some
Speaker 1: security measures. But what we see is in real time
Speaker 1: a case study of how effective a wall would be.
Speaker 1: In real time, we see that the places in the
Speaker 1: Tijuana California corridor here you know, outside San Diego, sanny Cedro,
Speaker 1: port and MEXICALI that the places with good with a
Speaker 1: good wall, with a good barrier don't have crossings. The
Speaker 1: places where the barrier has been breached, our places where
Speaker 1: the barrier is either in disrepair or unfinished or incomplete.
Speaker 1: Of course, of course the barrier matters. And you see
Speaker 1: border patrol right now gathering in such a way as
Speaker 1: to leverage as much as possible this protection or this
Speaker 1: barrier to entry that they have, and places where they
Speaker 1: don't have it, obviously there are at a greater disadvantage
Speaker 1: to do their jobs. So we have essentially and I
Speaker 1: wish Republicans would just make this case. I wish they
Speaker 1: would be more clear in this We have a running
Speaker 1: advertisement for a wall happening right now with this caravan.
Speaker 1: I don't just mean, oh my gosh, we have a caravan.
Speaker 1: We need to build a wall to prevent people from
Speaker 1: illegally come to the United States. I mean that the
Speaker 1: caravan is being stopped from coming into the United States
Speaker 1: by a wall. So we see that it works. There's
Speaker 1: no question that it works. You know, we don't have
Speaker 1: you know, one hundred border patrol agents linking arms on
Speaker 1: the border and saying well, you can't run through us
Speaker 1: like that. That that's not gonna work. There's not sufficient
Speaker 1: manpower there to do that. But this requires a fix.
Speaker 1: And you know, and the Democrats are going to challenge
Speaker 1: us in court. They're gonna say that Trump doesn't have
Speaker 1: the right, doesn't have the executive authority to say that
Speaker 1: you have to show up at a port of entry.
Speaker 1: You can't just cross the border and then claim asylum.
Speaker 1: A lot of them are doing that, claiming defensive asylum.
Speaker 1: People say, why would you do that? If you could
Speaker 1: show up a port of entry, why go through the
Speaker 1: asylum process. You can just walk into America obviously, and
Speaker 1: if you get caught, you just say, oh I fear
Speaker 1: violence in my country, and ultimately, I just democrats are
Speaker 1: never asked any of the hard questions here. They don't
Speaker 1: have to go on the record. Why doesn't all of
Speaker 1: Honduras qualify? For a second? Could all of Honduras show
Speaker 1: up at the US Mexico border and say we want
Speaker 1: to flee our country. What if a million Hondurans march
Speaker 1: to the US Mexico border and said our country too dangerous,
Speaker 1: we need it, we need to get out. Do they
Speaker 1: all get to get put through the process? The asylum process.
Speaker 1: Is our asylum process essentially a suicide pack for our
Speaker 1: immigration laws? Is that what it's supposed to be? No
Speaker 1: one's ever asking in these questions Democrats. All they do
Speaker 1: is talk about women and children and tear gassing. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: just cry lots of tears for all the people that
Speaker 1: you know. Nancy Pelosi's been in their neighborhoods. She's not
Speaker 1: dealing with them. She doesn't care what the difference in
Speaker 1: the job or the labor market is as a result
Speaker 1: of a huge influx of illegal aliens. She doesn't care.
Speaker 1: It doesn't affect her one bit, right. In fact, it's
Speaker 1: better for her more of a servant class to wait
Speaker 1: on her. It's true of a lot of these elite lives.
Speaker 1: By the way, they love illegal immigrant labor because they
Speaker 1: like the ebing of the hire people who basically have
Speaker 1: no choice but to work for less than market wages.
Speaker 1: That's the way that it goes. I want to say
Speaker 1: one thing about him that was not picked up really
Speaker 1: because as a candidate he said, those who think we're
Speaker 1: powerless to do anything about the green House effect off
Speaker 1: forgetting about the white House effect. And then he signed
Speaker 1: into law the Clean Air Act Amendments of nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: one of the most sweeping environmental statutes ever. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: president that we have now is trying to unravel everything
Speaker 1: that he did and Obama did. And if I ever
Speaker 1: become a one issue voter, it will be about pollution
Speaker 1: and the greenhouse effect, and we focus on the president. Please,
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about trouble. We're honoring a
Speaker 1: great Please. I want to talk about honoring, but I'm
Speaker 1: not interested in your one issue. I don't care. Right boy, Wow,
Speaker 1: got a little a little tense there on the view,
Speaker 1: And that was Megan McCain, who some of you might recall,
Speaker 1: formerly hosted this time on radio getting into it with
Speaker 1: Joy Bayer. I can't do Joy's voice right now because
Speaker 1: my throat is swollen up because I'm sick. But just know,
Speaker 1: just know that in my head, I'm doing the Joy
Speaker 1: be Har voice, which I've been told is actually one
Speaker 1: of my better impressions. And Joy Behar got very upset
Speaker 1: there because she was getting called out, and she should
Speaker 1: get called out. She should get called out because what
Speaker 1: she's doing is what all these lib journal types. She's
Speaker 1: not even journals. I don't know what she is kind
Speaker 1: of a I don't know, just she's just annoying. But
Speaker 1: she does this thing where, okay, we're talking about Bush
Speaker 1: forty one, and then all of a sudden it has
Speaker 1: to be Trump is bad, bashed Trump. Can we just say,
Speaker 1: what can we at least if we're gonna bash somebody,
Speaker 1: can at least be a fight of the legacy of
Speaker 1: George HW But you know, you know it say you know,
Speaker 1: they don't compare. They don't say George H. W. Bush,
Speaker 1: unlike Obama, who had no ability whatsoever to kid Republicans,
Speaker 1: to meet Republicans halfway, to work across the aisle, to
Speaker 1: be bipartisan. You know, Obama was a scorched earth partisan president,
Speaker 1: so you know, very different from what George HW. Bush was. Like.
Speaker 1: You know, they don't do that. They just do it.
Speaker 1: They just do it to bash Trump. They don't say,
Speaker 1: oh well, look at look at how different Bush forty
Speaker 1: one was from that philandering, sexual assaulting, you know, skirt
Speaker 1: chasing maniac Bill Clinton. Look look at what a difference
Speaker 1: in terms of the dignity of the office. No, no,
Speaker 1: they only do it when it comes to Bush. But
Speaker 1: that that few We'll get more into the passing of
Speaker 1: the president. By the way, coming up at the top
Speaker 1: of the hour, I just wanted to talk about this
Speaker 1: for a minute. Apparently this is a sort of gossip.
Speaker 1: You now, we're doing gossip on the Buck Sexton Show. Hey, ladies,
Speaker 1: who wants to talk about some gossip? But get this
Speaker 1: B word under control. Joy Behart tears into Megan McCain
Speaker 1: off air after the conservative host lashed Adder for throwing
Speaker 1: shade on President Trump during the view's tribute to George HW. Bush. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, of course Joy bathed all. All All she knows
Speaker 1: it gonna do is just trash trash Trump, and so
Speaker 1: that's why she went in that direction. WHOOPI Goldberg cut
Speaker 1: the mic. Show insiders tell Dailymail, I know, but some
Speaker 1: of you are like Buck, why do you care about
Speaker 1: the view? I don't, except usually to make fun of it,
Speaker 1: because it deserves to be made fun of, show insiders
Speaker 1: tell dailymail dot Com. At the exchange continued off air
Speaker 1: with Bihar fuming quote, If this blank doesn't stop, I'm
Speaker 1: quitting this damn show. I can't take this much more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm sure she can't take it. Given the
Speaker 1: how how over how overpaid she is not a lot
Speaker 1: of not a lot of intellectual heft on the view.
Speaker 1: I gotta say it's a pretty pretty soft, pretty weak
Speaker 1: show when it comes to the thought processes involved in
Speaker 1: political analysis. But nonetheless good for Megan standing up there
Speaker 1: giving a little, a little pushback against Bihar. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Bush forty one and his passing and what it
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Speaker 1: The President for his nice best wishes to the Bush
Speaker 1: family on behalf of a man that we always expected
Speaker 1: and liked very much President Bush, and we very much
Speaker 1: appreciate that the president. We will be going back, I
Speaker 1: will be going back to Washington right after Ktany, and
Speaker 1: he will be spending three days of morning and three
Speaker 1: days of celebrating a really great man's life. So we
Speaker 1: look forward to doing that, and he certainly deserved he
Speaker 1: really did. He was a very special person. I spoke
Speaker 1: with Jeb and George today and we had great conversations,
Speaker 1: and we discussed actually for quite some time, the father
Speaker 1: and how much they loved him, and how much said
Speaker 1: he loved them. Words from the current president about the
Speaker 1: passing of George Herbert Walker Bush, forty, first President of
Speaker 1: the United States. As you no doubt heard, he passed
Speaker 1: away on November thirtieth in Houston, Texas. He was ninety
Speaker 1: four years old and had one of the most impressive
Speaker 1: resumes you could imagine. He had been a war hero,
Speaker 1: a congressman, vice president Cia door, and he was a
Speaker 1: guy who in retrospect, a lot of people realized it
Speaker 1: was kind of an underrated an underrated president, you know.
Speaker 1: He had he had all the right academic pedigree and
Speaker 1: served as country, was a war hero, signed up, i think,
Speaker 1: for the Navy when he was eighteen, and you know,
Speaker 1: had his political challenges, had two unsuccessful runs for the Senate,
Speaker 1: but he managed to impress people at the senior reaches
Speaker 1: of the r NC, and he got into the Nixon
Speaker 1: and Ford administrations as an appointee, including being a chairman
Speaker 1: of the Republican National Committee, US amboy to China and
Speaker 1: then director of the CIA. And he announced his candidacy
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty loss to Reagan, but it was okay
Speaker 1: because Reagan was pretty awesome, and then he was the
Speaker 1: VP for Reagan obviously and then later served one tour.
Speaker 1: Only two presidents in history had been vice presidents before
Speaker 1: they became president right away. That's only twice, and the
Speaker 1: other one was Martin Van Buren. So you gotta go
Speaker 1: quite a ways back, quite a ways back for somebody
Speaker 1: who was a VP who became president, which was pretty
Speaker 1: funny even thinking about it, you think that usually the
Speaker 1: VP would be that the easiest stepping stone for anybody
Speaker 1: would be vice president to president, but it's just not
Speaker 1: how it works usually. Here's you know, you have a
Speaker 1: lot of people on the media in the media right now,
Speaker 1: and one of the reasons why I am handling this
Speaker 1: later on in the show is because one, I feel
Speaker 1: like a lot of you My main contention here is
Speaker 1: just a lot of what you're hearing about George HW
Speaker 1: Bush is just meant to bash Trump, and a lot
Speaker 1: of it also Now when we go back and look
Speaker 1: at it, we realize that the media were vicious to
Speaker 1: George Bush, just like they were vicious to his son
Speaker 1: later on, and they're vicious to Trump now. Nothing has
Speaker 1: really changed. They've just gotten nastier, crazier, and more transparent
Speaker 1: about those things in the media. So but there are
Speaker 1: a lot of people that are running around in the
Speaker 1: media right now who have great stories about, you know,
Speaker 1: fly fishing with HW. I mean, I was I was
Speaker 1: a little kid when HW was was president, So I
Speaker 1: don't really have any great personal stories of hanging out
Speaker 1: with him or anything like that. Actually never met the man.
Speaker 1: And but here's somebody who certainly knew him very very well,
Speaker 1: and that is former Vice President himself, Dick Cheney play
Speaker 1: clip twelve. Well, he had this amazing ability to sort
Speaker 1: of for the personal touch, might get a note from
Speaker 1: him on something you've done. I remember two thousand and
Speaker 1: four election night, we were upstairs in the residents at
Speaker 1: the White House and less one President Bush forty three
Speaker 1: and I were running for reelection, and Lena and I
Speaker 1: were there with the bushes and the big crowd, but
Speaker 1: we had our granddaughter, their oldest granddaughter. She was about
Speaker 1: seven years old at the time, and the President walked
Speaker 1: over to her and said, you're the youngest person here.
Speaker 1: I'm the oldest less chat. He sat down and spent
Speaker 1: a long time talking with the youngest person in the
Speaker 1: room at that time. She's never forgotten it. Oppositly, she's
Speaker 1: got a picture of it and everything else. But he
Speaker 1: had that people touch. I guess that he want to
Speaker 1: put it there where. There was no gesture that was
Speaker 1: too small or insignificant in terms of what he was
Speaker 1: willing to do to make peel people feel comfortable, to
Speaker 1: help when he could help. Oh, he just was one
Speaker 1: of the most thoughtful people I ever knew. So a
Speaker 1: lot of kind words there from Dick Cheney about push
Speaker 1: forty one, and I think that that's pretty pretty much
Speaker 1: echoed throughout them from the people who knew him, that
Speaker 1: he was a really good guy and a nice guy.
Speaker 1: But then you also get into what's happening, and it
Speaker 1: was worse during the McCain funeral and that era. But
Speaker 1: the notion of everything about about Bush is really, you know,
Speaker 1: all the all the different stories and all the different
Speaker 1: anecdotes are an opportunity to just beat up on Trump.
Speaker 1: And I find that very tiring, and I also find
Speaker 1: it to be really a little exploitative. But that's not
Speaker 1: a surprise at all when you look at the media
Speaker 1: that we have and the way they conduct themselves. And
Speaker 1: speaking of the media and the way they conduct themselves,
Speaker 1: you know, negative coverage that favors the Democrat over the Republican.
Speaker 1: Uh dare I even say fake news? This is not
Speaker 1: a this is not a new phenomenon. And I think
Speaker 1: that's that's important for everybody to know. To remember, here's
Speaker 1: what Bush was saying back in nineteen ninety two when
Speaker 1: he was talking about the economy play clip thirteen. I
Speaker 1: think they're feeling negative about the economy because they hear
Speaker 1: ninety two percent of the coverage on the television where
Speaker 1: a lot of people get their news from, on the
Speaker 1: economy has been negative. If there are some good things,
Speaker 1: interest rates are down, people aren't being robbed by inflation anymore.
Speaker 1: Inventories are down, we have it. I think we're pois
Speaker 1: for a dramatic recovery. Yeah, there were pois for a
Speaker 1: dramatic recovery. I mean then you got into the nineties
Speaker 1: and the markets were absolutely booming. Of course Bill Clinton
Speaker 1: gets credit for that, right, I mean, you know who
Speaker 1: gets credit for what? Economy? This is one of the
Speaker 1: great games that everyone the media likes to play because
Speaker 1: it has so much political power. You know, when things
Speaker 1: are good, do you want to have your team get credit?
Speaker 1: When things are bad, you want to blame the other guy.
Speaker 1: And that's that's quite obvious, and that's what happens all
Speaker 1: the time. But you know, you look, you look at
Speaker 1: the way that now we're being told, oh, well Bush.
Speaker 1: You know, Bush was a coalition builder. Look how he
Speaker 1: handled the First Persian Gulf War. Look at look at
Speaker 1: the way that he handled himself in the world stage
Speaker 1: and with you and some people would would actually criticize
Speaker 1: a little bit of the Uh, what's what's the best
Speaker 1: way of saying this? His willingness to give away some
Speaker 1: degree of US sovereignty to these multinational bodies. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that there are people who have a real
Speaker 1: un understandable had had a real problem with that. That
Speaker 1: that's a legitimate criticism, a criticism of his legacy and
Speaker 1: a criticism of of how he acted on the world stage.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a damning one. But he was
Speaker 1: certainly a guy who was ja I say, a globalist.
Speaker 1: He took a very internationalist worldview, and his decision to
Speaker 1: raise taxes was a promise that he broke. Right, he
Speaker 1: broke is you know, read my lips, no new taxes,
Speaker 1: and then raised taxes. And then thanks to Ross Pero
Speaker 1: and you know, the third party candidate mess, you get
Speaker 1: President Bill Clinton, who comes along. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: I gotta think in retrospect, whoever voted for Bill Clinton
Speaker 1: over George H. W. Bush. That's such a fascinating who
Speaker 1: looks at those two guys, Who looks at these two
Speaker 1: men and says, yeah, you know what I want to
Speaker 1: I want to go with that guy, the governor of Arkansas,
Speaker 1: who you know, Paro got nineteen percent of the vote.
Speaker 1: Everybody nineteen percent of the vote. So you know, the
Speaker 1: whole Clinton presidency for all the talkie here now from
Speaker 1: Libs about how you know they they've won every popular
Speaker 1: vote and the whole Clinton presidency was really only popular,
Speaker 1: only possible rather because of a fluke, because of a
Speaker 1: fluke um. But that's that's what. But at least we
Speaker 1: don't blame the Russians. I mean, I'm not saying it
Speaker 1: was an illegitimate election anyway. George H. W. Bush a
Speaker 1: great man by by all standards, I think, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know who'll be missed, and the country is in
Speaker 1: a feeling of mourning right now. But you know, I
Speaker 1: like to think more about about the legacy of individuals.
Speaker 1: I will say the only because I have no emotional
Speaker 1: attachment to a man that I didn't know personally. But
Speaker 1: the one thing that really kind of choked me up,
Speaker 1: I think something you know what I'm talking about is
Speaker 1: his dog lying by the casket. Man. That just I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is about dogs and their and
Speaker 1: their owner, and there the bond between them and you
Speaker 1: know it was a service dog. But if you haven't
Speaker 1: seen it, look at that. Just look at that photo
Speaker 1: for a moment of George H. W. Bush and in
Speaker 1: the casket and his service dog right next to him.
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Speaker 1: idea that the media used to be fair or even
Speaker 1: a little friendly to Republican presidents is a joke. I
Speaker 1: just want everyone to know that. And as we're talking
Speaker 1: now about George HW. Bush and some of the revisionism
Speaker 1: around how the media treated him. Just remember that it's
Speaker 1: it's not a new thing for the media to be
Speaker 1: fake news. It's not a new thing for him to
Speaker 1: be disrespectful to Republicans. All dynamics that you see with
Speaker 1: CNN now and with MSNBC and with others, but particularly
Speaker 1: with CNN, n ABC and NBC, you know, the network
Speaker 1: broadcast NCBs, all the dynamics of bias in the coverage,
Speaker 1: of the whole notion of being objective journalists. It's just
Speaker 1: one big lie. All of that has existed all along,
Speaker 1: and this moment where we're all talking about George H. W. Bush,
Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a good time to remember.
Speaker 1: I mean, here's when he was vice president running he
Speaker 1: had just been vice or yeah, it was vice president
Speaker 1: running for the presidency. He went on Dan Rather show
Speaker 1: CBA on CBS eaving news, and they were talking they're
Speaker 1: supposed to talk about, you know, what he wants to
Speaker 1: do as president wise running for president, but Dan Rather,
Speaker 1: in classic I'm a big you know, big jay liberal journo,
Speaker 1: decides to just dig in and go after him, I mean,
Speaker 1: really try to go after the president on Iran Contra,
Speaker 1: which is something that now Libs just bring up as
Speaker 1: a short Haliburton. It's just like Haliburton, you know, when
Speaker 1: Libs want to when they want to bush George W. Bush,
Speaker 1: when they want to bash, when they want to bush
Speaker 1: George W. Bash, they just say Haliburton. When they want
Speaker 1: to bash Cheney, they just say Haliburton's shorthand they don't
Speaker 1: even know what it really means. It's just bad Haliburton, bad,
Speaker 1: Iran Contra bad. They don't want anything beyond that. And
Speaker 1: in this exchange you kind of get that sense because remember,
Speaker 1: I mean, Dan Rather's really drilling down and it's kind
Speaker 1: of nothingness. But he's just trying to get it's a
Speaker 1: cross examination. It's not really a normal journalistic exchange. He's
Speaker 1: trying to get George HW caught up in a lie.
Speaker 1: Did we call him forty one instead of forty three?
Speaker 1: You gotta have a better way of talking about this.
Speaker 1: But here's how it goes. Play the clip, discuss what
Speaker 1: I talked to the president. Because there's a principle in
Speaker 1: Nothing to do with You Ron contract, it's the principle
Speaker 1: of confidentiality between the president presient president. Mister president, the
Speaker 1: President himself, who said he wants all the facts out.
Speaker 1: He gave up such things as even his own diary,
Speaker 1: every principle, including scire diaries. He gave her some brief Well, Dan,
Speaker 1: let's be careful here, because you're sure I want you
Speaker 1: to be careful, President, because will be careful, but I will.
Speaker 1: Problem here is that you repeatedly set it into meetings.
Speaker 1: You set in the meeting in which secretary shoots in
Speaker 1: the most forceful way, rage registers objections, and then you
Speaker 1: said you never heard anybody rester if it was the
Speaker 1: most forceful way, I'd heard George be very very forceful.
Speaker 1: And if I were there and he was very very
Speaker 1: forceful at that meeting, I would have remembered that. I
Speaker 1: don't remember that. And how do you explain that you
Speaker 1: can't remember it? The other people of the meeting said
Speaker 1: he was apppresident there at that point. You weren't that
Speaker 1: you weren't in the meeting, suggesting I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: don't remember it. I don't want to be orgumented, mister Dan,
Speaker 1: is not a because I want to talk about why
Speaker 1: I want to be president. Plaus it for a second.
Speaker 1: Did have you ever heard Dan Rather get like that
Speaker 1: with anybody who wasn't a Republican, you know, just contradicting him,
Speaker 1: essentially going on hearsay. Well, other people who were in
Speaker 1: a meeting said that somebody was upset about something, and
Speaker 1: you're saying he wasn't upset about it, so you must
Speaker 1: be you must be lying. This is what he's saying.
Speaker 1: And he's really and he's just do you just tell
Speaker 1: he's just argumentative, he's under money. It's not it's not
Speaker 1: just Q and A. It's Q and attack. It's question
Speaker 1: and ambush, not question and answer. And this was what
Speaker 1: Dan Rather of course built his career on, which was
Speaker 1: being a democratic pretends to be a journalist. Rather's a
Speaker 1: huge lib, huge lib and not a very impressive one either,
Speaker 1: not a very smart one, very lucky right place, right time,
Speaker 1: made a lot of money because of it, but not
Speaker 1: somebody that the generation currently of media person ladies, writers
Speaker 1: on air has anything to learn from. And this guy
Speaker 1: is just lucky he came along when he did and
Speaker 1: got the jobs that he did. But continue on with this,
Speaker 1: by the way, you notice how Bush, who you don't
Speaker 1: think of as feisty, Bush, fights back. He's like you
Speaker 1: want a peace on Let's go play it. Percent of
Speaker 1: the people are supporting me and US President judge a
Speaker 1: whole career. It's not fair to judge my whole career
Speaker 1: by a rehash on Irun. How would you like it
Speaker 1: if I judge your career by those seven minutes when
Speaker 1: you walked off the set in New York? Would you
Speaker 1: like that much? President? For you? But I don't have
Speaker 1: respect for what you're doing here tonight, mister mush President.
Speaker 1: I think you'll agree that your qualification for president and
Speaker 1: what kind of leadership you would bring the country, what
Speaker 1: kind of government you to have, what kind of people
Speaker 1: to have around him? It is much more just pausiveryone's
Speaker 1: saying just for those you don't know, which you all
Speaker 1: probably know, it's better than me. But Dan Rather was
Speaker 1: angry because CBS Even News decided to broadcast the end
Speaker 1: of a tennis match on a Friday, and he walked
Speaker 1: off set during it, and it was six minutes, actually
Speaker 1: six minutes without any picture being transmitted. That was according
Speaker 1: to people at CBS. So so Dan Rather throw it
Speaker 1: through a tantrum because they wanted to finish a professional
Speaker 1: tennis match instead of going to him with the news.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean Dan Rather is a is a big,
Speaker 1: self indulgent, classic liberal journal narcissistic baby, overpaid baby, and
Speaker 1: he threw a tantrum. And that's what Bush was referring
Speaker 1: to there. So you know Bush, Bush is like, you
Speaker 1: want to you want to play someone, let's play. You
Speaker 1: want to mix it up, Let's mix it up, all right,
Speaker 1: go back, John, play more than what you just referred to.
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to. I want to be judged on
Speaker 1: the whole record. Well, and you're not. And I'm trying
Speaker 1: to set the record straight. You invited me to come
Speaker 1: here to talk about I thought the whole record. I
Speaker 1: want you to talk about the record. You set up
Speaker 1: a meeting with George Schulz. Yes, he got av eplectic
Speaker 1: when he found out that you were when the president
Speaker 1: were being party of sending missiles to the Aetola Iran.
Speaker 1: Can you explain how you were supposed to be the
Speaker 1: you are? You're an any terrorist expert. We Iran was
Speaker 1: officially a terror state. You went around question but in
Speaker 1: the face in the world, how could you how could
Speaker 1: you sign on the state? Pause pause pause, Who does
Speaker 1: this remind you of? Who does this remind you of
Speaker 1: getting a little bit of an a Costa tingle, aren't you.
Speaker 1: He's not waiting for answer, he's this is a this
Speaker 1: is a debate, this is this is a a punditry battle. Now,
Speaker 1: Dan rather was the was the main news anchor for CBS,
Speaker 1: a quote news anchor, and he's saying, quote, you made
Speaker 1: us look hypocritical in the eyes of the world. You
Speaker 1: might as well have said, you know, the caravan's not
Speaker 1: going to come to the border. It's not an invasion,
Speaker 1: it's not that's not questions. You're speaking the Vice president
Speaker 1: the United States, and you're you're talking down to him
Speaker 1: and getting snippy with him like he's some schoolboy. This
Speaker 1: is not new. It is not new. So I think
Speaker 1: that's very important for everybody to recognize um and just
Speaker 1: the way that he injects his opinion. We just know
Speaker 1: about it now. We have alternatives now. But anyway, and
Speaker 1: he goes on to say, I thought this was a
Speaker 1: news program. It's a great line. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: They're there, there's they're snippy with each other. They're they're
Speaker 1: you know, or rather, he's being snippy with Bush and bushes,
Speaker 1: you know, fighting back. But This is nothing new, folks.
Speaker 1: I just want to point that out. They don't like
Speaker 1: any Republicans. The lib media, they don't like Republicans. They're
Speaker 1: nasty than they undermine them. You know. They they've already
Speaker 1: been going after Bush for a for ae hundred different reasons.
Speaker 1: There's no honeymoon period of saying nice things that don't
Speaker 1: wait till the Uluji comes out. No, no, no, they
Speaker 1: they just go right into God to establish the narrative.
Speaker 1: Got to create a history that is damaging for this guy.
Speaker 1: And that's the that's their number one priority. That's how
Speaker 1: they go about it. That's what they're trying to do. So,
Speaker 1: you know, we got to defend his legacy or else
Speaker 1: nobody else will. And he's a great man, not perfect,
Speaker 1: but really a really, really solid dude. I feel like
Speaker 1: this happens every year, but now that we've got the
Speaker 1: me too movement going on, people are even more attuned
Speaker 1: to this. Perhaps I think we're before songs that are
Speaker 1: no longer okay because of the sexual aggressiveness or the
Speaker 1: the undertones of them. And and I sit here and
Speaker 1: I just you know the one that that came up
Speaker 1: most recently, and it's now being kicked off of certain
Speaker 1: radio stations. Is Baby It's Cold Outside, which if you've
Speaker 1: never John are you familiar with this one? Do you
Speaker 1: know this song? I've heard it, but I'm not really
Speaker 1: a fan of it, don't really so yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: so so Baby It's Cold Outside is. It's an old
Speaker 1: song from nineteen forty four, written by Frank Looser, and
Speaker 1: it's a back and forth conversation with a guy who's
Speaker 1: trying to convince a woman to basically stay. And you know, initially,
Speaker 1: initially I thought, ah, well, you know, how bad could
Speaker 1: this really be? I went through the lyrics may be Honestly,
Speaker 1: the lyrics this are are interesting. I'm not saying it
Speaker 1: should be bad from the radio. Here's why. For one,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be bad from the radio. It was a
Speaker 1: it was a sweeter, gentler time in the media, and
Speaker 1: people didn't you know that, they didn't think of these
Speaker 1: things as quite as literally as we do now. For one,
Speaker 1: they thought it was entertainment. And two, you know, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna ban Baby It's Cold Outside, then I feel
Speaker 1: like you probably also have to ban the time is
Speaker 1: classic by DJ Khalid Bitches and Bottles, which Johnny familiar
Speaker 1: with that one. Never heard of it. That's that's a
Speaker 1: song that you could hear on the radio right now.
Speaker 1: In fact, it was on a workout back when I
Speaker 1: used to have the time and energy to work out.
Speaker 1: It was on a workout mix that I downloaded from
Speaker 1: the internet and I said, oh my gosh, the song
Speaker 1: is so misogynistic. But baby it's cold outside. The lyrics
Speaker 1: are I really can't stay and the guy says, baby,
Speaker 1: it's cold outside, and she says, I gotta go away.
Speaker 1: He says, baby, it's cold outside. Uh, my mother will
Speaker 1: start to worry, and then he says, beautiful, what's your hurry?
Speaker 1: My father will be pacing the floor. Listen to the
Speaker 1: fireplace roar. So really, i'd better, I'd better scurry, Beautiful,
Speaker 1: please don't hurry. Well, maybe just a half a more drink.
Speaker 1: I'll pour, I'll put on some records while I pour,
Speaker 1: And it just kind of goes on and on and uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's it's supposed to be cute. I mean
Speaker 1: it's not. But you know, he's he's he would I
Speaker 1: feel like you read the lyrics to baby it's cold outside,
Speaker 1: and you think this guy would take no for an answer.
Speaker 1: She's just being a little uh, you know, a little playing.
Speaker 1: She's playing a little hard to get, you know, in
Speaker 1: the old school fashion. And I feel like people just
Speaker 1: no longer are able to look at anything in their context.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you when you look at pep Peppy
Speaker 1: a pew um, when you look at Peppi lapew you
Speaker 1: see that he said things, for example, that would have
Speaker 1: and did things. Remember Pep Lepu? I am shy, but
Speaker 1: WILLI John you know Peppy Lapu? Right? I'm not? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that. I remember watching those cartoons as a kid.
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta I wish we had Do we
Speaker 1: have some? Is there some Peppy Lapu that I could
Speaker 1: even sort of remind myself of? Here I don't even know,
Speaker 1: you know, Peppi Lapu was a guy who was a cartoon.
Speaker 1: It used to be very kind of grabby and kissy
Speaker 1: and everything else. And uh, here you a home of
Speaker 1: spring flowers that bloom in the spring. Come my little
Speaker 1: peanut of brittle. Hello, I am z lucksmist of love. No,
Speaker 1: I am she broken out of love. I am c dissolution.
Speaker 1: I am broken out of love. It is not even
Speaker 1: really French. It's kind of like a mishmash European accent, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's not really that doesn't strike me.
Speaker 1: That's French. I feel like also, they've had many different
Speaker 1: voice actors do him over the years. Well you know, producer, Mike,
Speaker 1: where'd you go? I'm here? Man? Oh, okay, there you are. Um,
Speaker 1: so what is this about about the teacher that says no,
Speaker 1: uh no Santa Claus. Yeah, and this quick little disclaimer
Speaker 1: to those who might be traveling around with little kids. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a new Jersey teacher who told her first graders
Speaker 1: that there's no Santa Claus. I mean, what's up with that?
Speaker 1: I mean, are we really you know, I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit I'm a little bit of a heretic on this. So, Mike,
Speaker 1: are we really supposed to keep lying kids and telling
Speaker 1: him verus the Santa Claus? Why why do we do that?
Speaker 1: I don't really know about this, you know, because kids
Speaker 1: love it, and we do things that kids love. I
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like we shouldn't tell kids lives.
Speaker 1: Let's see, I kind of agree with this teach We
Speaker 1: can lie, we can lie. We can stop telling them
Speaker 1: lies when they're a little older. But why they're like
Speaker 1: in the bliss of their youth and and believing in
Speaker 1: things that make them feel good, you know. And is
Speaker 1: it really up to her to burst the bubbles? Well,
Speaker 1: I guess that's parents should be the ones that make
Speaker 1: the decision. But a New Jersey substitute teacher shattered the
Speaker 1: hearts of first grade as a court of the New
Speaker 1: York New York Post here by telling him Santa Claus
Speaker 1: and his reindeers were reindeer Reindeer's Good God book Reindeer
Speaker 1: were and we're not real. And then she unleashed on them.
Speaker 1: She told him Santa isn't real and parents just buy
Speaker 1: presents and put them under the tree. Oh wow, So
Speaker 1: she went on like an anti Christmas rant. So she
Speaker 1: really is a grinch correct in fact that there's probably
Speaker 1: another word that one might be able to use, But
Speaker 1: we have children listening, and so we'll just say she's
Speaker 1: a grinch. Um. But indeed, yes, I think that it's
Speaker 1: up to parents. If I had kids, which you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully one day, I feel like I would tell them
Speaker 1: the I would tell them the whole truth and nothing
Speaker 1: about the truth about Santa and then just let them
Speaker 1: go into the mythology of it. But yes, it is
Speaker 1: not up to teachers to tell people, Wow, we covered
Speaker 1: a lot of ground here. We've got Peppi lapew, we
Speaker 1: got Santa's reindeer, and we really a lot today. We
Speaker 1: do have roll call coming up in a moment, though,
Speaker 1: which will be fun, so stay with us. Hey, teen buck,
Speaker 1: it's time for roll call. The dubstep roll call gets
Speaker 1: it done. Oh man, my voice a little raspy. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit of I got a little sick this weekend,
Speaker 1: so hopefully tomorrow it will be better. Sometimes it gets worse,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of days into it. Your voice
Speaker 1: really your voice box really drives up. But today it's
Speaker 1: a little been a little uh, a little gravelly. All right,
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Speaker 1: Let's get to it, Keith, writes Buck. If the Special
Speaker 1: prosecutor's final report turns out to be political in nature
Speaker 1: rather than a standard prosecutorial report, would it be subject
Speaker 1: to the OSC's new Hatch Act guidelines. Keith, it sounds
Speaker 1: like you may know more about this than me. New
Speaker 1: Office of Special Counsel Hatch Act guidelines, don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what those guidelines are, but I'm guessing no,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that somehow this won't be a problem for
Speaker 1: the Special Counsel, no matter what they write in that report.
Speaker 1: And I think I'm on pretty solid ground in making
Speaker 1: that prediction. Jackie writes, Buck, it would appear we have
Speaker 1: the same Netflix watch lists even before you mentioned them
Speaker 1: on the podcast. We watch Penny Dreadful, Peaky Blinders, and
Speaker 1: just started season one of The Last Kingdom this past weekend.
Speaker 1: We recently watched Nightfall, which I think is worth of view.
Speaker 1: I really enjoy your podcasts and your humor. Look forward
Speaker 1: to more Netflix show recommendations. Thanks for a great show
Speaker 1: of your own, Jackie. Well, Jackie, you clearly have fantastic
Speaker 1: taste in radio shows as well as Netflix fair I
Speaker 1: will say I did not really like Nightfall. I tried.
Speaker 1: It's about knights Templar after the period of the Crusades,
Speaker 1: but I just thought it was took itself a little
Speaker 1: too seriously. It was a little kind of overwrought for
Speaker 1: my taste. But you know, to each his own, Peaky Blinder's,
Speaker 1: Penny Dreadful, and Last Kingdom are all great, so I'm
Speaker 1: glad you're liking those if you have not already watched Ozark,
Speaker 1: I highly, I highly recommend you put that one into
Speaker 1: the mix too. And Narcos obviously, which is my fate
Speaker 1: of all the Netflix originals. Narcos is my favorite, my
Speaker 1: favorite show. But Jackie, thank you so much for writing in. TJ. Wright,
Speaker 1: tell jam all way to go to make that rising
Speaker 1: panel entirely about Donald Trump instead of hw Bush this morning.
Speaker 1: It was quite annoying and disrespectful. He needs to work
Speaker 1: on containing his hatred for Trump. He's really annoying to
Speaker 1: watch sometimes. Well, TJ, I'm gonna I'm gonna leave that
Speaker 1: one to you if you want to pass that a
Speaker 1: log to Jabal, I don't. I am first and foremost
Speaker 1: obligated to be to get along with my my liberal
Speaker 1: colleagues at the Hill. So that's that is my mandate
Speaker 1: for for my time there, and that is what I
Speaker 1: will always try to do. That all said, as a
Speaker 1: general matter, as I have been saying this show, I
Speaker 1: find it very annoying and yes, very tiresome that people
Speaker 1: take every operatuny everything is a commentary on Trump. A
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of folks out there are really
Speaker 1: more obsessed with Trump than Trump is. They can't help
Speaker 1: themselves but turn every conversation into a referendum on all
Speaker 1: things Trump. And I just wish, I just wish they
Speaker 1: would realize how weird it has become. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: George hw Bush passes away, it's a commentary on Trump.
Speaker 1: Jamal Kashogi gets murdered. It's a commentary on Trump. You
Speaker 1: know there are forest fires in California, it's a commentary
Speaker 1: on Trump. I mean everything. People really need a bit
Speaker 1: more perspective. Jar rights on the whole Rudolph, the Red
Speaker 1: Nose Randeer fiasco. Why do people always have to make
Speaker 1: it some all encompassing big picture instead of looking at
Speaker 1: the story in light that is one individual lesson. Rudolph
Speaker 1: is a heartwarming story about how people are jerks until
Speaker 1: you need something from them, like when you're moving and
Speaker 1: your co worker owns a truck. Absolutely Jar And let
Speaker 1: me say I can add to that the very very
Speaker 1: important role that the shagging wagon played. When I was
Speaker 1: in college, my wood paneled Buick Roadmaster station wagon in
Speaker 1: a pale blue It was very popular among my dorm
Speaker 1: mates because it was one of the few cars that
Speaker 1: could really handle a queen size Futon in the back,
Speaker 1: no problem. I mean to move the futon, not to leave.
Speaker 1: I know we call the shagging wagon, but that's because
Speaker 1: there was no shaggin in that wagon, but the futon
Speaker 1: in the back that was for moving purposes, not for
Speaker 1: any other kind of purpose. Yes, indeed, so a jar.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. On Rudolph, Steve says crazy uncle
Speaker 1: calls Diehard a Christmas movie. In fact, it's more of
Speaker 1: a Christmas movie than Bells of Saint Mary. All of
Speaker 1: Diehard's action happens on Christmas Eve, whereas only one brief
Speaker 1: scene in Bells happens on Christmas. So why is one
Speaker 1: considered a Christmas movie but not the other. Merry Christmas?
Speaker 1: And don't shoot your eye out? Okay, Steve, thank you
Speaker 1: speaking to shoot your eye out. You know, I was
Speaker 1: watching Tombstone, which the movie that I just I just love.
Speaker 1: I've seen it so so many times. I think it's
Speaker 1: Val Kilmer's single best role ever in anything. And people
Speaker 1: always say Jim Morrison the Doors, so I think that's
Speaker 1: a lot of nostalgia stuff. And the depiction was very accurate,
Speaker 1: I know, and some people were really impressed by that.
Speaker 1: But the Doors movie kind of stunk. The doors were
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna lose some of you right now,
Speaker 1: some of you getting annoyed at me. But the doors
Speaker 1: a little overrated. There's only there's only so much. There's
Speaker 1: only so much organ music you can handle before it
Speaker 1: sounds like you're at a ball game. And as to
Speaker 1: die Hard, will die Hard is amazing and perfect. Oh
Speaker 1: but in in Tombstone, there's a scene where some of
Speaker 1: you recall this, you've seen the movie many times. There's
Speaker 1: a play and they're doing uh like saying crispin speech
Speaker 1: and it's actually Billy Zane from Sniper and also Titanic.
Speaker 1: Remember Billy Zane on hand heard you filth look at
Speaker 1: me when I'm speaking to you filth or whatever. You know.
Speaker 1: He's talking to Leonardo DiCaprio and Titanic. Yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: a Titanic a lot. Make fun of me. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: we've all you've seen. You've seen Titanic too. Don't don't
Speaker 1: give me that. Don't try that. Some of you out
Speaker 1: there right now or oh, buck, I never said everybody
Speaker 1: saw a Titanic at Billy Zane in Tombstone. Curly Bill
Speaker 1: who's in the audience of a play in the town
Speaker 1: of Tombstone just pulls out his gun and starts shooting
Speaker 1: at Billy Zane on stage, and he doesn't really miss
Speaker 1: a beat. He kind of just like, you know, it says, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: I don't care where you are. If someone pulls out
Speaker 1: a six shooter and starts firing rounds over your head,
Speaker 1: you don't just sort of go, oh, well, that was
Speaker 1: kind of funny. That's part of the movie is a
Speaker 1: little weird. If you go back and watch, you'll know
Speaker 1: exactly some of you think I'm being weird right now,
Speaker 1: go back and watch them exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Jenna writes, Don't you think these extra Twitter terms of
Speaker 1: service and banning are because they ultimately hate Trump and
Speaker 1: how and conservatives and how they use Twitter. Wouldn't they
Speaker 1: just love to ban the president for crossing an arbitrary line? Well, Jen,
Speaker 1: I don't think they want to ban the president because
Speaker 1: Trump has has made Twitter necessary. I mean, Trump has
Speaker 1: made Twitter more than relevant. You can't be a journalist
Speaker 1: now and not have access and not be aware of Twitter.
Speaker 1: You just can't because the president is putting out his thoughts.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're getting essentially presidential proclamations via Twitter, which
Speaker 1: is pretty amazing Kevin and Rights. I'm glad to watch
Speaker 1: The Last Kingdom. It's awesome. You should try Frontier two.
Speaker 1: Thank you for what you do or I enjoy your
Speaker 1: show as well as others than them Blaze keep up
Speaker 1: the good work. Well, thank you, Kevin. I will try Frontier.
Speaker 1: I know it's got. It's got. The guy who plays
Speaker 1: um what's his name from? I ask my brain? Is
Speaker 1: my brain is having a tough time with recall today
Speaker 1: the show Game of Thrones. He plays drug Carl Drogo
Speaker 1: Cal Drogo. That guy is in the show Frontiers. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I could, I could check it out. I'll give it
Speaker 1: a shot. I'll give it a whirl. Steve writes buck
Speaker 1: love the show. Just diving into Friday's podcast, when is
Speaker 1: a lie a lie? Love the comparisons depending on which
Speaker 1: side of the Trump aisle you're standing on. As for
Speaker 1: the Model report, I think it's going to be replete
Speaker 1: with could have been, may have been, possibly had, and
Speaker 1: appears to have type qualifiers throughout because they got nothing
Speaker 1: about the so called collusion, well unless you look at
Speaker 1: the Hillary camp. But those are the not the droids
Speaker 1: we're looking for a side note, have you watched Frontier
Speaker 1: on Netflix? I love it and the only complaint is
Speaker 1: there only six episodes per season. Shields way high. Well, Steve,
Speaker 1: you are on this show the second person to give
Speaker 1: me a recommendation for Frontier on Netflix. I'm going to
Speaker 1: have to check it out. It sounds like this is
Speaker 1: something I need to see. I will give it a go.
Speaker 1: Where do we have here, Michael writes, mister Sexton, I've
Speaker 1: been a loyal listener for a while. Your voice is
Speaker 1: when I lean on when I need clarity. Your pragmatic
Speaker 1: is refreshing me, even if your impressions aren't quite rich
Speaker 1: little sorry, Michael, that's okay, I do miss your history lessons.
Speaker 1: As a founder of a veterans nonprofit, I am coming
Speaker 1: to you with frustration. You've put yourself out as a
Speaker 1: spokesman of Black Rifle Coffee Company, and we've been attempting
Speaker 1: to contact them with no success. I'm turning to you
Speaker 1: to ask you to facilitate a phone call a Black Rifle.
Speaker 1: I understand you're a busy man. I'm working all hours
Speaker 1: the day, but i'd appreciate your assistance from Michael, who
Speaker 1: is a veteran Michael, I will give you in this
Speaker 1: message here the email that I think would be the
Speaker 1: best one for you to use for Black Rifle. That
Speaker 1: will get right through to them and hopefully they can
Speaker 1: help you out. I'm sure it wants they know that
Speaker 1: you're a veteran, you've got something to talk to them about,
Speaker 1: or you need either help or some kind of partnership
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. I'm sure they'll hear you out.
Speaker 1: And they're great guys who run that company, so I'll
Speaker 1: make sure that you can at least get in touch
Speaker 1: with them effectively. Ethan writes Buck, just wanting to say
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more with the assessment of Batman Begins
Speaker 1: easily the best movie of that series. Dark Knight had
Speaker 1: some excellent scenes, but the story just lack cohesion and
Speaker 1: flow of the first Dark Knight rises. Don't get me started.
Speaker 1: I prefer to pretend that movie never happens, sort of
Speaker 1: like every Terminator movie. After T two Shields, hie Ethan
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. Well, Ethan, you're totally right, So I think
Speaker 1: I'll just leave it that you're just totally right. Everything
Speaker 1: you wrote there is correct. Well done. High five team
Speaker 1: every day this week from the Freedom Hup. We are
Speaker 1: going to be rocking out together. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being here. Hopefully my voice will be a little
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