1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Freedom Hut. This is the best of 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: buck Daily podcast, the top stories of the day from 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show. From more buck Head to buck 4 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: sexton dot com and remember to subscribe to the podcast. 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: Welcome friends, one week. One week until the election. And 6 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: here we are in this last stretch, wanting it to 7 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: just come to a conclusion, and hopefully the right one 8 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: for America. And that's where we see ourselves. But we 9 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: have this brief respite, perhaps twelve maybe twenty four hours 10 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: where we get to enjoy the good guys and gals 11 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: getting a victory. Remember how about three weeks ago I 12 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 1: told you that it looked like it would be possible 13 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: the president would have a great trifecta, a triple crown, 14 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: if you will, of victories beating COVID, getting ACB confirmed, 15 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: and winning re election all within a month. It would 16 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: be pretty amazing if that ends up happening. We are 17 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: two out of three right now, getting pretty close. Amy 18 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: Coney Barrett fifty two votes in the Senate, and now 19 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: she is the ninth Supreme Court justice. She's eminently qualified, 20 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: all the things you've already heard, right, She's brilliant, she's ethic, 21 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: goal ever in respects her, she'll be fair minded. It's 22 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: exactly the kind of person you want on the Supreme Court. 23 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: But because she's not a left wing activist pretending that 24 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: she'll be a fair minded and impartial textualist. Right, because 25 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: of all that, the left is throwing an absolute fit, 26 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: which we knew they would. But the things they're saying 27 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: don't even make sense, are on true, are just kind 28 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: of silly. And I know that we're going to have 29 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: to dive back into the election state by state this 30 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: ahead for the next six days, but I want to 31 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: take a little time that I just just to make 32 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: sure we all understand what exactly the Democrat claims are 33 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: around ACB, why they're complaining so much about this, because 34 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: it tells you a lot about the modern Democrat party, 35 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 1: tells you a lot about where they are, what they 36 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: really think, and how they're willing to conduct themselves, which 37 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: I think the American people should really think long and 38 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 1: art about beforecasting any ballots in this election. Right, this 39 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: is a party, the Democrats, that has been complaining about 40 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: undermining institutions and norm busting for four years. This has 41 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,079 Speaker 1: been a constant refrain that Trump is actually a threat 42 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: to our democracy after calling him a racist and a fascist. 43 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: That might be their third favorite epithet for Donald Trump. 44 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: It's no truth to any of this, but they like 45 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: to say it. It makes them feel better about Hillary's loss. 46 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 1: That makes them feel like somehow they're always in the right, 47 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: no matter how absurd their claims about this president and 48 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: his supporters, no matter how much their prognostications about a 49 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: Trump that couldn't handle the economy, that would lead to wars, 50 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: all these terrible things, None of the predicted calamities that 51 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: Democrats were so certain of, none of them happened during 52 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 1: the Trump presidency. The only challenge that did hit Trump 53 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: and hit him hard was something that hit the whole 54 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: world that nobody could have predicted and that we are 55 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: still trying to work through now. But all of the things, 56 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: they weren't saying, oh, Trump's not couldn't be ready for 57 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: a pandemic. They were saying that Trump wouldn't be able 58 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: to handle the economy. A lie. The economy was booming, 59 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: a better economy than Obama ever had in eight years. Oh, 60 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: I guess that's just circumstances, right, just lucky. We also 61 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: we want to talk about luck. I think we all 62 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: understand that if there wasn't the COVID pandemic right now, 63 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: Trump would be looking to a massive landslide. I mean, 64 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: I think he really would win in the biggest landslide 65 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: since Ronald Reagan. And you know, unfortunately he got dealt 66 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: a tough hand here with COVID. The whole world has 67 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: in the United States along with it. But they hate 68 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: this president and one of the major claims is that 69 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: he's unwilling to respect the norms of our government. Even 70 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: though how do they usually challenge Trump They take him 71 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: to court. What's Trump's response to being taken to court, 72 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: having government lawyers make their case, and then respecting the 73 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: judgment of the judicial branch. That's what ends up happening. 74 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 1: The process exactly as it is supposed to be done. 75 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: And that's what we see here with the ACB elevation 76 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court. It was the process exactly as 77 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: it is supposed to be done. When they use words 78 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 1: like illegitimate, they are changing the very definition. They're not 79 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 1: giving you a real criticism of the process. They're just 80 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 1: saying I don't like and they're trying to find fancier 81 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: words because they don't want to sound like a bunch 82 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 1: of spoiled brats who can handle when they don't get 83 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: their way. Well, the problem is that's what the Democrats 84 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: have turned into as a party. They never have any 85 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: stiff upper lip, never any sense of Okay, we lost 86 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: this one, fair and square. Let's make a better argument 87 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: to the American people. It's always Russia. Trump cheated, this 88 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: is illegitimate, This is not the way it's supposed No, 89 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: it is the way it's supposed to go. And that 90 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: connection with reality that liberals are at least temporarily being 91 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: forced to make is a good thing for them. Perhaps 92 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: it will mature their party a little bit, although I 93 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 1: think the much more likely outcome is that they're just 94 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 1: going to dive even deeper into their sanctimonious insanity. That's 95 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: what you think, That's what I think is going to happen. 96 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 1: I think you probably believe it. Do Chuck Schumer taking 97 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 1: lead on this for the Senate Senate Minority Leader. Schumer 98 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: a man who will say anything anytime as long as 99 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: it benefits Chuck Schumer here he is on the ACB nomination. 100 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: But let me also say, and Democrats, some of them 101 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: made fools of themselves last night. I mean, Mazie Herono, 102 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 1: we got up there and said hell no, and just 103 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: made some kind of a scene during her vote. You know, 104 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: Mazie Arono. I love Hawaii is a state, and I 105 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: really like the people of Hawaii, and I always enjoy 106 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: it when I go there. But I'm angry at Hawaii 107 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: is still over Mazie Herono. She is the dumbest person 108 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: in the United States Congress. And it's obvious to everybody. 109 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: Why is this person a United States Senator? Does anybody 110 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: have a good answer for that? Anyway? Chuck Schumer is 111 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 1: not dumb, He's just not ethical here. He is play 112 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: one here at this late hour, at the end of 113 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 1: this sordid chapter in the history of the Senate, the 114 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: history of the Supreme Court. Deepest and greatest sadness is 115 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 1: for the American people. Generations yet unborn will suffer the 116 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: consequences of this nomination. Generations yet unborn, Chuck Schumer says, yes, generations, 117 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: yet unborn will suffer the consequences perhaps of being born. 118 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: That's right. There will be consequences that occurred during their 119 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: lives that they will be allowed to have, at least 120 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: in some places in some states if Amy Coney Barrett 121 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: does overturn the horrific just from a legislative as well 122 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: as moral position Roe v. Wade decision. That's really what 123 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: this is all about. They try to make it about Obamacare. 124 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 1: But the problem for the Democrats is that if they 125 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: talked more about abortion and where their party is on this, 126 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: it becomes hard for them to pretend they're moderates. The 127 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: official Democrat party position on the issue of abortion is 128 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: any time, at any time, for any reason, funded by you, 129 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: against your wishes, and special protections because this is a 130 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: constitutional right, special legal protections. In addition to you can 131 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: have one, they should make sure that you know you 132 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: don't have any blocking of the pathway to a clinic, 133 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 1: all these other things. This comes from planted parenthood to 134 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: be casey. That's their position, and it might not change actually, 135 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:35,079 Speaker 1: and the Supreme Court may not overturn rov. Wade even 136 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: with Amy Coney Barrett. There you see our side speaking 137 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: of norms and process those who are constitutionalists, except that 138 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: you're not getting a guaranteed outcome here. Uh. Look at 139 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: John Roberts. Although I don't think he's really a constitutionalist. 140 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's a stealth lib. Look 141 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 1: at Gorsich even on the recent gender and sexual identity 142 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: case that came up. Right, look at what happens the right. 143 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: They're not guaranteeing you anything. They're just guaranteeing a certain 144 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: approach to the law, whereas Democrats are guaranteeing an outcome 145 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: as judges. That's what they want. They want this to 146 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,719 Speaker 1: be decided before it even goes before the court. They 147 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: want certain things to be ideologically guaranteed, and they worry 148 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: they no longer have that guarantee. But for Schumer to 149 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: talk of generations yet unborn suffering consequences, I have to 150 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: think that he did that on purpose, to signal to 151 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: his base that he knows this is really about the 152 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: abortion issue more than anything else. With the Supreme Court. 153 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: It legally indefensible. Rov. Wade is completely absurd. I mean it, 154 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: put aside the moral atrocity for a second. This is 155 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: not something that a good faith lawyer could argue and 156 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 1: think is really the law. But we've all been trained, 157 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,959 Speaker 1: we've all been forced to comply with this to live 158 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: in a country where this is now the regime, and 159 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: it may change, and ACB may bring it about what 160 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: a consequential thing. President Trump now has three Supreme Court 161 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: justices in his first term Gorsitch, Kavanaugh, Amy, Coney, Barrett. 162 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 1: And there were people that were mocking those on the 163 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 1: right in twenty sixteen. Remember, oh, but Gorsitch was some 164 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: kind of a slight. This is what anti Trump quote 165 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,079 Speaker 1: conservatives who now are openly Democrats rooting for Joe Biden, 166 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: of course, but this is what the early you know, 167 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: never Trumpers were saying, Oh, yeah, you think it was 168 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: worth it just to get that one judge. Well, actually 169 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: it was three Supreme Court justices and also a largely 170 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: remade federal judiciary across the board, circuit courts, appeals courts, 171 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: and the profound impact that will have on this country 172 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: for decades to come. So if you only voted for 173 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: Trump because of judges, if that was the only reason 174 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: you've you know, you've invested in a stock that paid 175 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: big time dividends. But of course, there are all these 176 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: other things that we've seen the President do that make 177 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: him worthy of reelection on top of it, and will 178 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: certainly talk about more of those today. But that's right, 179 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 1: Schumer is vowing revenge here. Democrats are scorned. It's like 180 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 1: they've been broken up with and they're saying, we're gonna 181 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: make you wish you'd never done this before. We're all worried. Gosh, 182 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: what are they going to do now? Play clip two. 183 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 1: As the globe gets warmer, as workers continue to fall behind, 184 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: as unlimited dark money floods our politics, as reactionary state 185 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: legislatures curtail a woman's right to choose Jerrymander districts and 186 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 1: limit the rights of minorities to vote. My deepest, greatest, 187 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: and most abiding sadness tonight is for the American people 188 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: and what this nomination will mean for their lives, their freedoms, 189 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: their fundamental rights. Monday, October twenty six, twenty twenty. It 190 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: will go down as one of the darkest days in 191 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: the two hundred and thirty one year history of the 192 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: United States Senate. Oh my gosh, crime war, Schumer cry 193 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: more lips. You are reaping what you sewed here. This 194 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: is on Harry Reid and the Democrats in the Senate 195 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: and the Democrat Party stretching back for decades. This goes 196 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:35,439 Speaker 1: to the blocked nomination of Robert Bourke of the attempted 197 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: blocked nomination unsuccessfully, of course, of Justice Thomas. It was 198 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 1: so fitting that Justice Thomas was the one who swore 199 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: in ACB last night. Goes to the blocking of mcguel 200 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: estrata Democrats blocking him, and then Harry Reid and the 201 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 1: nuclear option. Sorry, you know they changed the rules. Were 202 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: playing by the rules as they change them. Too bad. 203 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: This is politics. And yes, as Mitch McConnell said play 204 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:12,719 Speaker 1: clip six, our democratic colity to keep repeating the word illegitimate, 205 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: as if repetition would make it true. You just say 206 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: it often enough, does it make it true? I don't 207 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: think so. We're a constitutional republic. Legitimacy does not flow 208 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 1: from their feelings. You know. Legitacy is not the result 209 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: of how they feel about it. You know, you can't 210 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 1: win them all. And elections have consequences. And what this 211 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: administration and this Republican Senate has done is exercise the 212 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: power that was given to us by the American people 213 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: in a manner that is entirely resent within the rules 214 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,079 Speaker 1: of the Senate and the Constitution of the United States. 215 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: Please close. That's it. Elections have consequences, these are the rules. 216 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: Everything was legitimate. Democrats need to find something to say 217 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 1: that is true. If they're going to complain about this 218 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: so much, just start with that, Stop lying libs, and 219 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: start getting used to calling her Supreme Court Justice ACB. 220 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of Buck Daily podcast. 221 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: Get more from Buck by following him on social media 222 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: at Bucksexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and don't forget 223 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: to visit Bucksexton dot com. This separation of duty from 224 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: political preference is what makes the judiciary distinct among the 225 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: three branches of government. A judge declares independence not only 226 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: from Congress and the President, but also from the private 227 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: beliefs that might otherwise move her. The judicial oath captures 228 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: the essence of the judicial duty. The rule of law 229 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: must always control. My fellow Americans, even though we judges 230 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: don't face election, we still work for you. It is 231 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: your Constitution that establishes the rule of law and the 232 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: judicial independence that is so central to it. The oath 233 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: that I have solemnly taken tonight means at its core 234 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: that I will do my job without any fear or favor, 235 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: and that I will do so independently of both the 236 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: political branches and of my own preferences. I love the 237 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: Constitution and the democratic Republic that it establishes, and I 238 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: will devote myself to preserving it. All of this sound thinking, virtue, wisdom, decency, 239 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: jurorsprudence that's worthy of the name. All of it is 240 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: somehow offensive to the Democrats right now. In fact, even 241 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:02,239 Speaker 1: when Trump, for example, praises Ruth Bader Ginsburg in memoriam 242 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: saying well, ACB is taking on the seat of a 243 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: great pioneer, you can tell they get offended by that, 244 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: like he shouldn't be able to even say the initials 245 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: are BG. And oh they hated so much when all 246 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: of us say ACB. The left has already told us that, 247 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: which is why I really make a point of saying 248 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: ACB all the time. But you'll notice the way that 249 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: they approach all of this. It's almost like decency constitutional 250 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: interpretation that's not politicized, that's not the judge is essentially 251 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: telling the public a judge like Amy Coney Barrett telling 252 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: them I'm going to apply the law as written, and 253 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: I'm going to be a faithful, you know, a faithful 254 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: arbiter of what the constitutional and legislative intent is of 255 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: any given statute. I'm not going to just give people 256 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: what I think they should have for liberals, that's like 257 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: gar like smeared on the face of a vampire. I mean, 258 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: they hate this. They're like, what do you mean You're 259 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 1: not going to give us what we want. They've gotten 260 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: used to this decades and decades of on the biggest 261 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: issues nine out of ten times, big social issues. In particular, 262 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 1: Democrats get their way on Obamacare the plain language of 263 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 1: well plain language. They mean, the plain meaning of plain 264 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,199 Speaker 1: language was abused so that they could save it the 265 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: first time around. Attacks as a penalty of penalties, attacks, 266 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 1: And they contort themselves because who wants to be the 267 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:43,959 Speaker 1: judge who's held responsible for taking away pre existing conditions? 268 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: Who knew that all those years that I lived in 269 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: this country without Obamacare, I was just unaware of the 270 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 1: millions of people without any access to medical care which 271 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 1: is dying on the streets all the time that Obamacare saved. Really, 272 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: that's that's a thing interesting, that's the way that it's positioned. 273 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 1: But they hate all of this. They hate also the 274 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 1: decency and humility and kindness that ACB exudes. Remember they 275 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: were pointing to all of these polls before her confirmation 276 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:19,400 Speaker 1: because the media called the five alarm fire. Oh my gosh, 277 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 1: Trump's gonna fill another Supreme Court seats. So they created 278 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: this this frenzy around it. And then when everyone saw 279 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: who Trump had appointed when these hearings happened, did we 280 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 1: saw this person who's just legally several tiers above I 281 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: mean as a legal mind. She is in a whole 282 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: other echelon from the Senate Democrats who are desperately trying 283 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,199 Speaker 1: to trip her up. And she wasn't smug and she 284 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:49,120 Speaker 1: wasn't you know, condescending or rude about it. She just 285 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 1: is better than them at this knows more than them, 286 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 1: and that came across, but also has a fundamental kindness 287 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 1: and decency and has, look I'm just just gonna say it, 288 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: a maternal warmth. You know. She seems like a mom. 289 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: She seems like the person who you know, your kids 290 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 1: if they were going to go play with their friends, 291 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,199 Speaker 1: and she's the mom that you would want to be 292 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 1: watching them and you know, making them some beef stew 293 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 1: or something after a cold day playing in the backyard. 294 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 1: That's who Amy Coney barretts. She also happens to be 295 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: legally brilliant. This is all offensive to liberals. They are 296 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 1: they can't handle it. They can't handle. They hate all 297 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 1: of it. Like I said, what's that all about? Right, 298 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 1: Maybe if just the sight of the crucifix causes your 299 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: skin to melt off, the problem is you, you know, 300 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: maybe somebody who's so decent, so qualified, and such an 301 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:51,440 Speaker 1: asset to the United States, to our system not being 302 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,879 Speaker 1: celebrated tells us much more about the people refusing to 303 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: do the celebration. In fact, the condemnation. That's what they 304 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 1: are doing, and that's why we Right away the switch 305 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: from you can't do this, you're breaking norms, which is 306 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:11,399 Speaker 1: not true. You can't do this, this is illegitimate, not true. 307 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: Right there, there are some things that are true and 308 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 1: some things are not. We can go through this. They 309 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: they are. There are claims about this as as being 310 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 1: in any way illicit, illegitimate, prohibited by any rules anywhere, 311 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: is a lie. But then they switch from that too. Okay, well, 312 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 1: now we're just gonna break all the rules. This is 313 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: one of the most classic Democrat whiplash moments I've ever seen. 314 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,360 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi gets right too. It's it's just very upset 315 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:46,479 Speaker 1: waking up. She's it's kinda hangover that that that soft 316 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 1: blank she had last dive was just delicious. But it's tiring, Harry. 317 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,640 Speaker 1: She is telling everybody what she thinks should happen. Play 318 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: for well, I think that Joe Biden has given us 319 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: a good pat It's going to have something that people 320 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: can understand why this is important. And I like, what's 321 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: something that Brian said about not justice Supreme Court, but 322 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: the other courts. It was one hundred, well in eighteen 323 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:15,440 Speaker 1: seventy nine. In eighteen seventy six, there were nine justices 324 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: on the court. Our population has grown enormously since then. 325 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: Should we expand the court? Well, let's take a look 326 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: and secret. But and that relates to the nine district courts. 327 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: Maybe we need more district courts as well. And one 328 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,439 Speaker 1: other thing we need. We need for these justices to 329 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: disclose their holdings. Why should all the rest of us 330 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 1: have to disclose our holdings? And that is appropriate, but 331 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,400 Speaker 1: not if you're a justice of the Supreme Court. They're 332 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: in this ivory tower. Pack the courts. It's just saying 333 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:50,919 Speaker 1: it straight up. She wants you to know. This is 334 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: going to be the plan. Notice the timeline here. If 335 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 1: you take a chronological overview of what the Democrats have done, 336 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 1: they politicize the court. And then they realized that since 337 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: they'd done that and they were getting away with it, 338 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 1: they wanted to keep it that way. So then they 339 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 1: started blocking judges they didn't like, and then they got 340 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: rid of blocks on judges they did like. And they 341 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 1: were warned at the time, including buy Mitch McConnell explicitly okay, 342 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 1: but now you're gonna have to deal with us getting 343 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: through judges that we like and you don't. They didn't care. 344 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 1: I mean, they're like a child who's been caught lying, 345 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: you know, caught lying about doing this homework, and now 346 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 1: instead of accepting that they should just do their homework, 347 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 1: they should just accept reality and responsibility. They're going into 348 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: school and they're just trying to steal somebody else's again, 349 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,679 Speaker 1: they're trying to find some other way around this. There 350 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 1: should be a principle here. There should be a grounding 351 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 1: in what the rules of the road are. Why is 352 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,920 Speaker 1: this okay for Democrats? They should ask that question, why 353 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: would court packing be acceptable? Well, they think it's because 354 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 1: they shouldn't have to live in country where they don't 355 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: get what they want from the courts, where on decisions 356 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 1: where some Americans want one thing and other Americans want another. 357 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 1: It's not the law as written, as passed by the legislatures, 358 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 1: and then of course with the Constitution and the Bill 359 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: of Rights as the framework for all of this as 360 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: the foundation for it really and weighing, weighing these different 361 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: legal interests. It's just one side should get what it wants. 362 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 1: The others should suffer in silence. And that's what we've 363 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 1: seen for the courts for at least in the Supreme 364 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 1: Court for a long time. They don't have to deal 365 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: with that in their minds, but we should. I mean, 366 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,399 Speaker 1: think about the lack of logic here, the lack of 367 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: adult thinking. They're going to change the whole system because 368 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 1: all of a sudden the system doesn't work to their advantage. 369 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,439 Speaker 1: But I thought that the system should be in place 370 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: in such a way that it's not about advantage, right, 371 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 1: that there are other The legislative brand of government is 372 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: supposed to be what makes determinations about, within the framework 373 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 1: of the Constitution, within the framework of the Bill of Rights, 374 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: what we do. You know, what our government does in 375 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: this country, so on their clothe you know, what should 376 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: the tax rate be? Legislative question? Right? Well, you know 377 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 1: you look at all these different issues. You know what 378 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: should be illegal legislative question? Right, this is what you know, 379 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 1: what crimes? What criminal statute should be passed. But the 380 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: Democrats like to have this stop gap of or rather 381 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 1: this fallback of having some super legislature that they feel 382 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: like well always at the end of the day, cave 383 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: to the pressure of the mob and give them what 384 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 1: they want. And they just assume that our side is 385 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 1: going to just keep taking that forever. Why why would 386 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 1: we do that? They haven't really even thought this one 387 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: through because the Democrat party has become the party of 388 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: the mob. It's the mob mentality made into a political 389 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:02,879 Speaker 1: political union. It's just what does what does the frenzied 390 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: collective demand? What are the emotions of the masses irrespective 391 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: of law, precedent, history, natural law, you name it. What 392 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: does the master? What do the masses demand? Right now? 393 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: Democrats try to try to deliver that, which is why 394 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:26,239 Speaker 1: you're seeing what was aoc time to pack the courts there? 395 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: There are there are others as well, you know, others 396 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: as well. The more radical Democrats just say out loud 397 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: what we know the rest of them feel. Here's ilhan 398 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: Omar play seven. I mean, this is Willie an illegitimate 399 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 1: process um truly that has exposed the hypocrisy of Republicans 400 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: as they've rushed through this process and have foregone many 401 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 1: of the traditions that they have set themselves. And it's 402 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: leaving so many Americans really worried about what this would 403 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: mean for them, what it would mean for women in 404 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,360 Speaker 1: regards to reprotective rights, what it would mean for immigrants 405 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: like myself when it comes to our religious liberty, what 406 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: it would mean for our brothers and sisters in the 407 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:17,719 Speaker 1: queer community, or the transfolks in our community when when 408 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,199 Speaker 1: it comes to their rights to equality. We also know 409 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: that there are so many people who are worried because 410 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,399 Speaker 1: they have pre existing conditions. M And I mean, and 411 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 1: that's just a tip of the iceberg. There's so much 412 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 1: there that's blather. I don't have time to go through 413 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: all of it. What exactly is she so when first 414 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 1: of all this this term reproductive rights, Just say abortion. 415 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,399 Speaker 1: There's no other reproductive right we're talking about. Just say what, 416 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: say what the procedure, say what it is abortion right. 417 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: When we're having a conversation about taxes, you don't hear 418 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,680 Speaker 1: what you're saying, oh, well, you know the government, the 419 00:26:54,160 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: government requested donation from your personal bank account to the treasury. No, 420 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: we call it taxes. It's not reproductive rights, it's abortion. 421 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: Let's just use the word. Let's all understand what we're 422 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 1: talking about. But when politicians resort to euphemisms, as George 423 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: Orwell so eloquently wrote about in his Politics in the 424 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 1: English language, when they resort to euphemisms, you know that 425 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: something's up. If they can't tell you what this, if 426 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 1: they can't use the words for what they're really trying 427 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: to do or what's really going on, they're obviously trying 428 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,440 Speaker 1: to fool you in some way. They're trying to avoid responsibility, 429 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,360 Speaker 1: to evade accountability in some fashion. But the other part 430 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,640 Speaker 1: of this that I found really interesting was that it's 431 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: rushed through. This is another just man, another just whiny 432 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 1: nonsense point. They're saying that it's rushed through. Well, what 433 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,439 Speaker 1: would be a fair enough timeline? What would be a 434 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: fair enough timeline? We already saw Acbs entirely qualified. What 435 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 1: else do we have to see? You're in the freedom hunt. 436 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,120 Speaker 1: This is the best of Buck Daily podcast to the 437 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: top stories of the day from the Buck Sexton Show 438 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 1: one week, friends until this election one week, And I 439 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 1: do want everyone to stay oh so motivated right now. 440 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: You're gonna have to stand in lines. You're gonna have 441 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: to convince those friends of yours, those relatives who are 442 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,879 Speaker 1: you know, either worried about COVID being outside and waiting 443 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 1: in lines, or they're worried about making the wrong decision 444 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 1: or whatever, or they're apathetic and they just don't care. 445 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 1: You've got to get as many people as you can 446 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 1: out there. And I think one good way to motivate 447 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: folks would be to have Hillary Clinton explained to them 448 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,719 Speaker 1: how horrifying it would be to her if Tuttle Trump 449 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: won four more years. So terrible play twenty one. I 450 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: can't entertain the idea of him winning. So let's, you know, 451 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: let's just prefer sit by that, because it makes me 452 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: literally sick to my stomach to think that we'd have 453 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: four more years of this abuse and destruction of our 454 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: institutions and damaging of our norms and our values, and 455 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: lessening of our leadership, and the list goes on, lessening 456 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 1: our values. Isn't it amazing that Hillary Clinton really thinks 457 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: that she's in a position to talk to people about 458 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: values and decency. I mean, this is a woman who 459 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 1: has been a professional liar for the last oh thirty 460 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: years or so. This is what she does. But she's 461 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: the moral compass of America and she's worried. Makes her 462 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: sick to her stomach. What was the really terrible thing 463 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump did in this Oh? I know, he's 464 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 1: responsible for two hundred thousand COVID deaths. Idiots think that 465 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: that's true. Is he responsible for the COVID debts in Argentina, 466 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: which right now has the highest per capita death rate 467 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: from COVID of any place in the entire world. Is 468 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 1: that Trump's fault? Or I just want to know. Europe 469 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 1: is now going through lockdowns and people are protesting the lockdowns, 470 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 1: and countries like Spain they're saying, hold on, we already 471 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: did this and we have still they still have been 472 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 1: they didn't. The media wants you to think that these 473 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: other countries, Oh, it turned into a while party and 474 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,880 Speaker 1: everybody was going out drinking and doing all this stuff. 475 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: It was all normal. No, that's not true, just like 476 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: it wasn't a lot of places in this country. Limitations 477 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 1: on gatherings, people still being cautious people still masking big 478 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 1: spikes in cases. Well, that's not very for those who 479 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: believe you just have to listen to Fauci, it's not 480 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: very encouraging. Is it doing everything that they tell us 481 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: to do and we're still having big spikes and cases. 482 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 1: Maybe what they're telling us to do is insufficient. Maybe 483 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 1: it doesn't even matter. Remember when it was fifteen days 484 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,440 Speaker 1: to slow the spread, Why wasn't it fifteen days to 485 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,959 Speaker 1: shut the virus down entirely? Or why didn't tell us 486 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: three months we're gonna shut this down in tire, We're gonna, 487 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 1: We're gonna go because they know it's impossible. So if 488 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: it's impossible to stand out the virus entirely, what are 489 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: you doing by putting imperfect mitigation measures in place? As 490 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: we are right, you're just extending the timeline of transmission 491 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: and it's not even until vaccine. Because doctor Faucci, this 492 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,280 Speaker 1: is the latest, is telling people now, well, even if 493 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: you have a vaccine, that only will that is likely 494 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 1: to prevent you from getting symptoms, but it doesn't mean 495 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: you won't have the virus. M Well, is he now 496 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: claiming that even with the vaccine you can still transmit 497 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: the virus. Is that is that the claim, folks, we're 498 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: gonna be locked down. The bureaucrats are going to keep 499 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,760 Speaker 1: doing this to us until we say enough. Shut your face, 500 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: you don't know what you're talking about. Leave us alone. 501 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: I have rights. I'm done with this. Until we reach 502 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: that point as a country, they're gonna keep doing this. Wow, 503 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,160 Speaker 1: there's no there's no downside for them. What do you 504 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 1: think Faucci is so sad that, you know, the bars 505 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: are all going out of business and he can order 506 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 1: take out. He's fine, he's rich, no problem. So it's 507 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: it's it's really stunning. I know I'm getting off on 508 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: a little tangent here about this, but the whole pitch 509 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 1: for Donald Trump losing this election is COVID. That's really it. 510 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 1: Oh and he's a racist and a rapist and a 511 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 1: sexist and all all all these things right, all the 512 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: Russian asset, all the stupid stuff that they say. But 513 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 1: the only policy area where they think they can really 514 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: dig in is on COVID. The President understands that he 515 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 1: knows that this is the game that they're playing right now, 516 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: and he's just saying, look, it's it's gonna change on 517 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: November fourth, all of a sudden, there's going to be 518 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: a very a very different feeling on this one. But 519 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: until we get to that point, we don't know how 520 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: the American people are gonna finally come down on this. 521 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: Over sixty million early votes cast so far, so yes, 522 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,160 Speaker 1: if you can vote for Trump, at least you'll be 523 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: upsetting Hillary Clinton, which in and of itself is a 524 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 1: thing that I would I would assume everybody's very pleased 525 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 1: about it. I know that I am, and I'm glad 526 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 1: that the President is also pointing out that Joe Biden's 527 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 1: running a very risky strategy here. He is running out 528 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 1: the clock without knowing what's really on the scoreboard. Would 529 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 1: you do that in a sports sports game? The coach saying, 530 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: I feel like we're ahead. I don't even I don't 531 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 1: know what the score is, but I think we did better. 532 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: I think we scored more baskets than they did. So 533 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: let's just pass it around and see if we can 534 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 1: run time off the clock here to finish this thing out. Now, 535 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: that's one thing. When you know you're up, they don't 536 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,000 Speaker 1: know they're up. They think they're up. So instead of 537 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 1: trying to score they're just trying to prevent the other 538 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:34,160 Speaker 1: side from scoring. And that's with this keeping Biden home 539 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 1: situation Play seventeen. You know, it's funny. I thought it 540 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: wasn't gonna make it. But one thing, unlike Joe where 541 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 1: he goes into a basement if he loses, and you 542 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: know who knows what happens, right, it's called an election. 543 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 1: He should be ashamed of himself because he didn't work. 544 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 1: And just seriously, he didn't work one thing. I did five, six, 545 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: and sometimes seven of these in one day those few days, 546 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 1: and during the regular time, I do two or three. 547 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 1: Today today I'm doing three of these. Tremendous found waiting 548 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 1: for us. And another part Yeah, Biden's work ethic on 549 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:16,279 Speaker 1: display for everybody here calling lids calling a quits. Of course, 550 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 1: he's now saying, oh, we work, we worked super late 551 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 1: all the time. This is Joe Biden trying to explain 552 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 1: that one play fourteen he kept re relatively light public 553 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 1: schedule in the past few days. Do you do like 554 00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 1: a sense of how much you'll be traveling in the 555 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,879 Speaker 1: next few days where you might be going to hold 556 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,759 Speaker 1: you where I'm gonna be traveling, And I, by the way, 557 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 1: I traveled the last few days too. Are I'm gonna 558 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 1: be going to Iland and going to Wisconsin. I'm going 559 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,760 Speaker 1: to Georgia. I'm going to Florida and maybe other places 560 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,720 Speaker 1: as well. There's a lot we've been doing as well 561 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,440 Speaker 1: in terms of being online and social day I excuse me, 562 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,239 Speaker 1: everything from fundraising efforts to making sure we meet. I 563 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,760 Speaker 1: met today with a group of leaders in the Democratic Party, 564 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 1: laying out where we're gonna go, getting their input and 565 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 1: like so we're constantly There's not been a day that 566 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: hadn't been a twelve hour day yet. Yes, right, Joe 567 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,799 Speaker 1: worked super hard. They call a lit at nine am 568 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 1: a lot of days, but he's working working hard. What's 569 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 1: the point of going to a state if you're not 570 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:15,960 Speaker 1: going to deal with any people or talk to any 571 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 1: of the actual residents. Maybe they'll speak to a handful 572 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 1: or something just for the appearance's sake, but usually you 573 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 1: campaign so that you get out there and you see 574 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:28,360 Speaker 1: the folks. Right, That's not what's happening at these Biden rallies. 575 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,400 Speaker 1: So he's going to these places just to go a 576 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,879 Speaker 1: little bit. I think someone pointed out it was Dagan 577 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,840 Speaker 1: mcdwalll from Fox that. You know, Biden was saying he 578 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,840 Speaker 1: had an event in Pennsylvania. Yeah, it just happened to 579 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:43,240 Speaker 1: technically be across the border from Delaware. It's twenty minutes 580 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 1: from his house. That's Biden really really putting in the 581 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,799 Speaker 1: extra mile. Look, maybe they don't need to, Maybe they 582 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 1: are protecting a lead that they actually have. I'm not convinced. 583 00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 1: I think Donald Trump's still gonna win this thing, but 584 00:35:58,320 --> 00:35:59,759 Speaker 1: as I've been telling you, I think it's going to 585 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,040 Speaker 1: be very close. I believe you might have an election 586 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:05,600 Speaker 1: here that comes down to one state. I've been looking 587 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,160 Speaker 1: at the numbers. I've been playing with the delegate counts, 588 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,560 Speaker 1: and you may have a situation where Trump gets to 589 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:15,200 Speaker 1: two seventy two and Biden gets to two sixty two. 590 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:20,600 Speaker 1: That's actually a viable scenario that I war gamed out 591 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,840 Speaker 1: earlier this week when I was looking at how this 592 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,120 Speaker 1: would all add up. And you know what, you know 593 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:31,040 Speaker 1: what the deciding factor would be in that situation, Pennsylvania. 594 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:35,360 Speaker 1: It all comes down to Pennsylvania. If Trump wins Pennsylvania, Ohio, 595 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 1: and Florida, He's basically got this thing. I don't think 596 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,160 Speaker 1: he's going to win Michigan in Wisconsin. I think that 597 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 1: those are problems o Iowa. But he can lose those 598 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,239 Speaker 1: states and still win if he maintains everything else from 599 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:52,840 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, including Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio. He's got to 600 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:57,360 Speaker 1: win the big three swing states, which means that Pennsylvania, 601 00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,480 Speaker 1: which last night, oh no, it was, Pennsylvania's already extended 602 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:05,520 Speaker 1: it's ballot deadline. Wisconsin try to extend its ballot it's 603 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:10,000 Speaker 1: ballot counting deadline, but the Supreme Court said no. Democrats 604 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,200 Speaker 1: obviously very upset about that. They always seem to think 605 00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 1: that by making fewer rules, making it easier for things 606 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,840 Speaker 1: to go awry in election process, that somehow they're the 607 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:27,120 Speaker 1: ones protecting and defending democracy. But this is quite a 608 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,680 Speaker 1: quite a strategy the Biden team has here. Don't do 609 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,160 Speaker 1: very much, just sort of be there. Let the media 610 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,120 Speaker 1: carry the water for you, let the media do the 611 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,480 Speaker 1: heavy lifting. Biden's like the manager on the site while 612 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,960 Speaker 1: the construction workers are actually building the house, where he's like, 613 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:48,080 Speaker 1: a good job. Guys, keep going CNN and MSNBC. They're 614 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,160 Speaker 1: the ones out there in the trenches, really making it happen. 615 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,560 Speaker 1: Is there an enthusiasm gap? These are now the intangibles, 616 00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,480 Speaker 1: I mean, you have to look at some of these 617 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:03,640 Speaker 1: intangible for why Trump could still win given that, as 618 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,440 Speaker 1: I look at all the polling, he's behind pretty much 619 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,080 Speaker 1: everywhere that matters right now, according to the polls. That's 620 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,280 Speaker 1: not the same thing as saying he's actually behind everywhere. 621 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:19,640 Speaker 1: Right most of the national news media, the punditocracy is 622 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 1: already confident of a Biden win, and he is in 623 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,000 Speaker 1: this runout the clock mole. But I still think Trump's 624 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,920 Speaker 1: gonna win. It's not gonna be a landslide though. Like 625 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:29,960 Speaker 1: I said, I think Trump is just gonna barely squeak 626 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,640 Speaker 1: past two seventy. I think he'll get to between two 627 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,800 Speaker 1: seventy and two hundred and eighty let's say, electoral college votes, 628 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,439 Speaker 1: and it could be a one state race. But even 629 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,360 Speaker 1: if that's the case, it's going to be a massive 630 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:46,080 Speaker 1: shock to the consensus driven world of political prognostication, as 631 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,360 Speaker 1: you know, and I do think it's going to be 632 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,640 Speaker 1: the absolute dogfight in Pennsylvania that determines. This could even 633 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,719 Speaker 1: delay the final election, because if it think about this, 634 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,600 Speaker 1: you have all these states finally that are called and counted, 635 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,279 Speaker 1: but Pennsylvania's too close to call, and that's the that's 636 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,759 Speaker 1: the state that will determine who wins the election. And 637 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,800 Speaker 1: they've got a few extra days after the election account ballots. 638 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,440 Speaker 1: Can you imagine what we are setting ourselves up for here. 639 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,799 Speaker 1: I think there's a very real chance this is the 640 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,640 Speaker 1: way it's going to go. I know we have a 641 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,880 Speaker 1: lot of listeners in Pennsylvania, so you'll definitely have to 642 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,759 Speaker 1: share your thoughts with me about which districts you think 643 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,560 Speaker 1: or you know, which areas of the state are going 644 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,719 Speaker 1: to be key in this whole process. But I think 645 00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,799 Speaker 1: the biggest reason for optimism is the intangible stuff right now. 646 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,560 Speaker 1: For one thing, you know, Trump is going all out 647 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,840 Speaker 1: in the last days of his campaign. He's doing multiple 648 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,040 Speaker 1: events a day. He's taking his pitch for four more 649 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:43,040 Speaker 1: years to this string of ten thousand person plus you 650 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,600 Speaker 1: know venues, These crowds are huge. And look, I get it. 651 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:50,040 Speaker 1: I understand that anecdotal information is dangerous in a political season. 652 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 1: And I've had word from the campaign's ground game in Florida, 653 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,799 Speaker 1: Ohio and Pennsylvania that they think that there is a 654 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:02,239 Speaker 1: fire in the belly of Trump's Trump's base that's just 655 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:07,279 Speaker 1: going to defy all expectations come election day. But the 656 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,160 Speaker 1: thing about a silent majority, you don't know it's there 657 00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,840 Speaker 1: till it speaks. And we're gonna have to see if 658 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,600 Speaker 1: they speak on election day for this president, I know 659 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,840 Speaker 1: the MAGA faithful believes so. And this has been a 660 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,799 Speaker 1: very challenging year for the country. It's very tough to 661 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,640 Speaker 1: feel like, you know what the zeitgeist is, what is 662 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:26,160 Speaker 1: the pulse of the nation right now politically? And I 663 00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,680 Speaker 1: do think Trump has turned the corner. There's a momentum 664 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,480 Speaker 1: to his campaign right now. And Biden is largely hiding 665 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,040 Speaker 1: in the basement. So is he right? Is Trump right 666 00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:39,440 Speaker 1: when he says that Biden is hiding because people don't 667 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:44,160 Speaker 1: have enthusiasm play eighteen and we have to have and 668 00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,080 Speaker 1: slippy Joe is down there and they said, you gotta 669 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:50,040 Speaker 1: get out of this basement. So he traveled from Delaware 670 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,399 Speaker 1: to a little tanny corner of Pennsylvania, like right next 671 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,560 Speaker 1: to Delaware, and he made his speech and he said 672 00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:00,840 Speaker 1: that he doesn't do these kinds if because of COVID, 673 00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,400 Speaker 1: you know, because now he doesn't do that because nobody 674 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:10,040 Speaker 1: shows up. That's why, because nobody shows up. It is 675 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,120 Speaker 1: tough to I know a lot of you're saying, seabuck, 676 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:16,080 Speaker 1: and I've seen the photos too, But what a convenient excuse, right, 677 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,560 Speaker 1: Biden's had a convenient excuse not to be out beyond 678 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,160 Speaker 1: his handler's reach on this campaign trail, right, whether they 679 00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 1: keep him in a very tight leash, and he's been 680 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,839 Speaker 1: able to get away with this because of COVID, right, 681 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:32,080 Speaker 1: the hiding in the basement routine and the very sparsely 682 00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,920 Speaker 1: populated events that he does have, it's because of COVID. 683 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,960 Speaker 1: So there's a there's a lot of a lot of 684 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,240 Speaker 1: unknown here friends, but absence some truly outrageous last minute ambush. 685 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,480 Speaker 1: I think Trump is going to find his He's going 686 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,680 Speaker 1: to spend his final days in this campaign focused on 687 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:52,239 Speaker 1: radical Democrat positions like fossil fuels, extreme lockdowns, higher taxes. 688 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,480 Speaker 1: That's all stuff that may do well in Santa Monica 689 00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,560 Speaker 1: for Joe Biden and his donors and on the Upper 690 00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:02,000 Speaker 1: West Side of Manhattan, but energy industry folks in Pennsylvania 691 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,799 Speaker 1: probably want to keep their jobs in Pennsylvania. Is isn't 692 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:10,320 Speaker 1: the keystone state, It's it's the keystone to this election, 693 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:13,160 Speaker 1: that's for sure. And I still have this feeling this 694 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,719 Speaker 1: deep sense that Trump is gonna once again blow away 695 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,400 Speaker 1: the doubters and the haters, and he's gonna make political history. 696 00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,040 Speaker 1: He pulled off what you remember felt like a political 697 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,920 Speaker 1: miracle back in twenty sixteen. I think he's gonna need 698 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,319 Speaker 1: something similar this time around to get it done. But 699 00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:32,160 Speaker 1: I still believe the Trump'ster's gonna pull it off. Thanks 700 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,080 Speaker 1: for listening to the Best of Buck Daily podcast. For 701 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,280 Speaker 1: more buck head to buck Sexton dot com and remember 702 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:42,279 Speaker 1: to subscribe to the podcast. Let's recall what was the 703 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:46,239 Speaker 1: biggest news story of the summer in twenty twenty. Was 704 00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:50,160 Speaker 1: it the recovery from COVID nineteen the economy was having. Now, 705 00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:53,040 Speaker 1: that was a story, but it wasn't the thing that 706 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,960 Speaker 1: dominated the headlines. It wasn't what all of social media 707 00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:02,120 Speaker 1: was constantly a light. It wasn't that. No, it was 708 00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:07,640 Speaker 1: protests against police brutality. That's what it started out as, right, 709 00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,640 Speaker 1: the Black Lives Matter movement, and then it very quickly 710 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:15,160 Speaker 1: morphed into corporate America bending the knee and begging forgiveness 711 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,640 Speaker 1: from the BLM movement for all the historical oppression and 712 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:24,319 Speaker 1: inequity in society. And then it turned into toppling statues, 713 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:31,560 Speaker 1: including statues of Christian missionaries, you know, Junipero Sarah and 714 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:36,279 Speaker 1: conquistadors and Christopher Columbus and I mean all kinds of stuff. Right. 715 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:41,400 Speaker 1: It began, perhaps with a few Civil War Confederate statues, 716 00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:45,439 Speaker 1: but they also went after statues of Abraham Lincoln. So 717 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,319 Speaker 1: there was the statue toppling frenzy. And we were all 718 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,040 Speaker 1: told that if you opposed that, right, if you thought 719 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,680 Speaker 1: that it was unnecessary to pull down the statue of 720 00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,520 Speaker 1: Theodore Roosevelt in front of the Museum of Natural History 721 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,680 Speaker 1: founded in part by Theodore Roosevelt in New York City, 722 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,040 Speaker 1: you're a bad person, That's what we were being told. 723 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,200 Speaker 1: And then there were all these riots and they kept happening. 724 00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:10,080 Speaker 1: There was this Night of the Purge, as I call 725 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,560 Speaker 1: it in New York City where Midtown Manhattan had people 726 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,120 Speaker 1: just shattering storefronts and looting in the I mean Macy's, 727 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:19,920 Speaker 1: one of the most famous department stores the world was 728 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:25,200 Speaker 1: was looted in Manhattan and the biggest city in America. 729 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,320 Speaker 1: Just people running in stealing stuff, smashing the windows, hundreds 730 00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,399 Speaker 1: and hundreds of people running around, very few arrests made. 731 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,640 Speaker 1: It was madness somehow we were to believe that this 732 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:42,920 Speaker 1: was about protesting police injustice, and it was all kicked 733 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:47,040 Speaker 1: off by the George Floyd incident with police in Minneapolis, 734 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,279 Speaker 1: where eventually or soon after this that incident happened a 735 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,239 Speaker 1: police station was burned out. Remember that in Minneapolis they 736 00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:59,279 Speaker 1: burned down a police station. That all dropped off right 737 00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,319 Speaker 1: around September. All of a sudden, people either didn't care 738 00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,360 Speaker 1: as much about police brutality, with the exception of Portland, 739 00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,959 Speaker 1: which is now just like an anarchist an anarchist zone, 740 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,600 Speaker 1: they can do whatever they want there. Ted Wheeler, the 741 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:14,719 Speaker 1: mayor of Portland, is a little moron who's antifa's errand 742 00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,680 Speaker 1: boy and is always defending them and trying to make 743 00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:20,080 Speaker 1: sure that no one says mean things about them, even 744 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,520 Speaker 1: while they're spitting and cursing in his face, because that's 745 00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:30,000 Speaker 1: what lunatic left wing losers do. But they clearly recognized 746 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:37,160 Speaker 1: the more organized activist protests left realize that they are 747 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,120 Speaker 1: going to have to stop doing so much of this 748 00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:43,080 Speaker 1: because if they show how much defund the police quickly 749 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,799 Speaker 1: turns into just hating police and demanding a separate set 750 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:50,120 Speaker 1: of rules for left wing actors from the rest of society, 751 00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,440 Speaker 1: namely that you can attack cops and not suffer any consequences. 752 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:57,200 Speaker 1: You can destroy property, you can be a federal criminal 753 00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:01,720 Speaker 1: vandal and should not suffer any consequences. That when people 754 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:07,360 Speaker 1: see that, they over time recognize that this is wrong, 755 00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,160 Speaker 1: that this should not be allowed, that this should not continue. 756 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:18,520 Speaker 1: And we have one week before the election night. I'm 757 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,399 Speaker 1: not sure that it's going to be even determined whether 758 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,759 Speaker 1: who wins and who wins or loses that day. We 759 00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:26,480 Speaker 1: have one week left and just before people are going 760 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,600 Speaker 1: to be lining up here if they haven't already, I 761 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:33,879 Speaker 1: know sixty million voted early. They are reminded of what 762 00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:40,000 Speaker 1: Biden voters and BLM activists think is appropriate behavior. In 763 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:48,560 Speaker 1: a major American city. Last night, in Philadelphia, West Philadelphia, 764 00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:50,719 Speaker 1: which is part of the city that I've actually spent 765 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:52,880 Speaker 1: time and because it's where the University of Pennsylvania is, 766 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,799 Speaker 1: you had a man who was a twenty seven year 767 00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,560 Speaker 1: old black man was shot by police officers. It is 768 00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:04,439 Speaker 1: on bystander video and they have body cams, all right, 769 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:11,439 Speaker 1: So here's what ended up happening. You had cops show 770 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:15,640 Speaker 1: up to the scene and they there was some there 771 00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:24,800 Speaker 1: was some disturbance and Walter Wallace Junior said had a 772 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:31,120 Speaker 1: knife in his hand and police police were trying to 773 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,600 Speaker 1: get him to drop it. They said drop it many times. 774 00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:37,960 Speaker 1: It's all on video. He comes at them with a 775 00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:45,280 Speaker 1: knife and they shoot him. Now, look, this is a tragedy. 776 00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:50,160 Speaker 1: Nobody really thinks that in a situation. In a situation 777 00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:54,440 Speaker 1: like this, you know, the the outcome that is that 778 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:58,360 Speaker 1: is desirable from anyone's perspective, is a use of lethal force. 779 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:02,200 Speaker 1: It's a shame it should not have had to happen, 780 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:08,600 Speaker 1: but unfortunately it did happen. And that doesn't mean the 781 00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,680 Speaker 1: same thing as saying that it's criminal or it's wrong 782 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,399 Speaker 1: or it's illegitimate for the police officers to have used 783 00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,680 Speaker 1: lethal force. It's a tragedy, it's not a crime. Not 784 00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:21,120 Speaker 1: the same thing. If you have a knife and you 785 00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:25,200 Speaker 1: walk toward police officers and they tell you to drop 786 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:29,720 Speaker 1: the knife and you don't do it, they are going 787 00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:35,240 Speaker 1: to shoot. This is very basic. There was another incident 788 00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,520 Speaker 1: I believe is also in Philadelphia like this pretty recently, 789 00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,120 Speaker 1: where a guy came out of a home is going 790 00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,719 Speaker 1: toward a cop. They say that he's emotionally disturbed or 791 00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,480 Speaker 1: he has some mental health issues. That's sad. But again, 792 00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:47,759 Speaker 1: the cop does not have to get stabbed in the 793 00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:51,440 Speaker 1: chat or the neck or the face. Because of the 794 00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:54,880 Speaker 1: history of systemic oppression in this country. That's not No 795 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:59,719 Speaker 1: individual is going to do that. Any individual, regardless of 796 00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,400 Speaker 1: this air race, and regardless of the race of the attacker, 797 00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:06,120 Speaker 1: who is in you know, in law enforcement, when confronted 798 00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:07,960 Speaker 1: by somebody who has a lethal weapon, who does not 799 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,319 Speaker 1: put it down and who is closing the distance between them, 800 00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:16,680 Speaker 1: will use their weapon, will use their their lethal force 801 00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:21,279 Speaker 1: under the law. And that's what happened here. So what 802 00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:26,560 Speaker 1: was the response to this? How how did the people 803 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:30,360 Speaker 1: involved in these heated protests? That was the line that 804 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,480 Speaker 1: I kept seeing last night. How did people in these 805 00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:37,320 Speaker 1: heated protests respond to all of it? Well, they looted, 806 00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:41,440 Speaker 1: of course, because what better way to show you're opposed 807 00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,400 Speaker 1: to police violence than to steal sneakers from innocent people 808 00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:47,640 Speaker 1: who have nothing to do with police violence. Right, there's 809 00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:52,239 Speaker 1: a store owner, there's employees. They're just theft they're not 810 00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:55,440 Speaker 1: stealing from cops even they're just stealing from people. But oh, 811 00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,839 Speaker 1: they also attacked cops. Thirty of them were injured. One 812 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,000 Speaker 1: female police offic there in Philadelphia run over by a 813 00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:08,120 Speaker 1: guy it seems intentionally with a with a car, drove 814 00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:11,399 Speaker 1: a car into a line of cops. That's the kind 815 00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:15,240 Speaker 1: of stuff that's happening in Philadelphia right now. Thirty officers 816 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:20,239 Speaker 1: were wounded, including with broken bones, getting getting hit with, 817 00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,880 Speaker 1: you know, with rocks and the usual mayhem that we 818 00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:28,040 Speaker 1: see in the streets. The Democrat Party embraced this. The 819 00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:33,200 Speaker 1: Democrat Party really is responsible for this mentality that somehow 820 00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:37,360 Speaker 1: this is acceptable that when there's an incident that involves police, 821 00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,040 Speaker 1: there are body cameras. We're all going to see exactly 822 00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:43,360 Speaker 1: what happened. Why the resort to violence, looting and destruction 823 00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,440 Speaker 1: right away? Yeah, there's camera footage. I've seen it. We 824 00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:47,920 Speaker 1: could play it for you here on the radio on 825 00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:53,240 Speaker 1: the show, but I it's just it's disturbing. It is disturbing. 826 00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,080 Speaker 1: I mean, it's somebody who's you're watching in real time 827 00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:57,839 Speaker 1: if someone loses his life. But I can tell you 828 00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:00,960 Speaker 1: having watched the video, he's moving aggressively. He has a 829 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,280 Speaker 1: knife in his hand. There's no dispute about the facts. 830 00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:06,160 Speaker 1: He's going toward the officers, two of them. They have 831 00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:09,400 Speaker 1: their guns drawn and they're saying, drop the knife, drop 832 00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,719 Speaker 1: the knife, drop the knife. What do the BLM activists, 833 00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:16,000 Speaker 1: what do the democrats let's talk about police reform, what 834 00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:19,279 Speaker 1: do they want these cops to do? Oh, and then 835 00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:22,719 Speaker 1: you immediately hereafters well, they shot ten times. Maybe they 836 00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:27,520 Speaker 1: should have shot him in the leg or something. I'm 837 00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:32,120 Speaker 1: assuming they probably had nine millimeter handguns. They're terrified they 838 00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:36,640 Speaker 1: could very quickly be killed in the circumstance. And the 839 00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:38,320 Speaker 1: assumption is that if you're going to try to shoot 840 00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,960 Speaker 1: somebody in the leg, what if then it doesn't actually 841 00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:45,000 Speaker 1: stop this person from closing that distance and they're able 842 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,680 Speaker 1: to get one stat one good stab in at your 843 00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:50,520 Speaker 1: neck or your vitals. Do you want to take that chance? 844 00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:55,920 Speaker 1: You shoot to stop the threat. That's it. That's the 845 00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,000 Speaker 1: way law enforcement's trained. That's the only way they can 846 00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:00,880 Speaker 1: be trained. And honestly, trying to shoots any leg, the 847 00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,759 Speaker 1: chances of you missing or high, and you can very 848 00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,200 Speaker 1: easily kill somebody if you shoot them in the in 849 00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,640 Speaker 1: the pelvic girdle, they'll bleed out very quickly too. So 850 00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:15,560 Speaker 1: it's not like this is as simple as oh, why 851 00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,600 Speaker 1: didn't the cops just do something else? I'm even hearing 852 00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,920 Speaker 1: people say, well, they should have used the taser on him. 853 00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,080 Speaker 1: Do you want to try to taser somebody who's coming 854 00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:27,080 Speaker 1: at you with a knife, who's eight feet away? How 855 00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,440 Speaker 1: quickly do you think they can close that distance? Are 856 00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:31,680 Speaker 1: you sure that taser's gonna fire? You're sure that taser's 857 00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,640 Speaker 1: gonna work. This is now, that this is now the 858 00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:36,920 Speaker 1: new normal. Though, all of the second guessing of law 859 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,000 Speaker 1: enforce mean the undermining of cops because it plays to 860 00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,640 Speaker 1: a narrative, a narrative democrats need right now that America 861 00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:46,799 Speaker 1: is racist, that cops are bad, and that any dysfunction 862 00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:52,120 Speaker 1: or problems in minority communities across the country is predominantly 863 00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:55,839 Speaker 1: the fault of aggressive policing and law enforcements. That's really 864 00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,920 Speaker 1: the problem. That's the violence that should be of greatest concern. 865 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:02,680 Speaker 1: New York City we had almost a three percent, sorry 866 00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,479 Speaker 1: three hundred percent year to year increase for last week 867 00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,960 Speaker 1: and shootings. But it's cop violence that we all need 868 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,319 Speaker 1: to be worried about. I think everybody saw last night 869 00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:18,919 Speaker 1: in Philadelphia a reminder of what the Biden voters out 870 00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:23,359 Speaker 1: there really think should happen. People get upset because they've 871 00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:25,439 Speaker 1: been taught to think that cops are the bad guys, 872 00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,400 Speaker 1: cops of the problems, and then if they want to 873 00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,560 Speaker 1: act out, if they want to break the law, they 874 00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:36,239 Speaker 1: should be allowed to do so without consequence. No. Not 875 00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:38,959 Speaker 1: if we're going to keep living in a country called 876 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,799 Speaker 1: America where rule of law matters, you can't do that. 877 00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:44,520 Speaker 1: People do need to be punished for this, and the 878 00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,920 Speaker 1: punishment should be severe, although if you look at the 879 00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:51,839 Speaker 1: District Attorney Krasner in Philadelphia, I'm sure people will get 880 00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:57,239 Speaker 1: off for this stuff. Assaulting officers, looting stores, stealing. Democrats 881 00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:01,520 Speaker 1: are a party of lawlessness. Once again, it's emotion over reason. 882 00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:06,279 Speaker 1: They have an angry mob. The angry mob must be placated. 883 00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:10,560 Speaker 1: I hope everybody remembers this going into the election. I 884 00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:12,480 Speaker 1: hope that anybody who has not yet made up their 885 00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:15,279 Speaker 1: mind just thinks, what's my community going to be like 886 00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:19,759 Speaker 1: when the party in charge is the one that coddles 887 00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:24,520 Speaker 1: the rioters, the looters and believes that cops are the 888 00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:27,080 Speaker 1: bad guys, even when someone's coming at them with a 889 00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:30,680 Speaker 1: lethal weapon and being told stop, stop, drop the weapon.