1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: You're in the freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: Show podcast. Get more from Buck by following him on 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: social media at buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Friends, Honored and privilege 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: to have you here with me. There are only a 6 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: few names that you can think of from American history 7 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: that we are all supposed to that we all have 8 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: some degree of reverence for right that we're supposed to 9 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: believe no matter who you are, where you come from 10 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: this country, you're supposed to think, well, that's a great man. 11 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: There are only a few names where that is the case. 12 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: And you can start with the founding fathers, the people 13 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 1: on Mount Rushmore, and you would add Martin Luther King Junior, 14 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: and you beat some people would add I don't know, 15 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: you know, they're they're a handful of these names out 16 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: there that when someone says who's a great American and 17 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: we can all agree on it, there are only a 18 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: handful of names that come to mind. And for a 19 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: lot of people, they were at least under the impression 20 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: until recently that Abraham Lincoln was one of them, that 21 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln would be free from cancel culture, that this 22 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: would be a guy that we could all agree did 23 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: something pretty extraordinary and wasn't perfect by any means, But 24 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, he was on the 25 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: right side and was the commander in chief of a 26 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: military that ended slavery in the United States, and that's 27 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: a pretty remarkable thing. So we tend to give him 28 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: a lot of plaudits for this, and as we know, 29 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: he was assassinated afterwards for it. But Abraham Lincoln would 30 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: be one of those names where you'd say, well, the 31 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: greatness of what he accomplished with the ending of slavery, 32 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: the greatness that he accomplished with all of this, wouldn't 33 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: that then make him at least somewhat immune to these 34 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: efforts to destroy historical figures based upon some perception of 35 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: what they should be that's constantly changing and very new 36 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 1: to our current moment. But then I bring you the 37 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: modern American lib the left, the Democrats, and their wokeness, 38 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: their psychological disorder known as wokeness, and we have yet 39 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: another example of just how far that will go. You 40 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: have Abraham Lincoln as a name that a San Francisco 41 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: high school board or some kind of a committee that's 42 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 1: looking to rename schools, and it's in San fran and 43 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: they want to get rid of Abraham Lincoln's name from 44 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: a school because he was I believe the quote is 45 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: insufficiently committed to black lives mattering or to the matter 46 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: of black lives. Now, for the man that ordered hundreds 47 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: of thousands of Americans to their deaths or to extreme pain, mutilation, 48 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 1: being wounded on the battlefield to end slavery, to say 49 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: that he was insufficiently committed to black lives mattering would 50 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 1: seem to be the height of insanity, and it is. 51 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: But there's a reason behind all of this. So we 52 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: need to start examining what's really going on in this 53 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: country because we're at this point where we're told that 54 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: the Democrats are calling for unity, that Joe Biden and 55 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: his would be cabinet they're saying unify, and as we know, 56 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: unify really means bend the need of me, do what 57 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: I say, and we'll call it unity. But while they're 58 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: calling for this, we also see time and again they 59 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: don't particularly have any sense of unity to America as 60 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: we know it. There's something very different going on, and 61 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: it usually is incremental that this happens. They start with 62 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: something where we say okay, fine, you know, and this 63 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: is why when there was that old dust up about 64 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: about Confederate generals, I was saying, look, I'm I'm not 65 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: somebody that is gonna carry in any water for the 66 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: keep up some of these Confederate general's statues. Side of 67 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: this brief, it's you know, it's a community decision, a 68 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: community standard. But understand this, they're coming for the founding 69 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: Father's next. In fact, Donald Trump said at the time, 70 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: well what about Jefferson? What about Washington? Are they gonna 71 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: Are they gonna tear down those statues? There is here 72 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: in New York City. I've seen this so many nights 73 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: because I go for walks sometimes. Right near what is 74 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: known as Columbus Circle, named for Christopher Columbus, is a 75 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 1: very large, very prominent statue of Christopher Columbus. There is 76 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 1: an army of NYPD officers that are deployed in a 77 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 1: huge circle with barricades, and they've got they've got all 78 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: kinds of additional e su and vehicles deployed. It's it's crazy. 79 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: And I've asked the cops. I've said, is this really 80 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: because you guys are worried that one night the radical 81 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,280 Speaker 1: left is just going to show up and destroy this 82 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: statue of Christopher Columbus, And they said, yes, absolutely, that 83 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: is why we are deployed here. And this is in 84 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: one of the ritzier parts of New York City. It's 85 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,919 Speaker 1: outside the Time Warner Center. So even Deblasio realizes this 86 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: would get some attention. But they say that Columbus was 87 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 1: a genocidal essentially a genocidal maniac who was engaged in 88 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: the exploitation of humanity and so on and so forth. 89 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: They don't care that we celebrate Columbus for discovering the 90 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 1: new World for Europe and the rest of the world. 91 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 1: They don't care about that. That's not enough. And as 92 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 1: we see with Abraham Lincoln, it's not enough that he 93 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 1: was the commander in chief and the president who led 94 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: us into war, a war that did end slavery in 95 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: this country, and that he called for the reading of 96 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: the slaves during that war. What's really happening here. There 97 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: is an essay that I came across. I've never I've 98 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: never even heard of this publication before, and I haven't 99 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: heard of this author before. But I thought this essay 100 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 1: was extraordinary, and I read constantly of the commentary all 101 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: over the web, and I'm always looking to see who's 102 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: worth reading because most of it, ninety percent of what's 103 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: published on the internet, even by so called conservatives or 104 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: whatever it is, really it's repetitive. It's an echo chamber. 105 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: It's just not worth spending much time on, at least 106 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 1: for me as someone who's reading this stuff all day long. 107 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: This was really good. It was at unheard dot com 108 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: and the author is Matthew Crawford, who is a fellow 109 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the 110 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: University of Virginia. The title is How Race Politics Liberated 111 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 1: the Leads And this is absolutely top notch analysis. It's phenomenal. Really, 112 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: it's a really really strong piece. And here let me 113 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: give you some of what we're talking about here and 114 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: why this I think defines our current moment for the 115 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: Democrat Party and for the left. The idea of a 116 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: common good, this is a quote from the piece, has 117 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: given way to a partition of citizens along the lines 118 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: of a moral hierarchy. Instead of feeling bound up in 119 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: a shared fate with one's country a countryman, one develops 120 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:41,239 Speaker 1: an alternate, alternate solidarity that is placeless, the relatability across 121 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: national borders that the genteel folk feel in one another's company, 122 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: the gracious ease and trust, the shared points of reference 123 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: in high prestige opinion has something to do with their 124 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: uniformly high standing in the moral hierarchy that divides citizen 125 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: from citizen within their own nations. The decision making class 126 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: has discovered that it enjoys the mandate of Heaven, and 127 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: with this comes certain permissions, certain exemptions from democratic scruple. 128 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: This is spot on, this is excellent. He's talking about 129 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: how in our country now, because America, I mean, the 130 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: short version of this is that because America, according to 131 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: the left now is inherently racist and misogynist, it gives 132 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: the elites. It gives this ruling class a mentality that 133 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: they owe no allegiance to that entity, to America, at 134 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 1: least to the idea, to the ideals of traditional America. 135 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: They have something better, They're working for something better, and 136 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,679 Speaker 1: so there's no need for them to debase themselves by 137 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: pretending that our flag wave jingo waistic, we love the 138 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,679 Speaker 1: founding fathers in the Constitution nonsense, should in any way 139 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: slow their role. They get to do whatever they want. 140 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,839 Speaker 1: They know better, you see, they're above it. But this 141 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: is a version of something I've said to you many 142 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: times before. There are those of us who take tremendous 143 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: pride in being American, and then there are those of 144 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: us who take pride in believing we are better than America, 145 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: and those are called liberals. Those are leftists. That's what 146 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: they are, that's how they think. The reason that they're 147 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: constantly encouraging the most toxic identity politics, racial politics, gender politics, 148 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: the reason they do this is because they've adopted a 149 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: philosophy that America is actually bad, that there's this moral 150 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: rot at the center of this country. They've identified it. 151 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: It's almost like they stumble upon some secret knowledge and 152 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: now they're spreading this rate wisdom to all the rest 153 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: of us. And anyone who rejects this, anyone who sees 154 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: this for the intense hypocrisy that it is, is shouted down. 155 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: Part of the patriarchy, part of the racist, misogynistic system. 156 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: And also it gives the people at the top a 157 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: total pass for not working for what we think of 158 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: as the common good, not working for what we consider 159 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 1: to be universal American values. They can live their lives. 160 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: This is why they can fly on private jets to 161 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: climate change conferences where they're going to talk about how 162 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: you should be. You know, walking three miles or biking 163 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: ten miles to work every day can put all that 164 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,559 Speaker 1: co two in the air. Well, they're above you, you see, 165 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: they're working for this better world, this better place. You 166 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 1: are part of this traditional America that's just so racist 167 00:10:55,240 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: and misogynistic and so awful. So this goes way beyond, 168 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 1: even way beyond the usual liberal hypocrisy. This is a 169 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: kind of religion of elites excellence, and they are devotees 170 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: of it. And they also get to think of themselves 171 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:21,719 Speaker 1: as great heroes for standing up for the oppressed. I mean, 172 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: how many of you does this sound like your smug 173 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: neighbor who has a big Biden Harris sign in their yard, right? 174 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: Don't they always think that they're somehow so morally enlightened, 175 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 1: even if their own personal choices are really crappy, and 176 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 1: even if they don't really care about other people or 177 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: help them very much. But they stand for equality. In fact, 178 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: these days, they stand for equity the preferred term which 179 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: is just the quality of outcome, which is Marxism. Back 180 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 1: into this piece for a second quote. In the Revolt 181 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 1: of the Elites, Christopher Lash spelled out in greater detail 182 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: the role that claims of racial and sexual oppression play 183 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: in securing release from allegiance to the nation, not just 184 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: for those who identify as its victims, but for those 185 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: with the moral sensitivity to see victimization where it may 186 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: not be a parent, and who make this capacity a 187 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: touchstone of their identity. It becomes a token of moral 188 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: elevation by which we recognize one another and distinguish ourselves 189 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: from the broader run of citizens. Both Lash and Hannah 190 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: Arrant argue that black Americans serve a crucial function for 191 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: the white bourgeoisie as the emblem in proof of America's illegitimacy. 192 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: They anchor a politics of repudiation in which the idea 193 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: of a common good has little purchase end quote, saying, 194 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 1: all those elitist, white, college educated liberal Democrats out there, 195 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: the libs who are always talking about racism, they don't 196 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,319 Speaker 1: do anything to solve racism. They don't spend any time 197 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: in black majority neighborhoods. They don't really know what's going 198 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: on within the black community, but they love pointing out 199 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:09,079 Speaker 1: the racism all around them all the time, even where 200 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 1: there's no actual racism. Sometimes they do this because by 201 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 1: demeaning traditional America American values, by saying that this place 202 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: is racist and wrong and evil, they're not bound by 203 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 1: the generally held conceptions of what makes a good American 204 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 1: citizen these days, because they know better. They're above it, 205 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: they're elevated beyond it. Doesn't this all sound exactly like 206 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: the ethos the modern philosophy of a democrat. Don't you 207 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: all have friends that are just like this. They've never 208 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: actually been in a high crime, majority minority neighborhood for 209 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: more than a couple of hours or maybe driving through it, 210 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: But they want to give you lectures about BLM. That's right, 211 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: they want to lecture you about BLM from their million 212 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: dollars house in an all white suburb. These are the 213 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: kind of libs we're talking about here, the ones who 214 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: are frauds, the ones who are fakes. How do they 215 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: get away with this in their own minds? This is 216 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: how they don't take pride in being Americans. They think 217 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: they are better than America, They know better than America, 218 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: and they want to transform this place in this image 219 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: and that's what we are facing now going forward. Thanks 220 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: for listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the 221 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: latest news and information from Buck by heading to Bucksexton 222 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: dot com. How Race Politics Liberated the Elites by Matthew Crawford. 223 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: Unheard dot com is the site. And I just I 224 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: thought this was a fascinating analysis. And I like to 225 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 1: give people credit when they do something like this that 226 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: really advances the conversation. Other people just like to rip 227 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: people off and pretend it's theres no want. I want. 228 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: Matthew Crawford get the high five he deserves for this, 229 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: and he goes on, and I think we have to 230 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: remember there's a another way to prove this analysis or 231 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: this line of thinking, the legitimacy, the integrity of this 232 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 1: philosophical approach, because it's not only in America that this 233 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: actually has now spread. It's gone beyond American borders. So 234 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: you'd think that the left's unique revulsion at the longstanding 235 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: history of slavery in this country and then Jim Crow 236 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: and segregation, and you know, they say that they're they're 237 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: confronting that even today. That's what the left will tell you. 238 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: But yet there are BLM protests in London, in Paris, 239 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 1: in Germany, and the author points this out. This illegitimacy 240 00:15:53,920 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: transcends any particular historical facts about slavery and segregation, and 241 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: indeed transcends America, as one can surmise by the ease 242 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: with which American grievance politics have been exported throughout the 243 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: Western world. In this we sometimes see the use of 244 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: historical American references that have been weirdly transposed, as when 245 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 1: a house once lived in by Rosa Parks was relocated 246 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: from Detroit to Berlin, the financial seat of the European Union. 247 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 1: Under the Empire of Christendom. The market for material relics 248 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: from the Passion of the Christ was similarly global. They 249 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: left the Holy Land that ended up in various seats 250 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: of earthly power, most recently the Transatlantic Festival of George 251 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: Floyd attests to the fact that it isn't simply America 252 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: that stands accused the social order is corrupt. Then the 253 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: labor movement once had an alternative order to offer in 254 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: its stead, drawing on the socialist tradition. It was one 255 00:16:55,400 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 1: that included African Americans, not as African Americans, but as workers, 256 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: and this movement was fairly successful. What happened then. The 257 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:07,239 Speaker 1: prominence of the term repressed in the nineteen sixties is 258 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 1: significant and marks a shift into a new terrain of 259 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 1: psy psychologized politics. The object of attack for the new 260 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: left was no longer leis a fair capitalism, but society, 261 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: the Freudian super ego more or less, with its insistence 262 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: on standards of behavior that are binding on all society, 263 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: is to be taken as inherently oppressive and discredited in 264 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 1: the name of liberation. Effectively, America is so oppressive, racist, evil, 265 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: gender discriminatory. It's such a bad place that the left 266 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: can completely rewrite the rules of what we should be 267 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: trying to achieve in this country. And on a personal level, 268 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 1: they feel no particular allegiance to traditional America, and they 269 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: feel like their actions are always justified because they're working 270 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 1: for this greater, idealized future. Isn't this every lib you know? 271 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 1: Isn't this every smug Biden voter you've come across in 272 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: the last year or so. I'm sure there are some exceptions, 273 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,199 Speaker 1: but I'm betting it's most of them. Just to finish 274 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: this up quote, if the ideal of a demoralized public 275 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: sphere was a signature aspiration of liberal secularism. It seems 276 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 1: we have entered a post secular age. Populism happened because 277 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: it became widely noticed that we have transition from a 278 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:30,120 Speaker 1: liberal society to something that more closely resembles a corrupt theocracy. 279 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 1: End quote. Yeah, this is the religion of the elites 280 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 1: we are talking about. You're in the freedom hunt. This 281 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show podcast from More Bucked Head 282 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 1: to Bucksexton dot com and remember to subscribe to the podcast. 283 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: I've been saying for four years now that it's a 284 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 1: certainty that Barack Obama, when he was president, knew that 285 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: his administration on the way out was running essentially a 286 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: spying and and disinformation campaign against the incoming Trump administration. 287 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: It's obvious there's no way that Komey and Brennan and 288 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,679 Speaker 1: Clapper and go down the list, There's no way that 289 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 1: they would have been able to that they would have 290 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 1: felt comfortable doing this stuff if they didn't feel like 291 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: ultimately they had cover from Obama for it, that he 292 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 1: had at least been informed. And you'd say, well, how 293 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: does that protect them? They would say, they went through 294 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 1: chain of command. This is how bureaucracies avoid accountability. No 295 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 1: one is ever really accountable for anything because everyone's accountable 296 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,640 Speaker 1: for everything. That's the way they do it. So they 297 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,679 Speaker 1: just say, well, I didn't I approved this FISA, but 298 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 1: somebody else wrote up the FISA. Well I wrote up 299 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: the FISA, but somebody else provided the raw material of 300 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: the raw information I used for the FISA. Well I 301 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 1: approved it, but somebody else was supposed to review it. Right, 302 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,360 Speaker 1: So no one ever really gets nailed. But they all 303 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: know what they're doing, right. They're all part of what 304 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 1: is almost like a federal government racketeering operation. You know, 305 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 1: that's that's what you see happening here. They're all they're 306 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: all a part of it. You want to bring like 307 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 1: a Rico charge against them because it's a multi layered conspiracy, 308 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: and that is exactly what Russia collusion was. And I 309 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,120 Speaker 1: understand right now there's frustration because the Durham probe has 310 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: not resulted and even a report. And I knew it 311 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,160 Speaker 1: wasn't going to happen on a timeline for the election, 312 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: because ultimately, guys like Durham, guys like Bill Barr, they 313 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: understand the politics involved here and they're not they for whatever, 314 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: for their own reasons, for their own ethical choices and decisions. 315 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 1: They will not bend the rules to be more political. 316 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: They won't do it. They also maybe won't allow the 317 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 1: other side to get away with doing it, but they 318 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 1: themselves will not will not bend the rules in order 319 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 1: to score political points. So they weren't going to accelerate 320 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: the Durham probe, That's what I'm telling you. But now 321 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 1: it's it's been designated as a special counsel, and as 322 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: we know, the Democrats will just say, oh, who cares, 323 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,719 Speaker 1: We'll get rid of that. As soon as there's a Biden, 324 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 1: a Biden presidency. It will be more difficult, though, and 325 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,880 Speaker 1: it will give us something to work with and perhaps 326 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,359 Speaker 1: even escalate to where the Republicans are talking about impeachment. 327 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna say this, I believe in using 328 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 1: all the tactics and all the stratagems that the left 329 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: engaged in against Trump, I think that we should hold 330 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: them to their standards going forward, Which means the bar 331 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: for a Joe Biden, Joe Biden presidency, for impeachment for 332 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: special counsel, it's very low, very low. They told us 333 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 1: with that phone call, that Trump had with his Ukrainian counterpart. 334 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: If that can get you impeach Joe Biden better watch 335 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: his step the moment the Republicans take back the House majority, 336 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: and I'm not going to stand in their way. I'm 337 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: gonna be cheering them on, saying up, let's go for it. 338 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: What's good for one side good for the other. The 339 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: only way to make them think twice about the kinds 340 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: of underhanded tactics they use is to make them live 341 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 1: by those tactics. It's the only way. Now, let's get 342 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 1: back to what the former president Obama knew and hat 343 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 1: tip Shan Davis of the Federalist dot Com for this piece. 344 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: D and I declassifies handwritten notes from John Brennan twenty 345 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: sixteen CI referral on Clinton campaign's collusion operation. Here's what 346 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 1: he writes. Quote. On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence John 347 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 1: Ratcliffe declassified and released to Congress handwritten notes from CI 348 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: director Brennan, as well as a CIA investigative referral to 349 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,640 Speaker 1: James Coomey and Peter Struck requesting that they investigate Russian 350 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:55,199 Speaker 1: knowledge of Hillary Clinton's anti Trump collusion smear operation. He 351 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 1: goes on top us intelligence officials were so concerned heading 352 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: into the twenty sixteen election that the Russians were aware 353 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,399 Speaker 1: of and potentially manipulating Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's plans 354 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: to smear Donald Trump as a Russian agent that they 355 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: personally briefed President Barack Obama on the matter. Newly declassified 356 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 1: Central Intelligence Agency documents show SI officials also requested that 357 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: the FBI investigate Russian knowledge of the Clinton campaign's collusion 358 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 1: smear operation. Newly declassified handwritten notes from the former CI 359 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: director John Brennan show the US intelligence community knew in 360 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen that Russian intelligence was actively monitoring and potentially 361 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 1: injecting disinformation into Clinton's anti Trump collusion narrative. The intelligence 362 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: concerning Russia's knowledge of Clinton campaign plans was so concerning 363 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 1: to Brennan and other national security officials that they personally 364 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,439 Speaker 1: informed Obama of the matter in the Oval Office in 365 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 1: the summer of twenty sixteen. These are handwritten notes from 366 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: CI Director Brennan, So they were telling the as an event, 367 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 1: Barack Obama. They were telling him, Yeah, there's Russian disinformation 368 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: stuff going on here. We got real concerns about this, 369 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: but you know, maybe we could also use this, maybe 370 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: we run with this. See, that's what the decision was. 371 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:18,120 Speaker 1: This would be something like if a person came in 372 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: and said, you know, I know, I know that, you know, 373 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: John my neighbor assassinated, not John Wilkes Booth, obviously, John 374 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 1: my neighbor assassinated Abraham Lincoln. I mean, you could walk 375 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: into a into a police station and you know, there's 376 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,399 Speaker 1: no statute of limitations on murder, so you know, they 377 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: would usually say, okay, let's a normal reaction would be 378 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 1: let's take this person for psychological evaluation, or maybe you 379 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 1: just ignore them and say get out of here, buddy. 380 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 1: But it's not always the case that people will act 381 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:57,159 Speaker 1: ethically when they're presented with information that a normal analysis 382 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 1: would tell them is absurd, And so it also provides 383 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: an opportunity for the unscrupulous. They can use that as 384 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:11,199 Speaker 1: the basis for an investigation. That's exactly what they did 385 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,199 Speaker 1: in Russia Gate. All this stuff was being said, all 386 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,679 Speaker 1: these rumors. They had no real evidence at all, and 387 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: there was Russian disinformation out there, and they figured, well, 388 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,199 Speaker 1: what if we just rely on the Russian disinformation and 389 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 1: pretend that we believe it, and maybe we do a 390 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,159 Speaker 1: little bit, but not really, but maybe and then we 391 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:35,199 Speaker 1: start monitoring, investigating spying on the Trump campaign. Right, this 392 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: would be like your neighbor John all of a sudden 393 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 1: has police officers banging on his doors saying, we have 394 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: a you know, we have a report that you assassinated 395 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln. They could do that, right, I mean they 396 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 1: could say that. I mean, and maybe in that case 397 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,639 Speaker 1: the case was never opened. It's not their jurisdiction, but 398 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying, right, I mean, you know, 399 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: they could They could come to you. And if you 400 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: were accused of a murder in California when you were 401 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: actually in Omaha, Nebraska, and the police knew that, they 402 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: could still continue the investigation of you, they could still say, well, 403 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: you know, it's not totally not totally proven yet, but 404 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 1: we rely at some level on good faith operations from 405 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: people who have this kind of power. If you're willing 406 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:24,199 Speaker 1: to abuse good faith, you can find a justification to 407 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,120 Speaker 1: investigate anyone you want, for anything you want. And that's 408 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: exactly what Obama and all the clowns around him did. 409 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:37,400 Speaker 1: Now we know Obama knew about this, and Obama never 410 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: spoke out. He would have known that there was Russian 411 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 1: disinformation that the Russians were actively trying to lie about 412 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 1: Trump to get this whole story of stealing the election 413 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: and Trump working with the Russians. He would have known 414 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 1: that it was all out there. Did he ever speak 415 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 1: out about this? Obama, right, the great patriot, the guy 416 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 1: who loves the country so much. I mean, if you 417 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,640 Speaker 1: read the reviews of his most recent auto biography, because 418 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: I think he's got four now, at least three, you're 419 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: either reviews. I've never seen such sycophantic rantings from people 420 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 1: who at least ostensibly make a living from telling people 421 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: important truths that they may not want to hear in 422 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,199 Speaker 1: the media. Right, They don't really make a living doing that, 423 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 1: but that is that is what they say. They love 424 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,159 Speaker 1: Obama in a way they've never loved any politician. The 425 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: Democrats and the mainstream Democrat Party and its elites and 426 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 1: intelligentsia think that Barack Obama is really above human not 427 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 1: quite a god, but not quite a human being either. 428 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: He's something even more special than that. And they were 429 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: never going to push him on. Why didn't you, out 430 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 1: of love for your country, come forward and say, hey, guys, 431 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: this stuff about Trump being a Russian trader. It really 432 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 1: is really not it's really not true. We should say, 433 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: there's a lot of other reasons that we as Democrats 434 00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,439 Speaker 1: don't like this guy, but that's not what No, of 435 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 1: course he was island about it. Pretend that you didn't 436 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: know anything about it. No, no, no, you know, it's 437 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,120 Speaker 1: just the intelligence community. Man, there's no politics here. It's 438 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,919 Speaker 1: just the IC doing what they do. That's what they 439 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: tell us, that's what they claim. It's all a lie. 440 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 1: We are heading into this period in American politics where 441 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,680 Speaker 1: I think they hope, the left and the Democrats hope 442 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: that they can bend us to their will about what 443 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 1: we even remember that the brainwashing will extend well beyond 444 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: their most ardent supporters to people who are just trying 445 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 1: to keep up with what's going on and they are 446 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: overwhelmed by the propaganda machine. So let me just tell 447 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: you right now. Let's get this for our purposes on 448 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: the record, so we can remember this. Barack Obama knew 449 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: about the Russia collusion smear against Trump, almost certainly ordered 450 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: it to escalate. He definitely knew about it, and he 451 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 1: did nothing to stop it. As completely unethical political assassin. 452 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: Democrats went after the Trump administration with this lie for years. 453 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 1: It is the worst political scandal of my lifetime. It's 454 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: a disgrace. And all this stuff about respect our democracy 455 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 1: and give up Trump and all this other stuff is 456 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: coming from people who do not give a crap about 457 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: the ideals or the rules or the aspirations enshrined in 458 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 1: the Constitution and in the history of this republic. They 459 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: could care less about any of that. They're all exercise 460 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: of power. Me me, me, I want mine, I'm right, 461 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 1: I'm a lib You be quiet. The media agrees with me. 462 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: That is how they view all of this, So get 463 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: ready for that going forward. Don't expect any good faith 464 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: operations from their side. They feel like they largely got 465 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 1: away with this, which means they'll try similar stuff in 466 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: the future. And the only way that we can push 467 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: back is by shouting the truth in their faces and 468 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 1: refusing to bend when they try to coerce us with 469 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,880 Speaker 1: even more lies. You're in the freedom Hunt. This is 470 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get more from Buck by 471 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 1: following him on social media at Buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, 472 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: and Instagram. As we've been talking here, it's hardly a profile. 473 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 1: Encourage from McConnell come out and say this. Now, his 474 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,719 Speaker 1: delay has had a real world impact and been physically 475 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 1: dangerous for some people around the country, which we'll talk 476 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: about over the course of this broadcast. What what's seeing it? 477 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: What kind of craziness is seeing n saying now that's 478 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 1: been physically dangerous? What's going ahead that is physically dangerous? 479 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 1: The people for mccadal to that, No, it's not. The 480 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 1: guy hadn't been declared the president by the Electoral College. 481 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: That's when he's the president elect. You know what's next, 482 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: The meeting's going to say, you have to declare the 483 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 1: winner of the presidency before the actual election happens. Look 484 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: at the polls, man, look at the polls. Well, that's 485 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: not how it works, is it. As we know, you 486 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,719 Speaker 1: better not trust those polls. Just remember this. Look at 487 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: look at just a series of issues from from recent times, 488 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: whether it is on this election, or it's on the 489 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: BLM movement, the renaming of statues, police reform, all of 490 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 1: these issues. The people that try to try to bend 491 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: the knee to the left in the hope that this 492 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 1: will bring them closer to our side and will open 493 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: dialogue and the Democrats will all of a sudden respond 494 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,719 Speaker 1: in good faith. They're always disappointed because when they're making 495 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 1: outlandish demands or they're they're basing their whole argument in lies, 496 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 1: in misrepresentations, And you say, okay, okay, but they're so 497 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 1: angry about this, Fine, we'll give them. It's like it's 498 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 1: like giving a child throwing a tantrum what he wants. 499 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: It's not going to get better now they know. Oh, okay, 500 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 1: so we just we just throw another tantrum. Great, Okay, 501 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: we can do that again. This is the only way 502 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 1: you can deal with the left. You you make overtures 503 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: to the Democrats when it is in our interests and 504 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 1: within our principles, and when it shows good faith from 505 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 1: their side. That's it. You don't do it because you 506 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 1: hope they'll be less crazy once you've given them something 507 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 1: they want. That never works. Oh, you're just encouraging the 508 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: encouraging the monster. That's all you're doing, all right. Mitch 509 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,960 Speaker 1: McConnell said, calls Biden president elect the day of the 510 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 1: electoral College vote being held. Do they say, all right, 511 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 1: good for Mitch McConnell that, you know, No, of course not. 512 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 1: They hate Mitch McConnell. They hate their Republicans. It's how 513 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 1: are they a per valid courage? And people are data? 514 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: I know Stelter and Berman apparently sound the same, but 515 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 1: they do kind of sound the same. How are they 516 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 1: a per valid courage? What was he supposed to do? 517 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 1: Why call him president elect Biden before he's actually formerly 518 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 1: the president elect? This is a United States senator. There 519 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 1: were legal challenge making their way through the court. There 520 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 1: still are legal challenges making their way through the courts. 521 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: But you see, it's it's not enough. They tell you 522 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: right now, admit that they're Just say Biden is a 523 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: president and tell us that there was no fraud. We 524 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 1: can all be friends. Just say that there wasn't fraud 525 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 1: and that Biden really won one fair and square, no 526 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: cheating whatsoever. Will like you, then, I guarantee you if 527 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 1: you do that, if you were to profess to you know, 528 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 1: your co workers, or if you were to say online 529 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,520 Speaker 1: as someone you're having a debate over politics, if you 530 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 1: know what, you're right. Biden didn't that there wasn't cheating 531 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 1: to help him win. There was no fraud. This was 532 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 1: totally fair. And they'll say, ha ha, you lost, You suck. 533 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 1: It's all It's all over for you. You you know, 534 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,000 Speaker 1: you dumb trumper. Like they don't they don't want to 535 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:58,280 Speaker 1: be fair minded to you at all. So when they 536 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: pretend that that's where this is coming from, it's a trap. 537 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 1: It's a trap. It's the guy who you walk past 538 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,359 Speaker 1: on the street. It is just, hey, madam, I'm having 539 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: a really hard time here, and you know, I just 540 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,000 Speaker 1: I just could you can you just give me a dollar? 541 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: I swear, I just I need a dollar for bus fare, 542 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,000 Speaker 1: and you know then I'll be fine. And you say 543 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,320 Speaker 1: all right, buddy, and you go for a wallet and 544 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 1: he goes no, and he pulls out a knife, and 545 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,479 Speaker 1: he says, I'll just take your wallet, thanks so much. 546 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 1: That's how the Democrats play this game. Do not forget it. 547 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 1: But also don't forget that Trump's not going anywhere either way. 548 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: They're starting to realize it's with two even Romney knows 549 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:39,200 Speaker 1: at play eighteen. Well, I think President Trump will continue 550 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 1: to have substantial influence on the party. And I think 551 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,520 Speaker 1: if you look at the people who are rumored to 552 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: be thinking of running in in twoy twenty four, besides 553 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:51,000 Speaker 1: the President, those are people who are trying to appeal 554 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 1: to kind of a populist approach. So I don't think 555 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,440 Speaker 1: Trump is m is going away, but I hope that 556 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,560 Speaker 1: we can have disagreements over policy and vision of our 557 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 1: respective parties without continue to promote a narrative which puts 558 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 1: democracy itself in jeopardy. And when you tell people that 559 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,319 Speaker 1: voting doesn't work and the democracy can't work because we 560 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,799 Speaker 1: don't have legitimate elections, that's a very dangerous thing to 561 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 1: be saying. No one says that democracy doesn't work. I mean, 562 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 1: now he's just creating strawmen. We're saying that when Democrats 563 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,400 Speaker 1: change major rules in an election to create mail in balloting, 564 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,799 Speaker 1: which which leaves the door wide open for fraud. And 565 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,439 Speaker 1: then there's all these really sketchy numbers and all these affidavits. 566 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,000 Speaker 1: We got questions and we want answers. Oh, but why 567 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 1: are you threatening our democracy? Democrats? We're arguing for faithless 568 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,320 Speaker 1: electors in twenty sixteen. Do you remember that the Democrats 569 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,960 Speaker 1: were arguing for the election to be nullified in twenty sixteen? 570 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 1: You're in the freedom Hut. This is the buck Sexton 571 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,880 Speaker 1: Show podcast from more buck Head to Bucksexton dot com 572 00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:01,880 Speaker 1: and remember to subscribe to the podcast just for your 573 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,319 Speaker 1: viewers out there. I know one of the individuals who 574 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,719 Speaker 1: we just saw getting vaccinated is planning on traveling after 575 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 1: the second dose. This is a source of confusion. But no, 576 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 1: this is one of the misperceptions here. Just because you 577 00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:18,320 Speaker 1: get vaccinated with that second dose does not mean you 578 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,200 Speaker 1: should be participating in things like traveling in the middle 579 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,800 Speaker 1: of an out of control pandemic, or that you're liberated 580 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:28,080 Speaker 1: from masks. Everything still applies until all of us get 581 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,359 Speaker 1: the two dose regiment, and we don't think that's going 582 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,279 Speaker 1: to happen until June July. And again, this goes back 583 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,520 Speaker 1: to what we just talked about, Chuck. We don't know 584 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,759 Speaker 1: if just getting the vaccination prevents serious illness or does 585 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,839 Speaker 1: it also prevent you from getting infection entirely, meaning you 586 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,320 Speaker 1: can still get infected with the virus potentially and pass 587 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 1: it on to others. So really, really critical, don't let 588 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,759 Speaker 1: your guard down just because you got vaccinated. You still 589 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,880 Speaker 1: might be able to get affect with the virus and 590 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,960 Speaker 1: pass on others, So please keep that in mind. So 591 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 1: there's a lot they don't know, and the response to 592 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,520 Speaker 1: what they don't know is you can't have basic liberties 593 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,839 Speaker 1: and freedoms back. You can't live your life because they 594 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,319 Speaker 1: don't know. So let's just air on the side of 595 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:14,959 Speaker 1: continued isolation, depression, destruction of small businesses, still at least 596 00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,359 Speaker 1: next summer, until the virus is zero. None of us 597 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:24,040 Speaker 1: are safe. None of us are safe. This mentality is outrageous. Unfortunately, 598 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 1: it is the consensus mentality among the elites, among democrats, 599 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,200 Speaker 1: among social media giants. They will censor you, as they 600 00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,560 Speaker 1: have done to me for even questioning this. We've got 601 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:37,080 Speaker 1: another buddy, though, who also questions it and sees the damage, 602 00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,800 Speaker 1: the devastation across the country and in his hometown area 603 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,560 Speaker 1: of Boston. Jerry Callahan is with us now. He is 604 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:48,480 Speaker 1: the host of the Jerry Callahan Podcast, longtime Boston radio legend. Jerry, 605 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:52,680 Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Hey, Buck, how's it going. I'm 606 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,279 Speaker 1: all right, man, but I'm worried because I think that 607 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 1: the lockdown left is already showing us that they have 608 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:03,120 Speaker 1: they have no intention of letting us start to go 609 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,480 Speaker 1: back to normal life until at least next summer, and 610 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,359 Speaker 1: others are saying until this time next year already. And 611 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,719 Speaker 1: it seems to me that no matter how much we 612 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 1: can show that the data doesn't support some of the 613 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,719 Speaker 1: things they're doing, and what they're doing is catastrophic for 614 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: millions of people who are going bankrupt, their businesses are 615 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,000 Speaker 1: going under. They just don't seem to carry Jerry. They 616 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,560 Speaker 1: think they've got all the answers. No, it is frightening bucket. 617 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,640 Speaker 1: It's getting worse. And today on my podcast, we developed 618 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,960 Speaker 1: we came up with a new word. We've heard of Karen's. 619 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,160 Speaker 1: We all know what a Karen is. Well, now we 620 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:43,799 Speaker 1: have guptas. Guptas are cable TV doctors who don't ever 621 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,680 Speaker 1: want this to end, who are literally telling us you 622 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,080 Speaker 1: will not be liberated. I mean, that's kind of a 623 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,840 Speaker 1: scary word. It should be at least that we're not 624 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,240 Speaker 1: going to liberate you from all these restrictions and these rules, 625 00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,120 Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to continue wearing a mask, and 626 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,880 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to stay out of restaurants and bars 627 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,239 Speaker 1: and and don't travel. I mean, he literally says, you're 628 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,359 Speaker 1: not gonna be able to travel even after you get 629 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,239 Speaker 1: the vaccine. Well, what is the point of the vaccine. 630 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,680 Speaker 1: It's it's bizarre. And I think you and I have 631 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:15,799 Speaker 1: agreed on this for a while now that they're just 632 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,840 Speaker 1: they're never going to let this go. They're going to 633 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:23,160 Speaker 1: continue to try to keep us under their control forever. Well, 634 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:24,960 Speaker 1: that's that's where I wanted to go next, because I 635 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,880 Speaker 1: think that we should establish a kind of philosophical understanding 636 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,400 Speaker 1: right now of what we're actually facing here. Because let's 637 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,200 Speaker 1: just say, for example, that we were to listen to 638 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,680 Speaker 1: everything that these various blue check mds who go on 639 00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,000 Speaker 1: on the different cable channels to doctor Fauci, who I 640 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,480 Speaker 1: honestly think is a disaster, and just I don't know 641 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:45,960 Speaker 1: if he's not that bright, I don't know what his 642 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:48,400 Speaker 1: problem is. His judgment is horrible. I think it's more 643 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,600 Speaker 1: than he's a coward, actually than he's dumb. But you 644 00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 1: look at where this all goes, Jerry, and the moment 645 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,800 Speaker 1: that we start seeing stories in let's say may Or 646 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,400 Speaker 1: and about you know, there's gonna be some relaxation. The 647 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,280 Speaker 1: cases are way down. We've got you know, fifty million 648 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:09,000 Speaker 1: Americans vaccinated, one hundred million Americans vaccinated. I can almost 649 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,480 Speaker 1: see right now you're gonna see stories about but what 650 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:16,839 Speaker 1: about mutations? What about COVID twenty what about COVID twenty one? 651 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,440 Speaker 1: We have to keep these things. You know ready to 652 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,560 Speaker 1: go here because the moment, and then I think people 653 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:25,160 Speaker 1: will realize that if there's a zero risk to your 654 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,200 Speaker 1: health standard that these people can enforce and shut down 655 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,080 Speaker 1: your business and keep you away from relatives on the holidays. 656 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,040 Speaker 1: If that's the standard, they can use that standard going 657 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:37,879 Speaker 1: forward for other things too. And just once they're done 658 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,520 Speaker 1: with the mutations of the virus, you know, and I 659 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,960 Speaker 1: know what we're moving on to, and John Kerry will 660 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,359 Speaker 1: be leaving the way, It'll be we have to do 661 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,040 Speaker 1: these things to control climate change. It's for your own good. 662 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:51,959 Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, I don't know if you agree 663 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,759 Speaker 1: with me on this book because you're in New York City. 664 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,520 Speaker 1: I'm in Boston. I'm kind of disappointed in the level 665 00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:01,920 Speaker 1: of compliance and the just the the docile submission of 666 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,880 Speaker 1: so many people. I'm out every day, I'm running or 667 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,719 Speaker 1: walking the dog. And when I'm by myself, I'm not 668 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,359 Speaker 1: wearing a mask because why would I Let me tell 669 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,000 Speaker 1: you everybody else's they are all going along with this, 670 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:19,360 Speaker 1: and they're accepting these measures even if they make no sense. 671 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,440 Speaker 1: See I'm it's one thing if they tell you you 672 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,839 Speaker 1: must do whatever because of this reason, and they give 673 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:27,680 Speaker 1: it and they explain it. Well, here's what happened yesterday 674 00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:31,719 Speaker 1: in Boston. The mayor shut all gyms for the next 675 00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:33,640 Speaker 1: three weeks. I mean they've already been living with all 676 00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:37,680 Speaker 1: kinds of restrictions and you know, limited hours in space, 677 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,240 Speaker 1: and he just said we're going to close all gyms 678 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,400 Speaker 1: for three weeks. And you know what the reason is. 679 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,440 Speaker 1: He didn't have one. He literally does not have one. 680 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,120 Speaker 1: They're not a hotspot, they're not a vector. I could 681 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,839 Speaker 1: give you the numbers. It's unbelievable. They do not there's 682 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,920 Speaker 1: no evidence that the the virus is transmitted in gyms. 683 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,719 Speaker 1: He just said, we're locking you down because that's what 684 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,160 Speaker 1: we did last time. We did a lockdown, and we're 685 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,120 Speaker 1: going to follow that protocol. So he puts people out 686 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:08,200 Speaker 1: of work, puts people out of business essentially ten days 687 00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,759 Speaker 1: before Christmas, and doesn't really give them a reason. And 688 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,640 Speaker 1: if that doesn't outrage I mean it should outrage everyone 689 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,080 Speaker 1: as much as it does me and you. And it 690 00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,960 Speaker 1: doesn't and that I don't know. That just bothers me. Well, 691 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,560 Speaker 1: one thing I think, and we're speaking to Jerry Callaghan. 692 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,600 Speaker 1: He is the host of Jerry Callahan podcast, Long Time 693 00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:31,319 Speaker 1: Boston radio legend, Jerry. You know, we've had a couple 694 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,120 Speaker 1: of things coinciding here. One is that the lockdown left 695 00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,040 Speaker 1: turn this into a kind of anti Trump thing, that 696 00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,640 Speaker 1: this was about, that there was this political separation. And 697 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,120 Speaker 1: that's why I'm running around now saying forget about Trump, 698 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,440 Speaker 1: for this isn't about Trump. This is about freedom. This 699 00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,360 Speaker 1: is about what's true. This is about free discourse and 700 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:52,440 Speaker 1: individual liberty and businesses that should be surviving. And and 701 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,960 Speaker 1: there's still this mentality I think of, oh no, but 702 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,440 Speaker 1: that's what trumpers say or something has nothing to do 703 00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,360 Speaker 1: in my mind, this has nothing to do with Trump. 704 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,120 Speaker 1: This is about what's true and what's happening around us. 705 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:08,120 Speaker 1: And then there's also the most concerted suppression campaign I've 706 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:12,520 Speaker 1: ever seen in social medium. And I've been formally reprimanded 707 00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:16,239 Speaker 1: by the social media giants for sharing CDC studies, for 708 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,359 Speaker 1: sharing things that I just say, well look at this. 709 00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,640 Speaker 1: Doesn't this raise the following questions? And they'll put these, 710 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,720 Speaker 1: you know, fact checks that aren't actually checking any facts. 711 00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:29,400 Speaker 1: They just say, well, this lacks context, Doctor Fauci said. Otherwise, 712 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,719 Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry. So so now if doctor Fauci says 713 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,600 Speaker 1: something it's a fact check. That's fascinating because he told 714 00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,040 Speaker 1: us at the beginning of the pandemic, when this was 715 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,280 Speaker 1: considered to be far more dangerous actually by the individual 716 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,279 Speaker 1: case fatality that it was don't wear masks. That was 717 00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,640 Speaker 1: Faucci this year. But now he's a one man fact check. Oh, 718 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:52,439 Speaker 1: that's fascinating. He told us on March nine, Buck, don't 719 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,640 Speaker 1: hesitate to go on a cruise. Doctor Faucci told us 720 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,600 Speaker 1: to go ahead, you go ahead, go on a cruise, 721 00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,880 Speaker 1: have fun and by the way, go on tinder and 722 00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,000 Speaker 1: fine love if you're If that's what you're looking for. 723 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,919 Speaker 1: Doctor Fauci gave you his blessing, and we know he's 724 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,120 Speaker 1: been wrong about everything, and yet you can't challenge him. 725 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:12,840 Speaker 1: It is bizarre, and to me, it is it flies 726 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,040 Speaker 1: in the face of you know what we see every 727 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,839 Speaker 1: day on the streets. I'm walking around, you're walking around, 728 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,239 Speaker 1: You're seeing these restaurants and businesses and gym's just closed up, 729 00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,439 Speaker 1: boarded up, gone forever. So you try to point out 730 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:30,320 Speaker 1: this real ancillary effects here, this this real collateral damage, 731 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,320 Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, but um, you know it's a 732 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,799 Speaker 1: virus or you know, people they give you the number 733 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,440 Speaker 1: three thousand dead, and you say, but do you know 734 00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:42,520 Speaker 1: how many people are unemployed or on drugs or alcohol, 735 00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:47,520 Speaker 1: or their business is destroyed, And it's it's almost irrelevant. 736 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,000 Speaker 1: They don't want to hear it. They just say, yeah, 737 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,800 Speaker 1: but the virus. It's like the only thing that matter 738 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,680 Speaker 1: is when your your eyeballs tell you that there's a 739 00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,680 Speaker 1: lot of other things going on that just are really 740 00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,640 Speaker 1: really bad for for society as a whole. What are 741 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,160 Speaker 1: you seeing in Boston about this, because in New York 742 00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,839 Speaker 1: we've had a couple of people and in New Jersey too. 743 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,680 Speaker 1: In New Jersey there's analyst Jim. They've been telling everyone 744 00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,000 Speaker 1: they got a one point two million dollars and counting 745 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,840 Speaker 1: uh finds from the city and from the state of 746 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,240 Speaker 1: New Jersey. In New York, we had this this pub 747 00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:23,160 Speaker 1: and restaurant on Staten Island where the guys wouldn't shut 748 00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:24,440 Speaker 1: down even though they were told they were in the 749 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,319 Speaker 1: red zone or the orange zone or whatever it was. 750 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:31,520 Speaker 1: And all those babies, Pete Davidson and I say, those 751 00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:33,600 Speaker 1: there are a bunch of babies. But go ahead, yeah, 752 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,000 Speaker 1: I heard that guy. It's it's nice if you're in 753 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,520 Speaker 1: media and making a ton of money and can work 754 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,640 Speaker 1: remotely and or you know, not have to worry about 755 00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:44,600 Speaker 1: a paycheck at all. That you get to just tell 756 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,759 Speaker 1: people that are losing their business is losing you know, 757 00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,839 Speaker 1: decades of work in some cases. And the other thing 758 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,080 Speaker 1: that I would say, Jerry, is that when we see this, 759 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,239 Speaker 1: the chance that any one individual restaurant is a real 760 00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,960 Speaker 1: problem in this pandemic, based on New York City's official numbers, 761 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,440 Speaker 1: is very very low. They say they think there's one 762 00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,800 Speaker 1: percent of the spread they can trace to restaurants. One percent. 763 00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,520 Speaker 1: We're shutting down ten thousand restaurants. Set I believe, go ahead. 764 00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,360 Speaker 1: It's much like the gyms. They don't like they had 765 00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:17,280 Speaker 1: Antilles gym they have zero. They've had zero members test pausitive, 766 00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,480 Speaker 1: and they've had something like a million visits since they 767 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:24,800 Speaker 1: opened up illegally. But you're right, restaurants, it's like one percent. Gyms, 768 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,479 Speaker 1: it's much much less than one percent. So again, they're 769 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:31,480 Speaker 1: telling you to do things that make no sense. It's 770 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,520 Speaker 1: one thing to tell you to do something, it's another 771 00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,520 Speaker 1: thing to not give you a reason. It's the same 772 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,960 Speaker 1: thing here. They came up with these new rules because 773 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,160 Speaker 1: there was a spike, and we know that most of 774 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:45,040 Speaker 1: the cases are at home or nursing homes or hospitals. 775 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,839 Speaker 1: So they decide, you know, here's an idea. Let's make 776 00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,840 Speaker 1: everyone go home and get out of the restaurants and 777 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:55,160 Speaker 1: get out of the gyms. And here, yesterday the restaurants 778 00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:59,640 Speaker 1: were already operating and limited capacity. Yesterday they closed all 779 00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:03,719 Speaker 1: bar seating, no reason given, just we decided we have 780 00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,040 Speaker 1: to do something here to make it look like we're 781 00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,759 Speaker 1: trying to protect you from the evil virus. So we're 782 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,280 Speaker 1: not going to let people sit at the bar anymore. 783 00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,080 Speaker 1: And they're just gonna keep coming up with new measures 784 00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,520 Speaker 1: until every damn restaurant is gone. I mean it's and 785 00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:21,000 Speaker 1: the last number I saw it was five thousand restaurants 786 00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:24,080 Speaker 1: in the state, restaurants and bars that have gone under. 787 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,920 Speaker 1: It's obviously higher in New York and across the country. 788 00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:30,279 Speaker 1: And it doesn't seem to affect these you know, these 789 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:36,120 Speaker 1: these public officeholders who risk nothing, who sacrificed nothing. They 790 00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:37,880 Speaker 1: just sit there in their office and say, you know what, 791 00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,840 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put another thousand people out of business 792 00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,040 Speaker 1: and put another countless thousands of people out of work 793 00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,440 Speaker 1: before Christmas, and they don't. They don't bet an eye. 794 00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:50,759 Speaker 1: It's remarkable. It is, Jerry Callahan, I'm with you on 795 00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,360 Speaker 1: this stuff, man, keep the faith and hold strong up 796 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:57,080 Speaker 1: there in Boston. Go check out the Jerry Callahan podcast 797 00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,000 Speaker 1: where if you listen to podcasts. Jerry, thanks so much 798 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:03,239 Speaker 1: for joining us man, We appreciate it. Thanks Buck, good 799 00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:03,719 Speaker 1: talking to you.