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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Friends, Honored and privilege
Speaker 1: to have you here with me. There are only a
Speaker 1: few names that you can think of from American history
Speaker 1: that we are all supposed to that we all have
Speaker 1: some degree of reverence for right that we're supposed to
Speaker 1: believe no matter who you are, where you come from
Speaker 1: this country, you're supposed to think, well, that's a great man.
Speaker 1: There are only a few names where that is the case.
Speaker 1: And you can start with the founding fathers, the people
Speaker 1: on Mount Rushmore, and you would add Martin Luther King Junior,
Speaker 1: and you beat some people would add I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're a handful of these names out
Speaker 1: there that when someone says who's a great American and
Speaker 1: we can all agree on it, there are only a
Speaker 1: handful of names that come to mind. And for a
Speaker 1: lot of people, they were at least under the impression
Speaker 1: until recently that Abraham Lincoln was one of them, that
Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln would be free from cancel culture, that this
Speaker 1: would be a guy that we could all agree did
Speaker 1: something pretty extraordinary and wasn't perfect by any means, But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, he was on the
Speaker 1: right side and was the commander in chief of a
Speaker 1: military that ended slavery in the United States, and that's
Speaker 1: a pretty remarkable thing. So we tend to give him
Speaker 1: a lot of plaudits for this, and as we know,
Speaker 1: he was assassinated afterwards for it. But Abraham Lincoln would
Speaker 1: be one of those names where you'd say, well, the
Speaker 1: greatness of what he accomplished with the ending of slavery,
Speaker 1: the greatness that he accomplished with all of this, wouldn't
Speaker 1: that then make him at least somewhat immune to these
Speaker 1: efforts to destroy historical figures based upon some perception of
Speaker 1: what they should be that's constantly changing and very new
Speaker 1: to our current moment. But then I bring you the
Speaker 1: modern American lib the left, the Democrats, and their wokeness,
Speaker 1: their psychological disorder known as wokeness, and we have yet
Speaker 1: another example of just how far that will go. You
Speaker 1: have Abraham Lincoln as a name that a San Francisco
Speaker 1: high school board or some kind of a committee that's
Speaker 1: looking to rename schools, and it's in San fran and
Speaker 1: they want to get rid of Abraham Lincoln's name from
Speaker 1: a school because he was I believe the quote is
Speaker 1: insufficiently committed to black lives mattering or to the matter
Speaker 1: of black lives. Now, for the man that ordered hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands of Americans to their deaths or to extreme pain, mutilation,
Speaker 1: being wounded on the battlefield to end slavery, to say
Speaker 1: that he was insufficiently committed to black lives mattering would
Speaker 1: seem to be the height of insanity, and it is.
Speaker 1: But there's a reason behind all of this. So we
Speaker 1: need to start examining what's really going on in this
Speaker 1: country because we're at this point where we're told that
Speaker 1: the Democrats are calling for unity, that Joe Biden and
Speaker 1: his would be cabinet they're saying unify, and as we know,
Speaker 1: unify really means bend the need of me, do what
Speaker 1: I say, and we'll call it unity. But while they're
Speaker 1: calling for this, we also see time and again they
Speaker 1: don't particularly have any sense of unity to America as
Speaker 1: we know it. There's something very different going on, and
Speaker 1: it usually is incremental that this happens. They start with
Speaker 1: something where we say okay, fine, you know, and this
Speaker 1: is why when there was that old dust up about
Speaker 1: about Confederate generals, I was saying, look, I'm I'm not
Speaker 1: somebody that is gonna carry in any water for the
Speaker 1: keep up some of these Confederate general's statues. Side of
Speaker 1: this brief, it's you know, it's a community decision, a
Speaker 1: community standard. But understand this, they're coming for the founding
Speaker 1: Father's next. In fact, Donald Trump said at the time,
Speaker 1: well what about Jefferson? What about Washington? Are they gonna
Speaker 1: Are they gonna tear down those statues? There is here
Speaker 1: in New York City. I've seen this so many nights
Speaker 1: because I go for walks sometimes. Right near what is
Speaker 1: known as Columbus Circle, named for Christopher Columbus, is a
Speaker 1: very large, very prominent statue of Christopher Columbus. There is
Speaker 1: an army of NYPD officers that are deployed in a
Speaker 1: huge circle with barricades, and they've got they've got all
Speaker 1: kinds of additional e su and vehicles deployed. It's it's crazy.
Speaker 1: And I've asked the cops. I've said, is this really
Speaker 1: because you guys are worried that one night the radical
Speaker 1: left is just going to show up and destroy this
Speaker 1: statue of Christopher Columbus, And they said, yes, absolutely, that
Speaker 1: is why we are deployed here. And this is in
Speaker 1: one of the ritzier parts of New York City. It's
Speaker 1: outside the Time Warner Center. So even Deblasio realizes this
Speaker 1: would get some attention. But they say that Columbus was
Speaker 1: a genocidal essentially a genocidal maniac who was engaged in
Speaker 1: the exploitation of humanity and so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: They don't care that we celebrate Columbus for discovering the
Speaker 1: new World for Europe and the rest of the world.
Speaker 1: They don't care about that. That's not enough. And as
Speaker 1: we see with Abraham Lincoln, it's not enough that he
Speaker 1: was the commander in chief and the president who led
Speaker 1: us into war, a war that did end slavery in
Speaker 1: this country, and that he called for the reading of
Speaker 1: the slaves during that war. What's really happening here. There
Speaker 1: is an essay that I came across. I've never I've
Speaker 1: never even heard of this publication before, and I haven't
Speaker 1: heard of this author before. But I thought this essay
Speaker 1: was extraordinary, and I read constantly of the commentary all
Speaker 1: over the web, and I'm always looking to see who's
Speaker 1: worth reading because most of it, ninety percent of what's
Speaker 1: published on the internet, even by so called conservatives or
Speaker 1: whatever it is, really it's repetitive. It's an echo chamber.
Speaker 1: It's just not worth spending much time on, at least
Speaker 1: for me as someone who's reading this stuff all day long.
Speaker 1: This was really good. It was at unheard dot com
Speaker 1: and the author is Matthew Crawford, who is a fellow
Speaker 1: at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the
Speaker 1: University of Virginia. The title is How Race Politics Liberated
Speaker 1: the Leads And this is absolutely top notch analysis. It's phenomenal. Really,
Speaker 1: it's a really really strong piece. And here let me
Speaker 1: give you some of what we're talking about here and
Speaker 1: why this I think defines our current moment for the
Speaker 1: Democrat Party and for the left. The idea of a
Speaker 1: common good, this is a quote from the piece, has
Speaker 1: given way to a partition of citizens along the lines
Speaker 1: of a moral hierarchy. Instead of feeling bound up in
Speaker 1: a shared fate with one's country a countryman, one develops
Speaker 1: an alternate, alternate solidarity that is placeless, the relatability across
Speaker 1: national borders that the genteel folk feel in one another's company,
Speaker 1: the gracious ease and trust, the shared points of reference
Speaker 1: in high prestige opinion has something to do with their
Speaker 1: uniformly high standing in the moral hierarchy that divides citizen
Speaker 1: from citizen within their own nations. The decision making class
Speaker 1: has discovered that it enjoys the mandate of Heaven, and
Speaker 1: with this comes certain permissions, certain exemptions from democratic scruple.
Speaker 1: This is spot on, this is excellent. He's talking about
Speaker 1: how in our country now, because America, I mean, the
Speaker 1: short version of this is that because America, according to
Speaker 1: the left now is inherently racist and misogynist, it gives
Speaker 1: the elites. It gives this ruling class a mentality that
Speaker 1: they owe no allegiance to that entity, to America, at
Speaker 1: least to the idea, to the ideals of traditional America.
Speaker 1: They have something better, They're working for something better, and
Speaker 1: so there's no need for them to debase themselves by
Speaker 1: pretending that our flag wave jingo waistic, we love the
Speaker 1: founding fathers in the Constitution nonsense, should in any way
Speaker 1: slow their role. They get to do whatever they want.
Speaker 1: They know better, you see, they're above it. But this
Speaker 1: is a version of something I've said to you many
Speaker 1: times before. There are those of us who take tremendous
Speaker 1: pride in being American, and then there are those of
Speaker 1: us who take pride in believing we are better than America,
Speaker 1: and those are called liberals. Those are leftists. That's what
Speaker 1: they are, that's how they think. The reason that they're
Speaker 1: constantly encouraging the most toxic identity politics, racial politics, gender politics,
Speaker 1: the reason they do this is because they've adopted a
Speaker 1: philosophy that America is actually bad, that there's this moral
Speaker 1: rot at the center of this country. They've identified it.
Speaker 1: It's almost like they stumble upon some secret knowledge and
Speaker 1: now they're spreading this rate wisdom to all the rest
Speaker 1: of us. And anyone who rejects this, anyone who sees
Speaker 1: this for the intense hypocrisy that it is, is shouted down.
Speaker 1: Part of the patriarchy, part of the racist, misogynistic system.
Speaker 1: And also it gives the people at the top a
Speaker 1: total pass for not working for what we think of
Speaker 1: as the common good, not working for what we consider
Speaker 1: to be universal American values. They can live their lives.
Speaker 1: This is why they can fly on private jets to
Speaker 1: climate change conferences where they're going to talk about how
Speaker 1: you should be. You know, walking three miles or biking
Speaker 1: ten miles to work every day can put all that
Speaker 1: co two in the air. Well, they're above you, you see,
Speaker 1: they're working for this better world, this better place. You
Speaker 1: are part of this traditional America that's just so racist
Speaker 1: and misogynistic and so awful. So this goes way beyond,
Speaker 1: even way beyond the usual liberal hypocrisy. This is a
Speaker 1: kind of religion of elites excellence, and they are devotees
Speaker 1: of it. And they also get to think of themselves
Speaker 1: as great heroes for standing up for the oppressed. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many of you does this sound like your smug
Speaker 1: neighbor who has a big Biden Harris sign in their yard, right?
Speaker 1: Don't they always think that they're somehow so morally enlightened,
Speaker 1: even if their own personal choices are really crappy, and
Speaker 1: even if they don't really care about other people or
Speaker 1: help them very much. But they stand for equality. In fact,
Speaker 1: these days, they stand for equity the preferred term which
Speaker 1: is just the quality of outcome, which is Marxism. Back
Speaker 1: into this piece for a second quote. In the Revolt
Speaker 1: of the Elites, Christopher Lash spelled out in greater detail
Speaker 1: the role that claims of racial and sexual oppression play
Speaker 1: in securing release from allegiance to the nation, not just
Speaker 1: for those who identify as its victims, but for those
Speaker 1: with the moral sensitivity to see victimization where it may
Speaker 1: not be a parent, and who make this capacity a
Speaker 1: touchstone of their identity. It becomes a token of moral
Speaker 1: elevation by which we recognize one another and distinguish ourselves
Speaker 1: from the broader run of citizens. Both Lash and Hannah
Speaker 1: Arrant argue that black Americans serve a crucial function for
Speaker 1: the white bourgeoisie as the emblem in proof of America's illegitimacy.
Speaker 1: They anchor a politics of repudiation in which the idea
Speaker 1: of a common good has little purchase end quote, saying,
Speaker 1: all those elitist, white, college educated liberal Democrats out there,
Speaker 1: the libs who are always talking about racism, they don't
Speaker 1: do anything to solve racism. They don't spend any time
Speaker 1: in black majority neighborhoods. They don't really know what's going
Speaker 1: on within the black community, but they love pointing out
Speaker 1: the racism all around them all the time, even where
Speaker 1: there's no actual racism. Sometimes they do this because by
Speaker 1: demeaning traditional America American values, by saying that this place
Speaker 1: is racist and wrong and evil, they're not bound by
Speaker 1: the generally held conceptions of what makes a good American
Speaker 1: citizen these days, because they know better. They're above it,
Speaker 1: they're elevated beyond it. Doesn't this all sound exactly like
Speaker 1: the ethos the modern philosophy of a democrat. Don't you
Speaker 1: all have friends that are just like this. They've never
Speaker 1: actually been in a high crime, majority minority neighborhood for
Speaker 1: more than a couple of hours or maybe driving through it,
Speaker 1: But they want to give you lectures about BLM. That's right,
Speaker 1: they want to lecture you about BLM from their million
Speaker 1: dollars house in an all white suburb. These are the
Speaker 1: kind of libs we're talking about here, the ones who
Speaker 1: are frauds, the ones who are fakes. How do they
Speaker 1: get away with this in their own minds? This is
Speaker 1: how they don't take pride in being Americans. They think
Speaker 1: they are better than America, They know better than America,
Speaker 1: and they want to transform this place in this image
Speaker 1: and that's what we are facing now going forward. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the
Speaker 1: latest news and information from Buck by heading to Bucksexton
Speaker 1: dot com. How Race Politics Liberated the Elites by Matthew Crawford.
Speaker 1: Unheard dot com is the site. And I just I
Speaker 1: thought this was a fascinating analysis. And I like to
Speaker 1: give people credit when they do something like this that
Speaker 1: really advances the conversation. Other people just like to rip
Speaker 1: people off and pretend it's theres no want. I want.
Speaker 1: Matthew Crawford get the high five he deserves for this,
Speaker 1: and he goes on, and I think we have to
Speaker 1: remember there's a another way to prove this analysis or
Speaker 1: this line of thinking, the legitimacy, the integrity of this
Speaker 1: philosophical approach, because it's not only in America that this
Speaker 1: actually has now spread. It's gone beyond American borders. So
Speaker 1: you'd think that the left's unique revulsion at the longstanding
Speaker 1: history of slavery in this country and then Jim Crow
Speaker 1: and segregation, and you know, they say that they're they're
Speaker 1: confronting that even today. That's what the left will tell you.
Speaker 1: But yet there are BLM protests in London, in Paris,
Speaker 1: in Germany, and the author points this out. This illegitimacy
Speaker 1: transcends any particular historical facts about slavery and segregation, and
Speaker 1: indeed transcends America, as one can surmise by the ease
Speaker 1: with which American grievance politics have been exported throughout the
Speaker 1: Western world. In this we sometimes see the use of
Speaker 1: historical American references that have been weirdly transposed, as when
Speaker 1: a house once lived in by Rosa Parks was relocated
Speaker 1: from Detroit to Berlin, the financial seat of the European Union.
Speaker 1: Under the Empire of Christendom. The market for material relics
Speaker 1: from the Passion of the Christ was similarly global. They
Speaker 1: left the Holy Land that ended up in various seats
Speaker 1: of earthly power, most recently the Transatlantic Festival of George
Speaker 1: Floyd attests to the fact that it isn't simply America
Speaker 1: that stands accused the social order is corrupt. Then the
Speaker 1: labor movement once had an alternative order to offer in
Speaker 1: its stead, drawing on the socialist tradition. It was one
Speaker 1: that included African Americans, not as African Americans, but as workers,
Speaker 1: and this movement was fairly successful. What happened then. The
Speaker 1: prominence of the term repressed in the nineteen sixties is
Speaker 1: significant and marks a shift into a new terrain of
Speaker 1: psy psychologized politics. The object of attack for the new
Speaker 1: left was no longer leis a fair capitalism, but society,
Speaker 1: the Freudian super ego more or less, with its insistence
Speaker 1: on standards of behavior that are binding on all society,
Speaker 1: is to be taken as inherently oppressive and discredited in
Speaker 1: the name of liberation. Effectively, America is so oppressive, racist, evil,
Speaker 1: gender discriminatory. It's such a bad place that the left
Speaker 1: can completely rewrite the rules of what we should be
Speaker 1: trying to achieve in this country. And on a personal level,
Speaker 1: they feel no particular allegiance to traditional America, and they
Speaker 1: feel like their actions are always justified because they're working
Speaker 1: for this greater, idealized future. Isn't this every lib you know?
Speaker 1: Isn't this every smug Biden voter you've come across in
Speaker 1: the last year or so. I'm sure there are some exceptions,
Speaker 1: but I'm betting it's most of them. Just to finish
Speaker 1: this up quote, if the ideal of a demoralized public
Speaker 1: sphere was a signature aspiration of liberal secularism. It seems
Speaker 1: we have entered a post secular age. Populism happened because
Speaker 1: it became widely noticed that we have transition from a
Speaker 1: liberal society to something that more closely resembles a corrupt theocracy.
Speaker 1: End quote. Yeah, this is the religion of the elites
Speaker 1: we are talking about. You're in the freedom hunt. This
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Speaker 1: I've been saying for four years now that it's a
Speaker 1: certainty that Barack Obama, when he was president, knew that
Speaker 1: his administration on the way out was running essentially a
Speaker 1: spying and and disinformation campaign against the incoming Trump administration.
Speaker 1: It's obvious there's no way that Komey and Brennan and
Speaker 1: Clapper and go down the list, There's no way that
Speaker 1: they would have been able to that they would have
Speaker 1: felt comfortable doing this stuff if they didn't feel like
Speaker 1: ultimately they had cover from Obama for it, that he
Speaker 1: had at least been informed. And you'd say, well, how
Speaker 1: does that protect them? They would say, they went through
Speaker 1: chain of command. This is how bureaucracies avoid accountability. No
Speaker 1: one is ever really accountable for anything because everyone's accountable
Speaker 1: for everything. That's the way they do it. So they
Speaker 1: just say, well, I didn't I approved this FISA, but
Speaker 1: somebody else wrote up the FISA. Well I wrote up
Speaker 1: the FISA, but somebody else provided the raw material of
Speaker 1: the raw information I used for the FISA. Well I
Speaker 1: approved it, but somebody else was supposed to review it. Right,
Speaker 1: So no one ever really gets nailed. But they all
Speaker 1: know what they're doing, right. They're all part of what
Speaker 1: is almost like a federal government racketeering operation. You know,
Speaker 1: that's that's what you see happening here. They're all they're
Speaker 1: all a part of it. You want to bring like
Speaker 1: a Rico charge against them because it's a multi layered conspiracy,
Speaker 1: and that is exactly what Russia collusion was. And I
Speaker 1: understand right now there's frustration because the Durham probe has
Speaker 1: not resulted and even a report. And I knew it
Speaker 1: wasn't going to happen on a timeline for the election,
Speaker 1: because ultimately, guys like Durham, guys like Bill Barr, they
Speaker 1: understand the politics involved here and they're not they for whatever,
Speaker 1: for their own reasons, for their own ethical choices and decisions.
Speaker 1: They will not bend the rules to be more political.
Speaker 1: They won't do it. They also maybe won't allow the
Speaker 1: other side to get away with doing it, but they
Speaker 1: themselves will not will not bend the rules in order
Speaker 1: to score political points. So they weren't going to accelerate
Speaker 1: the Durham probe, That's what I'm telling you. But now
Speaker 1: it's it's been designated as a special counsel, and as
Speaker 1: we know, the Democrats will just say, oh, who cares,
Speaker 1: We'll get rid of that. As soon as there's a Biden,
Speaker 1: a Biden presidency. It will be more difficult, though, and
Speaker 1: it will give us something to work with and perhaps
Speaker 1: even escalate to where the Republicans are talking about impeachment.
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna say this, I believe in using
Speaker 1: all the tactics and all the stratagems that the left
Speaker 1: engaged in against Trump, I think that we should hold
Speaker 1: them to their standards going forward, Which means the bar
Speaker 1: for a Joe Biden, Joe Biden presidency, for impeachment for
Speaker 1: special counsel, it's very low, very low. They told us
Speaker 1: with that phone call, that Trump had with his Ukrainian counterpart.
Speaker 1: If that can get you impeach Joe Biden better watch
Speaker 1: his step the moment the Republicans take back the House majority,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to stand in their way. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be cheering them on, saying up, let's go for it.
Speaker 1: What's good for one side good for the other. The
Speaker 1: only way to make them think twice about the kinds
Speaker 1: of underhanded tactics they use is to make them live
Speaker 1: by those tactics. It's the only way. Now, let's get
Speaker 1: back to what the former president Obama knew and hat
Speaker 1: tip Shan Davis of the Federalist dot Com for this piece.
Speaker 1: D and I declassifies handwritten notes from John Brennan twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen CI referral on Clinton campaign's collusion operation. Here's what
Speaker 1: he writes. Quote. On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence John
Speaker 1: Ratcliffe declassified and released to Congress handwritten notes from CI
Speaker 1: director Brennan, as well as a CIA investigative referral to
Speaker 1: James Coomey and Peter Struck requesting that they investigate Russian
Speaker 1: knowledge of Hillary Clinton's anti Trump collusion smear operation. He
Speaker 1: goes on top us intelligence officials were so concerned heading
Speaker 1: into the twenty sixteen election that the Russians were aware
Speaker 1: of and potentially manipulating Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's plans
Speaker 1: to smear Donald Trump as a Russian agent that they
Speaker 1: personally briefed President Barack Obama on the matter. Newly declassified
Speaker 1: Central Intelligence Agency documents show SI officials also requested that
Speaker 1: the FBI investigate Russian knowledge of the Clinton campaign's collusion
Speaker 1: smear operation. Newly declassified handwritten notes from the former CI
Speaker 1: director John Brennan show the US intelligence community knew in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen that Russian intelligence was actively monitoring and potentially
Speaker 1: injecting disinformation into Clinton's anti Trump collusion narrative. The intelligence
Speaker 1: concerning Russia's knowledge of Clinton campaign plans was so concerning
Speaker 1: to Brennan and other national security officials that they personally
Speaker 1: informed Obama of the matter in the Oval Office in
Speaker 1: the summer of twenty sixteen. These are handwritten notes from
Speaker 1: CI Director Brennan, So they were telling the as an event,
Speaker 1: Barack Obama. They were telling him, Yeah, there's Russian disinformation
Speaker 1: stuff going on here. We got real concerns about this,
Speaker 1: but you know, maybe we could also use this, maybe
Speaker 1: we run with this. See, that's what the decision was.
Speaker 1: This would be something like if a person came in
Speaker 1: and said, you know, I know, I know that, you know,
Speaker 1: John my neighbor assassinated, not John Wilkes Booth, obviously, John
Speaker 1: my neighbor assassinated Abraham Lincoln. I mean, you could walk
Speaker 1: into a into a police station and you know, there's
Speaker 1: no statute of limitations on murder, so you know, they
Speaker 1: would usually say, okay, let's a normal reaction would be
Speaker 1: let's take this person for psychological evaluation, or maybe you
Speaker 1: just ignore them and say get out of here, buddy.
Speaker 1: But it's not always the case that people will act
Speaker 1: ethically when they're presented with information that a normal analysis
Speaker 1: would tell them is absurd, And so it also provides
Speaker 1: an opportunity for the unscrupulous. They can use that as
Speaker 1: the basis for an investigation. That's exactly what they did
Speaker 1: in Russia Gate. All this stuff was being said, all
Speaker 1: these rumors. They had no real evidence at all, and
Speaker 1: there was Russian disinformation out there, and they figured, well,
Speaker 1: what if we just rely on the Russian disinformation and
Speaker 1: pretend that we believe it, and maybe we do a
Speaker 1: little bit, but not really, but maybe and then we
Speaker 1: start monitoring, investigating spying on the Trump campaign. Right, this
Speaker 1: would be like your neighbor John all of a sudden
Speaker 1: has police officers banging on his doors saying, we have
Speaker 1: a you know, we have a report that you assassinated
Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln. They could do that, right, I mean they
Speaker 1: could say that. I mean, and maybe in that case
Speaker 1: the case was never opened. It's not their jurisdiction, but
Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying, right, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: they could They could come to you. And if you
Speaker 1: were accused of a murder in California when you were
Speaker 1: actually in Omaha, Nebraska, and the police knew that, they
Speaker 1: could still continue the investigation of you, they could still say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not totally not totally proven yet, but
Speaker 1: we rely at some level on good faith operations from
Speaker 1: people who have this kind of power. If you're willing
Speaker 1: to abuse good faith, you can find a justification to
Speaker 1: investigate anyone you want, for anything you want. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what Obama and all the clowns around him did.
Speaker 1: Now we know Obama knew about this, and Obama never
Speaker 1: spoke out. He would have known that there was Russian
Speaker 1: disinformation that the Russians were actively trying to lie about
Speaker 1: Trump to get this whole story of stealing the election
Speaker 1: and Trump working with the Russians. He would have known
Speaker 1: that it was all out there. Did he ever speak
Speaker 1: out about this? Obama, right, the great patriot, the guy
Speaker 1: who loves the country so much. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: read the reviews of his most recent auto biography, because
Speaker 1: I think he's got four now, at least three, you're
Speaker 1: either reviews. I've never seen such sycophantic rantings from people
Speaker 1: who at least ostensibly make a living from telling people
Speaker 1: important truths that they may not want to hear in
Speaker 1: the media. Right, They don't really make a living doing that,
Speaker 1: but that is that is what they say. They love
Speaker 1: Obama in a way they've never loved any politician. The
Speaker 1: Democrats and the mainstream Democrat Party and its elites and
Speaker 1: intelligentsia think that Barack Obama is really above human not
Speaker 1: quite a god, but not quite a human being either.
Speaker 1: He's something even more special than that. And they were
Speaker 1: never going to push him on. Why didn't you, out
Speaker 1: of love for your country, come forward and say, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: this stuff about Trump being a Russian trader. It really
Speaker 1: is really not it's really not true. We should say,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of other reasons that we as Democrats
Speaker 1: don't like this guy, but that's not what No, of
Speaker 1: course he was island about it. Pretend that you didn't
Speaker 1: know anything about it. No, no, no, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just the intelligence community. Man, there's no politics here. It's
Speaker 1: just the IC doing what they do. That's what they
Speaker 1: tell us, that's what they claim. It's all a lie.
Speaker 1: We are heading into this period in American politics where
Speaker 1: I think they hope, the left and the Democrats hope
Speaker 1: that they can bend us to their will about what
Speaker 1: we even remember that the brainwashing will extend well beyond
Speaker 1: their most ardent supporters to people who are just trying
Speaker 1: to keep up with what's going on and they are
Speaker 1: overwhelmed by the propaganda machine. So let me just tell
Speaker 1: you right now. Let's get this for our purposes on
Speaker 1: the record, so we can remember this. Barack Obama knew
Speaker 1: about the Russia collusion smear against Trump, almost certainly ordered
Speaker 1: it to escalate. He definitely knew about it, and he
Speaker 1: did nothing to stop it. As completely unethical political assassin.
Speaker 1: Democrats went after the Trump administration with this lie for years.
Speaker 1: It is the worst political scandal of my lifetime. It's
Speaker 1: a disgrace. And all this stuff about respect our democracy
Speaker 1: and give up Trump and all this other stuff is
Speaker 1: coming from people who do not give a crap about
Speaker 1: the ideals or the rules or the aspirations enshrined in
Speaker 1: the Constitution and in the history of this republic. They
Speaker 1: could care less about any of that. They're all exercise
Speaker 1: of power. Me me, me, I want mine, I'm right,
Speaker 1: I'm a lib You be quiet. The media agrees with me.
Speaker 1: That is how they view all of this, So get
Speaker 1: ready for that going forward. Don't expect any good faith
Speaker 1: operations from their side. They feel like they largely got
Speaker 1: away with this, which means they'll try similar stuff in
Speaker 1: the future. And the only way that we can push
Speaker 1: back is by shouting the truth in their faces and
Speaker 1: refusing to bend when they try to coerce us with
Speaker 1: even more lies. You're in the freedom Hunt. This is
Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get more from Buck by
Speaker 1: following him on social media at Buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter,
Speaker 1: and Instagram. As we've been talking here, it's hardly a profile.
Speaker 1: Encourage from McConnell come out and say this. Now, his
Speaker 1: delay has had a real world impact and been physically
Speaker 1: dangerous for some people around the country, which we'll talk
Speaker 1: about over the course of this broadcast. What what's seeing it?
Speaker 1: What kind of craziness is seeing n saying now that's
Speaker 1: been physically dangerous? What's going ahead that is physically dangerous?
Speaker 1: The people for mccadal to that, No, it's not. The
Speaker 1: guy hadn't been declared the president by the Electoral College.
Speaker 1: That's when he's the president elect. You know what's next,
Speaker 1: The meeting's going to say, you have to declare the
Speaker 1: winner of the presidency before the actual election happens. Look
Speaker 1: at the polls, man, look at the polls. Well, that's
Speaker 1: not how it works, is it. As we know, you
Speaker 1: better not trust those polls. Just remember this. Look at
Speaker 1: look at just a series of issues from from recent times,
Speaker 1: whether it is on this election, or it's on the
Speaker 1: BLM movement, the renaming of statues, police reform, all of
Speaker 1: these issues. The people that try to try to bend
Speaker 1: the knee to the left in the hope that this
Speaker 1: will bring them closer to our side and will open
Speaker 1: dialogue and the Democrats will all of a sudden respond
Speaker 1: in good faith. They're always disappointed because when they're making
Speaker 1: outlandish demands or they're they're basing their whole argument in lies,
Speaker 1: in misrepresentations, And you say, okay, okay, but they're so
Speaker 1: angry about this, Fine, we'll give them. It's like it's
Speaker 1: like giving a child throwing a tantrum what he wants.
Speaker 1: It's not going to get better now they know. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: so we just we just throw another tantrum. Great, Okay,
Speaker 1: we can do that again. This is the only way
Speaker 1: you can deal with the left. You you make overtures
Speaker 1: to the Democrats when it is in our interests and
Speaker 1: within our principles, and when it shows good faith from
Speaker 1: their side. That's it. You don't do it because you
Speaker 1: hope they'll be less crazy once you've given them something
Speaker 1: they want. That never works. Oh, you're just encouraging the
Speaker 1: encouraging the monster. That's all you're doing, all right. Mitch
Speaker 1: McConnell said, calls Biden president elect the day of the
Speaker 1: electoral College vote being held. Do they say, all right,
Speaker 1: good for Mitch McConnell that, you know, No, of course not.
Speaker 1: They hate Mitch McConnell. They hate their Republicans. It's how
Speaker 1: are they a per valid courage? And people are data?
Speaker 1: I know Stelter and Berman apparently sound the same, but
Speaker 1: they do kind of sound the same. How are they
Speaker 1: a per valid courage? What was he supposed to do?
Speaker 1: Why call him president elect Biden before he's actually formerly
Speaker 1: the president elect? This is a United States senator. There
Speaker 1: were legal challenge making their way through the court. There
Speaker 1: still are legal challenges making their way through the courts.
Speaker 1: But you see, it's it's not enough. They tell you
Speaker 1: right now, admit that they're Just say Biden is a
Speaker 1: president and tell us that there was no fraud. We
Speaker 1: can all be friends. Just say that there wasn't fraud
Speaker 1: and that Biden really won one fair and square, no
Speaker 1: cheating whatsoever. Will like you, then, I guarantee you if
Speaker 1: you do that, if you were to profess to you know,
Speaker 1: your co workers, or if you were to say online
Speaker 1: as someone you're having a debate over politics, if you
Speaker 1: know what, you're right. Biden didn't that there wasn't cheating
Speaker 1: to help him win. There was no fraud. This was
Speaker 1: totally fair. And they'll say, ha ha, you lost, You suck.
Speaker 1: It's all It's all over for you. You you know,
Speaker 1: you dumb trumper. Like they don't they don't want to
Speaker 1: be fair minded to you at all. So when they
Speaker 1: pretend that that's where this is coming from, it's a trap.
Speaker 1: It's a trap. It's the guy who you walk past
Speaker 1: on the street. It is just, hey, madam, I'm having
Speaker 1: a really hard time here, and you know, I just
Speaker 1: I just could you can you just give me a dollar?
Speaker 1: I swear, I just I need a dollar for bus fare,
Speaker 1: and you know then I'll be fine. And you say
Speaker 1: all right, buddy, and you go for a wallet and
Speaker 1: he goes no, and he pulls out a knife, and
Speaker 1: he says, I'll just take your wallet, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: That's how the Democrats play this game. Do not forget it.
Speaker 1: But also don't forget that Trump's not going anywhere either way.
Speaker 1: They're starting to realize it's with two even Romney knows
Speaker 1: at play eighteen. Well, I think President Trump will continue
Speaker 1: to have substantial influence on the party. And I think
Speaker 1: if you look at the people who are rumored to
Speaker 1: be thinking of running in in twoy twenty four, besides
Speaker 1: the President, those are people who are trying to appeal
Speaker 1: to kind of a populist approach. So I don't think
Speaker 1: Trump is m is going away, but I hope that
Speaker 1: we can have disagreements over policy and vision of our
Speaker 1: respective parties without continue to promote a narrative which puts
Speaker 1: democracy itself in jeopardy. And when you tell people that
Speaker 1: voting doesn't work and the democracy can't work because we
Speaker 1: don't have legitimate elections, that's a very dangerous thing to
Speaker 1: be saying. No one says that democracy doesn't work. I mean,
Speaker 1: now he's just creating strawmen. We're saying that when Democrats
Speaker 1: change major rules in an election to create mail in balloting,
Speaker 1: which which leaves the door wide open for fraud. And
Speaker 1: then there's all these really sketchy numbers and all these affidavits.
Speaker 1: We got questions and we want answers. Oh, but why
Speaker 1: are you threatening our democracy? Democrats? We're arguing for faithless
Speaker 1: electors in twenty sixteen. Do you remember that the Democrats
Speaker 1: were arguing for the election to be nullified in twenty sixteen?
Speaker 1: You're in the freedom Hut. This is the buck Sexton
Speaker 1: Show podcast from more buck Head to Bucksexton dot com
Speaker 1: and remember to subscribe to the podcast just for your
Speaker 1: viewers out there. I know one of the individuals who
Speaker 1: we just saw getting vaccinated is planning on traveling after
Speaker 1: the second dose. This is a source of confusion. But no,
Speaker 1: this is one of the misperceptions here. Just because you
Speaker 1: get vaccinated with that second dose does not mean you
Speaker 1: should be participating in things like traveling in the middle
Speaker 1: of an out of control pandemic, or that you're liberated
Speaker 1: from masks. Everything still applies until all of us get
Speaker 1: the two dose regiment, and we don't think that's going
Speaker 1: to happen until June July. And again, this goes back
Speaker 1: to what we just talked about, Chuck. We don't know
Speaker 1: if just getting the vaccination prevents serious illness or does
Speaker 1: it also prevent you from getting infection entirely, meaning you
Speaker 1: can still get infected with the virus potentially and pass
Speaker 1: it on to others. So really, really critical, don't let
Speaker 1: your guard down just because you got vaccinated. You still
Speaker 1: might be able to get affect with the virus and
Speaker 1: pass on others, So please keep that in mind. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot they don't know, and the response to
Speaker 1: what they don't know is you can't have basic liberties
Speaker 1: and freedoms back. You can't live your life because they
Speaker 1: don't know. So let's just air on the side of
Speaker 1: continued isolation, depression, destruction of small businesses, still at least
Speaker 1: next summer, until the virus is zero. None of us
Speaker 1: are safe. None of us are safe. This mentality is outrageous. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it is the consensus mentality among the elites, among democrats,
Speaker 1: among social media giants. They will censor you, as they
Speaker 1: have done to me for even questioning this. We've got
Speaker 1: another buddy, though, who also questions it and sees the damage,
Speaker 1: the devastation across the country and in his hometown area
Speaker 1: of Boston. Jerry Callahan is with us now. He is
Speaker 1: the host of the Jerry Callahan Podcast, longtime Boston radio legend. Jerry,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Hey, Buck, how's it going. I'm
Speaker 1: all right, man, but I'm worried because I think that
Speaker 1: the lockdown left is already showing us that they have
Speaker 1: they have no intention of letting us start to go
Speaker 1: back to normal life until at least next summer, and
Speaker 1: others are saying until this time next year already. And
Speaker 1: it seems to me that no matter how much we
Speaker 1: can show that the data doesn't support some of the
Speaker 1: things they're doing, and what they're doing is catastrophic for
Speaker 1: millions of people who are going bankrupt, their businesses are
Speaker 1: going under. They just don't seem to carry Jerry. They
Speaker 1: think they've got all the answers. No, it is frightening bucket.
Speaker 1: It's getting worse. And today on my podcast, we developed
Speaker 1: we came up with a new word. We've heard of Karen's.
Speaker 1: We all know what a Karen is. Well, now we
Speaker 1: have guptas. Guptas are cable TV doctors who don't ever
Speaker 1: want this to end, who are literally telling us you
Speaker 1: will not be liberated. I mean, that's kind of a
Speaker 1: scary word. It should be at least that we're not
Speaker 1: going to liberate you from all these restrictions and these rules,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to continue wearing a mask, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to stay out of restaurants and bars
Speaker 1: and and don't travel. I mean, he literally says, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to travel even after you get
Speaker 1: the vaccine. Well, what is the point of the vaccine.
Speaker 1: It's it's bizarre. And I think you and I have
Speaker 1: agreed on this for a while now that they're just
Speaker 1: they're never going to let this go. They're going to
Speaker 1: continue to try to keep us under their control forever. Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's where I wanted to go next, because I
Speaker 1: think that we should establish a kind of philosophical understanding
Speaker 1: right now of what we're actually facing here. Because let's
Speaker 1: just say, for example, that we were to listen to
Speaker 1: everything that these various blue check mds who go on
Speaker 1: on the different cable channels to doctor Fauci, who I
Speaker 1: honestly think is a disaster, and just I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's not that bright, I don't know what his
Speaker 1: problem is. His judgment is horrible. I think it's more
Speaker 1: than he's a coward, actually than he's dumb. But you
Speaker 1: look at where this all goes, Jerry, and the moment
Speaker 1: that we start seeing stories in let's say may Or
Speaker 1: and about you know, there's gonna be some relaxation. The
Speaker 1: cases are way down. We've got you know, fifty million
Speaker 1: Americans vaccinated, one hundred million Americans vaccinated. I can almost
Speaker 1: see right now you're gonna see stories about but what
Speaker 1: about mutations? What about COVID twenty what about COVID twenty one?
Speaker 1: We have to keep these things. You know ready to
Speaker 1: go here because the moment, and then I think people
Speaker 1: will realize that if there's a zero risk to your
Speaker 1: health standard that these people can enforce and shut down
Speaker 1: your business and keep you away from relatives on the holidays.
Speaker 1: If that's the standard, they can use that standard going
Speaker 1: forward for other things too. And just once they're done
Speaker 1: with the mutations of the virus, you know, and I
Speaker 1: know what we're moving on to, and John Kerry will
Speaker 1: be leaving the way, It'll be we have to do
Speaker 1: these things to control climate change. It's for your own good.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, I don't know if you agree
Speaker 1: with me on this book because you're in New York City.
Speaker 1: I'm in Boston. I'm kind of disappointed in the level
Speaker 1: of compliance and the just the the docile submission of
Speaker 1: so many people. I'm out every day, I'm running or
Speaker 1: walking the dog. And when I'm by myself, I'm not
Speaker 1: wearing a mask because why would I Let me tell
Speaker 1: you everybody else's they are all going along with this,
Speaker 1: and they're accepting these measures even if they make no sense.
Speaker 1: See I'm it's one thing if they tell you you
Speaker 1: must do whatever because of this reason, and they give
Speaker 1: it and they explain it. Well, here's what happened yesterday
Speaker 1: in Boston. The mayor shut all gyms for the next
Speaker 1: three weeks. I mean they've already been living with all
Speaker 1: kinds of restrictions and you know, limited hours in space,
Speaker 1: and he just said we're going to close all gyms
Speaker 1: for three weeks. And you know what the reason is.
Speaker 1: He didn't have one. He literally does not have one.
Speaker 1: They're not a hotspot, they're not a vector. I could
Speaker 1: give you the numbers. It's unbelievable. They do not there's
Speaker 1: no evidence that the the virus is transmitted in gyms.
Speaker 1: He just said, we're locking you down because that's what
Speaker 1: we did last time. We did a lockdown, and we're
Speaker 1: going to follow that protocol. So he puts people out
Speaker 1: of work, puts people out of business essentially ten days
Speaker 1: before Christmas, and doesn't really give them a reason. And
Speaker 1: if that doesn't outrage I mean it should outrage everyone
Speaker 1: as much as it does me and you. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't and that I don't know. That just bothers me. Well,
Speaker 1: one thing I think, and we're speaking to Jerry Callaghan.
Speaker 1: He is the host of Jerry Callahan podcast, Long Time
Speaker 1: Boston radio legend, Jerry. You know, we've had a couple
Speaker 1: of things coinciding here. One is that the lockdown left
Speaker 1: turn this into a kind of anti Trump thing, that
Speaker 1: this was about, that there was this political separation. And
Speaker 1: that's why I'm running around now saying forget about Trump,
Speaker 1: for this isn't about Trump. This is about freedom. This
Speaker 1: is about what's true. This is about free discourse and
Speaker 1: individual liberty and businesses that should be surviving. And and
Speaker 1: there's still this mentality I think of, oh no, but
Speaker 1: that's what trumpers say or something has nothing to do
Speaker 1: in my mind, this has nothing to do with Trump.
Speaker 1: This is about what's true and what's happening around us.
Speaker 1: And then there's also the most concerted suppression campaign I've
Speaker 1: ever seen in social medium. And I've been formally reprimanded
Speaker 1: by the social media giants for sharing CDC studies, for
Speaker 1: sharing things that I just say, well look at this.
Speaker 1: Doesn't this raise the following questions? And they'll put these,
Speaker 1: you know, fact checks that aren't actually checking any facts.
Speaker 1: They just say, well, this lacks context, Doctor Fauci said. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry. So so now if doctor Fauci says
Speaker 1: something it's a fact check. That's fascinating because he told
Speaker 1: us at the beginning of the pandemic, when this was
Speaker 1: considered to be far more dangerous actually by the individual
Speaker 1: case fatality that it was don't wear masks. That was
Speaker 1: Faucci this year. But now he's a one man fact check. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's fascinating. He told us on March nine, Buck, don't
Speaker 1: hesitate to go on a cruise. Doctor Faucci told us
Speaker 1: to go ahead, you go ahead, go on a cruise,
Speaker 1: have fun and by the way, go on tinder and
Speaker 1: fine love if you're If that's what you're looking for.
Speaker 1: Doctor Fauci gave you his blessing, and we know he's
Speaker 1: been wrong about everything, and yet you can't challenge him.
Speaker 1: It is bizarre, and to me, it is it flies
Speaker 1: in the face of you know what we see every
Speaker 1: day on the streets. I'm walking around, you're walking around,
Speaker 1: You're seeing these restaurants and businesses and gym's just closed up,
Speaker 1: boarded up, gone forever. So you try to point out
Speaker 1: this real ancillary effects here, this this real collateral damage,
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, but um, you know it's a
Speaker 1: virus or you know, people they give you the number
Speaker 1: three thousand dead, and you say, but do you know
Speaker 1: how many people are unemployed or on drugs or alcohol,
Speaker 1: or their business is destroyed, And it's it's almost irrelevant.
Speaker 1: They don't want to hear it. They just say, yeah,
Speaker 1: but the virus. It's like the only thing that matter
Speaker 1: is when your your eyeballs tell you that there's a
Speaker 1: lot of other things going on that just are really
Speaker 1: really bad for for society as a whole. What are
Speaker 1: you seeing in Boston about this, because in New York
Speaker 1: we've had a couple of people and in New Jersey too.
Speaker 1: In New Jersey there's analyst Jim. They've been telling everyone
Speaker 1: they got a one point two million dollars and counting
Speaker 1: uh finds from the city and from the state of
Speaker 1: New Jersey. In New York, we had this this pub
Speaker 1: and restaurant on Staten Island where the guys wouldn't shut
Speaker 1: down even though they were told they were in the
Speaker 1: red zone or the orange zone or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: And all those babies, Pete Davidson and I say, those
Speaker 1: there are a bunch of babies. But go ahead, yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard that guy. It's it's nice if you're in
Speaker 1: media and making a ton of money and can work
Speaker 1: remotely and or you know, not have to worry about
Speaker 1: a paycheck at all. That you get to just tell
Speaker 1: people that are losing their business is losing you know,
Speaker 1: decades of work in some cases. And the other thing
Speaker 1: that I would say, Jerry, is that when we see this,
Speaker 1: the chance that any one individual restaurant is a real
Speaker 1: problem in this pandemic, based on New York City's official numbers,
Speaker 1: is very very low. They say they think there's one
Speaker 1: percent of the spread they can trace to restaurants. One percent.
Speaker 1: We're shutting down ten thousand restaurants. Set I believe, go ahead.
Speaker 1: It's much like the gyms. They don't like they had
Speaker 1: Antilles gym they have zero. They've had zero members test pausitive,
Speaker 1: and they've had something like a million visits since they
Speaker 1: opened up illegally. But you're right, restaurants, it's like one percent. Gyms,
Speaker 1: it's much much less than one percent. So again, they're
Speaker 1: telling you to do things that make no sense. It's
Speaker 1: one thing to tell you to do something, it's another
Speaker 1: thing to not give you a reason. It's the same
Speaker 1: thing here. They came up with these new rules because
Speaker 1: there was a spike, and we know that most of
Speaker 1: the cases are at home or nursing homes or hospitals.
Speaker 1: So they decide, you know, here's an idea. Let's make
Speaker 1: everyone go home and get out of the restaurants and
Speaker 1: get out of the gyms. And here, yesterday the restaurants
Speaker 1: were already operating and limited capacity. Yesterday they closed all
Speaker 1: bar seating, no reason given, just we decided we have
Speaker 1: to do something here to make it look like we're
Speaker 1: trying to protect you from the evil virus. So we're
Speaker 1: not going to let people sit at the bar anymore.
Speaker 1: And they're just gonna keep coming up with new measures
Speaker 1: until every damn restaurant is gone. I mean it's and
Speaker 1: the last number I saw it was five thousand restaurants
Speaker 1: in the state, restaurants and bars that have gone under.
Speaker 1: It's obviously higher in New York and across the country.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't seem to affect these you know, these
Speaker 1: these public officeholders who risk nothing, who sacrificed nothing. They
Speaker 1: just sit there in their office and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put another thousand people out of business
Speaker 1: and put another countless thousands of people out of work
Speaker 1: before Christmas, and they don't. They don't bet an eye.
Speaker 1: It's remarkable. It is, Jerry Callahan, I'm with you on
Speaker 1: this stuff, man, keep the faith and hold strong up
Speaker 1: there in Boston. Go check out the Jerry Callahan podcast
Speaker 1: where if you listen to podcasts. Jerry, thanks so much
Speaker 1: for joining us man, We appreciate it. Thanks Buck, good
Speaker 1: talking to you.