WEBVTT - Buck’s First Thoughts - Is Joe Biden Really Captain Obvious? 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.240 This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.840 get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.520 you subscribe on the iHeart app before wherever you get 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:13.760 your podcasts. One of the frustrations I have with what 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:18.640 the Democrats do is they engage in so much propaganda 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.920 and are so relentless that we forget what we've already learned. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:25.520 And that's something that's going on right now, and I 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:27.960 want to dive into that today. There are things that 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.639 are clear to anybody who has an understanding of what 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.319 has come before us, what has happened previously in this 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.559 country and in general. Democrats like to reject that. 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You'll get ten percent off plus 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:28.240 free shipping at trust and Will dot com slash buck. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.560 Who does the Biden presidency remind you of so far? What? 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.720 What figure from our past comes to mind? Everyone's already 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.840 saying it, that's right. I wish I could say it was, 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.840 you know, the god that had a special fondness for 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:48.120 interns and and was just always trying to hold the 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.200 ladies of America close, holding real close. Maybe give a 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.880 little squeeze, just to know that they feel like he's there, 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.000 you know, like like he's squeezing their hand. Obviously, that's 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.120 what That's what good old Bill Clinton would walt. He 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.679 just that's the only thing he'd squeeze. No, not him, 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.480 Jimmy Carter, friends, that's who people are already thinking about 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:12.320 with Joe Biden. Another guy who seemed like he was 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.080 weighing over his head, not up for the job, and 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.720 was able to create some of the things we're already 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:25.279 seeing now. A sputtering economy, concerns about unemployment, kicking off inflation, 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.839 gas lines, our enemies thinking that we don't actually know 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.680 how to deal with them at home or abroad. Right, 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.280 there are so many things you look at with Carter 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.600 and Biden, and I know people are already taking it 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.600 to that next step of maybe, just maybe there's a 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.680 Republican who will come in after this as our second 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.960 coming of Reagan. But for now, I just want to 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.520 say that what we are seeing to me from the 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.680 Biden administration makes us ask the question, is this guy 0:03:55.720 --> 0:04:01.120 actually captain obvious? Is this a guy Joe Biden who 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.680 seems to not know what all the rest of us know, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.520 and then when he comes to the clear and obvious conclusion, 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:13.320 wants a pat on the head. Okay, it turns out 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:17.520 that when you are just talking about raising taxes and 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:22.600 spewing a lot of Marxist claptrap, hiring doesn't go as 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.599 well as people who are focused on only that in 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.400 the economy think it will. Right, you had a couple 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.359 of hundred thousand jobs outed in April instead of the 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.040 million jobs that dal Jones was expecting. It was at 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.400 least a half a million below most of the projections 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:43.360 that I saw, an enormous job's miss. Why would that happen? Well, 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.799 because it turns out that when you just talk about 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:53.520 raising taxes and spending trillions and trillions of dollars, different companies, 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:58.320 different businesses, say, how's that going to affect me? What's 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.280 going to happen here? Maybe I'm gonna ride this thing 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.440 out a little bit before I make any major decisions. 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.920 I'll give you another example of the captain obvious administration here. 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:12.240 It seems that Biden is just figuring out now that 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:18.640 people won't work if you are paying them, won't work 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.840 if you're paying them more then they would make from working. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:27.080 Biden is still pretending that this is not the case, 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:31.280 but it's pretty obvious using that word again. Play fourteen. 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.440 I know there's been a lot of discussions since Friday, 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.119 since Friday's report that people are being paid to stay 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:43.000 home rather than go to work. Well, we don't see 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:48.400 much evidence of that that is a major factor. We 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:53.279 don't see that. You look, it's easy to say the 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.840 line has been because of the generous unemployment benefits, that 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.360 it's a major factor in labor shortage. Americans want to work, 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:07.800 Americans want to work. Just talking points. That's where this 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.720 guy always falls into. It doesn't he's an idiot folks. 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.000 He's not a smart man. I know that. He's the 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.160 president of the United States, and the Democrats have created 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.680 this whole fiction around him. For why are we supposed 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.359 to be impressed by this guy again because he was 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:27.960 Obama's vice president. Oh okay, that's really that's really a 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:32.839 game changer. This is not somebody who understands macro or microeconomics, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.159 not somebody who's ever run a business. This is a 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.520 guy who has been delivering speeches written by other people 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.480 and spewing whatever is most popular in the moment as 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.040 a Democrat for longer than I've been alive. That's what 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.160 this guy is doing. That's all he knows how to do. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:56.080 He's essentially a talking points machine that goes wherever the polls, 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.880 wherever the puppet tears around him tell him to go. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.279 That's what Joe Biden does. It's not a leader, he's 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:10.480 not a thinker. Now he's the president. It's a remarkable 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:14.920 state of affairs. Why wouldn't people stay home if they 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:19.240 are receiving more pay from the government for doing nothing, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.920 And who's to say they're doing nothing? Maybe they've got 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.720 a side hustle going. Maybe they're you know, doing some work, 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.720 you know, under the table, or they're building out their 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.280 dream job or their dream business or whatever. Who knows. 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.280 But for a lot of folks who aren't making a 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.160 ton of money by showing up doing hourly shift work 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.400 at fast food restaurants or any number of places. For 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:45.160 a lot of folks, it's a pretty clear it's a 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.240 pretty clear calculation, and it should be clear to anybody. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:53.000 It should be obvious. Word of the day. What happens 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.040 when you spend trillions of dollars? What happens when you 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.720 spend trillions of dollars? You know, if you were in 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:03.760 economics one O one class, you'd have people who were saying, well, 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:09.800 you are debasing your currency. Your debasing your currency. We 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.240 are led to believe somehow that's not happening. Meanwhile, lumber 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.920 cost for home building is up, what is it, three 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:21.800 hunder four percent something like that, way way up. Looks 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.200 like the stock market right now, which was very high 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:30.400 coming into this administration, might have stalled out. And the 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.840 Wall Street Journal, as a piece from earlier today, if 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.320 inflation is coming, here's what to do about it. Remember, 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:41.320 once inflation hits and everybody sees it too late, too late, 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.839 to really make it go away, you're going to suffer 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.840 the consequences of it. But I think we're already seeing it. 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.360 It's just the government and the people in charge of 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.080 the levers at the FED are hiding this. Food prices 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:58.360 going up, home building prices going up. Lumber has already 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.840 told you there are a number of things where it's 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:05.679 hard to hide what's really going on here. And then 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:09.160 there's just the overall trajectory of the economy. All Joe 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:13.199 Biden had to do, all the Democrats had to do 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:18.400 this year for us to have a booming economy was 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.640 stay the heck out of the way. That's all they 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.839 had to do. Just get out of the way. And 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.000 by get out of the way, I mean also stop 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.679 all the neuroses and all the craziness with continued lockdowns 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.920 and your mask obsession and all this stuff. Just let 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:39.120 businesses go do their business and let the American people 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.160 come back to their lives and their work. But no, 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.679 Democrats want They want to meddle, they want to control, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:48.280 they want to dictate, and they want to spend. So 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:55.080 there are these these intersecting levels of obviousness that we 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.080 are seeing right now. And yes, we have. We have 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.839 gas lines, we have inflation feed years, we have a 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:07.280 stalled economic recovery. We have a Biden administration that is 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.840 not a surprise to any of us who were paying 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.240 attention and have been paying attention with the Democrat Party 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.240 has become. And also what Joe Biden was saying during 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:23.520 the campaign, and yes, the recovery is stumbling. Why is 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:30.280 that happening because of Joe Biden's policies. This couldn't be 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.200 any easier. You have an economy that is going through 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:40.559 an artificial government mandated recession because of COVID and made 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.200 it worse with the lockdowns than it would have otherwise been. Yes, 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.920 there would have been some restriction on uneconomic activity from 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:47.760 people who were scared and not going out as much, 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.480 but a lot of this was a function of government 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.240 policy and it was arbitrary. As we'd own it was 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.040 dumb in so many cases. Florida did not shut down. 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.480 Its economy is better off, has been better off than 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.360 states like California, in New York, Texas. You've sort of 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.520 come to the party a little late with Florida, but 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:09.560 you're doing better than obviously other states are. But all 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:14.640 you have to do if you're this administration is stop 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.079 messing things up. But no, they think they're helping. This 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:24.120 is the classic trap of the authoritarian democrat mindset. They 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.560 believe they're making things better when all the indicators we 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:33.040 can see are that dumbass Democrats with Biden leading the pack, 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:39.520 are making everything worse. They are making it worse. They 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:44.839 are extending and prolonging the pain of lockdowns. They are 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:48.160 making people concerned about the value of the dollar, and 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:52.000 about what taxes and not just corporate taxes, but all 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.360 kinds of different changes to the irs code are going 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.120 to do to our economy. This is what we face now. 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.400 We can all see it, and it was all obvious 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:06.439 from the beginning to anybody who pays attention, who knows 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:10.960 history and believes that one plus one equals two. Turns 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:15.760 out that shutting down infrastructure projects like the Keystone XEL 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:20.240 pipeline for ideological reasons is a really shortsighted and stupid 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:25.040 thing to do. Turns out that spending trillions of dollars 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.960 sounds great to the people that are going to get 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.960 all kinds of goodies from it, but to the overall economy, 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:34.080 it's a disaster. When you pay people more to stay 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.000 home than to work. Guess what they do. I mean, 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.400 this does any of the surprise? Oh, when you defund police, 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.680 turns out you get a lot more violence on the streets. Gee, 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:50.000 who could have seen that coming? Oh that's right, absolutely everybody. 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.760 This stuff is obvious to anyone who is not delusional. 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.439 But the Democrats are the party of delusion. We don't 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:02.760 see much evidence that the extra unemployment insurance is a 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:07.520 major driver in people not rejoining the workforce. We actually 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:12.560 see the data, and our analysis shows that lack of 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.920 vaccination the lower rate, which is why I refer to 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.000 the data in the week that it was taken. It 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.760 has an impact, childcare has an impact, Schools reopening has 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.960 an impact. But there's also the need to pay a 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.880 livable working wage, and that's one of the reasons the 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.439 President will talk about that this afternoon. But as Bank 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.800 of America economists who are cited in a Bloomberg story stage, 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.880 anybody making less than thirty two thousand dollars a year 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.679 is better financially just taking the unemployment benefit. So is 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:43.240 the White House creating an incentive just to stay home? Well, again, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.880 the majority of economists internally and acts externally of the 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.320 White House. Don't feel that unemployment insurance something that was 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.680 done at a time where to help unemployed people get 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:59.559 through a very difficult economic downturn during a pandemic is 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:04.880 a is the a major driver in our unemployment data. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:12.559 Notice how the absurd mediocrity Jen Saki Bomb immediately does 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.720 this appeal to authority instead of engaging with the question 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.320 that Peter Doocey a Fox News who it's a great 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.480 it's a great gig, folks, to be the one person 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.040 in the West Wing, and I know there's probably a 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.000 few others. I don't know if one America's over there 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.600 these days or anyone else. But to basically be the 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:34.240 one guy with real access who gets to be a journalist, 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.960 isn't that amazing? You get to ask real questions, You 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:43.360 get to push for information and hold the administration into account, 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.280 speak truth to power. Right, these are things that all 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.240 journalists say they do when really they show up in 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:53.480 the West Wing and they give Biden the equivalent of 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.400 a foot massage every day. I mean, it should be 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:01.280 embarrassing to them, but they know that this is what 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.080 is necessary for their careers and also for the ideologically 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.920 this is where they are, This is what they actually 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.360 believe should happen. Right. So, while this is a total 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.760 abdication of journalistic integrity, yeah, it's also deeply boring from 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.760 the journos. As I said, the only member of the 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.360 White House Press Corps whoever asks a real question seems 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.200 to be Doucy for Fox News. And you can almost 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.400 hear the groans coming from the supposed guardians of our 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:35.400 democracy who sit around them. These legacy media journalists might 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.360 as well be wearing Harris Biden twenty twenty four hats 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.840 while they sit in the West Wing. I mean, their 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:46.960 fourth est state cosplay, we speak truth to power is 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.720 pathetic and grown inducing. It really is. It's just awful. 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.600 They're all they're pandering for a pat on the head 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:59.120 from Saki Bomb and they just gush at her every utterance. Oh, 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:04.520 it's amazing. Finally have somebody who speaks truth from that podium. Sure, yeah, 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:09.600 that's what's really going on here, oh my, And that 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.640 they can engage on the clear math. It's a math question. 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.760 How much does somebody make forty hours a week for 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.400 fifty two weeks of work? How much does somebody or 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.160 over the course of a few weeks. How much does 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.640 somebody make with the state and federal unemployment benefits that 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.320 they are currently getting thanks to the Biden administrations enormous 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:33.400 spending decisions. Okay, that's why you have restaurants and other 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:37.400 businesses who are saying, we have an employee shortage, and 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.000 to say, you just have to pay them more. Okay, 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.600 then your hamburger is going to start costing more. They're 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.200 gonna have to pass this on to customers. This is 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:52.120 just how it works. We all know it's It's remarkable, though, 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:56.160 isn't it. The people who know the least about how 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.280 to run a business are the ones making the most 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:04.440 decisions now in the government about businesses. Not good friends, 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:09.520 not good a major drag on the kinds of hiring 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:16.280 and productivity we should be seeing. And then there's this 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:22.440 Colonial pipeline situation. There are gas lines already. The Colonial 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.200 pipeline was hit, the largest pipeline in North America and 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:30.199 was hit with a cyber attack ransomware. They think it 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:35.280 might originate from Russia. Now Russia was so scary into Trump, 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.239 but now we're gonna have a very different tone about Russia. Right. 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.359 We need to we need to talk to them, and 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.720 we need to figure things out. But here is Biden 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:48.080 yesterday addressing this. Because this people are waiting in lines. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:49.919 I mean, they're showing up at gas stations. I've been 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.680 seeing the video of this on social media. They're shown 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.200 up at gas stations told there's no gas. This happened 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.399 to me a few times when I was in West 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.520 Africa a long time ago. We're show up at a 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.679 gas station they said there's no gas. Not something you 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:08.840 expect to happen in Virginia, South Carolina. You know you don't. 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:10.879 They don't expect to be driving around saying, hold on 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.680 a second, you got no gas here? What's going on? 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.480 Play clip one. Over the weekend, at my direction to 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:23.159 the Department of Transportation, issued in evergency order to loosen 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.440 restrictions on truck drivers in order to allow more fuel 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:31.000 to be transported by a tanker. We're prepared to take 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.040 additional steps depending on how quickly the company is able 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:39.000 to bring US pipeline back to full operational capacity. The 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:43.560 Federal Bureau of Investigation has determined Colonials network was infected 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:48.720 by ransomware and it's a criminal act. Obviously, FBI released 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.520 details of the attack so others can take steps to 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:58.879 prevent being effective. My administration takes issue, this takes us 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:02.440 very seriously. We have efforts underway with the FBI and 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:10.280 DOJ Department Justice to disrupt and prosecute ransomware criminals, and 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:14.119 my administration will be pursuing a global effort of ransomware 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:19.040 attacks by transnational criminals who often use global money laundering 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:23.000 networks to carry them out. No, they don't have time, 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:27.359 they don't have resources to track down global money laundering 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:31.880 and ransomware attacks against critical US infrastructure. They have insurrectionists 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.920 to find. Why we need to go find all the insurrections. 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:38.359 That's what the FBI is focused on. Oh and the CIA, 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.440 as you know, is focused on other things these days 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:45.560 too than getting the best people. Another CIA video came 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:49.480 out that was pretty remarkable on recruiting who they're trying 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:54.080 to recruit. But on the Colonial pipeline cyber attack, nobody 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.160 really takes Joe Biden seriously when he says there will 0:19:56.200 --> 0:20:00.560 be consequences for this, Well, maybe he should have a 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.040 government that focuses on what is important and what is necessary, 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:08.800 like cyber infrastructure protection. And this is within the National 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.520 Security Room. Right, So I'm not just picking one random 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.600 issue and saying why not this when it's something else. No, 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.639 how much have you heard Biden talk about climate change 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.400 is an existential threat versus how much have you heard 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:24.280 him talk about the need for not only pipeline cybersecurity, 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:27.760 more pipelines. Oh no, that's right, he xed out the 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:33.640 keystone XL. I am a former CIA analyst. You might 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:35.359 know that if you listen to the show, you're following 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:37.479 him at work. But it's been a long time, and 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.520 I haven't been the agency in years, going on a 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:43.160 decade now, because I've been doing radio for almost ten years, 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:46.800 so I can tell you what it was like then, 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:51.080 and that it's clearly just continued in this trend of 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:56.640 wokeness that so many other corporations and entities and government 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.800 agencies have. But just when you thought maybe they would 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:02.879 have a little bit of a change in their approach, 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:09.040 the official CIA YouTube account put out this video. This 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:13.400 is a recruitment and pr video. But here's the kind 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.000 of stuff that that they're now promoting at the Central 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.560 Intelligence Agency, which I'll tell you because I'm honest about 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.080 this stuff. There's a lot of paperwork and Latte's at 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:25.240 the CIA, you know, there's there's a lot of sitting 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.360 in meetings, and you got a lot got a lot 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:34.440 of people with soft, stubby fingers, worried more about their overtime, 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:38.359 and you know how soon they can get on the 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:42.400 highway to get back home to you know, they're they're 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.400 sixty sixty minute drive to get in or whatever. I mean. 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:48.840 It's it's not as glamorous and sexy as the James 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:50.960 Bond stuff. I can you already knew that, but I'm 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:53.399 just telling you there is some really interesting stuff that 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:56.280 goes on there there. If you want to do cool 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:59.880 stuff in the CIA, it is possible, but you will 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:05.720 constantly be surrounded by people that don't want that. I 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:08.879 think that excellence is suspect. That's the best way I 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:12.080 can put it to you, And that being mission first 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:17.360 in a real way is something that makes people uncomfortable. 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:20.920 You're supposed to go along with the bureaucracy, and because 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:24.160 it is a bureaucracy, you have a lot of authoritarian 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:30.919 leftists who spend all their time policing Hatch Act violations. 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:33.640 Oh you said you like Ronald Reagan as a joke 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:36.080 in a meeting you're not allowed to do that, you know, 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:38.399 and just generally harassing you. So that that's really the 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:41.119 mentality that you see in a lot of the ages. 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:44.000 It's just true. There are leftists that run the CIA, 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:48.040 leftists that run the State Department. And I'm sorry, but 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:50.919 it's the truth. And actually no, I'm not sorry. The 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:57.560 leftist mentality is inherently not as patriotic as it should be, 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:01.160 and in many cases anti patriotic. And I know that's 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:02.920 tough to hear because there are a lot of these 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:06.480 federal agencies and institutions where you'd think, shouldn't we have 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:12.199 superpatriots working there? We should, but we don't. A lot 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:14.359 of people that believe in critical race theory, a lot 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:17.159 of people that focus on diversity and inclusion as the 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:19.600 primary mission. You know, you've seen some of the stuff 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:24.360 even in the United States military now hurting military combat 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:29.240 readiness because of a politically correct agenda. And you know, 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:32.119 they'll trot out someone, they'll get some four star or 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:35.720 some retired four star. Even worse, we're just politicians and 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:37.680 they're all just trying to get on the board of raytheon. 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:42.040 So do you think that they're really worried about whether 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:43.840 we're gonna win the next war, or they worried about 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:49.159 their stock options and being corporate friendly. These are speak 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:51.880 speaking the truth. Friends. I know some people don't want 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:53.080 to hear it. A lot of you are nodding your 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:55.440 heads though, especially if you actually served. You're saying, yep, 0:23:56.160 --> 0:23:59.239 a lot of politicians with stars on their shoulders, just 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:02.320 the way it is, and the same things. It's even 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:04.760 more true at the Agency. It's even more true at 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:07.280 the CIA. You got a bunch of leftists running around 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:12.960 who view the CIA as because it has a reputation 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:18.600 for a kind of intellectual elitism, which is largely undeserved. Again, 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:20.560 I'm just I'm telling you the truth about these places. 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:23.280 It's very hard to get a job at the CIA. 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:27.000 And I was stunned by how much mediocrity there was. 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:30.280 There there was there were also there were pockets of excellence. 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:34.440 So and there are people. And I have to say 0:24:34.520 --> 0:24:36.600 this because I don't want you to get the wrong impression. 0:24:37.240 --> 0:24:40.480 You know, ten percent of that building do ninety percent 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:42.960 of the work and of the reason why you can 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:45.680 sleep safely at night, so to speak. And I don't 0:24:45.680 --> 0:24:47.720 just mean CIA, I mean the whole Intel community. And 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:51.840 anybody working in it. More broadly, you know, it's one 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:55.040