1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: This is Buck's first thoughts, the news you need to 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: get through your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: you subscribe on the iHeart app or wherever you get 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: your podcasts. What is the Republican Party going to do? 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: What does it mean to be a Republican today? These 6 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: are all questions that people are posing with some frequency, 7 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: considering that we've had a rough go of it the 8 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: last few months, haven't we. Let's just all say it. 9 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: It has not been what we were planning on. Donald 10 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: Trump is not president anymore. Democrats have control of the 11 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: House and the Senate, you know how this all goes. 12 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: And we haven't heard from Trump in a while, and 13 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: that has meant that the media has been able to 14 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:43,599 Speaker 1: construct this narrative of a Republican Party that is about 15 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 1: to either go into tremendous fracture, a GOP civil war 16 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: as they're calling it, or that will just start to 17 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: fade into irrelevancy. Donald Trump showed up at Sepack, I 18 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: was down there in Florida, and here's what he said 19 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: about what it means right now for the GOP. What 20 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: is the GOP play sixteen? The future of the Republican 21 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: Party is as a party that defends the social, economic, 22 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 1: and cultural interests and values of working American families of 23 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: every race, color, and creed. That's why the party is 24 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: growing so rapidly, and it's becoming a different party, and 25 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: it's becoming a party of love. You have to see 26 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: outside the streets. I mean, there's such love the flags 27 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: Party of love. That was Trump being Trump. But I 28 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: do think that that ultimately we should start to embrace 29 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 1: the idea that the Republican Party is about making this 30 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: country better for all people, and that our ideas are 31 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: in fact rooted in care and consideration for our fellow 32 00:01:54,920 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: human beings. Right. I want safer streets for everybody. I 33 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: want better and cheaper healthcare options for everybody. I want 34 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: things in this country to be working well for all 35 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,839 Speaker 1: the American people. I don't have an US versus them mentality. 36 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: I have a what's best for all of us mentality. 37 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: I think the Republicans shouldn't shy away from verbalizing that 38 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: because the other side says Republicans are racist, they're classist, 39 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 1: they're evil, they're misogynists, you know, xenophobic, they have all 40 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: these things they always say, And that's actually the opposite 41 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 1: of what the Republican Party is all about. That's the 42 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: opposite of what it means to be a conservative. I 43 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: also agree with the Great Ronald Reagan when he says, 44 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: when he would say this was not a one off, 45 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: that you shouldn't walk away from the term republican and 46 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: and only embraced conservative conservatism is the belief, that's the ideology. 47 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: But the home, the vessel for conservatism in American today 48 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: is the Republican Party. And if you're wondering what do 49 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 1: we stand for? What's the point of it all? And 50 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 1: I get that frustration. I know, we see what's going 51 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,919 Speaker 1: on with Biden. And you know, Hiden Biden. He's out 52 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: of the basement now in the White House, but he 53 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: might as well as be in the basement. No leadership, 54 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 1: no vision, just a bunch of leftists around him that 55 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: are that are actually pushing the levers and making the 56 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: making the calls that the progressives want him to. And 57 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: we look at all this and you say, what what 58 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: are we here for? Why? Why do we exist? Because 59 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: this country deserves a better future than what the Democrats 60 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: can give it. The Conservatives exist because we look at 61 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: history and we look at what has happened and we 62 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: make decisions based upon what we think is the best 63 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: and most rational evidence of what will be best for 64 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: all of us. And a simple way to put this, 65 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: I mean, we don't have to get overly eloquent about 66 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: any of this. We're gonna say, somebody's got to stand 67 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: in the way of the crazy. Maybe that's the best 68 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: way to say it. Somebody's got to tell the other side, sorry, 69 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: you're not going to just get to run us off 70 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: the cliff, hitting the accelerator full speed without at least 71 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: some folks telling you, what are you doing? Stop? This 72 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: is a bad idea, This will be destructive. Don't do 73 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 1: this right, whether it's the absurd, ideologically driven anti science 74 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:22,799 Speaker 1: attacks on fossil fuel, the continuation of the lockdown mandia 75 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: that we've seen, you know, complete repudiation from the Democrats 76 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: of so many lessons that we've already learned about what 77 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: works and what doesn't work when it comes to public policy. 78 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 1: How we can actually make people safer on the streets. 79 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 1: Here's the answer. Not by blaming cops. That's step one 80 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 1: is stop blaming the cops. They're not the ones committing 81 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: the crimes. They're not the reason that people are getting 82 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: shot in urban areas of the country at higher rates 83 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: now they have in a long time. And we had 84 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 1: a huge spiking crime over the last year during the 85 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: pandemic year. Of course, there's so much going on right now, 86 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: and it's it's incumbent upon us. It's Conservative's role right 87 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: now to say, what are you doing, crazy left, what 88 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: are you doing? Stop it? And here's why, here's a 89 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,840 Speaker 1: better way. They may not listen to us, and they 90 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: probably almost certainly won't, but we still have to say it. 91 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: We need it to be clear to people there's an 92 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: alternative because we are going to get control back. We 93 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: are going to be at a better future. It will happen. 94 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: I know. Right now we're at a little bit of 95 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 1: a low point. Right the Republican Party feels like what 96 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: the heck is going on now. You can listen to 97 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 1: some people in the the GOP who will tell you not 98 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: a single Statehouse got flipped in the last election. We 99 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: gained seats in the House, but Nancy Pelosi still speaker 100 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: and they still have a majority. We are fifty fifty 101 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: in the Senate. You know, they can put a happy 102 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 1: face on it, but come on, folks, we needed to 103 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: maintain control of the Senate. It was crazy that we 104 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: lost both those Georgia Senate seats. I mean, there were 105 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: some blunders and we had an incumbent president who lost, 106 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 1: and we can talk about why and what the other 107 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: side did and everything else. But at the end of 108 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 1: the day, Joe Biden's president, Donald Trump is not This 109 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: is disappointing, but it's not the end. It's not a 110 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 1: moment of panic that we should have. Okay, this is, 111 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: in fact, just the period in which we're going to 112 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: see people coming together. They're talking about GOP civil war. 113 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: I think you're going to see GOP consolidation. Yeah. Donald 114 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,359 Speaker 1: Trump said maybe he will run again. He teased the 115 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: idea of running again. He said he might win for 116 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: a third time. But here's what's very clear. Trump is engaged, 117 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:48,720 Speaker 1: the people around him are engaged, and the movement will continue. 118 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 1: It's not over. It's not going away. This is what 119 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 1: I was saying the day after the election in November. 120 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: The ideas continue, the lessons learned from the last four 121 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: years continue. Here's what the former president says. Trumpism actually 122 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: means play eighteen. It means low taxes and eliminating job 123 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: killing regulations. Trump is m It means strong borders, but 124 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: people coming into our country based on a system of merit, 125 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: so they come in and they can help us, as 126 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: opposed to coming here and not being good for us, 127 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: including criminals, of which there are many. It means no 128 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: riots in the streets. It means law enforcement. Those are 129 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: all good things, aren't they. Law enforcement, no riots, and notice, 130 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: no riots. We don't approve of some riots and not others. 131 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: No riots, No use of force for political means, taken 132 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: into the hands of mobs, never acceptable. We have principles. 133 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: Unlike the left, they just have whatever achieves power in 134 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: a short term sense. That's what their focus is. Always on. 135 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: Strong borders, no riots in the streets, low taxes. These 136 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: are all very viable paths for this country. And I 137 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: have to remind everybody that we were in a fluke year, 138 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: and we were in a once in a century pandemic. 139 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 1: That's just a fact. And the incumbent president lost. Now, yes, 140 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: I believe very strongly that if Donald Trump had run 141 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: for reelection and say the fall of twenty nineteen, based 142 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: on the decisions the actual governance, he would have won. 143 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: But that wasn't the that wasn't the hand we were dealt. 144 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: That's not what we that's not what we had to 145 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 1: go back into the election cycle with, and so we 146 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: did the best we could with what we had. It 147 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: was a very difficult year in the media lied so 148 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: much about what was going on, and continue too, And 149 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: I'm going to tackle that in a moment, but I'm 150 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: here to just tell you stay in the fight and 151 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: stay focused, being with all those servatives at SEPAK, listening 152 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 1: to them, talking to them, hearing those speakers for days, 153 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: and then of course Trump's speech at the very end, 154 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 1: it was a reminder of what the conservative movement means 155 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: in America, what we're trying to accomplish now, what the 156 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: stakes are, of course, and that there are millions and 157 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: millions of us across the country who don't think that, 158 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: you know, canceling Keystone Excel is a good idea. Don't 159 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: want open borders, don't blame the cops for the crime 160 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: that criminals commit. Don't think that big government and the 161 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: state control of every aspect of your life and every 162 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: aspect of the economy will be good for any of us. 163 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: We're here, folks, and we're just getting We're just getting 164 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: going now. The machinery on our side is mobilizing, and 165 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: the Biden squad, those folks are all going to have 166 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: to find themselves playing a whole lot of defense and 167 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:56,559 Speaker 1: it's going to be much more challenging than I think 168 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 1: they realized when they were popping the Champagne Corps back November. 169 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: Trump reminded us of all of that and more. Whether 170 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: he's the nominee or it's someone else in four years, 171 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. This is about conservatism. This is about 172 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: a Trumpian approach or you Trump tactics in the pursuit 173 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:23,679 Speaker 1: of conservative policies and how to wage a successful opposition 174 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 1: for the hearts and minds of the American people at 175 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: this point in time. And we have the tools, we 176 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 1: have great messengers, we have fantastic results in the state 177 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: of Florida to show, and so now begins that work. 178 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: Two years the midterms, It's gonna go by in a flash. 179 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: We do the work of speaking the truth about America 180 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 1: here every day. We all do it. That's our mission, 181 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: that's our plan. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. 182 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:57,079 Speaker 1: Follow Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. And in one 183 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: of his first official acts, which was incredible because again 184 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: he talked about energy He never said he was going 185 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 1: to do this. He canceled the Keystone Nextel pipeline, destroying 186 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: not the eight thousand or the nine thousand, or the 187 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: eleven thousand jobs that you hear, but forty two thousand 188 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 1: great paying jobs on just about day one. Right. He 189 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: never talked about that during a debate because he wouldn't 190 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: have gotten away with it. Well he would have, because 191 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: they cheated so much it probably wouldn't have gone. That's 192 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: just one example of what I've been telling you since 193 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: Biden came into office. Now that they told us that 194 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 1: it was good old blue collar Joe, the moderate, the centrist, 195 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 1: you know, no big deal, and what we've gotten, of course, 196 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: is somebody who doesn't really differ all that much from 197 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,680 Speaker 1: what any other Democrat that ran. I mean, remember, they 198 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: had like a cast of thousands running in that Democrat primary. 199 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 1: They had have they had have two different stages, two 200 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 1: debate nights for one phase of the debate because they 201 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,319 Speaker 1: had so many people running. And what you're getting with 202 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 1: Biden is essentially just another doctrinaire left wing Democrat. This 203 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: is not a surprise. There's nothing about this that anybody 204 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: should should have said. Wait a second, yeah, of course 205 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: they lied. Of course they presented Joe Bidens as the 206 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: cuddly old Grandpa for America. And that's not really who 207 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: he is. Because it doesn't matter who Joe Biden is. 208 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: He's just a placeholder. He's just the trojan horse that 209 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: unfortunately the horse got into the gates and now Troy 210 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: is burning. But now we'll be okay, Well, we're gonna 211 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: rebuild it. It's gonna be fine. Trump was really amoring Biden, 212 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: which is pretty easy to do because, as I've said 213 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: to you, if there were trade offs in these Biden 214 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: policies where there was a very clear, very clear benefit 215 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 1: for the American people, not for a special interest group, 216 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: not for some ideological, we motivated segment of the population 217 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 1: that writes big checks to Democrats, if there was something 218 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: that was good, you know, but then you can see 219 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: the drawback of it, I would say, so so much 220 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: of what Biden has done, he's just bad across the board. 221 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: And Trump at seapack pointed that out play seventeen, his 222 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 1: campaign was all lies. Talked about energy. I thought, I said, 223 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: you know this guy, actually he's okay with energy. He 224 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: wasn't okay with energy. Wants to put you all out 225 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: of business. He's not okay with energy wants, windmills, the 226 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: wind mills, the windmills that don't work when you need him. 227 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: Joe Biden has had the most disastrous first month of 228 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 1: any president in modern history. That's true. Already, the Biden 229 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: administration has proven that they are anti jobs, anti family, 230 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:58,559 Speaker 1: anti borders, anti energy, anti women, and anti science. In 231 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 1: just one short month, we have gone from America first 232 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: to America last, From America first to America last. What 233 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: has the Biden administration done so far where you'd say, 234 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 1: you know what, taking the politics out of it? I 235 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: really see the merit and wisdom in that. In fact, 236 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: you know, the only thing that some people might point 237 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: to you would have been Democrats in Congress pushing for 238 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: the minimum wage, even though, as we all know, the 239 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: minimum wage does not work the way that Democrats think 240 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: it does, or does not function in practice the way 241 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: they believe it will in theory. It does cause a 242 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: lot of people to lose their jobs. It does cause 243 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: a lot of people get their hours cut back. Some people, 244 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 1: see I'm honest about this. Some people do benefit from 245 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: a higher mandatory minimum wage, but other people lose jobs. 246 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: Other people lose access to work is fascinating. Some Democrats 247 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: were even pointing out that this would be a hurdle 248 00:14:55,360 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 1: for low wage illegal immigrants. Oh my gosh, what do 249 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: we do if the minimum wage is higher, they'll be 250 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: less desire or less ability, I should say, for employers 251 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: to illegally hire illegal immigrants. That's where democrats heads are. 252 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: Notice they always have this concern, this concern for illegal 253 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: immigrants ahead of Americans who are unemployed, ahead of what 254 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: it does to the wage scale. It's very straightforward. Supply 255 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: and demand. More workers who can do a job, less 256 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: money you're going to get for those workers. It's is 257 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: this is a law of basic economics. This is this 258 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: is basic economics in practice. But Democrats think that they 259 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: can get around that, that it doesn't really count. Somehow, 260 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: there's some other way. But no, Biden, everything he's done 261 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: in the first month and office. You look at it 262 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: and you say, who's making these decisions? What's the point 263 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: of oh, rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement. These are the 264 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: things that Democrats come into power in the middle of 265 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: a pandemic. We've got all these idiotic law down policies, 266 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: all these mask mania absurdities abounding all over the place. 267 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: People get mad at me when I say that, Yeah, 268 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: you're right, I'm sorry. It makes a lot of sense 269 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: that every restaurant I went to in Florida, I had 270 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: to mask up as I walked in and then sit 271 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: down and take my mask off. There's a lot of science. 272 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: People seem to believe there's science behind that, that there's 273 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: some kind of safety reason for it. If you believe 274 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: that that is for your safety, there's no reason why 275 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: the government can't make you do a hundred jumping jacks 276 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: every day whenever you go outside because it's good for 277 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: your heart health. The government can make you do anything, 278 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 1: no matter how dumb, no matter how ridiculous, probably actually 279 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: would be good for your heart health overall. But I 280 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 1: hate jumping jacks. This is absurd. It's absurd. But the 281 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: Biden presidency that we've seen so far is as I 282 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: thought it would be. And now at Trump started his 283 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: speech by saying, and did you miss me? That's that's 284 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,679 Speaker 1: how we started the speech, did you miss me? And 285 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: I think America is going to figure out pretty soon, 286 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:14,400 Speaker 1: especially here's here's my prediction. They're gonna slow the reopening. 287 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: But as it starts to reopen, then they're really going 288 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: to realize the full extent of the damage of the 289 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: lockdowns and how much spending has gone on, and we're 290 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:24,360 Speaker 1: gonna hit really rough economic times in the next six 291 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 1: to twelve months, and then Democrats are going to do 292 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 1: the opposite of what they did. They're gonna be desperately 293 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: blaming Trump for the economy when Biden's actually making the decisions, 294 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 1: just like they were desperately trying to give Obama credit 295 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: for Trump's economy. They're gonna do everything they can to 296 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,640 Speaker 1: make the Biden economy the Trump economy. That's my prediction. 297 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 1: Let's see, you're in the freedom hunt. Thanks for listening 298 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 1: to The Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest from 299 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: Bucket buck sexton dot com. And I want you to 300 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 1: know that I'm going to continue to fight right by 301 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: your side. We will do what we've done right from 302 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: the beginning, which is to win. We're not starting new parties. 303 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: You know, they kept saying he's going to start a 304 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,880 Speaker 1: brand new party. We have the Republican Party. It's going 305 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,920 Speaker 1: to unite and be stronger than ever before. I am 306 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: not starting a new party. That was fake news, fake news. 307 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,119 Speaker 1: Now wouldn't that be brilliant. Let's start a new party 308 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: and let's divide our vote so that you can never win. No, 309 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: we're not interested in that. No new party. United in 310 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: the Republican Party, and we're going to figure it out 311 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 1: right now. It's about the movement, the ideas and mobilizing. 312 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: That's where we are as Republicans, as conservatives, and Trump 313 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: is going to be right there along with us. It 314 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: may not be Trump who winds up being the standard 315 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 1: bearon four years. I know that the seed pack straw 316 00:18:56,119 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: Pole had him as the overwhelming favorite to on again. 317 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 1: But then there's also dissantists and a gnome being talked 318 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: about as contenders. And I think that the president will 319 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 1: see where we are how things go. Four years at 320 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: his age is a long time. That's just the truth. 321 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: I mean, I know you'd say, what about Joe Biden. Yeah, 322 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's too old for the job, folks. He's actually 323 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: too old to be doing this. Nancy Pelosi too old 324 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 1: for the job. I'm not gonna do what Democrats do 325 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,880 Speaker 1: and have two sets of standards here. You know, Trump 326 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: is right on the edge, right on the edge of 327 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: just physically, folks. I understand he's got tremendous energy, but 328 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: what time about four years from now, Guys gonna be 329 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: what seventy seven going on seventy eight. It's asking a lot. 330 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 1: By the way, I hope President Trump, you know, lasts 331 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: another thirty years and you know, is in great health 332 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 1: and can run for president again in four years. And 333 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: that may very well be the case. But I'm saying, 334 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 1: we don't know. Nobody's got a crystal ball, and four 335 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 1: years is a lifetime in politics, the most the most 336 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,680 Speaker 1: cliched phrase you'll everywhere. Oh, it's a lifetime in politics, 337 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 1: right that It all comes down to turn out on 338 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: election day? Yeah, no kidding. Whoever scores more points on 339 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: the board is gonna win the game. Yes, also true. 340 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: We need to know what we're trying to accomplish now, 341 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 1: what we're trying to do as a party, that's what matters, 342 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: And we need to be making the argument building platforms. 343 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: There is a rebuilding that needs to go on here. 344 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 1: We need to make sure that we can't get silenced again. 345 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 1: Remember they pulled off the silencing in the election. They 346 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: covered for Hunter Biden. They shut down the New York 347 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: Post story an entirely true story about Hunter Biden's laptop. 348 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: They were able to do that and they suffered no consequences. 349 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: We need them to actually, we need the social media 350 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: companies to at least think twice, and then eventually we 351 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 1: need to break them up, and we need to treat 352 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,439 Speaker 1: them as the monopolies they are. I mean you to 353 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: break them into tiny little pieces. People say, oh no, 354 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: but it won't be as good for consumers. Really, you 355 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,439 Speaker 1: don't think. You don't think anybody else can come up 356 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,639 Speaker 1: with like an email or search engine or you know, 357 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 1: a little chat boxes and things like. You don't think 358 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 1: anyone else is. Trust me, it'll be fine, all right, 359 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: it'll be fine. You know the reason that our flat 360 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 1: screen TVs Right now, I'm maybe gonna get a new 361 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 1: flat screen because mine has gone crazy. It's like possessed 362 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: by a demon. The reason that you can get a 363 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: you know, fifty five inch flat screen TV for three 364 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: hundred dollars now that I mean fifteen years ago or 365 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: ten years ago. Would it cost you four grand or 366 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: ten grand or something crazy? The reason is because of 367 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: competition among many different companies. So it works everywhere else. 368 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: But somehow the social media companies have convinced you. The 369 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: best way is for them to only be one player. 370 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: That's the best for consumers Amazon too, that's what's best 371 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:02,399 Speaker 1: for you. It's clearly not now. I wanted to focus 372 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:06,159 Speaker 1: for a little bit on on the Florida aspect of 373 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: this because being at Seapack, and I would say, first off, 374 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:14,400 Speaker 1: I want to thank everybody who was there, who was 375 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: who's at Seapack, and who was willing to come up 376 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 1: and talk to me and say hi. It means a lot. 377 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 1: It was great to see this. It was great to 378 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: see people who share my beliefs values who in many 379 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,360 Speaker 1: cases listen to this show. So there was a lot 380 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: of a lot of Team Buck in the house and 381 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: that was fantastic. But being in Florida was also you 382 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 1: could feel that there is a sense that this is 383 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:46,879 Speaker 1: now a movement unto itself, that there are more and 384 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 1: more Republicans who will be moving to Florida, that there 385 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 1: are more and more Republicans who are deciding that that's 386 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 1: going to be. And I hate to say it, because 387 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 1: I had some some folks from from Austin, Texas who 388 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 1: are listening to the show listening on KLBJ in Austin. 389 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: They came up to me, to talk to me. Texas 390 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,919 Speaker 1: Governor Abbott has really missed an opportunity here. It feels 391 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 1: like the leadership of the Republican Party is firmly now 392 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: in the same way that California. New York is a 393 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: close second, but California feels like the homeland of the 394 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:26,399 Speaker 1: Democrat Party. That's what that's what Florida is becoming for 395 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: the Republican Party. And now we're as it's not as 396 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 1: red as California is blue. But I think that's I 397 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: think that's changing a bit. I'll also tell you that 398 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 1: I did experience at a few of the bars, because 399 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: you know, they're seapac parties and things, a very different 400 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 1: attitude there. I mean, you walk in, and I'm being 401 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: honest with you, you walk into these places and they 402 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: will tell you to put a mask on, but they're 403 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 1: they're generally very polite about it. They're generally very nice. 404 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 1: Excuse me, could you put it? No one's yelling at 405 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: you and acting like you're actually killing grandma because they 406 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: saw you without a mask on. But it's it's fascinating 407 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 1: to see how people just took them off when they 408 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: went inside, and then nobody there was no anxiety about 409 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: it because people around them, the individuals around them, are 410 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: you know, the people around them have not been completely 411 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 1: brainwashed into into states of terror. They're not feeling like 412 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: if you breathe, if you breathe near them, you're going 413 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: to kill them. And that's the way the whole country 414 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 1: should be. So it was interesting to see it in 415 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 1: Florida specifically. It's still stunning to me how many people 416 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 1: believe there's a sound scientific basis for the no masks 417 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,959 Speaker 1: while you eat, but mask up when you walk in 418 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 1: policies that are in so many states, including New York 419 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,920 Speaker 1: where I am now. I mean, the willingness of millions 420 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: to enthusiastically evangelize this kind of authoritarian absurdity has really 421 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 1: exceeded any and all pre COVID expectations. It's no, I 422 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: don't know, it's it's crazy, isn't it. I mean, that's 423 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 1: what we've it's turned into. You can't even begin to 424 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: justify this stuff, you can't even begin to make sense 425 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,199 Speaker 1: of it. But this is where we are as a country. 426 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: And this is why when I see things like a 427 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: south on South or no Spirit Airlines or Southwest, it's 428 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 1: the Spirit Airlines. I believe it was. I don't know 429 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: one of those airlines, one of the kind of budget 430 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:35,199 Speaker 1: airlines they kicked off. A sorry Frontier. I gotta get 431 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 1: it right Frontier Airlines. If I'm gonna call them out 432 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: by name, I gotta get it right. Frontier Airlines ejected 433 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,479 Speaker 1: an Orthodox Jewish family from a fly. There's video of 434 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 1: it for allegedly, And this is the story that's going 435 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: around failing to mask an eighteen month old baby. That's 436 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: what we've turned into now as a country. If you've 437 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,639 Speaker 1: turned into a country where where we're being told you 438 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 1: have to mask up your eighteen month old even though 439 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: the CDC says masking under two years of age is unnecessary. 440 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: That's the CDC guidance for anyone who cares. Notice that 441 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 1: when the CDC guidance is what the lockdowners want, it 442 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: is sacrosanct. But anytime they want to go beyond that, 443 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,479 Speaker 1: anytime they want to push for more, that's fine too, 444 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 1: even if it's in contradiction to the CDC guidance. So 445 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: when they want it, you can't argue with it. But 446 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 1: when it's not actually supported by the CDC, it's shut 447 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 1: up and do what you're told. Parents. This is up 448 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: in Canada. Give you an idea of how far this 449 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 1: can go. There has now been up in Canada a 450 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 1: series of guidelines in Toronto that have been offered up 451 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: instructing parents to keep any children who have been sent 452 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: home because they have a classmate who tested positive for 453 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen isolated in a separate room from all other 454 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 1: family members for fourteen days. That's right, Canada now in 455 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: Toronto is advocating for people the Peel Peel region schools. 456 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 1: I don't even know what Peel is, but apparently it's 457 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: part of part of Toronto. They want you to lock 458 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 1: your kid in a separate room from the family and 459 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: I have no contact with family for fourteen days because 460 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: another kid in the class had it. You know that 461 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: the spread of this virus is overwhelmingly if someone spreads that, 462 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,399 Speaker 1: they spent it to one person. So there are a 463 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: lot of people who have been around somebody with COVID 464 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: and they never actually even got COVID. They didn't get 465 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 1: it from them. It's you know, we have fear has 466 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 1: overtaken rationality on this subject in a way that's really 467 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: hard to overstate. But this is the biggest fight and 468 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 1: you know, I've been saying it now for a year. 469 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: The biggest fight in this country is the fight to 470 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: regain our liberty and to regain sanity from the lockdown left. 471 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 1: We gotta do that. You want Donald Trump to win, 472 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 1: or another America first candidate to win in four years, 473 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: you want that. You need to win this battle now 474 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,679 Speaker 1: because if the lockdown left can get away with this, 475 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,679 Speaker 1: they can get away with anything. And they've conditioned the 476 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: American people to believe that their freedom is just a 477 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 1: suggestion that the Constitution doesn't actually defend or protect their rights. 478 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 1: It's only there during good times, not in the bad. 479 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: That's not the way this is supposed to work. You're 480 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,439 Speaker 1: listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure you 481 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 1: subscribe to the podcast on the iHeart Radio Act or 482 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. So, Mitch McConnell says Trump 483 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 1: is morally responsible for January's capital siege, yet he also 484 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 1: says he's willing to support him in a twenty twenty 485 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: four bid. Come on, Mitch McConnell's only kissing the ring 486 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: this week because Trump is about to come out of hiding, 487 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,480 Speaker 1: where he'll likely set the stage for that run next cycle. Tomorrow, 488 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: the seditionist ex president a loser, I'll remind you, we'll 489 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: headline the Conservative Political Action Conference CEPACK. The event that 490 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: started in the early seventies has always been viewed as 491 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: a place for conservatives, some who've gone off the deep end, 492 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 1: but very least it was rooted in ideas. They talked 493 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: about politic policies that could, in their opinion, make the 494 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: country a better place. However, in the last several years, 495 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: the conference has devolved into a cesspool of hatred, bigotry, 496 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: and exclusionary garbage, a place where speakers rail on the 497 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: country's most marginalized for simply striving to attain equal rights. 498 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 1: I'm not a conservative, but I like conservatives, and I 499 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: respect conservative ideology even if I don't agree with it. 500 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 1: But if I were a conservative, today's version of Seapack 501 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: would offend me to my core. Not only was blatant 502 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 1: prejudice on display this week, we also saw Missouri Senator 503 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 1: Josh Holly bragged to the crowd about his rejection of 504 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election results, which ultimately gave way to 505 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 1: the insurrection on Capitol Hill and the deaths of five people. 506 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: I'm sorry that you had to hear that, But I 507 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 1: wanted you to know the kind of things that are 508 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: being said at MSNBC by people who were not at Seapack. 509 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: Don't know what was going on at Seapack, don't care 510 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: relly what was going on at Seapack, because they just 511 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 1: view it as oh, much of conservatives are together. Let's 512 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 1: call it a quote cesspool of hatred, bigotry, and exclusionary garbage. 513 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 1: This is just this is idiotic slander, that's all. There's 514 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: a lot of it about se Pack. And there are 515 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: people that only show up think about this, it's a 516 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 1: political conference. Then there are people who show up there 517 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: who know, who know that their job is to try 518 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: to find one thing. They're there to attack. They're not 519 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 1: there to report, they're there to attack. I was at 520 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: Spack for the whole conference, pretty much close to the 521 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 1: whole conference, and all I saw were a lot of 522 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: people being completely polite, friendly, decent to one another, excited 523 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 1: to see each other, talking about ideas, listening to shows. 524 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: That's all that I saw. That's what was going on. 525 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 1: And yet, well, beyond that, what do they decide that 526 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 1: they were going to focus on? I mean, the media, 527 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: what were the people that are supposed to be reporting 528 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: on this, that you can't make this stuff up. That 529 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: SEPACK had a Nazi insignia as a stage. This is 530 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 1: what they were saying. SEEPAC had it the odel or 531 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: Othala rune, accorded to the Washington Post, which was emblazoned 532 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: on some Nazi uniforms, and the Anti Defamation League has 533 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 1: classified the insignia as a hate symbol. These these people 534 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: are out of their minds. They're they're out of their minds. Yeah, okay, 535 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: there is a thing called an I understand that there 536 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: is a symbol, but I had never before seen this 537 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: was not familiar with this. I'm somebody who reads a 538 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,440 Speaker 1: lot about World War Two. It finds it to be 539 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,720 Speaker 1: a fascinating period in history. So let's just start from 540 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: this premise. Beyond the fact that a SEPAC, there are 541 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: a lot of really prominent Jewish speaker and attendees, and 542 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: I mean, the whole thing is this nuts. I know, 543 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 1: it's so crazy that it's like where do you start? 544 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 1: But this is the Washington Post and others reporting on this. 545 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 1: If they're making a symbol that they want to somehow 546 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: show a an affinity for an allegiance to a certain idea, 547 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 1: to an ideology here of Nazism or white supremacy or 548 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 1: whatever is they're gonna say, wouldn't it have to be 549 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 1: a symbol that somebody, like somebody actually knows what it is. 550 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 1: Start with that premise. If I don't even know what 551 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 1: this thing is, and I'm better around on the Second 552 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 1: World War than ninety nine percent of the Washington Post 553 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: staff and writers, trust me when I say that they're stretching, 554 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,120 Speaker 1: that they're desperate. I mean, come on, And what I 555 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 1: really want to know is is if this you know, 556 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: what we need to do now would be to find 557 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 1: other other designs of stages that look like this. I'm 558 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: sure there are plenty of them. Is when you look 559 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: at it, you go, yeah, they're just trying to use 560 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: that space most effectively or as effectively as they can. 561 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: But yes, it's a it's an oodle run, they say. 562 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: And why would SPAC do that? Why why would match 563 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: Lap and the other top people running sepack Because they 564 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: have a fondness for the Naziss is the allegation. How 565 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 1: how blanking stupid are the people reporting on this? But 566 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 1: see this again shows you we want to share ideas 567 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 1: and we're not even allowed to We're not allowed to do. 568 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,719 Speaker 1: They have to slander, they have to lie, they have 569 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 1: to misrepresent what we're doing and what we're all about 570 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 1: with things like this. And there's also part of this 571 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 1: is we know we shouldn't even have to go find 572 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 1: other stages that look like this. Is this a stage 573 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 1: design that's been used at the High IT for other things? 574 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 1: I'm willing to bet there's plenty of stages that have 575 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: looked just like But see, we're wasting time. Then we 576 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: already know that it's bullcrap, So why do we have 577 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 1: to It's obviously garbage, So why do we have to 578 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 1: waste our time then trying to even further prove that 579 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: it's nonsense because they wanted to try to pressure High IT. 580 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 1: You gotta remember this, it's not enough. It's not enough 581 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,680 Speaker 1: for Democrats to have control of the government, to have 582 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 1: control of the media, to control of social media and 583 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,160 Speaker 1: Hollywood everything else. They want to make it impossible for 584 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:26,440 Speaker 1: you to physically gather with fellow conservatives too. They want 585 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:31,319 Speaker 1: dominance and total control of the digital space, and they 586 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,759 Speaker 1: want dominance and total control of your ability to even 587 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 1: gather in person, freedom of Assembly. I believe it is 588 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 1: called in this old document that we're all supposed to 589 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 1: care about a lot as Americans, known as the Constitution. 590 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,279 Speaker 1: All right, I mean, isn't that something that we can 591 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,040 Speaker 1: all at least agree on, you know? It isn't that 592 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: something that we should all at least be able to 593 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:58,400 Speaker 1: say we can see. Nope, they wanted to attack high it. 594 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,720 Speaker 1: They don't want SEEPA. If you'll meet anywhere these people 595 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:07,440 Speaker 1: are these people are authoritarian cowards. This is Buck's first thoughts. 596 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,239 Speaker 1: The news you need to get through your day in 597 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,280 Speaker 1: forty five minutes. Make sure you subscribe on the iHeart 598 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:17,520 Speaker 1: app or wherever you get your podcasts. Now, most governors 599 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:22,880 Speaker 1: shut down their states. What followed was record unemployment. Businesses closed, 600 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: most schools were shuttered, and communities suffered, and the US 601 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: economy came to an immediate halt. Now, let me be clear, 602 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:37,600 Speaker 1: COVID didn't crush the economy. Government crushed the economy. And 603 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 1: then just as quickly, government turned around and held itself 604 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 1: out as the savior. And frankly, the Treasury Department can't 605 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,439 Speaker 1: print money fast enough to keep up with Congress's wish list. 606 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 1: But not everyone has followed this path. For those of 607 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,240 Speaker 1: you who don't know, South Dakota is the only state 608 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,040 Speaker 1: in America that never ordered a single business or church 609 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:03,520 Speaker 1: to close. And yet we're old that if only we 610 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,880 Speaker 1: had listened more to the lockdowners, if only these states 611 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,319 Speaker 1: that had shut down so much, like California, had had 612 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,520 Speaker 1: their way even more so, we would all be better off. 613 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 1: This is absurd. The data doesn't support it. But here's 614 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,440 Speaker 1: what you have to be prepared for. There is no future. 615 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 1: There will never be a time in which it is 616 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 1: the case that the people that were advocating for demanding 617 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,319 Speaker 1: I should There was an advocacy. It was demand you 618 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 1: do this because otherwise you're killing grandma. We're making you 619 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 1: do this. Do this or we shut down your business, 620 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:43,880 Speaker 1: lockdown or not only will we find you, we will 621 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,920 Speaker 1: take away your liquor license, we will destroy your restaurant's 622 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 1: ability to ever open. We'll make sure you're done. Lockdown 623 00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:56,160 Speaker 1: or else. They didn't convince, We didn't have a referendum. 624 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,840 Speaker 1: There wasn't a conversation. It was this is an emergency. 625 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,440 Speaker 1: The house is on fire. You have to run. You 626 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,839 Speaker 1: have to run. We'll hold on a second. What maybe 627 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 1: we can put the fire out. Maybe I don't have 628 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,560 Speaker 1: to abandon my home. No, you have do it. It's 629 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,000 Speaker 1: an emergency. That's what they did to us. Now you're 630 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,520 Speaker 1: able to look at what's actually happened with COVID all 631 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 1: across the country, and you realize, oh, so they were 632 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:22,880 Speaker 1: demanding something that turned out to be a terrible idea. 633 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,640 Speaker 1: If lockdown is so obvious, if this is such a 634 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:32,160 Speaker 1: clear and effective solution to the problem of an Ersli's 635 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:36,360 Speaker 1: pandemic virus, why was all of the public health guidance 636 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:41,319 Speaker 1: before this contradictory to that? Why was it the consensus 637 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:46,319 Speaker 1: opinion since the Spanish flew of nineteen eighteen that we 638 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,439 Speaker 1: don't do that, We don't shut down society, we don't 639 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:53,239 Speaker 1: shut down businesses when there is an erslas virus that 640 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:58,719 Speaker 1: has a high risk for certain groups in circulation. Right, 641 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:04,239 Speaker 1: they change the consensus and then jumped all over you. 642 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:08,919 Speaker 1: If you pointed out that a shifting consensus is inherently 643 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:17,480 Speaker 1: on shaky ground, they didn't care, didn't matter. Look at Florida, Lugge's, 644 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,400 Speaker 1: South Dakota, look at these states. Understand this. They're gonna 645 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,520 Speaker 1: try to line them up. They're gonna line up for you. Now, 646 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,279 Speaker 1: and there's so much dishonesty right now about it, and 647 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:32,440 Speaker 1: you need to remember that too, And the dishonesty is intentional. 648 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,040 Speaker 1: I wanted to be clear about that this was not 649 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,600 Speaker 1: something that has just happened sometimes. I mean, almost all 650 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:43,000 Speaker 1: the lockdown comparisons you'll see online now are so immensely 651 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,560 Speaker 1: sloppy and methodology as to be useless. And this is 652 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,359 Speaker 1: often intentional, but people will realize one day that most 653 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 1: lockdowns were so haphazard, temporary, and arbitrary as to render 654 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:59,040 Speaker 1: them useless in the long run, as in, there was 655 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:04,160 Speaker 1: almost no benefit when you look at this, the full 656 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:08,160 Speaker 1: scope and scale of the infections across the country. Almost 657 00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:12,040 Speaker 1: no benefit from this whatsoever, if any, And in fact, 658 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,319 Speaker 1: there are some people who argue, quite credibly, could have 659 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,720 Speaker 1: made things worse given the situation of major American cities 660 00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,960 Speaker 1: and what was going on. Remember, they talked to us 661 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,640 Speaker 1: like we were going to crush the virus and the 662 00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,760 Speaker 1: level would go way, way way down as a result 663 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:34,880 Speaker 1: of the most extreme stay at home orders. That never happened. 664 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:40,000 Speaker 1: Nowhere did that happen. What ended up happening was we 665 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,919 Speaker 1: would go into a more extreme lockdown and it would 666 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,759 Speaker 1: take months, and it would finally go down where there 667 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,600 Speaker 1: was the extreme lockdown, whether it was New York or 668 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,719 Speaker 1: California or New Jersey or wherever, would finally go down, 669 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:52,919 Speaker 1: and it was going down in other places it didn't 670 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,839 Speaker 1: have the extreme lockdown. You could just observe this and 671 00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,680 Speaker 1: see what exactly is the benefit if all those other 672 00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,320 Speaker 1: places we're also having massive declines in cases at the 673 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:08,080 Speaker 1: same time, what's the advantage of going into these self 674 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:15,399 Speaker 1: induced economic comas, which is what we've been through. There 675 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:19,800 Speaker 1: was no benefit. There was no benefit. If it was 676 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:21,719 Speaker 1: saving lots and lots of lives, you cold at least 677 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,440 Speaker 1: argue about what the costs in the drawbit. But they didn't. 678 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:30,399 Speaker 1: Where we're show me how they saved lives, Remember, they're 679 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,080 Speaker 1: gonna tell you. They'll say, well, you know, Florida and California. 680 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,680 Speaker 1: They'll try to find some comparison of those states as 681 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:38,640 Speaker 1: an example. They always give New York New Jersey a 682 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,600 Speaker 1: past They got hit first, Okay, but they got hit 683 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,960 Speaker 1: we all knew it was coming. They'll do a comparison, though, 684 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,720 Speaker 1: and they'll say, well, if you see here, technically this state, 685 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:53,879 Speaker 1: you know, did better than Florida, and this state had 686 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,880 Speaker 1: lockdowns or something like that. But remember this should be 687 00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:01,359 Speaker 1: this should be an enormous and obvious benefit, right. We 688 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:05,319 Speaker 1: weren't promised with lockdowns the way they were set up 689 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,239 Speaker 1: in this country and the people like Fauci and all 690 00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,600 Speaker 1: the rest of them. We were not promised that it 691 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,480 Speaker 1: would be California that we were supposed to say, oh, gee, 692 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,840 Speaker 1: that success. We were promised a situation like New Zealand 693 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,919 Speaker 1: where they have very, very, very low cases. But here's 694 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,320 Speaker 1: the problem with that. New Zealand is a very remote 695 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,760 Speaker 1: island or islands from most of the rest of the world, 696 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:36,680 Speaker 1: with incredibly sparse population and absolutely hardcore lockdowns. Cannot leave 697 00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:42,040 Speaker 1: your home enforced across the board for months on end. 698 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,800 Speaker 1: That's an actual lockdown. And here's the thing. We weren't 699 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,279 Speaker 1: willing to do that. We weren't going to do that, 700 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,960 Speaker 1: and it wasn't possible for us to do that. So 701 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,719 Speaker 1: guess what we had the worst of all worlds never 702 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,720 Speaker 1: really locked down and did not stay open in places 703 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:04,160 Speaker 1: like California. And to what end? To what benefit? Oh 704 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,279 Speaker 1: nobody ever seems to have to answer that question. How 705 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,640 Speaker 1: we're supposed to just sit around and assume that Fauci 706 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,520 Speaker 1: and all the rest of them knew what they were doing. 707 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:20,440 Speaker 1: It's absurd, it's absurd. I think that Fauci is the 708 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,879 Speaker 1: greatest villain of the pandemic. The only person who comes 709 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:26,520 Speaker 1: close is Governor Cuomo. But Fauci, I think, is the 710 00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:32,880 Speaker 1: single person most responsible for grotesquely politicizing the entire process 711 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,200 Speaker 1: and pretending that he was doing the opposite of that. 712 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:39,200 Speaker 1: The data. It's all about the data. And remember this 713 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:40,759 Speaker 1: for those of you who think that I'm some kind 714 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,840 Speaker 1: of anti masks zealot, and I am. Let's be honest. 715 00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,600 Speaker 1: I hate masks. I think it's awful. I think they're wildly, 716 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:51,920 Speaker 1: wildly overstated as a mechanism for virus control. Look at 717 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:56,239 Speaker 1: the infection rates among healthcare professionals. I know they're subjected 718 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,719 Speaker 1: to higher degree of virus, but okay, how effective are 719 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,600 Speaker 1: man Because when you see that healthcare professionals have an 720 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,560 Speaker 1: infection rate compared to the general population, and that makes 721 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,920 Speaker 1: you think, okay, so I mean they're still they're masking 722 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:14,120 Speaker 1: up perfectly professionally, and ninety fives and anyway, and again 723 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,239 Speaker 1: it's not that it's zero. I can't say it's zero. 724 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,160 Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I know there's studies that 725 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,600 Speaker 1: show this and that, and that's say, okay, but is it, Yeah, 726 00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,120 Speaker 1: how effective we really supposed to be eighty percent? You 727 00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,919 Speaker 1: think you think it, with proper masking, you reduce viral 728 00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:31,439 Speaker 1: spread by eighty percent. That's that's delusional, given what we've 729 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:35,440 Speaker 1: seen going on across the country. Delusional. They'll never admit 730 00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,160 Speaker 1: They'll never admit it though, because so many of the 731 00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,800 Speaker 1: people that push for this stuff, it's become a religion 732 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,040 Speaker 1: for them. And also they really think that they really 733 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:46,239 Speaker 1: thought they were smarter than everybody else. That's it's the 734 00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:49,520 Speaker 1: same thing the Russia collusion delusion. People they thought that 735 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:51,920 Speaker 1: they they saw that conspiracy, they thought they were smarter 736 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,480 Speaker 1: than everybody else, that Trump was really working with Putin 737 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,640 Speaker 1: to steal the election. And you know, just because they're 738 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,879 Speaker 1: so smart that they believed it. When you can take 739 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:04,279 Speaker 1: belief and mix it with ego, you have in an 740 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:09,319 Speaker 1: impenetrable shield of idiocy. When you can pull those two 741 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,120 Speaker 1: when you can pull those two things together, you create 742 00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,040 Speaker 1: a belief and then you mix it with the ego 743 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,600 Speaker 1: of that individual that I believe this because I'm smart. 744 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:21,760 Speaker 1: Will never change, will never change.