Speaker 1: This is Buck's first thoughts, the news you need to
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Speaker 1: your podcasts. What is the Republican Party going to do?
Speaker 1: What does it mean to be a Republican today? These
Speaker 1: are all questions that people are posing with some frequency,
Speaker 1: considering that we've had a rough go of it the
Speaker 1: last few months, haven't we. Let's just all say it.
Speaker 1: It has not been what we were planning on. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is not president anymore. Democrats have control of the
Speaker 1: House and the Senate, you know how this all goes.
Speaker 1: And we haven't heard from Trump in a while, and
Speaker 1: that has meant that the media has been able to
Speaker 1: construct this narrative of a Republican Party that is about
Speaker 1: to either go into tremendous fracture, a GOP civil war
Speaker 1: as they're calling it, or that will just start to
Speaker 1: fade into irrelevancy. Donald Trump showed up at Sepack, I
Speaker 1: was down there in Florida, and here's what he said
Speaker 1: about what it means right now for the GOP. What
Speaker 1: is the GOP play sixteen? The future of the Republican
Speaker 1: Party is as a party that defends the social, economic,
Speaker 1: and cultural interests and values of working American families of
Speaker 1: every race, color, and creed. That's why the party is
Speaker 1: growing so rapidly, and it's becoming a different party, and
Speaker 1: it's becoming a party of love. You have to see
Speaker 1: outside the streets. I mean, there's such love the flags
Speaker 1: Party of love. That was Trump being Trump. But I
Speaker 1: do think that that ultimately we should start to embrace
Speaker 1: the idea that the Republican Party is about making this
Speaker 1: country better for all people, and that our ideas are
Speaker 1: in fact rooted in care and consideration for our fellow
Speaker 1: human beings. Right. I want safer streets for everybody. I
Speaker 1: want better and cheaper healthcare options for everybody. I want
Speaker 1: things in this country to be working well for all
Speaker 1: the American people. I don't have an US versus them mentality.
Speaker 1: I have a what's best for all of us mentality.
Speaker 1: I think the Republicans shouldn't shy away from verbalizing that
Speaker 1: because the other side says Republicans are racist, they're classist,
Speaker 1: they're evil, they're misogynists, you know, xenophobic, they have all
Speaker 1: these things they always say, And that's actually the opposite
Speaker 1: of what the Republican Party is all about. That's the
Speaker 1: opposite of what it means to be a conservative. I
Speaker 1: also agree with the Great Ronald Reagan when he says,
Speaker 1: when he would say this was not a one off,
Speaker 1: that you shouldn't walk away from the term republican and
Speaker 1: and only embraced conservative conservatism is the belief, that's the ideology.
Speaker 1: But the home, the vessel for conservatism in American today
Speaker 1: is the Republican Party. And if you're wondering what do
Speaker 1: we stand for? What's the point of it all? And
Speaker 1: I get that frustration. I know, we see what's going
Speaker 1: on with Biden. And you know, Hiden Biden. He's out
Speaker 1: of the basement now in the White House, but he
Speaker 1: might as well as be in the basement. No leadership,
Speaker 1: no vision, just a bunch of leftists around him that
Speaker 1: are that are actually pushing the levers and making the
Speaker 1: making the calls that the progressives want him to. And
Speaker 1: we look at all this and you say, what what
Speaker 1: are we here for? Why? Why do we exist? Because
Speaker 1: this country deserves a better future than what the Democrats
Speaker 1: can give it. The Conservatives exist because we look at
Speaker 1: history and we look at what has happened and we
Speaker 1: make decisions based upon what we think is the best
Speaker 1: and most rational evidence of what will be best for
Speaker 1: all of us. And a simple way to put this,
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't have to get overly eloquent about
Speaker 1: any of this. We're gonna say, somebody's got to stand
Speaker 1: in the way of the crazy. Maybe that's the best
Speaker 1: way to say it. Somebody's got to tell the other side, sorry,
Speaker 1: you're not going to just get to run us off
Speaker 1: the cliff, hitting the accelerator full speed without at least
Speaker 1: some folks telling you, what are you doing? Stop? This
Speaker 1: is a bad idea, This will be destructive. Don't do
Speaker 1: this right, whether it's the absurd, ideologically driven anti science
Speaker 1: attacks on fossil fuel, the continuation of the lockdown mandia
Speaker 1: that we've seen, you know, complete repudiation from the Democrats
Speaker 1: of so many lessons that we've already learned about what
Speaker 1: works and what doesn't work when it comes to public policy.
Speaker 1: How we can actually make people safer on the streets.
Speaker 1: Here's the answer. Not by blaming cops. That's step one
Speaker 1: is stop blaming the cops. They're not the ones committing
Speaker 1: the crimes. They're not the reason that people are getting
Speaker 1: shot in urban areas of the country at higher rates
Speaker 1: now they have in a long time. And we had
Speaker 1: a huge spiking crime over the last year during the
Speaker 1: pandemic year. Of course, there's so much going on right now,
Speaker 1: and it's it's incumbent upon us. It's Conservative's role right
Speaker 1: now to say, what are you doing, crazy left, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Stop it? And here's why, here's a
Speaker 1: better way. They may not listen to us, and they
Speaker 1: probably almost certainly won't, but we still have to say it.
Speaker 1: We need it to be clear to people there's an
Speaker 1: alternative because we are going to get control back. We
Speaker 1: are going to be at a better future. It will happen.
Speaker 1: I know. Right now we're at a little bit of
Speaker 1: a low point. Right the Republican Party feels like what
Speaker 1: the heck is going on now. You can listen to
Speaker 1: some people in the the GOP who will tell you not
Speaker 1: a single Statehouse got flipped in the last election. We
Speaker 1: gained seats in the House, but Nancy Pelosi still speaker
Speaker 1: and they still have a majority. We are fifty fifty
Speaker 1: in the Senate. You know, they can put a happy
Speaker 1: face on it, but come on, folks, we needed to
Speaker 1: maintain control of the Senate. It was crazy that we
Speaker 1: lost both those Georgia Senate seats. I mean, there were
Speaker 1: some blunders and we had an incumbent president who lost,
Speaker 1: and we can talk about why and what the other
Speaker 1: side did and everything else. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, Joe Biden's president, Donald Trump is not This
Speaker 1: is disappointing, but it's not the end. It's not a
Speaker 1: moment of panic that we should have. Okay, this is,
Speaker 1: in fact, just the period in which we're going to
Speaker 1: see people coming together. They're talking about GOP civil war.
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see GOP consolidation. Yeah. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump said maybe he will run again. He teased the
Speaker 1: idea of running again. He said he might win for
Speaker 1: a third time. But here's what's very clear. Trump is engaged,
Speaker 1: the people around him are engaged, and the movement will continue.
Speaker 1: It's not over. It's not going away. This is what
Speaker 1: I was saying the day after the election in November.
Speaker 1: The ideas continue, the lessons learned from the last four
Speaker 1: years continue. Here's what the former president says. Trumpism actually
Speaker 1: means play eighteen. It means low taxes and eliminating job
Speaker 1: killing regulations. Trump is m It means strong borders, but
Speaker 1: people coming into our country based on a system of merit,
Speaker 1: so they come in and they can help us, as
Speaker 1: opposed to coming here and not being good for us,
Speaker 1: including criminals, of which there are many. It means no
Speaker 1: riots in the streets. It means law enforcement. Those are
Speaker 1: all good things, aren't they. Law enforcement, no riots, and notice,
Speaker 1: no riots. We don't approve of some riots and not others.
Speaker 1: No riots, No use of force for political means, taken
Speaker 1: into the hands of mobs, never acceptable. We have principles.
Speaker 1: Unlike the left, they just have whatever achieves power in
Speaker 1: a short term sense. That's what their focus is. Always on.
Speaker 1: Strong borders, no riots in the streets, low taxes. These
Speaker 1: are all very viable paths for this country. And I
Speaker 1: have to remind everybody that we were in a fluke year,
Speaker 1: and we were in a once in a century pandemic.
Speaker 1: That's just a fact. And the incumbent president lost. Now, yes,
Speaker 1: I believe very strongly that if Donald Trump had run
Speaker 1: for reelection and say the fall of twenty nineteen, based
Speaker 1: on the decisions the actual governance, he would have won.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't the that wasn't the hand we were dealt.
Speaker 1: That's not what we that's not what we had to
Speaker 1: go back into the election cycle with, and so we
Speaker 1: did the best we could with what we had. It
Speaker 1: was a very difficult year in the media lied so
Speaker 1: much about what was going on, and continue too, And
Speaker 1: I'm going to tackle that in a moment, but I'm
Speaker 1: here to just tell you stay in the fight and
Speaker 1: stay focused, being with all those servatives at SEPAK, listening
Speaker 1: to them, talking to them, hearing those speakers for days,
Speaker 1: and then of course Trump's speech at the very end,
Speaker 1: it was a reminder of what the conservative movement means
Speaker 1: in America, what we're trying to accomplish now, what the
Speaker 1: stakes are, of course, and that there are millions and
Speaker 1: millions of us across the country who don't think that,
Speaker 1: you know, canceling Keystone Excel is a good idea. Don't
Speaker 1: want open borders, don't blame the cops for the crime
Speaker 1: that criminals commit. Don't think that big government and the
Speaker 1: state control of every aspect of your life and every
Speaker 1: aspect of the economy will be good for any of us.
Speaker 1: We're here, folks, and we're just getting We're just getting
Speaker 1: going now. The machinery on our side is mobilizing, and
Speaker 1: the Biden squad, those folks are all going to have
Speaker 1: to find themselves playing a whole lot of defense and
Speaker 1: it's going to be much more challenging than I think
Speaker 1: they realized when they were popping the Champagne Corps back November.
Speaker 1: Trump reminded us of all of that and more. Whether
Speaker 1: he's the nominee or it's someone else in four years,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. This is about conservatism. This is about
Speaker 1: a Trumpian approach or you Trump tactics in the pursuit
Speaker 1: of conservative policies and how to wage a successful opposition
Speaker 1: for the hearts and minds of the American people at
Speaker 1: this point in time. And we have the tools, we
Speaker 1: have great messengers, we have fantastic results in the state
Speaker 1: of Florida to show, and so now begins that work.
Speaker 1: Two years the midterms, It's gonna go by in a flash.
Speaker 1: We do the work of speaking the truth about America
Speaker 1: here every day. We all do it. That's our mission,
Speaker 1: that's our plan. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Follow Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. And in one
Speaker 1: of his first official acts, which was incredible because again
Speaker 1: he talked about energy He never said he was going
Speaker 1: to do this. He canceled the Keystone Nextel pipeline, destroying
Speaker 1: not the eight thousand or the nine thousand, or the
Speaker 1: eleven thousand jobs that you hear, but forty two thousand
Speaker 1: great paying jobs on just about day one. Right. He
Speaker 1: never talked about that during a debate because he wouldn't
Speaker 1: have gotten away with it. Well he would have, because
Speaker 1: they cheated so much it probably wouldn't have gone. That's
Speaker 1: just one example of what I've been telling you since
Speaker 1: Biden came into office. Now that they told us that
Speaker 1: it was good old blue collar Joe, the moderate, the centrist,
Speaker 1: you know, no big deal, and what we've gotten, of course,
Speaker 1: is somebody who doesn't really differ all that much from
Speaker 1: what any other Democrat that ran. I mean, remember, they
Speaker 1: had like a cast of thousands running in that Democrat primary.
Speaker 1: They had have they had have two different stages, two
Speaker 1: debate nights for one phase of the debate because they
Speaker 1: had so many people running. And what you're getting with
Speaker 1: Biden is essentially just another doctrinaire left wing Democrat. This
Speaker 1: is not a surprise. There's nothing about this that anybody
Speaker 1: should should have said. Wait a second, yeah, of course
Speaker 1: they lied. Of course they presented Joe Bidens as the
Speaker 1: cuddly old Grandpa for America. And that's not really who
Speaker 1: he is. Because it doesn't matter who Joe Biden is.
Speaker 1: He's just a placeholder. He's just the trojan horse that
Speaker 1: unfortunately the horse got into the gates and now Troy
Speaker 1: is burning. But now we'll be okay, Well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: rebuild it. It's gonna be fine. Trump was really amoring Biden,
Speaker 1: which is pretty easy to do because, as I've said
Speaker 1: to you, if there were trade offs in these Biden
Speaker 1: policies where there was a very clear, very clear benefit
Speaker 1: for the American people, not for a special interest group,
Speaker 1: not for some ideological, we motivated segment of the population
Speaker 1: that writes big checks to Democrats, if there was something
Speaker 1: that was good, you know, but then you can see
Speaker 1: the drawback of it, I would say, so so much
Speaker 1: of what Biden has done, he's just bad across the board.
Speaker 1: And Trump at seapack pointed that out play seventeen, his
Speaker 1: campaign was all lies. Talked about energy. I thought, I said,
Speaker 1: you know this guy, actually he's okay with energy. He
Speaker 1: wasn't okay with energy. Wants to put you all out
Speaker 1: of business. He's not okay with energy wants, windmills, the
Speaker 1: wind mills, the windmills that don't work when you need him.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden has had the most disastrous first month of
Speaker 1: any president in modern history. That's true. Already, the Biden
Speaker 1: administration has proven that they are anti jobs, anti family,
Speaker 1: anti borders, anti energy, anti women, and anti science. In
Speaker 1: just one short month, we have gone from America first
Speaker 1: to America last, From America first to America last. What
Speaker 1: has the Biden administration done so far where you'd say,
Speaker 1: you know what, taking the politics out of it? I
Speaker 1: really see the merit and wisdom in that. In fact,
Speaker 1: you know, the only thing that some people might point
Speaker 1: to you would have been Democrats in Congress pushing for
Speaker 1: the minimum wage, even though, as we all know, the
Speaker 1: minimum wage does not work the way that Democrats think
Speaker 1: it does, or does not function in practice the way
Speaker 1: they believe it will in theory. It does cause a
Speaker 1: lot of people to lose their jobs. It does cause
Speaker 1: a lot of people get their hours cut back. Some people,
Speaker 1: see I'm honest about this. Some people do benefit from
Speaker 1: a higher mandatory minimum wage, but other people lose jobs.
Speaker 1: Other people lose access to work is fascinating. Some Democrats
Speaker 1: were even pointing out that this would be a hurdle
Speaker 1: for low wage illegal immigrants. Oh my gosh, what do
Speaker 1: we do if the minimum wage is higher, they'll be
Speaker 1: less desire or less ability, I should say, for employers
Speaker 1: to illegally hire illegal immigrants. That's where democrats heads are.
Speaker 1: Notice they always have this concern, this concern for illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants ahead of Americans who are unemployed, ahead of what
Speaker 1: it does to the wage scale. It's very straightforward. Supply
Speaker 1: and demand. More workers who can do a job, less
Speaker 1: money you're going to get for those workers. It's is
Speaker 1: this is a law of basic economics. This is this
Speaker 1: is basic economics in practice. But Democrats think that they
Speaker 1: can get around that, that it doesn't really count. Somehow,
Speaker 1: there's some other way. But no, Biden, everything he's done
Speaker 1: in the first month and office. You look at it
Speaker 1: and you say, who's making these decisions? What's the point
Speaker 1: of oh, rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement. These are the
Speaker 1: things that Democrats come into power in the middle of
Speaker 1: a pandemic. We've got all these idiotic law down policies,
Speaker 1: all these mask mania absurdities abounding all over the place.
Speaker 1: People get mad at me when I say that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, I'm sorry. It makes a lot of sense
Speaker 1: that every restaurant I went to in Florida, I had
Speaker 1: to mask up as I walked in and then sit
Speaker 1: down and take my mask off. There's a lot of science.
Speaker 1: People seem to believe there's science behind that, that there's
Speaker 1: some kind of safety reason for it. If you believe
Speaker 1: that that is for your safety, there's no reason why
Speaker 1: the government can't make you do a hundred jumping jacks
Speaker 1: every day whenever you go outside because it's good for
Speaker 1: your heart health. The government can make you do anything,
Speaker 1: no matter how dumb, no matter how ridiculous, probably actually
Speaker 1: would be good for your heart health overall. But I
Speaker 1: hate jumping jacks. This is absurd. It's absurd. But the
Speaker 1: Biden presidency that we've seen so far is as I
Speaker 1: thought it would be. And now at Trump started his
Speaker 1: speech by saying, and did you miss me? That's that's
Speaker 1: how we started the speech, did you miss me? And
Speaker 1: I think America is going to figure out pretty soon,
Speaker 1: especially here's here's my prediction. They're gonna slow the reopening.
Speaker 1: But as it starts to reopen, then they're really going
Speaker 1: to realize the full extent of the damage of the
Speaker 1: lockdowns and how much spending has gone on, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna hit really rough economic times in the next six
Speaker 1: to twelve months, and then Democrats are going to do
Speaker 1: the opposite of what they did. They're gonna be desperately
Speaker 1: blaming Trump for the economy when Biden's actually making the decisions,
Speaker 1: just like they were desperately trying to give Obama credit
Speaker 1: for Trump's economy. They're gonna do everything they can to
Speaker 1: make the Biden economy the Trump economy. That's my prediction.
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Speaker 1: know that I'm going to continue to fight right by
Speaker 1: your side. We will do what we've done right from
Speaker 1: the beginning, which is to win. We're not starting new parties.
Speaker 1: You know, they kept saying he's going to start a
Speaker 1: brand new party. We have the Republican Party. It's going
Speaker 1: to unite and be stronger than ever before. I am
Speaker 1: not starting a new party. That was fake news, fake news.
Speaker 1: Now wouldn't that be brilliant. Let's start a new party
Speaker 1: and let's divide our vote so that you can never win. No,
Speaker 1: we're not interested in that. No new party. United in
Speaker 1: the Republican Party, and we're going to figure it out
Speaker 1: right now. It's about the movement, the ideas and mobilizing.
Speaker 1: That's where we are as Republicans, as conservatives, and Trump
Speaker 1: is going to be right there along with us. It
Speaker 1: may not be Trump who winds up being the standard
Speaker 1: bearon four years. I know that the seed pack straw
Speaker 1: Pole had him as the overwhelming favorite to on again.
Speaker 1: But then there's also dissantists and a gnome being talked
Speaker 1: about as contenders. And I think that the president will
Speaker 1: see where we are how things go. Four years at
Speaker 1: his age is a long time. That's just the truth.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you'd say, what about Joe Biden. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's too old for the job, folks. He's actually
Speaker 1: too old to be doing this. Nancy Pelosi too old
Speaker 1: for the job. I'm not gonna do what Democrats do
Speaker 1: and have two sets of standards here. You know, Trump
Speaker 1: is right on the edge, right on the edge of
Speaker 1: just physically, folks. I understand he's got tremendous energy, but
Speaker 1: what time about four years from now, Guys gonna be
Speaker 1: what seventy seven going on seventy eight. It's asking a lot.
Speaker 1: By the way, I hope President Trump, you know, lasts
Speaker 1: another thirty years and you know, is in great health
Speaker 1: and can run for president again in four years. And
Speaker 1: that may very well be the case. But I'm saying,
Speaker 1: we don't know. Nobody's got a crystal ball, and four
Speaker 1: years is a lifetime in politics, the most the most
Speaker 1: cliched phrase you'll everywhere. Oh, it's a lifetime in politics,
Speaker 1: right that It all comes down to turn out on
Speaker 1: election day? Yeah, no kidding. Whoever scores more points on
Speaker 1: the board is gonna win the game. Yes, also true.
Speaker 1: We need to know what we're trying to accomplish now,
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do as a party, that's what matters,
Speaker 1: And we need to be making the argument building platforms.
Speaker 1: There is a rebuilding that needs to go on here.
Speaker 1: We need to make sure that we can't get silenced again.
Speaker 1: Remember they pulled off the silencing in the election. They
Speaker 1: covered for Hunter Biden. They shut down the New York
Speaker 1: Post story an entirely true story about Hunter Biden's laptop.
Speaker 1: They were able to do that and they suffered no consequences.
Speaker 1: We need them to actually, we need the social media
Speaker 1: companies to at least think twice, and then eventually we
Speaker 1: need to break them up, and we need to treat
Speaker 1: them as the monopolies they are. I mean you to
Speaker 1: break them into tiny little pieces. People say, oh no,
Speaker 1: but it won't be as good for consumers. Really, you
Speaker 1: don't think. You don't think anybody else can come up
Speaker 1: with like an email or search engine or you know,
Speaker 1: a little chat boxes and things like. You don't think
Speaker 1: anyone else is. Trust me, it'll be fine, all right,
Speaker 1: it'll be fine. You know the reason that our flat
Speaker 1: screen TVs Right now, I'm maybe gonna get a new
Speaker 1: flat screen because mine has gone crazy. It's like possessed
Speaker 1: by a demon. The reason that you can get a
Speaker 1: you know, fifty five inch flat screen TV for three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars now that I mean fifteen years ago or
Speaker 1: ten years ago. Would it cost you four grand or
Speaker 1: ten grand or something crazy? The reason is because of
Speaker 1: competition among many different companies. So it works everywhere else.
Speaker 1: But somehow the social media companies have convinced you. The
Speaker 1: best way is for them to only be one player.
Speaker 1: That's the best for consumers Amazon too, that's what's best
Speaker 1: for you. It's clearly not now. I wanted to focus
Speaker 1: for a little bit on on the Florida aspect of
Speaker 1: this because being at Seapack, and I would say, first off,
Speaker 1: I want to thank everybody who was there, who was
Speaker 1: who's at Seapack, and who was willing to come up
Speaker 1: and talk to me and say hi. It means a lot.
Speaker 1: It was great to see this. It was great to
Speaker 1: see people who share my beliefs values who in many
Speaker 1: cases listen to this show. So there was a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of Team Buck in the house and
Speaker 1: that was fantastic. But being in Florida was also you
Speaker 1: could feel that there is a sense that this is
Speaker 1: now a movement unto itself, that there are more and
Speaker 1: more Republicans who will be moving to Florida, that there
Speaker 1: are more and more Republicans who are deciding that that's
Speaker 1: going to be. And I hate to say it, because
Speaker 1: I had some some folks from from Austin, Texas who
Speaker 1: are listening to the show listening on KLBJ in Austin.
Speaker 1: They came up to me, to talk to me. Texas
Speaker 1: Governor Abbott has really missed an opportunity here. It feels
Speaker 1: like the leadership of the Republican Party is firmly now
Speaker 1: in the same way that California. New York is a
Speaker 1: close second, but California feels like the homeland of the
Speaker 1: Democrat Party. That's what that's what Florida is becoming for
Speaker 1: the Republican Party. And now we're as it's not as
Speaker 1: red as California is blue. But I think that's I
Speaker 1: think that's changing a bit. I'll also tell you that
Speaker 1: I did experience at a few of the bars, because
Speaker 1: you know, they're seapac parties and things, a very different
Speaker 1: attitude there. I mean, you walk in, and I'm being
Speaker 1: honest with you, you walk into these places and they
Speaker 1: will tell you to put a mask on, but they're
Speaker 1: they're generally very polite about it. They're generally very nice.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, could you put it? No one's yelling at
Speaker 1: you and acting like you're actually killing grandma because they
Speaker 1: saw you without a mask on. But it's it's fascinating
Speaker 1: to see how people just took them off when they
Speaker 1: went inside, and then nobody there was no anxiety about
Speaker 1: it because people around them, the individuals around them, are
Speaker 1: you know, the people around them have not been completely
Speaker 1: brainwashed into into states of terror. They're not feeling like
Speaker 1: if you breathe, if you breathe near them, you're going
Speaker 1: to kill them. And that's the way the whole country
Speaker 1: should be. So it was interesting to see it in
Speaker 1: Florida specifically. It's still stunning to me how many people
Speaker 1: believe there's a sound scientific basis for the no masks
Speaker 1: while you eat, but mask up when you walk in
Speaker 1: policies that are in so many states, including New York
Speaker 1: where I am now. I mean, the willingness of millions
Speaker 1: to enthusiastically evangelize this kind of authoritarian absurdity has really
Speaker 1: exceeded any and all pre COVID expectations. It's no, I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's it's crazy, isn't it. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what we've it's turned into. You can't even begin to
Speaker 1: justify this stuff, you can't even begin to make sense
Speaker 1: of it. But this is where we are as a country.
Speaker 1: And this is why when I see things like a
Speaker 1: south on South or no Spirit Airlines or Southwest, it's
Speaker 1: the Spirit Airlines. I believe it was. I don't know
Speaker 1: one of those airlines, one of the kind of budget
Speaker 1: airlines they kicked off. A sorry Frontier. I gotta get
Speaker 1: it right Frontier Airlines. If I'm gonna call them out
Speaker 1: by name, I gotta get it right. Frontier Airlines ejected
Speaker 1: an Orthodox Jewish family from a fly. There's video of
Speaker 1: it for allegedly, And this is the story that's going
Speaker 1: around failing to mask an eighteen month old baby. That's
Speaker 1: what we've turned into now as a country. If you've
Speaker 1: turned into a country where where we're being told you
Speaker 1: have to mask up your eighteen month old even though
Speaker 1: the CDC says masking under two years of age is unnecessary.
Speaker 1: That's the CDC guidance for anyone who cares. Notice that
Speaker 1: when the CDC guidance is what the lockdowners want, it
Speaker 1: is sacrosanct. But anytime they want to go beyond that,
Speaker 1: anytime they want to push for more, that's fine too,
Speaker 1: even if it's in contradiction to the CDC guidance. So
Speaker 1: when they want it, you can't argue with it. But
Speaker 1: when it's not actually supported by the CDC, it's shut
Speaker 1: up and do what you're told. Parents. This is up
Speaker 1: in Canada. Give you an idea of how far this
Speaker 1: can go. There has now been up in Canada a
Speaker 1: series of guidelines in Toronto that have been offered up
Speaker 1: instructing parents to keep any children who have been sent
Speaker 1: home because they have a classmate who tested positive for
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen isolated in a separate room from all other
Speaker 1: family members for fourteen days. That's right, Canada now in
Speaker 1: Toronto is advocating for people the Peel Peel region schools.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what Peel is, but apparently it's
Speaker 1: part of part of Toronto. They want you to lock
Speaker 1: your kid in a separate room from the family and
Speaker 1: I have no contact with family for fourteen days because
Speaker 1: another kid in the class had it. You know that
Speaker 1: the spread of this virus is overwhelmingly if someone spreads that,
Speaker 1: they spent it to one person. So there are a
Speaker 1: lot of people who have been around somebody with COVID
Speaker 1: and they never actually even got COVID. They didn't get
Speaker 1: it from them. It's you know, we have fear has
Speaker 1: overtaken rationality on this subject in a way that's really
Speaker 1: hard to overstate. But this is the biggest fight and
Speaker 1: you know, I've been saying it now for a year.
Speaker 1: The biggest fight in this country is the fight to
Speaker 1: regain our liberty and to regain sanity from the lockdown left.
Speaker 1: We gotta do that. You want Donald Trump to win,
Speaker 1: or another America first candidate to win in four years,
Speaker 1: you want that. You need to win this battle now
Speaker 1: because if the lockdown left can get away with this,
Speaker 1: they can get away with anything. And they've conditioned the
Speaker 1: American people to believe that their freedom is just a
Speaker 1: suggestion that the Constitution doesn't actually defend or protect their rights.
Speaker 1: It's only there during good times, not in the bad.
Speaker 1: That's not the way this is supposed to work. You're
Speaker 1: listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure you
Speaker 1: subscribe to the podcast on the iHeart Radio Act or
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. So, Mitch McConnell says Trump
Speaker 1: is morally responsible for January's capital siege, yet he also
Speaker 1: says he's willing to support him in a twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four bid. Come on, Mitch McConnell's only kissing the ring
Speaker 1: this week because Trump is about to come out of hiding,
Speaker 1: where he'll likely set the stage for that run next cycle. Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: the seditionist ex president a loser, I'll remind you, we'll
Speaker 1: headline the Conservative Political Action Conference CEPACK. The event that
Speaker 1: started in the early seventies has always been viewed as
Speaker 1: a place for conservatives, some who've gone off the deep end,
Speaker 1: but very least it was rooted in ideas. They talked
Speaker 1: about politic policies that could, in their opinion, make the
Speaker 1: country a better place. However, in the last several years,
Speaker 1: the conference has devolved into a cesspool of hatred, bigotry,
Speaker 1: and exclusionary garbage, a place where speakers rail on the
Speaker 1: country's most marginalized for simply striving to attain equal rights.
Speaker 1: I'm not a conservative, but I like conservatives, and I
Speaker 1: respect conservative ideology even if I don't agree with it.
Speaker 1: But if I were a conservative, today's version of Seapack
Speaker 1: would offend me to my core. Not only was blatant
Speaker 1: prejudice on display this week, we also saw Missouri Senator
Speaker 1: Josh Holly bragged to the crowd about his rejection of
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election results, which ultimately gave way to
Speaker 1: the insurrection on Capitol Hill and the deaths of five people.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that you had to hear that, But I
Speaker 1: wanted you to know the kind of things that are
Speaker 1: being said at MSNBC by people who were not at Seapack.
Speaker 1: Don't know what was going on at Seapack, don't care
Speaker 1: relly what was going on at Seapack, because they just
Speaker 1: view it as oh, much of conservatives are together. Let's
Speaker 1: call it a quote cesspool of hatred, bigotry, and exclusionary garbage.
Speaker 1: This is just this is idiotic slander, that's all. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of it about se Pack. And there are
Speaker 1: people that only show up think about this, it's a
Speaker 1: political conference. Then there are people who show up there
Speaker 1: who know, who know that their job is to try
Speaker 1: to find one thing. They're there to attack. They're not
Speaker 1: there to report, they're there to attack. I was at
Speaker 1: Spack for the whole conference, pretty much close to the
Speaker 1: whole conference, and all I saw were a lot of
Speaker 1: people being completely polite, friendly, decent to one another, excited
Speaker 1: to see each other, talking about ideas, listening to shows.
Speaker 1: That's all that I saw. That's what was going on.
Speaker 1: And yet, well, beyond that, what do they decide that
Speaker 1: they were going to focus on? I mean, the media,
Speaker 1: what were the people that are supposed to be reporting
Speaker 1: on this, that you can't make this stuff up. That
Speaker 1: SEPACK had a Nazi insignia as a stage. This is
Speaker 1: what they were saying. SEEPAC had it the odel or
Speaker 1: Othala rune, accorded to the Washington Post, which was emblazoned
Speaker 1: on some Nazi uniforms, and the Anti Defamation League has
Speaker 1: classified the insignia as a hate symbol. These these people
Speaker 1: are out of their minds. They're they're out of their minds. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: there is a thing called an I understand that there
Speaker 1: is a symbol, but I had never before seen this
Speaker 1: was not familiar with this. I'm somebody who reads a
Speaker 1: lot about World War Two. It finds it to be
Speaker 1: a fascinating period in history. So let's just start from
Speaker 1: this premise. Beyond the fact that a SEPAC, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of really prominent Jewish speaker and attendees, and
Speaker 1: I mean, the whole thing is this nuts. I know,
Speaker 1: it's so crazy that it's like where do you start?
Speaker 1: But this is the Washington Post and others reporting on this.
Speaker 1: If they're making a symbol that they want to somehow
Speaker 1: show a an affinity for an allegiance to a certain idea,
Speaker 1: to an ideology here of Nazism or white supremacy or
Speaker 1: whatever is they're gonna say, wouldn't it have to be
Speaker 1: a symbol that somebody, like somebody actually knows what it is.
Speaker 1: Start with that premise. If I don't even know what
Speaker 1: this thing is, and I'm better around on the Second
Speaker 1: World War than ninety nine percent of the Washington Post
Speaker 1: staff and writers, trust me when I say that they're stretching,
Speaker 1: that they're desperate. I mean, come on, And what I
Speaker 1: really want to know is is if this you know,
Speaker 1: what we need to do now would be to find
Speaker 1: other other designs of stages that look like this. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there are plenty of them. Is when you look
Speaker 1: at it, you go, yeah, they're just trying to use
Speaker 1: that space most effectively or as effectively as they can.
Speaker 1: But yes, it's a it's an oodle run, they say.
Speaker 1: And why would SPAC do that? Why why would match
Speaker 1: Lap and the other top people running sepack Because they
Speaker 1: have a fondness for the Naziss is the allegation. How
Speaker 1: how blanking stupid are the people reporting on this? But
Speaker 1: see this again shows you we want to share ideas
Speaker 1: and we're not even allowed to We're not allowed to do.
Speaker 1: They have to slander, they have to lie, they have
Speaker 1: to misrepresent what we're doing and what we're all about
Speaker 1: with things like this. And there's also part of this
Speaker 1: is we know we shouldn't even have to go find
Speaker 1: other stages that look like this. Is this a stage
Speaker 1: design that's been used at the High IT for other things?
Speaker 1: I'm willing to bet there's plenty of stages that have
Speaker 1: looked just like But see, we're wasting time. Then we
Speaker 1: already know that it's bullcrap, So why do we have
Speaker 1: to It's obviously garbage, So why do we have to
Speaker 1: waste our time then trying to even further prove that
Speaker 1: it's nonsense because they wanted to try to pressure High IT.
Speaker 1: You gotta remember this, it's not enough. It's not enough
Speaker 1: for Democrats to have control of the government, to have
Speaker 1: control of the media, to control of social media and
Speaker 1: Hollywood everything else. They want to make it impossible for
Speaker 1: you to physically gather with fellow conservatives too. They want
Speaker 1: dominance and total control of the digital space, and they
Speaker 1: want dominance and total control of your ability to even
Speaker 1: gather in person, freedom of Assembly. I believe it is
Speaker 1: called in this old document that we're all supposed to
Speaker 1: care about a lot as Americans, known as the Constitution.
Speaker 1: All right, I mean, isn't that something that we can
Speaker 1: all at least agree on, you know? It isn't that
Speaker 1: something that we should all at least be able to
Speaker 1: say we can see. Nope, they wanted to attack high it.
Speaker 1: They don't want SEEPA. If you'll meet anywhere these people
Speaker 1: are these people are authoritarian cowards. This is Buck's first thoughts.
Speaker 1: The news you need to get through your day in
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Speaker 1: app or wherever you get your podcasts. Now, most governors
Speaker 1: shut down their states. What followed was record unemployment. Businesses closed,
Speaker 1: most schools were shuttered, and communities suffered, and the US
Speaker 1: economy came to an immediate halt. Now, let me be clear,
Speaker 1: COVID didn't crush the economy. Government crushed the economy. And
Speaker 1: then just as quickly, government turned around and held itself
Speaker 1: out as the savior. And frankly, the Treasury Department can't
Speaker 1: print money fast enough to keep up with Congress's wish list.
Speaker 1: But not everyone has followed this path. For those of
Speaker 1: you who don't know, South Dakota is the only state
Speaker 1: in America that never ordered a single business or church
Speaker 1: to close. And yet we're old that if only we
Speaker 1: had listened more to the lockdowners, if only these states
Speaker 1: that had shut down so much, like California, had had
Speaker 1: their way even more so, we would all be better off.
Speaker 1: This is absurd. The data doesn't support it. But here's
Speaker 1: what you have to be prepared for. There is no future.
Speaker 1: There will never be a time in which it is
Speaker 1: the case that the people that were advocating for demanding
Speaker 1: I should There was an advocacy. It was demand you
Speaker 1: do this because otherwise you're killing grandma. We're making you
Speaker 1: do this. Do this or we shut down your business,
Speaker 1: lockdown or not only will we find you, we will
Speaker 1: take away your liquor license, we will destroy your restaurant's
Speaker 1: ability to ever open. We'll make sure you're done. Lockdown
Speaker 1: or else. They didn't convince, We didn't have a referendum.
Speaker 1: There wasn't a conversation. It was this is an emergency.
Speaker 1: The house is on fire. You have to run. You
Speaker 1: have to run. We'll hold on a second. What maybe
Speaker 1: we can put the fire out. Maybe I don't have
Speaker 1: to abandon my home. No, you have do it. It's
Speaker 1: an emergency. That's what they did to us. Now you're
Speaker 1: able to look at what's actually happened with COVID all
Speaker 1: across the country, and you realize, oh, so they were
Speaker 1: demanding something that turned out to be a terrible idea.
Speaker 1: If lockdown is so obvious, if this is such a
Speaker 1: clear and effective solution to the problem of an Ersli's
Speaker 1: pandemic virus, why was all of the public health guidance
Speaker 1: before this contradictory to that? Why was it the consensus
Speaker 1: opinion since the Spanish flew of nineteen eighteen that we
Speaker 1: don't do that, We don't shut down society, we don't
Speaker 1: shut down businesses when there is an erslas virus that
Speaker 1: has a high risk for certain groups in circulation. Right,
Speaker 1: they change the consensus and then jumped all over you.
Speaker 1: If you pointed out that a shifting consensus is inherently
Speaker 1: on shaky ground, they didn't care, didn't matter. Look at Florida, Lugge's,
Speaker 1: South Dakota, look at these states. Understand this. They're gonna
Speaker 1: try to line them up. They're gonna line up for you. Now,
Speaker 1: and there's so much dishonesty right now about it, and
Speaker 1: you need to remember that too, And the dishonesty is intentional.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be clear about that this was not
Speaker 1: something that has just happened sometimes. I mean, almost all
Speaker 1: the lockdown comparisons you'll see online now are so immensely
Speaker 1: sloppy and methodology as to be useless. And this is
Speaker 1: often intentional, but people will realize one day that most
Speaker 1: lockdowns were so haphazard, temporary, and arbitrary as to render
Speaker 1: them useless in the long run, as in, there was
Speaker 1: almost no benefit when you look at this, the full
Speaker 1: scope and scale of the infections across the country. Almost
Speaker 1: no benefit from this whatsoever, if any, And in fact,
Speaker 1: there are some people who argue, quite credibly, could have
Speaker 1: made things worse given the situation of major American cities
Speaker 1: and what was going on. Remember, they talked to us
Speaker 1: like we were going to crush the virus and the
Speaker 1: level would go way, way way down as a result
Speaker 1: of the most extreme stay at home orders. That never happened.
Speaker 1: Nowhere did that happen. What ended up happening was we
Speaker 1: would go into a more extreme lockdown and it would
Speaker 1: take months, and it would finally go down where there
Speaker 1: was the extreme lockdown, whether it was New York or
Speaker 1: California or New Jersey or wherever, would finally go down,
Speaker 1: and it was going down in other places it didn't
Speaker 1: have the extreme lockdown. You could just observe this and
Speaker 1: see what exactly is the benefit if all those other
Speaker 1: places we're also having massive declines in cases at the
Speaker 1: same time, what's the advantage of going into these self
Speaker 1: induced economic comas, which is what we've been through. There
Speaker 1: was no benefit. There was no benefit. If it was
Speaker 1: saving lots and lots of lives, you cold at least
Speaker 1: argue about what the costs in the drawbit. But they didn't.
Speaker 1: Where we're show me how they saved lives, Remember, they're
Speaker 1: gonna tell you. They'll say, well, you know, Florida and California.
Speaker 1: They'll try to find some comparison of those states as
Speaker 1: an example. They always give New York New Jersey a
Speaker 1: past They got hit first, Okay, but they got hit
Speaker 1: we all knew it was coming. They'll do a comparison, though,
Speaker 1: and they'll say, well, if you see here, technically this state,
Speaker 1: you know, did better than Florida, and this state had
Speaker 1: lockdowns or something like that. But remember this should be
Speaker 1: this should be an enormous and obvious benefit, right. We
Speaker 1: weren't promised with lockdowns the way they were set up
Speaker 1: in this country and the people like Fauci and all
Speaker 1: the rest of them. We were not promised that it
Speaker 1: would be California that we were supposed to say, oh, gee,
Speaker 1: that success. We were promised a situation like New Zealand
Speaker 1: where they have very, very, very low cases. But here's
Speaker 1: the problem with that. New Zealand is a very remote
Speaker 1: island or islands from most of the rest of the world,
Speaker 1: with incredibly sparse population and absolutely hardcore lockdowns. Cannot leave
Speaker 1: your home enforced across the board for months on end.
Speaker 1: That's an actual lockdown. And here's the thing. We weren't
Speaker 1: willing to do that. We weren't going to do that,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't possible for us to do that. So
Speaker 1: guess what we had the worst of all worlds never
Speaker 1: really locked down and did not stay open in places
Speaker 1: like California. And to what end? To what benefit? Oh
Speaker 1: nobody ever seems to have to answer that question. How
Speaker 1: we're supposed to just sit around and assume that Fauci
Speaker 1: and all the rest of them knew what they were doing.
Speaker 1: It's absurd, it's absurd. I think that Fauci is the
Speaker 1: greatest villain of the pandemic. The only person who comes
Speaker 1: close is Governor Cuomo. But Fauci, I think, is the
Speaker 1: single person most responsible for grotesquely politicizing the entire process
Speaker 1: and pretending that he was doing the opposite of that.
Speaker 1: The data. It's all about the data. And remember this
Speaker 1: for those of you who think that I'm some kind
Speaker 1: of anti masks zealot, and I am. Let's be honest.
Speaker 1: I hate masks. I think it's awful. I think they're wildly,
Speaker 1: wildly overstated as a mechanism for virus control. Look at
Speaker 1: the infection rates among healthcare professionals. I know they're subjected
Speaker 1: to higher degree of virus, but okay, how effective are
Speaker 1: man Because when you see that healthcare professionals have an
Speaker 1: infection rate compared to the general population, and that makes
Speaker 1: you think, okay, so I mean they're still they're masking
Speaker 1: up perfectly professionally, and ninety fives and anyway, and again
Speaker 1: it's not that it's zero. I can't say it's zero.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I know there's studies that
Speaker 1: show this and that, and that's say, okay, but is it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: how effective we really supposed to be eighty percent? You
Speaker 1: think you think it, with proper masking, you reduce viral
Speaker 1: spread by eighty percent. That's that's delusional, given what we've
Speaker 1: seen going on across the country. Delusional. They'll never admit
Speaker 1: They'll never admit it though, because so many of the
Speaker 1: people that push for this stuff, it's become a religion
Speaker 1: for them. And also they really think that they really
Speaker 1: thought they were smarter than everybody else. That's it's the
Speaker 1: same thing the Russia collusion delusion. People they thought that
Speaker 1: they they saw that conspiracy, they thought they were smarter
Speaker 1: than everybody else, that Trump was really working with Putin
Speaker 1: to steal the election. And you know, just because they're
Speaker 1: so smart that they believed it. When you can take
Speaker 1: belief and mix it with ego, you have in an
Speaker 1: impenetrable shield of idiocy. When you can pull those two
Speaker 1: when you can pull those two things together, you create
Speaker 1: a belief and then you mix it with the ego
Speaker 1: of that individual that I believe this because I'm smart.
Speaker 1: Will never change, will never change.