WEBVTT - Buck’s First Thoughts - Trump's CPAC Comeback 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.240 This is Buck's first thoughts, the news you need to 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.840 get through your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.559 you subscribe on the iHeart app or wherever you get 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:13.360 your podcasts. What is the Republican Party going to do? 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:15.880 What does it mean to be a Republican today? These 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.239 are all questions that people are posing with some frequency, 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.239 considering that we've had a rough go of it the 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.439 last few months, haven't we. Let's just all say it. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:28.240 It has not been what we were planning on. Donald 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.040 Trump is not president anymore. Democrats have control of the 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:32.840 House and the Senate, you know how this all goes. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.360 And we haven't heard from Trump in a while, and 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.080 that has meant that the media has been able to 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:43.599 construct this narrative of a Republican Party that is about 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:48.520 to either go into tremendous fracture, a GOP civil war 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:53.400 as they're calling it, or that will just start to 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:57.840 fade into irrelevancy. Donald Trump showed up at Sepack, I 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:02.480 was down there in Florida, and here's what he said 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:07.960 about what it means right now for the GOP. What 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:12.160 is the GOP play sixteen? The future of the Republican 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.480 Party is as a party that defends the social, economic, 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.679 and cultural interests and values of working American families of 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.679 every race, color, and creed. That's why the party is 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:28.720 growing so rapidly, and it's becoming a different party, and 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.520 it's becoming a party of love. You have to see 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:35.679 outside the streets. I mean, there's such love the flags 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.920 Party of love. That was Trump being Trump. But I 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.759 do think that that ultimately we should start to embrace 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.320 the idea that the Republican Party is about making this 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.240 country better for all people, and that our ideas are 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:54.840 in fact rooted in care and consideration for our fellow 0:01:54.920 --> 0:02:00.640 human beings. Right. I want safer streets for everybody. I 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:06.680 want better and cheaper healthcare options for everybody. I want 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.440 things in this country to be working well for all 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.839 the American people. I don't have an US versus them mentality. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.280 I have a what's best for all of us mentality. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:19.440 I think the Republicans shouldn't shy away from verbalizing that 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:24.160 because the other side says Republicans are racist, they're classist, 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.760 they're evil, they're misogynists, you know, xenophobic, they have all 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.360 these things they always say, And that's actually the opposite 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.079 of what the Republican Party is all about. That's the 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.840 opposite of what it means to be a conservative. I 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.440 also agree with the Great Ronald Reagan when he says, 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.040 when he would say this was not a one off, 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.120 that you shouldn't walk away from the term republican and 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:52.080 and only embraced conservative conservatism is the belief, that's the ideology. 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.240 But the home, the vessel for conservatism in American today 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.400 is the Republican Party. And if you're wondering what do 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.360 we stand for? What's the point of it all? And 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.799 I get that frustration. I know, we see what's going 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.919 on with Biden. And you know, Hiden Biden. He's out 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.480 of the basement now in the White House, but he 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.000 might as well as be in the basement. No leadership, 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.639 no vision, just a bunch of leftists around him that 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.000 are that are actually pushing the levers and making the 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.680 making the calls that the progressives want him to. And 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.160 we look at all this and you say, what what 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.560 are we here for? Why? Why do we exist? Because 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:34.680 this country deserves a better future than what the Democrats 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.200 can give it. The Conservatives exist because we look at 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.400 history and we look at what has happened and we 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.240 make decisions based upon what we think is the best 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.320 and most rational evidence of what will be best for 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.800 all of us. And a simple way to put this, 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.680 I mean, we don't have to get overly eloquent about 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.360 any of this. We're gonna say, somebody's got to stand 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.680 in the way of the crazy. Maybe that's the best 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.080 way to say it. Somebody's got to tell the other side, sorry, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.080 you're not going to just get to run us off 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.720 the cliff, hitting the accelerator full speed without at least 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.520 some folks telling you, what are you doing? Stop? This 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.800 is a bad idea, This will be destructive. Don't do 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:17.919 this right, whether it's the absurd, ideologically driven anti science 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:22.799 attacks on fossil fuel, the continuation of the lockdown mandia 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:30.320 that we've seen, you know, complete repudiation from the Democrats 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.960 of so many lessons that we've already learned about what 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.120 works and what doesn't work when it comes to public policy. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.600 How we can actually make people safer on the streets. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.279 Here's the answer. Not by blaming cops. That's step one 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.719 is stop blaming the cops. They're not the ones committing 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.880 the crimes. They're not the reason that people are getting 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.760 shot in urban areas of the country at higher rates 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.440 now they have in a long time. And we had 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.159 a huge spiking crime over the last year during the 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.240 pandemic year. Of course, there's so much going on right now, 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:05.320 and it's it's incumbent upon us. It's Conservative's role right 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:09.560 now to say, what are you doing, crazy left, what 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.080 are you doing? Stop it? And here's why, here's a 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.840 better way. They may not listen to us, and they 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.360 probably almost certainly won't, but we still have to say it. 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.000 We need it to be clear to people there's an 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:26.240 alternative because we are going to get control back. We 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.640 are going to be at a better future. It will happen. 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.039 I know. Right now we're at a little bit of 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.160 a low point. Right the Republican Party feels like what 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.080 the heck is going on now. You can listen to 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:38.919 some people in the the GOP who will tell you not 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.599 a single Statehouse got flipped in the last election. We 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.520 gained seats in the House, but Nancy Pelosi still speaker 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.960 and they still have a majority. We are fifty fifty 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.320 in the Senate. You know, they can put a happy 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.159 face on it, but come on, folks, we needed to 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.080 maintain control of the Senate. It was crazy that we 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.680 lost both those Georgia Senate seats. I mean, there were 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:04.240 some blunders and we had an incumbent president who lost, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.040 and we can talk about why and what the other 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:08.760 side did and everything else. But at the end of 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.040 the day, Joe Biden's president, Donald Trump is not This 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:15.120 is disappointing, but it's not the end. It's not a 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:21.359 moment of panic that we should have. Okay, this is, 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.040 in fact, just the period in which we're going to 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:28.640 see people coming together. They're talking about GOP civil war. 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:32.000 I think you're going to see GOP consolidation. Yeah. Donald 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.359 Trump said maybe he will run again. He teased the 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:39.000 idea of running again. He said he might win for 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:43.400 a third time. But here's what's very clear. Trump is engaged, 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:48.720 the people around him are engaged, and the movement will continue. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.479 It's not over. It's not going away. This is what 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.480 I was saying the day after the election in November. 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.200 The ideas continue, the lessons learned from the last four 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:07.200 years continue. Here's what the former president says. Trumpism actually 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:12.840 means play eighteen. It means low taxes and eliminating job 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:17.720 killing regulations. Trump is m It means strong borders, but 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.320 people coming into our country based on a system of merit, 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.760 so they come in and they can help us, as 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.520 opposed to coming here and not being good for us, 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.080 including criminals, of which there are many. It means no 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.520 riots in the streets. It means law enforcement. Those are 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:40.160 all good things, aren't they. Law enforcement, no riots, and notice, 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.480 no riots. We don't approve of some riots and not others. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:48.120 No riots, No use of force for political means, taken 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.560 into the hands of mobs, never acceptable. We have principles. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.200 Unlike the left, they just have whatever achieves power in 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.760 a short term sense. That's what their focus is. Always on. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:04.080 Strong borders, no riots in the streets, low taxes. These 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:08.520 are all very viable paths for this country. And I 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:13.440 have to remind everybody that we were in a fluke year, 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.000 and we were in a once in a century pandemic. 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:23.240 That's just a fact. And the incumbent president lost. Now, yes, 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.680 I believe very strongly that if Donald Trump had run 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.840 for reelection and say the fall of twenty nineteen, based 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.000 on the decisions the actual governance, he would have won. 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.400 But that wasn't the that wasn't the hand we were dealt. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.840 That's not what we that's not what we had to 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.840 go back into the election cycle with, and so we 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.040 did the best we could with what we had. It 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.160 was a very difficult year in the media lied so 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.280 much about what was going on, and continue too, And 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.040 I'm going to tackle that in a moment, but I'm 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.600 here to just tell you stay in the fight and 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:02.480 stay focused, being with all those servatives at SEPAK, listening 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.680 to them, talking to them, hearing those speakers for days, 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.520 and then of course Trump's speech at the very end, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:14.040 it was a reminder of what the conservative movement means 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.720 in America, what we're trying to accomplish now, what the 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:22.480 stakes are, of course, and that there are millions and 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.480 millions of us across the country who don't think that, 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.920 you know, canceling Keystone Excel is a good idea. Don't 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.360 want open borders, don't blame the cops for the crime 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.960 that criminals commit. Don't think that big government and the 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.440 state control of every aspect of your life and every 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.000 aspect of the economy will be good for any of us. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.319 We're here, folks, and we're just getting We're just getting 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:48.600 going now. The machinery on our side is mobilizing, and 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.840 the Biden squad, those folks are all going to have 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.520 to find themselves playing a whole lot of defense and 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.559 it's going to be much more challenging than I think 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:00.600 they realized when they were popping the Champagne Corps back November. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:05.160 Trump reminded us of all of that and more. Whether 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.520 he's the nominee or it's someone else in four years, 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:13.280 it doesn't matter. This is about conservatism. This is about 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:19.720 a Trumpian approach or you Trump tactics in the pursuit 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.679 of conservative policies and how to wage a successful opposition 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.840 for the hearts and minds of the American people at 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.480 this point in time. And we have the tools, we 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.560 have great messengers, we have fantastic results in the state 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.920 of Florida to show, and so now begins that work. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.880 Two years the midterms, It's gonna go by in a flash. 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.920 We do the work of speaking the truth about America 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.200 here every day. We all do it. That's our mission, 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:52.040 that's our plan. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:57.079 Follow Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. And in one 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:01.760 of his first official acts, which was incredible because again 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:03.840 he talked about energy He never said he was going 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:08.160 to do this. He canceled the Keystone Nextel pipeline, destroying 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.400 not the eight thousand or the nine thousand, or the 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.240 eleven thousand jobs that you hear, but forty two thousand 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.560 great paying jobs on just about day one. Right. He 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.480 never talked about that during a debate because he wouldn't 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.280 have gotten away with it. Well he would have, because 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:31.320 they cheated so much it probably wouldn't have gone. That's 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.760 just one example of what I've been telling you since 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:39.120 Biden came into office. Now that they told us that 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.960 it was good old blue collar Joe, the moderate, the centrist, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.840 you know, no big deal, and what we've gotten, of course, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.600 is somebody who doesn't really differ all that much from 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.680 what any other Democrat that ran. I mean, remember, they 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.600 had like a cast of thousands running in that Democrat primary. 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.360 They had have they had have two different stages, two 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:02.679 debate nights for one phase of the debate because they 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.319 had so many people running. And what you're getting with 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.560 Biden is essentially just another doctrinaire left wing Democrat. This 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:14.120 is not a surprise. There's nothing about this that anybody 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.920 should should have said. Wait a second, yeah, of course 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.640 they lied. Of course they presented Joe Bidens as the 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:25.000 cuddly old Grandpa for America. And that's not really who 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.320 he is. Because it doesn't matter who Joe Biden is. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.480 He's just a placeholder. He's just the trojan horse that 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.760 unfortunately the horse got into the gates and now Troy 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.120 is burning. But now we'll be okay, Well, we're gonna 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:42.880 rebuild it. It's gonna be fine. Trump was really amoring Biden, 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.520 which is pretty easy to do because, as I've said 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.120 to you, if there were trade offs in these Biden 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:55.000 policies where there was a very clear, very clear benefit 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.080 for the American people, not for a special interest group, 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:03.240 not for some ideological, we motivated segment of the population 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.959 that writes big checks to Democrats, if there was something 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.640 that was good, you know, but then you can see 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.000 the drawback of it, I would say, so so much 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.760 of what Biden has done, he's just bad across the board. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.720 And Trump at seapack pointed that out play seventeen, his 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.080 campaign was all lies. Talked about energy. I thought, I said, 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.440 you know this guy, actually he's okay with energy. He 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.160 wasn't okay with energy. Wants to put you all out 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.040 of business. He's not okay with energy wants, windmills, the 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:36.640 wind mills, the windmills that don't work when you need him. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.160 Joe Biden has had the most disastrous first month of 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:44.440 any president in modern history. That's true. Already, the Biden 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:50.840 administration has proven that they are anti jobs, anti family, 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:58.559 anti borders, anti energy, anti women, and anti science. In 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:03.679 just one short month, we have gone from America first 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:10.360 to America last, From America first to America last. What 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.280 has the Biden administration done so far where you'd say, 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.120 you know what, taking the politics out of it? I 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.160 really see the merit and wisdom in that. In fact, 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.720 you know, the only thing that some people might point 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.560 to you would have been Democrats in Congress pushing for 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.120 the minimum wage, even though, as we all know, the 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:32.560 minimum wage does not work the way that Democrats think 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.200 it does, or does not function in practice the way 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.000 they believe it will in theory. It does cause a 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:40.840 lot of people to lose their jobs. It does cause 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.320 a lot of people get their hours cut back. Some people, 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.360 see I'm honest about this. Some people do benefit from 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.480 a higher mandatory minimum wage, but other people lose jobs. 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.200 Other people lose access to work is fascinating. Some Democrats 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.720 were even pointing out that this would be a hurdle 0:14:55.360 --> 0:15:00.120 for low wage illegal immigrants. Oh my gosh, what do 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.200 we do if the minimum wage is higher, they'll be 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:06.240 less desire or less ability, I should say, for employers 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:10.080 to illegally hire illegal immigrants. That's where democrats heads are. 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:16.120 Notice they always have this concern, this concern for illegal 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:21.480 immigrants ahead of Americans who are unemployed, ahead of what 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.400 it does to the wage scale. It's very straightforward. Supply 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.760 and demand. More workers who can do a job, less 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.040 money you're going to get for those workers. It's is 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:35.520 this is a law of basic economics. This is this 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.760 is basic economics in practice. But Democrats think that they 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.000 can get around that, that it doesn't really count. Somehow, 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.400 there's some other way. But no, Biden, everything he's done 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.080 in the first month and office. You look at it 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.880 and you say, who's making these decisions? What's the point 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:55.520 of oh, rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement. These are the 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.480 things that Democrats come into power in the middle of 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.040 a pandemic. We've got all these idiotic law down policies, 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.920 all these mask mania absurdities abounding all over the place. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.280 People get mad at me when I say that, Yeah, 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.440 you're right, I'm sorry. It makes a lot of sense 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:13.000 that every restaurant I went to in Florida, I had 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.760 to mask up as I walked in and then sit 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.000 down and take my mask off. There's a lot of science. 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.600 People seem to believe there's science behind that, that there's 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:27.560 some kind of safety reason for it. If you believe 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.040 that that is for your safety, there's no reason why 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:35.320 the government can't make you do a hundred jumping jacks 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.360 every day whenever you go outside because it's good for 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.360 your heart health. The government can make you do anything, 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.000 no matter how dumb, no matter how ridiculous, probably actually 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:45.560 would be good for your heart health overall. But I 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:51.680 hate jumping jacks. This is absurd. It's absurd. But the 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.240 Biden presidency that we've seen so far is as I 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.920 thought it would be. And now at Trump started his 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.840 speech by saying, and did you miss me? That's that's 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.679 how we started the speech, did you miss me? And 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.000 I think America is going to figure out pretty soon, 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:14.400 especially here's here's my prediction. They're gonna slow the reopening. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.000 But as it starts to reopen, then they're really going 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:17.760 to realize the full extent of the damage of the 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.800 lockdowns and how much spending has gone on, and we're 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.360 gonna hit really rough economic times in the next six 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.919 to twelve months, and then Democrats are going to do 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:28.960 the opposite of what they did. They're gonna be desperately 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:33.920 blaming Trump for the economy when Biden's actually making the decisions, 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.879 just like they were desperately trying to give Obama credit 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.040 for Trump's economy. They're gonna do everything they can to 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.640 make the Biden economy the Trump economy. That's my prediction. 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.680 Let's see, you're in the freedom hunt. Thanks for listening 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.800 to The Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest from 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:54.760 Bucket buck sexton dot com. And I want you to 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.680 know that I'm going to continue to fight right by 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:02.680 your side. We will do what we've done right from 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:08.359 the beginning, which is to win. We're not starting new parties. 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.800 You know, they kept saying he's going to start a 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:15.880 brand new party. We have the Republican Party. It's going 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.920 to unite and be stronger than ever before. I am 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:24.720 not starting a new party. That was fake news, fake news. 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:28.119 Now wouldn't that be brilliant. Let's start a new party 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.480 and let's divide our vote so that you can never win. No, 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:36.480 we're not interested in that. No new party. United in 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:40.040 the Republican Party, and we're going to figure it out 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:44.400 right now. It's about the movement, the ideas and mobilizing. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:49.520 That's where we are as Republicans, as conservatives, and Trump 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:51.800 is going to be right there along with us. It 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.200 may not be Trump who winds up being the standard 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.080 bearon four years. I know that the seed pack straw 0:18:56.119 --> 0:19:00.520 Pole had him as the overwhelming favorite to on again. 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:06.760 But then there's also dissantists and a gnome being talked 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:10.560 about as contenders. And I think that the president will 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:14.920 see where we are how things go. Four years at 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.280 his age is a long time. That's just the truth. 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.879 I mean, I know you'd say, what about Joe Biden. Yeah, 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.760 Joe Biden's too old for the job, folks. He's actually 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.359 too old to be doing this. Nancy Pelosi too old 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.320 for the job. I'm not gonna do what Democrats do 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.880 and have two sets of standards here. You know, Trump 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:39.080 is right on the edge, right on the edge of 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.320 just physically, folks. I understand he's got tremendous energy, but 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.800 what time about four years from now, Guys gonna be 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:50.200 what seventy seven going on seventy eight. It's asking a lot. 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.240 By the way, I hope President Trump, you know, lasts 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.680 another thirty years and you know, is in great health 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:57.640 and can run for president again in four years. And 0:19:57.680 --> 0:19:59.560 that may very well be the case. But I'm saying, 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.960 we don't know. Nobody's got a crystal ball, and four 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:07.760 years is a lifetime in politics, the most the most 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.680 cliched phrase you'll everywhere. Oh, it's a lifetime in politics, 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.200 right that It all comes down to turn out on 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:17.080 election day? Yeah, no kidding. Whoever scores more points on 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:23.080 the board is gonna win the game. Yes, also true. 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.280 We need to know what we're trying to accomplish now, 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.320 what we're trying to do as a party, that's what matters, 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.200 And we need to be making the argument building platforms. 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:33.760 There is a rebuilding that needs to go on here. 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.920 We need to make sure that we can't get silenced again. 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.920 Remember they pulled off the silencing in the election. They 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.800 covered for Hunter Biden. They shut down the New York 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.720 Post story an entirely true story about Hunter Biden's laptop. 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.080 They were able to do that and they suffered no consequences. 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.240 We need them to actually, we need the social media 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:58.520 companies to at least think twice, and then eventually we 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:00.359 need to break them up, and we need to treat 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:02.439 them as the monopolies they are. I mean you to 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.480 break them into tiny little pieces. People say, oh no, 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.760 but it won't be as good for consumers. Really, you 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:10.439 don't think. You don't think anybody else can come up 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:13.639 with like an email or search engine or you know, 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:15.639 a little chat boxes and things like. You don't think 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:17.960 anyone else is. Trust me, it'll be fine, all right, 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:22.280 it'll be fine. You know the reason that our flat 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:25.119 screen TVs Right now, I'm maybe gonna get a new 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.160 flat screen because mine has gone crazy. It's like possessed 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.560 by a demon. The reason that you can get a 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:34.280 you know, fifty five inch flat screen TV for three 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:37.800 hundred dollars now that I mean fifteen years ago or 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:39.840 ten years ago. Would it cost you four grand or 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:43.040 ten grand or something crazy? The reason is because of 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:47.720 competition among many different companies. So it works everywhere else. 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.800 But somehow the social media companies have convinced you. The 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.359 best way is for them to only be one player. 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:56.840 That's the best for consumers Amazon too, that's what's best 0:21:56.920 --> 0:22:02.399 for you. It's clearly not now. I wanted to focus 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:06.159 for a little bit on on the Florida aspect of 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:10.720 this because being at Seapack, and I would say, first off, 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:14.400 I want to thank everybody who was there, who was 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:18.040 who's at Seapack, and who was willing to come up 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:21.040 and talk to me and say hi. It means a lot. 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:25.359 It was great to see this. It was great to 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:29.320 see people who share my beliefs values who in many 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:31.360 cases listen to this show. So there was a lot 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:32.919 of a lot of Team Buck in the house and 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:40.280 that was fantastic. But being in Florida was also you 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:42.600 could feel that there is a sense that this is 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:46.879 now a movement unto itself, that there are more and 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:52.040 more Republicans who will be moving to Florida, that there 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:56.680 are more and more Republicans who are deciding that that's 0:22:56.720 --> 0:22:59.359 going to be. And I hate to say it, because 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:02.560 I had some some folks from from Austin, Texas who 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:05.639 are listening to the show listening on KLBJ in Austin. 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:08.280 They came up to me, to talk to me. Texas 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:12.919 Governor Abbott has really missed an opportunity here. It feels 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:16.200 like the leadership of the Republican Party is firmly now 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:19.560 in the same way that California. New York is a 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:22.480 close second, but California feels like the homeland of the 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:26.399 Democrat Party. That's what that's what Florida is becoming for 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:29.800 the Republican Party. And now we're as it's not as 0:23:29.800 --> 0:23:32.760 red as California is blue. But I think that's I 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:35.080 think that's changing a bit. I'll also tell you that 0:23:35.119 --> 0:23:38.640 I did experience at a few of the bars, because 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.800 you know, they're seapac parties and things, a very different 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:44.440 attitude there. I mean, you walk in, and I'm being 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:49.080