WEBVTT - Democrats Threaten Court Packing Ploy 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.960 This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Joined the conversation 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:08.240 and message Buck on Facebook, Instagram, or email team bucket 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.280 iHeartMedia dot com. He may read it on the show. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.840 We warned you about this, told you that this was coming, 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.640 that the Democrats weren't going to respect any of the 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:21.400 rules of the road, that there wasn't going to be 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.760 some coming together or unity. That didn't last long at all, 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.840 did it. They couldn't even go a couple of months 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.560 pretending that Biden was really going to unify the country. Now, 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.640 that was what people were sold, right. We were in 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:38.720 a very difficult year, the pandemic. 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We keep telling ourselves that they won't 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.519 go all the way right, That's what the Conservatives, that's 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:58.280 what the go along to get along GOP wants to 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.359 tell themselves at nights so that they can sleep and 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.720 that they won't worry that much about the future of 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:08.600 the country. And yet the Democrats show their hand and 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:15.040 sure enough, institutions respect for our norms. All that stuff 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:19.760 that they talked about during the Trump administration, it was 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:24.560 just that empty words in the pursuit of Democrat power. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:29.160 I bring you the latest here with Democrats planning to 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:35.160 unveil a bill that would add Supreme Court justices. That's right, 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:42.600 a court packing bill, and it's going to go from 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.520 nine to thirteen if they get their way, and I 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.560 just dramatically expand the court. This hasn't happened in over 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.200 one hundred and fifty years. And this is a reminder 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.880 of just who the Democrats really are. They are authoritarians. 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.240 They believe in one thing and one thing only, and 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.680 that is the mansion of their power. They are absolutists. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:08.480 They act with a certainty that they know what is best. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.600 They know what is right for everyone in the country. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.440 They know what's right for you, and you're not really 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.440 allowed to say anything about it. You're just told what 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:22.400 to do. And if they get a clear majority on 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.800 the Supreme Court, then there will be no break in 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:27.800 their minds. Because do you think they're gonna think about 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.000 it this way? You think they go for court packing 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.159 and not break the filibuster. I think you could say 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.040 this is the Democrat break the glass plan. They've decided 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.440 to just go for it. If not, now, when think 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.839 about what they could do here, think about the cast 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:47.320 scading effect. If they say, well, we're actually gonna We're 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:52.239 actually gonna pack the Supreme Court, and then they decide, well, 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:56.960 we've already we've already crossed the rubicon, Because that's exactly 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:00.400 what this is this is the rubicon my ends for 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:04.440 our government. And they say, well, we've already done that, 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.720 so why not take it a step further and also 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.559 get rid of the filibuster, So then you would have 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:14.880 no legislative check on the Democrat Party and no judicial 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:19.120 check on the Democrat Party. Are they could get rid 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:23.680 of both of these? They could very easily do this 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.799 if they want to. And really what may happen, of course, 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.279 is they do the filibuster first and then do the 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.720 Supreme Court bill. But these are the steps that they 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.800 can take to create a one party state. And I 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.400 want I want you to ask yourself this question. Now, 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.440 put aside what you think is normative, put aside what 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:52.720 you think we're supposed to believe. If the Democrat Party could, 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.600 if the Democrat Party could get rid of the Republican 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:03.200 Party right now in one fell swoop, couldn't they do that? 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:10.680 Wouldn't they do that? Right? What would stop them? You 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.440 don't think they'd want to get rid of Republicans. You 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.320 don't think that they would like to be a party 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:21.200 with seventy or eighty percent control of the electorate. And 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:25.760 then then there's this gop, this rump, this old vestige 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.600 of a GOP that exists as just the controlled opposition 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.520 that happens in other democracies around the world. You know, 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:36.599 this is not something that's unprecedented. A one party state 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:41.040 with no real check on the control of the Democrat Party, 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:43.760 and at that point it just grows and grows. We've 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:48.120 already got an open border, friends, We've already got modern 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.560 monetary theory at work. As far as the Democrats are concerned, 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:56.760 spend whatever they want to spend. Where are we able 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:02.480 to slow them down? Where is our tag resistance? Well, 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:07.440 as you're seeing, doesn't doesn't seem very effective at all, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.560 doesn't haven't been able to really figure out how to 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.160 get this going. And those of us who were warning 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.800 about this from the very beginning now point to this 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:23.560 and just say we told you, for those independence for 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:29.240 those never Trump or Republicans, for whatever moderate Democrats that 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.200 are in the country, you don't get a moderate administration 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:37.440 just because you have an old, boring politico like Joe 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.880 Biden at the top. That's not what happens with the 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:44.000 modern Democrat Party. That's not how this goes. And all 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.920 the things that we talk about that the Democrats want 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:51.160 to do, the most radical Green New Deal agenda, that 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.520 taking of your guns. What's to stop them if they 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.960 eliminate the filibuster, which they can they can very well do. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.200 What's to stop them if they eliminate the filibuster? And 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:07.200 if they pack the Supreme Court from enacting any part 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:12.080 of their agenda, Who's going to tell them no? And 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.760 I sit here and I'm very frustrated, of course by 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.840 what happened in the last election, and the fact that 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.760 we have to come to grips as a party, with 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.480 the fact that we are in a very weak position 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.480 right now, right after having a president that we believe 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.480 to be part of the beginning of a political movement. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:33.240 Now I think there's a comeback in our future. And 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.840 if I were to have guessed after this last election, 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.440 when would we feel, I'll just say it, feel the 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.520 most depressed to be a conservative, it was going to 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:46.000 be right about starting now and going into the fall. 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.840 Here's my case for optimism, though, because yeah, right right, 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.679 right at this moment, it feels pretty bleak. I get it. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:58.120 But here's my case for optimism. The Democrats aren't good 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.440 at governing. In fact, the greatest enemy that the Biden 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:06.160 administration has is the observation of the American people with 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:10.120 respect to what Joe Biden's doing. There is nothing, There 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.400 is nothing that will make people turn on this administration 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.400 more than actually having to live through the policies and 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:22.400 decision making of the socialist Democrat apparatus. That is the 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:28.400 single best machine for Republican turnout and for flipping independence 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.120 and even some moderate Democrats to our side in the midterms. 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.240 What's going on at the southern border, where I will 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.840 be next week for a few days, is a disaster, 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:43.120 and the Democrats cannot and will not stop it. What's 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:47.280 going on with our spending will lead to inflation. This 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.120 will lead to real economic pain for people, particularly the 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:55.160 particularly those who live off of wages and have been 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.920 trying to save money, to try to build assets, to 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:02.160 get ahead of the paycheck to paycheck cycle that so 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.560 many millions of Americans are in. It's going to hurt 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:11.040 them because everything food, gas, housing gets more expensive. These 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.280 things are going to occur. And never mind the foreign 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.560 policy challenges that we're seeing a rise here, the Biden 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.360 team is simply not up to it. Joe Biden is 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.440 not up to it. You think this is a smart guy, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.360 You think this is somebody who really has wisdom and 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.560 good judgment. He never did before now, and even the 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.240 Democrats knew it. But we're supposed to forget all of that. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.320 We're to pretend that Joe Biden's actually a winner just 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.840 because he happened to win this last election after losing 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.520 so many attempts before to be president, because he was 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.960 the man for the moment of fraud that the Democrats 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:49.320 were perpetrating against the American people, pretending that we were 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.600 going to get a different administration from what we got. 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.400 Think of all the times they lectured us about how 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:00.920 Trump was undermining our sacred institutions, and now, in your 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.679 own head, just take a moment to consider what institution 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:12.280 did Trump really undermine? What institution was Trump willing to 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.560 put through the kind of upheaval the Democrats are talking 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.800 about now, whether it's the filibuster in the Senate or 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:21.880 even bigger the Supreme Court. I mean, can't Democrats understand 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:29.280 what this leads to? But there's there's a childishness, a selfishness, 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.240 and a short sightedness at the heart of so much 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:37.600 of the Democrat parties aid so much of its emotional thinking. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.880 Harry Reid decided to invoke the nuclear option when they 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.640 had a Senate majority of the Democrats side, and then 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.240 that led to changes the Democrats didn't like, because all 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.320 of a sudden, it was a simple majority vote to 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:55.000 get through judges. They started it, and then when it 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.520 happened exactly as everybody warned it would, that there would 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:03.080 be an equal and opposite reaction in a sense, to 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:07.959 their usurpation, to their power grab, and they decided, well, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.120 now we're just going to just escalate it even more. 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.560 And that's the phase we're in right now. We were 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.800 told they'd never use the nuclear option, and then they did. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:20.320 Under the Obama administration, Harry Reid hit the nuke button 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:25.839 for the filibuster in the Senate on judicial nominees. And 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:27.920 now we're at a point where they're just saying, maybe 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:32.680 we should get rid of that entirely, the filibuster, and 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:37.160 and we should pack the Supreme Court. Do they really 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.080 think that it would stop at thirteen? No, of course 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.640 not the Republican Party. The Republican Party would be a 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:46.280 bunch of cowards and whimps if they didn't decide the 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.760 next time they were in power that they would add 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.880 a few judges of their own. You know this is 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.040 what happens. Give it. You know ten years you're gonna 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.640 have twenty Supreme Court justices, or you know you have 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.720 to have twenty one. I guess you haven't odd number, 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.640 but you understand what I'm saying. Just keeps ratcheting up 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.280 because they've abandoned shared principle in the pursuit of power 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:13.439 central to the Democrat ethos these days, they simply don't care. 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.240 And here's the other part of this, and this is 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:20.920 why I brought up the one party state idea. There 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.280 is a belief among Democrats that if they go scorched 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:28.440 earth right now, it won't matter. It won't matter what 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.600 the Republican Party thinks or wants to do in response 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:37.040 when power switches hands, because they think they can prevent 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:42.280 that from ever happening. That's what really is in the 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:47.080 back of the minds of the leftist socialist strategists who 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.480 are actually making the calls behind the scenes. Can they 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:56.200 effectively neuter and cast aside the Republican Party once and 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:00.440 for all if they just go for it, and under 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.880 the Biden administration, you'll notice it really is just a 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:08.320 continuation of the Obama administration approach, which was whatever you 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.760 gotta do to win, and whatever you gotta do to 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.280 crush the other side. Break any rules you got to break, 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:18.160 sick the irs on your political opponents, you know, use 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.200 executive orders in ways that are clearly abusive of constitutional 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.840 separation of powers, and whatever you gotta do, pen and 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:29.080 a phone, just go for it. I hope everyone is 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.960 waking up to what is happening around us right now. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.280 As I said, this is the rubicon. The Democrats are 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.600 looking at the water as it rushes by, and the 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:44.520 only question remains as to what we will do if 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.920 and when they cross it. Parts of our country are 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:52.600 backsliding into the days of Jim Crow, passing laws that 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.760 harken back to the air of poll taxes on black 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.680 people are made to guess how many beans, how many 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.840 jelly beans in the jar, or count the number of 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.720 bubbles in a bar of soap before they could cast 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:09.920 her ballot. Backsliding into the days of Jim and Crowe. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:17.480 What a horrific, awful, dishonest thing for the President of 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:25.560 the United States to say, reckless, absolutely reckless demagoguery. But 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.760 this is what Joe Biden has done. His whole career. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:32.320 Joe Biden is at his core just a slimy fraud. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.680 He's always just done whatever would be most beneficial for 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.560 him within the Democrat apparatus. That's his whole career. He 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:45.480 stands for nothing. He stands for Bidenism, which stands for 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.400 whoever is going to either write him the biggest check 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.960 or provide him the biggest political boost. This guy is 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:59.800 effectively a weather vane. He goes wherever the forces around him. 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:06.320 He is inept at anything else, and this is why 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.840 he has this long history of gaffs, they say, But 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:11.960 really the gaffs are just a result of this being 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.440 a man of poor judgment who's not very bright. Joe 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.920 Biden's just not a very smart guy. We all know it. 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:23.400 We all can see it. He's never been impressive in 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:27.920 any way. I mean to be the senator from a 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:33.880 state of Delaware, Okay, you know whoop d who cares? 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.760 And yet Joe Biden is President of the United States. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:44.440 What a sad state of affairs? Right A? What a 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:51.680 sad situation. This is Joe Biden saying just destructive things 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.560 at this moment in time when we all know that 0:16:55.640 --> 0:17:00.600 there's an expectation of riots going beyond what's already happening. 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:05.119 I mean, you think the riots of Minneapolis are bad, now, 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:09.359 think about what they'll be like next week after the 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.679 Chauvin trial. And now you know, who knows what the 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.000 final outcome will be. I don't believe. I mean, if 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:18.560 they charge Chauvin with felony murder, I mean they're just 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.640 then now we're just actually going beyond what any reasonable 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.320 person could think to punish people for the benefit of 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:30.160 the mob. But where a country that now is increasingly 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.919 operating at the whims of the mob. You see this, 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.760 You see how this happens. Look at the response you 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:40.040 get from our media apparatus. Look at what's said by 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:44.679 the journos and the elected Democrats, from Biden to Pelosi, 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.200 to Schumer to AOC to to Lead to all of them. 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.879 Look at the way they speak about this movement, this 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.280 BLM movement, and these rioters. Let's just all be honest 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.440 about this. And I've written about this today at buck 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:05.600 Sex and let's just say it. Riots are self indulgent idiocy. 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:12.080 Not only do they break laws and hurt people, they 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:16.600 don't even bring about an outcome of benefit for anyone 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:22.000 other than a very small circle of elites and activists 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:27.280 who either cheer this on from afar or gather social 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:31.880 capital for themselves by making excuses for it. I mean, 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:36.320 does anybody really think that there has been a single, 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:41.959 a single benefit from all of this, a single worthwhile 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:45.720 aspect of it. I mean, put aside for a moment 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:49.800 the appalling immorality of looting businesses because people are upset, 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:56.639 or systemic oppression, or whatever childish justification is offered at 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.280 that moment. For baham, right, what has come out of 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:04.480 BLM that has made anything better for anyone? Could any 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:08.679 of the BLM organizers name a single concession or change 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:14.239 resulting from their agitation that actually made lives better? Of 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:18.679 course not. And let's be honest about this. Defund the 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:23.879 police is possibly the most moronic, reckless political slogan uttered 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.560 in living memory, but the BLM movement acts as though 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.160 it's the rallying cry of a new civil rights struggle. 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.520 I mean, it's hard to take the BLM activist claim 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.360 seriously when so many times these mostly peaceful protests end 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:46.320 with mobs stealing sneakers and designer handbags. A healthy nation 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:51.520 does not feel under siege at the whims of the mob, 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:57.200 and that is where we are friends. People get angry, 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:01.000 they take to the streets. Are political class tries to 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:05.800 placate them or treats them as heroes. They should be 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:12.280 universally condemned. And it's not about protests. Nobody cares that 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:14.560 protest all day, get out with your plaque, or do 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.119 whatever you want. Protests are fine, but they know that 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:22.360 won't actually have the intended effect. Why because their argument 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:27.600 is weak. What they're claiming that law enforcement is evil 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:32.600 and racist is not true, and most Americans know that. 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.480 So what do they do. They add a layer of 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:41.360 intimidation to it. Antifa BLM. They decide that it's not 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:45.840 just their voices that must be heard. It's the feeling 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.960 of the bricks hitting cops in the face. It's the 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:54.159 sound of shattered glass from stores in your neighborhood, and 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.920 the sense that you cannot trust the political class to 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:01.399 protect you and they want to disarm you simultaneously. I 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.879 believed that our presidence in Afghanistan should be focused on 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.879 the reason we went in the first place, to ensure 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:10.520 Afghanistan would not be used as a base from which 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:15.400 to attack our homeland. Again, we did that. We accomplished 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:20.439 that objective. I said, among with others, we'd follow some 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:22.760 and been laden to the gates of hell if need be. 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:28.000 That's exactly what we did, and we got him. It 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:31.800 took us close to ten years to put President Obama's 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:36.680 commitment in the form, and that's exactly what happened. Well, 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:40.399 some have been lauden was gone. That was ten years ago. 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:44.600 Think about that. We delivered justice to have been lauden 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:48.520 a decade ago, and we've stayed in Afghanistan for a 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:51.760 decade since he says they're all going to be out. 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.760 All of our troops will be out by September eleventh 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:58.320 of this year. Should be noted that this is on 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:02.080 a timeline that was put forward by Trump before the 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:07.359 Biden administration even came into office. But like I've said before, 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:11.439 I'm not changing my opinion on this because we have 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:15.000 a different commander in chief. I think enough is enough, 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:17.159 and I want to also make sure I'm very clear 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.560 when I say that I believe that the situation Afghanistan 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:24.720 will will likely deteriorate after US troops are pulled out. 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.919 Now to what extent that's anybody's guests right now, but 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:32.240 it's it's not going to be good. But we also 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:37.439 shouldn't establish not only a pattern of staying in a 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:39.960 country and trying to build it, trying to create stability 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:42.640 in a foreign country that we don't have an immediate 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:47.280 national security interest in, and that's putting it, you know, 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:50.040 that's one way of just saying we can't do this 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:54.879 nation building thing. And then beyond that, there's always the 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:58.600 possibility that if you were there, your mission set will 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:01.840 escalate and the Taliban's not going anywhere. We figured that out. 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.280 There's that old I think it's attributed to mullah Omar 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:07.280 that you know, we have all the clocks, but they 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:10.280 have all the time, which is true in a sense. 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:14.280 And so we're going to go through this process of 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:19.560 a withdrawal. Remember the Obama administration withdrew from Iraq and 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:23.159 that did lead to the rise of ISIS and we 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:26.400 ended up having a huge mess in the region. That 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:29.359 is also possible here with Afghanistan. We need to be 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:35.760 very straightforward about that that this could have some rapid 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:39.639 deterioration and then you'll you'll have another major problem on 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:42.480 your hands. But the alternative is to just stay there. Forever, 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:45.720 and all of I can tell you this. I don't 0:23:45.800 --> 0:23:49.240 I'm not doing some official polling or anything like that. 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:53.320 But all of the Afghan combat vets that I know 0:23:54.359 --> 0:23:57.360 that I've talked to you about this say that they 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:02.480 just feel like it's it's time. Enough is enough here 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:07.000 and we need to get out. And so here's Biden 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:09.480 telling us all that, you know, the Afghans have got 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:12.760 to take command here and do their thing. Play eight, 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:18.240 two thousand and eight, weeks before we swore the oath 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:21.720 of office, President Obama and I were about to swear 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:25.080 President Obama asked me to travel to Afghanistan and report 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:28.960 back on the state of the war in Afghanistan. I 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:33.200 flew to Afghanistan to the Kunar Valley, a rugged mountainous 0:24:33.240 --> 0:24:37.080 region on the border with Pakistan. What I saw on 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:41.560 that trip reinforced my conviction that only the Afghans have 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:44.800 the right and responsibility to leave their country. And then 0:24:44.960 --> 0:24:49.200 more and endless American military force could not create or 0:24:49.240 --> 0:24:54.000 sustain a durable Afghan government. I believed that our presidence 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:56.920 in Afghanistan should be focused on the reason we went 0:24:56.920 --> 0:24:59.439 in the first place. The mission has been accomplished in 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:03.760 afghanist of destroying al Qaeda. For a long time, we 0:25:03.840 --> 0:25:08.440 did transition into this other mission of trying to make 0:25:08.480 --> 0:25:15.160 Afghanistan a successful country that can defend itself and maintain 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:18.560 its own borders and have a functioning government. And then 0:25:18.560 --> 0:25:22.119 it turned into you know, school for girls and human 0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:26.760 rights and things like this, all worthy goals, but not 0:25:26.920 --> 0:25:32.040 our fight. And there has been no real way to 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:34.800 take the mission beyond where it's been for about the 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:39.360 last decade. And I can tell you, having seen the 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:42.920 assessments at the very highest level from a decade ago 0:25:43.119 --> 0:25:45.560 when I was in the CIA and working in the 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:50.720 Afghan issue and in Afghanistan for months, that there was 0:25:50.960 --> 0:25:55.600 no realistic plan to get us to the point where 0:25:55.600 --> 0:25:59.760 the conditions based approach would let us leave. There was 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:03.400 a realistic plan. We kept having people come forward who 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:05.760 would say, oh, well, we're just going to do this. 0:26:05.800 --> 0:26:08.480 We're gonna train the Afghan Army and we're gonna train 0:26:08.520 --> 0:26:13.120 the Afghan National Police, and somebody would then probably bring 0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:15.680 up in the conference room or wherever. Hey, But that 0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:17.800 was the plan two years ago. And this is where 0:26:17.840 --> 0:26:19.639 we are now, and it's be quiet, We'll do it 0:26:19.680 --> 0:26:23.359 better this time, and it just kept happening and happening. 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:27.760 So we had the Obama administration, if you remember, search 0:26:27.880 --> 0:26:31.480 over one hundred thousand troops at one point in Afghanistan, 0:26:32.400 --> 0:26:38.960 massive force escalation. And here we are again having a conversation, 0:26:39.040 --> 0:26:41.200 what can we pull out the last three or four 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:44.720 thousand soldiers from Afghanistan. You know, they told us if 0:26:44.760 --> 0:26:48.000 we didn't have a bigger military presence in Syria, remember that, 0:26:48.040 --> 0:26:51.120 after we crushed after Trump crushed the Islamic State, there 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:54.480 was a debate. I remember it, Oh, we need to 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:57.000 maintain a longer term presence there. I know there's some 0:26:57.920 --> 0:27:03.239 there's some small number of you know, US operators, US 0:27:03.280 --> 0:27:07.200 special forces and others who are still in the region. 0:27:07.960 --> 0:27:11.639 But they did not. There was not this long term, 0:27:11.960 --> 0:27:15.240 large scale military presence to hold it all together, and 0:27:15.280 --> 0:27:17.200 we had to fight against that. I think it's fast 0:27:17.200 --> 0:27:22.040 that Biden is claiming that this decision is not a 0:27:22.160 --> 0:27:24.440 tough one for him. Here's what he said, play six 0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:29.399 hard to say. That wasn't me. It was absolutely clear, 0:27:30.880 --> 0:27:34.320 absolutely clear. We went for two reasons. You real have 0:27:34.320 --> 0:27:37.480 been larned. The man in the safe had from the 0:27:37.560 --> 0:27:40.680 very beginning to take you, Mary call I never thought 0:27:40.720 --> 0:27:45.280 we were there too. Somehow you given the fire right, 0:27:46.040 --> 0:27:49.400 I mean, excuse me a few step. It's never been done. 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:56.440 It's never been done. It's never it's never been done. 0:27:56.560 --> 0:27:59.040 I mean, you know, this is the guy who's making decisions. 0:27:59.040 --> 0:28:01.280 But I'll say this, I think it is. I think 0:28:01.280 --> 0:28:03.280 it's the right decision. But let's frame this in the 0:28:03.400 --> 0:28:08.919 right way. Joe Biden is fulfilling the timeline and the 0:28:08.960 --> 0:28:12.119 plan set forth by the Trump administration before him. And 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:14.160 I just want to put this out there. Do you 0:28:14.359 --> 0:28:21.439 think there's a very different approach in the way the 0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:24.960 media is covering this? Did you just I mean, I 0:28:25.000 --> 0:28:26.720 know this is a silly question because you know the answer, 0:28:26.760 --> 0:28:29.960 but really, just just take a moment, you know it. 0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:32.920 Is it really the case that our national media believes 0:28:33.480 --> 0:28:38.680 that when Joe Biden does something, it is brilliant, but 0:28:38.760 --> 0:28:41.600 when Trump wanted to do the same thing, or Trump 0:28:41.640 --> 0:28:45.320 wanted to do it before Joe Biden did, it was reckless. 0:28:46.080 --> 0:28:50.760 It was spur of the moment. Oh yes, friends, that 0:28:50.960 --> 0:28:56.320 is absolutely the case. Hats appear to Drew Holden for 0:28:56.480 --> 0:29:02.000 pulling together from a from dec He's a prelance commentary writer. 0:29:02.800 --> 0:29:07.880 Pulling together this thread on Twitter. Here's what he had today, 0:29:07.960 --> 0:29:11.880 President Biden announced his intention. I'm sorry, this is from yesterday, 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:14.600 to end the war in Afghanistan, a great media fanfare. 0:29:16.040 --> 0:29:18.800 You may remember way back in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty, 0:29:19.160 --> 0:29:22.480 President Trump said the same thing. Let me know if 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:26.400 you can spot the difference in coverage then versus now. 0:29:27.160 --> 0:29:30.400 When Trump said we were leaving, CNN quoted the NATO 0:29:30.480 --> 0:29:34.760 Secretary General with a stark warning about how dangerous the 0:29:34.800 --> 0:29:39.320 move would be. But when Biden's decision was announced, well, 0:29:39.800 --> 0:29:43.360 that one was different. Here here's here is the way 0:29:43.560 --> 0:29:46.239 CNN covered. I mean, this is a fun game, isn't it. 0:29:47.280 --> 0:29:51.920 CNN covered Trump's announcement of the desire to withdraw from Afghanistan. 0:29:52.120 --> 0:29:58.440 Quote NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenborg or I guess it's yen's. 0:29:58.520 --> 0:30:03.280 Stoltenberg issued a stark warning that any premature withdrawal from 0:30:03.280 --> 0:30:07.160 Afghanistan could be dangerous a day after reports that President 0:30:07.160 --> 0:30:10.120 Trump is eyeing a troop drawn out against the advice 0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:13.440 of the nation's top military official. So Trump says it, 0:30:13.880 --> 0:30:19.600 and they CNN runs off to NATO and NATO's secretary 0:30:19.640 --> 0:30:24.360 General and then just has this general. You know, America's 0:30:24.360 --> 0:30:28.440 top military officials disagree. So basically Trump is reckless. Trump 0:30:28.520 --> 0:30:35.200 is doing this, okay, CNN when Joe Biden announces it. Quote. 0:30:35.280 --> 0:30:38.200 As President Biden prepares to lay out his plan to 0:30:38.240 --> 0:30:43.200 withdraw US troops from Afghanistan, a source familiar with his 0:30:43.320 --> 0:30:48.640 thinking tells CNN's Christiane am Umpur that he thinks no 0:30:48.720 --> 0:30:50.680 amount of US troops in the country could be a 0:30:50.760 --> 0:30:55.040 game changer anymore. So it's just when Biden does it, 0:30:55.040 --> 0:30:58.160 it's let's let's tell everybody. What is thinking is, let's 0:30:58.200 --> 0:31:01.000 be the pr team for a president Joe Biden. But 0:31:01.080 --> 0:31:03.680 when Trump announced that, it's let's go to a foreigner 0:31:04.120 --> 0:31:06.600 and get his opinion and then say that the whole 0:31:06.680 --> 0:31:12.520 US military apparatus is opposed against him, it's amazing. On 0:31:13.280 --> 0:31:18.680 CNN yesterday, this is just reckless and it is really risky, 0:31:18.760 --> 0:31:21.800 says Brett Bruin of Trump's planned to withdraw troops from 0:31:21.800 --> 0:31:25.800 Iraq and Afghanistan. You're not sharing information with the incoming administration, 0:31:25.880 --> 0:31:27.800 so the likelihood that something could go wrong is very 0:31:27.920 --> 0:31:31.880 very high. CNN reporting That was when Trump announced it. 0:31:32.000 --> 0:31:37.760 CNN reporting on Biden's announcement. Former President Obama praised President 0:31:37.840 --> 0:31:40.840 Biden's bold leadership for his decision to withdraw US troops 0:31:40.840 --> 0:31:43.880 from Afghanistan by September eleventh, saying that it is time 0:31:43.920 --> 0:31:46.480 to recognize that we've accomplished all that we can military 0:31:46.520 --> 0:31:51.960 and military in America's longest war. A little more here, CNN. 0:31:52.120 --> 0:31:56.880 Diplomats worried Trump's desire to withdraw US troops risk success 0:31:57.000 --> 0:32:02.040 of Afghan Taliban talks. CNN Again, President Biden has announced 0:32:02.040 --> 0:32:05.600 his decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan before September eleventh. 0:32:07.200 --> 0:32:09.480 The twentieth anniversity of the terrorist attacks in the World 0:32:09.480 --> 0:32:12.480 Trade Center and the Pentagon that led the US into 0:32:12.520 --> 0:32:15.360 its longest war. All right, let's now, let's look over 0:32:15.360 --> 0:32:18.120 the New York Times. Let's look over the New York 0:32:18.160 --> 0:32:22.560 Times news analysis. The Taliban wanted the US to leave Afghanistan, 0:32:23.120 --> 0:32:25.640 Turkey wanted the US out of Syria, and North Korea 0:32:25.680 --> 0:32:29.360 wanted them to stop military exercise with South Korea. Trump has, 0:32:29.400 --> 0:32:32.520 to some extent obliged all three, but without getting much 0:32:32.560 --> 0:32:35.640 in return. New York Times, we went to war in 0:32:35.680 --> 0:32:38.360 Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened twenty years ago. 0:32:38.440 --> 0:32:41.280 President Biden said, I'm announcing a full withdrawal from the 0:32:41.320 --> 0:32:44.600 country that cannot explain why we should remain there in 0:32:44.600 --> 0:32:47.560 twenty twenty one. I mean, it just it just goes 0:32:47.680 --> 0:32:52.120 on and on and on the way see that. But 0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:56.800 this is a clinic in the propaganda from the Democrat media. 0:32:56.880 --> 0:33:01.480 You see, when Trump announces something, let's get all of 0:33:01.520 --> 0:33:06.479 the quote experts and former you know, former Obama regime 0:33:06.480 --> 0:33:13.360 officials and other you know, internationalist foreigners together, and let's 0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:17.520 have them trash the decision that Trump makes. But then 0:33:17.560 --> 0:33:21.400 the same decision under Biden. It's let's just let Biden's 0:33:21.440 --> 0:33:25.600 words be heard, and let's present this as statesmanship. How 0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:30.520 anyone can think that CNN still qualifies as a news 0:33:30.680 --> 0:33:36.480 organization that even makes a pretense of being objective is 0:33:36.520 --> 0:33:40.480 just is just beyond imagination, right, I mean, how anyone 0:33:40.520 --> 0:33:46.200 could cling to such an obvious fiction is just flatly embarrassing. 0:33:46.240 --> 0:33:48.920 But there are people, and a lot of them live 0:33:48.960 --> 0:33:50.360 here in New York where I am, or they live 0:33:50.400 --> 0:33:53.440 in washingtonc they live in LA. They still think CNN 0:33:53.560 --> 0:33:57.680 is you know, where the real information and journalism gets done. 0:33:58.040 --> 0:34:02.680 Don't China administer rations tough talk has been welcome, but 0:34:02.800 --> 0:34:06.800 it's proposal to cut defense spending after inflation suggests there's 0:34:06.880 --> 0:34:09.640 less interest in walking. The walk will not keep pace 0:34:09.719 --> 0:34:12.520 with China and Russia by cutting defense spending to place 0:34:12.600 --> 0:34:16.680 a fringe parts of the far left. The American people need, 0:34:17.320 --> 0:34:20.520 and they deserve, a foreign policy that puts our security, 0:34:20.800 --> 0:34:25.080 our partners, and our interests ahead of the reflective desire 0:34:25.160 --> 0:34:27.600 to break with the last four years at any cost, 0:34:28.760 --> 0:34:32.160 at any cost. If this administration wants a successful legacy 0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:36.040 on the world stage, if they want accomplishments that will endure, 0:34:37.200 --> 0:34:39.520 they need to put American strength back at the center 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:45.800 and come back to a bipartisan mainstream. Ah yes, Mitch McConnell, 0:34:45.800 --> 0:34:48.640 the bipartisan mainstream in our foreign policy. And that's what 0:34:48.680 --> 0:34:53.960 we're going to talk about now. Now when it comes 0:34:54.000 --> 0:34:59.960 to strength abroad, What are the central principles, the central 0:35:00.080 --> 0:35:07.640 tenets of Trumpist foreign policy? If you will, it's America first, right, 0:35:07.719 --> 0:35:11.080 That's where you start from. So is this in America's interest? 0:35:11.120 --> 0:35:14.080 Does this work, this decision work for the American people? 0:35:14.560 --> 0:35:17.440 And then beyond that, who are friends? Who are enemies? 0:35:17.760 --> 0:35:20.000 Do they know the difference and does the difference matter? 0:35:20.760 --> 0:35:23.520 And that's a very straightforward place I think for US 0:35:23.560 --> 0:35:27.439 to start on all these issues. Russia right now, let's 0:35:27.440 --> 0:35:31.520 just take a look around. Russia is getting more aggressive 0:35:31.719 --> 0:35:37.040 against Ukraine. Has put out a very a very clear, 0:35:37.200 --> 0:35:40.960 saber rattling statement about how the US should not deploy 0:35:41.120 --> 0:35:45.600 some of its naval forces around Crimea. And now it's 0:35:45.760 --> 0:35:48.440 it's been reported today the bidenministration is actually backing off that, 0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:53.400 but going to announce more sanctions, more targeted sanctions and 0:35:53.480 --> 0:35:57.160 expelling some diplomats is anyonething that's going to do anything, 0:35:58.239 --> 0:36:01.520 you know. I mean, let's be honest, we had four 0:36:01.640 --> 0:36:06.840 years of Russia hysteria. Now a democrat comes into office 0:36:07.120 --> 0:36:11.440 and Russia's getting more aggressive than when Trump was in 0:36:11.560 --> 0:36:17.000 office against US and NATO and European interests in general. 0:36:18.120 --> 0:36:22.040 But you're hearing it very muted criticism of what's going 0:36:22.120 --> 0:36:24.879 on here from the Democrat side of things, because what 0:36:24.920 --> 0:36:28.640 do they really want to do? Ultimately, the Democrat mindset 0:36:28.640 --> 0:36:33.120 about foreign policy runs into this problem. The world is 0:36:33.160 --> 0:36:35.640 a dangerous place and there are bad actors and bad 0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:40.400 people in it, and you have to be willing to 0:36:40.520 --> 0:36:43.200 make them face consequences for that. And they have to 0:36:43.200 --> 0:36:46.200 believe you're willing to do that. Otherwise it's all just 0:36:46.360 --> 0:36:50.880 sitting around talking over lattes at you know, Davos or 0:36:50.920 --> 0:36:54.719 in Brussels or wherever, having a bunch of diplomats, you know, 0:36:54.920 --> 0:36:58.000 chit chatting while the bad guys just do what they 0:36:58.000 --> 0:37:01.240 want to do. What do you think the Chinese approach 0:37:01.400 --> 0:37:04.359 is going to be to the Biden administration. I mean, 0:37:04.360 --> 0:37:07.320 I can tell you this right now, I am betting 0:37:07.440 --> 0:37:11.600 on Chinese ascendency against this Biden foreign policy team for 0:37:11.640 --> 0:37:13.359 the next four years. And I don't like to say 0:37:13.400 --> 0:37:15.919 that as an American, but I think that's what we're 0:37:15.960 --> 0:37:19.319 heading for. And then on the Republican side, we need 0:37:19.360 --> 0:37:23.200 to remember that the foreign policy establishment for the GOP 0:37:24.320 --> 0:37:28.760 is still largely dominated by Bush holdovers and neo cons 0:37:28.760 --> 0:37:33.000 and interventionists, people who think that, you know, US military 0:37:33.040 --> 0:37:35.680 power should be projected around the world in ways that 0:37:36.239 --> 0:37:42.360 don't immediately benefit US interests, and there's always another country 0:37:42.400 --> 0:37:44.560 to invade. Me. I look at Iran and I get 0:37:44.600 --> 0:37:48.400 worried because there are still people think, you know, let's 0:37:48.400 --> 0:37:55.840 take this generally militarily insignificant and economically battered country and 0:37:55.920 --> 0:37:59.160 let's consider how we could maybe invade and overthrow and 0:37:59.400 --> 0:38:01.720 do a rock two point Oh. There are still people, 0:38:01.760 --> 0:38:05.239 I can assure you, unfortunately, who believe that more data 0:38:05.280 --> 0:38:10.000 coming out about where we are vaccinations and how effective 0:38:10.040 --> 0:38:12.120 they are and what the risks are and everything else, 0:38:12.160 --> 0:38:14.200 And I don't know what to tell you. Then I 0:38:14.280 --> 0:38:16.800 keep being right, and the Fauci it's keep being wrong. 0:38:16.880 --> 0:38:20.839 It's it's a really consistent, a consistent situation at this 0:38:20.920 --> 0:38:25.040 point just continues on like that, and I'm hoping more 0:38:25.040 --> 0:38:26.960 and more people wake up to this. It's been so 0:38:27.080 --> 0:38:31.080 damaging the way that they've shut down our ability to 0:38:31.120 --> 0:38:34.840 actually speak about this on the or in the public 0:38:34.880 --> 0:38:37.680 forum that is the digital town square that the social 0:38:37.719 --> 0:38:41.240 media folks have made these decisions. But I'm gonna keep pushing. 0:38:41.760 --> 0:38:43.480 I'm going to keep pushing even though it hurts. It 0:38:43.520 --> 0:38:45.760 hurts my bottom line, hurts my reach, hurts, my ability 0:38:45.800 --> 0:38:48.200 to push my podcast and other things out there on 0:38:48.239 --> 0:38:50.800 social media platforms, because I think this issue is too important. 0:38:51.480 --> 0:38:53.480 My own digital team, my own people say, Buck, you 0:38:53.719 --> 0:38:56.200 got to lay off the Fauci stuff or else. You know, 0:38:56.200 --> 0:38:58.440 we're gonna get throttled, We're gonna get shadow band. We've 0:38:58.480 --> 0:39:00.960 already been and I say, I'm sorry, I'm not going 0:39:01.000 --> 0:39:03.279 to do that. I'm not going to back off this. 0:39:03.480 --> 0:39:07.799 It's too important. 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Whether the numbers 0:40:32.800 --> 0:40:39.200 indicate that this is something that justifies continued masking and 0:40:39.280 --> 0:40:42.080 other restrictions for those who are vaccine Who wants to guess? 0:40:42.120 --> 0:40:45.640 I'm just wondering if you think you think it's incredibly rare, 0:40:45.800 --> 0:40:49.880 A little bit rare, yeah, point zero zero eight. If 0:40:49.880 --> 0:40:52.600 you do some back of the napkin math on this one, 0:40:53.160 --> 0:40:57.319 you've got about sixty some odd million Americans vaccinated so 0:40:57.360 --> 0:41:02.200 far and five thousand cases of infection according to the 0:41:02.239 --> 0:41:06.840 CDC's that's where the number currently stands. That's pretty remarkable, 0:41:06.880 --> 0:41:13.319 isn't it. That's a pretty astonishing, astonishingly low number of 0:41:13.320 --> 0:41:15.600 people who and this is great news. Let me just 0:41:15.640 --> 0:41:18.959 say this is great news. We are now we're looking 0:41:19.000 --> 0:41:23.400 at real world data. And if you if you get 0:41:23.440 --> 0:41:26.799 the vaccine, you got like a one in ten thousand 0:41:26.920 --> 0:41:31.360 chance of still getting infected, And if you get infected 0:41:31.880 --> 0:41:36.680 after getting the vaccine, your chances you know, even less 0:41:36.719 --> 0:41:38.440 than that. I mean, you know, I haven't crunched the 0:41:38.520 --> 0:41:40.640 numbers on that one, but maybe one or one on 0:41:40.719 --> 0:41:43.520 one hundred thousand, maybe one in a million that you 0:41:43.600 --> 0:41:47.600 will die if you get COVID after getting the vaccine, right, 0:41:47.680 --> 0:41:49.839 So you know, there's a lot of different layers, you're 0:41:49.840 --> 0:41:53.360 a lot of different levels. If somebody is vaccinated and 0:41:53.560 --> 0:41:56.920 yes they technically contract COVID, but they end up having 0:41:56.960 --> 0:42:00.399 a mild version of the disease, Okay, well that's still 0:42:00.440 --> 0:42:03.239 a win, especially if they're an older person who is 0:42:03.280 --> 0:42:09.640 at higher risk. So why is there still this this 0:42:09.960 --> 0:42:14.040 unease and this unwillingness to allow people to go back 0:42:14.080 --> 0:42:17.120 to a normal life. Remember Fauci said just recently, you 0:42:17.160 --> 0:42:20.680 know you shouldn't you shouldn't eat indoors, avoid congregate settings 0:42:20.680 --> 0:42:27.680 for vaccinated people. They are taking away your rights. They're 0:42:27.719 --> 0:42:29.480 taking away and forget about even just a right. They're 0:42:29.480 --> 0:42:32.720 taking away your ability to live a normal life based 0:42:32.800 --> 0:42:39.840 on one in ten thousand and above risk factors. They're 0:42:39.920 --> 0:42:43.800 taking away your ability to live a normal life because 0:42:43.960 --> 0:42:47.440 you're not allowed to make basic risk risk analysis decisions 0:42:47.440 --> 0:42:50.920 for yourself. This is tyrannical. I mean, this is not 0:42:50.920 --> 0:42:53.759 it's not an overseaming. This is crazy. These people are 0:42:53.800 --> 0:42:57.319 out of their minds, and it's wrong what they're doing. 0:42:57.760 --> 0:43:02.520 It's wrong and people should understand it as such. They're not, 0:43:02.920 --> 0:43:06.080 you know, careful trying to save all the lives and 0:43:06.160 --> 0:43:09.480 be a good public health servant or whatever. No, this 0:43:09.640 --> 0:43:14.280 is their mentality, the endless busybodying of the American people 0:43:14.440 --> 0:43:19.919 being a hall monitorization of America is almost complete now, 0:43:20.080 --> 0:43:22.280 where you have people who really think that they should 0:43:22.280 --> 0:43:27.920 be walking around outside double masked after being vaccinated. And 0:43:28.000 --> 0:43:30.880 when people like me point out how stupid that is, 0:43:32.280 --> 0:43:36.240 I'm attacked. You don't care if people die. Social media 0:43:36.280 --> 0:43:43.000 shuts down my accounts. Fauci. Fauci has had to address 0:43:44.120 --> 0:43:47.920 the rare instances of people who are vaccinated getting infected. 0:43:48.080 --> 0:43:50.920 I want to walk you through some of the not 0:43:51.040 --> 0:43:55.760 so good doctor, the little fascist Fauci, the lab coat tyrant. 0:43:56.840 --> 0:44:00.239 We're walking through his explanation here and then and then 0:44:00.280 --> 0:44:03.520 we can all talk about how, okay, why are they 0:44:03.520 --> 0:44:05.960 coming to the conclusions they're coming to based on what 0:44:05.960 --> 0:44:09.759 we know about this. Here's how we starts. Thank you 0:44:09.840 --> 0:44:12.279 very much, doctor Lensky. I'd like to spend a few 0:44:12.320 --> 0:44:16.600 minutes now talking about the concept of breakthrough infections. Could 0:44:16.600 --> 0:44:19.280 I have the first slide. I think it'll be important 0:44:19.280 --> 0:44:23.560 to put this into perspective. It's very important with some definitions. 0:44:23.640 --> 0:44:27.360 A breakthrough infection or a vaccine failure is when a 0:44:27.400 --> 0:44:32.839 person contracts an infection despite being vaccinated against it. We 0:44:32.920 --> 0:44:36.400 see this with all vaccines in clinical trials and in 0:44:36.440 --> 0:44:41.600 the real world. No vaccine is one hundred efficacious or effective, 0:44:41.640 --> 0:44:46.319 which means that you will always see breakthrough infections regardless 0:44:46.440 --> 0:44:49.439 of the efficacy of your vaccine. Let's stop right there. 0:44:50.680 --> 0:44:55.640 There is no such thing as a one percent effective vaccine. Okay, 0:44:55.719 --> 0:44:59.399 doesn't exist. So let's just remember that. So anyone who's 0:44:59.400 --> 0:45:03.160 sayingvaccines not one hundred percent effective, that's never going to happen. 0:45:03.880 --> 0:45:08.239 It has never happened, it will never happen. So this 0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:13.000 is all about risk assessment and analysis. There is no 0:45:13.520 --> 0:45:17.319 perfect safety does not exist. So when anyone's saying, oh, 0:45:17.320 --> 0:45:19.960 but you know the vaccine it's only ninety five percent, 0:45:20.000 --> 0:45:22.640 there's still five percent of people getting factored. So we 0:45:22.680 --> 0:45:26.680 still have to wear the masks. They are emotionally unwell, 0:45:27.880 --> 0:45:32.840 they have been brainwashed. Okay, that's what's going on. That's 0:45:32.920 --> 0:45:37.360 the situation as it's playing out. So let's continue here 0:45:37.520 --> 0:45:41.839 with Fauci as he's explaining more about the truth of 0:45:42.200 --> 0:45:46.640 vaccines according to the CDC and the health experts out there. 0:45:46.680 --> 0:45:52.080 Here's what he says. There has primary vaccine failure when 0:45:52.120 --> 0:45:55.279 the body actually doesn't amount an adequate immune response for 0:45:55.280 --> 0:45:59.799 a number of reasons. Could be immune status, health status, age, 0:46:00.160 --> 0:46:05.959 medications you're on, or something wrong with the vaccine storage, delivery, composition. 0:46:06.760 --> 0:46:13.920 Secondary vaccine failure may occur when immunity fades over time. Now, 0:46:14.000 --> 0:46:18.000 a vaccine may fail also if a person is exposed 0:46:18.080 --> 0:46:22.000 to a newer, a different strain, or a variant. For example, 0:46:22.080 --> 0:46:26.400 influenzas the most common of this, which mutates rapidly in 0:46:26.560 --> 0:46:32.680 drifts genetically generally from season to season. However, even if 0:46:32.719 --> 0:46:38.160 a vaccine fails to protect against infection, it often protects 0:46:38.200 --> 0:46:44.760 against serious disease. Now, this is important. One area that 0:46:45.440 --> 0:46:48.040 I'm telling you there's been an intentional that there's been 0:46:48.080 --> 0:46:52.040 a decision not to update the public on is this 0:46:52.120 --> 0:46:59.920 notion of asymptomatic spread. Asymptomatic spread certainly does happen from 0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:05.480 what we know, but it's very difficult to separate truly 0:47:05.560 --> 0:47:10.719 asymptomatic spread from say, pre symptomatic spread, meaning that you're 0:47:10.840 --> 0:47:14.680 somebody like For example, when I got COVID, I have 0:47:14.760 --> 0:47:17.080 felt a little off, but I didn't feel sick. I 0:47:17.120 --> 0:47:21.320 would say about a day or two before I got wrecked. 0:47:21.360 --> 0:47:22.640 And some of you who were listening to the show 0:47:22.719 --> 0:47:26.000 remember that I essentially found out that I felt like 0:47:26.080 --> 0:47:27.600 I was really sick, and then I found out I 0:47:27.600 --> 0:47:30.680 had COVID while I was doing the radio show. But 0:47:30.840 --> 0:47:32.480 I had felt a little iffy for a day or 0:47:32.480 --> 0:47:35.360 two before then, and I was very concerned that I 0:47:35.360 --> 0:47:41.480 had seen some friends and family members in that period 0:47:41.480 --> 0:47:43.319 of time and that I was worried that that they 0:47:43.360 --> 0:47:46.040 could have been exposed. Fortunately, nobody I was in close 0:47:46.120 --> 0:47:50.040 contact with came down with any illness, and I have 0:47:50.120 --> 0:47:52.839 both my parents are vaccinated. And I was a very 0:47:52.880 --> 0:47:56.560 happy day when, you know, the threshold period had passed 0:47:56.560 --> 0:47:58.319 when I didn't have to think about whether I know 0:47:58.360 --> 0:48:01.040 my parents might have been exposed to COVID. Unbeknownst to 0:48:01.080 --> 0:48:02.560 me that I had had it, but I was pre 0:48:02.719 --> 0:48:06.640 symptomatic before I got I got, you know, walloped by it. 0:48:06.680 --> 0:48:09.520 But we're led to believe that, oh, you could feel great, 0:48:09.600 --> 0:48:12.000 you can feel fine one hundred percent and you're spreading 0:48:12.040 --> 0:48:14.759 COVID all over the base. Remember when they look at 0:48:14.800 --> 0:48:19.400 the R number, are one means you give it on 0:48:19.440 --> 0:48:23.000 average if you're sick to one other person. That's what 0:48:23.120 --> 0:48:24.719 we're talking about, give it to one other person. And 0:48:24.920 --> 0:48:27.319 if you have a low level of virus in your 0:48:27.400 --> 0:48:30.400 system and your systems handling it very well, it is 0:48:30.560 --> 0:48:34.000 less likely that you will transmit this virus to other people. 0:48:34.920 --> 0:48:36.879 So why I think this really matters is that not 0:48:37.080 --> 0:48:39.440 because what you hear from people, And you know, I 0:48:39.440 --> 0:48:42.040 saw Tucker Carlson. He keeps digging in and I appreciate 0:48:42.080 --> 0:48:44.239 that he's asking these questions. I appreciate that he's raising this. 0:48:44.520 --> 0:48:48.440 He keeps saying, why can't we go back to normal 0:48:48.560 --> 0:48:51.040 if the vaccine works? And I agree with this premise. 0:48:51.360 --> 0:48:54.560 The answer the left gives that the Fauciites give to 0:48:54.600 --> 0:49:00.200 this is because there's still so much virus out there 0:49:00.880 --> 0:49:05.480 that even a five percent failure rate of the vaccine 0:49:06.160 --> 0:49:09.120 is too high a risk for people to go about 0:49:09.160 --> 0:49:13.640 their lives who have been vaccinated. And to that, I say, bullcrap. 0:49:15.320 --> 0:49:18.280 Now is where we have to start saying we balance 0:49:18.440 --> 0:49:22.000 out risk with our lives. Now is where we have 0:49:22.080 --> 0:49:24.359 to be willing to say enough is enough. We're not 0:49:24.440 --> 0:49:27.920 going to live, you know, in fear. And because if 0:49:27.960 --> 0:49:31.000 you're talking about getting rid of all COVID in the 0:49:31.000 --> 0:49:32.560 community to the point where you don't have to think 0:49:32.520 --> 0:49:36.000 about it, if you're talking about waiting until COVID is 0:49:37.280 --> 0:49:40.239 you know, like like polio or measles or something in 0:49:40.280 --> 0:49:44.440 this country, we are going to be going through lockdowns 0:49:44.480 --> 0:49:48.799 and mitigation and all this stuff for at least another year, 0:49:49.320 --> 0:49:53.560 maybe two or three, who knows, who knows. And then 0:49:53.600 --> 0:49:57.239 there's also the what about the what about the variants? Right? 0:49:57.280 --> 0:50:00.000 What about these other things? Next line? If you look 0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:04.759 get these group of selected vaccines, take a look at 0:50:04.760 --> 0:50:10.600 the chicken pox through shingles, highly highly effective vaccines. If 0:50:10.600 --> 0:50:15.080 you look at influenza, even on a very good year's 0:50:15.160 --> 0:50:19.000 forty to sixty percent effective. But let's drill down on 0:50:19.040 --> 0:50:21.480 that for a second next slide, because it really is 0:50:21.520 --> 0:50:24.640 important to COVID, which are getting to in a moment, 0:50:25.440 --> 0:50:29.200 the benefits of the flu vaccine and the importance of 0:50:29.480 --> 0:50:34.120 hartial protection. If you get vaccinated, no doubt, you're less 0:50:34.160 --> 0:50:37.720 likely to get the flu. But even if you do 0:50:38.120 --> 0:50:43.000 get flu and get sick, vaccination can reduce the severity 0:50:43.480 --> 0:50:47.080 and duration of illness and could help get you out 0:50:47.120 --> 0:50:54.080 of trouble if you get a little bit more granula. Granula. Yeah, 0:50:54.719 --> 0:50:57.799 you see, friends, this is why they don't. This is 0:50:57.800 --> 0:51:00.200 why they don't want to have this debate in public. Now, 0:51:00.239 --> 0:51:01.920 this is why you won't see FOUNC you go on 0:51:02.000 --> 0:51:05.640 Tucker's show, because what they'd have to say is we 0:51:05.680 --> 0:51:10.600 are making arbitrary decisions about what is an acceptable percentage 0:51:10.680 --> 0:51:15.799 of risk of spread in society for you, and that 0:51:15.840 --> 0:51:21.080 they're unreasonable in this. Now we know that you are 0:51:21.080 --> 0:51:24.719 your chance of giving someone COVID. I'm sorry, that's not 0:51:24.760 --> 0:51:28.640 even true. Your chance of getting COVID if your vaccinated 0:51:28.680 --> 0:51:31.960 is one in ten thousand, give or take. Based on 0:51:31.960 --> 0:51:36.080 the CDC zone numbers, your chance of getting is one 0:51:36.120 --> 0:51:39.799 in ten thousand. Your chance of giving it to somebody 0:51:40.719 --> 0:51:44.640 after that one in ten thousand is also lessened because 0:51:44.680 --> 0:51:49.400 you'll have less viral load in your system and you 0:51:49.440 --> 0:51:52.440 are less likely to be infectious. One of the reasons 0:51:52.440 --> 0:51:54.520 this is so deadly among seniors and it's been so 0:51:54.600 --> 0:51:57.400 bad when it gets into nursing homes is that very 0:51:57.560 --> 0:52:00.080 critically ill people in the early phase of the of 0:52:00.120 --> 0:52:05.040 the fight against the virus, are shedding more virus. It 0:52:05.080 --> 0:52:07.160 has taken over more of their system. There's there's a 0:52:07.239 --> 0:52:12.080 higher viral load that they're constantly expelling, and they're around 0:52:12.080 --> 0:52:15.480 those higher risk people. That's why it's so dangerous to 0:52:15.480 --> 0:52:20.240 the elderly. But the Fauciites will not allow an honest, 0:52:20.760 --> 0:52:25.879 open discussion about this, because if if we're not at 0:52:26.040 --> 0:52:28.919 at a place now where we can agree that vaccinated 0:52:28.960 --> 0:52:31.239 people should go back to normal life, when are we 0:52:31.280 --> 0:52:35.759 ever going to be there when our health policy tyrants 0:52:36.480 --> 0:52:40.160 decide that it's okay again. I think that's I think 0:52:40.200 --> 0:52:44.200 that's unacceptable. I think that's not something that we can 0:52:44.320 --> 0:52:47.280 or should concede to them. And it's it's time people 0:52:47.320 --> 0:52:51.000 finally push back and say this is madness, this is crap. 0:52:51.360 --> 0:52:55.000 We can't do this anymore. All right they are. They 0:52:55.000 --> 0:52:59.919 are psychologically breaking millions of people with this outsized fear 0:53:00.080 --> 0:53:04.400 campaign all the time, and the public health experts have failed. 0:53:04.560 --> 0:53:09.720 They have failed to protect us. Their ideas, their policies 0:53:09.840 --> 0:53:13.080 did not get it done. Just look at what happened 0:53:13.080 --> 0:53:19.000 over the last year. Enough is enough. Fauci's a bum, 0:53:19.040 --> 0:53:22.680 and it's time from the go and It's an indication, 0:53:22.800 --> 0:53:27.800 an illustration of just how challenging and diverse this particular 0:53:27.840 --> 0:53:33.560 threat is. We have now over two thousand investigations that 0:53:33.680 --> 0:53:36.840 tie back to the Chinese government, and on the economic 0:53:37.000 --> 0:53:40.960 espionage investigation side alone, it's about a thirteen hundred percent 0:53:41.040 --> 0:53:45.040 increase over the last several years. We're opening a new 0:53:45.080 --> 0:53:47.760 investigation in China every ten hours, and I can assure 0:53:47.760 --> 0:53:50.920 the Committee that's not because our folks don't have anything 0:53:50.960 --> 0:53:55.560 to do with their time. China is going to just 0:53:55.960 --> 0:54:03.000 pillage our economy, our intellectual property, our state secrets, everything 0:54:03.719 --> 0:54:07.560 over the next four years, and has been for many 0:54:07.640 --> 0:54:11.400 years now, already for decades really stretching back to the 0:54:11.760 --> 0:54:16.759 nineteen nineties. The Chinese Communist Party is our most aggressive, 0:54:16.880 --> 0:54:21.680 most serious opponent on the world stage. And yet what 0:54:21.800 --> 0:54:26.280 was the focus for the last four years Trump and Russia. 0:54:26.400 --> 0:54:31.600 Remember that Trump and Russia. Oh my gosh. Yeah, they 0:54:31.640 --> 0:54:37.080 just constantly misled people into thinking that there was some collusion. 0:54:37.600 --> 0:54:41.480 And as long as it benefited the elites in DC 0:54:41.840 --> 0:54:45.040 in New York, as long as they felt like their 0:54:45.360 --> 0:54:48.600 their friends, their buddies, we're gonna, you know, grin at 0:54:48.600 --> 0:54:52.960 them at cocktail parties for writing stories about Trump Russia collusion. 0:54:53.000 --> 0:54:57.040 As idiotic and false as that was, they were motivated 0:54:57.080 --> 0:54:59.960 to do it. And so we took our eye off 0:55:00.000 --> 0:55:03.279 off the ball with dealing as a country, not the 0:55:03.360 --> 0:55:05.759 not the Trump administration. As a country. We were much 0:55:05.840 --> 0:55:08.560 less focused on China than we should have been. Trump 0:55:08.680 --> 0:55:11.560 was right to confront China on its trade of practices. 0:55:11.600 --> 0:55:14.880 He was right to take action against the Chinese Communist 0:55:14.880 --> 0:55:18.799 Party and its economy. And now with the Biden administration, 0:55:18.880 --> 0:55:21.880 which you're going to see is just whatever's not Trump 0:55:22.000 --> 0:55:27.439 they will want to do. That's the the guiding light, 0:55:27.640 --> 0:55:30.239 if you will, of the Biden administration. Foreign policy is 0:55:30.239 --> 0:55:32.200 going to be whatever Trump was doing, we're going to 0:55:32.239 --> 0:55:35.239 do the opposite. Whatever Trump says was important, we say 0:55:35.280 --> 0:55:41.440 is unimportant. I've also got one other, one other thing 0:55:41.480 --> 0:55:45.840 here on the Russia collusion delusion, just just breaking today. 0:55:47.239 --> 0:55:52.400 US intelligence has walked back claims that Russians put bounties 0:55:52.440 --> 0:55:54.960 on American troops in Afghanistan. Do you remember that story 0:55:55.000 --> 0:55:58.719 I was during the election, Remember that story that they ran. 0:55:58.800 --> 0:56:02.239 The media ran about how there were Russians that were 0:56:02.320 --> 0:56:06.080 paying the Taliban to kill Americans in Afghanistan and why 0:56:06.200 --> 0:56:09.720 isn't Trump doing more about this? It was a lie, folks, 0:56:10.640 --> 0:56:13.680 A lie. I told you it was at the time. 0:56:13.920 --> 0:56:17.600 You know it a lie. You know what else was 0:56:17.600 --> 0:56:19.600 a lie. The story they ran about how Trump said 0:56:19.640 --> 0:56:22.560 that the people that died serving this country and where 0:56:22.600 --> 0:56:29.360 military cemeteries were losers. Another lie, a smear. And these 0:56:29.400 --> 0:56:32.880 people in the corporate media, they wonder why when they 0:56:32.960 --> 0:56:35.480 kept complaining about how Trump lies so much, we didn't 0:56:35.480 --> 0:56:38.799 listen to them. They wonder why we said, shut up. 0:56:39.280 --> 0:56:43.160 We've heard enough of this from you, okay, Because it's 0:56:43.160 --> 0:56:45.759 always about well, what is this lie? Is the lie 0:56:45.800 --> 0:56:49.680 an inflated opinion? Is the lie something unimportant? Or is 0:56:49.680 --> 0:56:54.200 it something meant to really mislead on an important issue 0:56:54.880 --> 0:56:57.440 so that Democrats can get away with more of their nonsense. 0:56:57.560 --> 0:56:59.719 These are the questions that we need to ask. These 0:56:59.760 --> 0:57:02.680 are the things that come up and require our attention. 0:57:03.640 --> 0:57:06.279 But yeah, us intel, it's the Daily Beast. The Daily 0:57:06.280 --> 0:57:10.439 Beast is one of the most trash publications online, which 0:57:10.480 --> 0:57:12.359 is remarkable when you think about it. But it's true. 0:57:12.600 --> 0:57:16.920 The Daily Beast is a garbage website with a lot 0:57:16.920 --> 0:57:21.640 of garbage people writing for it. But now after Biden 0:57:21.760 --> 0:57:26.080 has one it's all over now we're told, oh, yeah, 0:57:26.120 --> 0:57:29.920 I guess it wasn't true. There was no Russian bounty 0:57:30.000 --> 0:57:33.880 on Americans in Afghanistans. The Taliban would kill more of 0:57:33.880 --> 0:57:38.560 our soldiers. Just a fabrication, folks, just a rumor that 0:57:38.600 --> 0:57:44.360 they weaponized against Trump intellection season to defeat him. 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Let's talk to our friend Pedro Gonzalez. 0:59:34.600 --> 0:59:36.640 He's a senior writer at American Great is going to 0:59:36.720 --> 0:59:39.439 have him way in on all the latest, including this 0:59:40.040 --> 0:59:42.919 court packing scheme that seems to have at least moved 0:59:42.960 --> 0:59:45.200 a little bit down the field. Let's get Pedro in 0:59:45.240 --> 0:59:48.240 the mix. Pedro man, thanks so much. Oh hey, Buck, 0:59:48.280 --> 0:59:50.240 it's always going to be here. So I see this 0:59:50.280 --> 0:59:52.640 and I say, I wonder, at what point, as we 0:59:52.720 --> 0:59:57.000 have effectively an open border, we have what really is 0:59:57.360 --> 1:00:01.120 looking more and more like a modern monetary theory philosophy 1:00:01.240 --> 1:00:03.840 from the Bide administration. The Democrats about spending whatever money 1:00:03.920 --> 1:00:08.160 they want, trillions and trillions of dollars. Everything is infrastructure. 1:00:08.160 --> 1:00:12.920 They're redefining terms. They're taking a scorched earth approach on 1:00:13.000 --> 1:00:16.360 so many things. They talk about elimiting the filibuster, and 1:00:16.440 --> 1:00:19.120 now here we are being told, oh no, they're at 1:00:19.200 --> 1:00:22.160 least taking seriously the idea of a straight up Supreme 1:00:22.240 --> 1:00:26.640 Court packing scheme. When are we going to listen and 1:00:26.720 --> 1:00:28.920 really pay attention to the fact that the other side, 1:00:29.360 --> 1:00:32.520 for all their flaws, Pedro, they mean business, while Republicans 1:00:32.560 --> 1:00:37.560 kind of wring their hands and say, well, where's the moderates? Right, No, 1:00:37.680 --> 1:00:40.200 that's absolutely right. I think this is why I try 1:00:40.280 --> 1:00:44.840 really hard to avoid complaining about double standards. Calling for 1:00:44.920 --> 1:00:48.520 fairness and stability were so far beyond that in reality. 1:00:49.080 --> 1:00:52.400 But nevertheless, you keep hearing the GOP call for that 1:00:52.520 --> 1:00:56.600 every single time the Democratic Party does exactly what they 1:00:56.680 --> 1:00:59.080 said they were going to do. And it's funny because 1:00:59.120 --> 1:01:02.360 maybe that is actually shocking to the GOP people who 1:01:02.440 --> 1:01:05.480 do what they say they're going to do, Because the 1:01:05.560 --> 1:01:10.200 GOP's notorious for backpedaling on issues or finding ways to 1:01:10.280 --> 1:01:13.960 kind of self destruct. The Democratic Party does is too, 1:01:14.840 --> 1:01:18.120 but they're a lot more serious and a lot more committed, 1:01:18.440 --> 1:01:22.320 a lot more ideological, and much more determined to do 1:01:22.560 --> 1:01:25.920 what they say they're going to do. And I think 1:01:25.920 --> 1:01:30.880 the court packing thing illustrates the lengths to which that 1:01:30.960 --> 1:01:33.360 party is willing to go to do what they want 1:01:33.400 --> 1:01:37.560 to reimagine the country. And I think that this makes 1:01:37.680 --> 1:01:42.800 conservatives a little bit uncomfortable the idea of a willingness 1:01:42.840 --> 1:01:45.800 to use power, but that's the world we live in. 1:01:46.240 --> 1:01:51.280 No amount of good arguments and calls for civility things 1:01:51.320 --> 1:01:54.320 like that that's not going to stop the Democratic Party. 1:01:54.640 --> 1:01:57.240 In my view, only power checks power, and until the 1:01:57.280 --> 1:02:00.680 GOP or someone figures this out, the Credit Party is 1:02:00.720 --> 1:02:03.200 going to continue doing what it's doing. And I just 1:02:03.240 --> 1:02:05.760 find it remarkable as well, Padro, that what I'll hear 1:02:05.800 --> 1:02:09.280 from so many conservatives, including those who make a living 1:02:09.360 --> 1:02:12.120 sharing their thoughts and the media is, Oh, they would 1:02:12.160 --> 1:02:15.120 never do They would never do that. And you know, 1:02:15.240 --> 1:02:18.439 they would never really push for amnesty, they would never 1:02:18.440 --> 1:02:21.240 really get rid of the filibuster, they would never pack 1:02:21.280 --> 1:02:23.640 the court. I see you're saying, what makes you think 1:02:23.680 --> 1:02:28.080 that what part of their approach, which is having the 1:02:28.200 --> 1:02:31.840 entirety of the media and now corporate woke America on 1:02:31.880 --> 1:02:39.040 their side, breaking norms, up ending institutions, bringing ridiculous impeachments 1:02:39.080 --> 1:02:42.000 against the former president twice in one year? Like what 1:02:42.280 --> 1:02:45.080 what part of their actions makes it seem like they 1:02:45.240 --> 1:02:49.800 care about playing fair right? And I think the law 1:02:49.800 --> 1:02:52.960 of non contradiction doesn't apply here because Conservatives will try 1:02:52.960 --> 1:02:57.280 to catch Democrats contradicting themselves. You know, they held a 1:02:57.320 --> 1:03:00.800 position five years and this year they're demming the GOP 1:03:00.960 --> 1:03:03.680 for it or something like. That doesn't work. They don't 1:03:03.720 --> 1:03:09.840 care that these kinds of rationalistic positions that their conservative movement, 1:03:09.840 --> 1:03:12.840 the GOP thinks are going to protect them and save them, 1:03:13.040 --> 1:03:15.280 they don't work. The Democratic parties is going to run 1:03:15.320 --> 1:03:18.000 over you like they're doing now. It's I guess you 1:03:18.000 --> 1:03:20.320 could say it's shameless in a way what they do, 1:03:21.080 --> 1:03:23.800 but it means it works for them. And maybe one 1:03:23.840 --> 1:03:28.000 reason why the GOP will always put itself in that 1:03:28.040 --> 1:03:30.280 position where they're saying, well, you know, we didn't think 1:03:30.320 --> 1:03:31.840 they were actually going to do what they do is 1:03:31.840 --> 1:03:36.439 because ultimately the GOP will will compromise and kind of 1:03:36.800 --> 1:03:41.480 take the moderate position of the Democratic Party from ten 1:03:41.520 --> 1:03:44.120 minutes ago. So if the Democrats want to pack the 1:03:44.160 --> 1:03:49.040 Supreme Court with fifteen judges or thirteen judges, the Republican 1:03:49.080 --> 1:03:52.560 Party will stand a ForwArt history and demand eleven instead 1:03:52.600 --> 1:03:57.160 of thirteen. It's it's amazing that there is this tendency 1:03:57.240 --> 1:03:59.440 that we see time and again on the right and 1:03:59.480 --> 1:04:04.880 amongkans deservatives to think that just slowing down the Progressives 1:04:04.920 --> 1:04:07.400 a little bit, not even stopping them from their ultimate goal. 1:04:07.440 --> 1:04:10.960 But just you know, we're we're telling the bank robbers 1:04:10.760 --> 1:04:16.000 as they flee in the getaway car, no speeding please. Right, yeah, yes, 1:04:16.120 --> 1:04:19.200 that's exactly right. That is and that and that is 1:04:19.320 --> 1:04:23.240 as far as the GOP is concerned, a win, I 1:04:23.280 --> 1:04:25.280 mean like that, that's how they tell their constituents. And 1:04:25.320 --> 1:04:29.000 I think you see this with Christy Nome and Assa Hutchinson. 1:04:29.400 --> 1:04:33.000 Basically telling their constituents, Look, I know you voted for 1:04:33.000 --> 1:04:34.760 me to do what you want, but you have to 1:04:34.800 --> 1:04:37.040 take this loss because it's the it's the best thing 1:04:37.040 --> 1:04:39.440 you're going to get. And actually, I'm taking the very 1:04:39.480 --> 1:04:44.520 moderate position of allowing kids to you know, chemically castrate 1:04:44.560 --> 1:04:48.160 themselves or allowing men to compete in female sports, as 1:04:48.200 --> 1:04:51.200 long as we're taking the fiscally responsible position of not 1:04:51.440 --> 1:04:56.280 having the government subsidize that. We're speaking to my friend 1:04:56.280 --> 1:04:59.240 Pedro Gonzalez, who's a senior writer in American Greatness. Make 1:04:59.240 --> 1:05:01.680 sure you check out his is that American Greatness dot 1:05:01.720 --> 1:05:06.960 com and Pedro. We've had a couple of of, you know, 1:05:07.520 --> 1:05:12.880 relatively prominent Republican politicians recently Christy Gnome of South Dakota 1:05:12.920 --> 1:05:16.600 and Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, who not only seemed to 1:05:16.640 --> 1:05:22.520 think that that you know, essentially abandoning what had been 1:05:22.600 --> 1:05:26.680 considered their their conservative values or conservative positions was okay, 1:05:27.000 --> 1:05:30.760 but then kept kept digging into this further as though, no, 1:05:31.040 --> 1:05:35.320 we're not smart enough to understand that they've actually sold out. 1:05:35.360 --> 1:05:38.240 And I feel like that that used to work pretty well. 1:05:39.760 --> 1:05:43.000 I think that might be right. I think that actually 1:05:43.560 --> 1:05:46.480 most everyday people have always been angry at the GOP, 1:05:47.440 --> 1:05:50.360 but I think the stakes just seemed so much higher now, 1:05:51.080 --> 1:05:54.560 And the position for a lot of Americans was the 1:05:54.640 --> 1:05:59.880 GOP is gutless and corrupt and craven, but they're the 1:06:00.080 --> 1:06:03.959 lesser of two evils. That I think is starting to 1:06:04.280 --> 1:06:06.600 wear thin for a lot of people, because the lesser 1:06:06.640 --> 1:06:10.280 of two evils is actually not that much less evil anymore. 1:06:11.240 --> 1:06:16.760 And I think what's really remarkable is that both Hutchinson 1:06:16.880 --> 1:06:22.360 and Nome went on Tucker Carlson, doubled down on their positions, 1:06:22.400 --> 1:06:26.280 like you said, expecting their constituents to be stupid, basically, 1:06:26.760 --> 1:06:30.520 and then subsequently committed suicide on live television, and then 1:06:30.680 --> 1:06:33.919 continued doubling down on their positions. No went so far 1:06:33.960 --> 1:06:37.600 as saying that she's the victim of conservative cancel culture, 1:06:37.640 --> 1:06:39.760 which is another way of saying, my constituents are holding 1:06:39.760 --> 1:06:41.800 me accountable and I don't like it because I'm not 1:06:41.880 --> 1:06:44.720 used to it. It was remarkable. I mean, the the 1:06:45.160 --> 1:06:52.720 Hutchinson interview in particular was political. It wasn't even self flagellation. 1:06:52.880 --> 1:06:55.760 It was self immolation. I mean it was just this 1:06:55.800 --> 1:06:58.320 guy sit there saying, you know, yeah, you know, I 1:06:58.400 --> 1:06:59.960 just you know, we're not going to get in there, 1:07:00.080 --> 1:07:02.880 not going to get between twelve year olds and their 1:07:02.960 --> 1:07:05.640 doctors when they want to be chemically castrated or have 1:07:05.800 --> 1:07:08.960 their their sex organs removed. It's like, yeah, you're you're 1:07:08.960 --> 1:07:10.560 not going to get in the way of that. Why 1:07:11.200 --> 1:07:13.920 because we want to expand the big tent. According to Hutchinson, 1:07:14.440 --> 1:07:18.720 it is just and it's it's difficult to know what 1:07:18.760 --> 1:07:20.840 he's really thinking. Do you really believe this or are 1:07:20.840 --> 1:07:23.720 you just saying this because it's in your interest because 1:07:23.760 --> 1:07:26.040 you've got donors and you're afraid of the Chamber of 1:07:26.120 --> 1:07:28.440 Commerce and the NC double Way or whatever. But it's 1:07:28.520 --> 1:07:32.360 it's ultimately irrelevant. The outcome is the same. We are 1:07:32.400 --> 1:07:35.520 better off or sorry, we are worse off. Our children 1:07:35.560 --> 1:07:38.680 are worse off because of people like Hutchinson. And no, 1:07:39.680 --> 1:07:42.920 it's amazing. I want to ask you to tell me 1:07:43.000 --> 1:07:45.920 about something that I don't think is getting a lot 1:07:45.920 --> 1:07:51.880 of attention right now. But the America First Policy Institute. 1:07:52.000 --> 1:07:54.240 You know what, I know that you keep it real, Pedro. 1:07:54.280 --> 1:07:56.040 It's one of the things I like about your work. 1:07:56.480 --> 1:08:00.400 This sound sounds great, right, America First Policy Institute. It's like, hey, 1:08:00.600 --> 1:08:02.680 do you want to go root for you know, Team 1:08:02.720 --> 1:08:05.480 America and defeat all the commies. You must love this, right, 1:08:06.040 --> 1:08:09.080 what's the truth of the America First Policy Institute? So far? 1:08:10.120 --> 1:08:13.000 So all of the very worst people in the Trump 1:08:13.040 --> 1:08:16.080 administration that I think most of your listeners would agree 1:08:16.120 --> 1:08:19.680 are bad, like Jared Kushner and so many of his 1:08:19.760 --> 1:08:23.599 proxies like Brook Rowlands, who is really just a kind 1:08:23.640 --> 1:08:28.200 of empty vessel for coke industries. Which means that Brook 1:08:28.280 --> 1:08:32.720 Rollins and Kushner and their cadrea within the White House, 1:08:32.760 --> 1:08:35.120 they were the ones that were pushing things like criminal 1:08:35.160 --> 1:08:38.080 justice reform. They were the ones that told Trump to 1:08:38.160 --> 1:08:41.439 stand down while cities were being burned to the ground 1:08:41.439 --> 1:08:45.080 by Black Lives Matter agitators. Tucker Carlson did a segment 1:08:45.080 --> 1:08:48.639 on this. He named specifically Brook Rollins and Jared Smith 1:08:48.880 --> 1:08:52.200 and Jared Kushner. All three of those people are involved 1:08:52.280 --> 1:08:55.640 in the America First Policy Institute. And so basically, you 1:08:55.720 --> 1:08:58.400 took the worst people in the White House that everyone 1:08:58.439 --> 1:09:01.800 can agree we're just bad, and now they're the ones 1:09:01.920 --> 1:09:08.000 leading the largest post administration Trump think tank. And if 1:09:08.040 --> 1:09:11.880 you look at the roster of who's involved, it's incredible. 1:09:12.640 --> 1:09:17.880 There's another organization called gen Z gen Z's GOP and 1:09:18.720 --> 1:09:24.360 they arose specifically to counter Trump and Trump is m 1:09:24.880 --> 1:09:28.040 who they view as authoritarian and xenophobic and racist and 1:09:28.080 --> 1:09:32.880 all this stuff. And the America First Policy Institute actually recruited. 1:09:33.080 --> 1:09:36.439 One of these people's name is Javon Prince, and now 1:09:36.479 --> 1:09:39.799 he's a policy analyst at the America First Policy Institute. 1:09:40.000 --> 1:09:42.000 So it's not just that you have the worst people 1:09:42.040 --> 1:09:45.719 from the White House doing this. You also have people 1:09:45.720 --> 1:09:50.400 that actually resented the Trump Agenda, the mandate of twenty sixteen, 1:09:50.439 --> 1:09:53.960 and by extension, Trump supporters who are now policy analysts 1:09:53.960 --> 1:09:56.840 at the America First Policy Institute. And so I think 1:09:56.880 --> 1:10:01.040 it's important to get beyond the name America First and 1:10:01.120 --> 1:10:06.080 see that this is this is extremely misleading, and that 1:10:06.439 --> 1:10:09.599 everyone should know that if you give money or attention 1:10:09.760 --> 1:10:13.200 or time to this, to this institute, it's you might 1:10:13.200 --> 1:10:15.519 as well burn it, because it's not going to go 1:10:15.640 --> 1:10:19.839 toward what you think it's going. It feels like Pedro. 1:10:20.080 --> 1:10:23.559 There's just there are there are more people right now 1:10:23.640 --> 1:10:28.840 on the right who seek to turn you mentioned America First, 1:10:28.880 --> 1:10:31.080 for example, but to seek to turn it into not 1:10:31.120 --> 1:10:35.520 only just a brand that's highly transferable for commercial purposes, 1:10:35.840 --> 1:10:38.240 but really into a kind of grift. I mean, this 1:10:38.360 --> 1:10:41.360 is the country is heading in the wrong direction in 1:10:41.400 --> 1:10:43.439 a lot of ways. I mean, the border is the 1:10:43.479 --> 1:10:46.639 biggest mess it has ever been. I mean I've talked 1:10:46.680 --> 1:10:48.880 now to the people who have been working either for 1:10:48.960 --> 1:10:52.439 border patrol or ice or going back on this issue 1:10:52.479 --> 1:10:54.600 for for years, for decades. They said, this is the 1:10:54.600 --> 1:10:56.439 worst it has ever been right now. And that's just 1:10:56.479 --> 1:10:59.599 one of many problems that are they are unfolding right 1:10:59.640 --> 1:11:04.880 now for us. And yet where's our hashtag resistance? You know, 1:11:05.040 --> 1:11:07.439 it's frestrated to me to see that. You say what 1:11:07.520 --> 1:11:11.799 you about the left, they had the machinery of anti 1:11:11.840 --> 1:11:16.479 Trumpism in place literally the day after the election. There 1:11:16.520 --> 1:11:20.080 were marches and protests and riots, and you know, the 1:11:20.120 --> 1:11:21.960 whole media, and I know that they control some of 1:11:21.960 --> 1:11:24.400 these institutions, but it feels to me like we never 1:11:24.479 --> 1:11:28.200 learned that we need the machinery on our side that 1:11:28.240 --> 1:11:31.559 we can gather together to oppose the Biden agenda. Because 1:11:31.960 --> 1:11:34.040 this agenda is real, folks, this is this is not 1:11:34.120 --> 1:11:36.120 an administration we can just sort of batten down the 1:11:36.120 --> 1:11:39.960 hatches and ignore and hope everything's okay in four years, Right, no, 1:11:40.080 --> 1:11:43.639 that's exactly right. And I think again, this is something 1:11:43.680 --> 1:11:47.200 that makes conservatives uncomfortable, but it's true and they should 1:11:47.240 --> 1:11:50.640 hear it. What we call cancel culture, which is a 1:11:50.760 --> 1:11:53.439 kind of just a way of holding people accountable. I 1:11:53.479 --> 1:11:58.000 think conservatives have a misunderstanding of it in that will 1:11:58.040 --> 1:12:00.320 make fun of the left for eating each other alive, 1:12:00.720 --> 1:12:03.240 and they do do that. It is amusing when that happens. 1:12:03.680 --> 1:12:09.000 But the conservative movement has the opposite problem. We're obsessed 1:12:09.040 --> 1:12:12.040 with this idea of the big tent and what that 1:12:12.200 --> 1:12:15.759 really what really happens in practices, is that we invite 1:12:15.800 --> 1:12:18.840 people into the big tent that we shouldn't invite because 1:12:18.840 --> 1:12:22.480 they're either opposed to us or they're totally unserious grifters. 1:12:22.840 --> 1:12:25.360 And it just so happens that those kinds of people 1:12:25.479 --> 1:12:28.200 are the ones that will end up taking over the show, 1:12:28.880 --> 1:12:30.479 and they're the ones that will end up in the 1:12:30.520 --> 1:12:33.559 limelight and then pushing you out. And I think that 1:12:33.720 --> 1:12:37.920 conservatives have this problem where they don't cancel people that 1:12:37.960 --> 1:12:41.439 they should cancel enough, and I think that that is 1:12:42.080 --> 1:12:45.960 something to consider going forward, is we really need to 1:12:46.000 --> 1:12:50.679 have more what you could call movement discipline to avoid 1:12:50.720 --> 1:12:54.040 these people because this is kind of the paradox the 1:12:54.160 --> 1:12:57.479 grifters and the subversives you want to call them that, 1:12:57.800 --> 1:13:01.439 they're usually really ambitious, so naturally they're going to be 1:13:01.479 --> 1:13:04.760 the ones that will, through charisma or through connections, end 1:13:04.880 --> 1:13:07.760 up hijacking movements and then turning them against you and 1:13:07.800 --> 1:13:12.640 then framing you as organizations like gen z GP and 1:13:12.720 --> 1:13:15.880 Brooke Rowlands do you're the one that's behind the times, 1:13:15.920 --> 1:13:20.479 like there's something wrong with you, And that's the position 1:13:20.520 --> 1:13:23.479 that we so often find ourselves in. Pedro Gonzalez, everybody 1:13:23.560 --> 1:13:26.639 check out his ladies, that American greatness dot com. Pedro 1:13:26.880 --> 1:13:29.280 always a pleasure man. Talk to you soon. Thank you. 1:13:29.400 --> 1:13:32.960 He halted construction of the border wall, and he rescinded 1:13:33.000 --> 1:13:36.040 a Trump administration order that called for the government to 1:13:36.120 --> 1:13:42.400 faithfully execute our immigration laws, including removals for visa overstays 1:13:43.200 --> 1:13:48.240 and limiting funding to sanctuary cities, all on his first day, 1:13:48.479 --> 1:13:51.840 mister President. And that's not all. The presence Department of 1:13:51.880 --> 1:13:57.120 Homeland Security also issued guidelines that same day pausing deportations 1:13:57.160 --> 1:14:02.000 accept under certain conditions, Miss President. The effect of President 1:14:02.040 --> 1:14:05.960 Biden's actions was to declare to the world that the 1:14:06.080 --> 1:14:10.720 United States borders are effectively open. That may or may 1:14:10.760 --> 1:14:15.480 not have been what President Biden and his administration intended, 1:14:16.479 --> 1:14:20.120 but it certainly has been the effect. The message received 1:14:20.160 --> 1:14:23.639 by prospective migrants has been, if you can make it, 1:14:24.479 --> 1:14:26.360 If you can make it to the US border and 1:14:26.400 --> 1:14:32.520 claim asylum, whether legitimate or not, even if you illegally 1:14:32.840 --> 1:14:38.679 cross the border, you're in. Senator Thune is absolutely correct, 1:14:39.439 --> 1:14:42.080 and this is why the border situation continues to be 1:14:43.000 --> 1:14:47.759 such an abject mess and a disaster. It's a disaster 1:14:47.960 --> 1:14:49.880 not only in the sense that you have people in 1:14:50.000 --> 1:14:56.240 very crowded conditions, spreading COVID and overwhelming facilities, and the 1:14:56.640 --> 1:15:01.519 whole thing is straining or resources, costing hundreds of millions 1:15:01.560 --> 1:15:04.800 billions of dollars. There's that aspect of it, But then 1:15:04.840 --> 1:15:08.360 there's also the we don't have border security friends. Oh, 1:15:08.400 --> 1:15:12.400 and who's supposed to be in charge of restoring national 1:15:12.439 --> 1:15:14.439 sovereignty and control of our border. Who's going to be 1:15:14.439 --> 1:15:19.479 in charge of that? Yeah, Kamala Harris. We are told 1:15:19.560 --> 1:15:23.120 here is White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on that 1:15:23.160 --> 1:15:27.120 play five. Vice President Harris just said that her first 1:15:27.439 --> 1:15:29.080 trip abroad, and it looks like it's going to be 1:15:29.120 --> 1:15:31.680 in Mexico and Guatemala, but she suggested she won't be 1:15:31.760 --> 1:15:34.800 visiting the order, and so I'm wondering, first off, if 1:15:34.800 --> 1:15:37.719 the president is considering a trip to the order, and 1:15:37.960 --> 1:15:40.960 the second play, it's not important for one of you know, 1:15:41.000 --> 1:15:46.360 the president's main sort of people that he's tasking dealing 1:15:46.360 --> 1:15:49.000 with this to visit the Order. Well, what the presidents 1:15:49.000 --> 1:15:51.439 asked the vice president to do is run point on 1:15:51.479 --> 1:15:56.120 the Northern Triangle and be a high level conduit in 1:15:56.280 --> 1:15:59.120 having discussions with leaders in the region. That's exactly what 1:15:59.360 --> 1:16:01.599 she is doing and we'll do when she goes and 1:16:02.000 --> 1:16:05.760 visits countries in the region. And obviously she's had discussions 1:16:05.760 --> 1:16:07.679 that I've been read out as well with some leaders 1:16:07.680 --> 1:16:12.280 in the region. Secretary of Homeland Security has visited the border. 1:16:12.400 --> 1:16:15.920 Our secretary, other secretaries who run points on these issues 1:16:16.080 --> 1:16:18.200 will and we expect will in the future. I don't 1:16:18.240 --> 1:16:21.280 have any visits to preview for you of the presidents, 1:16:21.320 --> 1:16:25.240 but his focus is on solution. What a mess. Yeah, 1:16:25.280 --> 1:16:27.120 she can't get down she's the borders are can't get 1:16:27.120 --> 1:16:30.400 down to the border though, more important stuff to do. Okay, 1:16:30.640 --> 1:16:35.840 Harsani time, our friend David Harsani from National Review joining 1:16:35.920 --> 1:16:38.160 us with all the latest news of the day, including 1:16:38.160 --> 1:16:41.439 a story he's written about all National Review dot com. 1:16:41.880 --> 1:16:48.439 There is absolutely no evidence that Kristin Clark's racist letter 1:16:48.600 --> 1:16:51.679 was satire. You've got to hear about this one, David. 1:16:51.680 --> 1:16:54.280 Great to have you, always a pleasure. Thanks for having so. 1:16:54.320 --> 1:16:59.200 First talk, Tell everybody who Kristen Clark is. She is 1:17:00.080 --> 1:17:04.679 Biden's nominee for Assistant Attorney General to run the Civil 1:17:04.800 --> 1:17:08.439 Rights Division. I get the exact name, which you know, 1:17:08.520 --> 1:17:13.360 prosecutes civil rights crimes and things like that for the 1:17:13.439 --> 1:17:16.800 United States government. And this is an important role. The 1:17:16.880 --> 1:17:19.639 Civil Rights Division on the DOJ, I will say, stretching 1:17:19.640 --> 1:17:23.120 back for many years, including under Republican administrations, is known 1:17:23.160 --> 1:17:27.360 to be a place where careers civil servants within the 1:17:27.439 --> 1:17:31.479 DOJ get get a lot of activism going on with 1:17:31.560 --> 1:17:34.439 left wing causes. Just for all those listening, this tends 1:17:34.479 --> 1:17:36.719 to be a place within the institution of the DOJ 1:17:36.960 --> 1:17:42.960 where you have very progressive tendencies. But this goes well 1:17:43.040 --> 1:17:48.320 beyond anything like that. Kristen Clark was recently questioned about 1:17:48.360 --> 1:17:52.439 a letter to the editor she wrote for the Harvard 1:17:52.479 --> 1:17:55.760 Crimson when she was at Harvard and David, just tell 1:17:55.840 --> 1:17:58.800 some folks a little bit about this. So the letter is, 1:18:00.200 --> 1:18:01.760 and this from a long time ago, just everyone who 1:18:01.760 --> 1:18:04.080 said she was in college. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's in 1:18:04.120 --> 1:18:06.559 the mid nineties. I think it was ninety five or four. 1:18:06.720 --> 1:18:09.439 And you know, it's about the Bell Curve, was a 1:18:09.439 --> 1:18:11.479 big book that came out at the time. I don't 1:18:11.520 --> 1:18:13.960 really want to get too far into that she misrepresents 1:18:13.960 --> 1:18:15.840 what that books about, but I don't like arguing about 1:18:15.840 --> 1:18:18.400 that too much. But anyway, she she she lays on 1:18:18.520 --> 1:18:23.640 some kind of like pseudoscientific racist you know, blacks are 1:18:23.680 --> 1:18:26.639 superior because of chemicals, and there's you know, their skin 1:18:26.680 --> 1:18:29.759 color and things like that that were very popular around 1:18:29.760 --> 1:18:32.839 that time. There were a bunch of professors Leonard Jeffrees, 1:18:32.880 --> 1:18:35.280 I don't know if any how many people remember his name, 1:18:35.320 --> 1:18:38.559 but there were others Anthony Martin, and she lays this out. 1:18:39.080 --> 1:18:42.680 So anyway, fast forward and someone finds this letter. I 1:18:42.680 --> 1:18:46.120 think it was a freebekend. You know, she's confronted by 1:18:46.200 --> 1:18:50.280 about it, and she says it was satire. And she 1:18:50.360 --> 1:18:52.439 was asked yesterday in front of the the Judicial Committee of 1:18:52.520 --> 1:18:54.960 Senate Judicial Committee about it, and she said it was 1:18:55.000 --> 1:18:59.080 satire and everyone mocked. Who was it who asked her 1:18:59.280 --> 1:19:03.600 a senator or even believing momentarily or at all that 1:19:03.840 --> 1:19:05.880 you know this. You know, he's totally it's a total 1:19:05.960 --> 1:19:10.519 gotcha moment. He was sent corn right, so that this 1:19:10.720 --> 1:19:13.040 was a complete you know, he made a fool of 1:19:13.120 --> 1:19:15.559 himself because this was satire. But the problem with all 1:19:15.600 --> 1:19:19.120 of this is that it was not satire. There was 1:19:19.240 --> 1:19:24.120 no proof at all that that what she wrote with satire. 1:19:24.120 --> 1:19:27.599 In fact, there's tons of evidence to the contrary. Let 1:19:27.600 --> 1:19:29.000 me just give some I want to give the folks 1:19:29.040 --> 1:19:31.280 at home listening to this an idea of what So 1:19:31.320 --> 1:19:34.000 this is the the head of the dj Civil Rights 1:19:34.000 --> 1:19:37.120 Division under the Biden administration. Right now, that's what we're 1:19:37.120 --> 1:19:39.679 talking about. She was at Harvard. And now we could 1:19:39.680 --> 1:19:42.120 all say, oh, it was long time ago, she was 1:19:42.120 --> 1:19:44.240 in college, whatever you girls say that, but let's remember that, 1:19:44.280 --> 1:19:49.760 you know, Brett Kavanaugh's yearbook and bluefing was the subject 1:19:49.880 --> 1:19:53.919 of serious Senate inquiry not long ago. So but anyway, 1:19:54.439 --> 1:19:57.080 this is what this is what she wrote, and this 1:19:57.160 --> 1:20:00.080 is the quote in response to those who defend a 1:20:00.160 --> 1:20:03.240 bell curve and by the way, this does not have 1:20:03.479 --> 1:20:06.639 oh yeah, in response to those who defend the Bell curve. 1:20:06.960 --> 1:20:09.840 Please use the following theories and observations to assist you 1:20:09.880 --> 1:20:13.679 in your search for truth regarding the genetic differences between 1:20:13.720 --> 1:20:16.320 blacks and whites. I'm quoting here, folks, Okay, this is 1:20:16.360 --> 1:20:20.760 from the Harvard Crimson website. Nineteen ninety four October twenty eighth. One. 1:20:21.200 --> 1:20:24.120 Doctor Richard King reveals that at the core of the 1:20:24.200 --> 1:20:29.000 human brain is the locus coriulius, which is a structure 1:20:29.120 --> 1:20:33.160 that is black because it contains large amounts of neuro melanin, 1:20:33.479 --> 1:20:38.639 which is essential for its operation. Two Black infants sit, stand, crawl, 1:20:38.720 --> 1:20:42.760 and walk sooner than whites. Three. Carol Barnes notes that 1:20:42.880 --> 1:20:46.679 human mental processes are controlled by melanin, that same chemical 1:20:46.720 --> 1:20:50.400 which gives blacks their superior physical and mental abilities. Four. 1:20:50.880 --> 1:20:53.800 Some scientists have revealed that most whites are unable to 1:20:53.800 --> 1:20:58.120 produce melanin because their penneal glands are often calcification or 1:20:58.160 --> 1:21:02.799 nonfunctioning pineal asification. Rites with Africans are five to fifteen percent, 1:21:03.160 --> 1:21:06.080 with Europeans at sixty to eighty percent. This is the 1:21:06.160 --> 1:21:09.320 chemical basis for the cultural differences between blacks and whites. 1:21:09.840 --> 1:21:12.719 We can readily admit. She writes that an abused child 1:21:12.840 --> 1:21:15.080 is less likely to achieve academically than a child that 1:21:15.120 --> 1:21:17.880 has grown up in a supportive atmosphere. Black children, whether 1:21:18.000 --> 1:21:19.680 rich or poor, grow up with an added abuse with 1:21:19.720 --> 1:21:22.880 white children never have to face, etc. Etc. In addition, 1:21:22.920 --> 1:21:25.080 it is completely naive to say that blacks have achieved 1:21:25.120 --> 1:21:28.439 economic equality with whites. It's just ridiculous. Black people are 1:21:28.479 --> 1:21:31.400 not asking for political correctness, but truthfulness, fairness, and an 1:21:31.479 --> 1:21:35.080 end of this abuse. Signed Kristen Clark, President of the 1:21:35.080 --> 1:21:38.360 Black Students Association. In what way is that sad? I 1:21:38.360 --> 1:21:39.840 mean I cut a little bit of it out because 1:21:39.840 --> 1:21:41.680 I wanted to keep people too long. But David, I mean, 1:21:41.960 --> 1:21:45.800 in what way is that satire? No, it's not at all. 1:21:46.080 --> 1:21:50.960 And here's the thing. She also invited. Anthony Martineau was 1:21:51.000 --> 1:21:55.519 a weird a quack like who basically spread what she 1:21:55.920 --> 1:21:58.920 wrote in that letter. I forgot where he taught, but anyway, 1:21:58.920 --> 1:22:01.559 he used to speak to the colleges in the nineties. 1:22:01.560 --> 1:22:03.080 You know, I'm a bit older than you and I 1:22:03.160 --> 1:22:06.680 remember these people, and you know, why would she do that? 1:22:06.760 --> 1:22:09.880 If she didn't if this letter was satire, then there 1:22:09.920 --> 1:22:15.759 are subsequent letters in which does not typically published satire 1:22:15.800 --> 1:22:21.960 at all from you know, the editorial board staff of 1:22:21.960 --> 1:22:24.280 the Crimson Saints. She should retract it that they couldn't 1:22:24.320 --> 1:22:27.040 find might not be quoting exactly, but they couldn't find 1:22:27.040 --> 1:22:30.679 a hint of sarcasm or satire in it, and others 1:22:30.720 --> 1:22:33.920 as well. So I just I'm going to say this, Listen, 1:22:33.960 --> 1:22:35.800 she was young when she did this, and we all 1:22:35.800 --> 1:22:40.880 believed dumb things when we're young. However, if any kind 1:22:40.920 --> 1:22:45.280 of Republican, Donald Trump or any other Republican nominated someone 1:22:45.280 --> 1:22:47.519 who had David or someone like that speak at of 1:22:47.520 --> 1:22:50.320 college their career, they would never in a million years 1:22:50.520 --> 1:22:52.600 be nominated to begin with. But they never in a 1:22:52.600 --> 1:22:57.200 million years make it through and sit overseeing anything in 1:22:57.240 --> 1:23:00.920 the US government. I know that for sure. And more 1:23:00.960 --> 1:23:05.080 than that, she when in her of Commerce and lied, right, 1:23:05.160 --> 1:23:06.519 I mean, that's what she did when she said this 1:23:06.560 --> 1:23:11.679 was satire. It is not satire anyway. So there's multiple levels. 1:23:11.680 --> 1:23:13.519 I mean, I agree, there's multiple levels here in which 1:23:13.520 --> 1:23:16.240 it's a problem. And we're speaking to David Harsani everybody 1:23:16.240 --> 1:23:19.000 of National Review. I mean, David, to your first point, 1:23:19.400 --> 1:23:23.519 she's she's she's asserting what would what would accurately be 1:23:23.560 --> 1:23:26.479 described in this. Granted she's in college, she's young, but 1:23:26.520 --> 1:23:28.599 you know she is an adult when she's writing this. 1:23:29.040 --> 1:23:31.880 She's asserting what would be described accurately as as a 1:23:31.960 --> 1:23:36.439 black supremacist ideology. That's a fair description of what that black, 1:23:36.520 --> 1:23:40.200 that they are inherent and innate superior traits of people 1:23:40.200 --> 1:23:42.599 who are black over all other races. By the way, 1:23:42.720 --> 1:23:46.719 so that's in this. That's not like the normal level 1:23:46.880 --> 1:23:51.040 of wrong, you know, bad thinking that people have in college. 1:23:51.040 --> 1:23:52.560 This is some other one. But put that aside for 1:23:52.600 --> 1:23:57.080 a second. Just point this out beyond that. She's lied, 1:23:57.160 --> 1:23:59.519 as you say before Congress, and now we have to 1:23:59.560 --> 1:24:02.519 sit around and listen to people in the media go 1:24:02.720 --> 1:24:05.720 ha ha ha. You don't get that it's satire, as 1:24:05.760 --> 1:24:10.519 if we're all morons. Yeah, yeah, it's it's gas lighting, right. 1:24:10.680 --> 1:24:13.800 I mean, I asked some of the reporters who said 1:24:13.800 --> 1:24:19.040 it was satire to to provide evidence for me, contemporaneous 1:24:19.080 --> 1:24:22.439 evidence of it being satire. Happily correct the record if 1:24:22.439 --> 1:24:25.560 that were so. But there is literally not any inkling 1:24:26.160 --> 1:24:28.600 within the text or in any other way that it 1:24:28.640 --> 1:24:32.000 was satire. She you just read that letter. She mentions 1:24:32.040 --> 1:24:34.920 two specific experts. Does that sound like satire to you. 1:24:34.960 --> 1:24:38.559 I mean, she's she's she's citing experts, supposed experts on 1:24:38.560 --> 1:24:43.360 this issue. Um, so it's a joke. I'm listening. I like, 1:24:43.439 --> 1:24:45.320 as you mentioned as well before, there's going to be 1:24:45.360 --> 1:24:47.479 some nut in that position no matter how you slice it. 1:24:47.520 --> 1:24:50.880 And that's fine. But you know, I don't somehow, you know, 1:24:51.160 --> 1:24:53.519 being lied to in this way and gaslighting people in 1:24:53.560 --> 1:24:57.200 this way and just journalistically, uh you know, having no 1:24:57.280 --> 1:24:59.720 ethics in this I think that's a big problem for us. 1:25:00.080 --> 1:25:02.479 So it needs to be pointed out. Yeah, I just 1:25:02.560 --> 1:25:05.519 refuse to just go along with these lies because people 1:25:05.600 --> 1:25:07.679 keep compeating them over and over again. And I think 1:25:07.720 --> 1:25:10.479 that I'm always reminded of the souls and eats and lecture. 1:25:10.520 --> 1:25:14.679 Actually at Harvard lived not by lies, where the basis 1:25:14.800 --> 1:25:18.400 of the Soviet tyranny in so many ways was just 1:25:18.760 --> 1:25:21.439 you were constantly forced to accept things you knew not 1:25:21.520 --> 1:25:24.240 to be true, and not just to accept them, but 1:25:24.320 --> 1:25:29.120 to celebrate them, to espouse them. And everything was lied 1:25:29.160 --> 1:25:31.839 about all the time, and that was really the basis 1:25:31.840 --> 1:25:34.800 of the Soviet tyranny. I'm not saying America's in a 1:25:34.840 --> 1:25:37.240 tyranny right now. You know, you know, it's still a 1:25:37.240 --> 1:25:39.800 good country and everything, but we have had some really 1:25:39.840 --> 1:25:42.320 tyrannical impulses on display over the last year, and a 1:25:42.400 --> 1:25:44.840 lot of it is rooted in lies. Yeah, no, I 1:25:44.840 --> 1:25:46.760 mean everything you said there's right, and you know the 1:25:47.200 --> 1:25:49.840 thing is I mean, as you also mentioned, I mean, 1:25:50.200 --> 1:25:52.639 this is not some kind of normal nuttiness, like you're 1:25:52.640 --> 1:25:54.840 a crazy libertarian and you want to smoke pot or 1:25:54.880 --> 1:25:57.559 big build you know, make hemp rope or something you're 1:25:57.600 --> 1:26:01.440 this is she's the president of the Black Students Association, 1:26:01.560 --> 1:26:04.400 and these people that she's inviting, by the way, were 1:26:04.560 --> 1:26:06.960 huge anti Semites. And this was in the middle of 1:26:07.040 --> 1:26:10.360 a time where there were riots and deaths in New 1:26:10.439 --> 1:26:13.200 York over this sort of thing, and it was it 1:26:13.240 --> 1:26:15.559 was a pretty ugly time and new riots in LA 1:26:15.560 --> 1:26:18.120 and elsewhere where. She was saying this sort of stuff. 1:26:18.160 --> 1:26:20.519 So you know, maybe she should have to answer as 1:26:20.520 --> 1:26:22.559 to how she changed her mind. She should say, listen, 1:26:22.560 --> 1:26:24.040 I was young and it was stupid. I believe some 1:26:24.120 --> 1:26:26.600 terrible things and now you know this and that. But 1:26:26.600 --> 1:26:28.679 of course she's a big fan of the Women's March 1:26:28.880 --> 1:26:32.200 people too, who are facing knights, and you know, so 1:26:32.400 --> 1:26:35.880 I'm pretty skeptic. I always remember right now too. I 1:26:35.880 --> 1:26:37.639 always remember, David, you know, when I was at Amorous 1:26:37.880 --> 1:26:40.519 Justice Scalia came to speak and there were all these 1:26:40.560 --> 1:26:44.280 protests and people wearing black armbands and stood up and 1:26:44.320 --> 1:26:46.320 turned their backs to them and all this stuff. And 1:26:46.720 --> 1:26:48.599 it was, you know, some years before I was there, 1:26:48.640 --> 1:26:51.320 But just down the road at University of Massachusetts, Lewis 1:26:51.320 --> 1:26:53.519 Farakon was invited to speak. You know, it's like that, 1:26:54.080 --> 1:26:56.559 that's just this was even before college just got as 1:26:56.560 --> 1:26:59.920 crazy as they are right now. But I you mentioned 1:27:00.080 --> 1:27:02.280 the journalistic malpractice thing. We just got a couple of minutes. 1:27:02.280 --> 1:27:04.439 But I wanted to hit on this because as soon 1:27:04.479 --> 1:27:06.840 as that story came out during the right in the 1:27:06.840 --> 1:27:10.559 middle of the presidential campaign, that there were bounties being 1:27:10.600 --> 1:27:16.559 put on American soldiers by Russians to the Taliban, So essentially, 1:27:16.560 --> 1:27:20.559 the Russians are paying Taliban to kill Americans. I said, 1:27:20.800 --> 1:27:23.200 this story doesn't make sense. I don't believe it. It's 1:27:23.240 --> 1:27:26.200 not there's this just it doesn't add up the Talimans 1:27:26.200 --> 1:27:28.559 trying to kill Americans all the time. Russians don't need 1:27:28.560 --> 1:27:30.639 to pay the Taliban to kill him. The whole thing 1:27:30.720 --> 1:27:35.120 was idiotic. But now they've basically retracted it right now, 1:27:35.160 --> 1:27:37.559 they've said, well, it turns out we actually probably shouldn't 1:27:37.560 --> 1:27:39.639 have run that story. But David, it was more than 1:27:39.680 --> 1:27:43.040 just a news store, wasn't it. Yeah, I mean it 1:27:43.080 --> 1:27:45.920 was in the middle. If you're remember of when there 1:27:45.960 --> 1:27:48.000 was a there were a slew of stories about how 1:27:48.040 --> 1:27:50.439 Donald Trump hates the troops, and you know, in the 1:27:50.479 --> 1:27:55.519 Atlantic and elsewhere, you know, thinly sourced, and I don't 1:27:55.520 --> 1:27:57.240 even know if there are any sources. Frankly, how do 1:27:57.280 --> 1:27:59.759 I know, because they never ever, you know, put sources 1:27:59.760 --> 1:28:02.880 on the record, and you know, so as part of 1:28:02.880 --> 1:28:05.120 that whole thing. But honestly, as you know, it's been 1:28:05.280 --> 1:28:10.120 part of five years of slew and of stories that 1:28:10.200 --> 1:28:15.200 are the stereo that mislead Americans about the veracity of 1:28:15.240 --> 1:28:19.600 their elections and the veracity of the president's patriotism and 1:28:19.640 --> 1:28:24.080 things like that that were planted by intelligence people and 1:28:24.280 --> 1:28:28.080 spread by a compliant media. And it's unprecedented and it 1:28:28.200 --> 1:28:30.920 was truly a disaster I think, in many ways for 1:28:31.040 --> 1:28:33.320 the United States. So you know, this is just one 1:28:33.360 --> 1:28:36.280 of many, and David, I just I feel like there 1:28:36.320 --> 1:28:39.599 has been even if it's not admitted a real shift 1:28:39.680 --> 1:28:43.400 in the mentality of your run of the mill, your 1:28:43.439 --> 1:28:48.280 your standard journalists working for a news publication these days, 1:28:49.160 --> 1:28:53.200 where it really is about getting a result, and the 1:28:53.240 --> 1:28:57.000 result is not the provision, is not providing truth and 1:28:57.240 --> 1:28:59.960 context for people to make their own That that we've 1:29:00.120 --> 1:29:03.519 we've seen a shift, a true shift in the ethics 1:29:03.640 --> 1:29:05.439 where they're not even they don't even feel the need 1:29:05.479 --> 1:29:08.559 to pretend anymore. They're they're out to get the other side, 1:29:08.600 --> 1:29:12.080 whatever it takes. I mean, if they cared, We'll put 1:29:12.120 --> 1:29:14.360 it this way, they are biased journalists and they are 1:29:14.360 --> 1:29:17.120 the good ones now, and that there are corrupt journalists 1:29:17.200 --> 1:29:20.559 who do this kind of thing, and if they weren't, 1:29:21.040 --> 1:29:24.479 then they would burn any source who set them up 1:29:24.520 --> 1:29:27.240 with a lie like this, but happens over and over again. 1:29:27.400 --> 1:29:29.960 And if the institutions cared, people would have there would 1:29:29.960 --> 1:29:33.080 be repercussions for spreading this sort of thing. This is 1:29:33.160 --> 1:29:37.040 this is a dangerous story to spread. Russia has nuclear weapons, right, 1:29:37.479 --> 1:29:41.120 You're talking about world power, and you're spreading stories about 1:29:41.160 --> 1:29:44.360 them Americans, So I mean, this is sort of dangerous 1:29:44.400 --> 1:29:47.640 stuff to be doing. And I'm not defending Russia. I 1:29:47.680 --> 1:29:49.320 think Russia are you know, I think they're bad guys 1:29:49.360 --> 1:29:51.080 over there, but you know, it's still we have to 1:29:51.680 --> 1:29:54.040 deal with them and live in a truthful world in 1:29:54.439 --> 1:29:57.559 some extent. In essence, you know, they were doing they're 1:29:57.600 --> 1:29:59.679 doing exactly what they were saying the Russians were doing 1:29:59.720 --> 1:30:01.200 to us, and they were doing it over and over 1:30:01.200 --> 1:30:04.720 and over again. David Arson everybody National Review dot com 1:30:04.760 --> 1:30:07.160 for his latest David, always your pleasure. We'll talk to 1:30:07.200 --> 1:30:11.280 you soon. Thank you. I'm disappointed that there's this significant 1:30:11.320 --> 1:30:14.320 amount of hesitancy, but I agree with you, Whoopie. The 1:30:14.320 --> 1:30:17.920 reason that people are getting vaccinated and still need to 1:30:17.960 --> 1:30:21.000 be so causcious is because of the growing number of 1:30:21.040 --> 1:30:24.400 white male Republicans that continue not to want to wear 1:30:24.439 --> 1:30:27.519 their mask, that continue not want to get vaccinated because 1:30:27.560 --> 1:30:30.600 they consider it some sort of freedom ride. And it 1:30:30.680 --> 1:30:32.880 just doesn't really make sense. And I think people like 1:30:32.960 --> 1:30:38.120 Tucker Carlson are being very irresponsible by sending out this messaging. 1:30:38.160 --> 1:30:40.439 By sending out the messaging I think he sent out 1:30:40.479 --> 1:30:45.360 yesterday that maybe the vaccines just don't work. That is irresponsible, 1:30:45.400 --> 1:30:50.400 it's misinformation, and it's causing I think, in the long run, 1:30:51.040 --> 1:30:54.799 people to die. People need to be more concerned about 1:30:54.880 --> 1:30:59.600 the virus. More scared of this virus than the vaccine. 1:31:00.280 --> 1:31:02.559 This has been This has been the game all along 1:31:03.280 --> 1:31:07.559 from the lockdowners. Do what I say. Agree with everything 1:31:07.560 --> 1:31:09.920 that we tell you to do, no matter how stupid 1:31:09.960 --> 1:31:14.000 it is, no matter how completely absurd it is. Mask 1:31:14.080 --> 1:31:17.720 up between bites, wear that mask outside social distance thing, 1:31:17.800 --> 1:31:20.439 but a social distance or now they're calling it physical distancing. 1:31:20.520 --> 1:31:25.519 Sometimes this is just a pseudo scientific way of telling 1:31:25.520 --> 1:31:29.120 people avoid other human beings. Does does that sound like 1:31:29.120 --> 1:31:32.439 a really? Does that sound like a real virus, you know, 1:31:32.600 --> 1:31:37.760 virus beating strategy. Just avoid other people for a year, 1:31:38.760 --> 1:31:41.479 don't be around other human being, family members, anyone. Don't 1:31:41.479 --> 1:31:43.920 be around anyone for a year. That's really what this 1:31:44.000 --> 1:31:47.120 comes down to. You could say, oh, but they just mean, 1:31:47.200 --> 1:31:49.360 you know, because no, they told you not to see 1:31:49.400 --> 1:31:51.400 family at Thanksgiving. That you know they're they're telling you 1:31:51.479 --> 1:31:54.600 stay away from humans. And then that's supposed to be 1:31:54.680 --> 1:31:58.200 great scientific advice. It makes a lot of sense. Tucker 1:31:58.240 --> 1:32:00.960 didn't say the vaccines don't work there. This is Sonny hosta, 1:32:01.040 --> 1:32:04.200 but she's a fraud and it's the intellectual level in 1:32:04.280 --> 1:32:08.200 general on the show. The view is honestly Jerry Springer 1:32:09.040 --> 1:32:12.559 was a show that brought together, you know, a higher 1:32:13.040 --> 1:32:16.040 level of discourse than what you often see on the 1:32:16.160 --> 1:32:18.840 view guys. One of the Jerry Springer show back in 1:32:18.880 --> 1:32:20.640 the day, that was actually that that was a real 1:32:20.680 --> 1:32:24.360 phenomenon for a while, people always fighting and tackling each other. 1:32:24.400 --> 1:32:27.719 That show was crazy, oh man. And then you'd always 1:32:27.800 --> 1:32:30.120 edit with you know, take care of yourselves and each 1:32:30.120 --> 1:32:32.920 other or something like that. It's like, yeah, after you've 1:32:32.960 --> 1:32:35.960 showed us that you know, so and so impregnated so 1:32:36.080 --> 1:32:38.800 and so's brother who was married to the sister who's 1:32:38.880 --> 1:32:41.960 the cousin of the you know whatever. I mean, you know, 1:32:42.760 --> 1:32:44.880 the whole thing was just such a mess that it was, 1:32:44.920 --> 1:32:46.920 you know, take care of yourselves at each other. I 1:32:46.960 --> 1:32:49.720 always remember that with Jerry Springer. But anyway, Tucker did 1:32:49.760 --> 1:32:53.680 not say that the vaccines don't work, but he is. 1:32:54.040 --> 1:32:57.519 He's posing the question, if the vaccines work, and they 1:32:57.600 --> 1:33:01.200 seem to work very well, why are we all still 1:33:01.240 --> 1:33:05.360 being told that nothing changes? When does it change? Now? 1:33:05.400 --> 1:33:09.000 Remember they'll concede that the so it's the vaccines work. 1:33:09.040 --> 1:33:12.520 The vaccines work very well, but the vaccines don't work perfectly. 1:33:12.600 --> 1:33:16.160 To that, you go back to the argument, Okay, well, 1:33:16.200 --> 1:33:18.519 they're never going to work perfectly. We all understand that. 1:33:19.040 --> 1:33:22.000 So if the vaccines work very very well and it's 1:33:22.040 --> 1:33:24.320 never going to be perfect, they'll always be some risk, 1:33:24.360 --> 1:33:26.000 There'll always be some people will still get sick, and 1:33:26.000 --> 1:33:30.760 there'll always be some covid endemic in the population. Why 1:33:30.800 --> 1:33:35.800 can't vaccinated people just live their lives? Because you see, 1:33:35.880 --> 1:33:38.360 if you take this to its logical conclusion, you get 1:33:38.360 --> 1:33:41.360 to a place where you realize, if you obey what 1:33:41.400 --> 1:33:45.879 the faucciotes are telling you, there is a clear pathway 1:33:45.920 --> 1:33:48.559 for them to make you deal with this, to make 1:33:48.560 --> 1:33:53.400 this something that is a problem forever. You never actually 1:33:53.560 --> 1:33:57.040 get to put that mask away. You know, we have 1:33:57.120 --> 1:34:02.680 to finally tell them enough, you're irrash, channel hysteria about 1:34:02.880 --> 1:34:07.680 minute about you know, low risk situations and possibilities is 1:34:07.760 --> 1:34:13.400 not allowed to infringe upon the most most basic rights. 1:34:13.400 --> 1:34:16.840 We have the right to breathe fresh air, folks, That's 1:34:16.880 --> 1:34:20.519 what's actually at stake here. But I'm a view you know, 1:34:20.600 --> 1:34:25.040 just just keep worshiping fauci like the people who are 1:34:25.080 --> 1:34:32.519 just unable to think for themselves on this stuff. Set 1:34:32.600 --> 1:34:35.559 no party like a team Buck party, because a Team 1:34:35.560 --> 1:34:43.040 Buck Party. Don't stop. It's time for roll call. Get 1:34:43.080 --> 1:34:45.519 those funky tunes, rolling proucer, Mark, I got good news 1:34:45.520 --> 1:34:47.240 for you, don't The good news is what it's the 1:34:47.240 --> 1:34:51.200 good news. It's Thursday, my man, which means that we 1:34:51.280 --> 1:34:54.519 are almost working for the weekend, or about to be 1:34:54.600 --> 1:34:57.960 at the weekend, which is nice. At this point, we're 1:34:57.960 --> 1:35:00.400 just working for the summer, right, Yeah, I think so, 1:35:00.560 --> 1:35:03.400 it's probably true. What's going on? A producer? Mark, Will 1:35:03.439 --> 1:35:05.800 you got anything to tell the folks, the fans, the 1:35:05.880 --> 1:35:09.000 listeners all across America? No, I'm very boring. I don't 1:35:09.040 --> 1:35:11.280 really do much. I don't. I feel like no one 1:35:11.280 --> 1:35:13.840 really does much these days. I feel like we're all 1:35:13.880 --> 1:35:19.960 just being constantly anesthetized by the abundance of delicious food, 1:35:20.800 --> 1:35:25.640 electric entertainment, you know, electronic entertainment options, and you know, 1:35:25.960 --> 1:35:31.160 very comfortable ath leisure. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, 1:35:31.400 --> 1:35:33.160 all I do is wear sweatpants and watch a lot 1:35:33.200 --> 1:35:36.040 of TV nowadays. Yeah, it's just not really a lot 1:35:36.080 --> 1:35:38.200 of exciting stuff. I'm okay with the sweatpants, but I 1:35:38.200 --> 1:35:40.800 wish I would do more stuff. I gotta tell you, 1:35:41.040 --> 1:35:43.400 I'm I think I need to just give away like 1:35:43.600 --> 1:35:46.040 half of my suits because I just I don't think 1:35:46.040 --> 1:35:48.760 I'm going back to being a suit guy. You know, 1:35:49.080 --> 1:35:51.639 I don't see it happening. It's just as suit as 1:35:51.760 --> 1:35:54.640 I've always said this, suits are not comfortable. No, I 1:35:54.680 --> 1:35:56.439 don't care. You know, if you have it made to 1:35:56.479 --> 1:35:59.000 measure and its suits are just not that comfortable. You're 1:35:59.040 --> 1:36:01.640 gonna walk around with a with a suit jacket on. 1:36:02.080 --> 1:36:05.680 That's that's not fun. You know, that's not good. I 1:36:05.800 --> 1:36:09.160 have walked around many hockey and basketball arenas with full 1:36:09.200 --> 1:36:12.640 suits on, and it was never pleasant. Yeah, you're like, 1:36:12.640 --> 1:36:14.800 what am I doing with this? We'd all be better off. 1:36:14.840 --> 1:36:16.600 And this is this is a big change in the 1:36:16.640 --> 1:36:19.760 same way that people are realizing that all along, a 1:36:19.800 --> 1:36:21.479 lot of us could have been doing our work from 1:36:21.479 --> 1:36:24.519 home and not just getting all sweaty. I mean, for 1:36:24.560 --> 1:36:29.600 those who've never experienced this, there's something particularly humbling about 1:36:29.680 --> 1:36:32.439 being a person who has to get on the New 1:36:32.560 --> 1:36:36.560 York City subway in the middle of July, because you 1:36:36.600 --> 1:36:39.080 will stand on a crowded subway platform on the way 1:36:39.120 --> 1:36:44.360 into your office and you will just sweat through whatever 1:36:44.400 --> 1:36:47.320 you're wearing. I mean, it's like being in a sauna. 1:36:47.360 --> 1:36:49.639 And then you get to get on the subway car 1:36:50.160 --> 1:36:53.040 where the air conditioning is turned all the way up, 1:36:53.360 --> 1:36:56.080 and then you're like freezing. You practically have you know, 1:36:56.400 --> 1:37:00.200 icicles coming off your nose. And then you get so 1:37:00.280 --> 1:37:03.639 after after sort of getting you know, sweaty and damp 1:37:04.040 --> 1:37:06.760 on the subway platform because the subway itself is not 1:37:06.800 --> 1:37:11.120 air conditioned, I mean the subway uh you know area. Uh, 1:37:11.640 --> 1:37:14.320 then you get to get like wet and cold on 1:37:14.360 --> 1:37:17.879 the subway train. And then you go into your office, 1:37:17.920 --> 1:37:21.080 which is probably also very air conditioned, and you sit 1:37:21.120 --> 1:37:25.320 there and you just feel like a damp, cold, swamp body. 1:37:25.800 --> 1:37:27.400 And then you got to sit there for eight hours, 1:37:28.400 --> 1:37:30.360 you know what I'm talking about. Of course, I can 1:37:30.400 --> 1:37:32.320 still like in my brain when I think about it, 1:37:32.400 --> 1:37:37.320 smell a hot subway station. Yeah, that there's a certain smell. 1:37:37.400 --> 1:37:39.680 You can't describe it, but whenever you experience it, you 1:37:39.720 --> 1:37:42.639 know it. There's a very is a very unique essence 1:37:43.200 --> 1:37:45.760 to the New York City subway smell mid July. It's 1:37:45.840 --> 1:37:50.800 kind of a mixture of old old pizza cartons, rat feces, 1:37:50.880 --> 1:37:55.519 and human urine all in this this wonderful brew. You know. 1:37:55.680 --> 1:37:59.360 That's that's what you got subway station below our building, 1:38:00.000 --> 1:38:02.519 and we had a building in Manhattan, our work office. 1:38:03.000 --> 1:38:07.640 Oh my god, Oh yeah, disgusting. Yeah yeah. So I 1:38:07.680 --> 1:38:09.479 don't know. I wonder what people are gonna want to 1:38:09.520 --> 1:38:11.760 go back to in life and what they're gonna say. Man, 1:38:11.960 --> 1:38:16.360 I'm gonna say something, you know, crowded bars, crowded restaurants. 1:38:16.840 --> 1:38:19.120 M I don't know. I don't know how much I 1:38:19.160 --> 1:38:21.160 really I was thinking I would, I would want to 1:38:21.160 --> 1:38:23.320 go to a crowded bar, just be around people and stuff. 1:38:23.320 --> 1:38:26.160 But I realized, nah, man, I don't need it. I 1:38:26.200 --> 1:38:28.519 don't need it. You get amazing, at least in a 1:38:28.760 --> 1:38:30.479 city like New York, and I know there's a lot 1:38:30.520 --> 1:38:32.320 of places like this cross the country. You get amazing 1:38:32.320 --> 1:38:34.960 food delivered, you know, and you get to be your 1:38:34.960 --> 1:38:38.080 own home. The same reason why I don't look, I've 1:38:38.200 --> 1:38:40.559 I've changed a lot of these behaviors over over time. 1:38:41.000 --> 1:38:43.759 I'm not a movie guy going I should say, going 1:38:43.800 --> 1:38:47.439 to the movies guy anymore. I just won't do it. 1:38:47.439 --> 1:38:51.400 It's expensive, it requires effort. I have a I don't know, 1:38:51.520 --> 1:38:56.320 fifty five inch flat screen TV. I've got an incredibly 1:38:56.360 --> 1:38:59.759 comfortable couch that we call old gray because it's old 1:38:59.800 --> 1:39:03.640 and gray. So that makes sense. And you know, I 1:39:03.680 --> 1:39:05.879 can I got my fridge, I got my own restroom, 1:39:05.880 --> 1:39:08.040 I can press pause, I can take a phone call 1:39:08.080 --> 1:39:10.280 if I have to, you know. And so I just 1:39:10.280 --> 1:39:13.600 feel like these behaviors are shifting, and I wonder what 1:39:13.680 --> 1:39:15.760 behaviors are going to continue, Like, Mark, what do you 1:39:15.840 --> 1:39:19.840 think you're going to keep doing that's a change from 1:39:19.920 --> 1:39:22.559 the pandemic that you're gonna keep going forward with even 1:39:22.640 --> 1:39:25.439 let's say this time next year. I'd say for like 1:39:25.800 --> 1:39:29.759 social settings, Now, me and my friend group, we prefer 1:39:29.840 --> 1:39:33.080 hanging out in each other's homes. Like I don't care 1:39:33.080 --> 1:39:35.280 how many people are in it, but rather than going 1:39:35.320 --> 1:39:37.320 to a bar or going out to dinner or doing 1:39:37.360 --> 1:39:40.800 all that, just because why would I pay all this 1:39:40.920 --> 1:39:42.759 extra money for food when we can have food delivered 1:39:42.760 --> 1:39:44.960 to make our own food and get our own booze 1:39:45.040 --> 1:39:49.160 or whatever, you know, just group outings in your own home. 1:39:49.600 --> 1:39:52.120 That will be the thing that I want to stay from. COVID. Yeah, 1:39:52.160 --> 1:39:54.600 I think people have gotten very used to comfortable and 1:39:54.680 --> 1:39:57.559 controlled environments and it's tough to go back. I mean, 1:39:57.600 --> 1:40:00.599 I took the snow Princess out because she just got 1:40:00.600 --> 1:40:03.040 a great a great new job. And so she's in 1:40:03.080 --> 1:40:04.840 business school and she's got a great new job and 1:40:04.880 --> 1:40:06.720 I'm so proud of her, and which I took her 1:40:06.720 --> 1:40:08.400 out and it was kind of like a special occasion 1:40:08.479 --> 1:40:11.240 dinner place, and you know, they kind of messed up 1:40:11.280 --> 1:40:14.160 the food. The service was bad, the music was way 1:40:14.200 --> 1:40:16.880 too loud. You know, we had some issues, and it 1:40:16.920 --> 1:40:19.240 was pricy. I mean, I feel like I got rinsed, 1:40:19.680 --> 1:40:22.519 and I'm sitting here thinking I could I could have 1:40:22.960 --> 1:40:28.320 actually ordered steaks for my favorite steakhouse in all of 1:40:28.360 --> 1:40:31.160 New York and just had them delivered to my apartment 1:40:31.760 --> 1:40:34.559 and had a perfectly quiet, nice even just you know, 1:40:35.080 --> 1:40:36.720 it's so this. I think this is gonna change for 1:40:36.760 --> 1:40:38.320 some folks. I know, we have a lot of audience 1:40:38.400 --> 1:40:40.160 that you know, lives in the suburbs or lives in 1:40:40.280 --> 1:40:42.960 rural areas, and so that's not really but if you 1:40:43.000 --> 1:40:45.280 live in a city, I mean, I don't know, I've 1:40:45.360 --> 1:40:47.479 kind of gotten used to not being crammed in a 1:40:47.520 --> 1:40:49.519 subway car full of I've gotten used to not being 1:40:49.560 --> 1:40:52.360 around people I don't really want to be around, you 1:40:52.400 --> 1:40:54.120 know what I mean. I think it's gonna be tough 1:40:54.160 --> 1:40:56.479 to go back. Yeah. I don't want to be a 1:40:56.520 --> 1:40:58.840 shoulder a shoulder with strangers anytime soon. And it has 1:40:58.880 --> 1:41:02.479 nothing to do with COVID, just unenjoyable. Yeah. I mean, look, 1:41:02.520 --> 1:41:04.439 no matter who you are, at some point in the subway, 1:41:05.040 --> 1:41:06.960 you're just you're going butt to butt. I don't know 1:41:07.000 --> 1:41:09.120 how else to say it. You're gonna your butt is 1:41:09.160 --> 1:41:12.280 gonna be pushed up against some random some random guy 1:41:12.400 --> 1:41:16.160 or gals. But because you're squashed in like sardines, and 1:41:16.240 --> 1:41:19.720 that's the way it's gonna be. But that's the one 1:41:19.760 --> 1:41:22.880 that's crammed against something somebody else. Wait, what, you're lucky 1:41:22.880 --> 1:41:24.960 if it's just your butt that's cram Oh yeah, We'll 1:41:25.000 --> 1:41:27.280 just saying you get squashed in on all sides. But yeah, 1:41:27.320 --> 1:41:28.719 I don't. I don't need to be butt to butt 1:41:28.720 --> 1:41:30.880 with strangers. You know, I want to. I want someone to, 1:41:30.920 --> 1:41:32.400 you know, take me out to dinner in a movie 1:41:32.400 --> 1:41:33.960 before we go butt the butt, you know what I mean. 1:41:34.040 --> 1:41:39.320 It's not we don't need that. So just saying, all right, Dan, 1:41:39.880 --> 1:41:42.920 let's get into it here. Dan, i'n go buck your 1:41:43.000 --> 1:41:45.559 struggle to find something good to watch on Netflix with 1:41:45.600 --> 1:41:48.360 the snow Princess struck a nerve with me. Seems like 1:41:48.400 --> 1:41:51.360 the kids today are inundated with very racy content like 1:41:51.400 --> 1:41:55.439 that sexy killer Babysitter movie you described, or literally anything 1:41:55.479 --> 1:41:59.160 Cardi b does. We come from the same era the nineties, 1:41:59.600 --> 1:42:03.080 back then edgy content. Men Jesse Spano was hooked on 1:42:03.160 --> 1:42:06.000 caffeine pills, or Uncle Phil and Will were thrown in 1:42:06.080 --> 1:42:08.960 jail for being African American. It's strange to think the 1:42:09.040 --> 1:42:11.040 nineties were simpler time, but it was. I miss it. 1:42:11.040 --> 1:42:13.920 Where do we go from here? Dan, I think I 1:42:14.040 --> 1:42:19.280 missed the nineties a lot. I missed the nineties culturally. 1:42:19.640 --> 1:42:22.840 I think it was you know, I just think it 1:42:22.880 --> 1:42:24.519 was a better time in a lot of ways. I 1:42:24.560 --> 1:42:28.719 think the my my belief is that the absolute peak 1:42:28.840 --> 1:42:33.320 of technology for for life to be convenient, but you 1:42:33.400 --> 1:42:38.240 just still have some privacy. The absolute peak was like 1:42:38.880 --> 1:42:42.360 late nine, like ninety nine, two thousand, when everybody could 1:42:42.360 --> 1:42:44.320 have a cell phone, because that is really nice, that 1:42:44.479 --> 1:42:47.880 is really you know, convenient and helpful. But we didn't 1:42:47.880 --> 1:42:53.040 have smartphones and we it was just it was just 1:42:53.080 --> 1:42:55.360 a better time, man. I don't know, I missed I 1:42:55.400 --> 1:42:58.200 missed the music of the nineties. I gotta tell you know, 1:42:58.200 --> 1:43:01.160 Prouser Mark. I've I've just complained Producer Mark everybody that 1:43:01.160 --> 1:43:03.400 I've been going to the gym pretty consistently. Now, I mean, 1:43:03.439 --> 1:43:07.120 I'm very today, I'm like very, I've got doms which 1:43:07.200 --> 1:43:10.640 is delayed onset muscle soreness because I'm actually going to 1:43:10.640 --> 1:43:13.839 the gym pretty hard, pretty consistently, and I've been eating 1:43:13.920 --> 1:43:17.320 a little bit cleaner, which is really a bummer. And 1:43:17.360 --> 1:43:19.680 I'm just sitting here like, well, I don't know. I 1:43:19.720 --> 1:43:21.600 can either just sort of wear sweats and be a 1:43:21.680 --> 1:43:24.639 cuddly radio host and eat all the cookies and pad 1:43:24.640 --> 1:43:27.120 tie I want, or I can go to the gym 1:43:27.720 --> 1:43:31.200 and and you know, eat small the worst. And the 1:43:31.200 --> 1:43:32.800 thing for me is really, honestly, it's not even the 1:43:32.800 --> 1:43:36.559 food choice, it's just smaller portions. That's really that I've 1:43:36.640 --> 1:43:38.080 learned that this is if you're really going to do 1:43:38.080 --> 1:43:41.000 this and try to cut it's smaller portion. Because I mean, 1:43:41.240 --> 1:43:43.640 you can sit there, you can have Penala vodka. You 1:43:43.720 --> 1:43:47.160 just have you know, whatever it is, you know, six 1:43:47.200 --> 1:43:50.040 ounces of it or something. But I don't want six ounces, 1:43:50.080 --> 1:43:53.320 Producer Mark, I want like fourteen ounces of Penala vodka. Yeah, 1:43:53.320 --> 1:43:55.600 of course, if you're eating Penela vodka. What are you 1:43:55.600 --> 1:43:57.280 eating six ounces of? Let mean, you know what I'm saying, 1:43:57.360 --> 1:43:59.400 Yeah you eat? What do you bring me my Penala vodka? 1:43:59.439 --> 1:44:01.559 Like a little little tiny salad bowl or something. No, 1:44:01.640 --> 1:44:04.439 I wanted a big up play to basta. I want 1:44:04.439 --> 1:44:07.280 a pet a lavaca with a brachut though, and the 1:44:07.640 --> 1:44:09.080 I want the whole you know, I want the whole thing. 1:44:09.520 --> 1:44:12.280 And anyway, but I was, I was in the gym, 1:44:12.280 --> 1:44:14.599 and I'm trying to think I've also recognized and this 1:44:14.640 --> 1:44:16.000 is something that always comes to me when I start 1:44:16.040 --> 1:44:19.280 getting more consistent that lifting weights without music, I just 1:44:19.360 --> 1:44:21.920 I'm just more focused. I do a better job without 1:44:22.000 --> 1:44:24.719 blasting music. But I do need music for cardio because 1:44:24.800 --> 1:44:27.120 I'm just punishing myself and I hate it. But so 1:44:27.160 --> 1:44:29.640 I was looking for music to listen to and I 1:44:29.760 --> 1:44:32.479 picked up some you know, I mean not nineties, of course, 1:44:32.560 --> 1:44:36.439 nineties would be amazing. I picked up some Top forty 1:44:36.640 --> 1:44:41.960 I'm just curious, Top forty twenty twenty one, you know, playlist, 1:44:42.120 --> 1:44:46.040 and it was just garbage. It's just bad. And it's 1:44:46.040 --> 1:44:49.000 amazing how much music from the nineties is now being 1:44:49.040 --> 1:44:51.680 recycled as some kind of a techno remix, which I 1:44:51.720 --> 1:44:54.160 think just goes to my theory that a lot of 1:44:54.200 --> 1:44:56.639 music today's just not very good. And I know people 1:44:56.680 --> 1:44:58.680 want to say, oh, it's just because things. No, I 1:44:59.080 --> 1:45:01.799 think it's just not very good. I don't think anyone's 1:45:01.840 --> 1:45:04.880 gonna be listening to I'll tell you this. I don't 1:45:04.880 --> 1:45:07.479 think anyone's gonna be listening to Ed Shearing in ten years. 1:45:07.920 --> 1:45:11.760 I just don't think your tongue. Yeah, I know, I'm 1:45:11.800 --> 1:45:13.759 just saying, have you ever seen the old man yells 1:45:13.760 --> 1:45:17.840 at cloud meme? What as you? No? Probably is yeah, 1:45:17.880 --> 1:45:19.559 But you know, I'm trying to think of some of 1:45:19.560 --> 1:45:22.000 the other I don't even know. There's this there's the 1:45:22.160 --> 1:45:26.640 Dua Dua Lipa. I was I learned of this of 1:45:26.680 --> 1:45:29.320 the dua lipa artist I believe is that the name? Yes, 1:45:29.560 --> 1:45:32.720 she's big nowadays, Yeah, she's big nowaday. I just I 1:45:32.760 --> 1:45:34.360 don't know. I don't think this stuff is good. I 1:45:34.400 --> 1:45:36.320 really don't. And I know it's like I'm having to 1:45:36.360 --> 1:45:38.880 get off my lawn moment. But I'll agree with you 1:45:39.040 --> 1:45:40.680 most of the new people, but like, give me Ed 1:45:40.720 --> 1:45:43.400 Sheeron and Taylor Swift at least, whose are the only 1:45:43.400 --> 1:45:46.200 two current artists I can think of that are fine, well, 1:45:46.280 --> 1:45:48.320 T Swift, I'll always have sort of a soft spot 1:45:48.360 --> 1:45:51.920 for but Ed Sheer okay, and Ed Shearon's actually a 1:45:51.960 --> 1:45:54.360 talented musician whatever, so that way, he wasn't really but 1:45:54.439 --> 1:45:56.080 he was in a bunch of these things. But I'm 1:45:56.120 --> 1:45:57.640 talking to see. The thing is I was listening to 1:45:57.720 --> 1:46:01.080 Ed Sheer and techno remixes Mark because it's for workouts 1:46:01.080 --> 1:46:04.360 and so that you're just like, uh, you know, I mean, look, 1:46:04.400 --> 1:46:07.559 Calvin Harris, Calvin Harris is it's good if you like 1:46:08.320 --> 1:46:12.040 if you like electronic music, but you know it's Calvin 1:46:12.040 --> 1:46:14.600 Harris is just the Paul Oakenfold of today. And you know, 1:46:14.720 --> 1:46:18.479 people from the nineties, you guys all remember Paul Oakenfold. Ready, 1:46:18.560 --> 1:46:21.560 Steady go, and you all remember Paul Okenfold. Anyway, I 1:46:21.880 --> 1:46:23.639 know I'm I haven't. We'll get off my long moment. 1:46:23.640 --> 1:46:28.559 But there's the The Sexy Killer Babysitter movie was just 1:46:28.640 --> 1:46:33.160 so bad. But I'm telling you, the Sexy Killer Babysitter 1:46:33.479 --> 1:46:38.720 said He's Sexy Killer Baby Sitter movie on Netflix is 1:46:38.760 --> 1:46:43.759 actually better than the guy who is like a weird 1:46:43.920 --> 1:46:48.400 fish monster who wants to hold women and use them 1:46:48.400 --> 1:46:51.320 to create more fish Monster. I mean, it's the worst 1:46:51.360 --> 1:46:55.120 crap I've ever seen in my life. So there you go. 1:46:55.280 --> 1:46:58.080 That is That is my movie review session for you today. 1:46:58.280 --> 1:47:00.439 All right, continuing with role Call, I remember if you 1:47:00.479 --> 1:47:02.439 want to be a part of Roll Call, Facebook dot com, 1:47:02.479 --> 1:47:05.320 slash Buck Sexton, or you can write us an email 1:47:05.360 --> 1:47:12.000 at Team Buck at iHeartMedia dot com. Francis and if 1:47:12.000 --> 1:47:13.920 you're on Instagram by the follow me on Instagram send 1:47:13.920 --> 1:47:16.759 me messages there just Buck Sexton. You'll find me very easily. 1:47:17.640 --> 1:47:19.439 And it is me. I read it. I mean, producer 1:47:19.479 --> 1:47:21.400 Mark curates it for Roll Call, but I'm reading it. 1:47:21.439 --> 1:47:23.200 I'm going through it, so I always think it's so funny. 1:47:23.200 --> 1:47:24.880 More people write in like I know you're never going 1:47:24.920 --> 1:47:26.920 to see this and like to write in, well, I'm 1:47:26.920 --> 1:47:31.639 seeing it right now, so I see it. That's where 1:47:31.680 --> 1:47:35.120 you say, yes, Buck, Yes, Buck, you do read the messages. 1:47:35.400 --> 1:47:37.479 But I read all of them. Yeah, he reads all them. 1:47:37.479 --> 1:47:40.559 I read as many as I can get to Francis Buck, 1:47:40.560 --> 1:47:42.800 I'm listening to an older podcast and you're speaking about 1:47:42.880 --> 1:47:47.400 United Airlines statement how in ten years fifty percent of 1:47:47.439 --> 1:47:50.040 their pilots will be female and minority. The only way 1:47:50.040 --> 1:47:52.439 that's going to happen is if they open their own 1:47:52.560 --> 1:47:56.719 flight school and admit only females and minorities and probably 1:47:56.760 --> 1:48:00.840 subsidize the cost as well. Flight training is very, very expensive, 1:48:01.040 --> 1:48:03.400 and they're just not enough females and minorities and the 1:48:03.439 --> 1:48:06.720 pilot training pool to come up in the ranks to 1:48:06.800 --> 1:48:09.960 qualify for the airlines. I wish there were, but there 1:48:10.000 --> 1:48:13.120 just aren't. At any given time, there's between five to 1:48:13.240 --> 1:48:15.559 seven percent of the certificate of pilots in the United 1:48:15.560 --> 1:48:18.240 States who are female. I know you commented on the 1:48:18.280 --> 1:48:21.200 qualification part of this, but it's not just United Soul 1:48:21.240 --> 1:48:25.120 decision on what the qualifications are. The FAA and the 1:48:25.120 --> 1:48:29.799 insurance company for the airlines are two of the loudest voices. Francis, 1:48:29.840 --> 1:48:31.320 you know a lot more about this than I do, 1:48:31.360 --> 1:48:33.240 so thank you for writing and telling us about it. 1:48:33.280 --> 1:48:36.320 But yeah, this is this is the constant battle that 1:48:36.320 --> 1:48:40.679 we see happening about this stuff. Is they tell us, oh, 1:48:40.680 --> 1:48:45.439 we won't lower standards, and then when the numbers don't 1:48:45.439 --> 1:48:48.360 add up and the way they want them to, they 1:48:48.479 --> 1:48:51.800 lower the standards. I mean it's like you can set 1:48:51.840 --> 1:48:53.760 your watch by it. I mean it's just like you said, 1:48:53.800 --> 1:48:57.120 an egg timer they say, oh, we'll never lower the standards, 1:48:57.160 --> 1:49:00.400 no way, and then they lower the standards. And this 1:49:00.439 --> 1:49:02.680 is why when you're talking about things like, you know, 1:49:03.479 --> 1:49:07.519 surgeons in the oar, pilots for the airplanes. You know, 1:49:08.040 --> 1:49:12.360 we want the best people. I don't care. I don't 1:49:12.400 --> 1:49:20.680 care what skin color, what gender, what you know, sexual orientation. 1:49:22.040 --> 1:49:24.240 I don't care at all. I just want the person 1:49:24.280 --> 1:49:28.280 who's the most competent at the essential task of keeping 1:49:28.320 --> 1:49:31.880 me alive. And whatever objective metrics we have in place 1:49:31.960 --> 1:49:35.480 to help determine that, we have to protect those metrics. 1:49:35.920 --> 1:49:40.360 And hey, Buck, really enjoy your show. Sad this weekend 1:49:40.360 --> 1:49:45.120 to see corporations like Target, Starbucks, LinkedIn, and United gathering 1:49:45.160 --> 1:49:50.040 to discuss limiting donations to political candidates who vote in 1:49:50.080 --> 1:49:54.320 what the corporations designate as incorrect voter laws. Who's running 1:49:54.360 --> 1:49:57.400 the United States now, corporations or the people and they're 1:49:57.400 --> 1:50:02.040 honestly elected legislative representatives. Corporations are considering restricting my voter 1:50:02.200 --> 1:50:05.320 rights by telling candidates how they must interpret voter rights 1:50:05.320 --> 1:50:07.439 and how they must craft voter laws in their states. 1:50:07.479 --> 1:50:13.640 This is a shocking situation. Corporations are Corporations need to 1:50:13.680 --> 1:50:16.519 stick to their products and services and let our honestly 1:50:16.560 --> 1:50:20.040 elected representatives debate, vote and do things on behalf of us, 1:50:20.040 --> 1:50:24.120 like established laws corporations, not MC laws for people honestly 1:50:24.120 --> 1:50:27.160 elected legislators do. I agree, and it's a bad situation. 1:50:27.360 --> 1:50:31.080 And it only stops when we take action and put 1:50:31.080 --> 1:50:33.799 our dollars where where our minds are on this stuff. 1:50:34.479 --> 1:50:38.760 You know, support, support companies that support our principles and 1:50:38.840 --> 1:50:40.840 punish those that don't. That's the only way this change. 1:50:40.840 --> 1:50:44.040 It's the only way this will change. Buck About the 1:50:44.120 --> 1:50:46.479 chance of getting COVID office surfaces. This is from Richard. 1:50:46.880 --> 1:50:48.960 When I have my gallbladder out, I asked the doctor 1:50:48.960 --> 1:50:50.800 world by chances were for death. He told me about 1:50:50.800 --> 1:50:54.040 one in ten thousand. I survived and felt safe. The 1:50:54.040 --> 1:50:56.320 odds are getting hit by lightning in your lifetime or 1:50:56.400 --> 1:50:59.439 one in fifteen thousand or one hundred and fifty two 1:50:59.439 --> 1:51:03.360 thousand round. Why are we worried about services. I'm fully vaccinated, 1:51:03.439 --> 1:51:05.360 I'm not wearing a mask. I will not participate any 1:51:05.360 --> 1:51:09.120 passport craziness shield's high, Richard. I know people have lost 1:51:09.160 --> 1:51:12.879 it and they're not understanding these things. It's just crazy. 1:51:13.080 --> 1:51:16.680 So risk mitigation, folks, we got to do it ourselves. 1:51:18.200 --> 1:51:21.200 Stop using a fauci. That's part one, all right, Everybody 1:51:21.200 --> 1:51:23.320 back tomorrow for a Friday show. Shields Hi