WEBVTT - What's Next For MAGA? 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:14.920 You are entering the Freedom Hug the day after the 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:19.520 DC March, media double standards on riots, a lethal shooting 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.480 inside the Capitol, COVID vaccine slowdowns, and what is next 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:28.120 for MAGA. This is the Buck Sexon Show or the 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.400 mission or mission is to decode what really matters with 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:38.360 passionable intelligence. Make no mistake great here, great American Again, 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:46.000 The Buck Sexon Show begins, analysts, he's a great guy. No. 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.479 All of us are faced with two choices, both of 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.640 which are lousy. One choice is vote against the objection, 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.600 and tens of millions of Americans will see a vote 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.280 against the objection as a statement that voter fraud doesn't matter, 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.600 isn't real, and shouldn't be taken seriously, and a great 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.240 many of us don't believe that. On the other hand, 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.880 most if not all, of us believe we should not 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.720 set aside the results of an election just because our 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.520 candidate may not have prevailed. And so I endeavored to 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.319 look for door number three, a third option, And for 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.680 that I look to history, to the precedent of the 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.440 eighteen seventy six election the Hayes tiled, an election where 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:27.200 this Congress appointed an electoral commission to examine claims of 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.679 voter fraud, five House members, five senators, five Supreme Court justices, 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.080 examine the evidence and rendered a judgment. And what I 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.399 would urge of this body is that we do the same, 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.199 that we appoint an electoral commission to conduct a ten 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:46.520 day emergency audit, consider the evidence, and resolve the claims. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.080 For those on the Democratic aisle who says say there 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.160 is no evidence they've been rejected, then you should rest 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.920 in comfort. If that's the case, an electoral commission would 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.520 reject those claims. But for those who respect the voters, 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.480 simply telling the voters go jump in a lake. The 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.560 fact that you have deep concerns is of no moment 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:10.480 to us that jeopardizes I believe the legitimacy of this 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:17.440 and subsequent elections. We can handle the truth, and ultimately, 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.320 the truth is what this is all about. Getting to it, 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:24.560 finding out what is real, what is not, what actually 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:30.240 happened in this election. It is essential our entire system 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.760 rests on the premise that we believe there is a 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.680 good faith and there is a fairness in the operating 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:41.520 procedures of this Republic. Senator Ted Cruz there speaking well 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:46.480 to that point, and yet do we feel any better 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.560 about it today than we did yesterday? No, of course, 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:56.760 we feel most likely considerably worse. Why is that? Let's 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.760 first start with why people were marching in DC yesterday. 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:05.400 Let's start on that issue, because it's many things. The 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.360 media and the focus is on those who believe that 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.480 this was a stolen election, and that is certainly a 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:16.040 big part, perhaps a majority, of all of the concern 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:20.720 and anger out there on the streets. But what else 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.560 was motivating this? Why do people feel the need to 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.040 take time out of their lives in a very difficult year, 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.320 with a lot of stresses around us because of COVID 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:34.000 and everything else. Why would hundreds of thousands of people 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:39.200 gather together in DC to make their voices heard. We 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.200 have been drifting as a nation toward a culture politically, 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:49.080 socially where there is no middle ground allowed, there's no 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:55.560 dissent allowed, the rights of political minorities are increasingly trampled on. 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.960 And there is an incredibly powerful system, one that even 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.360 goes beyond what you've seen and some of the other 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:09.360 authoritarian regimes of history, in that it is entirely capable 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:15.160 of leveraging information technology, the global marketplace, wealth on a 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:20.760 scale that human beings have never seen, to brainwash, to control, 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:26.520 to determine, and it feels like a rigged game, right. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.400 It feels as though what we do does not really 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.919 change very much, and it feels as though we're not 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.000 allowed to even raise that up anymore and talk about 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:44.000 it publicly for fear of being ostracized by these social 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.120 media companies that I know that we have to get 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.159 used to this idea. Social media is not something that 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.280 kids use now just to say hi to each other 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:56.000 and communicate. Social media is a dominant force in the 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.119 flow of information in this country and around the world. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.600 Is more powerful than the traditional media because it determines 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:08.880 what traditional media you get to see. Wokeness this is 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:13.520 another way of describing political orthodoxy of the left, and 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.800 wokeness is ever evolving because ultimately its true goal is 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:23.160 not changing society so that everybody is equal. It's true 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.240 goal is just power, and then it will figure out 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.800 what it decides to do with it, because it doesn't 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.120 even know what it wants. Why does it feel like 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:35.360 there's an inherent schizophrenia in the Democrat left's woke ideology 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:42.040 because there is there are multiple personalities at war with 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.720 each other inside of the Democrat mind on this issue. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.040 Because you can never be sure that you're woken up, 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.960 it has to constantly evolve and seek out new targets. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:57.880 It's effectively a colonial project for the mind right. It 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.839 is dominating your consciousness. That's what it seeks to do, 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.600 and that it can entirely control you and then figure 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.039 out how to create an entirely equal society. And what 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.760 would that even look like. As we know, societies that 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:14.520 put the greatest emphasis on achieving absolute equality achieve the 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:20.200 exact opposite, and history speaks very clearly on that. So 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.960 people are upset because of all of these things. And 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:28.840 then also we have suffered through the single worst year 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:33.640 in terms of our individual freedoms, in terms of government 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:38.839 overreach of my lifetime. But they use this idea that 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.840 the government can protect you from COVID to justify all 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.440 of it. They use the notion that if you only listen, 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.920 you'll be saving lives, you'll be protecting people, and if 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.880 you're not willing to listen, if you want to dissent, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:56.880 you are putting people at risk. This was a recipe 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:01.839 for absolute control, and they've edged closer and closer to 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.120 that this year than I thought would be possible, honestly 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:10.360 in my lifetime. And for what are we safer from 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:14.600 COVID with Think of all the government mandates and shutdowns 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.440 and everything they've done. Does anyone look at what's happening 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.240 right now in the country with hospitalizations and cases and 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:25.600 think anything other than the virus is gonna virus, It spreads. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.559 You do your best to stay healthy and stay away 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:32.960 from it, but the government cannot protect you. Am I 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.840 missing something? All? Right? Where where's the example of great 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:41.640 government success in this You had Operation Warp Speed, which 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.880 is a success, but the distribution of this vaccine is 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.640 already a cluster. And then you look at all the lockdown, 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.080 at the masking, all these policies they've instituted, And for 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:55.239 what does it feel like the journalists who are supposed 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:59.120 to be speaking truth to power, these media companies that 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.200 have gotten in many cases, especially the social media companies, 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:06.480 wealthier more influential during lockdown because we are now replacing 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:12.000 human contact and living life with screens. We all live 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.320 our life now. If you're working remotely, unless you're an 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.200 essential and you have to actually go into your job, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.640 we're living our life just in front of these screens. 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:26.120 We're being bombarded with information that's destructive, often, that's false, 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.400 that's vicious, and that has an agenda, and that's really 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.520 almost all the time, and we're replacing those basic bonds 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.400 of human contact that remind us all that we are 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.640 in this together and we are all on borrowed time. 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:44.200 And when we're talking about Americans, our fellow Americans were 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.400 losing sight of the fact that we live in the 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.160 greatest country in the history of the planet. That's an 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.440 amazing statement, isn't it. And I'm sorry if it sounds 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.800 a little hokey today. I'm sorry if it's a little 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.280 bit corny to some of you. But we right now 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.760 are living in the greatest country, in the greatest, wealthiest, 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.920 happiest time in human history, and we are lucky to 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.880 be here, and we need to preserve it. Yes, we 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.680 need to fight for it. We need to understand what's 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:15.320 so great about it. But what I see out there 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:23.319 right now is this ideological cancer of destroy. Destroy the dissenters, 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:28.559 Destroy those who believe in liberty, in limitations on government, 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.000 Destroy those who think the Constitution is supposed to prevent 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.880 all the great plans that the experts are conjuring up 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:41.680 for us. Isn't this year of the lockdown? Isn't twenty twenty. 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.280 I know we're in twenty twenty one now, but I'm 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.040 thinking about the last twelve months. Isn't it a repudiation 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:52.679 of the elites and of government control? It doesn't feel 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.360 like they think that. That's for sure. We were very 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.280 aware of that. But anybody who's being honest about it 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:02.440 would say, we need a return to first principles here 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:06.920 in this country. We need an understanding of what it 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.840 is that we are seeking to create in our society 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.360 every day, and for us to get there, we need 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.360 to have a combin We need to have a combination 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:22.599 of things all come together at once. We need a relentless, 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.920 unapologetic search for the truth. We need the courage and 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:30.360 bravery to stand for our principles, and we have to 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.920 remember that at the end of the day, what we're 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.320 all trying to do, all of us who are approaching 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.240 this in good faith, with love and reverence for the 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.800 history of this country, for this amazing nation, is to 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.400 make this a better place for all of us, even 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:49.720 the wackos, even the people of Antifa, I want a 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.679 better America that they are fortunate to live in because 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:58.160 our ideas prevail. And I know that can be a 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:02.240 hard thing. You want to think about about destroying your enemy. 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.520 Sometimes you want to think about defeating the other side. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.480 And we want to win at the ballot box. We 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.200 want to win on the battlefield of ideas. But isn't 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.000 it this beautiful thing about this country that victory achieved 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:19.000 the right way means that it's a better country for 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:23.440 all of us, even the leftists, even the losers, even 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:28.360 the crazies. It's a better America that's more secure, more 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.080 rule of law, more prosperity, more individual liberty. That is 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.120 what That's why I show up every day. That's why 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.559 we do this thing that we're doing here on this show. 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.719 So I think a return to those first principles for 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.480 all of us at this moment when I know so 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:49.960 many feel dejected, feel like they have been cast aside, 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:54.439 and feel like we had a momentum. We had a 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.080 moment and it lasted for three years. The COVID year 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:03.360 was something else. The COVID year, through the whole project 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:08.960 of making America great again into this different cycle. We 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.440 were just all locked down and trying to stay alive, 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.800 trying to do what we can to help our neighbors 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.840 and prevent the government from shutting down more businesses and 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:21.280 more churches than they already were. There's a lot of 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.600 anger out there and that's not going to go away. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:30.440 But we have to explore together, honestly, what is working 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.800 for us, what can we do, and what does the 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.480 future look like. The reasons for the march yesterday in 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:45.320 DC were patriotic and decent, and I support them and 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.480 I'm with them, and we have to also know that 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:57.160 we maintain principles even in the face of the most vicious, underhanded, cheating, 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:04.240 maniacal opposition. We cannot become that which we seek to defeat, 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:06.960 and I don't think we're even close to it. And 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.040 we're going to talk about the double standards and all this. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.000 We're going to discuss all that out on the show. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.560 But let's all just take this moment to remember why 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.160 it is that we do what we do and what 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:24.720 makes us who we are as patriots, conservatives, Americans. What 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.720 is it that is so special about all or else? 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:29.560 Why not just go live in New Zealand, Why not 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.559 just move to some other place? Right, No, we understand 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.680 that there's something special about this and we continue to 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.240 fight for it and we'll do everything we can to 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:44.200 preserve it, win or lose, my friends, that is our mentality. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:49.080 We are warriors for the cause of our ideological battles, 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.800 knowing that there is no guaranteed result, but that the 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:58.720 fight is worth having anyway you're in. This is the 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:05.080 Buck Sex and Show podcast, and we will always be 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.600 grateful to the men and women who stayed at their 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:13.720 posts to defend this historic place. To those who wreaked 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:18.360 havoc in our capitol today, you did not win. Violence 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:24.920 never wins. Freedom wins. And this is still the People's House. 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:29.080 And as we reconvene in this chamber, the world will 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:35.200 again witness the resilience and strength of our democracy. For 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:39.240 even in the wake of unprecedented violence and vandalism at 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:43.560 this Capitol, the elected representatives of the people of the 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:48.440 United States have assembled again on the very same day 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:53.080 to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.400 Let me ask you, do you think that Vice President 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:04.160 Pence a good man? Do you think that he loves 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:08.760 this country? Do you think that he knows as well 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.240 as really anyone with perhaps the exception of the president himself. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:18.160 How much is at stake here and how much could 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.280 have been done for the good of the country had 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.760 this election outcome been different. I think we have to 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.000 approach some of these some of these questions in a 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:33.240 systematic way so we can all ground ourselves here. At 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:39.000 a moment of particular disappointment and all this frenzy of 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:42.760 you know, people that are now pointing fingers at each 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.080 other and everything else, what's really happened here, my friends, 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.280 as we've come to a recognition, and it's one that 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.640 I've been trying to to edge us toward here. And 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.840 I appreciate so much that all of you know that 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.600 what I'm telling you, I think this thing is going 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.160 to happen. It's not what we're talking about, the Biden 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.640 Harris presidency, which is happening. When I say that, it's 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:09.160 not to antagonize. It's not because I like taking some 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.720 kind of a sour position or anything else. It's because 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.760 we need to get ready for what's coming. Psychologically and emotionally. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:20.240 We need to be prepared for this because it's happening, 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.360 and I've been saying it for weeks, and there are 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.320 a lot of people out there, and I don't like 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.240 to do this. Oh, you know, the other hosts and so, 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:29.640 but there are a lot of people that are playing 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.840 this game, and they're pretending that there was some last 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:34.840 minute secret that was going to save us from this. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.960 I'm sorry. I look at you, my fellow Americans, my 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:45.320 friendly Patriots team Buck. I see all of you across 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:49.240 the country, and I feel like I'm here with you 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.360 waiting for this onslaught. I'm not going to promise you 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.320 that the cavalry is going to come over the hill 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.680 and we're not even gonna have to take any losses 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.240 metaphorically speaking, I'm not going to make that promise because 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:06.280 I don't believe it, because it's not true. Vice President Pence, 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.280 i think you would agree with me, is a good 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.800 man who has been very loyal to this president, very 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:17.040 loyal to the Manga agenda, and he is doing his 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:23.159 best for America under the circumstances, and he has been 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.360 put in a very difficult position. The people who are 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.320 turning on Vice President Pence right now, I think are 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:33.680 forgetting that the actions up to this point of individuals 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.960 should have already shown us what you know, the totality 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.240 of the actions of people like Mike Pence should show 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:43.440 us that we've done what we can. It is possible 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:48.560 and if I can it's almost painful to say this 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:50.520 out loud, it is possible, friends, that we gave it 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:55.879 everything we had and we are fighting with everything we've got, 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.760 through all the mechanisms at our disposal, and we still lost. 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:05.440 And whether it's lost through cheating or lost through through 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.520 legitimate victory, even with some degree of cheating, which is 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.240 assured of course, So please, don't you don't need to 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.080 tell me Buck you don't think there was. Of course 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.800 there was cheating. I don't know how much cheating. I 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.800 suspect it was substantial, but if you can't prove it, 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.199 it doesn't matter. We are dealing with that sense of 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:28.760 loss now, but with that loss also comes a recognition 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:32.159 that we do have so much left to fight for 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:37.200 and so much more ahead of us. And also see 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.119 the way the other side is seizing upon this moment 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.600 and understand that we're in for a whole new level 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:48.080 of fight. My friends. Thanks for listening to the show podcasts. 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.239 Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:57.040 wherever you get your podcasts. Fronto Reagan once said, peace 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.880 is not the absence of conflict, It is the ability 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:04.359 to handle conflict by peaceful means. The peaceful people in 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.320 my state in Oklahoma want their questions answered, but they 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.639 don't want this what happened today. They want to do 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:11.359 the right thing, and they also want to do it 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.560 the right way. They went onto their constitutional process, but 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.880 they also want to have debate about election security because 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.000 they want to make sure it's right, which is why 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.359 it's an important issue that still needs to be resolved. 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:25.840 Transparency and government just doesn't seem like a bad idea. Obviously, 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.600 the commission that we have asked for is not going 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.880 to happen at this point. And understand that. And we're 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.639 headed towards tonight, towards the certification of Joe Biden to 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.200 be the President of the United States, and we will 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.360 work together in this body to be able to set 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:46.480 a peaceful example the days ahead. I was goopace Senator 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:53.280 James Langford, who was addressing the Congress last night on 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:57.040 the floor of the Senate. What he was saying, There's 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:58.560 not going to be some commission, and this is it. 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:04.520 This election's done. That's where we are, and and I 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:08.560 understand that that's so disappointed to hear. And for those 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.760 who are, and look, I you you are always I 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:15.639 always welcome a criticism from from people that I consider 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.600 to be my side, my own team, when it's in 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.960 good faith. Right. So when people write in with all caps, 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.639 lots of curse words and say terrible things about me, 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.159 I'm like, well, what what is that accomplishing? Right? But 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.440 anybody who has a valid or I shouldn't even say valid, 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:33.200 has a good faith criticism, I welcome it. And sometimes 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:35.800 sometimes people write into this show and I read and 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.000 the first thing I think when I read their comments 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:42.080 about something that I've said or about a direction we've 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:46.520 gone editorially, is they're right. That does happen? That does 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:48.000 I want to admit that to you. I know that 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:50.800 there's a whole a kind of radio industry built around 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.760 people who are never never wrong. Right. I don't do that, 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.159 So that does happen. So I don't think that I 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:00.280 read these things and don't realize that's a completely valid point, 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:02.439 or even more than that, that they're they're right and 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:06.239 I'm wrong. So for those who are telling me and 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:07.760 I think we have to have this this is like 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:09.760 a family discussion. Now that's how I view this. I 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.080 sit here talking to all of you as I would 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.840 if there had been some incident, you know, my cousins 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:17.600 or something, and we're all sitting down at the table 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.119 to have a discussion about what's gone on so we 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:23.439 can move forward in the most positive fashion. Because not 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:24.800 only am I on your team, I want to be 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:26.480 a leader on your team. I want to be somebody 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:28.600 you can always count on that you know is there 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:31.520 for you. You could trust me. I tell you the truth. 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:36.120 I stand on the principles we share, and I even 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:41.240 will show some courage in public about difficult issues. But 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.719 sometimes courage means telling people things that aren't necessarily going 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.040 to appeal to them. And I think one of the 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:49.919 one of the challenges that we've had in the Trump 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:52.720 era on the right is that there has been very 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:54.960 little space for that. There's really been, and I'll just 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:59.159 say it, there's really been almost no market for trying 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:02.040 to criticize the Trump agenda from or rather from a 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:05.320 Trump administration, not the agenda, the Trump administration from a 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:09.680 perspective of how can we be more effective in achieving 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:13.560 goals that this presidency set out for how can we 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:18.280 do a better job of getting these things. We created 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:23.520 a bit of a bit of a silo where all 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:27.080 all of the public commentary went into this one place 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.159 and it was Trump is awesome and he's doing all 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:32.280 these amazing things. And we were allowed to say Trump 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:34.800 is awesome, comma, but I wish he would or Trump 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:37.880 is doing a great job on this. But you sit 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:40.560 here and you say, well, one place and for those 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:43.120 you were wondering, what have you said about this buck 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:47.000 that would be an example of this. Trump's picks for 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:49.520 his advisors and for some of his White House personnel 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:51.760 was was abominable. I mean, it was truly awful, and 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:55.919 there was a lot of a lot of well he 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:59.000 can't trust anybody, or well, you know he meets family 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:01.439 members around him, or all all these things. You know, 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:03.879 at some point you can kind of justify anything in 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:07.159 this realm. Is it serving the president to do that? 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:09.600 Is it serving the agenda? Is it serving all of us? 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:12.280 Or the president being in the office. I know he 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:15.080 was entertaining and has tweets were amazing, but ultimately he 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:16.879 was trying to achieve things for you and for me. 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:20.159 Some of them he did but some of them he didn't. 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:23.280 Does anybody want to argue now that we have a big, 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:27.600 beautiful wall from sea to c to shining Sea, we 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:30.120 do not. And I know that there are all these 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:32.919 reasons and there, but we would have been more effective 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:36.840 in getting some of these things done if there had 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:40.280 been more room to be able to say, I'm on 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:45.200 the team, but you know this needs to be done differently. 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:47.800 I'm sure many of you have played team sports, so 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:48.960 many of you have. You know, you've been on a 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:52.080 football team or or a basketball or lacrosse or whatever, 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:55.400 and you know you'll come together in the huddle. Is it? 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:58.040 Is it a good thing to say, guys were down 0:23:58.240 --> 0:24:00.639 by we're down by a lot at how time, but 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:04.199 you know what, we're amazing. Let's do everything exactly the 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:07.119 same way we're doing I was gonna say that there 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:09.399 was a lot of that within the GOP. And you 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:11.760 know that you know I'm telling you the truth. Every 0:24:11.760 --> 0:24:13.760 single one of you knows that I'm telling you the 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:16.560 truth right now. There was a lot of that. It 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:19.400 was well, hold on a second, maybe maybe we need 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:22.240 a greater focus on this, or you know, hold on. 0:24:22.359 --> 0:24:25.560 Maybe the the outreach to Kim jong un isn't isn't 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:29.840 a worthwhile expenditure of presidential time and resources. And you know, 0:24:29.920 --> 0:24:31.600 and I'm not even saying that that was true or none. 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:33.880 I'm just pointing out if you said that, you were 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:37.399 shouted down, if you if you said that, people thought 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:41.960 that you were no longer on the team. And you know, 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:47.440 the Democrats legally out maneuvered. I want to see legally. 0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:49.480 I don't mean that what they did was necessarily legal, 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:54.119 but they understood that changing these processes for mail and 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:57.479