1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: you subscribe on the iHeart app or wherever you get 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: your podcasts. A goodbye, we love you. We will be 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 1: back in some form. And again, I wanted just in living. 6 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: I want to thank our Vice President Mike Pence and Karen. 7 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: I want to thank Congress because we really worked well 8 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 1: with Congress. At least certain elements in Congress, but we 9 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,520 Speaker 1: really did. We've gotten so much done that nobody thought 10 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: would be possible. But I do want to thank Congress. 11 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: I don't want to thank all of the great people 12 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: of Washington, DC, all of the people that we worked 13 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: with to put this miracle together. So have a good life. 14 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: We will see you soon. Thank you, Thank you very much. 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: It is the end of an era and the beginning 16 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: of a new one. Donald Trump no longer President of 17 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: the United States. Joe Biden sworn in number forty six. 18 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: Getting ready for what this means. You should brace now 19 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: for the Democrat left backlash. It has been building up 20 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: for four years. I wish I could tell you that 21 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: I thought this moment in time would be one of 22 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 1: national unity, of coming together of sanity back in government. 23 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: But you wouldn't even believe that if somebody said it 24 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: to you. Do you think that Trump derangement syndrome just 25 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: goes away now that Trump is no longer president. Now 26 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: it's just Democrat derangement syndrome. Now, this is settling scores, 27 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: it's silencing opposing voices, it is crushing descent. That's what 28 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: they're really planning here. That's really the idea behind all 29 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: of this. They have no interest in a third way. 30 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: They have no interest in finding a triangulation, a middle ground, 31 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: a halfway mark. No, they have control of the House 32 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: of the Senate and of the presidency. And this means 33 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 1: that we are now living in a country that's going 34 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: to feel very different for at least some time. We 35 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: have to be prepared for what this means, for our 36 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 1: ability to even speak out against this. You are now 37 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 1: going to have ninety five percent of the journalistic establishment 38 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 1: completely in the pocket of a presidential administration. They warned 39 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: us for four years, they screamed and cried about tyranny 40 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 1: from Trump, when every journalist who opposed him got richer, 41 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: more famous, more time on TV, which is what they 42 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 1: really want. Those three things. Every journalist who spoke out 43 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: against him was advancing their careers. And we were supposed 44 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: to think that somehow Trump was so much of the 45 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: establishment and so much of the swamp arrayed against it, 46 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 1: was going to seize control, authoritarian power forever. That's what 47 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: they told us. But that didn't happen, did it. Now. 48 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: There was no seizure of power. There was just the 49 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: peaceful transition that we've seen. And now we have a 50 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: Joe Biden administration that is going to have no pushback 51 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 1: from the people whose jobs are supposed to be speaking 52 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 1: truth to power. Dissent is no longer patriotic. You can 53 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: be assured of that. In fact, if you disagree with 54 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: the Biden administration, you will be called things like a 55 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: COVID denier. You'll be called a white supremacist, a racist, 56 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: a mask denier, an insurrectionist. Even they'll throw everything they 57 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: can at you, and you have to be prepared for that. 58 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: This is now the future of this country. This is 59 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: where we are. I'm happy to hear that President Trump 60 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: is planning to continue to spread the message and in 61 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: some ways may even grow even more powerful in immedia 62 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: sense than he has been up to this point depends 63 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: on what choices that what choices he makes. Here he 64 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: is saying he's always going to be in the fight 65 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: for us. Play five. I will always fight for you. 66 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: I will be watching, I will be listening, and I 67 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: will tell you that the future of this country has 68 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:38,039 Speaker 1: never been better. I wish the new administration great luck 69 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: and great success. I think they'll have great success. They 70 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: have the foundation to do something really spectacular. And again, 71 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: we put it in a position like it's never been before, 72 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: despite the worst plague to hit since I guess you'd say, 73 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:02,159 Speaker 1: nineteen seventeen, over one hundred years ago. And despite that, 74 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: despite that, the things that we've done have been just incredible. 75 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: And I couldn't have done done it without you. There 76 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: will be no honeymoon between Trump supporters and this Biden administration. 77 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: It will not exist. They won't allow it to. You've 78 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: already been told that the price of your freedoms, the 79 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 1: price of your rights, is submit or face the consequences. 80 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:34,679 Speaker 1: Submit or be d platformed, be boycotted, have your business destroyed, 81 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: your reputation ruined. We are all now supposed to think 82 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: that what Joe Biden, this almost eighty year old, middling 83 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: mediocrity from Delaware is really going to be the guy 84 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 1: that turns the whole country around. You look at the 85 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: initial things that are being done here, the orders that 86 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,799 Speaker 1: he's putting out, and it's obviously meant to to erase 87 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: what Trump had done as quickly as possible. So that's 88 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: the problem with executive orders. They're only as good as 89 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: long as that's the executive you've got. But I'm much 90 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 1: more concerned about a culture now that has at its core, 91 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: a political culture that has at its core not only 92 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: are Trump supporters out of power and to be disdained, 93 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: but they are enemies of the state. That's what the 94 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: rhetoric in recent days has been Trump supporters, Trump voters. 95 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: I'm not talking about a few specific radicals. Are a 96 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: few specific crazies who have done bad and illegal things, 97 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: and as we know, they exist on both sides of 98 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: the aisle. And there's been a whole lot more of 99 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 1: that from the left then there has been from the 100 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: right in the last four years. But they will not 101 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: view it that way. Of course, they will not agree 102 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: with us that the left poses now a truth that 103 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: threat of authoritarianism. Instead, what are they going to do? 104 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: They're going to leverage the apparatus of the state to 105 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: make sure that we can't even discuss what a not 106 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: up for the job cognitively declining absurdity Joe Biden is 107 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 1: and if you even bring this up, they're going to 108 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: say that you're basically the equivalent of somebody who wants 109 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: to overthrow the United States government. The way that they 110 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: have approached this the spite you'll notice there's not a 111 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: lot of happiness among Democrats. Here and there. You may 112 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: see some celebration. I know today there's pomping circumstances, but 113 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:39,119 Speaker 1: what you're really seeing is a relief that they have 114 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: that they can finally unleash their rage. The Democrat mindset 115 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: now instead of being all happy and talking about what 116 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: a great future we're all going to have now that 117 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: the media is going to do some of that, to 118 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: be sure, but the overwhelming feeling that they seem to 119 00:07:56,440 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: be showing all the rest of us is like like 120 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: a dog that has been on a leash and in 121 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: a cage that is now let loose to go and 122 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: bite whomever. They are angry about what has happened for 123 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: the last four years. They are angry about all the 124 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 1: terrible things that Trump did, and I wish we hadn't 125 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: had the last three months we had of the Trump 126 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: presidency because it has added a lot of field of 127 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: the fire. It has made things much more difficult, at 128 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: least in the short term, to continue on and support 129 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: a MAGA agenda. I don't even know if that term 130 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: will really be used anymore. People are talking about Trump 131 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 1: is m without Trump, They're talking about who the future 132 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: of the party may be. I don't believe that's where 133 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: the conversation would be if we had not gone through 134 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: the last three months the way that we had. Just 135 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: remember this, at the end of the day, you are 136 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: what you do and what you stand for, and that 137 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: doesn't change because of who the president is. It doesn't 138 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: change because the Democrats manage to squeak out of victory 139 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: in the Senate or maintain their control under Nancy Pelosi 140 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: in the House. They can't change who you are, what 141 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: you stand for, or what you do. So just stick 142 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: to your principles, be patriots, support those who share your 143 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: values and care about the country in the way that 144 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: you do, and be prepared for what's coming. This is 145 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: not going to be pleasant. I would be lying to 146 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: you if I've set otherwise. The Democrats are going to 147 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: settle scores, They're going to make examples, they are going 148 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: to unleash the wokeness on all of us. But we 149 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: have been through worse and we will get to better times. 150 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: Do not forget that today. And just when you can 151 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 1: think back to those moments in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen, 152 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 1: when I would tell listeners of this show, this is 153 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: about as good as it's going to get this country, 154 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: enjoy it. I hope you savored those moments, because now 155 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: we're on the other side of the equation. It's time 156 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: to get ready, shields high. This is the Buck Sexton 157 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 1: Show podcast. Follow Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Seventy 158 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: four million Americans ought not to be slandered based on 159 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 1: the action of a couple thousand who participate in a 160 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: violent mob at the capital two weeks ago. And because 161 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: a violent mob attack the capital two weeks ago, that 162 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: doesn't mean that they should have their view censored. It 163 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: doesn't mean they should be at risk of losing their 164 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: job or having their business boycotted, losing their slots and 165 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 1: high schools or colleges that choose selectively doesn't mean that 166 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: they should have to pay higher at taxes or open 167 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: their borders or defund their police. That is crazy and 168 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: it is a complete non secretary. But the Democrats realize 169 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: that that agenda is unpopular. But they also have all 170 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: the other commanding heights of our society, from the media, 171 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: to education to entertainment in their corner. What those equal 172 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: need with those seventy four million people who voted for 173 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: the president voted for republicans need are Republicans and conservatives 174 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: in the Congress, in the state legislatures to stand up 175 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,839 Speaker 1: for their rights. And I promise you I will do that, 176 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: let's hope. So it's going to be on all of us. Now, 177 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: that's what I think people are recognizing today. Trump is 178 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: not going to swoop in and save us from the 179 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: insane leftist stuff. Trump is not going to be the 180 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: one who's just setting the national news agenda day in 181 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: and day out. He won't be able to slap down 182 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,959 Speaker 1: the fake news with one tweet. Now, it's on all 183 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: of us. Sure, he'll have a voice and continue to 184 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: have a lot of people who support him. And but 185 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 1: it's going to be different now you know that. I 186 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:53,079 Speaker 1: know that, and we are now as a as a 187 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: movement of conservatives. We are now on our own effectively. 188 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: I mean, we could come together, but I'm saying that 189 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 1: we don't have a leader of the Republican Party at 190 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: the current moment. We just have to continue to push 191 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: and do everything that we can to hold back the 192 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: torrent of madness that I think is going to descend 193 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: upon the country. Remember, it's not only Trump derangement syndrome 194 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: that we have to be aware of. It's also a 195 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: year unlike any other in my lifetime and certainly in 196 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: living memory, where we've gone through a global pandemic. People 197 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,199 Speaker 1: are angry. I'll even tell you I'm more short tempered 198 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: than I have been in a long time, just because 199 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: being in a very blue city in a very blue 200 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: state over what's happened in the last twelve months has 201 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: really shown that you will suffer if you let the 202 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:52,559 Speaker 1: authoritarian left run your life. You will suffer if they 203 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 1: are in charge. And a lot of people, even if 204 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 1: they like those policies, have recognized that we've just been 205 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: through a miserable year with four hundred thousand COVID deaths, 206 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: endless lockdowns, all this shifting advice and mandates about mitigation 207 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: measures all this stuff. It's a lot of anger out there. 208 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: I wish I could say that the Democrat push would 209 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: be for one of of prosperity and just joy at 210 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: what is their newfound power now. But I really do 211 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 1: believe that vengeance is going to be much higher up 212 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,719 Speaker 1: on the mind of a lot of the political operatives, 213 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: the senior administration officials. I hope I'm wrong. You know, 214 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:36,199 Speaker 1: there are some things where I can tell you straight up, 215 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 1: my fondest wish is that what I'm telling you turns 216 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 1: out to be entirely untrue that Democrats are the bigger men. 217 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: So are we even allowed to say, oh, the bigger 218 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:49,679 Speaker 1: men are the bigger non gender specific, non binary, gender 219 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: non specific people, the bigger that they're the bigger Homo sapiens. 220 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: Is that what we're allowed? What are we to say? 221 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 1: Get ready for a lot of that language policing, a 222 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:09,719 Speaker 1: lot of checking in on the loyalty of government officials 223 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: at also asking more and more questions about who you 224 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: voted for at whatever company you work for, because it's 225 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: not that you were a Republican and voted for Donald Trump, 226 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: it's wait, you supported the insurrectionist. Maybe you need to 227 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: go talk to HR. Wait, you are a company that 228 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: advertises on Fox News or a conservative network of some kind, 229 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: maybe you need to be threatened with a boycott. You'll 230 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: notice this didn't happen in twenty sixteen. When Trump came 231 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: into office. It was all right, we got an agenda, 232 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: let's go after it, let's do some things. It's got 233 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: some taxes, get some executive orders going. But it wasn't 234 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: a purge. Nobody really thought that Democrats were going to 235 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: lose their livelihoods, their businesses, their freedoms. The First Amendment 236 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: is under greater assault now that it has been in 237 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: my lifetime. There are very intelligent people, very serious observers 238 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: of American life, who were writing about a new war 239 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: on terror against conservatives in this country and the expansion 240 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: of the police state to encompass what is clearly not 241 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: already criminal activity. Why would they be talking about this, 242 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: Why would they be saying, we need to expand surveillance, 243 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: we need to we need to look at legislation to 244 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: address the address what exactly. Everything that happened at the 245 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: Capitol Hill riot that should not have happened, was already 246 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: very illegal, and people are facing very long criminal sentences. 247 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: For it. So what exactly has to be addressed, You'll see, 248 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: you'll see who's in charge. You'll see how the deep 249 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 1: state now rises to the surface. It's been operating somewhat 250 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: in the shadows for the last four years, but all 251 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: of a sudden, now the people that are going to 252 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: be calling the shots will be folks at the CIA 253 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: and the FBI and the EPA and you name it, 254 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: who think that climate change is an existential threat. And 255 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: if you don't sign on to that, there's something wrong 256 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: with you. Oh, you you can't be trusted. You don't 257 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: believe that any public policy that we think is necessary 258 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: to address the growing threat of climate change is inherently justified. 259 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: You don't you're not down with that. I don't think 260 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 1: we can trust you anymore. What's so fascinating, of course, 261 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 1: is that the left has created this revisionist history. They 262 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 1: always talk about McCarthyism. They forget that there were in 263 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: fact communist penetrations of the government, and they were all Democrats. 264 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: Just so you know, it was the Democrats that the 265 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: communists found their fellow travelers, and it was not staunch 266 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: patriotic right wingers. That was not how that happened. But 267 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: they talk about it as though this was all just 268 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: a fraud, this was all based in lies, when in 269 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: truth there were all there were communist penetrations, including at 270 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: a very high level Soviet penetrations of the United States government. 271 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:10,639 Speaker 1: And now they're going to do the great, the great 272 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: Conservative scare, if you will, right, instead of a Red scare, 273 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 1: the Maga scare. They're going to look to find ways 274 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: to get rid of it because it was also the 275 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 1: Trump culture. It was also those moments where all of 276 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: a sudden, people felt like they had a hat to wear, 277 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,159 Speaker 1: a slogan to chant, and people around them who shared 278 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: their beliefs and approach politics with them. Joy. If anything, 279 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: that's one of the most powerful legacies of the four 280 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 1: years of Trumpet office. But Democrats want to get rid 281 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: of all of that now. They want to make America 282 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 1: feel shameful for wanting to make America great. This is 283 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Join the conversation and message 284 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: buck on Facebook, Instagram, or email team Bucket iHeartMedia dot com. 285 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 1: They read it on the show. The Trump presidency may 286 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: be drying to a close, but the dysfunction, the corruption, 287 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: the authoritarianism, and the moral rot Trump exposed within the 288 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: GOPN and our system will remain and we can't just 289 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: let it go. We got to fix it and we 290 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: have to hold accountable to people responsible for it, from 291 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: the top all the way down. Otherwise this four year 292 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 1: long nightmare we've all lived through could very well happen again. 293 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 1: Don't you think that if he pardons himself, Sonny, that 294 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 1: admits that he's guilty, and then when the impeachment and 295 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:30,199 Speaker 1: the semmate comes up, what are they supposed to do 296 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: with that? They have to convict him. He himself is 297 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: saying I'm guilty, absolutely, absolutely, But his defense, I think, 298 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: is going to be, well, this is a witch hunt. 299 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:40,919 Speaker 1: This is a witch hunt against me, so of course 300 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: I have to try to pardon myself because everyone's out 301 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: against against me. And guess what, seventy four million people 302 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 1: are going to believe that because they've been brainwashed. Joy 303 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,199 Speaker 1: I really believe that they have been brainwashed by this 304 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:59,919 Speaker 1: misinformation campaign over the past four years. Can't you feel old? 305 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 1: The healing and the unity? Oh, these Democrats they want 306 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: to let bygones be bygones, don't they They want to 307 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: just be friends now, They want to get along and 308 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: everything's gonna be just fine. Not so much the idea 309 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,159 Speaker 1: that they're gonna hold people accountable. They're really sticking to 310 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: this one, aren't they. And I think they're gonna they're 311 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: gonna try. That just means vindictiveness. It means find your 312 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 1: political enemies and make their lives difficult, make them miserable, 313 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 1: do whatever you have to do to punish them for 314 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: wrong think. Remember they're saying Trump is the authoritarian, they've 315 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:39,679 Speaker 1: had a peaceful trans transfer of power. Republicans are saying, Okay, 316 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's the president. We're not doing the Russias stole 317 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: the election thing. That's what they did for four years. 318 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:50,439 Speaker 1: Republicans now said, all right, you know, Electoral College certified, 319 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 1: it's done, it's over with. I know there was the 320 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: right of Capitol Hill and it was awful, and we 321 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: see now just how much the left is using that 322 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: awful incident try to bash all Trump supporters. But now 323 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: now we're we're where they said they wanted to be, 324 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 1: with the Democrats in charge of everything, basically, and sure enough, 325 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 1: instead of saying we're just gonna show you guys what 326 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 1: good governance looks like, it's let's go find people who 327 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 1: need to be punished. Let's blacklist them from jobs, Let's 328 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,360 Speaker 1: prevent them from being able to speak online. I mean 329 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,199 Speaker 1: the social media and the tech purge. I think it's 330 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,719 Speaker 1: only gonna get worse because now they've got cover from 331 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: the federal government. Now they've got people at the very 332 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: top of the government hierarchy. You're gonna say, yeah, that's 333 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: how the First Amendment works. Crush people that you don't like. Great. Oh, oh, 334 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Companies can do whatever they want. They say 335 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 1: for this, but go bake that cake and write on 336 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,640 Speaker 1: it whatever. Whatever. The person who wants the cake tells 337 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: you to write on it. You have to do that. 338 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: If you have if you have to write there is 339 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 1: no God. God is false, you have to write that 340 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,919 Speaker 1: on a birthday cake. You better do that or else. 341 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,160 Speaker 1: Oh I'm so oh that's a first to oh wait 342 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: what Oh, companies or private individuals can't do whatever they 343 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: want in their business. It turns out, isn't that interesting. 344 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:17,640 Speaker 1: It's not quite that clear. The expansion of the term 345 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: insurrection now to include just saying things that the Democrats 346 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: don't like. This will be abused. They're doing this for 347 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: a reason. It's not just some catharsis because they have 348 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 1: all this pent up, just this this bile. They're overflowing 349 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: with it after four years of Trump. They can't help themselves. 350 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: I mean, Sonny Houston. They're on the view saying Trump 351 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,959 Speaker 1: Trump supporters have been brainwashed. They just Democrats just voted 352 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: for Joe Biden to be president. I don't care that 353 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: he is president. He's a loser. We all know it. 354 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: This is not an impressive person. This is not a 355 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,439 Speaker 1: person with leadership skills. This is a guy who just 356 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 1: showed up and did what he had to do to 357 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: play the system and contribute very little for a very 358 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: long time. But they could make him president because he 359 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: wasn't what the Democrat Party really is. Don't you see? 360 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: The whole thing is a head fake. Joe Biden isn't 361 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: really symbolic of what the Democrat Party's all about. Now. 362 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 1: He's not woke, he's not leftist, he's not radical, but 363 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: he's also not really anything. So he'll do whatever the 364 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: woke leftist want him to where and when he can, 365 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 1: and he gives he gives the corporations less anxiety because 366 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: big tech and big companies are gonna be just fine 367 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: under a Biden presidency. Oh here, Amazon, Google. You know, 368 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 1: if you're you're somebody that's you know, that's a that's 369 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 1: a winning proposition. I'm sure if you've got investments in 370 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,400 Speaker 1: some of these major companies out there under a Biden presidency, 371 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: they're gonna do just fine. Small business has been decimated 372 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,200 Speaker 1: by the pandemic and the lockdowns that Democrats have largely pushed, 373 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: and it's not going to come back because small business 374 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: is too autonomous. There's too much liberty involved in somebody 375 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: running their own commercial venture, providing products or services to 376 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 1: a public that wants them in a lawful and productive 377 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 1: Fashion's that they don't. They want megacorporations that can have 378 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: D and I specialists and on every floor of the building. 379 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: They're gonna want HR departments to be the shock troops 380 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: of wokeism, and they're gonna get it. They're going to 381 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: pass federal legislation and executive orders that create these new 382 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: concepts around equity. You know what equity is. We tell 383 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: people what they get and we tell other people what 384 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:51,639 Speaker 1: they don't get based on ethnicity, gender, skin color, you 385 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: name it. That's right, that's what we're definitely heading for. 386 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: Never mind of course, the likelihood here that we may 387 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: have a major challenge facing a Biden administration that has 388 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: Joe Biden in charge. This guy just isn't up for 389 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: the job. And I know that he won, or you know, 390 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: I know that he's president, and he's not up for 391 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 1: the job. So what does that mean? Make note now 392 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: of how journalists and the the corporate media will sneer, 393 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 1: They will sneer at anyone who even raises the prospect 394 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:33,640 Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris taking over for Joe Biden. And yet 395 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,120 Speaker 1: I think we all understand that there's a very serious 396 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: possibility just based on age. It's this isn't some outlandish theory. 397 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is gonna be eighty by the 398 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: mid terms, you know, so we're gonna have somebody who's 399 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,119 Speaker 1: getting into his early and then mid eighties, especially if 400 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 1: he goes into a second term. Come on, now, Kamal 401 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 1: at some point just gets to be president. Isn't that interesting? 402 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 1: Isn't that a fascin way for this to continue on? 403 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: So I think that we have to just take a 404 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: moment here, take a breather, and recognize that we are 405 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 1: going to be dealing with a very a very emboldened 406 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 1: and aggressive Democrat left now and they could you know, 407 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,919 Speaker 1: they have an opportunity here. It's all been set up, 408 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: and the President really alluded to this in his closing remarks. 409 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: With the vaccines already being distributed, with the worst of 410 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 1: winter now pretty much behind us, we're going to be 411 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: entering a phase here where things could be really good 412 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: for the country. You have the reopening of you have 413 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 1: the return of basic freedoms, but no, what you're going 414 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 1: to get is more mask mania, lockdown, lockdown demands and 415 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 1: then only on their timetable and their schedule. Only when 416 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: the Democrats say so can you start to have aspects 417 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: of your life back. They like this control. Oh, and 418 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 1: they're going to reassert it for other things too. You 419 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 1: don't think that they believe that climate emergency is enough 420 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: to violate the Constitution, don't You don't think they believe 421 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: that there will be ways for them to expand on 422 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,879 Speaker 1: the de dictatorial powers that Democrat governors like Cuomo and 423 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: Newsom have taken into their hands here because of an emergency. 424 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: But you think this is the only emergency, Just wait 425 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: till they declare a gun violence emergency. And they did, 426 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,440 Speaker 1: and they say there's a mandatory statewide buy back in 427 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:38,679 Speaker 1: effect for certain weapons. Too extreme, You say, no, it 428 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,239 Speaker 1: is not. Can't say it's too extreme. When Democrats are 429 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 1: running around telling everybody that they needed to make sure 430 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: that the National Guard current, that the National Guard that 431 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:54,120 Speaker 1: was that was assigned to guard the Biden inauguration, twenty 432 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 1: seven thousand or so of them needed to be vetted 433 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 1: for pro Trump sympathies, as if that's a that's equivalent 434 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: to al Qaeda jihadism, right, the ideology of a global 435 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: jihad being waged for the UH, the creation of a 436 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 1: caliphe to dominate all people's, all religions for all time. Yeah, 437 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: being a Trump supporter, it's just like that. Here's DC's 438 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: Mayor Bowser, who's totally onboard. There's the mayor Washington, d C, 439 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: totally onboard. Yeah, we got to make sure there's no no, 440 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: there was nobody in the National Guard who, you know, 441 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: too much of a Trump support, too much of a 442 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:36,159 Speaker 1: Trump radical play forward. When you have um guards coming, 443 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 1: guardsmen and women coming from all over the country at 444 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 1: this time, I do think that it is is prudent 445 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 1: to make sure that they're being vetted and that anybody 446 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: who cannot pledge allegiance to um to their missions uh 447 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 1: and maybe pulled by other of you, needs not only 448 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: to be removed from this duty, they need to be 449 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: removed from the guard, kicked out of the military. For now. 450 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 1: You could say, oh no, they would only do this 451 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: if you were a real extremist plotting violence. You believe 452 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 1: that you think that they're gonna let let bygones be bygones. Now. 453 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: You got a lot of hashtag maga up on your 454 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: Facebook page. They want to give that one a second thought. 455 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: You got a lot of Trump photos and Trump paraphernalia 456 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,680 Speaker 1: all over your social media accounts or your office cubical 457 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 1: for that matter. Democrats want you to know they're not 458 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: forgetting this one, but I'm not forgetting it either. We 459 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: remember who we are, what we stand for, and what 460 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 1: we're trying to do for this country. And that doesn't 461 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: change because of one election cycle. It doesn't change because 462 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: of the departure of one politician from office. Our fight 463 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: continues on. We may have to play some defense for 464 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 1: a while, but it will only be a while. You're 465 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 1: listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure you 466 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: subscribe to the podcast on the iHeart radio app or 467 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. My fear is that if Republicans, 468 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: particularly Republican leadership, goes along with this impeachment, they'll destroy 469 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: the party. And so I think it's a huge mistake. 470 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 1: I think it's a hugely partisan exercise on the part 471 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: of the Democrats, but for Republicans who go along with it, 472 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: I think they'll destroy our party. Donald Trump isn't everything 473 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: in the party, but he did bring a lot of 474 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: people to the party, and I think it's a huge 475 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: mistake for people to say, oh, well, we're just going 476 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 1: to impeach him, and that all of the blue collar 477 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: workers that he brought to our party are going to stay. No. 478 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: I think quite a few of them will be unhappy. 479 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 1: So I hope our leadership will think twice about these 480 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: undercurrents and rumblings about them actually voting for impeachment. I 481 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 1: sure hope it doesn't happen. It's a disaster if they 482 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: do that. Republicans should absolutely not. Joe Biden is now president. 483 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: Why are we even why is there even a conversation 484 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: about continuing in the Congress to take punitive action against 485 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: a now ex president. What is the point of this, 486 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: what does it serve oh to allow for a cleansing 487 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 1: of the Republican Party, right, they have to get rid 488 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: of the moral rot, as one late night alleged comedian says, 489 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: they have to make sure that what should we be 490 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 1: taking advice about our party, about the Republican Party from 491 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: the likes of Harry Reid here he is sixteen. I 492 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 1: all things, working with McConnell for many years, I have 493 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: he could be accused of a lot of things, but 494 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 1: one of them he's not done. And I think he 495 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: realizes that Trump is a drag on the Republican Party. 496 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: And I think that that was an opening salavo for 497 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell to disengage from Trump to try to re 498 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 1: establish a rebrand the Republican Party. Trump is a dragon 499 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: the Republican Party, according to Harry Reid, which means you 500 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 1: definitely don't want to impeach this guy and go through 501 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 1: that whole removal process so that he can never be 502 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 1: in office again. You know, if the Senate has this trial. 503 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: This is wrong on so many levels, But I always 504 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: tell you don't take advice from your enemies, don't don't 505 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: do what they want you to do, and this right 506 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 1: now is a perfect example of a situation like that. 507 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 1: It would be it would be absurd, absolutely absurd at 508 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: this stage to do it. It's also unconstitutional. It's also 509 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 1: just unnecessarily divisive within our own party. Trump is gone. 510 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,480 Speaker 1: He left. Okay, they didn't have to send in squat 511 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: teams to the Oval Office to drag him out or anything. 512 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: All that crazy crap that people were saying. That didn't happen. 513 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 1: He's gone and he left, he left the Oval Office. 514 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 1: All right, Well, now what we're gonna repudiate everything? Yeah, 515 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 1: the Trump presidency wasn't perfect. No presidency is. And in 516 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 1: the end, yes, I got Matt, I was. I was 517 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 1: angry at this administration for what happened after the election. 518 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 1: I will admit that I was an m very annoyed 519 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 1: about what they did and what and what went on. 520 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 1: I'm talking about from the administration. I'm not talking about 521 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: the actual rioters. I've already spoken about that. But the 522 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 1: first three years of the Trump presidency were in a 523 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: lot of ways just great, very good policymaking decisions, good 524 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 1: on trade, good on the border, good on immigration. You 525 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: go down the list of all of Trump's accomplishments, the 526 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 1: things that were done, some excellent judicial picks, a lot 527 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: of excellent judicial picks, and of course a number that 528 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: went to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh and Amy con Barrett 529 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: ACB may end up being one of the greatest things 530 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 1: that Trump even got done. Kavanaugh perhaps not as much, 531 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,840 Speaker 1: although I still hold to this day that the Kavanaugh 532 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 1: hearings and what the Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris 533 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:23,440 Speaker 1: did to Brett Kavanaugh, was a moment of clarity, a 534 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 1: moment of recognition for millions of conservatives across the country. Well, 535 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 1: a lot more people are going to be getting the 536 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: Kavanaugh treatment now, make no mistake about it. All many 537 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:42,959 Speaker 1: more people are going to be attacked, maligned, slander, deep platformed, canceled, 538 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,800 Speaker 1: you name it. This is, unfortunately now, the kind of 539 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 1: political climate. This is a consequence of our elections. Now. 540 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 1: The Democrats, when they win, think that they have a 541 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: free hand to punish people for their wrong ideas. It's 542 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 1: it's not enough to be able to enact the policies 543 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: that they want. They want to be able to humiliate, 544 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 1: control and force the other side into submission. And then 545 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:16,400 Speaker 1: maybe we can have a conversation, and then maybe we 546 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:22,399 Speaker 1: could have a discussion about unity again. Right first, there 547 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 1: has to go through this period perhaps a let's say 548 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:26,400 Speaker 1: a year or two of it, you know, up and 549 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:31,120 Speaker 1: up until the midterms, of removing all remnants of Trumpism 550 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:35,439 Speaker 1: from not just politics, but public discourse. Everything. You're gonna 551 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 1: see if you've already had some of this, They're gonna 552 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: see stores and in place say we're not even we're 553 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,719 Speaker 1: not going to sell maga gear. I mean, they're they're 554 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,680 Speaker 1: going to try to treat uh, anything that is that 555 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:50,920 Speaker 1: is directly affiliated with Trump as as some kind of 556 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,880 Speaker 1: hate symbol that they have to if they have to 557 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: expunge into their minds from the culture. So we're the 558 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,960 Speaker 1: ones who have to say, no, you can't do that. 559 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: This isn't the Soviet Union, Libs. Even though you've won 560 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: this election, you're in the freedom hunt. Thanks for listening 561 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 1: to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest from 562 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 1: Buck at buck sexton dot com. Where we go from here, 563 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: what's next for the GOP, for the Republican Party, Faithful, 564 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:23,319 Speaker 1: the base and everything around it, everyone in between. Let's 565 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,960 Speaker 1: get to our friend Rob Smith. Now. He is a 566 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 1: veteran and author and contributed to the first TV Rob 567 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:35,319 Speaker 1: how are you feeling today? I'm good man, I'm good 568 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 1: about self. I mean, I'm I'm obviously I'm disappointed for 569 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:45,040 Speaker 1: the country, but I also understand that we're going to 570 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 1: get through this. It'll be all right. I hate the 571 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:49,799 Speaker 1: phrase it's not the end of the world, but it 572 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 1: really isn't. But let's let's get more constructive than that. 573 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 1: I mean, first off, what were your feelings about this 574 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:01,280 Speaker 1: presidency on its as it's last day has now happened. 575 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,160 Speaker 1: I mean, he is Nola, it is now ex President Trump. 576 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 1: What's you're feeling about the four years? I feel like 577 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,399 Speaker 1: we should start to have a conversation about what really 578 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,120 Speaker 1: happened here, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Yeah. 579 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,719 Speaker 1: So look, I did an episode of my podcast at 580 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,799 Speaker 1: Lunches this week. It's basically called we all need to 581 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,440 Speaker 1: end our obsession with President Trump, and I think that 582 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 1: how we move forward as a goop and when we 583 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,600 Speaker 1: think about really what this administration was in the past 584 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,719 Speaker 1: four years, there have been a lot of amazing things 585 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,719 Speaker 1: that happened. We got the best economy that at one 586 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,280 Speaker 1: point the world had ever seen. We had criminal justice reform, 587 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,080 Speaker 1: we had cutting through red tape, we had basically a 588 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,920 Speaker 1: vaccine for a deadly virus that crippled the world in 589 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,400 Speaker 1: less than a year. Like these are some really, really 590 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,960 Speaker 1: amazing things, and I think that as we look back 591 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,000 Speaker 1: at this presidency, we can see some really great things 592 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,480 Speaker 1: that happened in terms of policies, like the policies were great, 593 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:01,440 Speaker 1: in terms of arguing with no name orders, in terms 594 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 1: of some of the tweets, in terms of some of 595 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:07,919 Speaker 1: the kind of NonStop controversies. I think that we all 596 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,799 Speaker 1: got a little over that towards the end. But I 597 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,240 Speaker 1: think that this is not so much. I think President 598 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,000 Speaker 1: Trump had had a lot to do with it, but 599 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 1: it was also I mean, he was just frustrated by 600 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:23,320 Speaker 1: battling a media industry and entertainment industry. So many people 601 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:25,759 Speaker 1: were against him, and I think that's where all of 602 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,239 Speaker 1: that stuff came from. But I think in order for 603 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 1: us to move forward as conservatives, as a Republican party, 604 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:32,759 Speaker 1: I think that a lot of us have to get 605 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,080 Speaker 1: over this obsession with President Trump, And by that I 606 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:41,879 Speaker 1: mean to make one person be the entirety of all 607 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,239 Speaker 1: of our political hopes or all of our political dreams 608 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,480 Speaker 1: are basically the political future of the Republican party is 609 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,920 Speaker 1: very shortsighted. I think that a very strong thing that 610 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,040 Speaker 1: he said during his farewell address was that we built 611 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,239 Speaker 1: this movement. He kept on saying we, we, we, and 612 00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 1: I thought that was very strategic and that was amazed, 613 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,080 Speaker 1: because it is going to be up to we the people, 614 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,200 Speaker 1: whether you're part of the MAGA movement, whether you're just 615 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: a mainstream conservative, whether you're an independent or libertarian who 616 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,640 Speaker 1: just so happens to be attracted to conservative policies, It's 617 00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,080 Speaker 1: going to be up to us to take the mantle 618 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,680 Speaker 1: from here on out. And I think that this now 619 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,680 Speaker 1: official Biden presidency is going to give a lot of 620 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,880 Speaker 1: us opportunities to say, look, guys, this is what you wanted, 621 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,120 Speaker 1: and we are going to show you why these policies 622 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,680 Speaker 1: don't work, because, unfortunately, we are going to see it 623 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:36,280 Speaker 1: over the next four years in real time, why left 624 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,759 Speaker 1: democratic policies do not work. Rob Where do you come 625 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,239 Speaker 1: down on the debate over whether Biden is going to 626 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,840 Speaker 1: be a a moderating force within the Democratic Party. I 627 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,839 Speaker 1: don't think it's fair to call him a moderate, because 628 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,120 Speaker 1: the Democrat Party is not in any way a centrist 629 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:57,840 Speaker 1: party anymore. But do you think that he'll be because 630 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,320 Speaker 1: essentially he got elected because he didn't. He didn't frighten 631 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,920 Speaker 1: certain voters who would be uncomfortab voting for saying has 632 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,160 Speaker 1: been socialists right? That was the pat was really the pitch. 633 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,360 Speaker 1: He's been around forever and so he was non threatening 634 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:13,160 Speaker 1: in a sense. But there is a very radical left, 635 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,480 Speaker 1: not fringe, but now I think we could say vanguard 636 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,000 Speaker 1: in the Democrat Party. Do you think that they're gonna 637 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:25,799 Speaker 1: have Joe Biden as a moderating influence on their desires 638 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,759 Speaker 1: or is he just going to be a pass through 639 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,759 Speaker 1: for what they want? Essentially, Look, I think he's going 640 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,160 Speaker 1: to be a pass thing for what they want. And 641 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,799 Speaker 1: I think that he's not gonna stop any of this 642 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,680 Speaker 1: rhetoric that's coming from these far left and I can't 643 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,799 Speaker 1: even say far left media personnel or whatever, because these 644 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,880 Speaker 1: are Congress congressmen and women that are saying some pretty 645 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,719 Speaker 1: insane things. Joe Biden's not gonna stop them. He's not 646 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:47,960 Speaker 1: gonna be a moderating force to this, because what it 647 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,040 Speaker 1: is is that the left blank of the party sees 648 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,040 Speaker 1: blood in the water. He may not repeat some of 649 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:54,879 Speaker 1: the stuff that he's not going to stop them from 650 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:56,839 Speaker 1: saying it um And I don't think that he's going 651 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,879 Speaker 1: to be a very moderating force at all. I think 652 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,840 Speaker 1: that there are a lot of people that get that 653 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,239 Speaker 1: get a lot of attention via what they say on 654 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,120 Speaker 1: Twitter and what they say on social media. Look at 655 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,719 Speaker 1: AOC looking, Corey Bushel, Goot, Jamal Bowman, look at all 656 00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:12,479 Speaker 1: of these people. They're very, very far left. And Joe 657 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,680 Speaker 1: Biden is a pretty week leader. As a matter of fact, 658 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,880 Speaker 1: he failed the first test as a leader of Democrat 659 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,640 Speaker 1: Party in order to moderate people when he failed to 660 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,719 Speaker 1: really speak up forcefully about the riots that left America 661 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:31,359 Speaker 1: in claims over the past summer that we're started by 662 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,080 Speaker 1: people on the left and that were cheerleaded by the 663 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,600 Speaker 1: now Vice president Kamala Harris. So is he going to 664 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,319 Speaker 1: be a moderating for us? No, I just absolutely not. 665 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,040 Speaker 1: He's two week of a leader to be a moderating 666 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,680 Speaker 1: for us. Speaking of Rob Smith, he is a veteran 667 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:52,240 Speaker 1: author and first TV contributor. Rob, you were somebody who 668 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:57,200 Speaker 1: who I think perhaps celebrated maga culture is fair to say, right, 669 00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:58,880 Speaker 1: I mean you never walked away from that. You were 670 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:04,640 Speaker 1: very very popular among the maga folks out there and 671 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:06,680 Speaker 1: what do you You know, one thing that I will 672 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,600 Speaker 1: say about Trump that I felt never really got enough 673 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:13,520 Speaker 1: attention was that there were there were young people. Uh, 674 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,000 Speaker 1: there were young you know, there there were people in 675 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,759 Speaker 1: their twenties and thirties who felt like, you know, they 676 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,920 Speaker 1: could go and wear a MAGA hat and and that 677 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,600 Speaker 1: they there was a culture around Trump. There was a 678 00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:30,279 Speaker 1: kind of a kind of of political um you know, 679 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,880 Speaker 1: a political celebration of day to day life that that 680 00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,759 Speaker 1: he was a part of. Do you think that continues 681 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,360 Speaker 1: in any way? I mean, because the Republican Party brand 682 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:45,880 Speaker 1: before him was much more you know, old stodgy white 683 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:51,120 Speaker 1: males who play golf and you know I were working 684 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,239 Speaker 1: corporate jobs, right, that's the stereotype or or you know, 685 00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,040 Speaker 1: there's another one for different parts of the country. But 686 00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:57,440 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I mean there's kind of this. 687 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,360 Speaker 1: You look at the leadership. You know, Book and Cheney 688 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:06,239 Speaker 1: and McCain and Romney. These are not guys that inspire 689 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,920 Speaker 1: memes in a positive way. Do you think that that 690 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,720 Speaker 1: continues now with Trump, even though he's not in office. 691 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,160 Speaker 1: I really do think that it contains with a Maga 692 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:16,719 Speaker 1: movement because you have to look at the types of 693 00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:18,680 Speaker 1: people that were brought into this people like me. And 694 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:20,840 Speaker 1: I make no bones about the fact that I've obviously 695 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,000 Speaker 1: risen to prominence in the past a couple of years 696 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,840 Speaker 1: due to large part of my support for President Trump 697 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,239 Speaker 1: and sort of being embraced by the MAGA movement, which 698 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,480 Speaker 1: I will never turn my backbone because I know what 699 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,200 Speaker 1: it stands for and I believe in what it stands for. 700 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,680 Speaker 1: And I think that a lot of the people that 701 00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:38,640 Speaker 1: have come to prominence that are a part of this movement, 702 00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:42,480 Speaker 1: that are that are creators, people that are that are entertaining, 703 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,440 Speaker 1: people that can do different things like I can you know, 704 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,759 Speaker 1: be here and speak to you about politics, that I 705 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:51,080 Speaker 1: can go do a TikTok challenge. And and what Trump 706 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,719 Speaker 1: did was he brought this energy and it's almost kind 707 00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:59,400 Speaker 1: of like an entertainment culture esque energy into the party. 708 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,120 Speaker 1: And I think that the challenge for the party right now. 709 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:05,319 Speaker 1: And this is what the Democrat Party is amazing at 710 00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,760 Speaker 1: it personally because they have the backing of the entire 711 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,319 Speaker 1: you know, Hollywood, media, music, and entertainment industry. But it 712 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,400 Speaker 1: behooves us as Republicans to say, Okay, you've got you know, 713 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,920 Speaker 1: the old school mainstream, you know Republicans, the Romneys and 714 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,319 Speaker 1: all those, But then you've got those of us that 715 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,920 Speaker 1: are out here actually creating our own culture on social media, 716 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,239 Speaker 1: on the Internet. Sometimes you know people like me that 717 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:33,360 Speaker 1: pop back and forth between television. But you have to 718 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:38,400 Speaker 1: bring these things together and make them a unified movement. 719 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,120 Speaker 1: And I think that there is no candidate for president 720 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,680 Speaker 1: that's a Republican of the future. There is no candidate 721 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,760 Speaker 1: for Congress in the future that does not go through 722 00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,799 Speaker 1: the MAGA base. So I think that it's very important 723 00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:55,240 Speaker 1: to continue engaging that base. How worried are you rob 724 00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:59,200 Speaker 1: about the wave of not just I think it even 725 00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:02,000 Speaker 1: will go beyond cancelation. I think we're going to see 726 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:07,920 Speaker 1: a public private partnership of idea suppression. Right, So it's 727 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,480 Speaker 1: it's one thing, you know, cancelation is what happens to 728 00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,640 Speaker 1: you for the wrong ideas. They're going to now go 729 00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:16,439 Speaker 1: even further up the the source. If you will there, 730 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,840 Speaker 1: They're gonna go further up the chain and prevent people 731 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,799 Speaker 1: from even being able to share these ideas. Oh and 732 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,600 Speaker 1: if you try, you will be canceled. What do you 733 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,960 Speaker 1: see happening and how do people like you and me 734 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:33,400 Speaker 1: and others listening to this prepare for that. I think that, honestly, 735 00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:35,239 Speaker 1: in my opinion, it's going to get worse before it 736 00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:36,960 Speaker 1: gets better. And one critique that I do have of 737 00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,640 Speaker 1: the administration is that there is ample opportunity to really 738 00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:44,000 Speaker 1: do something about this, and it never happened, So that 739 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,279 Speaker 1: is that is a really big failing on the part 740 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:50,719 Speaker 1: of the outgoing administration. But I do think that it's 741 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,440 Speaker 1: going to get worse. How do we prepare for it? 742 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I personally always wanted to make sure that 743 00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,200 Speaker 1: I'm out there in different places than Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 744 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,280 Speaker 1: Who knows how long those platforms will still be available 745 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,160 Speaker 1: to me. And I think that for the people who 746 00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:09,280 Speaker 1: fear this cancel culture mob, who fear more suppression of ideas, 747 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,680 Speaker 1: what we have to do is we have to start 748 00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,080 Speaker 1: leaning on the people that we've elected, the people that 749 00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,480 Speaker 1: we will continue to put an office in the future, 750 00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:20,879 Speaker 1: is to do something about this. Don't just talk about it, 751 00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:24,200 Speaker 1: don't just tweet about it, actually do something about it. 752 00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,120 Speaker 1: And we have to start calling out the people in 753 00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:32,360 Speaker 1: power that are you know, being lobbied by Facebook, by Twitter, 754 00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,359 Speaker 1: by Instagram, by all of these different places in order 755 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,000 Speaker 1: to kind of keep the status quo. So I don't 756 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,440 Speaker 1: think that a Republican is going to get elected congressman 757 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,880 Speaker 1: or even president of the future if they don't have 758 00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:47,799 Speaker 1: a really strong stance against this kind of censorship and 759 00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,319 Speaker 1: an idea about what to do about it. But I 760 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,319 Speaker 1: have to say, and I say this a lot on 761 00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,239 Speaker 1: the rocks about this problematic podcast as well, is that 762 00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,120 Speaker 1: it's going to have to take same voices on the 763 00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:03,160 Speaker 1: left too. Even some liberals realize that this kind of 764 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,720 Speaker 1: suppression and this kind of clamping down on free speech 765 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,080 Speaker 1: is not good because some of them realize that the 766 00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,840 Speaker 1: pendulum can very easily shift in their way as well. 767 00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,040 Speaker 1: So I think that it's going to take a lot 768 00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:18,040 Speaker 1: of thinking people who really are advocates for free speech 769 00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,840 Speaker 1: on the right and the left to come together and 770 00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:26,000 Speaker 1: to fix this Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. These things are too 771 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:30,560 Speaker 1: big and they need to be broken up. Now we 772 00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,120 Speaker 1: don't have control not only of the presidency, either of 773 00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,520 Speaker 1: the House or the Senate. What do you think of 774 00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:41,160 Speaker 1: calls to try to organize at the state and local 775 00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:46,400 Speaker 1: level where possible to try to create I guess you 776 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,080 Speaker 1: could say bulwarks of liberty against the encroachment of the 777 00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:53,200 Speaker 1: federal government where where possible, where where that's a lawful option, 778 00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:57,120 Speaker 1: or also just to begin to create you know, we're 779 00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,759 Speaker 1: starting to see outflow from blue air is New York 780 00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,759 Speaker 1: being one of them, down to Florida. You're seeing people 781 00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:08,040 Speaker 1: leave California. A lot of them are conservatives. And maybe 782 00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,359 Speaker 1: this this great blue red sorting that is going on 783 00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,160 Speaker 1: right now, of which I may become apart at some 784 00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,480 Speaker 1: point myself, to be honest with you in the pretty 785 00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:21,560 Speaker 1: near future, that this also raises opportunities. You know, it 786 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,879 Speaker 1: really does, and I really wie with the fact that 787 00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,880 Speaker 1: people have to start, you know, operating on the local 788 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,160 Speaker 1: level as well. I'm a I'm a defector. I left 789 00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,480 Speaker 1: New York and I came down here to Florida. I'm 790 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,839 Speaker 1: in Florida. It's absolutely amazing. But what we really have 791 00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,560 Speaker 1: to do is we have to make sure that when 792 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:42,160 Speaker 1: people are fleeing these blue states and coming to red states, 793 00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,160 Speaker 1: that we are keeping these states bread. And I think, 794 00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,760 Speaker 1: in absence of any kind of majority in the House, 795 00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,560 Speaker 1: but I do think we'll get it back in twenty 796 00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,840 Speaker 1: twenty two. But I really do think that we have 797 00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,279 Speaker 1: to start thinking in terms of that, and I like 798 00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,920 Speaker 1: this word that you use, this sort of like bulwark 799 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,120 Speaker 1: against what be encroachment of the federal government. Because me 800 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,720 Speaker 1: living in Florida, with the Great Governor Ron de Santis 801 00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:07,560 Speaker 1: in Florida, I feel a part of the reason why 802 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,720 Speaker 1: I'm not as betalistic as some other people is because 803 00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,240 Speaker 1: I live in Florida and it is a great place 804 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,880 Speaker 1: to live, and I'm going to work to keep it 805 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,279 Speaker 1: a great place to live. Right there are still the 806 00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,680 Speaker 1: genius of the founders is that we have a constitution 807 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,640 Speaker 1: that we know Democrats will try to shred at many opportunities, 808 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,120 Speaker 1: but we still have it, and we have states and 809 00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:32,080 Speaker 1: state responsibilities. So there are there are options here to 810 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:36,279 Speaker 1: try to pursue a more shall we say, capitalist and 811 00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,640 Speaker 1: liberty based future for for individuals and for families out 812 00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,440 Speaker 1: there who are listening to this while staying in the 813 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,520 Speaker 1: United States. I'm not advocating. I'm not some cry baby 814 00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:47,399 Speaker 1: labor who's gonna say we should all move to New 815 00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:50,440 Speaker 1: Zealand or Canada or whatever. No, there are ways to 816 00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,279 Speaker 1: stay here in this country. There is the fight, the 817 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,560 Speaker 1: political fight that's worth that's worth having, and I just 818 00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:58,719 Speaker 1: wanted to want to know, if you have some you know, 819 00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,960 Speaker 1: what are your your work words of encouragement? This is 820 00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:02,840 Speaker 1: a tough day for a lot of people. Rob A 821 00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,520 Speaker 1: lot of people listening to this are having a rough one. 822 00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:10,120 Speaker 1: And and I'm I'm also cycle. I've been psychologically preparing 823 00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:13,000 Speaker 1: for it quite honestly since let's say a couple of 824 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,239 Speaker 1: weeks after the election, when I felt like these legal 825 00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:19,680 Speaker 1: challenges we were very remote in the probability of success 826 00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:22,440 Speaker 1: for for a lot of other people, though, this this 827 00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,880 Speaker 1: really stings. What are your you know, what's your halftime 828 00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,359 Speaker 1: coach speech for? You know? There there are better times 829 00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,279 Speaker 1: ahead for America. You know I mean that said there 830 00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:34,480 Speaker 1: are better times ahead for America. But look, the thing 831 00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:36,360 Speaker 1: about it is is that when you love this country, 832 00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,359 Speaker 1: you believe in this country, you gotta love it and 833 00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,560 Speaker 1: believe in it no matter what. And if you are 834 00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:45,839 Speaker 1: somebody that's out there that's feeling I'm discouraged or kind 835 00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,120 Speaker 1: of like overwhelmed by all of this, I would say, 836 00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,040 Speaker 1: use this fire to think about how you can get 837 00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,160 Speaker 1: involved to change things. The great thing about this Maga 838 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,919 Speaker 1: movie is that so many people got involved that were 839 00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,120 Speaker 1: not involved before. But think about how if you you're 840 00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,280 Speaker 1: a conservative and you have conservative leaning principles or Republican 841 00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,000 Speaker 1: principles or whatever. How you can get involved in the 842 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:07,719 Speaker 1: local level, How you can do things that are a 843 00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,799 Speaker 1: little bit different. I know me personally, I'm involved in 844 00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:12,839 Speaker 1: this way. I do a lot of political commentary, but 845 00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,640 Speaker 1: I think that we have a cultural deficit with conservatives, 846 00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,520 Speaker 1: and I'm focusing a little bit of my energy on 847 00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,200 Speaker 1: doing culture stuff. So I think that we all have 848 00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:26,560 Speaker 1: something to offer. Do not be defeated, do not give up, 849 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:31,480 Speaker 1: never ever quit. Dust yourself off, lick your wounds, and 850 00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:37,000 Speaker 1: think about your next steps forwards, positively impacting our great nation. 851 00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:40,160 Speaker 1: Rob Smith from the first TV my man. Always good 852 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:42,520 Speaker 1: to see you. Better days ahead for both of us. 853 00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,719 Speaker 1: We'll talk soon. Absolutely, Thanks Buck,