WEBVTT - Buck’s First Thoughts - Biden Bows To Enviro Wackos 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.240 This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.840 get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.559 you subscribe on the iHeart Act or wherever you get 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:13.000 your podcasts. I thought we were supposed to be unified. 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:15.520 I thought they were going to bring us all together, 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.599 that we were entering a new phase in the history 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:20.760 of the country, or at least in the recent history, 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.960 where we were all supposed to be buddies united, coming 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:31.600 together in this new technocratic, competent, calm Biden administration. Right, 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.600 that was the promise. And now what you're already seeing 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.400 is that the Biden people aren't as smart as they 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:43.000 told you they would be, don't give a crap about unity, 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:48.120 and are actually ideologues driven by their desire to play 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:52.159 kate the fringe interests that have so much control within 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:58.080 the Democrat Party, whether it's on identity politics, environmental issues, 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.040 social justice, all these things. It's not the presidency they 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.399 said we'd get. But if you knew that was the case, 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.000 it was always a lie. It was always meant to 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:14.280 convince medium to low information suburban voters in some key states. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.560 You'll just have a return to normalcy. That's what they said. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:22.280 A return to normalcy. Well, it turns out that's not 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.520 what we're getting. What we're getting is the return of 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:30.240 the Obama administration. That's what's really happening here. That's the 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:36.640 reality of what has now taken power. And you see 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.480 this with every decision being made so far, and also 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.399 all the people who are in charge, the people that 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:45.480 are making the decisions right now, who are making the 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.800 calls about everything that's happening, are very similar and in 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.200 some cases the same as those who were doing it 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.240 during the Obama years. Do you remember the Obama years? 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.440 Was there a lot of national healing? Did it really 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:02.520 bring us all together? There were race riots during the 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:07.200 Obama Obama presidency, as you remember the BLM protests started. Then, 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:13.160 there were there was economic malaise at best, the slowest 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:18.679 recovery out of a recession since the Great Depression. There 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.720 was a lot of unnecessary government regulation and harassment of 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.640 people in their day to day lives. There was oppression 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:30.320 of religious freedom, there was suppression of free speech. You're 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.440 getting all that just coming back under a different name, 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.720 but the same idea. And this is why I think 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.920 it's so interesting that they want to continue to fixate 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:46.360 on the Trump presidency, because I think that they never 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.680 really thought beyond what happens when there's no longer the 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:55.880 Trump boogeyman for everyone to be terrified of what happens 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.480 at that phase, at that point when you can't just well, 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.040 they're not letting it go. That's why you have this 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:06.400 impeachment that they're going to do after a Trump presidency 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.160 has already ended. Joe Biden I was gonna say, for 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:11.960 better or for worse, it's for worse is now the 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.920 president United States. This is an absurd spectacle. We all 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.400 understand this. I mean, you could have replaced Joe Biden 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.840 with forty other sub mediocre Democrat politicians. It'd be basically 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.560 the same thing, just anybody. But Trump was what they 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.600 ran with, and that's what they were able to pull off. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.840 And now we see what they're really going to be doing, 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.920 and now we see what the actual decision making will 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:40.880 be like. And that's why with this impeachment situation, they're 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.400 making it clear for everybody who's watching exactly what's going on. 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.720 You can see it. They're not hiding it. They're keeping 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:55.040 thousands and thousands of National Guard soldiers in DC for 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:04.480 the entirety of the impeachment Democrats to actually get Trump 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.640 convicted would need seventeen Republicans to go along with this. 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:14.000 But I think the even more important, the even more 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:20.479 important situation here is that there's a for me, a 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.040 clear there's there's a clear decision that has been made 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:28.240 that they want all these troops in DC because we're 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:33.240 supposed to believe that there's still a threat of a coup. 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:38.000 They want everyone terrified, they want everyone worried about the 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:42.760 possibility of you know, the Trump supporters storming the gates 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:48.720 and stopping the Senate impeachment trial or whatever. This is hysteria, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.000 but it's important for their power grab. Or if you 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.960 look throughout history, whenever there are authoritarians, whenever there are 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.280 people that are taking more power than they are legally, 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:02.480 constitutionally or otherwise supposed to be granted in government, whatever 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:06.200 that happens, they have an excuse, They have some rationale. 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.159 It's always the other guys, we're going to do this first, 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.719 or if we didn't do this, you know, this terrible 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.400 thing was going to happen. They don't just say yeah, 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:19.760 we're we're despots, we're seizing all authority and power into 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.240 our hand because we like it, because we think we're 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.440 better than you, because we think we know better than you, 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.800 and you're not allowed to complain. That's not the pitch. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.680 That's not the way they justify their actions, even when 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.360 that's exactly what they're doing. So here, what they've decided 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:38.560 to do is that they take it upon themselves to 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:44.360 be the people ordering thousands and thousands of National Guard 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:49.720 to be deployed all throughout DC because of the threat 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:55.160 of Trump supporters. I mean, this is absurd. We're really 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.960 supposed to think that that Trump supporters are going to do? 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:02.680 What will they protest in DC? Maybe? But are we 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.760 to think that they're gonna violently try to overthrow the 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.560 Senate or do something along those lines. I know what 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.560 they would say. I know the Democrat response would be, 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.880 they tried it that one time, on that one day. 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.360 All right. It was a disaster. It wasn't a coup. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.520 It was a riot, and anybody who has any sense 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.520 at all understands that it was the worst possible thing 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:30.200 from a purely political standpoint. It was the worst possible 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.920 thing that a Trump supporter could have done on that 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.320 day at that time. It played right it played right 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.680 into the Democrats hands. Put aside the illegality and immorality 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.719 of it for a moment. It played right into the Democrats' hands. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.120 So we're gonna believe it. That's gonna happen again. No, 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.560 but they want thousands and thousands of troops deployed so 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.320 that this can be the way that the hysterical Democrats, 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.320 Oh my gosh, the Trump supporters can continue to play 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:02.400 this game while they show everybody during this transition period, 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.240 not the official presidential transition that's already happened, but this 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.600 change into the new regime. We don't really pay attention 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.440 to what Biden's doing. We don't pay attention to the 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.600 actions he's taking because the media will just be focused 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.320 on one. How amazing Biden. Do you know that his 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.240 son went bagel shopping with him on Sunday after going 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:26.880 to church. It's disgusting. The throne shining, the foot rubbing, 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.720 the oh gosh, Joe Biden's so amazing. Stuff you're seeing 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.600 from the media is there. They're an embarrassment, but this 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.960 is their business model, telling Democrats, telling the brainwash left. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:44.360 How incredible this this clown Joe Biden is I mean really, 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.480 we're all supposed to think that he's some great leaders, 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.480 some great mind. Nobody believes that, but they're all acting 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.800 like it's true. This is the Emperor having no clothes on, 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.680 except the emperor is almost eighty years old, and you 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.440 do worry that he actually doesn't remember where pants. I mean, 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.200 that's where we are with this situation. But oh, we 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.400 need thousands of National Guard deployed. And they're even asking, 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:12.160 they're raising the question themselves, why are we on the 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.440 streets of DC exactly? What are we doing here? What's 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.480 the mission? What's the real threat? You know what the 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.040 threat is. They're gonna tell you. They're gonna tell you 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:26.240 that it's Trump voters trying to overthrow the Senator, some 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.320 crazy nonsense like that. But the real problem is that 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:36.000 they don't know how to keep their rage filled base 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:41.480 happy without Donald Trump as the ultimate political pinata. And 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.320 they also don't want people to start to see that 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.839 Joe Biden is really an incompetent and that the people 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:52.600 running this administration are the Democrat members of the establishment 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.439 and the apparatus the left in general, who have decided 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.839 what the policies will be, what the decision making will 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:05.360 be Joe Biden is just the vessel otherwise. Explain why 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:09.160 he's getting rid of the Keystone XL pipeline. Explain why 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.640 he thinks men should be able to compete in women's sports, 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:19.120 biological males competing against biological females. Look at the whole 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:23.880 list of executive orders. It was all divisive and bad policy. 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:28.719 These were objectively bad decisions for the country, But it's 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.079 what the left demands. You're gonna see a whole lot 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.199 more of it. Then they didn't wait very long, did they. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.839 They didn't wait at all. Because this is the presidency 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.480 we're dealing with. They can tell you as much as 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.480 they want about how there's other plans and other things, 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.800 and just wait one day, we'll get there. But in 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.720 the meantime, it's the continuation of the three ring circus 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:52.040 around Donald Trump, and oh my gosh, the Republic will 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.680 fall unless we have thousands and thousands of soldiers deployed 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.240 to stop those big, bad, mean Trump supporters, all seventy 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:04.400 five million them. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:09.520 Follow Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. What's the number 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:13.960 one change of notice between from President Biden to President 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.760 Biden from President Trump. It was very clear, George, and 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.040 it was articulated multiple times. The President has said it publicly, 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.240 but in a private session just sitting down with him 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.160 and with the medical team, he's very serious. He says 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.319 science is going to rule. We're gonna go by the facts. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.800 We're gonna go by the evidence, We're gonna go by 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.839 the data. If something is wrong, like I just said, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.600 we're going to just try and fix it, then we're 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.880 gonna pull out all the stops to get our arms 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:44.320 around this. Getting the vaccine situation on track is his 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.440 highest priority. So I mean the idea that the president 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.840 himself sits down with you and says, I want science 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.959 to rule. Go out there and do everything we need 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.239 to do to get it done. Just as really very refreshing. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.240 Science will rule is a terrifying slogan for anybody who 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:06.640 knows history to hear science will rule. I thought we 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.400 the people rule through our elected representatives. But now now 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.240 all of a sudden, there's some high priesthood of the 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.960 hashtag science variety that's going to be making really important 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:21.000 policy decisions for us. You know who also thinks that 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:26.640 science will rule? This is true Marxists. They always believe 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.400 that all the social sciences, which aren't really science, as 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.760 you know, but that there was a fact and evidence 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:38.520 based way to order a society that was irrefutable and 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.600 must be true, is always true, even when the results suck. 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.239 That science is all you need, you see, to reorder 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.839 humankind so that we can all have everything we need. 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.559 And this is a fundamental tenet of Marxism is to 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.800 treat it as though they're running a lab experiment on 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.840 how to grow the fastest petunias, except we're talking about 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:04.000 human beings. We're talking about the complexities and the moral 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.000 questions that face the human race. But the Marxists believe 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.880 that with science, that's all you need, and their science 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.760 was really a pseudoscience of Marxism. That's the whole point, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.120 you see. It's the answer to everything. This is why 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.480 it really is all a religious belief, you see. And 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.520 Fauci is going to be for anybody who's watching and 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.560 being honest about this, is going to be proven to 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.520 be essentially a giant fraud in this whole process. He's 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.600 been wrong. He's been wrong numerous times. Here's a fact 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:39.480 for you, Doctor Fauci lied to the American people about 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.000 masks by his own admission, because he thought that that 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.920 was a better thing for us to go through when 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.439 he said don't wear masks and then said, oh, it's 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.920 because I thought we'd run out of masks, Okay, so 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.000 he lied. This guy's a liar. This is the whole 0:12:55.000 --> 0:13:00.400 the Truth and Science administration. This guy deceived the American public. 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.280 But really the truth is that he didn't deceive the 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:07.600 American public the way he said. It's that all of science, 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.839 until about five minutes ago, thought that wearing a mask 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.000 and a pandemic like this wasn't going to have the 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.480 kind of beneficial result. That doesn't mean no benefit, but 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.720 wouldn't have the kind of beneficial results we keep being 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:25.680 led to believe mask mandates will because it's become part 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.520 of the religion. Now, that's not to say there's no 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.280 truth to it. That's not to say that I'm telling 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.559 you that they don't work at all or no. N 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.600 ninety five masks and a clinical setting absolutely help with 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.880 respiratory infections a disease, no question, and in some situations 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.520 maybe a cloth mask would also have not the same benefit, 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.560 but some benefit, but as a means of stopping the pandemic. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:49.720 Has it worked? Look around you. I'm in Masks Central 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.199 here in New York City. Has it stopped the virus? 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.719 Has it stopped the pandemic or even come close to it? No, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.960 we're setting all time records, but we didn't do it enough. 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:02.120 That's why you're seeing. You can find them yourself to 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.719 two or three articles now coming out last last week 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.319 from the New York Times alone time a double mask, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.520 gotta I'm not making this up. Got a double mask. Well, 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:16.200 you can see if you go back on my Twitter account, 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.640 just to give you a sense. Somehow I can tell 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.160 what's coming. Somehow I know what's going to happen here. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.000 But you go back in my Twitter account and you 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.600 see that I said on December tenth. Here we are 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:34.160 now it is January twenty fifth, I tweeted on December tenth. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:39.000 Sometime in about mid January, when cases are still very high, 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:43.040 despite all the painful lockdown insanity, there will be an 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.400 n ninety five. Masks are actually far more effective. We 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.440 should have advocated for those all along. Moment of recognition 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:54.680 from the experts. Well, I shared yesterday a story from 0:14:55.480 --> 0:15:00.600 from CNN that says that Germany has mandated only medical 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:04.280 grade masks. Why because those homemade cloth masks that are 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.120 so effective at blocking COVID, they're like, well, actually they 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:11.320 don't look like they're that effective. And one large German state, Bavaria, 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:16.280 has mandated N ninety five masks only. So now it's 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.560 if you're not wearing an N ninety five mask, you 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.280 can't even get on mass transit. You can't go into 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.560 public places, not even one of those medical grade you know, 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:29.520 two ply fabric masks gotta be N ninety five. Why 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:31.080 did I know this was going to happen. I'm not 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.280 a doctor, I'm not a blue check MD. I'm not 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.680 one of these these pandemic epidemiologists they keep putting on 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.400 CNN every five minutes. Why did I know this was 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.480 going to happen? Because I know what the arguments are here, 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.840 and I know that they keep on being wrong and 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.400 ignoring it and saying, shut up, were your mask, It's 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.840 gonna save us. Okay, hasn't saved us yet, has it? 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.800 So what do they do? They change the argument and 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:58.080 then if you question them, you're the problem. Doctor Fauci 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.800 was the beginning of this. He said, don't wear the masks. 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.280 And then people said, hold on a second. You know 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.640 you now say wear them, and he says, well, I 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:11.520 had to lie to you for your own good. An 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:16.760 administration is that is ruled by science. That's what he said, 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.680 ruled by science. You don't think that Fauci's a power 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.200 mad little maniac. Now you know. He's the highest paid 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.880 employee in the federal government, makes more than a four 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.080 star general, makes more than the president of the United States. 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.680 He's making over four hundred thousand dollars a year. It's 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.600 a great gig to have, basically unfireable. He's been sitting 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.800 there for decades. It's going to lots of meetings making 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.880 bad policy decisions under the guise of the rule of science. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.920 The CDC with this whole thing, has been a disaster, 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:51.640 a disaster, and it's because it's a decades long, decades 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:56.280 long in the making, federal bureaucratic screw up, because there's 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.600 no accountability, because you don't want government in charge of 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:03.600 things because they don't do a good job. But oh, 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.440 that's right, we'll be ruled by science, he says, as 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.160 if that's all that's all that has to be said. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.439 And then beyond that, we're supposed to just be quiet 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:15.480 and listen, do as you're told. Oh, okay, we'll get 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.399 into Gavin Newsom all of a sudden is going to 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.639 open up California. Are the cases so different? There? Is 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.119 it such a different situation? And if we're going to 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.920 be ruled by the science, explain to me the science 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.720 of not allowing the Keystone XEL pipeline, which Biden just 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.560 shot down. The whole project is now scrapped by Executive 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:38.480 FIAT not allowing the Keystone XEL pipeline when the State 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:45.280 Department's analysis under the Obama administration was that blocking Keystone 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:52.240 would increase CO two emissions. That's right, increase by blocking. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:56.480 But they're doing it anyway, ruled by science, they say, sure. 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:00.679 This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Join the conversation 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:04.959 and message Buck on Facebook, Instagram, or email Team Bucket 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.520 iHeartMedia dot com. He may read it on the show. Well, 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.840 I mean, obviously it was it was not an easy situation. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:18.680 I always did speak based on the data and the science, 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:24.359 but obviously there was pressure about messaging that, and you know, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:30.000 I have I took no pleasure in having to sometimes publicly, 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:35.000 even with the President there to contradict what he was saying. 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:38.080 But I felt as a scientist, I had to be 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.560 true to myself and true to the science to make 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.120 sure that where there were things that I thought might 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.600 be misinformation, that I would have to correct that. And 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.520 there were a number of instances of that. That is 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.960 not a comfortable situation, you know. It also was in 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:59.399 a comfortable situation for doctor Fauci is being in the 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.120 position that you're supposed to have been preparing for your 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:08.359 whole life and just being a disaster, having no real plan, 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:15.120 no answers, just being a political megaphone of fear. I mean, 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.280 I'm hearing people now who say, yes, buck, you know what, 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.760 This is what democrats will tell you. Sure, some of 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:25.359 the pandemic theater that we go through is idiotic. Sure, 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.240 some of the things that we're being told to do 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.000 make no sense, won't change anything, and it's absurd. But 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:37.720 it's about conditioning the public to respond to health commands 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:41.600 like this. Oh so it's Pavlovian. It's like we're all 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.560 a bunch of dogs getting our treat from the government. 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.800 Maybe we get patted on the head afterwards. This is 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.760 what democrats who are being honest will openly tell you now, well, 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.080 it's really sure. Maybe what you're doing makes no sense, 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:58.440 but if everybody does something nonsensical about COVID, then there 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.680 might be some benefit that comes from it. That's worth 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.280 all the nonsense for you. Tell that to the people 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.520 who have lost their jobs, you know, Tell that to 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.520 the people who are losing family members to severe depression 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:13.200 and to suicide, to the kids who are losing developmental 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.000 time in school that will never be able to get 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:20.800 back all the costs that we're willing to take on apparently, 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.840 or are we, because now all of a sudden, some 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.320 blue states are saying, you know what, we might have 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:30.439 to reopen soon. Oh we'll get into that in a moment, 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.640 because I first want to start with the ruled by 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:38.680 science bullcrap here when it comes to the Keystone XL pipeline. 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:43.160 Just as a quick review, the enviral wackos have decided 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:47.159 this is this is gonna be like waterloo for the 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.480 fossil fuel industry. They think this is the single most 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.160 important battle they can wage, and they're all celebrating now, 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.080 and they got you know, Native American groups in on this, 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:01.320 and all all the left wing virtue signaling nonsense piled 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:05.000 together here to stop the Keystone Xcel pipeline. By way 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:08.720 of quick review, the Keystone Xcel pipeline would take the 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:16.600 oil sands from the from Canada, from Alberta and take 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:21.840 them all the way down to the US Gulf Coast. 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:26.919 That's what that's the whole thing, right, And it's a pipeline. 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:31.000 And the truth is that this would have just been 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:34.359 a very efficient way because we refine it so we 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:36.160 would have a refinery agreement with them, and then we'd 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:38.439 be able to distribute it to the whole world. This 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.480 would be a very effective and efficient way to get 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:46.679 the oil to market. And despite the Left's best intentions otherwise, 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:51.040 we have become America has become, because of fracking in energy, 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:55.560 a true energy superpower. We're really the world's global preeminent 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.240 energy superpower. You don't hear about that because about half 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:02.000 the country Democrats are so brain washed that they think 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:05.040 that's not something to be proud of. It absolutely is. 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:09.080 It's the reason we have so much productivity. The fossil 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:14.280 fuel industry is used in the creation fifty percent of oil, 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:18.439 for example, and fossil fuel is used for products and 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:21.920 is used in the distribution of products, you know, distribution 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:25.959 of things like vaccine. That's right. Want you want an 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:31.080 effective vaccination distribution program, you need a lot of energy 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:36.800 for logistics. You need a lot of energy in order 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:39.879 to keep that temperature at negative whatever it is, a 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:44.439 degree celsius so that the vaccine can stay viable. And 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:46.399 you need money for all of this, and it becomes 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:49.880 more expensive when oil and fossil fuels are more expensive. 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:55.400 They are fighting the modern economy itself, which is an absurdity. 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:58.320 And they pretend that they're doing in the name of science, 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:02.360 which is laughable. Do you know what the net CO 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:05.960 two benefit of blocking the Keystone XL pipeline. According to 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:10.880 multiple full State Department reviews, because this is an international deal, 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:13.240 the State Department got to review it, including under the 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:18.120 Obama administration, the net CO two change is either negligible 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:23.080 to zero or negative, meaning that this oil is still 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:25.080 going to come out of the ground. It's just going 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:29.439 to be taken in tankers and trucks to market instead 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:32.159 of with a pipeline, which is far more efficient and 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:35.840 far more cost effective and also less like eutherapy leakage 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:41.480 and spills which affect the environment. The Keystone XL pipeline 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:46.320 blockage is worse for everyone in every way. It is 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:49.199 worse for the environment, It is worse for business. It 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:52.800 is worse for you because of what it means for jobs, 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:56.800 for the economy, and for energy costs. But Democrats are 0:23:56.840 --> 0:24:03.240 blocking it anyway. Why because they ken because the envirol 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:07.000 wackos have convinced themselves that this is a battle they 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:09.760 have to win. They have to show that they have 0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:15.400 the power even when all science and reason are against them, 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:18.560 even when there is no data to support their point 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:23.640 of view. They have to find a situation like this 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:27.359 where they can rally together and get the government to 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:32.240 shut down something because they don't like it. Oil is ikey, 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:38.719 fossil fuel bad. Shut it down. It's childish, it's destructive, 0:24:38.760 --> 0:24:41.720 it's stupid, and it's the first thing that Biden does 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:44.199 day one in office, signs an executive order on this 0:24:44.240 --> 0:24:48.400 to stop the Keystone x ALL pipeline. There's no good 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:51.880 faith argument about why to shut this thing down compared 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:54.639 to the alternatives, if it's really about the environment, unless 0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:57.320 they're gonna say, oh, it's because there would definitely be 0:24:57.359 --> 0:24:59.840 some kind of an oil disaster. They don't know that, 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:04.240 and pipelines are far less likely to have spills and 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:08.440 disasters than other forms of transport. Yeah, how many horrible 0:25:08.480 --> 0:25:12.840 oil pipeline disasters have you heard. You've heard of tankard disasters, right, 0:25:12.920 --> 0:25:17.120 transit point disasters when it involves vehicles. But how many 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:22.040