1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis and Buck Sexton 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 1: Show Tuesday edition. We appreciate all of you hanging out 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: with us. We have got a bevy of different topics 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,479 Speaker 1: to dive into today. We run across the gamut. The 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: recall election is going on today in the state of California. 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: What will or will not happen? Why does it matter? 8 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 1: We will discuss the ongoing Afghanistan debacle brought to a 9 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: head with the Secretary of State Tony Blincoln testifying in 10 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: front of Congress. We will discuss what, if anything we 11 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: learn there. The House Democrats have released their budget, what 12 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,279 Speaker 1: does it look like, How significant are many of the 13 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: decisions that are being made, and what might or might 14 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: not actually be passed? And what will occur as it 15 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: impacts your family. We will discuss that. We have got 16 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: a fantastic guest who has an op ed today in 17 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal discussing natural immunity. He is doctor 18 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: McCary from Johns Hopkins University. He has been on with 19 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: us before. He will join us at one oh five 20 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 1: Eastern to talk about many of the failures surrounding America's 21 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: COVID policy. But we begin, Buck Sexton with rank hypocrisy 22 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,479 Speaker 1: in your home city of New York. Let me kind 23 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: of set the scene here, and you can also help 24 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: me because you've dealt with events like this your entire life. 25 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: So I know I've never been to the Met gala. 26 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 1: It is a massive fundraising event that costs more than 27 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 1: your average, you know, apartment building. It feels like at 28 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: times of families will earn in a year two hundred 29 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars for a table, thirty thousand dollars 30 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: for a ticket, and people wear all sorts of outlandish 31 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: outfits to this gala as they walk up the stairs 32 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: at the Met, which is a high end art establishment 33 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 1: in New York City, and AOC Alexandria Acazio Cortez showed 34 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: up in a white dress red writing it said tax 35 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: the rich, and it exploded across the political landscape. Let 36 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: me play you the audio of AOC making her continuing 37 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:35,399 Speaker 1: failing attempts at political arguments. Here is AOC explaining why 38 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: she went to the most exclusive and expensive event of 39 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: the year just about in all of New York City 40 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: City wearing a tax the rich Dress. When Laura and 41 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 1: I were first kind of partnered, we really started having 42 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: a conversation about what it means to be working class 43 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: women of color at the MET. And we said, you know, 44 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: we can't just play long, but we need to break 45 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: the fourth wall and challenge some of the institutions and 46 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: two hands. But you know, while the Met is known 47 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: for its spectacle, we sho conversation about it. A conversation 48 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: about it, Clay, that's what she's sparking with the tax 49 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: the rich dress. Okay, let's let's break this thing down 50 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: for a second. First of all, there was also the 51 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: issue of none of them Met patrons. And it's the 52 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 1: Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the most famous museums 53 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: in the world. The Met steps are very very well known. 54 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: There are in tons of movies and TV shows, and 55 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: this is the most exclusive social event generally speaking, some 56 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: I would say, in the world. It raises about ten 57 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: million dollars for like the costume. Sorry forget, forget what 58 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: the organ of the nonprofit is, but it's really just 59 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: like Vogue and Hollywood and all the fanciest people in 60 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: the world go to this one party. In Clay, the 61 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: staff are all masked. The servers, the ushers, the security, 62 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: they have to be masked. But the patrons, the people 63 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: that are going to this ultra fancy party, I mean, 64 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: this bacchanal of the most elite people in certainly left 65 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 1: wing Hollywood media, society and politics. You could possibly find 66 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: they don't have to wear masks. There's no science behind that, 67 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: as we know. So we start with that that they're 68 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 1: gallivanting around. I have a feeling, and I know you 69 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: asked about this before the show. We're not gonna have 70 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: Fauci come out with you know, they were really reckless 71 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: with it. No, of course not. Somehow Clay Fauci never 72 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:46,360 Speaker 1: says anything to insult his constituency, which is the elite 73 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: lib apparatus of control. He never spoke out about Obama's 74 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: birthday party. He has not going to speak out about 75 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: the met But yet when you go to a college 76 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: football game, oh, Fauci says it's unacceptable. And to your point, 77 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: the rank hypocrisy here is on multiple levels. You have 78 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: the mostly poor people who are servers. Theoretically you cannot afford. Yeah, 79 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: working class who cannot afford to actually ever go to 80 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: these events that are required to wear a mask. And 81 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: you also require are all of these kids that have 82 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: now started school in New York that are going to 83 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: public schools, I think a million of them all over 84 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: the city. They're required to wear masks, and now they're 85 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: going to have to eat outdoors like all through the winter. 86 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: I mean, this is all madness, this is real, Marie Antoinette, 87 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 1: let them eat cake level stuff. And as you and 88 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: I know, as people like history, there's no record that 89 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: are actually saying it. But it's one of those stories. 90 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,039 Speaker 1: It's a great story. It's a great right. We love it, 91 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: even though Marie Antoinette actually never really said that and 92 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:50,799 Speaker 1: has been turned into kind of a distant villain because 93 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: of it. Anyway, it is a let them eat cake moment. 94 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: We'll just go with the storyline here because in New 95 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: York City, Clay I have friends, just was texting one 96 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 1: Yesterday's got kids in the school system here right, remember 97 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: in the city where this ultra fancy party where people 98 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 1: I mean that also people just show up. I mean 99 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 1: they're dressed like clowns. The whole thing is absurd. It's 100 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: not actually esthetically elite and people the glamor and all 101 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: this stuff. No it's all sort of social justice woke bullcrap, 102 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: and all these people pretending that people who are there 103 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: are so impressive and they're really not. But just step 104 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: aside for our step back from that for a second. 105 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: You have kids in New York City, Clay, who are 106 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: back in school. They're still disinfecting surfaces everywhere. Doesn't spread 107 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: via surface actually reflects that plexiglass dividers in place. They're 108 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: still social distancing. They're telling kids in New York, which 109 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: is the largest public school system, obviously because of population 110 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: in the whole country, they're telling them to be prepared 111 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: to eat their lunch outside for the rest of the year, 112 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: which would take us deep into the winter. You're gonna 113 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: have little freezing freezing their butts off outside. So that vaccinated, hysteric, 114 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 1: neurotic adults who are protected by the teachers unions and 115 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: therefore part of the Democrat power apparatus, don't go to 116 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: bed worried at night about getting to COVID from the kids, 117 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: because the kids are little germ machines. This is what 118 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: New York City has been turned into now by the 119 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: crazy lives. Where is Fauci on this one? He's a 120 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: little coward kind of like how he won't come on 121 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: this show, even though we've now reached out to the 122 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: White House. He'll do every show but this show. Yeah, well, 123 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: of course I guess some conservatially every show but this one. 124 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 1: But this is This is to me the essence of 125 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: here's the other thing that I love and or hate 126 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: about this situation in general, Buck, The media is all 127 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: there covering these people as if they are heroes, when 128 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: in reality, if you're an honest media person in New 129 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 1: York City, shouldn't you be wondering, Hey, how come all 130 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: these super rich people can show up not wear masks, 131 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: Galliva ants about for a night of fun, and all 132 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: of these kids, and frankly all these other places in 133 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: New York too. People can't live their normal lives, right, 134 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: Like this is and and and I always wonder and 135 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: I'm curious what you think about this too? Are we 136 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: playing into AOC's hands by even talking about this, right, 137 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: because the thing that's frustrating about this is AOC's bass 138 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: is like, Oh, it's so brave of her to show 139 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: up and attacks the rich dress. She looks fabulous. Oh 140 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: she's fantastic, And like those people all think she's amazing. No, 141 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: I don't think this was. I mean, to anybody who's 142 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: not a moron, she looks like a moron. I mean 143 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: that's the reality. Now, you're never going to reach the 144 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: idiots on the left who think that I mean, a 145 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: AOC whatever it is. I mean, she could walk into 146 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: a room, trip and fall and get up and they 147 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: would say that it was you know, balletic and amazing, 148 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: and she's a geniese. It doesn't matter, right, But if 149 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: we're talking, there are two groups Clay that by pointing 150 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: out being at the most elite social gathering, and when 151 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: I say elite, it's eliteism. I'm not impressed by these people. 152 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: I don't like these people. I don't want to be one. 153 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: You know. I went to the White House, which is, 154 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: you know, way like many levels of celebrity coolness below. 155 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: I mean, it's you know, they call it nerd prom 156 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: but they mean because we're actually social, they're actually just 157 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: they're actually just jokes. But I went when I first 158 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: started a media decade ago, and I said, I'm never 159 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: going back to this thing. It's appalling. And now, of 160 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: course a lot of conservators won't go because we've seen 161 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: the way that they just rip on Republicans and the 162 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: whole thing. But Clay with this with with aoc we're 163 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 1: speaking to one everyone who listens to this show, everyone 164 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: who lives in reality and seats thso what they are 165 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: should we do need to remind them that this is 166 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,079 Speaker 1: who is lecturing you about how you need to pay 167 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: higher taxes and America is so racist, and people who 168 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 1: are at the top of the power structure who are 169 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 1: luxuriating in their trips to the met Gala and the 170 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: Hamptons and their private jet travel, flying around with the 171 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: helicopters and getting seven figure book deals for books that 172 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: no one's going to read, never mind by and they 173 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,719 Speaker 1: want to lecture all the rest of us about how 174 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: awful we are. We need to tell the people that 175 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: see this for what it is. You're right, you're not 176 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: the crazy ones. And then do your point that you 177 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 1: often make. Those who are still hoping to having their 178 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: minds persuaded they need because this is a blunder. This 179 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 1: is what was it, tally Rand. This is worse than 180 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: a mistake. It's a blunder. Or it's worse than an error. 181 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: It's a blunder. That's what this is. She looks utterly buffoonish. 182 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, I mean, the most powerful voice in 183 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: the Democrat Party right now, certainly not Joe Biden's probably 184 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: AOC when you're talking about at least the ability to 185 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: direct the media narrative. And she's just not smart, Clay, 186 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: She's just not very smart. And I guess people don't care. Yeah, 187 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 1: I think that's true too. What do you think she 188 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 1: is thinking as she wakes up this morning and today 189 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,719 Speaker 1: she's amazing and she's fighting for working class people by 190 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: wearing a multi thousand dollar gown. Yeah, I'm just what 191 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 1: do you think she thinks that her tax the Rich 192 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 1: dress was a wild success? See, I don't know. I 193 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: mean at some point, you know, what you see with 194 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:13,439 Speaker 1: her is also this melding of a of a politician 195 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: who's really a celebrity. Right. It used to the politicians 196 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:20,199 Speaker 1: become celebrities. She's really like a celebrity who is a politician. Now, 197 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: I know she got into politics first and that's how 198 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: she made her name. I think it's an interesting it's 199 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: an interesting perspective, right, Yeah, I mean, how cognizant is 200 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: she of what people think about her? And is it 201 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: in any way does it any way matter because celebrities, 202 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,079 Speaker 1: It really doesn't, right, It's just about the reason why 203 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: you wear a ridiculous dress to the Met is so 204 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: potential talk about you attention. Yeah, but she there is 205 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: because of her involvement in actual policy discussions, and she 206 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: does wield a vote in Congress and does have actual 207 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: government power at some level and a taxpayer funded staff 208 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 1: and all the rest of it. She's supposed to at 209 00:11:55,400 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: least stay within some bounds of intelligence and normalcy in 210 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: what she's doing and what she's saying. But I think 211 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: that what she does here is it's a perfect distillation 212 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: of the hypocrisy and the sanctimoniousness that are really the 213 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 1: defining characteristics of the modern elitist democrat. That this is 214 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: who they are. The we're social justice warriors in fancy 215 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: gowns at the MET gala, who are going to go 216 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: hang out afterwards with Clooney and jay Z. This is 217 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: who we are as elite democrats. But we care so 218 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: much about the poor, not enough to support police. So 219 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: there are fewer shootings, so fewer works to get shot 220 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: or to keep schools open open during the pandemic. While 221 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,599 Speaker 1: they were sending their kids to private schools. This is 222 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: m clay in every socialist society, in every communist society, 223 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: this kind of grotesque stratification of those at the top 224 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: pretending they care about those below, not saying we're creating 225 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: a meritocracy, not saying that the laws apply equal to everybody. No, no, 226 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: we have to be at the very top because we're 227 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: the revolutionary arm we're the vanguard of the progressivism here, 228 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: and we need some perks, we need some fancy gowns 229 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: at the met gala. This is the Democrat Party, right 230 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: you're seeing it right now. I absolutely loved it when 231 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:22,079 Speaker 1: I saw it last night on social media, and I 232 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: was just trying to think, what the Nancy Pelosi's and 233 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 1: the people who are trying to appeal to moderate Democrats 234 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: because we need to talk about the budget, which is 235 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:33,959 Speaker 1: taxing the rich, that's their plan, and what the impact 236 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: of that's going to be. But how much of a 237 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: distraction is she amid all of this? 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This is Buck, 255 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: my man Clay, and I'm talking here about the Democrat hypocrisy. 256 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: But remember, folks, we have to point it out, but 257 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: it won't change because it's not a bug, it's a feature. 258 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: Of course, they're hypocrites. What are you going to do 259 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: about it? Peasant? That's their attitude. They pretend to care 260 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: about out the poor while they spend all their time 261 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: with the rich and trying to become very rich themselves. 262 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: And it is in fact those who are striving, those 263 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: who want the right to rise, who get caught in 264 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 1: the vice script of Democrat tax raises, spending all the 265 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: stuff that we're seeing right now. We know there's a 266 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: there's a basic certainty Democrats are in charge. They're going 267 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: to take more money from people who are working for it. 268 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: And that's why you get the latest update here on 269 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 1: who's going to be paying the taxes. AOC wears her 270 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 1: tax the rich thing. This may come as a shock 271 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: to her, although she makes plenty of money, so she's 272 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: probably paying a reasonably high tax rate, and she's not 273 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: yet at that Pelosi level where the taxes don't care, 274 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: don't matter, because remember they don't tax wealth, they tax earnings. 275 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: It's people that are trying to build people in their 276 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: peak earning years who after ten or fifteen years are 277 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 1: finally getting into those top income brackets for a period 278 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: of time. They're the ones the government it's always piling on. 279 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: They don't go after the people who are inherited a 280 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: billion dollars and are sitting on it, or Nanti Pelosi 281 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 1: super rich husband, or you know, i'd find me a 282 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: prominent Democrat in Congress who talks about tax and Bertie 283 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: Sanders a millionaire. I mean, America is a country where 284 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: we're constantly being lectured by socialist millionaires. That's pretty much 285 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: all you know. Meanwhile, Democrats want to tax more of 286 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: our income. In general, the top individual tax rates supposed 287 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: to rise. This is going it's gone to the Ways 288 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: and Means Committee. But this is what the bill is 289 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 1: going to look like. Here, thirty nine point six percent, 290 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: up from thirty seven percent. The higher tax rate will 291 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: kick in at four hundred thousand for individuals. That's down 292 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: from five hundred and twenty three six hundred for individuals. 293 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: And then there's just there's more. There's more all over 294 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: the place. I mean, they're raising the corporate income tax, 295 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: corporate tax. Clay who pays the taxes in this country 296 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: because it's actually the people who are the demonized, yes 297 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: so called ridge. By the way, you make four hundred 298 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: thousand dollars New York City, you're not even close to rich. 299 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: The bottom fifty percent of income earners, the bottom fifty percent, 300 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: pay three percent of all the federal income taxes in 301 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 1: the United States. Think about that for a minute. Half 302 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 1: of Americans pay just three percent of the overall and 303 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 1: then you compare that with the top one percent. 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If Gavin 331 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: Newsom were recalled, Larry Elder would likely be the next 332 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: governor of the state of California. Now, the polls, to 333 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,399 Speaker 1: the extent you can rely on the polls, suggests that 334 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom is going to win his recall election. But 335 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: certainly the way that Democrats have mobilized makes it clear 336 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,360 Speaker 1: that they expect for this to be at least a 337 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: somewhat challenging election. They have brought out all the big 338 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: guns to campaign with Gavin Newsom all over California, including 339 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: well they even got Joe Biden on an airplane to 340 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: fly across the country and he was in California yesterday 341 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: and Biden was saying, Hey, if you vote for Larry Elder, 342 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: you're basically voting for Donald Trump. Here's Biden yesterday this 343 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: year leading Republican running for governor is a closest thing 344 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: to a Trump clone I've ever seen in your state. 345 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 1: I really mean it. And he's leading the other team 346 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: is the clone of Donald Trump. Can you imagine him 347 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 1: being governor of this state. You can't let that happen. 348 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 1: There's too much to stay. Isn't this a classic clay 349 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: Because California from a governance perspective, and this is I 350 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: have a lot of friends, particularly in La but I 351 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: also know a bunch of people in San France. I 352 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: mean in San Diego. Actually don't know any in San France. 353 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: And even the ones who are Democrats will tell you 354 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: that the state government is a total mess. Yes, that 355 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 1: this is unsustainable. One party rule is disaster. It's a 356 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: disaster because there's there's no if, there can be no 357 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: accountability when you have an entire state that has effectively 358 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: become a Democrat on clave, and so you just choose 359 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: one Democrat or another and they're all totally in bed 360 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,679 Speaker 1: with the public sector unions and they believe in the 361 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:07,919 Speaker 1: same social justice nonsense. You really have two Californias. You 362 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 1: have the people who live close to the coast, who 363 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,199 Speaker 1: are very, very wealthy. I mean, you know, the average 364 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: home price in California right now is over eight hundred 365 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 1: thousand dollars the average Yeah, nice, and a lot of 366 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: those homes. By the way, this blew my mind because 367 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time working in La with 368 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 1: Fox Sports, so I've spent you know, months or years 369 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 1: just about living in California off and on in the 370 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,639 Speaker 1: past several years. And buck some of those houses that 371 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: cost a million dollars in California, You're like, yeah, I 372 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: wouldn't even want to live there. And for people in 373 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: the rest of the country who are hearing that, your 374 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:45,160 Speaker 1: mind explodes because when you hear for most of the country, 375 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 1: oh that's a million dollar house, it has a certain 376 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 1: connotation of excellence. In California, it's like mediocrity. It's wild. 377 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: It's like it's like one hundred and twenty thousand dollars 378 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,640 Speaker 1: house in Oklahoma City. I mean, that's what you get 379 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:01,159 Speaker 1: for a million. I mean, look the problems that California 380 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: has it and this is it reminds me a lot 381 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 1: of ways Clay of the Biden administration, which is that 382 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: there are bad things that happen, and you can draw 383 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 1: a very clear, strange line between the bad outcome and 384 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:17,400 Speaker 1: the bad decision making rooted in the Democrat progressive approach 385 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 1: or the Democrat leftist socialist approach. Right, I mean, we're 386 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: just talking about home prices. Why are home prices in 387 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: California so high? It's not because everyone's moving to California 388 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: and they love it so much. It's because the environmentalist 389 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 1: lobby is very powerful in that state. I mean, I 390 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: remember I was at a military base a long time 391 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,160 Speaker 1: ago when I was a CIA and they talked about 392 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 1: how they had to create I'm not kidding tunnels for 393 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:43,199 Speaker 1: turtles to go under the road leading to the military 394 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 1: base because they were worried about the tortoises that would 395 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 1: get hit by cars going in and out of the base, 396 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 1: and so a huge problem. Spend millions of dollars, and 397 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: then they also built these fences because the tortoises, guess what, 398 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 1: don't go into the tunnels. They just go for the 399 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: easiest thing. This is real that through a whole the 400 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: whole briefing by the general on base about this, and 401 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: then they realized that when they built the little this 402 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: is all because the California environmentalist lobby when they built 403 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: these little tunnel tunnels for tortoises and the fence along 404 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,679 Speaker 1: it so they would go into the tunnels, they realized 405 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,119 Speaker 1: that the tortoises would get stuck in the fence and 406 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: then they were essentially like an open air barbecue for 407 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: the predatory birds that would see though, and they just 408 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,640 Speaker 1: could like disaster after disaster because the environmentalists were saying, 409 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: They're gonna kill all the turtles. That's why you have 410 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 1: such high home price at California Clay. That kind of 411 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 1: ideology over reality is why you have rolling brownouts, which 412 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:41,879 Speaker 1: you know are things you usually think of them the 413 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,199 Speaker 1: third world. California doesn't have enough power, you have water shortages, 414 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: you have the horrible fire problem. California could not have 415 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: been more poorly managed as a state for the last 416 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: twenty years. And it's like the Democrats just keep saying, oh, 417 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: but you know, I'm cool. They don't care. Well. This 418 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 1: is the problem with one party rule in general, is that, 419 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,880 Speaker 1: especially when it's democratic one party rule, it leads to disaster. 420 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: And that's the undergirding story here of why Gavin Newsom 421 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: got recalled. It's because every single time they have a 422 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 1: new first of all, the population in California dropped for 423 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 1: the first time ever is a state, right, I mean, 424 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: I think that's pretty significant. But I'll tell you here 425 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,400 Speaker 1: in Tennessee, Buck, and I've heard the same thing from 426 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 1: realtors in Florida and in Texas and other states that 427 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: are seeing massive influxes of people. Every time they come 428 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 1: out with a new crazy COVID restriction. The phones blow 429 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: up in all of these other states because parents and people. 430 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 1: It's like the needle that the straw that broke the 431 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,880 Speaker 1: camel's back. It's the final little bit of detail. And 432 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,439 Speaker 1: that's ultimately what's going on here. They need someone to 433 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: shake up the existing government. And look, I think we 434 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: need to talk about when we come back in this 435 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 1: next segment, what does victory look like. I mean, one 436 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: possibility obviously is Larry Elder wins, and that would be 437 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:13,679 Speaker 1: a political earthquake of seismic proportions if that happened. I mean, 438 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 1: you're a betting man, mister Travis. I think what do 439 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 1: you think the actual odds are on that right now? 440 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 1: I think you'd probably get three to one odds again, 441 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 1: and I'm team Larry all the way as a great guy, 442 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: great radio host. I want everybody in California to go vote, 443 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: but I would probably need if I were putting down money, 444 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: I'd need eight or nine to one to put down 445 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: money on it happening. So for people out there, like, 446 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,879 Speaker 1: what is eight or nine to one mean ten to 447 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 1: fifteen percent chance basically of app I think that's probably 448 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: based on all the polling where it is. But hey, 449 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: you know, remember remember Election Night twenty sixteen, one of 450 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 1: the greatest things of all time? What was the New 451 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: York Times Hillary Meter at ninety seven percent She's gonna 452 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 1: win or something that was. I still love that. We 453 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 1: don't know how valid the polling is. We don't know 454 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: who's actually going to vote. We do know that they 455 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 1: have sent as many mail in ballots out as they 456 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: possibly can, and that they're ricocheting all over the country, 457 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,479 Speaker 1: not just in California. There's been lots of misaddressed ballots, 458 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 1: and we already know we talked about yesterday some of 459 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 1: the challenges of people that are actually going to vote. 460 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: But to me, one of the things to look at 461 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: is whatever the margin is, right, Because Trump lost not 462 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:26,239 Speaker 1: surprisingly California in twenty twenty by a substantial margin. But 463 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say, in whatever it is 464 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,959 Speaker 1: now almost the year since November of twenty twenty, as 465 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 1: we come up on ten months plus of that since 466 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 1: that time, overall Democratic support has declined substantially. So what 467 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: will the numbers actually reflect in this recall vote in 468 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 1: terms of the amount of people who can line up 469 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 1: against Gavin Newsom? And what might that reflect about where 470 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,880 Speaker 1: the country is one year out? This stuff is always hard, though, 471 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 1: because you'll see that, you'll see that to Congress as 472 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 1: a general proposition in terms of polling, support will be 473 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,639 Speaker 1: you know, about as popular as as a as a 474 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: cold sword before you know, going on on a photo 475 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 1: shoot or something. But then you'll find out, oh but 476 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: I you know, but all those people like their Congress, 477 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: that's right, and oh my congressman's cool. It's just Congress 478 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 1: in general and in California. I think that any drop 479 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 1: attributed in support overall ver Newsom people are going to 480 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,439 Speaker 1: certainly the narrative from Democrats, but I think this may 481 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 1: actually be the political reality is that it's a lack 482 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: of support for Newsom, not a repudiation of the of 483 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: the fundamental beliefs of the Democrat Party in that state. 484 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: There isn't the New York City Rudy Giuliana ru Rudy 485 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,399 Speaker 1: Giuliani in the nineteen nineties moment here, Clay, what happened 486 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,159 Speaker 1: in New York City? It got and I was living here, 487 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 1: I was a kid. I remember it got so dirty. 488 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: And so, yeah, people of all political persuasions willing to say, enough, 489 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 1: we just need to clean this place up. We just 490 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 1: need You had you had, you know, black Baptist preachers 491 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,679 Speaker 1: who were reaching out to the Giuliani administration saying, you know, 492 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 1: let's work, let's let's get the police, you know, more involved. 493 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: We want safe communities. You had you know, Latino community members, 494 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 1: you everybody coming together saying we got to make this 495 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 1: city safe for everybody, right, And so there was a 496 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 1: political will in California. Man, I don't know, I think. 497 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, the ten cities in Venice and the stuff. 498 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: Let's going to all the heroin usage out and open 499 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: air in Los Angeles down Hollywood Boulevard. We see it. 500 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: It's gross, it's depressing, the thefts that are occurring broad daylight. 501 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: But there are a lot of libs men who says 502 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: as long as I can put my hashtag BLM square 503 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: on Instagram, and I live in a safe neighborhood, I 504 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: don't really care, so I will see. I mean, I 505 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 1: just get about him. 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That's rough Greens dot Com, 531 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: slash Clay and Buck. Roughgreens dot Com slash Clay and Buck. 532 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 1: You're bizarre abandoning Bodrom Airfield fled directly to thirteen Marines 533 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: who murdered in Comble. You should resign. Their blood is 534 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: on your hands in this administration, Sir. I'm calling you 535 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: to resign. I believe it you, sir, should resign. That 536 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:24,600 Speaker 1: would be leadership. Welcome back to the Clay Travis and 537 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton show. There, you just heard a number of 538 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: Republicans on Capitol Hill calling for the Secretary of State 539 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: Anthony Lincoln to resign. And guess what he is not going. 540 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 1: I would I would be very comfortable putting it bet 541 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: that he will not resign, although you know who know, 542 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: You never know, but I think it's very, very unlikely. Uh. 543 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 1: This is all about holding the Democrats accountable, holding the 544 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 1: Biden administration accountable for the chaotic and to call it 545 00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: poorly planned as a gross understatement withdrawal plan and from Afghanistan. 546 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: But all blink and asked Joe and I remember this, 547 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: We remember all that, all the talk all the members 548 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 1: of Congress with Benghazi. And I said at the time, 549 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: as soon as Obama one reelection, Clay, the idea of 550 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: accountability for the debacle of Benghazi, in which four Americans 551 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: lost their lives, any real accountability was gone. And here, 552 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: if you want accountability, you have to go out and 553 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: take power from these people in the midterm elections because 554 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: they're not going to hold themselves accountable. Thirteen Americans died 555 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: in the midst of a chaotic withdrawal. American service members 556 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: in the midst of a chaotic withdrawal plan hit by 557 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: a suicide bombing. No one has lost their job over 558 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 1: that to this day except what was it? A lieutenant 559 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: colonel who spoke out against the ineptitude of the senior leadership, Clay, 560 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: That's what accountability under a Democrat administration looks like speak 561 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 1: the truth and you get fired. Otherwise you're part of 562 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 1: the team, You keep your job, maybe you get a 563 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: nice book deal. Yeah. And this is why I think 564 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: sending messages in California can matter, right because how do 565 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:10,680 Speaker 1: you register your disapproval? How do you fire back in 566 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: a big way? Right now? That's the question we get, 567 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 1: I bet Buck more than any other from our listeners. 568 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 1: So I got that question again whenever I'm out and about, 569 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 1: and I got it a ton from people in Arkansas. 570 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be down in Florida this weekend. How do 571 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: we get back to normal? I think it's one by 572 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 1: living your life normally. It sounds simple, but by embracing 573 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 1: normalcy in your own life, fighting for normalcy, fighting for 574 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 1: the things that would have seemed very similar and simple 575 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 1: and not outlandish before March of twenty twenty. And one 576 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: of those things is if you're listening to us right 577 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: now in California, it's not only removing Gavin Newsom that 578 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: counts as a win. It's registering I think a massive 579 00:32:55,480 --> 00:33:00,440 Speaker 1: increase in disapproval for his policies. Right well. Trump lost 580 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,320 Speaker 1: in California by around thirty points, buck Man, You know 581 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,600 Speaker 1: we got six million votes. Joe Biden allegedly got eleven 582 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: million votes. Okay, six thirty point deficit. Imagine if we 583 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 1: got it down as the Republican Party did to ten 584 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: or twelve points, if it's a close election. For California's sake, 585 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are getting really nervous. 586 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 1: And by the way, Dub who is one of our 587 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 1: producers on the show, texted me that a European offshores. 588 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: Where are European books where you can bet on politics? 589 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 1: You can't legally bet on politics in America right now? 590 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: Really that it's ten to one basically that Newsom would 591 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 1: lose and be removed from office. That's not what Trump 592 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 1: was in sixteen. I mean, not a lot of difference 593 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 1: in terms of what odds you could have gotten on 594 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,920 Speaker 1: Trump being elected in sixteen. It's so fascinating, isn't it. 595 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,120 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is not running for office, is not in office. 596 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,800 Speaker 1: I mean as of now he's not running, right, we 597 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 1: don't know, but he is not in American politics. And 598 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: yet the go to move just to give you, just 599 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: to give her a sense of how indoctrinated and how 600 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 1: clearly true believers in the leftist orthodoxy, Californians Democrat Californians are. 601 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 1: All they have to do is bring up the specter 602 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:19,759 Speaker 1: of Trump. Somehow tie Larry Elder to Donald Trump, as 603 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 1: if these are guys with similar stories, similar backgrounds. I mean, yeah, 604 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 1: they have some similar ideas, but why is he the 605 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: second coming of Trump or whatever? Well, because it gets 606 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,799 Speaker 1: all the Libs scared, they're gonna go out and vote 607 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:34,719 Speaker 1: against this. But notice there's not actually any argument to 608 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,640 Speaker 1: be made that Gavin Knewsommer, for that matter, the Democrat 609 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 1: Party of the state of California is good at their jobs. 610 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 1: Is making it a better place to live? Handles anything? Well, 611 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:49,320 Speaker 1: it's Trump is scary. Vote against Trump. I mean, Larry Elder, 612 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:54,240 Speaker 1: it's pathetic, It's pathetic. But this is what that states 613 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 1: at Apollo, at a political level has been reduced. I mean, Clay, 614 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,920 Speaker 1: you and I both know California is as a geographic 615 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 1: land mass basically paradise. I mean you've got in, I 616 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,239 Speaker 1: mean the coast and the mountains and the vineyards and 617 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: the one of my buddies. I mean, it should debate 618 00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 1: the American dream like you go back to the nineteen nineties, 619 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 1: everyone just want to live in LA. It was like, 620 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,120 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, not more. One of my buddies and 621 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 1: I had this debate. Imagine that we settled the country 622 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 1: west to east, no one would live in the northeast, right, 623 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:24,960 Speaker 1: Like if we had started the west, first of all, 624 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:26,480 Speaker 1: people have been like, why do we want to leave here? 625 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,600 Speaker 1: You know, like we're basically living in the garden of 626 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,880 Speaker 1: Eden if you were in southern California, if we had 627 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 1: started to settle the country from east, from west to east. 628 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,040 Speaker 1: But it is pretty fascinating. By the time we got 629 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,319 Speaker 1: to the east coast, Like, I don't think there would 630 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 1: have been any massive people who are like, you know, 631 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,719 Speaker 1: where we have to live Boston. You know, we have 632 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: to live New York. Now obviously I'm Boston under the 633 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,160 Speaker 1: bus from Boston under the bus, Boston compared to LA. 634 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,239 Speaker 1: Purely from geography. I mean, it makes sense when you 635 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,360 Speaker 1: think about it, when you want to be close to 636 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,799 Speaker 1: get back to Europe. But if you think about it, 637 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 1: from the west to east, California is an identic can 638 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:07,239 Speaker 1: I pronounce that word correctly? Eden like paradise, and they're 639 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,320 Speaker 1: ruining it. And it's been ruined by it's being ruined 640 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,200 Speaker 1: by libs. We can all see it. We all know 641 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:16,600 Speaker 1: what's going on. Their psycho environmentalism, their social justice, progressive obsession, 642 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 1: all the just a hypocrisy too right. The elites don't 643 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 1: live they live in dad communities, They live in bel 644 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,359 Speaker 1: air while they pretend to care so much about everybody else, 645 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,239 Speaker 1: you know, the poor and what we got. Doctor Marty 646 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,200 Speaker 1: McCarry joining us here in a few minutes, talk about 647 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,440 Speaker 1: his Wallstee journal off ed and why is it the 648 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,239 Speaker 1: CDC just doesn't want to actually even have data on 649 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,080 Speaker 1: things like I don't know, Clay, natural immunity maybe kind 650 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 1: of important. I would think bigly important to use a 651 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump order. There. We'll be back with the doc next. 652 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 1: You're listening to Clay Travis, said Buck Sexton fund the 653 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:49,760 Speaker 1: EIB Network