WEBVTT - Buck’s First Thoughts -No More Scrambled Eggs Super 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.240 This is Buck's first thoughts, the news you need to 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.840 get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.520 you subscribe on the iHeart app for wherever you get 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:14.360 your podcasts. What's the first book you can remember reading 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.040 when you think back to the first author that you 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.840 could name? Who comes to mind? Sure a lot of 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.959 different answers out there, but for a good number of 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:27.160 the people listening to this across the country, doctor SEUs 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:32.200 is a likely bet. Doctor SEUs is among the most 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.879 well known, probably the most well known children's author of 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.280 all time. And now we find out the extent to 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:44.239 which the cancel culture of the left has grown that 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.199 even Doctor SEUs is not safe from their grasp. Of 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.840 course not though right nobody can be allowed to send 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.760 the way. There's no body of work that's so important, 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.720 that's so timeless, that you will not see the left 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:02.440 apply the standards of wokeness with the ever evolving, shifting, changing, 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:08.320 and often duplicit as standards of wokeness. The six Doctor 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:13.360 Seuss books that will no longer be published today, according 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:19.119 to various news sources because of racist and insensitive imagery. 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.920 This is from Doctor Seus's Enterprises, so the company that 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:26.759 owns it no longer wants to have to deal with 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:31.480 the possibility here of getting getting boycotted or anything else. 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.400 So they think that they have beaten the left, They've 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.560 beaten the wokeness to the punch, although I'm sure they 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.119 were already receiving a lot of pressure and there's criticism. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.360 I can hardly keep up with all the stories these days. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.840 They had another voice actor on The Simpsons who just 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.440 came out to say he'll no longer be voicing a 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:53.560 character of color, a person of color character that's no 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.160 longer allowed, as you know, and people are supposed to 0:01:56.160 --> 0:02:00.920 apologize for doing it in the first place. Now there's 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.040 so many of these stories. It's happening all the time. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.520 You know, it's funny, isn't it. I thought that the 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.480 Biden administration, I thought the left, once they were in charge, 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.880 could at least give us a couple of months of 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.840 focusing on governance and important issues. But no, you see 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.160 what they do. You see that when you believe the 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.000 things that the left believes, you take action on it, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.320 even when it's counterproductive, even when it's absurd, and when 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:32.120 it goes against core values of this country free speech 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.880 and freedom of expression are core values and shrine to 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.520 the First Amendment to the Constitution. There't these aren't trivialities, 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:42.720 these aren't small things. And never before in my lifetime 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.600 has free speech and freedom overall been under such sustained 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:53.840 assault from people who have adopted an ideology of sanctimoniousness 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:58.680 and oppression simultaneously. They think they're the good guys, and you, 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.440 if you don't agree with them, are the bad guys. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.760 And that now even extends to children's books. Six Doctor Seus' 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.760 books no longer to be published, including and to Think 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.600 That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:17.240 the Zoo, Mckeligot's Pool, On Beyond Zebra, Scrambled Eggs, Super 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:23.160 and the Cat's Quizzer. This comes right after one day 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:29.480 after Joe Biden omitted Doctor SEUs from Read Across America Day, 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.640 which is usually held on the author's birthday on March second, 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.600 so it's Read Across America Day, and Joe Biden, the 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.800 Biden administration they got up a thought into this one. 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.240 You're gonna make sure that they show they prove their 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.640 woke bona fie days. These people are you could say 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:53.440 cultural Marxists, you could say they are neo Kamis. There's 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:58.040 all kinds of descriptions, but ultimately it comes from a 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:04.640 mindset overwhelmed with the propaganda of victimology. Here we are 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:09.960 in America. People are so incredibly fortunate to even be here. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.400 This is such an amazing place. And I know a 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.800 lot of time on this show has spent criticizing what's 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.640 going wrong and what people in power are doing wrong. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.279 That's because it's a political talk show. But I'm also 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.279 here to tell you that America is amazing. That's the 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.279 greatest country that has ever existed, and it's worth fighting 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.839 for because of all those things, and that you should 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:35.200 enjoy it as you can enjoy your life, spend time 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.719 with your loved ones, get the most out of this 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.760 place that you can, and feel blessed in that process, 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:42.680 even though there are people that are trying to take 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:44.760 some of those blessings away from you. I'm aware of that, 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.400 and that's what we talk about here. But the Left 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:53.200 takes a very different approach, one of constant victimization, a 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.920 belief that there is oppression that is omnipresident in our society. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.280 It is absolutely everywhere, and that means the only way 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.839 to deal with it is for government power and cultural 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:12.760 power to combine to suppress wrong think, to suppress ideas 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.360 that are disfavored by the ruling class, by the elites 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.960 at any given point in time. And here you have 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.280 doctor SEUs the latest with this. But I have to 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:28.800 tell you what you're seeing now with Amazon banning books, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:33.919 including academic works on things like transgenderism. Are people that 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.680 have spent years researching issues and want to present an 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.880 argument not allowed. Amazon now says that they will block 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.440 the sale of books that they find offensive or insensitive. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:50.840 If you can have culture, if you can have books, movies, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:56.400 television shows that can be construed by someone somewhere as offensive, 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.760 you've essentially created the eradication of culture. In fact, the 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.080 only culture that you'll be left with is one that 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:07.760 defines the dominant group as the constant enemy, right, one 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.520 that picks one group that they're always it's always open 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:15.640 season on attacking and everything else. Everyone else has this 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.440 constant protection that they can invoke of well, I'm part 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.840 of the oppressed class. This is what the left does. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.960 Isn't it fascinating how many people live in extreme wealth, 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.520 live an unbelievable splendor in America and are some of 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.800 the loudest voices for how hard and oppressive and bad 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.919 this place is. It's stunning. Whether you're talking about you know, 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:46.159 Hollywood actors and celebrities, professional athletes. They enjoy looking down 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.800 on America while they benefit in ways that previous generations 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:55.640 of humanity around the globe would have thought were incomprehensible 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.600 levels of freedom and wealth and an opportunity. But I 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.719 suppose everything is relative. You know, there's a concept called 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:09.320 hedonistic adaptation, and it has to do with once you 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:15.400 get used to something feeling good, once you have had 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:20.200 enough of, say living in a mansion, you know you 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:24.560 want three. Once you've been flying first class, you want 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.440 to fly private. Right, whatever benefits, whatever joys that you 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:34.120 can find in things, in actual possessions, or in goods 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.240 and services that you can buy, you get used to 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.200 it and you want more. And you see this with 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.760 the elites and the wealthy in America all the time. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.080 It's never enough, and so they eventually reach a point 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:50.760 where the only real thing that matters to them is 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:55.520 the approval and the admiration of their peers. Essentially, ego 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.000 is all that's left. The only thing that is truly 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:04.920 unfillable is ego and the adoration of the crowd. And 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.119 you see this with some very very wealthy people, someone 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.120 like Bill Gates, for example. I mean he finds he 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:14.880 finds an existential necessity not for the planet, for himself 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.880 in pushing this climate change nonsense. Because when you've been 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.120 close to or the richest man in the world for 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:26.920 the last thirty years, another house, another jet fanciest food 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.720 in the world, you know you can only wear one 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.760 suit at a time, you can only eat one meal 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.720 at a time. You can only be married at well, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.200 I mean generally speaking, only be married at one person 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.720 at a time. Right, I mean, there's only so much 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:43.360 that can be done here based on material wealth. But 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.800 the ego is endless. The ego is endless, and that's 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:53.280 why wokeness is this, this reservoir of vanity. You see, 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.480 these are people that have to do nothing, that have 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.800 to don't They don't take a difficult stand. It's the 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:03.800 opposite of that. They cover themselves in cheaply one glory 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:13.520 by throwing under the bus. Writers, authors, creators, leaders, heroes, warriors, 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.600 you name it, of the past, throw it all under 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.640 the bus. As though they're better than them because they 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:22.200 now have a new understanding of what's important and what's 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:26.040 right in society. You should also remember that they're not 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:30.440 seeking to replace this with anything that is worthwhile. That's 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:35.520 another problem. The art that is created in communist regimes 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:41.559 is always the most brutish, boring propaganda. There's a reason 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:45.080 for that, because for the mind to be truly free, 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.720 there has to be the opportunity to test boundaries. There 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:53.920 has to be the possibility of uncomfortable ideas, of uncomfortable truths, 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.160 even expressed in society. I often tell people with the 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:01.839 work that I do, the truth is perhaps say, ironclad 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:06.120 defense against defamation. But the truth does not always work 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.480 in your favor. When you say it. People often don't 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.240 want to hear the truth. Truth can be an ugly thing, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:16.839 a difficult thing. In fact, a huge part of what 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.000 the Democrat Party does in America today is convinced people 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.000 who feel like they are disenfranchised, that they're left out, 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.120 that they have no agency in any of this, that 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.400 it's not their fault. You see, they haven't made any 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.360 bad decisions. They're not putting short term over long term. 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.640 There's no individual or personal discipline involved in where you 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.400 are or how your life is going. It's the other 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.320 they're oppressing you. And maybe if we start banning more 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:47.720 books then things will even out. This is, of course preposterous, 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.000 doesn't work that way. But you have those who won't 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:55.880 take responsibility for themselves adhering to this, loving the hearing 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.360 of this message. And then you have those who have 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:03.400 done incredibly well, unbelo believably well, live in luxury and 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:08.320 circumstances that kings of previous eras would have found unthinkable. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.040 And what do they do. They pretend to be obsessed 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.600 with the plight of those who have less, out of 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:18.000 both a sense of guilt and a burning desire for 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:23.719 superiority for other for those who don't hold the same beliefs. Right, 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.480 I am better then, this is the virtue signaling idea. 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.760 I am better than those other people because I care 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.400 so much about those who have less. I don't do 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.200 anything for them. Of course, I don't help them. I 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.600 don't speak honestly or truthfully to them. I pander, But 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:42.240 it makes me look good because the ego is endless, 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:44.560 and people that could have never in a million years 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.080 come up with something as timeless and creative as the 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.040 books of Doctor Seuss now find a way to make 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.839 themselves feel tall and strong and brave by comparison when 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.679 they're actually none of those things, and they're tearing down 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:02.240 the free culture that was the reason for all the 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.400 prosperity and all the benefits that we've had in this country. 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.080 You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.120 you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.240 wherever you get your podcasts. One of the big problems 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.200 is that police are too often called into situations where 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.520 they should actually be the last resorts. So many activists 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.720 have said that we should find alternatives to cops as 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.840 first responders, you know, maybe healthcare professionals or community members. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.400 And now the NYPD is saying, all right, I hear you, 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:40.520 but what about robot dogs. Wow, a robot dog. What 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.800 a cool way for the police to say they have 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.280 too much money and should be defunded. And this robot 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.320 dog comes with tons of features. It's got cameras, it's 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.160 got a microphone, it's even got an extra knife that 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.120 it can plant on an unarmed body, all sorts of things. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.640 But you've got to give props to the police for 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:03.480 how they're marketing the robots. Oh, look at our adorable dog. No, 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.280 it's a cup made out of steel. Like they can 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.360 call tear gas potty smoke. Doesn't mean it's going to 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.720 sting any less when they blast you with it. Here's 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:19.440 a great example of ingratitude in America and practice. You 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:23.560 have Trevor Noah, who is a guy who lives in 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:27.400 a thirty million dollar mansion in bel Air. I'm serious, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.920 thirty million dollar house, not a three million dollar house. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.760 That's a really nice house. At thirty million dollar house, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.480 Who's calling for the defunding of a police department where 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:42.360 the starting salary is forty two grand. They don't need money, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.600 they don't need overtime, they don't need training. Defund them. 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:52.839 Oh what do you think Trevor Noah, who is painfully 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:57.319 unfunny and not talented, and I understand the market you 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.480 would say has rewarded him, Well, not really. A bunch 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:05.000 of media executives who decided, for whatever reason, wanted to 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.280 feel good about themselves in whatever way, thought, let's make 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:12.439 Trevor Noah a big deal in America by giving him 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:16.400 a TV show where he talks about American politics. And 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.800 he's not funny. He's not good at the job. He's 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.800 just not good at People that have seen him know this. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.640 But put that aside for a second, because that's completely subjective, 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.160 and people can argue with me, and they can say 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:33.520 he's hilarious or whatever. Fine, he's a guy who's incredibly blessed, 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.400 and the moment that he heard something go bump in 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.320 the night in his thirty million dollar house in bel Air, 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.640 I can assure you he would be calling the police 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.520 and he wouldn't want them to send a social worker. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.160 He wouldn't want them to send a social worker. He 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:53.120 would want them to send armed law enforcement officers. But 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.840 you see, it's a more popular stance if you're on 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.760 the left now, to pretend that the problem Erica are 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.960 the cops. It's a more popular stance for celebrities to 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:09.080 say that this would be easy to fix, the problems 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.480 of society would be easy to fix if only we 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.600 would send social workers instead of law enforcement officers. These 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.480 people don't know anything. These voices you hear in the media, 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.640 they don't understand law enforcement. They don't speak the truth 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.640 about the law enforcement incidents that are at the center 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.200 of the so called BLM movement, and when the truth 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.240 does come out, they don't share that because it never 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:34.240 really matters. Right. The best example of this is Mike Brown, 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.960 hands up, don't shoot. He did not get shot with 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.760 his hands up. He was charging a police officer. According 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:44.800 to several African American eyewitnesses and the report done by 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.880 Eric Holder as part of Obama as the head of 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:52.720 Obama's DOJ that's what the facts actually said. Still still 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.960 went with the movement there. I'm concerned for the future 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.840 of the city of Minneapolis. You know, the George Floyd 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.760 there with Officer Derek Chauvin is going to be underway soon. 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:10.160 And if that goes in the direction I think it will, 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.200 which is there will not be a second degree murder 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.640 conviction I believe. If there is, I think that's outrageous. 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.360 There might be a lesser charge that he's convicted on. 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:23.760 I think that's possible. But if let's just say Officer 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:28.200 Chauvin ends up being cleared of all criminal charges, which 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.760 based on the autopsy report of what actually was the 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.520 cause of death or George Floyd, seems like a distinct possibility, 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.920 there will be. Right, You're in the freedom Hunt. Thanks 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.800 for listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast to get 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:45.720 the latest from Buck at buck sexton dot com. I 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.240 want to try and experiment with you now, in this 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.880 cancel culture, in this world of left wing domination of 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:59.280 social media, news media, and an entertainment in Hollywood. Think 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:03.160 about some thing that you could say, as a white 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:08.199 male about white males that is derogatory, that is um, 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:14.200 that is undermining, that is offensive, that would be considered 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.160 a problem from the left's perspective. I mean, how far 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.440 can you actually go? I think it's an interesting, interesting 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.640 experiment to run in your in your own mind, because 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.000 you can only do this with white males. It is 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.879 only in America, the the the province, that is, it 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.480 is only the in the realm of white males, where 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.879 there is nothing that can be said about white maleness 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:44.320 that is too offensive, too derogatory, too nasty. And in fact, 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.480 you get, as a white male, or anybody else for 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:51.320 that matter, you get a kind of social credit score 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:56.080 points added to you. You're a you're a better person. 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.320 And if you're wondering, Buck, what do you mean, how 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:03.360 does this work in practice? Here's a phenomenal example of it. 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.320 You know, when you want MSNBC. If I went on 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.359 MSNBC and and wanted the audience to like me, there 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:12.280 are certain things that I would I would try to 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.240 work into the conversation no matter what we're talking about, 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:20.119 and one of them would be a self deprecating and 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:25.359 self loathing attitude about white maleness. I can't change it's in. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.480 These are immutable characteristics. Despite what the left thinks these days, 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.600 I am male. I am considered white. Now. I think 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:36.639 white as a categorization is also quite broad and in 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:41.040 some ways useless and vague. But yes, I am considered 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:48.040 to be of Caucasian skin tone. And that means that 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:49.760 that's that's what I'm dealing, that that's what I what 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.760 I am. You listen to John Brennan, the former CIA director, 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:56.760 and you hear a guys say this, and you know 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:01.720 that it's the equivalent of Jeb saying, please clap. I mean, 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.440 that's what John Brennan's doing here to the MSNBC audience. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:09.119 It's embarrassing. Well he's embarrassed, but not of what he 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:13.240 should be. Play three. That's why we started with Katie 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.400 Benner's great new reporting about the investigation to police officer 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.400 it renders you know, at best hypocritical, at worst cynical, 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.720 and falls any notion that the Republicans care about the 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.320 lives in the safety of law enforcement. Well, I must 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.879 say to Claire's point, I'm increasingly embarrassed to be a 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.000 white male these days and light of what I see 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.120 of my other white male saying. But it just shows 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.919 that with the very few exceptions like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.960 Adam Kinzingery, there are so few Republicans in Congress who 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:49.480 value truth, honesty, and whatever. Embarrassed to be a white male. 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.440 He throws that in there as a cheap applause line, 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.240 but this is really a mentality on the left. There's 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:04.760 this feeling of sad and a sense of transgressing when 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.520 you're talking about white males. We've you've done something wrong, 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:12.800 You've somehow violated something. You don't you didn't do anything, 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:16.200 but your white maleness is a problem. If you're a leftist, 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:18.720 if you're a Democrat today, you actually believe this stuff 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:22.080 and then think, do what I had said. You have 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.240 the experiment in your head of what can you say? 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:26.880 How far if I were to sit here and tell 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:31.919 you that you know, white males are the cause of 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:36.880 oppression and wars all of the world, that white males 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.040 are are the cause of racism, white males are the 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.159 cause of sexism and the patriarchy. All these things not 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:46.880 just a list of what the left believes. The left 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.680 believes these things they cause the patriarchy, they cause racism. 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:51.320 In fact, it's really not possible for them to be 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:54.760 racism except white males against other people. That's the which 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:56.520 is crazy if you know anything about the world, and 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:58.959 racism all over the world that doesn't even involve anybody 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:03.119 who's white. Buttheless, there's a lot of a lot of 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:06.159 this belief out there, and they make it very clear. Now, 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:09.760 assume for a moment that you're that you're talking about. 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.160 If you were going to talk about any group other 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:18.399 than white males, any racial group, gender group, would you 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.240 be able to get away with this? In fact, would 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.840 it be career enhancing for somebody to sit up, sit 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:29.399 up on a national TV channel like MSNBC and trash 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.800 their identity group or mock it or make fun of it. No, 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:35.400 of course, And if anyone else not from the group 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.639 did it, their career would be over. Of course, it 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:41.480 would be all done. You'd be run out of polite society. 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:45.680 How did we get to this point? Well, as I've 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:49.320 been saying to you, it is part of the messaging 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.080 campaign that the left has had for many, many years 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:56.640 now that you can get cheap points, cheap virtue signaling 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:01.359 points if only you embrace this anti white male, anti 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:05.520 patriarchy rhetoric as a white male or as anybody else. 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:09.320 This is now the culture, This is the way people 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:12.399 think about this. I mean, if you turn on you know, 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:17.000 comedians these days, what will comedians make fun of Republicans, hillbillies, 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:20.720 white males? That that's what you get. That's what comedians 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.639 think their job is. They certainly will not make fun 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.400 of any other groups. If they do, the woke mob 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:28.920 comes after them. And even if they're making fun of groups, 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:31.480 and we all used to know the difference. As I've 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:33.680 been saying to you, comedy has been has been killed 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:36.120 off by the left. They say, will all the comedians 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:38.720 are liberals? Yeah, for the same reason that all the 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:43.879 college professors are liberals, because they're a bunch of extremists 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:47.080 who won't allow anybody else with different ideas to be 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:52.479 in the same field. Right, because they're absolutists. Right, did 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:55.920 the Communists take over the Soviet Union, did Stalin and 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:58.480 his inner circle or are they in charge because their 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:02.240 ideas were so good, you know, were they so much 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:06.480 more widely beloved, you know, the Bolsheviks than the Mensheviks. 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:10.760 Or then the reform movement that was under way at 0:23:10.800 --> 0:23:13.119 the time of the Russian Revolution, that evolved the constitutional 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:16.960 democracy movement, but no one even remembers that anymore. They 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:20.880 were trying to get there. But no, of course, not right. 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:23.840 You're supposed to forget. You're supposed to forget all of that. 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:29.560 These people, because of their belief system, they think that 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:33.720 there can't be opposing ideas because it's all rooted in 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:39.920 this obsession with a belief of absolute truth in politics 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:42.359 and in culture, I mean, which is just it's so 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:45.760 counter it's just so counterintuitive for all the rest of us. 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:48.840 Of course, culture needs to be different, and culture is messy, 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:51.439 and this is why they get these ideas like cultural appropriation. 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:56.959 It's an absurdity. There's no such thing. They will tell 0:23:57.000 --> 0:23:59.879 you there is, and they will say that, you know, 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:03.040 you can't be a white person who cooks Asian food, 0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:05.960 for example, to which I always point out, Asia is 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:09.160 a very big place and everybody in Asia. Every country 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:12.639 in Asia has borrowed from regional cuisines. And you know, 0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:15.640 there is no straight line here to even talk about, 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:19.000 but they pretend that there is. It's all about power. 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:22.640 It's about transferring into the hands of a very few, 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:27.080 not just the ability to dictate your actions through government 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:31.159 and cultural and private sector coercion now, but also to 0:24:31.280 --> 0:24:34.760 trying to control your thoughts. There are people who are 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:39.639 obsessed with control as a general principle, controlling others, and 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:44.560 they desire also at some level to be controlled themselves. Right, 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:46.760 and only at the very very top are there those 0:24:46.840 --> 0:24:49.640 who are so in love with their own power, their 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:53.440 authority that they just wish to increase the control that 0:24:53.520 --> 0:24:56.840 they have on everyone else and then have absolute freedom 0:24:56.880 --> 0:24:59.080 to do whatever they want themselves. That that's the end 0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:03.720 stage of authoritarian leftism today. That's where these commies want 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:07.760 to take us. And you see this in the way 0:25:07.800 --> 0:25:12.840 they approach so many of these issues. What cultural additions 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:16.560 have the haves the left made in recent years that 0:25:16.640 --> 0:25:19.919