1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: You're in the freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: Show podcast. Get more from Buck by following him on 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: social media at Buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: No retreat, No surrender, My friends. If there was ever 5 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: a time to start watching some of my favorite classic 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: action and adventure movies, now is that time. Because you 7 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: need to steal your courage, friends, You need to get 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:36,919 Speaker 1: ready to hold the line. Democrats unfortunately, have managed and 9 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: I don't even want to spend too much of our 10 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: time today getting into the Oh but the fraud, Oh 11 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: but they changed the rules. Yeah, we know, but we 12 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: have to deal with where we are in this battle. 13 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: There's only so much that we can do when it 14 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: comes to pointing out the tricks, the cheating, the fraud 15 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: of the other side. We still have to fight within 16 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: the system. We still have to beat them on the 17 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: playing field, somehow, some way, and it's not going to 18 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: be easy. Right now, you're looking at a Senate now 19 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: to be in the hands most likely unless something happens, 20 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 1: and you're looking at a Senate that's going to be 21 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: in the hands of the Democrats, a house in the 22 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: hands of Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris 23 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: will be the president and vice president respectively. This is 24 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: a moment when we have to think about what do 25 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: we do next, and we also have to know what 26 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: we didn't do or what wasn't done in our name 27 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: the right way this time around, so we don't repeat 28 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: that error. Why did Mitch McConnell block two thousand dollars 29 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: checks going to Americans under a certain income threshold to 30 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: help them during this pandemic? What was the idea behind them? 31 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: It wasn't servative enough. Well, it's not conservative for the 32 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: United States Senate to sit around and do nothing while 33 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: government authorities across the country violate the constitution, institute unconstitutional lockdowns, 34 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: take tyrannical and dictatorial power in their hands, shut down 35 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: businesses and tell people that they're not allowed to make 36 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: a living anymore, tell them they can't see loved ones, 37 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: tell them they have to wear a mask. All this stuff, 38 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: And what did the Senate do? Well, as we know, 39 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: the United States Congress holds the purse strings that is there, 40 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: that is their prerogative, that is their power, and they 41 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: could have done a lot to help, and they were 42 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: doing something to help. We had the PPP, We had 43 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: those six hundred dollar checks that went out to people, 44 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: But why not with the Senate in the balance, be 45 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 1: the ones to say, you know what, we'll figure this 46 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: out later. We're going to get the checks the American people. Now, 47 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: we'll figure out how to pay for this down the line. 48 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 1: But putting Democrats in charge, you know what we've managed 49 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: to do here lose the battle as well as the 50 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: war over the United States Senate. And that means that 51 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: you're going to have two thousand dollars checks going to Americans, 52 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: but guess what, Democrats are going to be the ones 53 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 1: taking credit for it. So this principle stand was the 54 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: equivalent of charging the machine gun ness without a plan, 55 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: and we got wasted. That's what Mitch McConnell came up with. 56 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: He has had his moments, friends, He is good about 57 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: the judicial machinery. We've gotten a lot of judges through. 58 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: He has held the line on those issues. But on 59 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: political strategy, this was disastrous, disastrous, and there is plenty 60 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: of blame to go around. I don't want to focus 61 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: too much of our time and attention on that because 62 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: I know that and become just a circular firing squad 63 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: for Republicans, and but we do need to understand what 64 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: happened here. Kelly Leffler has no political skill or talent 65 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: to anyone who's being an honest observer, but she's rich 66 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: and connected and good at fundraising, and that was what 67 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: got her into the position to get appointed as a 68 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:30,239 Speaker 1: United States Senator. And Perdue is an entirely replaceable GOP 69 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: machine politician as well. At least he had a little 70 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: bit more, a little bit more juice in his own state, 71 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: in the Peach State, as it were, But not enough, 72 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 1: not enough. President Trump campaigned for these candidates, He did 73 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 1: two rallies for these candidates. He did what he could 74 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: to push them over the finish line. Wasn't enough, wasn't enough. 75 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: As I've talked to you now, there's still the chance, 76 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 1: you know, they're they're looking at additional votes, and there's 77 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: recount territory we're talking about here with Purdue. But Warnock 78 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: looks like he's got this thing. Kelly Leffler likely defeated 79 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: unless something crazy happens. And we also need to take 80 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 1: into account what's been going on in recent weeks where 81 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: we keep getting told just wait, it's coming, just wait, 82 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: it's going to turn around, and a dozen't and it doesn't. 83 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 1: This is real talk, friends. We are heading into a 84 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: two year period where now the pendulum has swung and 85 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: it's not going to a good place for those of 86 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: us who believe in constitutional governance, in individual liberty, in 87 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: personal freedom. In America first love of this country, a 88 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: feeling of unity and bombed with the American people. No, 89 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: we're going back to a government is globalist, internationalist, collectivist, authoritarian, woke, Yes, socialist. 90 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: But what we're seeing increasingly is that Americans aren't scared 91 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: of socialism, at least not enough of us right now. 92 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: We're in that phase because we're a very rich country. 93 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,679 Speaker 1: Or we think socialism is just you get free stuff. 94 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: You're just gonna keep getting free stuff. There's an endless 95 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: amount of that free stuff. And while that's not true, 96 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: it works for people who want to be in power. 97 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: When you and I say socialism, there are a lot 98 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: of Americans and states like Georgia who say, well, does 99 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 1: that just mean I get free healthcare and my kids 100 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: go to college for free? That sounds pretty good to 101 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 1: me because they get the benefits up front and the 102 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: pain comes later. And so much of life, so much 103 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,039 Speaker 1: of our existence is really the battle between short term 104 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 1: and long term gratification. We want to have a happy life, 105 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: want to get what you want in life and achieve 106 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: your dreams. One mantra, one thing that you can do 107 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,359 Speaker 1: more than almost anything else that will put you in 108 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: the place to get what you want personally, professionally, everything else. 109 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: Think long term, Think strategically, long term gratification. Don't eat 110 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: the first stale, crumbly donut that's put in front of you. 111 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: Wait for the two fresh ones to come out of 112 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: the oven that are going to be glistening with that 113 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: frosting and perfectly cooked. Right, That's one of the biggest 114 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: challenges we all have in life, and in socialism you 115 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: get you get nothing but endless, free, but crumbly donuts 116 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: that have been sitting there for who knows how long 117 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: because you're not thinking about what else will come out 118 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: of the oven. You don't care. That's the way this 119 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: has been set up for the American people. We are 120 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: not winning this battle. Now. You would send me but 121 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: but buck Bernie Sanders didn't didn't win. The primarian is 122 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: not the president. Now. Isn't that a rejection of socialism? Now? 123 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: This is all just about the messaging. They're going to 124 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: pursue many of the same policies, just at a slightly 125 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: slower pace that Bernie Sanders would have. But it just 126 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: they call themselves democrats. You see, they don't tell you 127 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: openly and honestly what they're really planning to do. And 128 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: by the time everyone figures it out, it's too late. 129 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: They've already done it. What are you going to do then, now, 130 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell's decision to block two thousand dollar checks for 131 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: Americans has only done one thing, and hasn't even stopped 132 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: Americans from getting those checks. And if you're so concerned 133 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: about the debt and the deficit, and let's remember we 134 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: haven't heard about that for four years, we're gonna start 135 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: talking about it now. But until people feel the pain 136 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: of that, until they understand what it means to the currency, 137 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: to the value of the dollar, to your purchasing power 138 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: in the global marketplace, until people really understand that, and 139 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: who knows when that will happen, it just seems like 140 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: it's all free funny money. Mitch McConnell picked a very 141 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: strange time to take a stand for this. Then his 142 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: leadership is over and I don't know if he'll ever 143 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: be sent a majority leader again. I don't think he 144 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: should be. This was an unbelievable blunder, the focus on 145 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: the cheating in Georgia. And I'm going to say this, 146 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to speak to you always honestly from the heart. 147 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: The focus on the cheating from the Trump campaign in 148 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: the last few weeks I think was too much, because 149 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: are we actually gonna are we working to get the 150 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: message out there to drive up votes, or are we 151 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: gonna get are we gonna get bogged down in the 152 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: continued oh but they cheated in the election rhetoric. And 153 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: I'm just speaking purely about what work, don't I don't 154 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: need to hear about Oh but it's, you know, the 155 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 1: principle of the thing. Yeah, We've been talking about the 156 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: principle of the cheating in Georgia for now two months. 157 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: And I told you that we had to get ready 158 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: for January fifth, and that this was going to come 159 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:57,839 Speaker 1: up on us. And I was worried. Are those of 160 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: you who listening to the show, Yes, I've been worried 161 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: that we're gonna lose these Senate seats from the beginning. 162 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: I mean, ever since the November election, I thought, hold 163 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 1: on a second, we got a problem in Georgia as well, 164 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: beyond what just happened at the presidential presidential level, and 165 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,439 Speaker 1: you know this Raffensburger feud with Trump and all this stuff. 166 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: We needed a united and competent GOP in Georgia and 167 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: we did not have it. So I'm not here to 168 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: tell you to despair. I'm not here to tell you that, 169 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: oh all is lost, because it's not. It's not. Just 170 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 1: remember in two thousand and eight they were writing the 171 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: GOP's obituary, and then in two thousand and ten we 172 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: got what six Senate seats I can't even remember how many, 173 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: a huge red wave of House seats the Tea Party, 174 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 1: and that's what we need to go to. Now. I'm 175 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:54,679 Speaker 1: not sitting here oh boo hoo, woe is Whoe is America? No, 176 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 1: we're learning, we're learning a tough lesson here. The other 177 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: side is ruthless. They're unscrupulous, and they want power, and 178 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: they will wield power, and they'll do it in such 179 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 1: a way they hope we can never get it back. 180 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: It is our job, as our duty to this country, 181 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: to fight and to stop them from achieving those goals. 182 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: It's our duty to make sure that we hold the 183 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: line for what is most precious in this country and 184 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: use what we can within the system, everything that we 185 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: can to slow them down. That's right, they gave us 186 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 1: a lesson for four years. In the extremes they will 187 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,559 Speaker 1: go to to thwart the Trump agenda, and unfortunately they 188 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: were successful in some key areas well. Let's learn. One 189 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: of my favorite things to do is to learn from 190 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:50,959 Speaker 1: an enemy, learn from an opponent, take their moves, and 191 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: use them against them. That's what we need to do now, 192 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: all out, stimy, stumble, hobble, slow it down, sabotage whatever 193 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 1: we have to do to stop them from turning this 194 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: country into a one party state where you exist effectively 195 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 1: at the whim and will of government bureaucrats, where nothing 196 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: is sacred anymore. You have no right that they can't 197 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: infringe on. And we see all this with COVID. That's 198 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: what's really pulled, pulled off the mask, if you will. 199 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: What their real long term plan is is to tell 200 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: you that they can make you do anything they want. 201 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,319 Speaker 1: They don't have to pass legislation to do it. We 202 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: must come up with a way to unify and fight 203 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: back against them. And I hope this show is a 204 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: part of this. That will be my mission every day. 205 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: This is where we are friends. So watch Braveheart, watch 206 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: three hundred, watch a movie, whatever it is for you 207 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: that gets you fired up, Think about the journeys of 208 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 1: the past, and understand that you, if you want to 209 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 1: be a part of this fight now, are going to 210 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: have to get ready to play some serious defense. It's 211 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 1: only going to be two years. I am very confident 212 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: about these mid terms, but this is where we are 213 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: dig in. Shields up, shields high. Thanks for listening to 214 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 1: The Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest news and 215 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: information from Buck by heading to Bucksexton dot com. It's 216 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be 217 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: the champions of rights for women to deny the very 218 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: biological existence of women. And this recent rule change at 219 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 1: the House just actually voted and passed on today that 220 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: you were talking about removing references to mothers and fathers, 221 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, sons and daughters from congressional rules and administration. 222 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: It's mind blowing because it shows just how out of 223 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: touch with reality and the struggles of everyday Americans. People 224 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: in Congress are But also it shows that, you know, 225 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 1: their first act as this new Congress could have been 226 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: to make sure that elderly Americans are able to get 227 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: the COVID vaccine now alongside frontline healthcare workers elderly Americans 228 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: who have the highest mortality rates from this virus. But 229 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: instead of doing something that could actually help save people's lives, 230 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: they're choosing instead to say, well, you can't say mother 231 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: or father in any of this congressional language. It's it's astounding. 232 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: That's a very important point that a Democrat tel Telsea Gabbard, 233 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: who is wrong on politics but clearly a good person, 234 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: clearly a person of some decency in character, wrong about 235 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: a lot, hates Trump. I get it, but still a 236 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: good still a reasonable you know, a reasonable person on 237 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 1: some things, and I think at her core someone that 238 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: you can at least have a real conversation with. Then 239 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: she's not you know why the left has always hated 240 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: her because she doesn't disparage Republican she doesn't despise them. 241 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: She disagrees with them, but she doesn't think if you 242 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: voted for Donald Trump in the past, you're beneath contempt. 243 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: Maybe it's in part because She served her country in 244 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: the military and has greater ideals and aspirations beyond just 245 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: the partisan fight. As I've said, I think she's wrong 246 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: on some things, but on this she's making a key point. 247 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: People are dying in large numbers from COVID nineteen. There's 248 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: a need for urgent government action. The vaccine rollout at 249 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: many different levels is too slow and is preposterous. All right, 250 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: what they're doing here throwing vaccine out in the trash 251 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 1: sometimes because they can't give it to people who aren't 252 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 1: the people they're supposed to give it to. But they've 253 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: already thought out some of it, and so for bureaucratic 254 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: reasons that they can't get it to, you know, the 255 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 1: exact right group, so they give it to no one. 256 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: They throw it out. Think about that that's actually happening. 257 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: And while that's going on, instead of taking urgent action 258 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: to get this to people, and don't look, I'm talking 259 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 1: about seniors should get the vaccine. The vaccine is less 260 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: dangerous for seniors than the virus is. Okay, that's clear. 261 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 1: If you're a senior listening this, please, I mean, it's 262 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: it's up to you, but I would implore you even 263 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: the people that have been like me, that have been 264 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: talking about the craziness of the COVID mask shaming, lockdown lunatics. 265 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: All of us are saying, well, well, if you're you know, 266 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: if you're over sixty, over sixty five, and you can 267 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:43,240 Speaker 1: get this vaccine, you know, that may be the difference 268 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: between you getting hospitalized with this and you're living another 269 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: you know, twenty twenty five, thirty years happily, healthily. So 270 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: please give it, give it some real consideration. But what 271 00:16:54,600 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: Tolsi is saying here is that they're talking about eliminating 272 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,360 Speaker 1: mother and father from all congressional doctor you can't say 273 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: mother and father. You gotta have more gender inclusive language. Now, 274 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: I know, on the one hand this is idiotic and 275 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: just worthy of mockery, but it's also part of a 276 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: mindset while we sit here and talk about and Republicans 277 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,160 Speaker 1: through this all the time. Legislation, what can we do, 278 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 1: what should the tax code be? All these things? You 279 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 1: know what they do. They change the rules of society, 280 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: They change the culture, that change the way we're allowed 281 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: to speak, because that submission feeds into all the other policies, 282 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: all the other things they're trying to do. They know 283 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: that if they can get us to talk about issues 284 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,439 Speaker 1: a certain way, they can also get enough of us 285 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:50,439 Speaker 1: to agree with them on those issues. This degendering of 286 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:54,199 Speaker 1: language is insane, but there's a reason they're doing it. 287 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 1: This is all part of a plan, and we're about 288 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: to see this on steroids for the next two years. 289 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,719 Speaker 1: You're in the Freedom Hut. This is the Buck Sexton 290 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,919 Speaker 1: Show podcast. For more buck head to Bucksexton dot com 291 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 1: and remember to subscribe to the podcast. If you're Mike Pence, 292 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: who has a long history in Washington and as a governor, 293 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 1: if you're gonna enable the disease of Trump, the lies, 294 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:27,360 Speaker 1: the attempt to steal an election, to undermine democracy, then 295 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,439 Speaker 1: history is going to judge you very harshly, and you 296 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,399 Speaker 1: don't deserve any future and electoral politics, There's no two 297 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 1: ways about it. He's vice president of the United States. 298 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: He has a responsibility to the integrity of that office, 299 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 1: to the integrity of himself. What he's been engaged in 300 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: is a hedge, is a way to tack back and 301 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: forth to stay in Donald Trump's a good favor. That's 302 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:51,160 Speaker 1: a decision he's made as an individual, and so he'll 303 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 1: he'll have to be judged for that, but it's certainly 304 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: not in keeping with everything that he claims to stand 305 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: for as a human being and as a politician, because 306 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: there's simply no excuse for trying to thwart the will 307 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: of voters. It is undemocratic. Give me a break, all right, 308 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: We can we stop with all the oh my gosh, 309 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 1: the tyrant the Constitution. These people have neither read nor 310 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: care about the Constitution, and they had no problem using 311 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 1: the media and the federal government, the dj the FBI, 312 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,880 Speaker 1: the intelligence community as a weapon against Trump for four 313 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 1: years with the Russia collusion line that they were all 314 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 1: active participants in and the initial creatures of. But I 315 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: also need to tell you this, and this is just 316 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: very clear. Vice President Pence is not going to give 317 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: the election to try He's already told them he doesn't 318 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: have the authority to do this, and he's not going 319 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 1: to do this. That's not going to happen. So, and 320 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 1: I understand there's there's probably some people today and that 321 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:54,679 Speaker 1: you're gonna hear. You know, I would ask that you, 322 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 1: I would ask that you pay attention to who who 323 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: respects you enough to speak honestly to you about all 324 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 1: of us who respects you enough to speak honestly and 325 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: who panders because we're all we're all bothered right now. 326 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:16,679 Speaker 1: We're all very disappointed, very I'm disappointed for the country. 327 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: I'm disappointed for the Democrats because I know they think 328 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: that this circumstance that this government will be better, and 329 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: in some ways, for their interests, they would think it is. 330 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: But overall we're going to be less free, less prosperous, 331 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: and less optimistic because of the decisions that have been 332 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:42,040 Speaker 1: made in the last three months by voters. And now 333 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:46,239 Speaker 1: I know, fraud, cheating, changing the rules, I understand that. 334 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:49,679 Speaker 1: But you know, at some point, if you've you know, 335 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,360 Speaker 1: if you've lost a football game because they paid off 336 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: the refs, you can only talk about it for so 337 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: long before you got to say, Okay, well, how do 338 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: we stop that from happening in the next football game, 339 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: and how do we win that game? And we're getting 340 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:06,439 Speaker 1: very close to that point. Do it, Mike. This is 341 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 1: a time for extreme courage. Trump says in a tweet. 342 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 1: He's saying as he's saying that he wants Mike Pence 343 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 1: to effectively overturn this whole thing. It's it's not gonna 344 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: I keep telling you it's just not gonna happen, the 345 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: same way that I've been saying that you're going to 346 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: deal with a presidency of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. 347 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you the truth, and the truth 348 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: on this situation is that Mike Pence will not do this. 349 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 1: He cannot and will not. Now I understand Trump, I 350 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: think is trying to mobilize everybody for what's coming, and 351 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: he wants to show that he will fight with everything 352 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: he has. He wants to show that even if he 353 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,439 Speaker 1: knows that this is a this is a match, this 354 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: is a boxing match where we're about to we're about 355 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: to lose on points. He is going to go down, 356 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: throw and every punch he's got, and he's going to 357 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: stay in this until the bell rings. I respect that, 358 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: and I could appreciate that, But they've out they've out 359 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: pointed us so to speak up this up to this phase, 360 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: and we don't have enough time to make it up 361 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 1: in this election. We just don't. We just don't. If 362 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: you think I'm missing something, if you think that there's 363 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,119 Speaker 1: some aspect of this I'm not seeing, please let me know. 364 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 1: I have one thing I love about this about this 365 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,919 Speaker 1: audience is I have learned so much now going on 366 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: almost ten years, I've learned so much from the people 367 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: who listened to this show. I still remember when some 368 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: of you in twenty people are still listening today and 369 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:40,879 Speaker 1: many of you now have been listening to my radio 370 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: show for eight years, nine years. But I remember when 371 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 1: some of you were telling me, hey, Trump early in 372 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 1: the primary, he's got something, you know, He's he's coming 373 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: with something that people haven't seen before. And you were right. 374 00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:59,679 Speaker 1: So if I'm if I'm in some way not seeing 375 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: the may tricks clearly here by all means let me know, 376 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: because I exist. I do this show every day to 377 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 1: serve you, to inform and entertain all of you listening 378 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 1: all across the country, hundreds of thousands of you, and 379 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: it means a lot. But it also means that I 380 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: have to share with you my honest feelings every day. 381 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: I owe that to you. And you know, today is 382 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,639 Speaker 1: one of these days where we have to just rally. 383 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: I know we have taken a punch and it stinks, 384 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: and there are better words for it, but I can't 385 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 1: say them on radio. That is where the situation is. 386 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 1: So I appreciate that are all these patriots rallying today 387 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: in DC, and this is what I would say, And 388 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: you know there include friends of my many friends of 389 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: minor down there. What I would say about this is 390 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: that there is a need right now for unity in 391 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: opposition to what's happening. We need to come together. We 392 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: need to be in a place, we need to be 393 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: in a position where we understand what we're trying to 394 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: achieve and what we're trying to thwart. And a part 395 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: of this is going to be I want good faith 396 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 1: Republicans from all across the spectrum, even people that were 397 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: a little not never Trumpers who are just their Democrats, 398 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 1: but people that were a little iffy on Trump or whatever. 399 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: We all need to be in the same foxhol now. 400 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 1: We all need to come together on this one and 401 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: see what we're up against. Because the Democrats, they are 402 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna spend two years trying to steamrollers. You 403 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 1: know what I think their first move is going to be, 404 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: and you can mark this one down. They're going to 405 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: eliminate the filibuster. You know what they're gonna do. They're 406 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: going to eliminate the filibuster to pass two thousand dollars 407 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 1: stimulus checks or to pass a national fifteen dollar minimum wage. 408 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: That's what they're gonna do. Something that is generally popular 409 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,959 Speaker 1: but that Republicans haven't been willing to go along with, 410 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: or that Republicans have objections too, and they're gonna say, see, 411 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 1: we got rid of the filibuster. We did this for you, America. 412 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: How do you like those two thousand dollars checks? How 413 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,640 Speaker 1: do you like that fifteen dollars minimum rate? Minimum wage increase? 414 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: And then as Republicans are all but there's a thing 415 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 1: tank that wrote a study about the robot minimum wage. 416 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,880 Speaker 1: We're gonna do what we always do. Then they're gonna 417 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:27,719 Speaker 1: roll out, Oh yeah, now that filibuster thing's gone, how 418 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: about we do an amnesty vote. And we're not gonna 419 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 1: do full scale amnesty. Let's do it incrementally. Let's let's 420 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 1: do let's do DACA. Come on, we'll get to fifty 421 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,679 Speaker 1: fifty on DACA. Kamala gets to be the tiebreaker. You 422 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: don't think that that's think of the of the political 423 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 1: boost that Kamala Harris gets if she is the tie 424 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: breaking vote in the Senate for the passage of a 425 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: limited amnesty that will grant permanent status, legal status two 426 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: million of so called dreamers, illegal aliens who allegedly came 427 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: here at a certain age depending on you know, what 428 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: the statutes say. Think about that. That's going to be 429 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: part of the whole narrative, isn't it. Kamala Harris, so 430 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: it's Biden gets to sign it. Kamala Harris gets to 431 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: be the tie breaking vote. We need to We need 432 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,359 Speaker 1: to get this going. Friends. There is no Krack in 433 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: coming to attack our enemies. And a fact, I remember 434 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: the Kracking getting unleashed, you know, didn't work out. Remember 435 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,159 Speaker 1: that that's one thing about it, or at least to 436 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: the kracking. The problem with it is that, yeah, the 437 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 1: Krack had lost. We don't even have one. So one 438 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: thing that I will tell you is that you're also 439 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: going to see who really has ideas and knowledge and 440 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: understanding of these issues, and who was just hanging on 441 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 1: Trump's coattails for the last four years, had nothing to add, 442 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: had nothing to contribute really to the national conversation, but 443 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,160 Speaker 1: saw it all as just a case of individual opportunism. 444 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,040 Speaker 1: There are a lot of them in conservative media. I 445 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: want you to understand this. There are other people that 446 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 1: have always stood for things that matter to the country 447 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: and can articulate them at will be worthwhile in opposition, 448 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: because just trying to repeat whatever they think is going 449 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 1: to be the most pleasing to Trump. That's not going 450 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: to work anymore. When we are out of power and 451 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: an opposition, we need more than that. We need to 452 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: win on the battlefield of ideas, and that means also 453 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 1: winning the culture, and it means finding common ground on 454 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: these issues with independence where we can. It means mobilizing 455 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: a populist conservative coalition to take back power from these 456 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: lunatic libs. That's where we have to go. Now we 457 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: have to build it. We have to construct it. I 458 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 1: wish I could say it was already there. I wish 459 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: I could point to the house on the hill and 460 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 1: say there we are, We're all set. No, now we 461 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,640 Speaker 1: have to go out into the woods and hack down 462 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 1: the trees and build it from scratch. That's the feeling, 463 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: at least of where we are at this moment in time. 464 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: But embrace it. It's a fight worth having. You're in 465 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. 466 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 1: Get more from Buck by following him on social media 467 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,119 Speaker 1: at Buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Do you 468 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: think you'd get fair treatment from CNN if your brother 469 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 1: had a primetime show on that channel. Well, ifs and 470 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: butts were candy and nuts, every day would be Christmas. 471 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: But you know, I think it's pretty clear some of 472 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 1: these networks obviously they have agendas. They're doing narratives. They're 473 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 1: not trying to report facts anymore. It's all about spinning 474 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 1: whatever narrative they think can get ratings. And that's just 475 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 1: the reality of the situation. So it doesn't impact me. 476 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: We're going to continue keeping our eye on the ball 477 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 1: and working as hard as we can and deliver results. 478 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: And results have been delivered. Let's focus on some positives here, 479 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 1: the lockdown Libs, the Democrat left. They have been wrong 480 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 1: on this on how to handle COVID. And I know 481 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: you'd say, well, but Buck, look at how the elections 482 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: are going. Yeah, but it's really just Trump and Georgia 483 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: that we have to to mourn at this point. As 484 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 1: elections go, it's really just those And I don't know 485 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 1: that's a lot. I'm not saying it's it's it's minor. 486 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: But the House Republicans actually picked up seats and state 487 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: legislatures did well. You know, there is some there's some 488 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 1: reason for limited optimism about that. I know if we 489 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: had if we had held the Senate, everything would have 490 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 1: felt like it was okay. But I wouldn't say okay, 491 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: but it would have felt better, Folks. I'm trying to 492 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,840 Speaker 1: find silver linings, you know what I'm saying. But still, 493 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: but Florida is one big silver lining because you have 494 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 1: a governor who has defied the consensus. You have a 495 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: governor who has refused to go and bend the knee 496 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: to the Fauciites. That guy Fauci is a complete jackass, 497 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: and it's disgusting what he's done in the country. He 498 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: should be ashamed of himself. He's not. He never will be. 499 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 1: And that's important for everybody to know it. It doesn't matter. 500 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: There will never come a time when the people who 501 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: advocated for all of this sit back and say, you 502 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: know what, we were wrong. You know what, we didn't 503 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: have to lock down the country. After all, that didn't 504 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 1: really give us any benefit and it caused a lot 505 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: of drawbacks for us, So we're sorry. Unfortunately, I could 506 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 1: sit here and tell you that's never gonna happen. It 507 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 1: doesn't matter what the data shows doesn't matter what the 508 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: eventual epidemiological advances are, where we have a better understanding 509 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: of how really the virus spreads, meaning how quickly, how easily. 510 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 1: We have some general numbers about all that. But all right, 511 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: you know, how well how well do notice? You can't 512 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: even ask this question. If I say how well do 513 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 1: masks work? People start screaming masks work? Okay? How well? 514 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: I can tell you how well a vaccine works based 515 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: on large controlled trials, you know, different acts ninety five 516 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 1: ninety four percent effective for COVID nineteen though that's real data. 517 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: How well do masks work? Anyone want to try? And oh, 518 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: we've got a model that says if eighty percent of 519 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 1: people were a masked ninety percent of the time in 520 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: forty percent of places, then it would be ninety five percent. 521 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 1: This is all just make believe. They don't know, that's 522 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: not real data. That's like when they're telling you what 523 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: the climate's going to be in a hundred years. They 524 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: don't and they're wrong. Of course, every ten years they 525 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 1: have to keep adjusting these things they don't know, but 526 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 1: they're never going to change. They're never going to admit 527 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 1: that this was all disastrous and in fact, I'm of 528 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: the belief that the Democrats' ability to dominate the narrative 529 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: because of the media panic that was induced and or 530 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,719 Speaker 1: the media inducing panic in the public. The Democrat narrative 531 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 1: about COVID and how Trump was so inapt and so 532 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: ineffective and handling it. I think that played a very 533 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 1: large role in the election, because you know, that's not 534 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 1: something people would necessarily tell to a polster, or it's 535 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: not something that the data would all that clearly indicate. 536 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 1: But I think that it affected to overall perception is 537 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 1: Trump doing a good job. A lot of people would 538 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: look at what happened in twenty twenty with COVID, and 539 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 1: that'd say, well, look at how terrible things are in 540 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 1: the country. Is that fair? No? Did the media exploit this, Yes, 541 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 1: but it worked. It works. And what we're going to 542 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,960 Speaker 1: see now is there are going to be these red 543 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 1: state or redder states placed like Florida Haven's set up 544 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: and where you have these mass migrations occurring from the 545 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,720 Speaker 1: blue strongholds California, New York. They're gonna have enormous problems now. 546 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 1: They're going to try to make up that shortfall in 547 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: tax revenue and at the federal level. Now, that's right, 548 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,840 Speaker 1: The federal bailouts are coming for these cities. So understand there, 549 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 1: that's the socialism that we don't spend much time talking 550 00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:00,959 Speaker 1: about the redistribution of wealth to prefer Democrat enclaves at 551 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: the federal level. Now, they would say, oh, but they 552 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 1: you know, they pay more in taxes and the red 553 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 1: states have you know, they get getting more benefits per 554 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: per resident. What I'm saying is that, yeah, but they're 555 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: about to turn this whole thing around because they're gonna 556 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: start shooting the money gun at all these blue states 557 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: that are hemorrhaging residents. They can try to shore up 558 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 1: the public sector unions. They can try to make it 559 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 1: seem like the holes in the budgets are not so catastrophic. 560 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 1: So they're gonna try to stop that mass migration from 561 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: happening because it's bad for the for the Democrat brand. Florida, 562 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 1: I saw dissent to say that they're up twenty percent 563 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:43,000 Speaker 1: in housing sales, twenty percent during a pandemic. People are fleeing, 564 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 1: they're going there. They're saying enough, I can't do this anymore. 565 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: I talk to friends in New York, I gotta say, 566 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 1: we're under you know, a strict lockdown here, and people 567 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 1: are just they're they're cracking up. I mean, they're losing it. 568 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,440 Speaker 1: For what what's the benefit. What would happen if you 569 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: opened up restaurants in New York City but you had 570 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 1: these mitigation measures in place, you know, limitations of people, 571 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: the answers, It would basically be what it is right now. 572 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,960 Speaker 1: So why not open up the restaurants? It would based 573 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,399 Speaker 1: on their data, it would be ninety nine percent the same. 574 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 1: It's that's not worth it. It's not worth it. It's 575 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:23,719 Speaker 1: worth putting tens of thousands of people out of work, immiserrated, sick, homeless, 576 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:29,080 Speaker 1: perhaps all it's worth that to have one a possible 577 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 1: one percent reduction in cases. Wow, I guess you know, 578 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,799 Speaker 1: if it saves just one life, we better shut down 579 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:38,279 Speaker 1: every year for the flu. If that's going to be 580 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,800 Speaker 1: our approach every year, gotta shut down the flu's coming. 581 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 1: What those tens of thousands of lives don't matter? You 582 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: know what happened? If we also, I have to wonder 583 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: the flu is basically eradicated. How is that possible? Oh? 584 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: Because social distancing and mask wearing. Now we're led to 585 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:58,640 Speaker 1: believe is almost one hundred percent effective against the influenza virus, 586 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,280 Speaker 1: but like not effective if really well, you can't prove 587 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:06,400 Speaker 1: it any data effectiveness whatsoever based on what's happening right 588 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 1: now with COVID. Notice they don't even have an explanation 589 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,759 Speaker 1: for this other than yeah, it works against the flu 590 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 1: super well. That's quite strange considering there are tens of 591 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 1: millions of flucases every year. It's pretty contagious, folks. But 592 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 1: DeSantis is a shining light from the Sunshine state we got. 593 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,400 Speaker 1: We gotta take our victories where we can. You're in 594 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: the freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast 595 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 1: from More Bucked. Head to Bucksexton dot com and remember 596 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 1: to subscribe to the podcast. No charges for the police 597 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:47,759 Speaker 1: officer who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Now you 598 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,080 Speaker 1: may recall this was over the summer when BLM was 599 00:35:52,360 --> 00:36:00,560 Speaker 1: engaged in riots across the country, when BLM was looting 600 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:08,160 Speaker 1: stores and attacking innocent people's businesses and homes and throwing 601 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:12,560 Speaker 1: rocks at police officers. Antifa was trying to blind cops 602 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,839 Speaker 1: with lasers fired in their eyes. You remember when all 603 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 1: that was going on, all about what was happening. The 604 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:23,920 Speaker 1: media was also looking for any opportunity to take a 605 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:28,239 Speaker 1: story of a police involved shooting and turn it into 606 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 1: some kind of evil racist look another cop doing what 607 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: cops do, being terrible, shooting an unarmed black man, and 608 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,399 Speaker 1: then get the cycle going all over again. I will say, 609 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 1: just as an aside, it is deeply disappointing to me 610 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,520 Speaker 1: as an American that the Democrats did not pay a 611 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:52,840 Speaker 1: bigger price for their their reckless demagoguery on this issue. 612 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,920 Speaker 1: And they're really wholesale embrace of not just the BLM movement, 613 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:02,080 Speaker 1: but also they're either turning a blind eye to or 614 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 1: just open support of Antifa. And remember Antifa took up 615 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,759 Speaker 1: the Black Lives Matter banner at different points in order 616 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,839 Speaker 1: to give them a kind of moral legitimacy they would 617 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,840 Speaker 1: not have otherwise had. So that's what That's what was 618 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,239 Speaker 1: happening of the summer. And I will tell you I 619 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:21,680 Speaker 1: think I may have heard of Kenosha, Wisconsin before this summer, 620 00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,920 Speaker 1: but I might not have not a place that I 621 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 1: could say I know very well. It's a city of 622 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,160 Speaker 1: about fifty thousand. I think it just barely qualifies as 623 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 1: a city. It's really kind of a big town. But 624 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,719 Speaker 1: there was a shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and we have 625 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:44,120 Speaker 1: video of the shooting, what occurred, what happened that led 626 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,840 Speaker 1: to riots. Remember, Kenosha was the scene of riots, and 627 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:52,920 Speaker 1: those riots were so so extreme that then people like 628 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:57,680 Speaker 1: Kyle Rittenhouse showed up to protect some of the businesses 629 00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,800 Speaker 1: and some of the government buildings that were being mobbed 630 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,080 Speaker 1: and assaulted. And then Rittenhouse was mobbed and assaulted, and 631 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 1: then he shot, shot and killed someone. He says in 632 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,080 Speaker 1: self defense, and certainly seems from the video and the 633 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:15,759 Speaker 1: evidence presented so far that it was self defense. But 634 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,960 Speaker 1: we'll see what the courts say, right, We'll see where 635 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:26,839 Speaker 1: this goes. Now we have Kenosha a a final determination 636 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,160 Speaker 1: about the officer involved shooting that led to the riots 637 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:35,000 Speaker 1: that led to the Rittenhouse incident. And here's what happened. 638 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:41,080 Speaker 1: The Democrat district attorney, the Democrat district attorney found that 639 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:46,520 Speaker 1: the police officer here should not be charged, right, that 640 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:50,000 Speaker 1: the police officer involved in this shooting didn't actually break 641 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,319 Speaker 1: the law. And this is a this is at a 642 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,160 Speaker 1: pretty straightforward case if you actually look at the facts. 643 00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:03,200 Speaker 1: It's not surprising to me that the Democrat oh. The 644 00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:07,840 Speaker 1: Washington Post deleted the They deleted the tweet I've responded to. 645 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,759 Speaker 1: It's not surprising to me the Democrat prosecutor didn't bring 646 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:15,400 Speaker 1: the initial they didn't bring criminal charges. And here's why. 647 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:24,839 Speaker 1: They have video of Jacob Blake refusing police commands. Obviously 648 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,680 Speaker 1: and repeatedly and clearly. The police are saying stop, stop, 649 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,080 Speaker 1: don't move, don't move, show me your hands, show me 650 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,400 Speaker 1: your hands. They're yelling at this guy, and he's moving 651 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:38,120 Speaker 1: around to the driver's side of a car, reaching into 652 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:43,719 Speaker 1: the car to grab something. Okay, that's what's happened. He's 653 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:48,760 Speaker 1: reaching into the car to seize something, and he grabbed 654 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,320 Speaker 1: a knife. The officer who shot him had his hand 655 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:57,520 Speaker 1: on Blake's back, holding his shirt, yelling at him to 656 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,520 Speaker 1: show him his hands, show him his hands. He he 657 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,359 Speaker 1: did everything he could do. The next level of this 658 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:09,480 Speaker 1: would have been that officer sitting waiting to see if 659 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,759 Speaker 1: Blake was going to stab him in the face or 660 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,399 Speaker 1: the throat or the chest with the knife. Why are 661 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,840 Speaker 1: you going for a knife when police have guns drawn 662 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:25,200 Speaker 1: on you in broad daylight and are saying stop, stop, stop. 663 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:31,640 Speaker 1: If police cannot fire under those circumstances, what we're saying 664 00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:35,840 Speaker 1: is police are not allowed to defend themselves against lethal force. 665 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:40,520 Speaker 1: That's all. That's very straightforward. Is not a close call situation, 666 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,640 Speaker 1: all right? If someone if police say show me your hands, 667 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,200 Speaker 1: show me your hands, and you have a gun in 668 00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:50,239 Speaker 1: your waistband and it's on video, and you reach for 669 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,480 Speaker 1: and grab your gun, they're going to shoot you. They're 670 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,480 Speaker 1: not going to wait to see if you draw that 671 00:40:55,520 --> 00:41:01,640 Speaker 1: weapon and fire at them first. That act of refusing 672 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:06,080 Speaker 1: commands and reaching for a weapon is enough under the 673 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,520 Speaker 1: under the rules of force use you know, the rules 674 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:16,960 Speaker 1: of application of force for people in the law enforcement community. Okay, 675 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,680 Speaker 1: that is a that is a legitimate use of force situation. 676 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,359 Speaker 1: And the way the way the Washington Post reported on 677 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:28,640 Speaker 1: this was appalling. There's no surprise. What do they do 678 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,920 Speaker 1: they they initially said the headline and then now they 679 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,279 Speaker 1: deleted it. I was gonna read it to you, but 680 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,279 Speaker 1: it was on Twitter. They deleted it. The headline was 681 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,680 Speaker 1: no choice, something like no charges in the shooting of 682 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:43,440 Speaker 1: Jacob Blake, an unarmed black man who was shot by 683 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:48,160 Speaker 1: police seven times in the back. Long headline. Why was 684 00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,600 Speaker 1: that the head Why wasn't the headline just no charges? 685 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,280 Speaker 1: I mean, if you were just doing a news story, 686 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,440 Speaker 1: wouldn't it be no charges against police officer and Jacob 687 00:41:55,440 --> 00:42:01,000 Speaker 1: Blake shooting. Why did the garbage heat publication and known 688 00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,439 Speaker 1: as the Washington Post, why they make the decision three 689 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:08,720 Speaker 1: people on the byeline, by the way, on a breaking 690 00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,440 Speaker 1: news story that was clearly going to get a lot 691 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:14,680 Speaker 1: of attention like this, to say that Jacob Blake was 692 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:19,120 Speaker 1: unarmed and that he was shot seven times in the back? 693 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,920 Speaker 1: Are those now? Those are those are details that you 694 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:24,960 Speaker 1: put in a news story? Or why is that of 695 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,680 Speaker 1: the headline? Because what the Washington Post was trying to 696 00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:31,960 Speaker 1: do was say that this was a racist murder by 697 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:37,719 Speaker 1: police and it's going unpunished. And what Lebron do we 698 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:42,680 Speaker 1: have the Lebron audio mark? Yes, well this Lebron James 699 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:48,120 Speaker 1: one of the most wealthy, famous, influential people on the planet. 700 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,839 Speaker 1: This is how he reacts to the story publicly on 701 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:55,040 Speaker 1: his social media accounts with tens of millions of followers. Played. 702 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,399 Speaker 1: I'm smart enough to know that even though we're playing 703 00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,319 Speaker 1: a game of basketball, that there's so much more thats 704 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,600 Speaker 1: going on in the world, so much more of us, 705 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,680 Speaker 1: even more important than us playing the game um and 706 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,760 Speaker 1: uh to hear what happened in Kenosha today was am 707 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,080 Speaker 1: was a blow to the heart and to the gut. Um, 708 00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,880 Speaker 1: you know, not only to that community, um, you know, 709 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,200 Speaker 1: but to us and to every um you know, I 710 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,000 Speaker 1: guess you know black person that that that just has 711 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,360 Speaker 1: been a part of this process and seeing these outcomes 712 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,000 Speaker 1: for so long, and not only just in the black community, 713 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,200 Speaker 1: but also in the white community as well. Who whoo 714 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,680 Speaker 1: who will see uh, you know, moments like this happened 715 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,040 Speaker 1: to us, um, and to happen to his family, and 716 00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,160 Speaker 1: to happen to the kid himself, to see that verdict, 717 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,839 Speaker 1: It was just, Um, it was a blow to the gut, 718 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,200 Speaker 1: Like I said, the blow to the heart. But we 719 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,879 Speaker 1: got to continue to we got to continue to stay strong, um, 720 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,560 Speaker 1: continue to to to believe in each other and continue 721 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,399 Speaker 1: to push for the for the for the greater of change, 722 00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,319 Speaker 1: and for the greater of good. So here here you 723 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:57,880 Speaker 1: have one of the most powerful, most influential, wealthiest people 724 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:02,160 Speaker 1: in the world. Really, Lebron James has tens of millions 725 00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,959 Speaker 1: of followers on social media. I mean, he's he's known 726 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,480 Speaker 1: pretty much everywhere where they have you know, internet access 727 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,080 Speaker 1: and a TV they're gonna do. Lebron James is for 728 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,800 Speaker 1: all intensive purposes. It's probably worth a billion dollars or 729 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,279 Speaker 1: close to it already, Okay, for playing basketball, and this 730 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:20,560 Speaker 1: guy is an international superstar. And what I want to 731 00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:25,520 Speaker 1: know is, yes, there is absolutely a need, there's absolutely 732 00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:30,560 Speaker 1: a role for sympathy for Jacob Blake's family. That's that's true. 733 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,800 Speaker 1: That's always the case. You know, even if someone is 734 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,120 Speaker 1: in a drunk driving accident that they cause and they die, 735 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:39,200 Speaker 1: you feel bad for the family They've lost someone. Jacob Blake, 736 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,360 Speaker 1: as we know, was shot. He was paralyzed, so he 737 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:45,760 Speaker 1: did live, but he was paralyzed after being shot by 738 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:50,120 Speaker 1: my police. And that has a that's obviously a lifelong burden. 739 00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,400 Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a loss for that family 740 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:57,279 Speaker 1: as well. That's something that is a tragedy for them. 741 00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,360 Speaker 1: But what's interesting to me about this is that Lebron 742 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:07,359 Speaker 1: James clearly wants an attempt an attempted murder charge here, right, 743 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,759 Speaker 1: I mean this this man was paralyzed. He he was 744 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,439 Speaker 1: shot at seven times, and so Lebron wants this cop 745 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:18,440 Speaker 1: to be treated like a racist would be killer. This 746 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:22,440 Speaker 1: cop out of out of racism, tried to kill and 747 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:28,480 Speaker 1: paralyzed Jacob Blake. Does that Does that sound like justice 748 00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:34,560 Speaker 1: to anyone? Does that sound like something that should happen here? 749 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,440 Speaker 1: I mean, in what world is that a fair outcome? 750 00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,640 Speaker 1: You know? The Washington Post in their headlines said unarmed. 751 00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:43,960 Speaker 1: You know what the problem with that is, he wasn't unarmed, 752 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,480 Speaker 1: So they had to delete the headline, They had to 753 00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,040 Speaker 1: walk that all thing back. So they're still at this 754 00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:54,760 Speaker 1: stage lying about this incident because they're playing to a narrative, 755 00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:59,120 Speaker 1: and that narrative is deeply destructive. And Lebron James is 756 00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,040 Speaker 1: playing to that narrative too, although I think, you know, 757 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:03,960 Speaker 1: I think he believes it, and that is that police 758 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,760 Speaker 1: are racist murderers of black men, and that the police 759 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:12,120 Speaker 1: and the policing in America is deeply rooted in systemic 760 00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:21,200 Speaker 1: and vicious racism. And that's a really dangerous charge to 761 00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:26,160 Speaker 1: put out there, especially because it's not true. It's just 762 00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:30,480 Speaker 1: not true. You know, they keep finding these incidents like 763 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:32,239 Speaker 1: this and they tell us that it's racism, and then 764 00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,000 Speaker 1: we see it and we learn more about it. Whether 765 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,319 Speaker 1: it's what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, I'm not saying there's 766 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,640 Speaker 1: no racism. Of course, I'm not saying there are no 767 00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:43,759 Speaker 1: cops who are murderers. Of course there are. But you know, 768 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,920 Speaker 1: to treat all cops as are they're the bad guys, 769 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,120 Speaker 1: and then to hold up these incidents where the comps 770 00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:53,160 Speaker 1: aren't even doing anything wrong. It's a tragedy, but it's 771 00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:59,160 Speaker 1: not a crime. That's irresponsible, it's reckless, it's destructive. And 772 00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:01,239 Speaker 1: the Washington Post, of course, the Democrats are all a 773 00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,359 Speaker 1: part of this. Why would the Washington Post get that's 774 00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,400 Speaker 1: such a key detail. He wasn't unarmed. The guy had 775 00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,960 Speaker 1: a knife. It's on video and the district attorney in 776 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,440 Speaker 1: Kenosha saw it. It's all very clear. He went for 777 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:16,680 Speaker 1: a knife. You can't do that. You can't do it, 778 00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,080 Speaker 1: or what are we gonna do? Tell cops that they 779 00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:20,920 Speaker 1: have to get you know, stabbed in the neck before 780 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,240 Speaker 1: they can use their service weapon and defense of themselves. 781 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:29,560 Speaker 1: At what phase are cops allowed to actually take action 782 00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,600 Speaker 1: so that they get to go home to their families 783 00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,839 Speaker 1: and there you know, we're talking to all human beings here. 784 00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:35,680 Speaker 1: They people will love them, people will care about them. 785 00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:41,440 Speaker 1: But we have police to protect all of us, to 786 00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:45,480 Speaker 1: protect you. And me. And there are very important laws 787 00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:50,200 Speaker 1: and rules and regulations and use of force escalation that 788 00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:54,200 Speaker 1: is taught and that is necessary for law enforcement. And 789 00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:59,439 Speaker 1: what happened here was all within the scope of this 790 00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:04,719 Speaker 1: office lawful duties. But that that. But see, they lie 791 00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:06,879 Speaker 1: about it because they're so desperate. The Washington Post lies. 792 00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:08,879 Speaker 1: But they deleted the tweet. They've admitted they said, oh, 793 00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,880 Speaker 1: we have a correction. The family says he was unarmed, 794 00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,400 Speaker 1: they said on their correction, But the DA and the 795 00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,440 Speaker 1: video says that he actually was grabbing a knife. Oh, 796 00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,560 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. So the family lawyer, Now that's that's how 797 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:24,200 Speaker 1: they do reporting. Well, this person's family lawyer says, you 798 00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,200 Speaker 1: know that that they were innocent of the charge. So 799 00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,520 Speaker 1: we're our headline is going to say innocent of a charge. 800 00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,279 Speaker 1: That's not how it works, although it is for Democrats 801 00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,319 Speaker 1: and for leftists. But here's the other here's the other issue. 802 00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,719 Speaker 1: Here's the bigger part of this. Democrats are going to 803 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:41,680 Speaker 1: do a lot more of this going ahead. Now they 804 00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:45,839 Speaker 1: feel emboldened to do this. They're going to build upon 805 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,760 Speaker 1: and try to hammer home this narrative of cops are racist, 806 00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,680 Speaker 1: law enforcement is racist, and therefore we have to do 807 00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:56,200 Speaker 1: things to hurt law enforcement, and we have to offer 808 00:48:56,320 --> 00:49:01,680 Speaker 1: up sacrifices of law enforcement officers who will be ruined, 809 00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,600 Speaker 1: who will be sent to prison, who of their lives 810 00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:07,960 Speaker 1: won't be able to see their families, and be treated 811 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:13,040 Speaker 1: like murderers, be treated like racists, in order to assuage 812 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:17,239 Speaker 1: the anger of the Democrat base, and in order to 813 00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,480 Speaker 1: play into this narrative of our police officers as evil, bad, 814 00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:24,879 Speaker 1: racist people, which is a lie. I don't care how 815 00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,040 Speaker 1: often Lebron James says it. I don't care how many 816 00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,400 Speaker 1: celebrities say it. I don't care how much the Democrats 817 00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:35,160 Speaker 1: pander on this issue. It's just not true. The rare 818 00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:40,440 Speaker 1: and occasional criminal and or racist police officer in America 819 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:45,080 Speaker 1: out of hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers across 820 00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:49,479 Speaker 1: the country is not It is not in any way 821 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:54,000 Speaker 1: a fair basis form aligning all law enforcement as racist, 822 00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,000 Speaker 1: and that is what the Democrats do. It is reckless