Speaker 1: Following is a prerecorded program. You are entering the Freedom Hunt.
Speaker 1: Congress passes a massive COVID pork extravaganza, media panic over
Speaker 1: super COVID in America, Woke Insanity takes over a fancy
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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show begins. He's a great guy. No, Welcome
Speaker 1: to The Buck Sexton Show. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being here. And it is for me, my final show
Speaker 1: of the year because I will be on vacation starting tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: to just say that we've had a great year on
Speaker 1: the show. It has been a bad year for America
Speaker 1: and the world. I understand that, but I did want
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Speaker 1: every year of growth, the most listening, the most podcast downloads,
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Speaker 1: been doing this now for years, but now the momentum,
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Speaker 1: excuse me, it's a little bit of a little bit
Speaker 1: of pre birthday, pre Christmas self indulgence here, but I
Speaker 1: just wanted to tell you all thank you so much
Speaker 1: because we have had a great year, and it is
Speaker 1: because of all of you who listened to us and
Speaker 1: who trusted us in what is a very challenging environment,
Speaker 1: a very difficult year, no question about it. I think
Speaker 1: this show has been right. I think we've been more
Speaker 1: often than not on the forefront of the battles for
Speaker 1: the truth, whether it's on the COVID lockdowns or on
Speaker 1: what's what's happened with this election? On BLM and the
Speaker 1: movement over the summer. You remember I was telling you
Speaker 1: all these concession moves, all the negotiations, Republicans are talking about,
Speaker 1: the pulling down of statues, that this was essentially a
Speaker 1: spasm of the left. It was an outgrowth of rage
Speaker 1: and power grab on their part. It wasn't a good
Speaker 1: faith effort to try and rehabilitate or renegotiate or anything
Speaker 1: like that. They weren't seeking compromise, they weren't looking for converts.
Speaker 1: They were hunting heretics. And that's just Those are just
Speaker 1: a few of the areas where I think. I'm very
Speaker 1: proud out of what we've done on the show this year.
Speaker 1: And I don't do as much self promotion as I
Speaker 1: know a lot of other hosts do. Occasionally I'll hear
Speaker 1: a clip somewhere or something and people talk about how
Speaker 1: great they are. I am honored and humbled to have
Speaker 1: what I think is the most discerning and most insightful
Speaker 1: and loyal audience anyone could ever have doing what I do.
Speaker 1: And I see this all the time from the messages
Speaker 1: you send. And I also appreciate that you stick with
Speaker 1: me and with this show through very difficult times, which
Speaker 1: has certainly been the case this year. So any of
Speaker 1: you who feel like sending me a happy birthday on
Speaker 1: December twenty eighth be much appreciated. But I will be
Speaker 1: on the beach with snow Princess doing my thing. Now
Speaker 1: let's jump into the latest Congress pasted a massive pork
Speaker 1: laid in bill, trillions of dollars of spending nine hundred
Speaker 1: billion dollars for COVID relief, And there's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff that's getting conflated. So I want to make this clear. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is true that the stuff that everyone's pointing out
Speaker 1: that's contained in the spending bill is not technically part
Speaker 1: of the COVID bailout portion of this. But it's also
Speaker 1: true that they waited to do all of this together,
Speaker 1: and that just makes it more difficult for us to
Speaker 1: hold anyone accountable. That just makes it more difficult for
Speaker 1: us to see who was responsible for what in this
Speaker 1: whole process, and it shows us that the government there's
Speaker 1: still a real contempt that the ruling class and the
Speaker 1: elites have for the American people, because at this moment
Speaker 1: of real panic and real suffering and pain across the country,
Speaker 1: which is still going on, you had members of Congress,
Speaker 1: powerful elected officials who took this as an opportunity to
Speaker 1: engage in all kinds of buyoffs and payoffs or favored constituencies.
Speaker 1: And they did this all together for a reason. That's
Speaker 1: my point. I understand there's a difference between the nine
Speaker 1: hundred billion for COVID relief specifically and the ten million
Speaker 1: dollars contained in the overall spending bill, which is the
Speaker 1: federal federal government outlays right the Omnibus, the overall spending
Speaker 1: bill that had ten million dollars for gender programs in Pakistan.
Speaker 1: I know that these aren't technically the same bill or
Speaker 1: the same effort within the legislative process, but understand this.
Speaker 1: They did this together so that they were they were
Speaker 1: like pulling off all the band aids at once, if
Speaker 1: you get my drift. They did this so that it
Speaker 1: was we would all just be disgusted at the same time,
Speaker 1: and then we wouldn't really know who to blame. You know.
Speaker 1: For Pelosi, this is a good thing because she delayed
Speaker 1: necessary aid billions and billions of dollars of aid to
Speaker 1: people who aren't a really bad place right now. You know,
Speaker 1: I've just seen some of the early reports on drug
Speaker 1: overdose deaths for this year, and it's looking like it's
Speaker 1: going to be well over eighty thousand. That's not an
Speaker 1: official number yet, but that's what the early count is.
Speaker 1: We're looking at the highest year ever of overdoses in
Speaker 1: the United States. And remember, we had an overdose crisis
Speaker 1: for the last ten years, and the number has been
Speaker 1: going up and up and up. So we're at the
Speaker 1: worst ever year for drug overdoses in the United States
Speaker 1: in our history. Now over eighty thousand people dead. And
Speaker 1: you can't tell me that there's not a substantial percentage
Speaker 1: of those who have died who are not doing what
Speaker 1: they think as a kind of self medication of their
Speaker 1: despair using opioids and other substances because of all the emotional, psychological,
Speaker 1: and physical pain that they are feeling, and they're feeling
Speaker 1: it in part because of the separation from other human beings,
Speaker 1: because of the loss of jobs, because of the destruction
Speaker 1: of businesses. Yes, I understand that this is a brutal
Speaker 1: time for the country, and I understand that there's no
Speaker 1: perfect answer here, but let's remember that there are some
Speaker 1: who are much more responsible for extending the misery, for
Speaker 1: making this even worse than others. Nancy Pelosi is very
Speaker 1: high on that list, as are many other Democrats. And yes,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff that's contained in the bill
Speaker 1: that overall, even if we weren't talking about COVID stimulus
Speaker 1: funds or you know, COVID relief funds, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it. Even if that weren't an issue, Congress
Speaker 1: is passing bills now that regulate performance enhancing drugs for horses,
Speaker 1: and Congresses is passing bills to send money to a
Speaker 1: whole array of countries. We're giving money to Sudan, We're
Speaker 1: giving a large sum of money to Israel. We're giving
Speaker 1: money to a lot of foreign countries. Why are we
Speaker 1: doing any foreign aid this year? That seems to be
Speaker 1: a very fair question. I mean any foreign aid, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to pick on any individual to a country.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why we're doing any foreign eight at all.
Speaker 1: The taxpayers are having their money sent overseas for what.
Speaker 1: Do you really think that we should be worried about
Speaker 1: democracy promotion in Pakistan? Right now? And then let's be
Speaker 1: honest about this. How much democracy promotion you think you're
Speaker 1: really getting in a country of one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: or so million people by spending ten million dollars, which
Speaker 1: is what the outlay was. Yeah, that's that's a lot
Speaker 1: of democracy promotion you're putting on a very small amount
Speaker 1: of dollar bills, aren't you? Analyst? Just goes on and
Speaker 1: on for these things that people are seeing. And one
Speaker 1: of my frustrations is that, yeah, everyone, everyone trashes Congress
Speaker 1: when this happens, right, people say, oh my gosh, how
Speaker 1: could how could Congress be so inapt and so dumb?
Speaker 1: But they do this right before the Chris's break. They
Speaker 1: know exactly what they're doing. They do it right before
Speaker 1: people go off on holiday. Who's even going to remember
Speaker 1: this in the new year. Who's going to really spend
Speaker 1: any time at all thinking about this once we get
Speaker 1: into January. No, it'll be we'll have other fights. So
Speaker 1: they understand the game and they're they're playing it like pros.
Speaker 1: We think that they're there to put the interest of
Speaker 1: the American people first and make responsible decisions to help
Speaker 1: as many of us as as they can while respecting
Speaker 1: and defending the Constitution. That's really it. It's a pretty
Speaker 1: straightforward idea. They think they're there to sign their name
Speaker 1: to things that spend the public money in such a
Speaker 1: way that they will be able to get reelected. That's
Speaker 1: the primary goal of ninety five percent of the members
Speaker 1: of Congress in both parties. This is bipartisan now, folks,
Speaker 1: this is both teams and the government has closed down
Speaker 1: much of the economy, not all of it, but a
Speaker 1: lot of the economy. People are facing expulsion from their homes.
Speaker 1: We have a wave of evictions that is coming, and
Speaker 1: even if they delay it, eventually it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: There's going to be a reset. People are going to
Speaker 1: be kicked out of their houses in large numbers. The
Speaker 1: government sends everyone, what, six hundred dollars that's what we've
Speaker 1: gotten here in the direct payment if you fall under
Speaker 1: certain categories three hundred dollars of additional unemployment. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: they send let me see here and hat tip techno
Speaker 1: fog for this on Twitter. One hundred and thirty five
Speaker 1: million to Burma, eighty five million to Cambodia, one point
Speaker 1: four billion for the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act, and one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million dollars to Nepal. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: I lose sleep at night worried about whether they're going
Speaker 1: to fund the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act. That one does
Speaker 1: get me. That gets me really concerned. I'm very worried
Speaker 1: about that one and what would happen without that? And
Speaker 1: we all get angry about it, and then we don't
Speaker 1: really do anything about it. We were supposed to have
Speaker 1: the swamp drained. And I think for a lot of us,
Speaker 1: this comes. This is tough, and I know we're going
Speaker 1: to the holidays, and I just want to say that
Speaker 1: there's a lot that I'm optimistic about for this country
Speaker 1: and the future. And honestly, as long as I get
Speaker 1: to do this with all of you, as long as
Speaker 1: I can share the truth from the perspective of somebody
Speaker 1: who really loves this country and just loves Americans, but
Speaker 1: I actually love the American people. I have a fondness
Speaker 1: even for all the Libs. I have an innate and
Speaker 1: deeply ingrained connection to my fellow Americans. I really feel that.
Speaker 1: And maybe that sounds a little corny, but we're going
Speaker 1: to the holidays. I'm just going to tell you how
Speaker 1: I feel, and I think we'll get through all this.
Speaker 1: But we have some battles ahead, and we have some
Speaker 1: housekeeping to do, and we have to we have to
Speaker 1: get ready for a lot of policy that's going to
Speaker 1: be shall we say, suboptimal, that's coming our way. But
Speaker 1: we also have to be very honest about what has
Speaker 1: gone on over the last four years, and maybe it
Speaker 1: was an impossible mission to say that the swamp would
Speaker 1: be drained. But I'm here to tell you, and I
Speaker 1: think you already know this, but we should all understand
Speaker 1: the mission continues. I think Trump understands that too. The
Speaker 1: mission continues. This swamp has absolutely not been drained. Politics
Speaker 1: in DC has not changed forever. In fact, what we
Speaker 1: see here is a giant empire strikes back moment from Congress.
Speaker 1: That's what this is, and that's why I want us
Speaker 1: all to be very focused on what we need to
Speaker 1: do in the future, focused on these Georgia runoffs for
Speaker 1: the Senate, and focused on the battles that lay ahead,
Speaker 1: because we still have a lot to do, friends, and
Speaker 1: we need to be happy. Warriors need to be energized
Speaker 1: and engaged. And yes, rests, relax, recuperate over this holiday
Speaker 1: as much as you can, especially for those of you
Speaker 1: that get some time off. God bless and I know
Speaker 1: it's it's a stressful time because of COVID, But we
Speaker 1: fight because it's the right thing to do, and that's
Speaker 1: what we will continue to together. And that is the mission,
Speaker 1: the mantra of this show. That's why I always say
Speaker 1: at the end shield's eye. I remind myself of that
Speaker 1: in life all the time. I can't tell all of
Speaker 1: you to hold your shield high if I won't do
Speaker 1: the same. It's not easy these days. It's not easy
Speaker 1: to stand on constitutional principle, not easy to feel like
Speaker 1: you're a person who the consensus, the digital elite, consensus
Speaker 1: of social media, of Hollywood, of the academy, of law schools,
Speaker 1: of the legal profession, largely of the courts, is standing
Speaker 1: against you. But we continue in this battle because it's
Speaker 1: the right thing to do, Because ultimately it's for the
Speaker 1: future of the greatest country the world has ever known, which,
Speaker 1: even on its worst days, even as swampy as it is,
Speaker 1: America makes the world a better place every day it exists.
Speaker 1: And you and I both know that, and we're both
Speaker 1: parts of that. So I don't forget that You're in
Speaker 1: the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast.
Speaker 1: It is not overblown to say that Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: an authoritarian or it does not believe in democracy. It
Speaker 1: goes beyond Trump. I mean, we have got to ask
Speaker 1: ourselves why seventy rather than number seventy three million I
Speaker 1: think voted for him, And we've got to reach out
Speaker 1: to those people. I think that there is and I
Speaker 1: think that to some degree a dean. I'm sure a
Speaker 1: lot of my Democratic colleagues do not agree with me,
Speaker 1: but this is a reflection of the Democratic Party because
Speaker 1: I think if you talk to many of those, you know, people,
Speaker 1: working class people who voted for Trump, they'll say, look,
Speaker 1: we know he's a lie, we know he's fully, but
Speaker 1: at least you know he does this. He does that
Speaker 1: something the Democrats don't do. So we have got to
Speaker 1: figure out a way to bring our people together, black
Speaker 1: and white and Latino, Native American, Asian American working class
Speaker 1: people and say, you know what, you need a government
Speaker 1: that represents our interests, not one that divides us up
Speaker 1: by the color of our skin, where we were born,
Speaker 1: or a sexual orientation or whatever. Bertie Sanders, I miss him,
Speaker 1: but you know, he was sort of mellow Bernie there.
Speaker 1: I've never heard him sort of not yelling. Notice when
Speaker 1: he gives a speech, it's up here, but when he's
Speaker 1: on the fold, it's kind of down around here. They're
Speaker 1: not going to do any outreach. I just had to
Speaker 1: play that for you, just to remind everyone of the
Speaker 1: delusions here at the Democrat Party, They're gonna be the
Speaker 1: outreach to people who voted for Trump. Not really, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: they didn't do any of it in the election process.
Speaker 1: Why would they do any election outreach going forward? I mean,
Speaker 1: why would they do any trying to bring us over
Speaker 1: to their side. What was the big idea I think
Speaker 1: about this. What was the big idea the Democrats had
Speaker 1: that Biden stood for that really convinced people that this
Speaker 1: was the way to go. What was the thing that
Speaker 1: they had that was supposed to make us all say,
Speaker 1: you know what, They've got a really good idea here,
Speaker 1: let's go with that. It was Trump is basically worse
Speaker 1: than Hitler, and Joe Biden is a guy who's a Democrat.
Speaker 1: That was the whole campaign. There was no idea this
Speaker 1: was run on other than Joe Biden is in Trump
Speaker 1: and the media try to convince as much of the
Speaker 1: country as possible that, despite his ability to run the
Speaker 1: country pretty darn well for three years, the COVID pandemic
Speaker 1: was entirely his fault, and so if you want COVID
Speaker 1: to stop, you have to vote against Trump. That was
Speaker 1: their whole play, and it was craven, but it has
Speaker 1: gotten us to this place we are currently in, and
Speaker 1: so beyond beyond that, I would just say, you know,
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders, I hope we hear more from Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: in the months and years ahead, just because I love
Speaker 1: doing the voice Bertie Founders. What's to wish everybody a
Speaker 1: happy Worker's Day? Not a holiday, because it's not about
Speaker 1: being the holy It's about the workers. It's about getting
Speaker 1: you as much cash as you can from your neighbor.
Speaker 1: It's not a gift. It's redistribution of wealth. That's what
Speaker 1: Bernie wants to do. It wants to redistribute that wealth.
Speaker 1: That's his version. That's his version of Christmas and Monaka
Speaker 1: gifts for all of you, taking from your neighbor by
Speaker 1: the fourths of government and giving it to other people.
Speaker 1: I guess that's the Democrat version of happy holidays. But
Speaker 1: there will be no outreach to Trump voters. There will
Speaker 1: be intended purges of them though, and get ready for that.
Speaker 1: They're going to want to make life as uncomfortable as
Speaker 1: possible for former Trump administration officials. Certainly the media will do.
Speaker 1: It's all many corporations. So let's remember we have to
Speaker 1: stand beside those who fight with us. You're in the
Speaker 1: Freedom Hut. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Buck Sexon is back. It is a goodbye cartisan Still,
Speaker 1: it does as different from bills that had been proposed
Speaker 1: on the Senate side by the Republican leader. It does
Speaker 1: things that his bill never did, and that is it
Speaker 1: addresses the food needs of the American people, maybe fifteen
Speaker 1: million children of food insecure in our country and adults
Speaker 1: as well. The only thing that can save us is
Speaker 1: to open the economy. If we give these tinpot dictators,
Speaker 1: these governors, more money, they're less likely to open the economy.
Speaker 1: The ANSWER's not printing up and distributing free money, it's
Speaker 1: opening the economy. We're not even debating the real answer
Speaker 1: to this. We're like, just print up the money and
Speaker 1: shovel it out the door. The deficit be damned. There
Speaker 1: you have. There, you have the dueling philosophies of the
Speaker 1: left and well some on the right. Yeah, the dueling
Speaker 1: philosophies from Nancy Pelosi and Senator Rand Paul Here. Pelosi
Speaker 1: says it's a good bill, which should terrify you, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, if Nancy Pelosi's happy, you should be very unhappy.
Speaker 1: That's a good rule of thumb about anything that the
Speaker 1: Congress is doing. You should be unhappy and certainly worried
Speaker 1: if Nancy Pelosi's tell you that some massive, multi trillion
Speaker 1: dollars spending bill meets all the needs that she feels
Speaker 1: that are out there. And remember that this is a
Speaker 1: lot less than what she was demanding. What she was
Speaker 1: demanding was flatly ridiculous. I mean, she's accepting this now
Speaker 1: because yeah, this is too much money, it's too much spending.
Speaker 1: We're twenty seven trillion dollars twenty d seven trillion dollars
Speaker 1: in debt. But she wanted what was it, almost three
Speaker 1: trillion of new spending on top of all the trillions
Speaker 1: of spending that's already happened. I mean, that was just crazytown, right, crazytown,
Speaker 1: But that's where Nancy is the mayor of Crazytown as
Speaker 1: well as being a member of Congress. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you knew that. Rand Paul's right, these bailouts this continued,
Speaker 1: and I'm not talking about for individuals that is deserved,
Speaker 1: but what we're seeing for municipalities and what we're seeing
Speaker 1: for multinational corporations. I mean, the money that's getting slashed
Speaker 1: around in this thing. We should have instead of all this,
Speaker 1: we should have a system that puts a priority on
Speaker 1: getting us reopened as quickly as possible. What we should
Speaker 1: have here are incentives in place for companies and for
Speaker 1: states to take reasonable measures to reopen asap, because instead
Speaker 1: what you have here is America heading into this long
Speaker 1: period of COVID winter, and there's no incentive for governors,
Speaker 1: for mayors who aren't already trying to hold the line
Speaker 1: and stay open, there's no incentive for them to open
Speaker 1: back up and just take the risk, the political risk
Speaker 1: and otherwise of having a spike in cases when they reopen,
Speaker 1: even though as we see the massive spikes that have
Speaker 1: occurred right now, and there are pieces coming out from
Speaker 1: reputable places. I mean, the Federation of American Scientists, for example,
Speaker 1: put out a study and it's from South Korea, and
Speaker 1: its involves all it's pure viewed. It involves all the
Speaker 1: contact tracing information from South Korea, which does a very
Speaker 1: good job of this, and it showed that there are
Speaker 1: people in an apartment building who live on different floors
Speaker 1: who got infected and there and they're all in the
Speaker 1: same air duct line. So the conclusion is that there
Speaker 1: seems to be a possibility that COVID can freely circulate
Speaker 1: in the air through air ducts in a building, So
Speaker 1: you may not even be in the same apartment as someone,
Speaker 1: but you could still be infected depending on the airflow,
Speaker 1: which then raised a lot of questions about that piece
Speaker 1: of cloth that says Biden Harris twenty twenty over your mouth,
Speaker 1: and how much protection that really gives you. But we're
Speaker 1: not yet at the point where we've broken through the
Speaker 1: censorship on this, or we're not really allowed to speak
Speaker 1: openly and honestly. But I can't hear on the show.
Speaker 1: But I have to be very careful on social media platforms.
Speaker 1: I'd be very careful about what I'm talking about, just
Speaker 1: sharing data and information. I mean, anyone who looks at
Speaker 1: graphs right now of mask mandates lockdowns and cases and
Speaker 1: hospitalizations and states like California has to just result to
Speaker 1: gibberish and fantasyland explanations for why this is a really
Speaker 1: effective policy. The only thing they can say is the unfalsifiable. Oh,
Speaker 1: it would be so much worse if we didn't do this,
Speaker 1: And I would just ask you to take a look
Speaker 1: at a graphic of California. Take a look at it
Speaker 1: and tell me if you think that it really could
Speaker 1: be that much worse than it currently is in California.
Speaker 1: I mean, how much more spread would really is? The
Speaker 1: whole stake can get infected in three days if it
Speaker 1: weren't for mask gaming. Really it's absurd, but that's what
Speaker 1: they're saying. And if you challenge them, they throw a
Speaker 1: bunch of credentials that other people have in your face.
Speaker 1: And those people with those credentials have often been very,
Speaker 1: very wrong, and they tell you shut up and you're
Speaker 1: a flat earth. End of story. That's where we are.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. So much of this is driven by ego,
Speaker 1: because there's so many people who believe they're really, really smart,
Speaker 1: even though they don't know anything about science or biology
Speaker 1: or anything else. But they're really really smart. They watch CNN,
Speaker 1: you know, they read the New York Times, and they've
Speaker 1: believed all this stuff all along. And no one wants
Speaker 1: to be the person that realizes that they have been
Speaker 1: in a cult. No one wants to feel like they
Speaker 1: were able to be brainwashed or swindled or bamboozled. So
Speaker 1: there's a tremendous amount of psychological resistance to accepting that
Speaker 1: people were wrong in this, and we're just going to
Speaker 1: keep looking and keep sharing the information, keep sharing the data,
Speaker 1: because their wrongness has costs for all the rest of us.
Speaker 1: Their wrongness results in lockdowns that continue on, in mask
Speaker 1: policies that are just a constant psychological and emotional and
Speaker 1: physical agitation. It results in dividing us, making us think
Speaker 1: that there's some politicized aspect to the COVID virus, which
Speaker 1: is absurd. But they've made it very political. It never
Speaker 1: should have been political, but it has become such. Remember
Speaker 1: when they were telling us that don't make don't make
Speaker 1: the mask political, just wear it, And now it's we
Speaker 1: have cases because of those non mask wearing Trump voters. Right,
Speaker 1: They just totally abandoned that whole. Oh, let's not make
Speaker 1: it political, just do what I say. And then when
Speaker 1: what they say doesn't work, what do they do? They
Speaker 1: blame us for not doing what they say, even though
Speaker 1: by all the data, people are limiting their travel, limiting
Speaker 1: their contacts, and wearing masks all across the country. Ninety
Speaker 1: percent compliance with mandates is the best estimate out there.
Speaker 1: But don't worry. Fouci's on TV. I got the vaccine.
Speaker 1: Don't worry. I'll be running your life. I'll be in
Speaker 1: charge you. Doctor Fouch will be in charge you for
Speaker 1: another twenty years at least. I'm gonna be sitting around
Speaker 1: here telling you know, you know, yes, I understand the
Speaker 1: vaccine as a ninety nine percent survival rate, but you know,
Speaker 1: ninety nine point ninety nine actually if you're onto sixty five.
Speaker 1: But beyond that, I just you know, I think you
Speaker 1: should cancel all fun things in life and given a
Speaker 1: few more years, because they're still virus that could be mutations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. You think you think they're gonna let this go.
Speaker 1: You think they're gonna give us back our freedom. No,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to take it back. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to hold people accountable. They're going to be lost. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to be non compliance. That's the only way
Speaker 1: this stops. They're gonna be fistfights. They're gonna be people
Speaker 1: that lose their minds when you walk past them outside
Speaker 1: without a mask on. Even though they're the lunatics, they're wrong.
Speaker 1: People that look at you outside in fresh air walking
Speaker 1: past them and you don't have a mask, and they
Speaker 1: think you're putting them in jeopardy. They are wrong. They
Speaker 1: are they are just afraid, and they are easily brainwashed.
Speaker 1: But they are incorrect. You are not. Just remember that
Speaker 1: because it's gonna get ugly. They're not gonna They're not
Speaker 1: gonna go down. This tyranny will not go down without
Speaker 1: a fight. It is among our biggest challenges in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty and I'm sorry twenty twenty one. See I can't
Speaker 1: even remember the year now and the COVID lockdown tyranny.
Speaker 1: This is because if we don't, yeah, eventually, maybe in
Speaker 1: twelve months, they'll start to really ease up, but no,
Speaker 1: they won't. Next winter, to be after that, next spring,
Speaker 1: not this spring. Next spring, you'll start to feel like
Speaker 1: you can actually live your life again. Do you want
Speaker 1: to sacrifice because of incompetent fools like Fauci and company?
Speaker 1: You want to make that I don't want to make
Speaker 1: that sacrifice. I don't want to see what this country
Speaker 1: is like economically. If we still pile trillions of dollars
Speaker 1: of just debt future promises to pay on top of
Speaker 1: the debt we already have, that's that's just catastrophic in waiting.
Speaker 1: That's what we know is happening right now. So we
Speaker 1: need to understand that they're not going to give this up.
Speaker 1: They're not going to let this go, and it's going
Speaker 1: to be incoming upon all of us. It's really at
Speaker 1: the state and local level because the federal level, the
Speaker 1: tyranny is going to have all kinds of backup. So
Speaker 1: it's going to be at the state and local level
Speaker 1: we have to push back. And look, I just hope
Speaker 1: they make enough room for everybody in Texas and Florida
Speaker 1: who's flitting these stupid blue states that are destroying themselves.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Bust and show posts. Remember
Speaker 1: to subscribe on Apple podcasts at the iHeartRadio app or
Speaker 1: wherever you get your Podcastsously if we are on a
Speaker 1: on a glide path because of climate change to our
Speaker 1: annihilation as a species. And there are people that benefit
Speaker 1: from the belief who don't really share it, but who
Speaker 1: will propagate it anyway. And there are people who are
Speaker 1: truly that brainwashed and delusional that they think that it
Speaker 1: is an existential threat. They actually think that they worry
Speaker 1: about this. I mean, there are people that write articles
Speaker 1: now about how they don't want to have children because
Speaker 1: they don't want to add to climate change. There are
Speaker 1: people that write articles about how they they lose sleep
Speaker 1: at night because they're so worried about the rise of
Speaker 1: the seas from all the you know, they watch too
Speaker 1: much CNN and BBC and this other crap by people
Speaker 1: who just aren't able to think for themselves. You know,
Speaker 1: I often refer to people as as stupid in the media,
Speaker 1: and I'll say this, and part of that is out
Speaker 1: of frustration the things they say are dumb. But I
Speaker 1: know that it's not that they're actually well in some cases,
Speaker 1: I mean, there are people who are just uttered morons.
Speaker 1: There really are. There are people who have low IQs,
Speaker 1: who are not very bright, not very intelligent, and some
Speaker 1: of whom have enormous media platforms. So I do want
Speaker 1: to establish that is a real thing. But there are
Speaker 1: a lot of other people in the media who went
Speaker 1: to fancy schools and probably got pretty decent SATs, you know,
Speaker 1: not that many in journalism, but there are some that
Speaker 1: fall into that category. But really what they have is
Speaker 1: cowardice more than stupidity. They always want to be considered smart,
Speaker 1: They always want to be considered on the right side
Speaker 1: of these issues. So they follow the herd, they stay
Speaker 1: within the crowd, and that is the worst possible mentality
Speaker 1: for someone who considers themself to be a truth teller.
Speaker 1: And journalists do think that about themselves. They aren't. It's
Speaker 1: the worst possible mentality to have. It's why journalism in
Speaker 1: this country has become such a preposterous joke. And it is.
Speaker 1: It is a joke, an unfunny one, but a joke nonetheless.
Speaker 1: But I want to be very clear, this is going
Speaker 1: to be a major challenge for us going forward in
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty one. The Democrats are going to
Speaker 1: be pushing amnesty and an immigration something you're gonna be
Speaker 1: hearing about a lot on this show, because if we
Speaker 1: ultimately lose the battle on immigration, we lose on everything.
Speaker 1: We lose on everything because they're changing the voters. They're
Speaker 1: going to have voters who are dependent on the Democrat
Speaker 1: Party's largess at the expense of taxpayers and citizens. And
Speaker 1: we're never going to win another if they have If
Speaker 1: they have amnesty and mail in balloting, folks were done
Speaker 1: where the Republican Party is not going to win another
Speaker 1: national election for a very very long time. So we're
Speaker 1: going to be focused in on immigration as an issue,
Speaker 1: but you're also going to see the continuation of this
Speaker 1: transfer of the urgency and the demand for your obedience
Speaker 1: around COVID nineteen is going to transition to climate change.
Speaker 1: And I know for you and me, that's crazy, that's
Speaker 1: just crazy it is. But remember there are people who
Speaker 1: do believe it. Unfortunately, the Democrat masses, from everything in
Speaker 1: their pop culture to their friend groups and social media
Speaker 1: always reinforce this absurd belief our climate change is not
Speaker 1: an existential threat to humanity anymore so than an asteroid
Speaker 1: hitting the planet is an existential threat. And yes, it
Speaker 1: could happen. Are you losing sleep about it? Are you
Speaker 1: not having children because an asteroid may hit us in
Speaker 1: a thousand years? Who knows? Right? This is? This is
Speaker 1: really a religion replacement. As I've always said, climate change
Speaker 1: is a religious belief for people who think they are
Speaker 1: too smart for religion. And then there are the other
Speaker 1: people who will benefit enormously from this. All the solar
Speaker 1: pane you know, the solar panel companies that need government
Speaker 1: subsidies and maybe even bailouts. You know, they're all the
Speaker 1: different alternative energy industries and carbon offsets and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: all these little pig snouts at the trough of the
Speaker 1: government's goodies that come from this alternative energy sector at
Speaker 1: everything else that's going to be a huge component of
Speaker 1: this as well. So, my friends, we all need to
Speaker 1: be very aware of this. I know that it seems
Speaker 1: so crazy that they can't be real, they can't really
Speaker 1: want to do this, But I am here to tell
Speaker 1: you they do want to do this, and they will
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have to fight them on it, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna think that you're the one who's loony. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening to The bus Esson Show podcasts. Remember to
Speaker 1: subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts. It's Harsania time, everybody. Our friend David
Speaker 1: Harnsani in the mix from National Review dot com or
Speaker 1: he is a senior writer. Mister David, final live show
Speaker 1: for me for the year. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining us and all your various appearances here. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: It is a pleasure each and every time. Buck, so
Speaker 1: tell me this Faucci is out there. And for the
Speaker 1: first time of my points that I make about Fauci,
Speaker 1: because I think you have A very interesting take on
Speaker 1: this is that whenever there's a reason, he's very quick
Speaker 1: to say, well, even if there's like a one in
Speaker 1: a thousand chance of that thing happening, led, let's take
Speaker 1: the most cautious and I would say overcautious and even
Speaker 1: authoritarian approach possible. And then when there's good news, you know,
Speaker 1: like for example about schools, I don't know, why isn't
Speaker 1: Fauci on TV with a public service announcement saying open
Speaker 1: the schools, schools should be There's no debate about this
Speaker 1: anymore openly right, it's always the negative stuff that he's
Speaker 1: very clear on, but the positive we don't get to
Speaker 1: hear from him. Why is he telling people get rid
Speaker 1: of outdoor outdoor masking? To this day completely baffles me.
Speaker 1: There are mandates for outdoor masks in some states. There
Speaker 1: is zero science to back this up. There's no study
Speaker 1: that says it's a risk. It's crazy. Okay, he won't
Speaker 1: say that. But finally he said, we've gone too far.
Speaker 1: What did he say with David Well? And when people
Speaker 1: brought up that we might need a temporary travel band
Speaker 1: from Britain because they have some kind of super spread
Speaker 1: or virus. I think it spread seventy percent faster or
Speaker 1: something like that than the strain we have. He called
Speaker 1: it draconian, and I am just taken aback by the
Speaker 1: way that a lot of these are leads and expert
Speaker 1: class people talk about the world. You know, It's not
Speaker 1: draconian to tell your you know, to tell families they
Speaker 1: can visit each other on Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's not
Speaker 1: yourconian to shut down to schools for a year. It's
Speaker 1: not draconian to destroy entire industries like the restaurant industry
Speaker 1: in New York, even though I think studies show that
Speaker 1: one percent they're one percent of the spread. It's not
Speaker 1: draconian to tell people they can't go to church, despite
Speaker 1: you know, the Constitution clearly clearly laying out that that
Speaker 1: is a right of people to do. So, you know,
Speaker 1: this is the problem when you talk about science now,
Speaker 1: of course, when most of the time when people talk
Speaker 1: about science and just preening on about you know, things
Speaker 1: that I have nothing to do with science. But the
Speaker 1: thing is that it's not just about science. It's about
Speaker 1: a lot of other things in society. And having the
Speaker 1: science lead us all the time, it creates a situation
Speaker 1: you just mentioned where we have public health officials who
Speaker 1: only care about the science. They don't care about the
Speaker 1: social interaction, meaning you know, the emotional importance of that
Speaker 1: kind of thing for society, or I don't care about
Speaker 1: the rights of people, and then you have them saying
Speaker 1: that's draconian to shut down airline flights. I don't even understand.
Speaker 1: It's just arbitrary, and it's not doesn't just doesn't sound
Speaker 1: very scientific to me. What do you think is going
Speaker 1: to happen when with the incoming administration here, I can't
Speaker 1: really decide in the early stages. I mean, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to see how this plays out. But but I
Speaker 1: was someone who I think I've said this to you.
Speaker 1: We've talked to this on earlier shows. I knew starting
Speaker 1: around August. Oh no, they're not. The plan here is
Speaker 1: not to have the great Biden reopening if he wins.
Speaker 1: The plan is going to be to continue the lockdowns,
Speaker 1: the control and maintain power in certain hands long after
Speaker 1: any reasonable person could think that that was something that
Speaker 1: should happen, And we are seeing now. I believe that
Speaker 1: is at least the early stage plan. But do you
Speaker 1: think that they're going to just make a lot of
Speaker 1: noise about how they're doing things like the Biden administration
Speaker 1: separately from the States and like Cuomo Newsom are doing
Speaker 1: things so differently now when they're really not or do
Speaker 1: you think they're actually gonna take concrete actions that are
Speaker 1: supposed to be making a difference here in the course
Speaker 1: of the pandemic? You know, you see what I mean
Speaker 1: about the distinction. There's literally nothing they can do that
Speaker 1: they couldn't do before, right, I mean, it's not like
Speaker 1: Donald Trump stopped them from doing anything. Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi was,
Speaker 1: you know, talking about this ridiculous bill that they just passed,
Speaker 1: and then she she claimed that, you know, Republicans are
Speaker 1: purposely spreading it basically that they don't believe in science.
Speaker 1: And then she jumps over to how, you know, suddenly
Speaker 1: we have this vaccine out of nowhere, Right, so Republicans
Speaker 1: are anti science but yet also pro vaccine but also
Speaker 1: anti vaccine. It doesn't make any sense because in my view,
Speaker 1: at least, there is no real way that they or
Speaker 1: they have no real plan, and there is no real
Speaker 1: way to fight in a respiratory, you know, a respiratory
Speaker 1: disease like this right, No one's doing better than us.
Speaker 1: Germany's not doing better, England's not doing better. I mean,
Speaker 1: we all do the same. So every little power they
Speaker 1: take is a new a new standard that they've set
Speaker 1: to take power in the future. And that's why it
Speaker 1: upsets me so much when I talk about this stuff.
Speaker 1: I just I don't know if that answers the question,
Speaker 1: but I just feel like every time they take power,
Speaker 1: there's really not a huge amount of scientific basis for it,
Speaker 1: and ignores the Constitution many of many times, and it's
Speaker 1: just a new power that the arbitrarily take that they're
Speaker 1: never going to give back, and that I think is
Speaker 1: very dangerous for the country and that I think is
Speaker 1: going to be Listen, it's a tragedy. We've lost a
Speaker 1: lot of lives. I'm not trying to diminish that. But
Speaker 1: you also have to think long term about the sort
Speaker 1: of governance we're going to have moving forward. Biden will
Speaker 1: completely never complain at once about anyone taking too much power,
Speaker 1: I assume right in some states, so that might be
Speaker 1: the only difference. Speaking of David Harsani, he's a senior
Speaker 1: writer at National Review, And Yeah, David, my my expectation
Speaker 1: is that what you're going to what you're going to
Speaker 1: see is like, this is like one hundred days of masking.
Speaker 1: I mean, I look around that everyone who's saying this
Speaker 1: out loud. Though it's an intelligent point, I just want
Speaker 1: to yell, we already have by Oh, there's no data
Speaker 1: set that disagrees with this that I've seen anywhere at
Speaker 1: least eighty more like nine mass compliance across the whole country.
Speaker 1: So when states that require masking, people are wearing because
Speaker 1: you can't go to the store, you can't go shop,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't do it right. So if they
Speaker 1: require them, you're already wearing them. So their game change
Speaker 1: maneuver is to essentially put out I mean, this is
Speaker 1: really what I was leading to with the initial question,
Speaker 1: and you clearly see it the same way. Is that
Speaker 1: it's effectively you're going to be a pr campaign. The
Speaker 1: Biden comes in and it's the same stuff that we see,
Speaker 1: except there'll be no pushback on the tyrannical side. I
Speaker 1: think the dj will be unwilling to be and I
Speaker 1: have criticism with the DJF to this point. I think
Speaker 1: they've just said, look, we don't want to get in
Speaker 1: the middle of the pandemic fight, Like, we don't want
Speaker 1: to be suing states when they're trying when they say
Speaker 1: they're trying to save lives. But yeah, they'll make it
Speaker 1: easier for the autocracy about COVID to continue. But I
Speaker 1: don't think they're going to do really all that much
Speaker 1: differently at the federal level. I mean, federal buildings are
Speaker 1: going to fire masks federal and people are already wearing masks.
Speaker 1: I have friends who work in these agencies. You're they're
Speaker 1: wearing masks. It's already happening. Yeah, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: complete fantasy, purposely, you know, it's a complete political fantasy
Speaker 1: or part isn't fantasy to say that something that we're
Speaker 1: not wearing masks when every as you mentioned, every study
Speaker 1: shows that most people wear masks. You can't go into
Speaker 1: stores where this spreads, where there are on masks. There
Speaker 1: are on churches that are like most churches I know,
Speaker 1: for instance, Catholic churches near here, they were before they
Speaker 1: were they had to do anything. They were, they had
Speaker 1: all kinds of you know, social distancing rules in place
Speaker 1: and mask wearing in places. I mean, people are careful,
Speaker 1: because most people are conscientious, even if they don't believe
Speaker 1: it works, they do it to make their neighbors feel better.
Speaker 1: This was just sort of an attack on red states,
Speaker 1: which still, incidentally in most cases do just as well
Speaker 1: as any other states. Florida is just as good as California,
Speaker 1: better than New York, um, you know, so they keep
Speaker 1: changing their arguments. Yeah, I don't see them doing anything else.
Speaker 1: I do worry, as you mentioned, and people sort of
Speaker 1: like the snicker this because it sounds overly idealistic. But
Speaker 1: there is no coronavirus exception in the Constitution, and you
Speaker 1: have no right to tell people how to act on
Speaker 1: a personal level in the way government has been doing.
Speaker 1: I don't care that there's an emergency or not, and
Speaker 1: I just don't see Governor's giving What is it I
Speaker 1: have to ask you. I mean, no one has answered
Speaker 1: this question for me. What is the use of the
Speaker 1: Constitution if every time there's an emergency you get to
Speaker 1: just ignore everything that's in it. No one needs it
Speaker 1: when we're just doing what we're supposed to. No one
Speaker 1: needs free speech when you're saying things everyone likes right,
Speaker 1: No one needs protection of religious freedom, and no one's
Speaker 1: bothering you. This is when we need it, and this
Speaker 1: is when it's being ignored by Michigan, by New York,
Speaker 1: by California, etc. I couldn't agree more. I keep saying,
Speaker 1: the Constitution is not a suggestion box. You know, this
Speaker 1: isn't like I just went for a meal at Chili's
Speaker 1: and I want to tell them that they should get
Speaker 1: me my chicken tenders faster. Right, the Constitution it's supposed
Speaker 1: to withstand these moments of crisis, and I think we'd
Speaker 1: have to all look at this and say it really hasn't.
Speaker 1: And you know, yesterday when I was out numbered on Fox,
Speaker 1: I brought up, because we're doing this whole look China
Speaker 1: as a major threat. I've been saying that for the
Speaker 1: four years we've been focused on Russia, that China is
Speaker 1: a much bigger problem long term for a host of reasons.
Speaker 1: Russia is a manageable issue. It's a problem, but it's
Speaker 1: a manageable issue. China may not be manageable over the
Speaker 1: long term. So we got big issues there. But we're
Speaker 1: talking about Chinese censorship and I kind of had this
Speaker 1: moment and I said it on air and said, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, granted, they're not going to throw you in
Speaker 1: prison for saying the wrong thing on Twitter. But we've
Speaker 1: absolutely moved in this direction now. I mean there is
Speaker 1: state sanctioned allowable speech about major policy and political issues
Speaker 1: that you will be shut down for saying the wrong
Speaker 1: things about. It's true about elections, it's true about COVID.
Speaker 1: I mean, what could be more important than allowing a
Speaker 1: free and open debate about these lockdowns that our major institutions.
Speaker 1: There's free speech as a legal principle, but there's also
Speaker 1: free speech as a concept. And our major institutions that
Speaker 1: are supposed to be defending free speech, the news media,
Speaker 1: social media platforms, they've abandoned ship. Or actually it's worse
Speaker 1: than that. I shouldn't even that. They'll strike that from
Speaker 1: the record. They're part of the pirate ship. It's taking
Speaker 1: over the ship of free speech. They're actually the offenders. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with everything you said more. The free
Speaker 1: speech is a legal concept. We have the First Amendment,
Speaker 1: but it's also a liberal concept that we're supposed to
Speaker 1: believe in in our everyday lives. But we have most
Speaker 1: of the major media, and we've talked about this many times,
Speaker 1: pushing back against not pushing back against it, participating in
Speaker 1: the suppression of speech that day don't like because for
Speaker 1: whatever reasons, which is just an illiberal outlook in the world.
Speaker 1: And if you read one of my favorite history books
Speaker 1: as Modern Times by Paul Johnson, sort of just a
Speaker 1: history of the twentieth century, and every single time you said,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we're the Nazi Germany or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but every single time you see people taking power they
Speaker 1: shouldn't have, it's on the heels of some emergency or
Speaker 1: imagined emergency or overstated scare mongering, etc. Every single time.
Speaker 1: And that's what happens here. This is how you corrode
Speaker 1: individual liberty. Now, I don't know that people are that
Speaker 1: idealistic about it anymore, frankly, unfortunately, because I see polls
Speaker 1: and most people are fine with these things. That seems
Speaker 1: to me and maybe I'm wrong, and that to me
Speaker 1: is even a more dangerous and scary sort of portend
Speaker 1: of future events. I don't mean to be a bummer.
Speaker 1: As we're speaking to David Harsani. He's a senior writer
Speaker 1: at National Review dot com. Check out his latest there.
Speaker 1: And whenever I start with I don't want to be
Speaker 1: a bummer, it usually means I'm about to be a bummer.
Speaker 1: But I also think that the full economic and just
Speaker 1: societal devastation from the lockdowns. Now, granted, the body count
Speaker 1: is very high from COVID, it's it's terrible, But the
Speaker 1: way this has been presented to us all along was well,
Speaker 1: that will be much less if we do all these
Speaker 1: other things. And now we're seeing the other things. You mean, David,
Speaker 1: over eighty thousand people's looking like over eighty five thousand.
Speaker 1: I think, as of right now, died of drug overdoses
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty highest that it has ever been by
Speaker 1: I'll buy a lot um and and that's not even
Speaker 1: including miscancer screenings and all these very real ramifications. I
Speaker 1: think that this is going to be a little bit
Speaker 1: like you know, when you sometimes if you have a
Speaker 1: bad you know, if you got like a bayonet wound,
Speaker 1: you don't know how bad it is until the bayonet
Speaker 1: comes out. I think, until the lockdowns, you know, really end,
Speaker 1: and then people realize, well, what happens to all the
Speaker 1: delinquent mortgages, and what happens to what happened to all
Speaker 1: these businesses that haven't made any money in nine months?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think then people realize, did what did
Speaker 1: we get for this? That's that's also a great way
Speaker 1: to you know, a great point. I mean, the negative
Speaker 1: externalities of the lockdowns are going to be immense for
Speaker 1: the economy, for our our our our lives, for kids lives,
Speaker 1: or you know, in third grade I think is the
Speaker 1: grade where you like, see if the kids, the kids
Speaker 1: need helps and if you help in reading or whatever,
Speaker 1: and if you don't intervene, it gets worse and worse
Speaker 1: and things like that. I mean, how many children are
Speaker 1: going to suffer because of this? How many how many
Speaker 1: depressed people have killed themselves, et cetera, drug overdoses. It's
Speaker 1: just terrible. And we're supposed to weigh these things. Now,
Speaker 1: let me ask, I mean, does anyone really believe that
Speaker 1: if we had not locked down things would have been
Speaker 1: that much worse on the COVID front as far as
Speaker 1: the deaths go, I don't know. I keep them, you know,
Speaker 1: I show this and the President retweeted this graph, So
Speaker 1: that got you know, that got me a lot this comment,
Speaker 1: and it's gotten me a lot of unwanted attention on
Speaker 1: line Davis. You and that can happen. I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 1: not possible to be a reasonable person and look at
Speaker 1: what's happening in California right now, in entirely blue state.
Speaker 1: There's there's no Trump, no masking. You know, lobby in
Speaker 1: California doesn't exist. An entirely blue state that was saying
Speaker 1: that they had crushed the virus before. It is not
Speaker 1: possible to look at their not just their cases, but
Speaker 1: their hospitalizations and their overall COVID problem and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: they had this figured out. They it would have been
Speaker 1: much worse if they hadn't done all these things. I
Speaker 1: don't think a reasonable person could say that, And they're
Speaker 1: saying it all the time. Yeah I don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I listen, I don't pretend to have some great expertise
Speaker 1: in this, but it just looking at the world, looking
Speaker 1: at Sweden in other places. I'm not saying it couldn't
Speaker 1: have been marginally worse, but I think weighing what the
Speaker 1: what the cost of this will be for society in
Speaker 1: the long run. Like you said, we can't keep passing
Speaker 1: bills and giving people six hundred dollars checks as first
Speaker 1: of all, it's not going to help them secondly in
Speaker 1: the long run. Secondly, start thinking about what mortgages and
Speaker 1: rents and all these things we've sort of suspended. This
Speaker 1: is real property. People have given loans. This money just
Speaker 1: doesn't disappear simply because people don't pay it back where
Speaker 1: the loans don't. And rent as well, people own those
Speaker 1: buildings they're going to get need to be paid is
Speaker 1: already a backup, and that sort of cascades into other problems,
Speaker 1: and as we've saw in two thousand and seven and
Speaker 1: eight and things like that, when you have a real
Speaker 1: estate market. So I'm just I don't predict anything terrible.
Speaker 1: I don't know how these things are going to play out,
Speaker 1: but it's hard for me to believe that there won't
Speaker 1: be real cost to this societally as we move forward.
Speaker 1: And then when you ask yourself, we just blindly followed,
Speaker 1: you know, doctor Fauci or whoever else. And I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to just blame him. This is a you know,
Speaker 1: the whole expert class was saying these things, was it
Speaker 1: worth it? And I suspect that it probably was not
Speaker 1: worth it because we still have many, many deaths. I
Speaker 1: think that it would have been far better to protect
Speaker 1: and to be honest, we didn't exactly know how this
Speaker 1: you know, in the beginning what was going on, but
Speaker 1: to protect populations that needed it and allow other people
Speaker 1: to move forward with their lives. And we didn't do that,
Speaker 1: and now it's going to be And but here's the
Speaker 1: one last thing. The thing was, they never switched it
Speaker 1: up right once we knew that it was the older
Speaker 1: folks who were the most potentially going to die from this,
Speaker 1: they never switched up their ideas. It was always the same.
Speaker 1: It was always lock it down, don't let people go
Speaker 1: to school, don't work, let the teachers or unions run
Speaker 1: the schools, etc. And that I think is where, not
Speaker 1: at the beginning, but later on, where there's the real
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Speaker 1: the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Maybe four, but at least three. We offered another half
Speaker 1: trillion dollars in relief. It's only to be blocked by
Speaker 1: Democrats here in the Senate Speaker Pelosi was candid. She
Speaker 1: basically said, well, this is about politics. This is we
Speaker 1: don't want to President Trump to get credit for Congress
Speaker 1: stepping up in a bipartisan way to provide relief to
Speaker 1: the American people in the run up to the election.
Speaker 1: That's what you have to know about this giant bill
Speaker 1: and what happened and what led up to this point. There.
Speaker 1: There's really nothing else that you have to know. There's
Speaker 1: really nothing else about this in terms of the process.
Speaker 1: There's a lot about the bill itself, but I mean
Speaker 1: in terms of why was it so delayed. Democrats delayed it.
Speaker 1: That's why we waited months for this, and why do
Speaker 1: they do that because the misery of the American people
Speaker 1: was to their political benefits. Senator John Cornen, there is
Speaker 1: absolutely correct. I want you to remember that, not just
Speaker 1: because it feels like there might be some accountability if
Speaker 1: enough Americans going into the ballot box in not just
Speaker 1: two years, but in a couple of weeks. This Georgia
Speaker 1: Senate run off is essential. Okay, So let's not forget
Speaker 1: that this when we talk about the political battles ahead.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, oh, in a far off land and
Speaker 1: a time, you know, long since forgotten. We're gonna we're
Speaker 1: talking about as soon as we come back from the
Speaker 1: Christmas season, in Christmas break, we're gonna be in this
Speaker 1: Georgia runoff. So I want as many and we have
Speaker 1: a lot of team back in Georgia, a lot of
Speaker 1: people that listen to this show down in Georgia. And
Speaker 1: I want people to remember that the Democrat Party made
Speaker 1: people suffer because it was in their interest politically to
Speaker 1: do so, and people's anxiety their business is made it
Speaker 1: worse for everyone. That is Pelosi's legacy in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty year of COVID trying to play games, holding the
Speaker 1: American people hostage, denying them money they deserve and are
Speaker 1: owed because she says, so, you're in the freedom hunt.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Unless you stop
Speaker 1: the virus everywhere, you don't stop the virus anywhere. What's
Speaker 1: frustrating to me is we've learned these lessons. We went
Speaker 1: through this in the spring. We saw how COVID came
Speaker 1: and the federal government had no idea. You know, everything
Speaker 1: was retrospective. COVID was coming to New York back in February.
Speaker 1: It came February March April, and the federal government didn't
Speaker 1: even know it. They thought it was still in China.
Speaker 1: They didn't figure it out until much later. Let's at
Speaker 1: least learn And when you have well the EU countries
Speaker 1: banning UK, you have the UK itself closing down, what
Speaker 1: are the signal the U need. New York is one
Speaker 1: of the lowest infection rates in the United States, with
Speaker 1: the fourth lowest state in the nation. But I can't
Speaker 1: protect New Yorkers unless we protect the entire country. Governor
Speaker 1: Cuomo can't protect anyone. That That's what we've actually learned.
Speaker 1: There's he's not protecting people. This is not true. The
Speaker 1: things that he has done, the decisions that he has
Speaker 1: made that people have opposed at different phases of this
Speaker 1: have been wrong. And the biggest one, of course, was
Speaker 1: sending COVID positive seniors back into nursing homes from the hospital,
Speaker 1: and that had disastrous results. This notion, though, this slogan
Speaker 1: that he trots out here about how unless you stop
Speaker 1: COVID everywhere, you don't stop COVID anywhere. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: true in a sense, and that's why we don't We're
Speaker 1: not stopping COVID. What world is he living in? It
Speaker 1: is not stopping in America. That has not happened. No
Speaker 1: one has stopped this thing. Some have dealt with the
Speaker 1: spread better than others. But anyone who tells you that
Speaker 1: we crushed the virus, or we flattened the curve, or
Speaker 1: those are all delusional statements, but they're invested. They can't
Speaker 1: admit now that what they've been saying didn't really matter
Speaker 1: what they've done, that the additional pain they've piled on
Speaker 1: top of this pandemic was unnecessary. Do you think you're
Speaker 1: ever going to have politicians who will tell you that
Speaker 1: they'll never admit that would how would you ever want
Speaker 1: them in charge of anything ever? Again? If they had
Speaker 1: to go around and tell people, you know what, we
Speaker 1: destroyed entire industries who put millions, tens of millions of
Speaker 1: people out of work, and we didn't need to do it.
Speaker 1: It was a decision that we made because we were cowards,
Speaker 1: We were ignorant, and we were fearful and exploitative because
Speaker 1: they've used this. Look, let's remember, for Democrats, the single
Speaker 1: most important political goal of twenty twenty, the single most
Speaker 1: important one, was that they wanted to defeat Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: So they look at everything they did this year, and
Speaker 1: you have to keep this in mind. They look at
Speaker 1: all the decisions that were made, all the shutdowns and
Speaker 1: lockdowns and everything else, and no matter how painful it is,
Speaker 1: no matter what the analysis shows about this after the fact,
Speaker 1: in time, they will be happy with the outcome of
Speaker 1: the lockdowns because the lockdowns created the environment for elevating
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. The lockdowns for anyone who doubts me or
Speaker 1: disagrees with me, the lockdowns were the basis for the
Speaker 1: ail in balloting changes that were the absolute, the sine
Speaker 1: qua non, the absolute necessity for the Democrats here was
Speaker 1: to get that change so that they could open the
Speaker 1: doors to the fraud and the irregularities that we saw
Speaker 1: in the election. That was that COVID lockdowns were part
Speaker 1: of the excuse. So they leveraged COVID policy as a
Speaker 1: weapon against Trump, and it was effective for them. We
Speaker 1: know that it was effective. They go on air and
Speaker 1: they blame the president for hundreds of thousands of dead
Speaker 1: people in this country, as though every other country in
Speaker 1: Western Europe, in South America. I mean, do we really
Speaker 1: believe that some of the small island Asian nations for example,
Speaker 1: or smaller island Asian nations, or a country like Australia.
Speaker 1: We think that there's so much better at dealing with
Speaker 1: this virus, or that it's if you're a country that
Speaker 1: can cut off all contact with the outside world, and
Speaker 1: you have a small enough population that you can monitor
Speaker 1: it very very closely, you'll forestall this for a while.
Speaker 1: Although Japan is now actually starting to have cases growing
Speaker 1: in larger numbers too, Is that likely or is it
Speaker 1: more likely that some populations, especially in Asia, have already
Speaker 1: been exposed to enough COVID viruses because of their proximity
Speaker 1: to China, which is where the flu strains come out
Speaker 1: of China and year out. That's what ends up happening.
Speaker 1: It has to do with the massive, massive livestock populations
Speaker 1: and the proximity to human beings and the zoonotic transmission
Speaker 1: that occurs out of Asia, and then that's how you
Speaker 1: get seasonal flu year in and year out. Right, Avian
Speaker 1: flu swine flu originate and originate in Asia, usually in China,
Speaker 1: and then they make their way around the rest of
Speaker 1: the world. Now I know the coronaviruses are different than
Speaker 1: influenza viruses. I always think it's noteworthy too that we
Speaker 1: call it influenza in reference to what the Italians called
Speaker 1: it around the Renaissance period, because I thought it was
Speaker 1: the influence of the stars on people that was called
Speaker 1: causing them to be sick. So even our name for
Speaker 1: it shows a real ignorance, a lack of understanding of
Speaker 1: the intricacies and the realities of a disease like the flu.
Speaker 1: We know some stuff about it, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: we still don't know, and with COVID that's certainly still
Speaker 1: the case. But do we think that some of these
Speaker 1: countries in Asia, for example, are really similar to us
Speaker 1: in the way that the virus could be tackled, in
Speaker 1: the way that their populations have dealt with it, or
Speaker 1: is it a better approximation for approximation for us to
Speaker 1: have European countries to be compared with us. They have
Speaker 1: more were geographically more similar. And when you look at that,
Speaker 1: there's no way you can make an argument that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is the reason for all of this death. It's
Speaker 1: it's simply absurd, it's obscene. But they continue to do it.
Speaker 1: They continue to say things that no honest person could believe.
Speaker 1: But They like this because it allows them to justify
Speaker 1: everything that they've done, and that's why it's going to
Speaker 1: be so hard to get them to think differently at
Speaker 1: all about any of this. They They're going to continue
Speaker 1: this narrative. Is what I'm telling you, that it's all
Speaker 1: Trump's fault, because eventually we're going to look back at
Speaker 1: these lockdowns. We're gonna look back at what has been
Speaker 1: done here and realize that this was disast Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to The bus Esson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe
Speaker 1: on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcasts. I believe, intuitively, it's already here. I believe
Speaker 1: that because if it's been flying around the world, it
Speaker 1: will be here. And I say that intuitively because I
Speaker 1: have an educated intuition because I lived this and you
Speaker 1: live this. Also. I am not a potal moron all
Speaker 1: the time, and so I am aware of the fact
Speaker 1: that by the time it is on the front page
Speaker 1: of major in those papers, a virus that has spread very,
Speaker 1: very rapidly, it's probably already here. Yeah, you don't say,
Speaker 1: what a shock, Thanks Cuomo, your buffoon. This is why
Speaker 1: this talk about about shutting down flights. I'm seeing people
Speaker 1: saying this. We wanted to shut down flights from China
Speaker 1: because we thought that we didn't realize where the virus
Speaker 1: had already spread to. We also knew that there was
Speaker 1: a tremendous hot zone in China, and we needed more
Speaker 1: time to figure out what we were going to do.
Speaker 1: But we've had a lot of time to figure out
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do now, and this virus has been
Speaker 1: in free circulation. There's there's no reason to believe that
Speaker 1: this is limited to the UK. The more more transmissible
Speaker 1: strain of this, they say it's seventy percent more infectious,
Speaker 1: and they think maybe it's more infectious among children, But again, okay,
Speaker 1: even if it is more infectious among children, it is
Speaker 1: at you know, I don't like to say no risk
Speaker 1: because then people will come at you and they'll say, well, look,
Speaker 1: two out of ten million kids that got this have
Speaker 1: died from COVID, which is about what the number is.
Speaker 1: Your chances if you're if you're under eighteen of dying
Speaker 1: from COVID nineteen, if you have a normal immune system,
Speaker 1: are like one in a million. I mean they're actually
Speaker 1: I don't mean that. I don't mean one in a
Speaker 1: million as an exaggeration. I think it is about one
Speaker 1: in a million. It's infinitesimal. But if I say no risk,
Speaker 1: they'll say, oh, but people died. You're lying, right, So
Speaker 1: it's very, very very entirely acceptable risk. And that's really
Speaker 1: the phrase here. I want to hold in on entirely
Speaker 1: acceptable risk. We have demagogues and authoritarians and a cowardly
Speaker 1: media that are all working together right now to eliminate
Speaker 1: the possibility of you being in charge of determining what
Speaker 1: is acceptable risk when it comes to viruses and health
Speaker 1: for you and your family. They're making all these decisions
Speaker 1: for you because when we pushed back, they say, oh,
Speaker 1: but there's risk for other people, so it's not risk
Speaker 1: for you. It's about spreading the virus. And this I
Speaker 1: want to say, yeah, but there's also my freedom, my liberty,
Speaker 1: and the Constitution at stake here, and there's always been
Speaker 1: risk to other people from human interaction of aerosolized viruses.
Speaker 1: I'm also going to say this now, and I want
Speaker 1: you to remember that I said it asymptomatic transmission has
Speaker 1: been exaggerated. I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's not a concern. It has been exaggerated. Why
Speaker 1: I know it's been exaggerated because if they had stronger numbers,
Speaker 1: we would see it all the time. But what they
Speaker 1: do is they have these largely anecdotal studies to push
Speaker 1: asymptomatic transmission because then it couldn't you can't be relied
Speaker 1: on to avoid other people if you could feel totally
Speaker 1: healthy but still spread this virus. Think about that, we're
Speaker 1: all hiding. We have all these problems because of a
Speaker 1: virus that we've been told almost fifty percent of the
Speaker 1: time forty percent asymptomatic spread. Was what they were saying
Speaker 1: in the beginning of the summer. We were told spreads
Speaker 1: where people don't even know they have a virus. That is,
Speaker 1: for most people, that the degree of lethality and danger
Speaker 1: that this virus is for them, they don't even know
Speaker 1: they have it. I mean, if you have a bad
Speaker 1: case of strep throat, you're going to be in misery
Speaker 1: for a few days until your antibiotics kick in. You
Speaker 1: get this you don't even know you have it, is
Speaker 1: what they tell us. Now. I think that asymptomatic transmission
Speaker 1: asympmoatic cases. I'm sure it's very widespread. Asymptomatic transmission doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense. Let me ask you this now, sorry, let
Speaker 1: me let me go back for a second. It's not
Speaker 1: that it doesn't exist asymptomatic transmission. It's that as a
Speaker 1: widespread problem and cause of this disease, that doesn't add up.
Speaker 1: Why would this disease spread so easily among asymptomatic people.
Speaker 1: But other viruses out there, what the seasonal influenza, different viruses,
Speaker 1: does not spread so easily among asymptomatic people. It may
Speaker 1: be pre symptomatic people, and that's a different thing. Do
Speaker 1: you shed a lot of virus right before you show symptoms? Yes,
Speaker 1: that is true of other things, so it may be
Speaker 1: true of this one as well. But what we are
Speaker 1: told to believe is that this is an outlier in
Speaker 1: that you could be three days into an infection, feel
Speaker 1: totally fine, gopher runs outside, go lift some weights, feel
Speaker 1: totally fine, and people around you and you're just shooting
Speaker 1: virus at them all the time that can infect them.
Speaker 1: That's unique. We know this, that's unique compared to other diseases.
Speaker 1: And where is the really hard evidence of that? Where
Speaker 1: is the hard evidence of it? Well, that they won't
Speaker 1: provide you with hard evidence because they lack hard evidence,
Speaker 1: that's the truth. They have a lot of anecdotal data
Speaker 1: and do this or else. And remember, much of what
Speaker 1: they've done here is also premised on we can't wait
Speaker 1: to see real data. So we're going to tell you
Speaker 1: do this based on the data because we can't wait,
Speaker 1: and if we see how it actually would work in reality,
Speaker 1: we'll already have suffered too many casualties. That's what they
Speaker 1: That's the way they forced us to do all these things.
Speaker 1: You know, they kind of put a gun to wall
Speaker 1: of our heads simultaneously and say obey us, because by
Speaker 1: the time you figure out we're not correct with our
Speaker 1: COVID policies, it'll be too late. I'm sorry that did
Speaker 1: you think we're not correct, and we are correct, it'll
Speaker 1: be too late. That's their premise. This whole thing has
Speaker 1: gotten so out of control. And I've been saying this
Speaker 1: for a long time. You know, I was right here.
Speaker 1: We are lockdown two point zero big second wave. Why
Speaker 1: is it New York City being hit more by this?
Speaker 1: I think it's important for us to think this one through.
Speaker 1: Why is it New York City being hit harder? We
Speaker 1: have super high population density. We have a lot of people,
Speaker 1: essential workers and others who are still I'm going into
Speaker 1: an office every day. I've had friends recently who have
Speaker 1: come down with COVID, so it's very much out there.
Speaker 1: But New York City has about half the positivity rate
Speaker 1: based on testing. And I know there's a lot of
Speaker 1: ways testing skews this debate because how much testing are
Speaker 1: you doing? How the people, let's say, oh, testing doesn't
Speaker 1: create cases, are being intentionally obtuse. They're being morons, right,
Speaker 1: because the point isn't that you create it's if you
Speaker 1: test a lot of people and there's a high there's
Speaker 1: a high false positive rate, and on top of that,
Speaker 1: you're catching more of the COVID that's already out there
Speaker 1: compared to previous testing when you were doing less and
Speaker 1: therefore you weren't seeing as much COVID. There are real
Speaker 1: reasons why the numbers are skewed. That's obvious that new
Speaker 1: things through this. I would just note I would return
Speaker 1: to why does New York City have a lower positivity
Speaker 1: rate than the rest of New York State? And I
Speaker 1: think the answer is, well, I shouldn't say the answer
Speaker 1: is an explanation for it is in the prology testing
Speaker 1: that we did back in May or June, we saw
Speaker 1: that about twenty percent of New York City had been infected.
Speaker 1: That is the official number based on the extrapolation of
Speaker 1: a large number of blood tests looking for antibodies. Twenty
Speaker 1: percent of the whole city. Since then, we've obviously had
Speaker 1: a we've had far more cases, and we also did
Speaker 1: not catch I mean, the twenty percent was probably a
Speaker 1: low figure. It might have even been eighteen or nineteen
Speaker 1: percent officially, but it was a low figure. And you've
Speaker 1: got to add at least another five or ten percent
Speaker 1: on top of that for what's happened since then, So
Speaker 1: you're getting close to a third of the city would
Speaker 1: already have had COVID and had anybodies. So while we're
Speaker 1: going around masking and distancing and doing this whole dance,
Speaker 1: we've been doing the whole time, and a New York
Speaker 1: City where where California was over the summer, because everyone's
Speaker 1: patting themselves in the back, look what a great job
Speaker 1: we're doing. Well, are we doing a great job or
Speaker 1: do we just have a large percentage of the population
Speaker 1: that has effectively no longer at risk to this disease,
Speaker 1: and did we already lose so many of the highest
Speaker 1: risk individuals in the nursing homes that yes, right now
Speaker 1: we're going to look like we're better off. You see
Speaker 1: what Quoba has done. Cuomo is like a general who
Speaker 1: loses all of his soldiers in the first engagement of
Speaker 1: a war, and then three months later at the command
Speaker 1: staff headquarters is saying, well, I have the lowest casualties
Speaker 1: this month. Well, yeah, it's because you lost everybody in
Speaker 1: the first engagement. You lost everyone in the first battle.
Speaker 1: And there's there's some truth to that as a way
Speaker 1: of understanding what's happening in New York as I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's true in other places as well. That really what
Speaker 1: Cuomo has overseen here is a disastrous first response with
Speaker 1: casualties and spread of the virus so high that now
Speaker 1: in the second wave, New York City still has problems
Speaker 1: to be People are not all immune to this. I
Speaker 1: get that, but in the second wave of this, what
Speaker 1: you have are people, a large number of people who
Speaker 1: can't get it, which slows the transmission dramatically. And of
Speaker 1: course they're gonna say it's masks in social distancing, but
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Speaker 1: to subscribe on Apple Podcast, the iHeart Radio app, or
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Carol Mark, what's on from
Speaker 1: New York Post? New York's restaurant killing rules make no
Speaker 1: sense and it keeps getting worse. Carol, Great to have
Speaker 1: you back on the show. Hi, how's it going good?
Speaker 1: So the restaurant rules are crazy? Just just go over
Speaker 1: what are some of the most absurd ones for everyone
Speaker 1: to know. Well, while while the cases are rising and
Speaker 1: everyone's all in this panic, the authorities are taking the
Speaker 1: time to tell you things that are. It's the absurdity
Speaker 1: just keeps mounting. Yeah, well, I just want to also
Speaker 1: make it clear that the cases, while they are rising,
Speaker 1: they're the second lowest in the state in New York City,
Speaker 1: and so in New York City is the only area
Speaker 1: of the state that has restaurant indoor dining closed. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting that the place with the second
Speaker 1: lowest numbers, the second lowest hospitalization, is the only place
Speaker 1: targeted for closure. So, right off the bat, that's pretty
Speaker 1: ridiculous to me. They try to stop people from being
Speaker 1: able to use the bathrooms when they're in the outdoor dining.
Speaker 1: They're saying that people can't go into the restaurant to
Speaker 1: use the bathroom, and the restaurants pushed back on that
Speaker 1: hard because it was obviously completely absurd, and they reverse
Speaker 1: themselves on that on the same day in the same
Speaker 1: dick Cat they also put out that you had to
Speaker 1: order if you were getting takeout from a restaurant, you
Speaker 1: had to order it by phone or on the internet.
Speaker 1: And so a lot of these small businesses, like for example,
Speaker 1: the coffee shop on my corner, it's one person behind
Speaker 1: the counter and or maybe two, you know, one person
Speaker 1: making the coffee during the busy times and one person
Speaker 1: taking the money. There's not a third person to go
Speaker 1: out to the street and sorry, because you also had
Speaker 1: to pick it up curbside. That was the other second
Speaker 1: part of that. There's not a third person to go
Speaker 1: out in the street and pick it up curbside. There's
Speaker 1: not a third person to take orders on the phone
Speaker 1: or via the internet. You can only have so many
Speaker 1: people in the space. So yeah, there's all these insane things.
Speaker 1: They keep changing the rules on these restaurant owners. I
Speaker 1: spoke to so many restaurant owners. There's just so much
Speaker 1: that they all these kinds of rules being thrown at
Speaker 1: them all the time, changed all the time, and it's
Speaker 1: a really bad situation. At what point are people going
Speaker 1: to realize who aren't in the restaurant industry that if
Speaker 1: this continues, there's no way And as you point out,
Speaker 1: I think that's important. On the one hand, Cuomo is
Speaker 1: telling us at the state level, New York's actually doing
Speaker 1: pretty well as a state given what's going on in
Speaker 1: much the rest of the country. When it comes to COVID,
Speaker 1: New York City specifically is great, is doing well, and
Speaker 1: so they've they've shut indoor dining almost it seems like
Speaker 1: as a preventative measure, even though they only said one
Speaker 1: point seven percent of cases come from New York City.
Speaker 1: But that preventative measure, I mean, the mentality behind this
Speaker 1: means as far as I can see, and I've been
Speaker 1: saying there's going to be another lockdown, which we're in
Speaker 1: now for six months, yeah, that this will continue until
Speaker 1: at least April or May. And what do they think
Speaker 1: is going to be left? Yeah? Right exactly. Every time
Speaker 1: that any of these people who support restaurant closures, like
Speaker 1: talk about their favorite restaurant closing, I just have to
Speaker 1: fight my tongue because I could just lose it on them,
Speaker 1: like what do you think is closing these restaurants if
Speaker 1: not the fact that they can't exist. And the other
Speaker 1: thing is I went out to a restaurant last week
Speaker 1: and it was thirty five degrees outside. We sat outside
Speaker 1: and it was the heat lamp. And the first hour
Speaker 1: you're kind of like, okay, you have a drink, you
Speaker 1: take up her coat, you're under heat lap, You're doing okay.
Speaker 1: The second hour, I could not feel my toes and
Speaker 1: it was just I don't know how often I can
Speaker 1: do that. I don't know how often anybody can do that.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, the thing that I really thought
Speaker 1: as I was sitting there in this restaurant that most
Speaker 1: of the tables were full outside, is that if these
Speaker 1: people didn't have this outdoor space to go to, they
Speaker 1: didn't have a restaurant to go to, they would be
Speaker 1: somewhere else. They'd be inside, inside their homes. It's not
Speaker 1: like people are not going to gather. That's it. They're gathering.
Speaker 1: This lockdown thing is over. Nobody's following it anymore. It's
Speaker 1: it's over, and our politicians just have to face it.
Speaker 1: It's done. Speaking to Carol Markowitz, opinion columnist at The
Speaker 1: New York Post, she's got a piece up on New
Speaker 1: York's restaurant killing rules, and I just would wonder, you know,
Speaker 1: how we are how are we doing right now with schools.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that we'd be in a break anyway,
Speaker 1: but give me an update on the status of the schools. Well,
Speaker 1: you know it, it was a really splashy story when
Speaker 1: schools reopened in November, because actually in December, sorry early December,
Speaker 1: because dolde Blasio said, Okay, now we're going to reopen
Speaker 1: schools after closing them for really no reason at all,
Speaker 1: and we're going to move to a full time model.
Speaker 1: And I almost fell down on the floor. We're moving
Speaker 1: to a full time school model. Wow, that's amazing, and
Speaker 1: it was so believable because it's totally not happening. No,
Speaker 1: very few schools are opening full time. The insanity and
Speaker 1: ineptitude behind all these decisions. When they Blasio made that announcement,
Speaker 1: he got his headlines. But almost no school that I
Speaker 1: know of is going full time because they just don't
Speaker 1: have the space to keep social distancing and and do
Speaker 1: full time. And my concern, honestly is already not even
Speaker 1: for this year. I sort of think this year is
Speaker 1: done and schools are not going to improve, and they're
Speaker 1: not going to open for any longer length of time
Speaker 1: than they are right now. My concern is September. My
Speaker 1: concern is and still the kids won't have a vaccine.
Speaker 1: There's not even trials yet for kids under twelve, So
Speaker 1: what's going to happen if they still have the social distance?
Speaker 1: I mean that elementary school kids are starting to be
Speaker 1: going to school at most two or three days a week,
Speaker 1: and it's really just not a path forward. This is
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's stunning, and it's honestly pretty saddening
Speaker 1: just to even think about this, But I think it's important.
Speaker 1: I think everyone needs to know that. This is why
Speaker 1: he keeps saying, you know, the closing restaurants. Now they
Speaker 1: tell you it's for a couple, There's no way it's
Speaker 1: only for a couple of weeks, because once once they've
Speaker 1: got the closure, they don't want to be the ones.
Speaker 1: You know, it's much much more politically dangerous in their minds,
Speaker 1: forget about any health danger, politically dangerous to reopen the
Speaker 1: middle of winter and then there's a spike and then
Speaker 1: it's on you. So once they get closures, once they
Speaker 1: get these rules in place, the overwhelming momentum is going
Speaker 1: to be you know, everything that they're doing to us
Speaker 1: right now and everything they say they may still do
Speaker 1: to us, they're going to carry that all the way
Speaker 1: through the winter. And you know, and as I say, it,
Speaker 1: really April or May as when we'll start to be told, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe you can have some normalcyback, even with the vaccine
Speaker 1: out there. Because remember the vaccine is going to take time.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows that. But also they have created a near
Speaker 1: zero risk tolerance in the public perception right for what
Speaker 1: we can do, and the vaccine doesn't bring the risk
Speaker 1: to zero. And you know, the other thing I've been
Speaker 1: just talking about a lot lately is that our pathetic
Speaker 1: New York City politicians are not standing up to Clomo. Again.
Speaker 1: Our restaurants is the only restaurants closed, and in a
Speaker 1: lot of cases, our schools are the only schools closed,
Speaker 1: and most of the suburban areas schools are open full time.
Speaker 1: It is all under you know, on Cuomo's watch, and
Speaker 1: none of our pathetic, useless steet warming politicians who will
Speaker 1: not stand up for our city are saying a word
Speaker 1: about it. You know, the these councilmen going to these
Speaker 1: protests for restaurants without not protesting to open the restaurants. No,
Speaker 1: they're they're protesting to get a federal bill out for
Speaker 1: the restaurants. Or another councilman in Brooklyn is really into
Speaker 1: getting insurance companies to pay for these restaurants. They're basically
Speaker 1: like someone else has to pay. And that's where they are.
Speaker 1: They're not saying, let's open these restaurants. They're saying, so much,
Speaker 1: give these people money. We should have a rent free
Speaker 1: you that's the other great idea which I have rent
Speaker 1: free and just passed the pain along to landlords because
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna approtest for them in three months.
Speaker 1: You think they're going to do about evictions, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what they can do about it right now. Commercial
Speaker 1: evictions can still go on. I think they're trying to
Speaker 1: pressure Governor Como would have stopped that, which is you know,
Speaker 1: it's such a tough spot because obviously if the landmour
Speaker 1: is not getting paid, they could figure it out with themselves.
Speaker 1: With the restaurant, they can the restaurant can maybe have
Speaker 1: a payment plan, or they can negotiate the rent down,
Speaker 1: because it's not like somebody else is coming into the space.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're speaking of Carol Mark Whit's got a
Speaker 1: great column the New York Post on what's happening to
Speaker 1: the restaurant and hospitality industry in New York City because
Speaker 1: of these honestly, just in some cases absurd and frivolous
Speaker 1: rules and regulations that are being instituted. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just nonsense. But but Carol, are you are you beginning
Speaker 1: to hear a little more from your Brooklyn Night I'm
Speaker 1: a Manhattanite. Are you hearing more from from Democrats or
Speaker 1: seeing any willingness on their side to say Because for
Speaker 1: a while, as long as this was about Trump, it
Speaker 1: didn't matter. It didn't matter how much we suffered anything else.
Speaker 1: It was you can't give into this. The anti lockdown
Speaker 1: thing and Trump were intertwined. Now I look around the city,
Speaker 1: I'm like, have you guys had enough yet? This really
Speaker 1: isn't about Trump? Do you see any change in mentality?
Speaker 1: Or they really think in Saint Fauci we trust. The
Speaker 1: only thing I've seen is shift on is school because
Speaker 1: the New York Times, the Atlantic, they all sort of
Speaker 1: made it okay to shift your position on schools. But
Speaker 1: they still don't care about the science of whether people
Speaker 1: are catching this at restaurants, which again they're not. And
Speaker 1: I don't know what it will take. I really don't.
Speaker 1: I call these full the pajama class because they're sitting
Speaker 1: at home and their pajamas, getting paid on their laptops, like,
Speaker 1: and they don't care what's going on around them. And
Speaker 1: it's really bad that they are unable to see their
Speaker 1: neighbor's pain and the way that their livelihoods are being
Speaker 1: destroyed for no reason. I think first to say, let's
Speaker 1: close restaurants if there was evidence that restaurants were contributing
Speaker 1: to like a high spread, But there just isn't. And again,
Speaker 1: anybody going to a restaurant is probably hanging out with
Speaker 1: the same people at home anyway, So shutting down indoor
Speaker 1: dining is just moving it indoors to other locations. Carol Marco,
Speaker 1: It's Carol and the New York Post. Great writing, Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining you, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: having me. We mentioned Deblasio before. What is he really
Speaker 1: focused on? What is Deblasio focusing in on right now?
Speaker 1: Where does what does he think his energy in his
Speaker 1: time should be spent. I like to say, very bluntly,
Speaker 1: our mission is to redistribute wealth. A lot of people
Speaker 1: bristle at that phrase. That is, in fact phrase we
Speaker 1: need to use. We have been doing this work for
Speaker 1: seven years to more equitably redistribute resources throughout our school system.
Speaker 1: This guy, this buffoon, is giving Marxism lectures while the
Speaker 1: city of New York is in desperate straits. That's really
Speaker 1: what he's doing, redistribute the wealth. This guy thinks he
Speaker 1: is on a mission from on high although I don't
Speaker 1: know what higher power he believes in one or the other.
Speaker 1: But this is a guy thinks that his purpose in
Speaker 1: life isn't to make New York the crown jewel of
Speaker 1: American cities and the greatest city in the world, which
Speaker 1: I think it has been for a long time. I mean,
Speaker 1: I love this place. Don't get me wrong. I keep
Speaker 1: coming back. I've moved twice to DC and I said
Speaker 1: I've had enough. I want to go back to New York.
Speaker 1: I love New York City. My family is here. This
Speaker 1: place is a part of me. It's been a huge
Speaker 1: part of my life, and I've never felt before. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: after nine eleven, we got hit badly, but we rally
Speaker 1: and we knew once we got almost a year past
Speaker 1: nine to eleven, and if you look at where we
Speaker 1: are now, you know, almost a year past the pandemic
Speaker 1: to where we would have been a year past nine
Speaker 1: to eleven. You know, we rallied, and yet it was
Speaker 1: a terrible loss, and we had to come together and
Speaker 1: support you know, NYPD and FDNY after the losses that
Speaker 1: they suffered, and friends and members and family members of
Speaker 1: our community. But we knew, we rallied. We knew we
Speaker 1: were coming back to as a city and as a country,
Speaker 1: and there was that mentality of they're they're not going
Speaker 1: to shut us down. They're not going to stop us
Speaker 1: from being who we are with this, with this, with
Speaker 1: this pandemic as it plays out here. I look around
Speaker 1: and I say, there are a lot of people who
Speaker 1: don't really see the restrictions and the destruction of the
Speaker 1: economy and of social and cultural life, and they don't
Speaker 1: see that as an urgent problem. They liked the control
Speaker 1: and they like the belief that they're saving lives by
Speaker 1: being the busybodies that are up in your face telling
Speaker 1: you wear a mask. They think that that's really the
Speaker 1: great contribution that they're making to this. All you do
Speaker 1: is wear a mask. You're a good person, not one
Speaker 1: of those bad people. And look, I wear a mask.
Speaker 1: I have to, and I'm very I wear fresh masks,
Speaker 1: I washed my mask. I'm very judicious about it because
Speaker 1: I have to be, because you have no choice here.
Speaker 1: So don't don't think that I'm walking around. I went
Speaker 1: through a period over the summer where it was just absurd,
Speaker 1: and there's so few cases in New York City. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then everyone's complaining I was the unmasked guy walking
Speaker 1: around my building. And what I wasn't sitting in rooms
Speaker 1: with people for a long period of time, but just
Speaker 1: walking past them for ten seconds. You know that. And
Speaker 1: now here we are end up Blasio to bring this
Speaker 1: all full circle. The Blasio is out there talking about Marxism.
Speaker 1: He used the destruction of New York City as we
Speaker 1: know it as an opportunity. You have to remember that
Speaker 1: we have the enormous vacancy issue on all these hotels.
Speaker 1: I mean, who wants to stay in a New York
Speaker 1: City hotel right now? You want to go stay one
Speaker 1: of those big hotels near Times Square? You know, I
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of people are excited about that.
Speaker 1: And and never mind all the commercial real estate that
Speaker 1: is not getting us right now, and they're saying they
Speaker 1: want to switch it to residential. In some cases they're
Speaker 1: looking at changing the zoning to do that. You know
Speaker 1: what Deblasio is gonna want to do. He's gonna want
Speaker 1: to create, He's gonna want to take, He's gonna jack
Speaker 1: taxes up on people who are you know, earners, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna try to take and take as much money
Speaker 1: as he can to subsidize other people's housing. And I
Speaker 1: think his real plan down if he can, if he's
Speaker 1: got time to do it before he has to leave office,
Speaker 1: will be to set up as much subsidized housing in
Speaker 1: some of these office spaces as he can, whether it's
Speaker 1: middle income housing or however. The New York then nyc
Speaker 1: HA is going to do it, but they'll set up something,
Speaker 1: They'll set up some subside housing. I mean, Deblasio really
Speaker 1: thinks that a poorer, more dangerous New York City is
Speaker 1: an opportunity to yes, you guessed it, redistribute the wealth,
Speaker 1: as if that's going to make this place better, as
Speaker 1: if that's going to improve things like that's why people
Speaker 1: show up in New York, to have some idiot Marxist
Speaker 1: in charge telling them what they can and can't do.
Speaker 1: I have to tell you there's a school on the
Speaker 1: Upper east Side, and it was I knew the school
Speaker 1: a little bit when I was growing up. I knew
Speaker 1: people went there. I went to Regis, which was also
Speaker 1: in the Upper east Side. Regis was the Catholic Scholarship
Speaker 1: school on eighty fifth Street. This school was just a
Speaker 1: few blocks away in eighty nine Street, the Dalton School,
Speaker 1: I've got to tell you this little break from on
Speaker 1: the COVID talk. I've got to tell you about the
Speaker 1: list of They're saying it was a starting port for negotiations,
Speaker 1: but it's really a list of demands for faculty members
Speaker 1: there of the school and what it has to do.
Speaker 1: This the same kind of woke and social justice focus
Speaker 1: that guides the minds of someone like a build a
Speaker 1: Blasio on display at a school that's a fifty I
Speaker 1: think it's fifty four thousand dollars a year tuition for
Speaker 1: the first grade. We're not even talking about I mean
Speaker 1: there's a high school too, But you got you got
Speaker 1: eight year olds, nine year olds. Parents are writing over
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars checks so they can learn their ABC's.
Speaker 1: You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sex
Speaker 1: and Show podcast. This one is for the parents out
Speaker 1: there and for a wall for anyone, for the kids
Speaker 1: that are listening. Probably two That and my mom tells
Speaker 1: a story around the family dinner table when we celebrate
Speaker 1: my birthday every year. That I am now a syndicated
Speaker 1: radio host on over one hundred and eighty stations, and
Speaker 1: I've filled in for the biggest radio shows in the
Speaker 1: country with success in turn of the listenership and the
Speaker 1: response to Rush Limbaugh to Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck
Speaker 1: that the three biggest and best shows on the radio
Speaker 1: right now from the syndication perspective. So I've done all that,
Speaker 1: and I think it's worth noting for everybody that I
Speaker 1: am somebody who started out with a whole lot of
Speaker 1: trouble talking. I was a kid who had a speech impediment.
Speaker 1: I always forget the exact but it's essentially a pronunciation defect.
Speaker 1: There was a more official speech therapist term for it.
Speaker 1: But I was somebody who just heard words one way
Speaker 1: and mispronounced them. And this was really embarrassing. As a kid,
Speaker 1: I actually mispronounced believe it or not, I mispronounced my
Speaker 1: own name, and yes I would. I would tell people
Speaker 1: my name was I would tell people. And I was
Speaker 1: a little kid, you know, seven and six seven years
Speaker 1: old my name was butt. And you can imagine that
Speaker 1: that did not go over well with my years. And
Speaker 1: I was very aware. And I also I had to
Speaker 1: have speech therapy lessons as a kid, and so this
Speaker 1: is about the second or third grade speech therapy lessons.
Speaker 1: And I also had to have additional outside tutoring because
Speaker 1: I was falling behind, probably because I lacked confidence in
Speaker 1: a lack of confidence in all the different areas of
Speaker 1: academics at that, you know, writing and trying to begin
Speaker 1: reading and things like that. And my mom, who is
Speaker 1: a superstar champion mom of the universe, never gave up
Speaker 1: on me, and my dad encouraged me, and they stuck
Speaker 1: through it with me. And by the time I got
Speaker 1: to the fifth grade, I was the top student by
Speaker 1: far in my class. By the time I got to
Speaker 1: the eighth grade, I got a full scholarship to a
Speaker 1: private high school in New York. It was one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars scholarship. So stick by your kids and those
Speaker 1: you're listening to this. If you got any trouble in school,
Speaker 1: you have a speech impediment, you have to stutter, stay
Speaker 1: on it, stay grade, stay proud, keeper shield high. You're
Speaker 1: in the Freedom Hut. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 1: I was a kid making fun of Dalton kids because
Speaker 1: you know, all that school rivalry stuff. We were in
Speaker 1: the same neighborhood. I never thought I'd be on radio
Speaker 1: later on talking about how crazy the Dalton school has gotten,
Speaker 1: but This is indicative of the whole woke mindset that
Speaker 1: this is just it's an example. I want to be
Speaker 1: clear about this, but it's one that this could be
Speaker 1: any corporation. Any company these days has training like this
Speaker 1: city employees in different places, as seen by some of
Speaker 1: the work that mister Christopher rufo of. I think he's
Speaker 1: with the Manhattan Institute, but the work that he's done
Speaker 1: to show that people get this anti racism training as
Speaker 1: part of being a municipal employee in places like Seattle,
Speaker 1: you get anti race racism. Isn't the absence of racism.
Speaker 1: You see, they're escalate the rhetoric changes for a purpose.
Speaker 1: This is not just because people are bored in the
Speaker 1: social justice circles. They're actually doing this for a reason.
Speaker 1: So they create this demand of anti racism. And what
Speaker 1: that effectively is is that it means you have to
Speaker 1: take affirmative steps. You have to take actions as prescribed
Speaker 1: to work against racism. It's not enough to just not
Speaker 1: be racist. You have to do and institutions have to
Speaker 1: do penance in order to make up for the racism
Speaker 1: all around them and the racism they benefit from and
Speaker 1: the racism of history. Now do you ever think that
Speaker 1: you reach a point where you've done enough of this?
Speaker 1: Is there ever such a thing as enough anti racism?
Speaker 1: Remember not we shouldn't be racist. We all agree on
Speaker 1: that racism is bad, racism is immoral, this is something else.
Speaker 1: This is well. Now, there are demands that come from
Speaker 1: the from the anti racism movement that you have to meet.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what you've done. Like I could sit
Speaker 1: here and say, well, hold on a second, I'm the
Speaker 1: I'm the chief financial officer of this company, and uh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do this. I don't want to
Speaker 1: give into your list of demands because I treat all
Speaker 1: my employees very well. I advance. You know, I've got
Speaker 1: African American employees and very senior roles and they're very happy.
Speaker 1: And I treat everybody as equals and I'm a good person.
Speaker 1: And the anti racism movement would say no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. That doesn't matter. You give in to the
Speaker 1: anti racism demands because of the system around you that's
Speaker 1: even allowed you, as a white male, to be the CFO.
Speaker 1: Don't you see your actions, your decency, your color blindness
Speaker 1: in the way you treat people. None of that matters
Speaker 1: to the anti racism movement, because ultimately this is a shakedown, right. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: this is do as we say or else. It's not
Speaker 1: about whether you're a good person or your racist or not,
Speaker 1: or your institutions racist or not. There's racism everywhere. And
Speaker 1: the only way that you can be absolved of the
Speaker 1: constant original sin of existing as a white American today
Speaker 1: who does not take part in the anti racism movement
Speaker 1: is to take part of the anti racism movement. There's
Speaker 1: no other way. There's there's no other option. And now
Speaker 1: this brings me to the Dalton School. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is kind of hilarious. This place is a bastion of
Speaker 1: ultra elitism. I'm just going to say this right now
Speaker 1: because I knew a lot of these kids growing up.
Speaker 1: And I also went to a college that a lot
Speaker 1: of Dalton kids like to go to, or a fair
Speaker 1: number of them want to go to, and you know,
Speaker 1: aspire to go to. And I just tell you there
Speaker 1: are plenty of kids that go to Harvard and go
Speaker 1: to you know, Princeton and Stanford and all these schools
Speaker 1: who don't have parents paying fifty four thousand dollars a
Speaker 1: year to send them to school, and this is just nuts.
Speaker 1: It's just not worth it. I mean, if you're if
Speaker 1: you're so rich that money has very little meaning. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe, and it creates this sort of social connection.
Speaker 1: But a lot of a lot of kids who go
Speaker 1: to these kinds of these kinds of super fancy private schools.
Speaker 1: And again I know, and many of them were friends
Speaker 1: of mine or people that I knew growing up. They
Speaker 1: don't end up been very much they they end up
Speaker 1: I mean, if mom and dad have so much money
Speaker 1: that they can buy their way through life, maybe, but
Speaker 1: that's a lot of money, right, That's that's a very
Speaker 1: high bar. Anyway, the Dalton School list of demands, and
Speaker 1: this comes after remember Meghan Kelly is very very high
Speaker 1: profile removal of her children from the Collegiate School, which
Speaker 1: was a rival of my school, Saint David's, growing up.
Speaker 1: So I know the Collegiate School very well. Meghan Kelly,
Speaker 1: formerly of Fox News, now you know, does her own projects.
Speaker 1: She pulled her child out publicly, just said I'm pulling
Speaker 1: my kid out, and I believe it was over, Although
Speaker 1: I don't know if she really got into this much yet,
Speaker 1: I believe it was over this sort of transgender and
Speaker 1: gender identity training that was being look that they were
Speaker 1: trying to brainwash her son into Collegiates, an all boys school.
Speaker 1: I don't even you can't even say that anymore. Collegiate
Speaker 1: is a school of self identified male gender individuals. But
Speaker 1: she pulled her student out daltin very similar place. Here's
Speaker 1: this stuff that they want. I mean, this is where
Speaker 1: you really get into the why is this getting so
Speaker 1: much attention? Now? Apparent leaked a memo and it's a
Speaker 1: list of demands. One hundred and twenty nine faculty and
Speaker 1: staff members signed this. That's most of the faculty and
Speaker 1: staff at the Daltins school. I can tell you that.
Speaker 1: All right, that's a big chunk of I mean maybe
Speaker 1: they've got two hundred and faculty ins that maybe, I
Speaker 1: don't know, that would be a lot. I mean, one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine is going to be almost everybody.
Speaker 1: So the faculty and staff signed this thing. They attest
Speaker 1: to this, and this was given out to parents, and
Speaker 1: here are some of the demands laid out. They want
Speaker 1: twelve diversity officers. That's right, they want twelve adults paid.
Speaker 1: I'm sure a very competitive salary for something that they
Speaker 1: think that anyone could do. Twelve adults, probably paid all
Speaker 1: in the six figure range, whose only job is to
Speaker 1: go around this school which does not have I mean,
Speaker 1: I find out how many student only has a few
Speaker 1: with the high school, probably five hundred kids in the
Speaker 1: whole thing and something like that. But this school is
Speaker 1: going to have twelve people and twelve adults whose only
Speaker 1: job is to go around and effectively find racism and
Speaker 1: lack of race equity in the school in the way
Speaker 1: that it's it's doing, you know, whatever it is that
Speaker 1: it's doing, whether we're talking about academics or anything else.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of diversity. I mean, I think one
Speaker 1: diversity officer is too many, because why do you need
Speaker 1: diversity officers? Can people just you know, if the school
Speaker 1: wants to make a play to be very diverse, the
Speaker 1: admissions committee can do that and they can have that
Speaker 1: as part of their ethos, and you need someone to
Speaker 1: monitor that well. Having a diversity officers part of the diversity.
Speaker 1: That's part of the whole diversity apparatus. You understand, it's
Speaker 1: not just about the students. You got to also have
Speaker 1: some adults who are diversity officers, who, of course themselves
Speaker 1: are generally going to be from a diversity pool. They're
Speaker 1: going to be from hired from disadvantage minority groups. That's
Speaker 1: the way this works. This was a great one. Fifty
Speaker 1: percent of all donations to the Dalton School which has
Speaker 1: in ultra wealthy, a lot of hedge funders as parents,
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, very very famous, the other
Speaker 1: billionaires who send their kids to Dalton, and fifty percent
Speaker 1: of all donations to the schools have to be rerouted
Speaker 1: to public city schools. So they want to take If
Speaker 1: you give a check for a million dollars to Dalton,
Speaker 1: which people usually do, so that there are other kids
Speaker 1: can get into Dalton, that's the whole game. But if
Speaker 1: you give your check for a million dollars to Dalton,
Speaker 1: now the faculty and staff of that school one half
Speaker 1: of that money to go to the public school system,
Speaker 1: forced to force donation. How well do you think that's
Speaker 1: gonna And let me all study this. Dalton's very liberal.
Speaker 1: It's a very liberal school, very liberal parents. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna find it. You're not gonna find a lot of
Speaker 1: buck Sexton listeners among the Dalton parents, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: They're all they're all watching you know Anderson, Cooper and
Speaker 1: Tapper and matt Ow and what reading the New York
Speaker 1: Times libs, you're gonna have a ninety percent plus of
Speaker 1: them are going to be Libs. Dalton's a very very
Speaker 1: left wing school in that regard rich but left wing elites,
Speaker 1: but Democrats or Democrat elites here. So the fifty percent
Speaker 1: donation thing, that was pretty amazing. And this one was interesting.
Speaker 1: This is according to the Daily Mails right up of this,
Speaker 1: all AP classes advanced basement placement classes would be eliminated
Speaker 1: by twenty twenty three if student scores weren't racially equal,
Speaker 1: so they would get rid of all AP scores unless
Speaker 1: minorities were scoring as high as their white and I
Speaker 1: assume their Asian counterparts in these classes, because it gives
Speaker 1: an unfair advantage in the college admissions process that some
Speaker 1: kids get fives and fours on APS and some kids
Speaker 1: get twos and threes. It's out of five by the way,
Speaker 1: the Dalton School, Yeah, that's right, they want to get
Speaker 1: rid of AP class and that goes on and on.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, here's more, overhaul the entire curriculum. This is
Speaker 1: from the actual list of demands and add required courses.
Speaker 1: That explicitly center black liberation and challenges to white supremacy.
Speaker 1: Reduce tuition for black students whose photographs appear in school
Speaker 1: promotional materials. Pay students of the school if a photo
Speaker 1: of the students is used in a pamphlet about the
Speaker 1: school for black students, nothing is said about other students.
Speaker 1: Mandatory community and diversity days to be held throughout the year.
Speaker 1: Required anti bias training to be conducted every year for
Speaker 1: all staff and parent volunteers. Mandatory minority representation in elected
Speaker 1: student leadership roles. That's right, they're going to have a
Speaker 1: quota within the student government that has to be filled
Speaker 1: of minority students. Mandatory diversity plot lines in school plays.
Speaker 1: Hiring of multiple psychologists with specialization on the psychological issues
Speaker 1: affecting ethnic minority populations. And it just goes on. Oh,
Speaker 1: and require public anti racism statements from all employees annually,
Speaker 1: officially in writing, bend the knee to this lunacy. These
Speaker 1: are the requirements you want to work at the Daltins.
Speaker 1: You know who was the headmaster of the Dalton School.
Speaker 1: Fun fact, long time ago to give you a sense
Speaker 1: of how much that place has changed, Bill Barr, the
Speaker 1: Attorney General of the United States was the headmaster a long,
Speaker 1: long time ago at the Dalton School. One another fun
Speaker 1: fact or interesting fact. You know who was while Bill
Speaker 1: Barr was the headmaster, which I think you can now
Speaker 1: it's like principal or they Calton. They can't say headmaster,
Speaker 1: but they used to be headmaster of the Dalton School.
Speaker 1: You know who was one of his math teachers, one
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. We were all told to believe beyond a
Speaker 1: reasonab Without killed himself even though he was in a
Speaker 1: high security prison under surveillance constantly. Okay, so yeah, Dalton
Speaker 1: has some famous faculty alumni, that's for sure. Now I
Speaker 1: understand a lot of you. You're like, well, my kid
Speaker 1: goes to a grade school out in Bergen County, or
Speaker 1: my kid goes to a grade school out out in
Speaker 1: Suffolk or something. I get that. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: does this really and you know when someone's going to
Speaker 1: fifty four thousand dollars a year factory of elitism and pomposity,
Speaker 1: which is what Dalton really is. That's right, I'm taking
Speaker 1: some shots at it. Remember I went to read this
Speaker 1: scholarship school, Thank you very much. My dad had to
Speaker 1: send me to school the first week of school with
Speaker 1: a twenty dollar check, twenty dollars to take for laboratory
Speaker 1: fees and some kind of a student fee. That's a
Speaker 1: twenty bucks. Other than that private education four years. It's
Speaker 1: a great place. So I give read Us a lot
Speaker 1: of credit as the best twenty dollars anybody could spend.
Speaker 1: Dalton costs fifty four grands, so that's that's quite a
Speaker 1: bit more than twenty bucks. And I think it was
Speaker 1: an inferior education, but we could argue about at another time.
Speaker 1: But when you see this happening in a school like that,
Speaker 1: understand that this is happening at a place where the parents,
Speaker 1: where you'd think there'd be there's enough financial and educational
Speaker 1: power among the parents that they wouldn't be forced to
Speaker 1: deal with this level of lunacy, that the school would
Speaker 1: want to protect this reputation in some way. And no, eventually, everyone, eventually,
Speaker 1: everyone is supposed to bend the need of this stuff.
Speaker 1: This will come to your child's school. If it has
Speaker 1: not already, it probably is already there. You just may
Speaker 1: not be aware of it. Your son or your daughter
Speaker 1: is being indoctrinated in this anti racism stuff. Sometimes they'll
Speaker 1: call it anti bias training. Same thing. This is left
Speaker 1: wing cultural Marxism. This is left wing identity politics taught
Speaker 1: as though it is the only way to see the world.
Speaker 1: And if you doubt it, if you challenge it, you
Speaker 1: know what they hit you with. You know what your
Speaker 1: sin is? You fail to join as an anti racist?
Speaker 1: And what does it mean about you if you're in,
Speaker 1: If you're not an anti racist, what what do you think?
Speaker 1: The conclusion is that they want everyone to draw right away, well,
Speaker 1: if you're not an anti racist, you must be a yes,
Speaker 1: a racist. Thanks for listening to the Bus Show podcasts.
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Speaker 1: role call of twenty twenty went a little long in
Speaker 1: the last one, so it's gonna this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a shorter role call than I usually would do. But
Speaker 1: don't worry. We've got so many role calls come to
Speaker 1: the new year. And also, one thing I will do,
Speaker 1: I want to tell you this. I'll try, I'll catch
Speaker 1: up and I'll be looking through a lot of messages
Speaker 1: on Facebook, on TikTok, on Instagram. I'm not really going
Speaker 1: to be posting, and I'm not gonna be doing shows
Speaker 1: over the Christmas break, but I will be and the
Speaker 1: show will be reachable. So a message and you know,
Speaker 1: if you want a few to Lula photos, I'll put
Speaker 1: some to Lula photos up online to Lula of course
Speaker 1: the dog. And yeah, I mean so I'll be looking
Speaker 1: through messages, so if you send us roll calls, and
Speaker 1: we'll certainly pick through and grab some to start us
Speaker 1: off January fourth, when we're back here. And like I said,
Speaker 1: Michael Pelca is gonna be taken over from me, So
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a Buck sex and show. It's just
Speaker 1: Michael Palca guest hosting, and he always does a great job.
Speaker 1: And Mike is an old friend of mine and just
Speaker 1: such a such a good dude, and I really think
Speaker 1: you should listen to him. dB writes in for roll call,
Speaker 1: Hey Buck, I want to let you know that I'm
Speaker 1: truly appalled by our politicians and the people in power.
Speaker 1: It's disturbing to me that these people feel they are
Speaker 1: so important that they put themselves in front of the
Speaker 1: people who they supposedly serve. When I watch AOC and
Speaker 1: her cronies that are not vital, laughing and having fun
Speaker 1: while getting their shots. It discuss me to my core.
Speaker 1: To put yourself before doctors, nurses, the sick and dying,
Speaker 1: the elderly, and those who really need the shot. Should
Speaker 1: show all Americans who they really are and what they
Speaker 1: care about. Simply disgusting. I voiced my opinion. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the governor of California and Cuomo are garbage. I'm happy
Speaker 1: I live in Florida. Love the show. Peace Scott dB
Speaker 1: thanks AKA Scott, thanks so much man. Great of you
Speaker 1: to write in. I appreciate it, and I agree with
Speaker 1: you on the governors. And I also think it's absurd
Speaker 1: AOC didn't need that shot. That's just there's no justifications.
Speaker 1: I don't care what the government policies. It's dumb. TJ
Speaker 1: writes Buck. What do you think about Ted Cruise's proposal
Speaker 1: for Trump to send the Iran Nuclear Deal and the
Speaker 1: Paris Accords to Congress so that the Senate can officially
Speaker 1: veto them as national treaties and thereby nullify any advances
Speaker 1: that Biden may try to make on them when he
Speaker 1: gets into office. Also, what are some other powers or
Speaker 1: deals that Trump could give or send back to Congress
Speaker 1: to further limit the power of the executive branch before
Speaker 1: Biden takes office. What do you think. I think that's
Speaker 1: a great idea. I love this. Send the treaties to
Speaker 1: the Senate to get to see the Senate vote on them,
Speaker 1: and then that becomes the record. I think that's brilliant.
Speaker 1: I think the people on Capitol Hill who came up
Speaker 1: with this deserve a giant high five, and we should
Speaker 1: absolutely do it. It would be very very very very helpful.
Speaker 1: And friends, that's gonna be it for us here Man
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. We were in this together. Have a great
Speaker 1: holiday season, Mary, Christmas, Happy Honkka, Happy New Year, Shields High.
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