1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 1: Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We roll 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,159 Speaker 1: through the Wednesday edition of the program. Kevin McCarthy's now 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: the speaker. We know that it took fifteen votes to 6 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:19,959 Speaker 1: make him speaker. Everybody out there tried to tell you 7 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: that he was going to be increded, incredibly weakened and feebled, 8 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: not a very powerful leader. I think some of his 9 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: early actions are refuting that to a significant degree, and 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: I do believe Buck. This is one of the big 11 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: legacies of Donald Trump's time as the President of the 12 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: United States, because I think Trump showed how unfair the 13 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: media is going to be in their coverage of Republicans, 14 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: and also demonstrated you don't have to mit Romney style 15 00:00:54,440 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 1: begging plead for journalists who are now basically propagandist of 16 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: the left wing. You don't have to beg for them 17 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: to like you, because there's really nothing you're going to 18 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 1: do that they're going to like. Mitt Romney most blandly inoffensive, 19 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: I would say, politician to run for president maybe in 20 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: decades and they turned him into a caricature and attacked 21 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: him mercilessly, and yet he's still begging for their appreciation 22 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:27,559 Speaker 1: for their approbation. And Trump basically showed how to deal 23 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: with the media that these people are activists, they don't 24 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 1: respect you. You can use them to tell a story, 25 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: but don't allow their questions to dictate the way that 26 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: you behave or fear of what they might write change 27 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,119 Speaker 1: what you would otherwise do. And with that in mind, 28 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: I want to play for you Kevin McCarthy last night 29 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: explaining why he was not going to seat Swalwell and 30 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: Adam Schiff on the Intelligence Committee. Listen to the question 31 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: to the extent you can hear it. It's a little 32 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: bit light, but then enjoy this flay. The Intel Committee 33 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: is different. You know why because what happens in the 34 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: Intel Committee. You don't know what happens in the Intel 35 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: Committee of the the secrets are going on in the world. 36 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,239 Speaker 1: Other members of Congress don't know what did Adam Schiff 37 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: do as the chairman of the Intel Committee. What Adam 38 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: Schiff did use his power as a chairman and lie 39 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: to the American public. Even the Inspector General said it. 40 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: And if you want to talk about Swalwell. Let's talk 41 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: about Swalwell, because you have not had the briefing that 42 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: I had. I had the briefing of Nancy Pelosi had 43 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: the briefing from the FBI. The FBI never came before 44 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: this Congress to tell the leadership of this Congress that 45 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell had a problem with a Chinese spy until 46 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: he served on Intel. This is good. I mean, he 47 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: keeps going by the way, and it is noteworthy that 48 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: you know, Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy were given a 49 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 1: specific defensive briefing I would assume about the risks of 50 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell's compromise. The fact this guy, first of all, 51 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: Eric swallbell I don't say this to me, mean I 52 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: actually don't ever like being me, and I feel badly. 53 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: Eric Swall is an idiot. Okay, just you watch the 54 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: guy talk. It's amazing. I don't know who votes for him, 55 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: but you know they don't really care. Eric Swall is 56 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: not a bright guy. He's on the Intelligence Committee, which 57 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,679 Speaker 1: is in and of itself kind of amusing, and he's 58 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: a not very smart guy who is a total left 59 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: wing propagandist doing the bidding of the Russia Trump collusion 60 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 1: lies and all the rest of it. Just like Adam Shift, 61 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: Adam Schiff is a left wing hatchetman. But to you know, 62 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: compare Adam Schiff and Swalwell as grotesque as Shift is 63 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: as a person and lacking in integrity and completely only 64 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: agdis as a fellow. Eric Swalwell had a relationship with 65 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: a Chinese spy slept. Yeah, it's a big deal. A deal. 66 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: I agree with you on Schiff. I mean, he's a liar. 67 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: And the other part of this that I particularly appreciate 68 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: is Kevin McCarthy coming out and saying, look, George Santos 69 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:11,279 Speaker 1: has told wise and as a result, his own congressional 70 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: district can make the decision whether or not they want 71 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: to re elect him. Something that will happen probably what. 72 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: I don't know when the primary is going to be 73 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: in New York, but July or August of next year, 74 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 1: so not very long from now, and that'll be a 75 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: real argument. Somebody will run against them and we'll decide 76 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: what makes sense there. Schiff and Swollwell are liars too, 77 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: and their congressional districts made the decision to send them 78 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: back to Congress. Joe Biden is one of the biggest 79 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 1: liars we've ever seen over decades of his political career, 80 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: and he's the President of United States right now. So 81 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: this idea that if you tell wise, you don't deserve 82 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: to be elected. I wish we only elected the honest 83 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: abes of America, right, people who tell the truth and 84 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: are willing to address the truth honestly. But both parties 85 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: have skilled liars who they regularly return into office. Politicians 86 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: often have a troubled relationship with the truth. I mean, 87 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: we really are going back to policy one oh one? 88 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: Stuff here? Or just do you read the newspaper everybody, right, 89 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: I mean we all know this. We all know that 90 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: there are politicians that exaggerate their politicians to tell outright 91 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: blatant lies, fabricate things. Did you mention Elizabeth Warren the 92 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: fake Native American? Because I was like, what I mean, 93 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: I think that's important to mention too. Yes, Elizabeth Warren 94 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:34,479 Speaker 1: pretended to be a Cherokee for decades of her life 95 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: and was and it was the scam worked, and she's 96 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: a senator. They wanted her to be president. She was 97 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 1: a top three or four presidential contender for the Democrats. 98 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 1: The last time around. She built her entire career on 99 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: a lie. It's not a small lie, because it was, Oh, 100 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: elect me as a senator because I'm a Harvard law professor. 101 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: Hire me as a Harvard law professor, because I was 102 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: a Upen professor. Hire me as a Upen professor because 103 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: you need a Native American Upen professor in the law school. 104 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 1: So the whole thing was built on this foundation of 105 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: yeah bull And you know here she is now treated 106 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: with reverence still by Democrats. So that's why I'll look 107 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,840 Speaker 1: all the stuff about Santos. This is just this is 108 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: largely First of all, everyone I know in the right 109 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 1: Clay finds it kind of a music and they're like, Wow, 110 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 1: this guy he's gotten into. Who is the uh is 111 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: it Frank ABC nail that Leonardo DiCaprio played, And yeah, 112 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Santos, I think he's gonna end 113 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 1: up selling his life rights. The problem will be trying 114 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: to track down the lives versus the truth. But I 115 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 1: think that's probably the direction he's heading in. But this 116 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: notion that we're going to sell police because somebody has 117 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 1: said things that are not true, no, sorry, if you're 118 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: gonna try to not just reelect Adam Schiffer however many times, 119 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 1: but want him to be back on the Intelligence Committee. 120 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy is completely right here. Producer Ali's pointing out 121 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: Biden plagiarized Biden's light. Biden's led about so many things 122 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: that the day acto defense of Biden is, well, nobody 123 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:04,359 Speaker 1: really takes him that seriously on this stuff because he 124 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: lies all the time. That's effectively the Joe Biden defense 125 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: and defense now is just he's super old and legitimately 126 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: doesn't know what's happening from one moment to the next. 127 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: But when he actually had control of his faculties, he 128 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: lied all the time. And I think that's pretty significant. 129 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: And so this idea of hey, we're going to decide 130 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: which lies are unacceptable. I mean, Bloomenthal is in the 131 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: Senate right now. He lied about serving in Vietnam, Like 132 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: that's a really big lie. That's insulting to anyone who 133 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: actually did. Look, it's funny to watch Democrats cry about 134 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: this too. Over at MSNBC, Chris Hayes saying they've done 135 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: nothing wrong. They've done nothing wrong about Swalwell and schiff Well, 136 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: we'll address this in a second place seven, Speakerrabam McCarthy 137 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: and the House Republican Caucus are operating on that same 138 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: old nothing matters premise. See a clear example of that 139 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: in the way McCarthy's behaving about committee assignments. He and 140 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: his caucus Marjorie Taylor Green, among others, want revenge against 141 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: the Democrats for the removal of two of his members, 142 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,679 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green and Paul Gossar from their committee assignments 143 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. That came after Green and gos 144 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: Are both used violent rhetoric against their Democratic colleagues. So 145 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: McCarthy shows three Democrats who have done absolutely nothing wrong 146 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: and began threatening to kick them off their committees if 147 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: the Republicans won. All that Adam Schiff, Eric Swawall, and 148 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar are guilty of is really being targets of 149 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,679 Speaker 1: Republican ire. Okay, first of all, that's not true. Chief 150 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 1: and Swawell are liars who were wrong about the entire 151 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: Russia collusion debacle and pushed it more than almost anybody else. 152 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:46,959 Speaker 1: But I do just find the pearl clutching over at MSNBC. Oh, 153 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: you mean elections have consequences? Yeah, sorry, Dems aren't calling 154 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: the shots anymore. Live with it lives, you know. The 155 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 1: crying about it isn't going to change anybody's mind. And 156 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,080 Speaker 1: I would just point out there was a lot of 157 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:05,839 Speaker 1: apprehension in some circles about Kevin McCarthy being speaker. Sometimes, Buck, 158 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,719 Speaker 1: until you're in that leadership chair, you never really know 159 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: what somebody's going to govern like, because it's incredibly difficult 160 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: to become speaker. You have to spend decades really getting 161 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: into a position to become speaker. Sometimes when you're finally there, 162 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,079 Speaker 1: you can really enact many of the things that you 163 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 1: weren't able to argue for as a part of building 164 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 1: yourself up to the speaker position. Does that make sense? Like? Well, 165 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: like Joe Biden's a good example, a good example of 166 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,719 Speaker 1: someone who got into office and basically has governed as 167 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: a far left wing zealot, despite the fact that he 168 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,719 Speaker 1: ran as this trojan horse. Oh, I'm not going to 169 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: actually rock the boat very much. Kevin McCarthy is starting 170 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:59,559 Speaker 1: already to make really significant waves. And just that inner 171 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 1: that that audio that we played for a second ago, 172 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: The question was premised on the idea, let me kind 173 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: of lets you know what it was. It was on 174 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: the idea that, oh, George Santos is sitting on a committee, 175 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 1: and McCarthy came out and said, well, he's not sitting 176 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: on the intelligence committee. And let me tell you specifically 177 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: why Ship and swalweller not on there. The fact that 178 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: MSNBC is out there arguing, look, Swalwell slept with a 179 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: Chinese spy. That's a huge story that directly implicates whether 180 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: he can be trusted with intelligence data. Ship directly lied 181 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: when he knew that he was lying, not because he 182 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: ended up being wrong later he knew that hears because 183 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: I don't know how this question is covered. But he 184 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: got a story out there, and he did a great 185 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: job of it. And if he continues to take the 186 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 1: fight to the other side and stand up on issues 187 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: like this, because the go along to get along maneuver, 188 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: the Republican establishment glad handing and grinning maneuver would have 189 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 1: been all right, fine, we'll let the Democrats have their assignments. No, 190 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: he didn't do that. Now. I know some people are 191 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: probably thinking, all right, buck Well, it's only been a 192 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: few weeks, and that's fine. But it has been a 193 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,679 Speaker 1: few weeks, and so far he does seem to have 194 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: gotten the message a little bit from those who didn't 195 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: feel like he was enough in the fight and representing 196 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: let's just be honest, representing the Republican base in a 197 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: way that was meaningful. And now he's doing some things. 198 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: You know, we call balls and strikes. Right, If he's 199 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: throwing a heater at ninety five miles an hour down 200 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: the middle, that's a good pitch. No doubt he's killing it. 201 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: And I hope that he's going to be emboldened and 202 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: continue to stand up. And we'll see, because these debt 203 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: sealing negotiations are going to be another big test for him. 204 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: But the fact that he got the Department of Defense 205 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: to remove the vaccine mandate was a huge win. And 206 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 1: I think what he's deciding now to do with this 207 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: basically misinformation board that's going to look into big tech 208 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: in their power with Jim Jordan at the top, which 209 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: has also been announced, I believe is going to be 210 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 1: massively important. And I love, frankly what he did with 211 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: Chiff and Swalwell and holding them accountable for what they 212 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: did and did you see men. We can play this 213 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: audio somewhere down the line, but Swalwell came out and said, 214 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: people are threatening to kill us because of how mean 215 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy's being. I'm so sick of the whole somebody 216 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 1: sent me death threats. It sucks. I think you should 217 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: be prosecuted if you send death threats. 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But your leadership as you know, whether it's 252 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom or Kathy Hokel is just ruining these places 253 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: as states to live in and prosper and have basic freedoms. 254 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: They're now considering a wealth tax in California. Now, Europe 255 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 1: has played around with different European countries played out with 256 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: wealth tax in the last twenty years or so. The 257 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: basics of the and by the way, it was a 258 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 1: total failure, didn't bring the money that they thought it would. 259 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: And because the very wealthy, they go after the very 260 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: wealthy with this a tax of one point five percent 261 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: on residence with a global net worth of a billion 262 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: dollars and a one percent tax for those making fifty 263 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: million dollars or more. This is in California. They're also 264 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 1: considering a special exit tax, it is reported, for those 265 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: who leave the state Clay. This is a sign of desperation. 266 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: California has a twenty six billion dollars budget deficit. Now, California, 267 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: last time I check, can't just print money. It's not 268 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 1: the federal government, so their budget deficit catches up with 269 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: them a whole lot faster. People are leaving because they 270 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: don't want to pay the incredibly high taxes that New 271 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: York and California, respectively, have so their responses tax the 272 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: highest earners even more and try to create a special 273 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: We're just gonna rinse you as you try to flee 274 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: our state tax. That's a bad look. It's a bad look. 275 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: I don't think it's constitutional. And it's a function of 276 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: California getting fat and lazy, and I think the same 277 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:00,160 Speaker 1: thing happened in New York. There's a good example in 278 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: New York compared to Florida. For instance, Florida's got more 279 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: people buck the budget of the state of Florida is 280 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: I believe, less than half what the budget rest for 281 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 1: the state of New York. So and I think most 282 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: people in Florida would say they are happier with the 283 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: way that their state government works than people in New 284 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: York would say they're happy with the way the state 285 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: government works in New York. And so all governments have 286 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 1: great deals of inefficiency layered on top of them. But 287 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: I don't know how you could better prove it than 288 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: by looking at Florida versus New York. And I think 289 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: what's going on in California is what COVID did, is 290 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: it accelerated people's willingness to experiment in ways that they 291 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: might not have otherwise. And what I mean by that is, 292 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: if you are really successful in California, you probably weren't 293 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: willing to relocate to Nevada or to Arizona or to Texas, 294 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: much lower cost states, because you were worried that you'd 295 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: be far less efficient. But what happened was COVID occurred. 296 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 1: Everybody relocates and they say, wait a minute, why would 297 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,120 Speaker 1: I be paying fifteen percent state income tax and local 298 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: in California when I could basically be playing zero in 299 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: Texas and Tennessee and Florida. And the wealthier you are, 300 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: the more incentive there is to leave. Now in California 301 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: is backwards kind of recognizing this. I mean, for high 302 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:26,679 Speaker 1: earners in New York City right now, it's about all in. 303 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:30,439 Speaker 1: If you live in New York City, fourteen percent in 304 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: addition to paying the top federal bracket. Right yeah, so 305 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: you're paying what's the top federal thirty thirty seven percent, 306 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: you'd be paying fifty one percent of your income. In theory, 307 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 1: if you live in New York right now, that's just confiscatory. 308 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:48,239 Speaker 1: And these states can't continue this way. 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I don't know if you've ever 335 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: been on this ride, but if you wonder how woke 336 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: all of our world has become, disney World down in 337 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: Florida has shut down an amusement park ride, Splash Mountain, 338 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: that is one of the most popular rides, maybe the 339 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 1: most popular ride currently at disney World. Yesterday was the 340 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 1: last day that it was open because they have decided 341 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 1: that the ride is racist. I'm not making this up, 342 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: and I know probably a huge percentage of you out 343 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,679 Speaker 1: there with your kids or your grandkids or as you 344 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 1: were growing up, have been this ride. It is a 345 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: water ride. I'll describe it this way. If you have 346 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: been ever down in Florida when it is ninety degrees 347 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: with one hundred percent humidity and you are walking around 348 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,960 Speaker 1: in disney World. This is a long water ride that 349 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: is air condition that ends with you being able to 350 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: get a little bit of water on you, sometimes more 351 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: than that. But it's like a you know, the log 352 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,119 Speaker 1: ride where you come down at the end with a 353 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 1: big drop, and it's based on brear Rabbit, brear bear, 354 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 1: like all of these Joel Chandler, Harris Uncle Remus stories 355 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: from the eighteen hundreds which were wildly popular originated. I 356 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: read all about it at the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The 357 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: movie Song of the South, which a lot of you 358 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 1: probably have heard, Zippity Duda zippity a. It's a fine 359 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: I mean, it's one of the most popular Disney songs 360 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: out there comes out of that movie was made in 361 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 1: the nineteen forties. Disney has decided, based on some tiny 362 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: cadre of complainers, that they are shutting down the ride. 363 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: It's going to take I believe years to remake it, 364 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 1: and they are going to remake it now based on 365 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: this Princess Tiana and the Toad movie. And it just 366 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,120 Speaker 1: makes me want to pull my hair out in fury 367 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 1: that we are now deciding that amusement park rides are 368 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: racist and have to be removed, even though there is 369 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,119 Speaker 1: I will tell you this buck, not one single iota 370 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 1: of racist thought that would possibly come out a white, Black, 371 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: Asian or Hispanic people who have ridden this ride. Ever, 372 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 1: so I've never I've never been on this. I think 373 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: my parents would they could fill me in on this. 374 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: I think they took me to disney World when I 375 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,919 Speaker 1: was like five I am. Basically we were a disney 376 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,239 Speaker 1: World family. We would go camp. This is what my 377 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: parents wanted to do on vacation. We would stay at 378 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: Fort Wilderness. So I grew up going to Disney World 379 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: and I've obviously taken my kids there. Well, that sounds great. 380 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: My dad used to take us into like the middle 381 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:37,199 Speaker 1: of the Northwoods in like Minnesota, Canada area, and we 382 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 1: would do portages where we would carry our packs and 383 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: our canoes for like three miles at a time. And 384 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 1: I had blisters the size of my palm on my feet. 385 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: And I'm like twelve years old. That was my vacation. 386 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: So not really, you know, I would have liked Disney World. 387 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: I'll just put that out there. But anyway, I don't know. 388 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 1: So do you remember I have no recollection. See my 389 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: question about this is one, couldn't they have just have 390 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 1: made some adjustments to the ride or is it just 391 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 1: the fact that they're like there, we're there are things 392 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 1: that were considered insensitive or racist that happened during the 393 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: ride or was it just the association when are you 394 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,159 Speaker 1: just on a log that goes into water? Yes, that 395 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: is right, you were on a log that goes into water. 396 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: It is the association of Brear Rabbit, who came out 397 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 1: of these eighteen eighties. Uh, you know African American folk tale. 398 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 1: It's actually black history, right. So these were oral folk 399 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,120 Speaker 1: tales which were shared in the South, and they were 400 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: written up by Joel Chandler Harris and attributed I believe 401 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: to Uncle Remus in the eighteen eighties. So these were 402 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:49,960 Speaker 1: African American folklore stories about Brear Rabbit, who was a 403 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: smart guy like and his hijinks compared to other farm 404 00:22:55,160 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: h and wildlife. Right. And so I guarantee you there 405 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 1: is not a single human alive who has ever gone 406 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: through on this ride and thought, oh, this is racist. 407 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 1: So they're shutting it down now. Four years there was 408 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: buck like a four or five hour wait because so 409 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,880 Speaker 1: many people are upset about this ride changing because it's 410 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 1: been there for like twenty five or thirty years now, 411 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: and there are a lot of people who have the 412 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 1: experience over that time of going through with their family, 413 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: of experiencing it and now they're doing all too often 414 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 1: what happens at Disney and other entertainment companies. A few 415 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: woke activists complain about this, So they're shutting it down 416 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 1: now for years, and you're not going to be able 417 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: to ride this ride ever again. They're canceling an amusement 418 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 1: park ride because they think it's racist. I think that 419 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 1: the era of amusement parks in general is not has passed. 420 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,400 Speaker 1: I remember like the late nineties, especially when the weather 421 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,400 Speaker 1: was good. Remember six Flags Great? Did you with Six Flags? 422 00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 1: Adventure a thing used to see ads for because that 423 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 1: was up in the North Can had one in Atlanta. 424 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 1: I think it's still okay there. I would occasionally go there, 425 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: and there were always the whole thing was do these rides. 426 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 1: It's like you may not make it out alive, which 427 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: now I would be like, good heavens, that sounds that 428 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 1: sounds risky. But you know these rides where it's like, 429 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it's so scary and extreme. I'm not 430 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: an amusement park guy, especially because the notion of anything 431 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: that involves spinning around or getting dizzy. There was something 432 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: at Rye Playland, which I used to go to when 433 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: I was a camp counselor, and I went to a 434 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: camp for years before that in the New York area 435 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: and we would have one day a year in the 436 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: summer we'd go to Rye Plan. There was something called 437 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: the Brains Scrambler, and you were moving in a circle, 438 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: a big circle in like sort of four people on 439 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 1: almost like a flying saucer, and the flying saucer was spinning, 440 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: spin a double spins, spinning and spinning. This to me, 441 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 1: I forget about water boarding. I would tell anybody anything 442 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: but this. I don't know why anyone pays for this, 443 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: enjoys this to me, you know, I don't know. I'm 444 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: a boring fellow. I like my creature comfort, so I 445 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,680 Speaker 1: like as a dad, and my wife would say the same. 446 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:11,959 Speaker 1: In Florida, even recently, I was at Universal Studios, I 447 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 1: was at Sea World. I took the boys and we 448 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: went to the Magic Kingdom, which is disney World. And 449 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 1: I do find it to be really enjoyable. And I 450 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 1: understand from a business perspective that you constantly have to 451 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: be updating the park, right, so rides get outdated. Rides 452 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: are no longer popular, but they're shutting down at disney World. 453 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 1: Probably the single most popular ride at the Magic Kingdom, 454 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: not based on lack of interest, but because they have 455 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: decided that the ride is racist. And I just think 456 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:48,400 Speaker 1: it's everything that's wrong with our society today that we're 457 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: allowing these woke losers to win constantly, keeps happening, keeps 458 00:25:54,000 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 1: happening because unfortunately, activists don't have to be many, they 459 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 1: don't have to be representative of any broad opinion. They 460 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: just have to be annoying and perhaps a little defamatory 461 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 1: of an organization of a person, and that has the 462 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 1: intended effect. And you know, I know, we talk a 463 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 1: lot about wokeness and all this stuff, but what victories 464 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: are we scoring in the other direction? There are some, 465 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,159 Speaker 1: There are some. I will say that for example, Rhamda 466 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 1: Santis recently was being pushed on the rejection of an 467 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: ap African American studies curriculum in the state of Florida 468 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: that would have taught I believe there was a there 469 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: was a queer theory section of it. I mean, very 470 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:44,160 Speaker 1: you know, CRT woke stuff, and he's saying, no, you're 471 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,159 Speaker 1: not teaching that in the classroom in Florida. We have 472 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,119 Speaker 1: we have statutes, we have rules about what you're going 473 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: to teach in the classroom. So there is something that 474 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 1: can be done. But I still think that on balance, unfortunately, 475 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 1: wokeness keeps racking up wins, and we're just beginning to 476 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: wake up to the fact that it never stops, right, 477 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 1: it never stops. And not only that, Buck, I think, 478 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: and this is the important this is maybe the most 479 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,199 Speaker 1: important part. I think all of this diversity and inclusion 480 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 1: bs and this is one of those times when I 481 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 1: wish I could curse. It actually is making things worse 482 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: and dividing us more. And that is I believe that 483 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: all the data reflects that there is more racial tension 484 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: now white, Black, Asian, Hispanic in terms of our national 485 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: discourse then there certainly was in like nineteen ninety five 486 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,479 Speaker 1: or two thousand and five. And so are you going 487 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 1: to argue to me that America is more racist in 488 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three than it was in nineteen eighty three 489 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 1: or in two thousand and three. I think that's crazy. 490 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 1: So why do we have this perception that it is. 491 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 1: I think it's because we're dividing people and diversity inclusion 492 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: actually does the opposite of what it's intended to. You 493 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: see the fun fact up on the news story about Splash, 494 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: people are trying to sell Splash Mountain water on eBay. 495 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,639 Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy, but there is such an affinity 496 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: for this ride that for people who are going to 497 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 1: Disney World. I know there's tons of people out there 498 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: listening to me right now that are utterly disgusted over 499 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: this because of what it represents, but also because a 500 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: huge part of going to Disney World buck is the 501 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: nostalgic factor. You're not alone on this one, because people, 502 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: again going back to the news reporting over this, which 503 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 1: has been pretty substantial, people waited up to two hundred 504 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: and twenty minutes to go on Splash Mountain one more time. Yeah, 505 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: almost four hours in line. By the way, That for 506 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: me is theme park hell. That's why I don't, you know, 507 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: six flags, all this stuff. I don't like being in 508 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: the line, getting sunburned, neck, the whole thing. It drives 509 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: me crazy. So and again I don't I don't like 510 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 1: standing in line either. I don't mind some people aren't there. 511 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: Why do you like? I don't mind if old rides 512 00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: are transferred out, transitioned out because they aren't popular anymore. 513 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: But Disney is actually ending the most popular ride in 514 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,479 Speaker 1: all of Magic Kingdom, because they have allowed a tiny 515 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: cadre of losers to convince them that this is a 516 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: racist amusement park ride. Just not true, and I think 517 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: it's important for people to stand up against the crazy. 518 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 1: I really do. Switching gears here for a second. The 519 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: fight to protect the lives of unborn children is underway 520 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 1: now more than ever. Unborn babies need our help and 521 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: the preborn pregnancy clinics are there for them. Their mission 522 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 1: is simple, rescue babies from abortion, and every day preborn 523 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: rescues one hundred and fifty babies lives on average. I 524 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: mean that is a miracle that is constantly occurring. How 525 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,959 Speaker 1: are they doing this through the gift of an ultrasound? 526 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: You see what a mother considering abortion, here's that heartbeat 527 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: and sees that precious life being an ultrasound, most of 528 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 1: the time, she will choose life. So can you help? 529 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: Will you join in this to save babies lives? Preborn 530 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 1: is completely dependent on you, the pro life community, to 531 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: support their efforts. For just twenty eight dollars, which is 532 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: the cost of a meal, you can help save a 533 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: baby's life and change the mother's life with it. Of course, 534 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,959 Speaker 1: that's what a single ultrasound costs. Twenty eight dollars. One 535 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: hundred and forty dollars sponsors five ultrasounds. One hundred percent 536 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: of your donation will go toward this mission of saving 537 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: babies lives. So will you contribute today? Grab your cell 538 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 1: phone dial pound two five zero that's pound two five 539 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:35,440 Speaker 1: zero and say the keyword baby pound two five zero 540 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 1: zero baby. Or to donate online, go to preborn dot 541 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 1: com slash buck that's preborn dot com slash buc k 542 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 1: sponsored by Preborn Speaking Truth and having Fun, Clay Travis 543 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton. Thirty one Abraham's tanks heading to Ukraine 544 00:30:55,360 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: courtesy of you, the taxpayer, the American people. This is 545 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: our main battle tank. And this is, according to Biden 546 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 1: out of the Biden White House, not meant to be 547 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: an escalation. I'm sure the Russians are very pleased to 548 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 1: hear that we don't think this is an escalation, or 549 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 1: don't don't want it to be. I'm not sure that's 550 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: how they will view this. The Pentagon has also announced 551 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: an artillery production increase of sixfold, six times, as many 552 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: artillery pieces will be sent to Ukraine Germany meanwhile, is 553 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: getting all kinds of pressure at home over sending tanks 554 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: to Ukraine. So we'll see what the Germans decide to do. 555 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: And Biden was asked about this today. Here's how he responded, 556 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: why are you taking this decision now? Did Germany force 557 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: you to change your mind on sending tanks? Germany enforced 558 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: me to change your mind. We want to make sure 559 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 1: we're all together. Ask we're going to do all right now, 560 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: thank you, President. Any response to the disclosures of classified documents? Sir? 561 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: The searches of your homes completed? Mister President, when is 562 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 1: jet Science starting as your next chief of stap in 563 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: an answer any of those questions? Obviously just kind of 564 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 1: seventy days bucks since Joe Biden, I believe, had a 565 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: press conference to answer questions. I don't think given the 566 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: classified document scandal, that's happening anytime soon. And to your point, 567 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: like you, we've talked about this for a while, what 568 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: would we think if someone was giving tanks to someone 569 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,280 Speaker 1: that we were engaging in combat with a well, at 570 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 1: the point we kind of become a combatant here, right, 571 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:42,640 Speaker 1: I would say this when and those who fought in 572 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 1: Iraq know exactly what I'm talking about when the Iranians 573 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 1: and the Kods Force or the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary 574 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: Guard Corps were providing EFP exposedly formed penetrators so that 575 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 1: they could punch holes in whether it's abrams, tanks, personnel carriers, 576 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 1: the striker vehicles we had over their humvees, up our 577 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 1: armored humvees. We began to increasingly what we certainly treated 578 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: those groups, making them as combatants, and we blew up 579 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 1: Kasam Solamani. Yes, in big part because of what he 580 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,760 Speaker 1: was doing to help the insurgents in Iraq try to 581 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 1: kill Americans. And right, by the way, rightly so a 582 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,760 Speaker 1: great move from Trump that he doesn't get nearly enough 583 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 1: credit for. But at some point we at the beginning 584 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 1: of this, and this is my concern, is just the 585 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 1: incrementalism here, Clay. I remember this. I remember the debates 586 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,720 Speaker 1: almost exactly a year ago, should we do a no 587 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 1: fly zone? You remember that everyone said, oh my gosh, 588 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 1: a no fly zone. That's too much, that's too far. Well, 589 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 1: we're obviously already training Ukrainian forces, meaning we are partners 590 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,200 Speaker 1: NATO allies. There's training going on, which is a big 591 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,239 Speaker 1: part of why the Ukrainians have been as effective as 592 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 1: they have installing the Russian advances. We're giving them enormous 593 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 1: one hundred billion dollars worth of stuff. Now we're giving 594 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 1: them battle tanks. At what point do you think we're 595 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 1: gonna have the maybe we do need to have a 596 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,680 Speaker 1: no fly zone over parts of Ukraine conversation again, which 597 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,360 Speaker 1: would mean that the mission creep that at the beginning, 598 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 1: we're all like, oh no, we don't want to do that. 599 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,239 Speaker 1: We would be right there again. Yeah, tanks seemed to 600 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,919 Speaker 1: me to naturally lead to jets at some point, right, 601 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,160 Speaker 1: I mean, because there was an argument that we weren't 602 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 1: going to give particular anti tank weapens, right, and anti 603 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 1: aircraft weapons we keep extending. Can I just real quick 604 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: on that one? Because I spoke to Obama's We debated 605 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:43,880 Speaker 1: this years ago, Obama's then National Security director for Ukraine 606 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: and you know, Eurasian Eurasian portfolio, and he admitted to me, 607 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,600 Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, look, we didn't want to And the 608 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,680 Speaker 1: Obama administration made this clear they did not want to 609 00:34:53,719 --> 00:35:00,080 Speaker 1: provide javelin anti tank missiles or long range snipe for 610 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,840 Speaker 1: rifle capability to the Ukrainians because it would have been 611 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 1: too provocative to the Russians. Now that was before the 612 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,920 Speaker 1: full scale invasion, but there were Russian troops and military 613 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: you know, they seized Crimeer, there was a dun Boss region, 614 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,040 Speaker 1: there was combat going on. I think the idea also 615 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:22,480 Speaker 1: that we are continuing by giving these tanks, this idea 616 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: that there's going to be some sort of resolution, to me, 617 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:30,120 Speaker 1: feels very unlikely buck right, that we basically have got 618 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:35,279 Speaker 1: a trench warfare style battle ground that is going to 619 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,920 Speaker 1: exist now for years now. Maybe something changes, Vladimir Putin 620 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 1: becomes ill, a new leader emerges in Russia. But this 621 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,480 Speaker 1: idea that there's going to be a vanquishing of Russian 622 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,320 Speaker 1: boots from Ukrainian soil, No, that's never going to happen. 623 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,800 Speaker 1: And I think the idea at this point that Russia 624 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,160 Speaker 1: is going to be able to take Ukraine, we kind 625 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,440 Speaker 1: of seem in a stalemate that's never ending. The Iran 626 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,640 Speaker 1: Iraq War, which began near the time when I was born, 627 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:07,400 Speaker 1: went on for almost nine years, Clay nine years, hundreds 628 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:12,719 Speaker 1: of thousands of casualties, carnage. Now, Kissinger memorably said that 629 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,360 Speaker 1: he hoped they could both lose. So that was the 630 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,280 Speaker 1: attitude about that. But I'm just bringing this up because 631 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,880 Speaker 1: when you have two combatants who are dug in, there's 632 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,840 Speaker 1: a front, it's changing hands piecemeal here and there, and 633 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,600 Speaker 1: they both have substantial resources and will to fight. This 634 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 1: thing could go on for years and is likely to. 635 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,759 Speaker 1: Right now. I feel like the only way it's going 636 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,279 Speaker 1: to end is if something happens to Vladimir Putin. And 637 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,160 Speaker 1: by the way, that doesn't mean that things you're going 638 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,799 Speaker 1: to get better. We keep thinking that Putin's replaced. It 639 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,840 Speaker 1: could get worse for us, depending on who comes to 640 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,280 Speaker 1: I just want to know, is five hundred billion dollars 641 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,040 Speaker 1: too much money? How about a trillion dollars? Do we 642 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 1: ever cap it or just keep going? That's where we're headed.