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Speaker 1: We don't have results in We're gonna find out what's
Speaker 1: going on there. Plus, Trump isn't tired of winning yet.
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Speaker 1: Remember the no tonight, an improbable home became an undeniable reality.
Speaker 1: We don't know all the results, but we know by
Speaker 1: the time that's all said and done, Iowa, you have
Speaker 1: shocked the nation because by all indications, we are going
Speaker 1: on to New Hampshire victorious, victorious, six up. They don't
Speaker 1: know if they won a victory. Insofar as no one
Speaker 1: knows who is victorious. Welcome to the Buck Saxon Show.
Speaker 1: If you are here joining us, you are victorious because
Speaker 1: you have made the best choice possible for your audio
Speaker 1: listening today. I'm gonna tell you this right now. I
Speaker 1: was not somebody who was all excited about the Iowa cocues.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to know the result. I was not
Speaker 1: somebody who was playing the game, staying up all night.
Speaker 1: I wasn't live tweeting it. I didn't get too into
Speaker 1: the details of this. To me, it always reminds me
Speaker 1: a little bit of the political version of punk Sitani Phil.
Speaker 1: There's all these little rules that everyone gets so excited
Speaker 1: about it, but what does it really all mean? You know,
Speaker 1: why don't we just have votes? I know there are
Speaker 1: other states, by the way, that have caucuses, although fewer
Speaker 1: and fewer now, there are a handful I think about
Speaker 1: a half dozen or so that have that have a
Speaker 1: caucus system, and Nevada has a caucus system, so there
Speaker 1: there are a few places that have this. But to me,
Speaker 1: it makes just very little sense. I know, people don't
Speaker 1: don't bust out the history lesson. I know that caucuses
Speaker 1: have a long and storied history in this country. But
Speaker 1: you know, now we have electricity and everyone has running
Speaker 1: water and TVs and air conditioning, and I think we
Speaker 1: could probably figure out a way to do this a
Speaker 1: little bit more efficiently. I'm just I'm just saying, if
Speaker 1: you want to know, the current way that it goes
Speaker 1: is you have people. They show up. In Iowa, it
Speaker 1: was to one of almost seventeen hundred precincts, So already
Speaker 1: you got to look at this like, wow, that's that's
Speaker 1: going to be a mess. Almost seventeen hundred precincts. And
Speaker 1: people show up and they cast there, they stand in groups.
Speaker 1: There's not that many of them because i was not
Speaker 1: that biggest state and there's not that many people taking
Speaker 1: part in the Democrat primary. And then they go and
Speaker 1: they stand on a different side of the room depending
Speaker 1: on which candidate is their first choice. And then if
Speaker 1: the candidate doesn't get fifteen percent, then they have the
Speaker 1: option of moving to join another candidate, to walk to
Speaker 1: actually physically moved to join that group. And they've made
Speaker 1: some rule changes and I think now you can only
Speaker 1: switch from your initial candidate if the candidate is less
Speaker 1: than fifteen percent. And you know, there's all this stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, this is why the party activists are
Speaker 1: so into this, because they have outside influence in the
Speaker 1: whole process. But here's the long and the shorter of
Speaker 1: the folks. It was a total mess. It was a
Speaker 1: total mess. You a headline today, Iowa blows its caucus.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a really bad scene because the
Speaker 1: Democrat Party decided to know the DNC apparatus in the
Speaker 1: state of Iowa, decided that they would use an app,
Speaker 1: use an app that was untested in order to tabulate votes.
Speaker 1: It was a pretty straightforward process. Why they used a
Speaker 1: company that I believe is called shadow Ink, so as
Speaker 1: if there weren't going to be enough conspiracy theories out
Speaker 1: there about how this was really all meant by the
Speaker 1: Democrat apparatus, the same Democrat apparatus that stole the primary
Speaker 1: from Bernie Sanders in twenty sixteen. No question, they did
Speaker 1: everything they could to make sure they handed it to
Speaker 1: Queen Hillary hollow what happened. They gave it to Hillary,
Speaker 1: took it from Bernie Sanders this time around. You'd think
Speaker 1: they'd be a little more sensitive to this. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what happened here other than it's a mess.
Speaker 1: Not only did they have an inability to use the
Speaker 1: app properly, I guess the app crash right. They created
Speaker 1: a smartphone application or computer application that's meant to tabulate
Speaker 1: the results of all these different caucuses. It crashed, it froze,
Speaker 1: whatever happened. But the backup to it was a phone
Speaker 1: in line, a hot line to relay results to the
Speaker 1: central Iowa Caucus's command center. And sure enough, that was busy.
Speaker 1: People were unable to take the calls. And at one
Speaker 1: point CNN I had to see this after the fact
Speaker 1: the clip. CNN had a precinct captain or whatever you
Speaker 1: call that, the caucus captain calling into the central hot
Speaker 1: line and after waiting for an hour, just got hung
Speaker 1: up on. That's a pretty good that's a pretty good
Speaker 1: indication of how things went last night for the Democrats.
Speaker 1: And you have to remember, these are the people that democrats,
Speaker 1: the Democrat intelligentsia, the people running the DNC, running Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: They are the people who want to be in control
Speaker 1: of paying for your healthcare, deciding what healthcare you get,
Speaker 1: what doctors you can go to, who you can see
Speaker 1: that they say they're going to handle all of this
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be better and cheaper if they're in charge.
Speaker 1: The same people who brought you by a calculation by Bloomberg,
Speaker 1: which is I would assume a company that knows, even
Speaker 1: though it's a media company, how to add and subtract
Speaker 1: pretty well, right. Founded by a guy who's a businessman,
Speaker 1: Michael Bloomberg, who's running for president right now. Bloomberg did
Speaker 1: an estimate of the Obamacare website. Initially we were told
Speaker 1: it was about it was roughly eight hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: of cost for a website. My friends turned out it
Speaker 1: was really more like when you add in all the
Speaker 1: contractors and all the bells and whistles and the graft
Speaker 1: and the corruption and all the other nonsense around this.
Speaker 1: I mean, they wouldn't call it that, but that's what
Speaker 1: it was. It's more like two billion dollars. Trump has
Speaker 1: said five billion. That might be a long term costs
Speaker 1: estimate of the site, but at a minimum. Bloomberg has said,
Speaker 1: the Obamacare website. Remember talking about a website, folks, We're
Speaker 1: not talking about building, you know, massive facilities, and this
Speaker 1: is just an online entity that's supposed to handle data.
Speaker 1: Two billion dollars of your money went to the Obamacare
Speaker 1: website that, as we all remember, the day of the
Speaker 1: enrollment crashed, wompomp. And now I'm sure we're going to
Speaker 1: find out that the money spent on the Shadow Inc.
Speaker 1: I'm not making it up, folks. That is the development
Speaker 1: company that decided to or that was picked to make
Speaker 1: the app to tabulate the results in a state that
Speaker 1: is critical for the establishment to deny to Bernie Sanders. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying it looks bad, and to people who are conspiracy theorists,
Speaker 1: it looks like, uh okay, trying to take some of
Speaker 1: the wind out of Bernie Sanders sales at a minimum.
Speaker 1: Who knows if they're really going to claim that there
Speaker 1: was anything beyond that. We'll have to see. This was
Speaker 1: a great version of this though headline this morning CBS
Speaker 1: News Republicans gloat over Iowa caucus meltdown. First of all,
Speaker 1: notice how the word Democrat doesn't appear anywhere in that headline.
Speaker 1: The Democrats held a caucus that is a disaster or
Speaker 1: a debacle. No results last night, folks. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is like an election where they're like, sorry, I don't
Speaker 1: know what to tell you. I mean, they'll probably have
Speaker 1: all the data to day and it'll all be fine.
Speaker 1: This isn't some major crisis, but they just look like
Speaker 1: a bunch of dufases. I mean, they look like clowns.
Speaker 1: And remember the whole promise yere of the Democrats is
Speaker 1: a return to a return to civility, or return to competency,
Speaker 1: or return to better governance. That's what they offer you
Speaker 1: if you get rid of Trump. Forget about all the numbers,
Speaker 1: the prosperity, the stock market, unemployment, the economy. Forget all
Speaker 1: of that better government from the Democrats, who in their
Speaker 1: first moment to show, I mean, this is more than
Speaker 1: just a caucus. It's the first time the whole country
Speaker 1: has its eyes focused on a Democrat run election contest.
Speaker 1: And it is a belly flop off the ten foot
Speaker 1: high diving board with somebody who's got way too bad
Speaker 1: of a sunburn on. I mean, it is rough, people know.
Speaker 1: I like that analogy just because it's very visceral. We've
Speaker 1: ever done a really bad belly flop when you have
Speaker 1: a sunburn? That's no fun. Brucer Mark ever been there before? Yes,
Speaker 1: he's nodding. Yes, you don't want to do that. It's
Speaker 1: a lesson you really have to learn once. But the
Speaker 1: Democrats messed up last night. The media, of course, is
Speaker 1: doing the whole Republicans pounce. Republicans pounce, Well, what are
Speaker 1: we supposed to do? We're actually not pouncing. We're laughing.
Speaker 1: It's a different thing. We're laughing at them. We're not
Speaker 1: really pouncing so much. That's that's too active. I'm sitting back,
Speaker 1: rubbing my belly and guffawing at the clownish Democrats. So
Speaker 1: they're trying to say, we're gloating, we're doing all these things.
Speaker 1: And I can't help but notice that the political party
Speaker 1: that dominates Silicon Valley and the faculty lounge of colleges
Speaker 1: and universities seems to have a lot of trouble with
Speaker 1: a smartphone app and basic arithmetic. You I think this
Speaker 1: should be in their wheelhouse, right, This should be something
Speaker 1: that they have greater ability to do. But sure enough
Speaker 1: they do not. And now you have the different campaigns
Speaker 1: all trying to spin that just sort of take this
Speaker 1: and say, well, we won't sure because we don't know.
Speaker 1: One let's just feel like our result is basically a win,
Speaker 1: even though we don't have the results. It's a very
Speaker 1: Democrat moment, you know, it's a very Democrat approach to this.
Speaker 1: It's like everybody gets a trophy for first place. But
Speaker 1: if everybody gets a trophy for first place, does that
Speaker 1: mean anybody gets a trophy for first place? And Pete
Speaker 1: Buddha Judge tweeted out, we started the show with him
Speaker 1: just because you know he he needed this. If he
Speaker 1: can't win an Iowa, he can't win anywhere Iowa. You
Speaker 1: have shocked the nation. He tweeted out, by all indications,
Speaker 1: we are going to New Hampshire victorious hashtag Iowa CAUCUSUS.
Speaker 1: And then to that, I just would respond that declaring
Speaker 1: victory before any results are in is really very on
Speaker 1: brand for a ACRAT party that claims the twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: election was stolen without a single vote being changed, and
Speaker 1: the twenty election is illegitimate before a single vote has
Speaker 1: been cast. The results are never the results if they
Speaker 1: don't like them. That is the Democrat approach. They pretend
Speaker 1: there's something else. Reality does not matter. The truth cannot
Speaker 1: intrude on the narrative. So I suppose we should not
Speaker 1: be surprised at all that what we saw was this
Speaker 1: last night, this nonsense. But I would just say this
Speaker 1: to you, America. Many of us thought that we go
Speaker 1: to bed last night after seeing the troubling news that
Speaker 1: a socialist had just won a statewide contest in Iowa.
Speaker 1: But instead we woke up to a reminder the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party specializes in screwing things up and wasting your money.
Speaker 1: Hashtag winning hashtag America still has a shot because we
Speaker 1: could see who these Democrats really are. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1: You're in the Freedom Hud. This is the Buck Sexton
Speaker 1: Show podcast. They changed the rules and streamlined the process
Speaker 1: because of what happened the last time too, Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 1: So if anybody wanted to come out on top, you know,
Speaker 1: if he finished at the top here tonight, that's one
Speaker 1: more day of being on top. That's one more day
Speaker 1: of momentum, It's one more day of raising money and attention.
Speaker 1: And he has been denied that by this process. Some
Speaker 1: people are noticing that, you know, Bernie Sanders, that was
Speaker 1: Bro Cuomo. First of all, he's like, do you even lift, Bro?
Speaker 1: And then second of all, he wants to make sure
Speaker 1: everyone knows that Bernie Sanders is not exactly getting a
Speaker 1: fair getting a fair shaken all this this was this
Speaker 1: was Bernie's moment. I mean New Hampshire, He's New Hampshire
Speaker 1: is going to be where he does the best. And
Speaker 1: also the narrative has gone very quickly away from Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: who in some places and again we don't know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm on air, and we'll probably know more later. But
Speaker 1: in some places it was expected that he dramatically underperformed
Speaker 1: what was expected for a so called front runner. Hey
Speaker 1: what have I been saying? Team? I've been telling you
Speaker 1: for how long? Now? It's not gonna be Biden. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna be Biden's a loser. They know it. Biden's
Speaker 1: a loser. It's not gonna happen. The part the party
Speaker 1: apparatus is hoping that all of a sudden that will change.
Speaker 1: That's why they keep that Biden is going to become
Speaker 1: what they want him to be. But everyone kind of knows,
Speaker 1: I mean, and for some reason I'm wrong, and Biden
Speaker 1: does run. I feel very confident that he will do
Speaker 1: no better than Hillary Clinton did in twenty sixteen, which
Speaker 1: means he will lose. But then again, the great part
Speaker 1: about political predictions is you only talk about the ones
Speaker 1: you get, right, So Cuomo says, Bernie Sanders have been
Speaker 1: denied a victory, and I with another just noteworthy moment
Speaker 1: here came from Elizabeth Warren. This is you know, she
Speaker 1: shout out there now trying to tell everybody to get
Speaker 1: excited about how you know she's just gonna be the
Speaker 1: president that you've always hoped for, one who just makes
Speaker 1: it up as she goes along. She's by the way,
Speaker 1: I mean, she's really in line with Bernie. But you
Speaker 1: have to break out a very fine magnifying glass in
Speaker 1: order to see the differences in policy between Warren and Sanders.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're quite close. We think that gets
Speaker 1: lost the media narrative. But this was a line that
Speaker 1: I thought was very interesting from Warren last night. Remember,
Speaker 1: they don't have results, they don't know who won the caucus.
Speaker 1: Here's what Warren is saying, play a priest of Mark fourteen. Please,
Speaker 1: what's a night is for every undocumented, unafraid organizer and
Speaker 1: volunteer proudly knocked on doors to let the world know
Speaker 1: that the path to progress run through courage, not fear. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say this because i'd like to know
Speaker 1: what the response is. We have been told now for
Speaker 1: years that it is a violation of the Emolument's clause
Speaker 1: because of foreign foreign money going to Trump via diplomats
Speaker 1: in DC buying Hamburgers at the Trump hotel. That's a
Speaker 1: real thing. The Washington Post, I mean, the most serious,
Speaker 1: so called serious news organizations in the country will run this.
Speaker 1: We have been told countless times about foreign interference in
Speaker 1: the election, in this case of Ukraine, just even talking
Speaker 1: to a Ukrainian counterpart about something when nothing happens. They
Speaker 1: wanted to say that was a campaign donation, a campaign
Speaker 1: donation to Trump an a legal one was with the
Speaker 1: initial claim of the impeachment lunatics, and then of course
Speaker 1: Russia Trump putin collusion, which is a fantasy, but a
Speaker 1: massive false conspiracy that they've been spreading. I need someone
Speaker 1: to approach me and sit down, who's who's not aftwing
Speaker 1: loon and explain how it is not foreign interference and
Speaker 1: perhaps even an in kind donation or assistance to an
Speaker 1: assistance to a specific campaign for undocumented aka illegal aliens.
Speaker 1: Undocumented is a made up term that does not appear
Speaker 1: in the legal code anywhere. Illegal aliens people not of
Speaker 1: legal status in the United States, to assist a campaign,
Speaker 1: how is that not foreign interference in the election. They
Speaker 1: all come for foreign countries, folks, I know this is
Speaker 1: they're all subject to a jurisdiction not of our own,
Speaker 1: unless unless we're going to claim that everybody who's actually no,
Speaker 1: that's right, they would all be subject to the foreign
Speaker 1: jurisdiction thereof, or at least unless I'm missing some loophole here,
Speaker 1: How is it not the case that foreigners which I
Speaker 1: mean if you're an illegal alien, People would say, oh,
Speaker 1: even what about people that are brought here? You know,
Speaker 1: the dreamers. Dreamers are born somewhere else. They have citizenship
Speaker 1: in some other country, or at least they should. They
Speaker 1: certainly have a claim to it. So if you were
Speaker 1: a foreigner on US soil and you were going door
Speaker 1: to door to knock knock on doors for Elizabeth Warren's campaign,
Speaker 1: how is that not foreign interference in the election? So
Speaker 1: you know, you're allowed to assist to the campaigner. I
Speaker 1: mean I have to get into the election law specifics here.
Speaker 1: You're allowed to help, You're allowed to donate your time,
Speaker 1: which is a you know, remember a thing of value.
Speaker 1: That was what we're always told a thing of value.
Speaker 1: Information can be a thing of value. Remember the Trump
Speaker 1: Tower meeting a thing of value? Sitting down with Donald
Speaker 1: Trump junior just saying, hey, I want to tell you
Speaker 1: about something Hillary Clinton did. Oh that's and she's Russian.
Speaker 1: You can't have that. So you can't have somebody sit
Speaker 1: down and have a conversation with somebody who's foreign, but
Speaker 1: you can't have foreigners going door to door doing work
Speaker 1: that other people would get paid for to help your campaign.
Speaker 1: Does anyone want to take take take a knock at
Speaker 1: this one? How is it not foreign interference in our
Speaker 1: election for a legal aliens to be directly assisting that
Speaker 1: can pain by her own admission of Elizabeth Warren and
Speaker 1: I'm sure other Democrats too. Someone to explain that to me.
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Speaker 1: to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever
Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. I spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: in Iowa campaigning for Paul Simon, Barack Obama, and others
Speaker 1: Hilary Clinton over the years. They're wonderful people, and the
Speaker 1: Democrats there are a great bunch of supporters of our
Speaker 1: party events values. Having said that, I think the Democratic
Speaker 1: cox in Iowa is a quirky, quaint tradition which should
Speaker 1: come to an end. Wait a second, Hold on a minute.
Speaker 1: I thought Democrats were all about process. I thought Democrats
Speaker 1: gave us speeches all the time, whether we want them
Speaker 1: or not, about the sanctity of our elections, the need
Speaker 1: to do the need to respect all the different rules
Speaker 1: and processes that we have in place. And they talk
Speaker 1: about this so much. I mean, think about Nancy Pelosi's
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi's speech is recently about how much she loves
Speaker 1: the founders or the constitutionated. You know, the guys who
Speaker 1: are on the guys who are on our money. They're great,
Speaker 1: all of them. You know, you have to look at
Speaker 1: this and say, hold on a minute. Here we have
Speaker 1: another time when the Democrats don't like a result and
Speaker 1: they're willing to throw the process out. This is true
Speaker 1: of the Supreme Court. Oh let's just stack it with
Speaker 1: more people if we don't get our way. It's true
Speaker 1: of the primary process. It's true of the general election
Speaker 1: process with the electoral college. Trump wins, let's get rid
Speaker 1: of the electoral college. Trump doesn't get removed by a
Speaker 1: two thirds majority of the US Senate, which will happen
Speaker 1: hopefully tomorrow. But assuming that that's the way it goes,
Speaker 1: they're gonna say why do we even have senators? Why
Speaker 1: do we even have this federalist system? Now, it will
Speaker 1: be one thing if they had been saying that all along,
Speaker 1: if they really believe that they know better than the founders,
Speaker 1: which we know libs do. I mean, leftists always think
Speaker 1: they know better. They ignore history and then pretend that
Speaker 1: somehow history is on their side and tell us that
Speaker 1: they know what should be done with everything. But when
Speaker 1: they tell us in this case that they want to
Speaker 1: get rid of either it's the two thirds majority, you know,
Speaker 1: they want a constitutional amendment. They'll never get that, so
Speaker 1: they probably won't want that, but they're just gonna complain.
Speaker 1: They're gonna whine. They're gonna say that it's it's wrong
Speaker 1: that that two senators come from a state like New Hampshire,
Speaker 1: a state like Vermont, although maybe not because Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: is from there, so they got to protect that, but
Speaker 1: that these smaller states with smaller populations have the same
Speaker 1: representation in the Senate as states like California and New
Speaker 1: York and Texas and you know, big states, and they
Speaker 1: act like they've never had a basic civics lesson and
Speaker 1: they don't have an understanding of the ideas that the
Speaker 1: Founders wrestled with and why they came up with the
Speaker 1: system that they do. And I've got to tell you
Speaker 1: not giving enough credit right now to the Founders. They
Speaker 1: came up with something. I mean, forgot about what the
Speaker 1: Democrats say, because that's all just lip service. They know
Speaker 1: nothing about it. They don't care about the Founding. Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi is an ignoramus about us history. Forget all that, right,
Speaker 1: But the Founders managed to have a system in place that,
Speaker 1: even with the Democrats completely losing their minds in our
Speaker 1: current era over Trump and willing to do anything to
Speaker 1: lie about the President, to put them through a special
Speaker 1: counsel investigation, which who knows what the Founders would have
Speaker 1: even thought of that, right, you know, you look at
Speaker 1: some of these things, you say, look what the president's
Speaker 1: already been through. But they were smart enough, smart enough
Speaker 1: to make sure that if you're going to remove a president,
Speaker 1: if you're going to undo the will of the American
Speaker 1: people as expressed through a national election, you better be
Speaker 1: darn shore. And darn shore means sure a majority, a
Speaker 1: majority in the House of Representatives, but also two thirds
Speaker 1: of the Senate, a lot of wisdom, a lot of
Speaker 1: wisdom that continues to the current day. They recognized that
Speaker 1: the passions of short term partisanship could reach it reach
Speaker 1: their current level. Obviously we would through a civil war
Speaker 1: in the middle of the nineteenth century. I mean, there
Speaker 1: have been times when partisan passions have overridden the system
Speaker 1: even I mean, nothing is perfect, nothing is impervious. But today,
Speaker 1: or I should say really tomorrow, this week, we will
Speaker 1: be reminded very much of the genius of the founding,
Speaker 1: the understanding that if you're going to have a system
Speaker 1: of parties that are in opposition to each other when
Speaker 1: it comes to things like this, when it comes to
Speaker 1: the really, really big stuff, you want to make sure
Speaker 1: that this isn't just petty, spiteful partisan nonsense. And we
Speaker 1: have that because the founders were smarter than Schumer and
Speaker 1: Pelosi and Chief and yes, even a whole lot of
Speaker 1: Republicans today. I mean, there was a genius, in a
Speaker 1: genius in what they did. But the willingness to throw
Speaker 1: out the system the moment that it no longer suits
Speaker 1: their needs. I mean, this has become really a calling
Speaker 1: card for Democrats. This has become something that they're completely
Speaker 1: comfortable with, and they see no hypocrisy in it. There's
Speaker 1: no irony, there's no oh, well when it works in
Speaker 1: our favor, you know when in the House of Representatives,
Speaker 1: and we just saw this play out with this impeachment
Speaker 1: fiasco the House of Representatives. They have the majority of
Speaker 1: votes in the House, and so Schiff and Pelosi and Nadler,
Speaker 1: they run that thing with an iron fist. They make
Speaker 1: no apologies. They stack it against Trump as much as
Speaker 1: they possibly can. There's no effort even for the optics
Speaker 1: of it. There's no effort at fairness. There's no effort
Speaker 1: at giving a fair shake to both sides because they
Speaker 1: have the power, and that's the way they conduct themselves.
Speaker 1: And in the moment they don't have the power. You
Speaker 1: look at what happens in the Senate where Republicans have
Speaker 1: a majority, and all they do is complaining why and
Speaker 1: say it's unfair and the process is wrong, and it's rigged,
Speaker 1: and it's a sham and it's a cover up, and
Speaker 1: how can you how can you have a serious how
Speaker 1: can you have a serious conversation with these peoples, which
Speaker 1: you really have to ask at some point one is
Speaker 1: it just too much to bear? When is it to
Speaker 1: observe speaking of absurd Schiff hasn't totally given up yet.
Speaker 1: I mean, he realizes he's planning to a very a
Speaker 1: looney left constituency in California. I think he's from Burbank, California, right,
Speaker 1: So Schiff is just trying to make his district voters happy,
Speaker 1: which is not hard. Just hate Trump with the blind
Speaker 1: fury of you know, of all time, and also play
Speaker 1: to the national media. Make all the journos think that
Speaker 1: you're a really excellent hashtag resistance leader. That's what he's
Speaker 1: trying to do. But I'll even go off and say
Speaker 1: things that you if you were a normal person, you
Speaker 1: would ask yourself, how could anyone say something so stupid
Speaker 1: and not feel ashamed of it afterwards? We will have
Speaker 1: more of that coming up, by the way, But Democrats
Speaker 1: have been really outdoing themselves recently, and we do have
Speaker 1: a new contestant for you know, I've said before the
Speaker 1: Masie Herono is the dumbest person in Congress, and I
Speaker 1: think that's I think that's an assessment that is just
Speaker 1: rooted in fact. There are some people that who that
Speaker 1: could You could argue with me, and I'd be open
Speaker 1: to it. But I think me, she's certainly the dumbest senator,
Speaker 1: or maybe not Congress. I shouldn't like, are the dumbest senator.
Speaker 1: Congress has got a lot of dummies. The dumbest person
Speaker 1: on TV, though, who's a political analyst? And I'm not
Speaker 1: including like reality TV stars. The dumbest person on TV
Speaker 1: is a political analyst. You know, I would generally say,
Speaker 1: uh Anna Navarro from CNN, But Steve Schmidt at MSNBC,
Speaker 1: I think he might be number one. He's he's really
Speaker 1: exceptionally dumb these days. And I guess it's it's what
Speaker 1: the audience will clap for. It's what they want to
Speaker 1: hear at MSNBC. Um, but you know, you can get
Speaker 1: into this game of who's crazier the Democrats who are
Speaker 1: actually elected in office or the Democrats who are speaking
Speaker 1: to represent the whims of the Democratic Party outside, you know,
Speaker 1: the political analysts and the consultant class, the pundits, all
Speaker 1: the rest of it. I mean, here, you, let's let's
Speaker 1: play a little game which one of these things is crazier.
Speaker 1: We have On the one hand, uh, where was it
Speaker 1: Adam Schiff telling us that there's the possibility of selling
Speaker 1: Alaska play clip five. Please Trump could offer Alaska to
Speaker 1: the Russians in exchange for support in the next election.
Speaker 1: I mean, how how is he? Is he really dumb?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I just think he's just so
Speaker 1: slimy and dishonest and just will say anything. You know,
Speaker 1: he really represents the worst of the legal profession, in
Speaker 1: which there's no ethics. There's just only whatever whatever tactics
Speaker 1: you have to use in the moment to get what
Speaker 1: you want. You know, there's no honor in the in
Speaker 1: what he does at all. Or I don't know if
Speaker 1: he thinks that we're all so dumb, but Trump could
Speaker 1: offer Alaska to the Russians for help the next election.
Speaker 1: It's so offensive that he would say something like this,
Speaker 1: because what he's really saying is that Trump voters and
Speaker 1: his unfortunately his supporters are delusional enough, and Democrats are
Speaker 1: delusional enough these days that they would nod their heads
Speaker 1: and they'd clap like trained seals for this kind of commentary.
Speaker 1: But the reality here is that Republicans Trump supporters would
Speaker 1: not be okay with that. Of course not. Now he's
Speaker 1: just speaking in absurdity. There's a million miles of difference.
Speaker 1: You could say, probably, you know whatever it is. However
Speaker 1: many square miles we're talking about with a Laska, very
Speaker 1: big place, But there's a million miles of difference between
Speaker 1: asking a foreign leader if he has information about a
Speaker 1: completely legitimate area of inquiry that happens to look bad
Speaker 1: for Democrats involving corruption in a foreign country, the Ukraine situation,
Speaker 1: and we're going to give one of the fifty states
Speaker 1: to a hostile foreign country to help someone elect. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is just crazy. How can he say this publicly
Speaker 1: without people on both sides of the political aisle completely
Speaker 1: and utterly ridiculing him. But no, he gets away with this.
Speaker 1: He manages to say this and have Democrats act like
Speaker 1: somehow this is normal that you and I sitting here
Speaker 1: right now would be okay with the president selling a
Speaker 1: state to a foreign country, which, first of all, how
Speaker 1: would that even work? I mean, it's just this is
Speaker 1: like Adam Shift saying, well, what's gonna happen when the
Speaker 1: when the aliens space aliens not illegal ones? What's going
Speaker 1: to happen when the space aliens land? And they've actually
Speaker 1: been running Trump as a Manchurian candidate and Trump's actually
Speaker 1: a member of like the you know, the lizard people
Speaker 1: from the planet Zarcon or something. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just just blather nonsense. Adam Schiff, What if he said,
Speaker 1: what if he tried to sell Alaska to the Russians? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're moron. We would have a problem with that. I'd
Speaker 1: have a problem with a lot of things. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: if if if President Trump tomorrow declared himself president for life?
Speaker 1: Guess what? Trump supporters would actually not be okay with.
Speaker 1: I know some of your laughing saying, actually buck, but no,
Speaker 1: really if that happened, wouldn't be okay with that. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: be okay with Trump saying there's not going to be
Speaker 1: an election and you know, I'm gonna make one of
Speaker 1: my kids the next president. I don't know. Of course,
Speaker 1: wouldn't be okay with this at all. And then you
Speaker 1: would have the process, by the way, and it would
Speaker 1: be quick. It'd be speedy. If normal people, not Trump
Speaker 1: to arrange, people really recognized egregious conduct from the president. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'd remove the President United States. You know, Mitch McConnell
Speaker 1: and Ted Cruz and all these guys, and the Republicans
Speaker 1: in the Senate, they wouldn't be sitting. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he said he's president for life, we're not going to know.
Speaker 1: You'd have the two thirds vote. This would sail through,
Speaker 1: be at office in a day if he took real
Speaker 1: steps to make himself president for life, whatever that would mean.
Speaker 1: But see, they forced us to defend the insane as
Speaker 1: a way of keeping us from looking at really how
Speaker 1: weak and crazy their narrative is. Right, I mean, we
Speaker 1: end up talking about nonsense because they're making nonsense accusations
Speaker 1: instead of looking at some other real problems they've got,
Speaker 1: Like the Joe Biden thing is corrupt. They can keep
Speaker 1: telling us that there's nothing, there's no crime. It's the
Speaker 1: most corrupt country, one of the most countries in the world.
Speaker 1: And we're supposed to trust the word of prosecutors and
Speaker 1: the Obama administration working with Ukrainian prosecutors that the Biden
Speaker 1: family wasn't engaged in any illicit quid pro quote. I
Speaker 1: don't think so. But no, Instead we have to pretend
Speaker 1: that we're worried that Trump is going to sell Alaska.
Speaker 1: Alaska is very beautiful place. I would I would not
Speaker 1: let Trump sell Alaska. No, I want to keep it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, you're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show podcast. Okay, so we had the crazy
Speaker 1: thing that Shift said about selling Alaska to the Rahans,
Speaker 1: which was insane, But is that dumber? Is that crazy er? Then?
Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt, formerly the guy who ran John McCain's highly
Speaker 1: unsuccessful two thousand and eight presidential campaign, Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's a that's a credential kind of like you
Speaker 1: know Neville Chamberlain as great peace negotiator in our time.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a credential, that's for sure. But you
Speaker 1: know it's gotta stay on the TV. Like, Hey, Steve Schmidt,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna lecture you on history and stuff. Would
Speaker 1: you play clip for polease producer Mark. Do we want
Speaker 1: to have at the head of our country a president
Speaker 1: or do we want to have a king? Do we
Speaker 1: want to have an emperor? Do we want to have
Speaker 1: somebody who sits above the law? Do we want to
Speaker 1: have somebody who is unaccountable to the institutions that from
Speaker 1: the beginning of the country have said that no institution,
Speaker 1: no person in the country is above the law. That's
Speaker 1: what we fought a revolution for. And so there's a
Speaker 1: fundamental question that now sits on the table eleven months
Speaker 1: before an election, but mag no mistake at the at
Speaker 1: the at the aftermath of this, when he is acquitted,
Speaker 1: there will never ever have been an American president with
Speaker 1: the power that Donald Trump possesses right now in this moment.
Speaker 1: Not FDR in the Second World War, not Lincoln in
Speaker 1: the Civil War. No president is as powerful as Donald
Speaker 1: John Trump in this hour as we get ready to
Speaker 1: see his acquittal playout. That's in the pantheon, in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame of stupid political commentary. That SoundBite deserves
Speaker 1: a special place. No one Nolan's ever got as much
Speaker 1: power as Donald Trump ever in the history of the country.
Speaker 1: There's never been an American president with the power. Okay,
Speaker 1: and he actually went so far as to mention FDR
Speaker 1: and mentioned Lincoln. FDR sent Japanese Americans, including a very
Speaker 1: high percentage of whom were full US citizens, two internment camps.
Speaker 1: Not not a peep peep from the Congress about a
Speaker 1: peachmid nothing democrat FDR. Of course, Wouodrow Wilson resegregated the
Speaker 1: civil Service and had a showing of a deeply racist
Speaker 1: film Birth of a Nation in the White House, and
Speaker 1: is a very bad guy, not a peep about removing Woodrow, Wilson,
Speaker 1: and Lincoln, as much as we revere him for holding
Speaker 1: the Union together, did suspend habeas corpus. He was basically
Speaker 1: just like, I'm calling the shots and the Constitution doesn't
Speaker 1: get to tell me not to. That's what happened, suspended
Speaker 1: habeas corpus. The president actually does not have the authority
Speaker 1: to do that. Lincoln did it. Nobody well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say nobody in the Congress removed him
Speaker 1: from office. We all know what happened the theater that night.
Speaker 1: But this is what people, I guess who watch MSNBC
Speaker 1: want to hear. That no one's ever been more powerful
Speaker 1: than Trump, no one's ever been under siege more than
Speaker 1: Trump as president, at least from the media and from
Speaker 1: the opposition party in this way. I mean, it's absurd
Speaker 1: the things that they're trying to remove him from office
Speaker 1: for doing or even just talking about or thinking. This
Speaker 1: doesn't upset normal people the way that it upsets Trump
Speaker 1: deranged loons. And yet they tell us that he's acquired
Speaker 1: so much power that he's effectively a king. He's an emperor,
Speaker 1: a king, or an emperor wouldn't sit through all this process.
Speaker 1: A king or an emperor wouldn't allow. Look, if the
Speaker 1: vote happens tomorrow, and if for some reason Republican senators said,
Speaker 1: you know, we're just gonna we're just gonna deal with
Speaker 1: the hatred of our constituents, but to save the republic
Speaker 1: two thirds. You know, there'll be a two thirds vote
Speaker 1: if they removed him. They're removed, Hm, folks, that yet
Speaker 1: he's not president anymore. I mean, I couldn't come in
Speaker 1: here in good conscience and good faith and say to you, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't like that vote, so we're just
Speaker 1: gonna pretend like he's still president. No, we're literally twenty
Speaker 1: four hours away from a decision about whether to remove
Speaker 1: the president from the United States for effectively doing nothing wrong,
Speaker 1: and they're acting like there's no check on his power whatsoever.
Speaker 1: This is what crazy people think. Thanks for listening to
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Speaker 1: really is one of the most important elections of our lifetime.
Speaker 1: We have somebody in the right house who should not
Speaker 1: be there, and I am running to defeat Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: but also to put the United back in the United States.
Speaker 1: We are not together, and we have to be. And
Speaker 1: that's the other job that you just have to focus on.
Speaker 1: That means providing health insurance for people. It means a
Speaker 1: wresting student loans, it means affordable housing, public health. There's
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of things, climate change, which my foundation
Speaker 1: has been working on for a long time. Very little.
Speaker 1: I just think of little. You know. Now, he wants
Speaker 1: a box for the debates to stand on. Okay, it's okay,
Speaker 1: there's nothing, well you could be sure. Why should he
Speaker 1: get a box to stand on? Okay, he wants a
Speaker 1: box for the debates? Why should he be in ton
Speaker 1: with that? You really? Then? Does that mean everyone else
Speaker 1: gets a box? I guess that the Wall left. It's
Speaker 1: very interesting Corey book, and all these people couldn't get
Speaker 1: any of the things that Bloomberg's getting. Now. I think
Speaker 1: it's very unfair for the Democrats. But I would love
Speaker 1: to run against Bloomberg. Who's right, Who's who's telling the truth?
Speaker 1: Who's got the the real that was he used to say,
Speaker 1: who's got the four one woman? Which would be for
Speaker 1: the you know, the getting information the phone, and I
Speaker 1: guess it doesn't work anymore. I'm kind of aging myself
Speaker 1: with that one. Who's got to four one one means nothing? Right?
Speaker 1: Or does it still work? Three one one in New
Speaker 1: York City gets you city information? Trump? Bloomberg? Is that
Speaker 1: where this is all heading? I don't think so. But
Speaker 1: I don't think you can count Bloomberg out entirely in
Speaker 1: this whole thing, just because when you have that much
Speaker 1: money to spend in that many markets and such a
Speaker 1: weak Democrat field, And let's be honest, how many of
Speaker 1: you listening right now, if I, if I may, if
Speaker 1: I said Trump is not running, Trump for you know,
Speaker 1: for personal reasons, says he's not running again, and then
Speaker 1: there's no Republican candidate who comes forward. I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: this is a thought experiment. If you've got to pick
Speaker 1: between Bloomberg and all these other Democrats that are running,
Speaker 1: how many of you would say, at least the guy
Speaker 1: knows how to build a business. Maybe I could see
Speaker 1: some people making the case they'd rather have maybe klobaschar
Speaker 1: who at least understands you're not going to knock one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty million people off their health insurance and
Speaker 1: that Bernie Sanders saying he's gonna do that. It's just
Speaker 1: it's just crazy. But Mike's point here, mini Mike is
Speaker 1: that or a little Mike because a little Mike or
Speaker 1: mini Mike, it's it's I think he calls him both.
Speaker 1: Maybe either one gets to the vertically challenged nature of
Speaker 1: mister Bloomberg, which he's not even by the way, he's
Speaker 1: not even producer Mark. I think he's like five to seven,
Speaker 1: right or five eight, which is normal height from what
Speaker 1: I gather, meaning average height, I should say, not normal height,
Speaker 1: but it's average height. To tell me if I'm correct
Speaker 1: on that one, that's not even if he were like
Speaker 1: five to one, that's that's normal height. I mean I
Speaker 1: keep saying normal, I mean average average height. Well, how
Speaker 1: tall is Trump? He's like six three, so everyone's a
Speaker 1: little short to him. Yeah, he's he's got the Trump's
Speaker 1: got the Jesse Kelly syndrome where Jesse Kelly just walks
Speaker 1: around that tall physically looking down on everybody all the time.
Speaker 1: Jesse is like it's like his eyes are on the
Speaker 1: top of Mount Olympus or something like he just gazes
Speaker 1: down from the sky because he's like eight feet tall.
Speaker 1: He's absolutely enormous. So yeah, Trump is like six three
Speaker 1: or six two. Maybe he's a big dude. I remember
Speaker 1: when I was with him in the Oval office when
Speaker 1: I was working for the Hill and DC. He's a
Speaker 1: He's a large fellow, that's for sure, but not quite
Speaker 1: Sebastian Gorka big though. I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1: Gorka is like the Mountain from Game of Thrones, which
Speaker 1: he kind of sounds like it a little bit too.
Speaker 1: He's got like a very deep voice. But Sebastian Gorka,
Speaker 1: doctor G who I'm very fond of, is is enormous.
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's got palms the size of grizzly bears.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, enormous. To all conservatives are enormous, I guess,
Speaker 1: I guess. I mean our team. If we had like
Speaker 1: an Avengers style, you know, throw down at the very
Speaker 1: end of the movie where it's like all the good
Speaker 1: guys against all the bad guys, Conservatives mail conservative pundits
Speaker 1: would would definitely thrash the lib conservative mail king the
Speaker 1: Avengers moment. Oh come on, everyone knows Avengers though, so
Speaker 1: I just go for it. Let's go for it. I'd
Speaker 1: be kind of fun. Actually, you know, they did a
Speaker 1: one of the one of the I believe it was
Speaker 1: the comfortably Smug Twitter account did a contest a kind
Speaker 1: of March Madness bracket of biggest liberal hack in media
Speaker 1: and the winner of the whole thing, And I have
Speaker 1: to say it was based on public vote, and the
Speaker 1: winner of the whole thing was Brian Stelter Bad Stouter
Speaker 1: at CNED, just as the bid e of Zucker. The
Speaker 1: CNN executives by say he's a real jealist as the
Speaker 1: speak of the truth. So little Stelter also known as
Speaker 1: mini me Zucker because he looks like Zucker twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: He was the winner of the whole thing, but Jen
Speaker 1: Rubin of The Washington Post was close. I do think
Speaker 1: she's the only person in media who one day might
Speaker 1: just come out and be like, ha ha, messing with
Speaker 1: you guys, because there's no way that she's that there's
Speaker 1: no way that she's that absurd and doesn't realize how
Speaker 1: absurd she is. It's not possible. One of the best
Speaker 1: things in terms of amusement that I've read in a
Speaker 1: long time was Charles cook Over at National Review Online.
Speaker 1: Just took a series of remember Jennifer Rubin's a Washington
Speaker 1: Post columnists, so featured the Washington Post, very storied platform,
Speaker 1: to be sure, and he just took Charles just took
Speaker 1: Jennifer's previous statements, things that she had written, and then
Speaker 1: showed what she was writing about them two years later,
Speaker 1: maybe diametrically opposed without missing a beat. You know what's
Speaker 1: going on and with Israel and Palestine is terrible. What's
Speaker 1: going to Israel and Palestine is awesome? I mean, just
Speaker 1: whatever on any issue, just you know, climate change, climate
Speaker 1: change is a hoax. Oh, climate change is gonna kill
Speaker 1: us all. Just turning on a dime based on whatever's
Speaker 1: most valuable in the moment tour. So anyway, I found
Speaker 1: that that contest pretty funny. There are some others that
Speaker 1: I would have I would have wanted to see make
Speaker 1: it further into the liberal hack media tournament. But Brian Stelter.
Speaker 1: Gotta give a little little golf clap for Brian. He
Speaker 1: came out on as the winner and that whole thing.
Speaker 1: But back to you, Bloomberg and Trump. There's a an
Speaker 1: overriding talking point that you get from Democrats right now,
Speaker 1: that Trump must be removed from office, and we're all
Speaker 1: supposed to just go along with this, right, We're supposed
Speaker 1: to believe that because so many people who have a
Speaker 1: prominent platform or are running for office themselves, whatever it
Speaker 1: may be, so many loud voices on the left and
Speaker 1: some on the theoretically on the right, say that Trump
Speaker 1: needs to be removed from office. And so that then
Speaker 1: brings me to well, you know, Bloomberg for example, saying
Speaker 1: that that he has he should not be there. Why.
Speaker 1: We never really get to the why do we? And
Speaker 1: when you push them on the why, it always turns
Speaker 1: into a series of you know, kind of whiny you know,
Speaker 1: you know, just rubbing one's hands together as they come
Speaker 1: up with some oh it's the tweets, or I don't
Speaker 1: like what he said three years ago about this thing
Speaker 1: or that thing. Normal people, And when I say normal people,
Speaker 1: I just mean Americans who have not yet been brainwash,
Speaker 1: have not yet been forced or brought into a state
Speaker 1: of Trump derangement syndrome where everything Trump does is bad.
Speaker 1: Trump is literally worse than Hitler and Stalin combined, the
Speaker 1: worst person in all history, so so terrible they make,
Speaker 1: they make this constant pitch to the American people. And
Speaker 1: yet Gallup today has Trump at a forty nine percent approval,
Speaker 1: which is better than Obama in his first term. So well,
Speaker 1: what exactly are they are? What exactly are they telling
Speaker 1: us when they're saying that Trump is the worst president
Speaker 1: in history, a danger to the republic, must be stopped,
Speaker 1: cannot be allowed to stay in office. I remember what
Speaker 1: the arguments were in favor of Mitt Romney over Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't that people were saying that Obama is
Speaker 1: going to actually bring us to nuclear war, destroy the
Speaker 1: whole country, nothing will be left. He's a king, He's
Speaker 1: an emperor. Democracy is finished. People are you know, being
Speaker 1: put in cages. And I mean, it wasn't all this
Speaker 1: stuff that you hear. It was I think mid Romney
Speaker 1: would be. And now I choke on these words as
Speaker 1: I say them, but I remember what I was saying. Then,
Speaker 1: I remember what all the conservatives. I'm not letting any
Speaker 1: of them skate on this one. Pretty much every conservative
Speaker 1: I know was some people were really big Rick Santorum fans.
Speaker 1: I was never a Rick Santorum guy. I just wasn't
Speaker 1: my thing. I had a few friends of the Blaze
Speaker 1: really got to Rick Santorum, you think this guy should
Speaker 1: be president? Okay, but I remember that the pitch for
Speaker 1: Romney over Obama was Romney would be a more effective
Speaker 1: chief executive of the United States government, run the economy better,
Speaker 1: understands how to create growth and prosperity better. But it
Speaker 1: was very much a you know, he's any sure there
Speaker 1: are other arguments in Romney's pro life or he was
Speaker 1: when he ran for president, not when he was the
Speaker 1: governor of Massachusetts. Perhaps that was a tip off about something, friends,
Speaker 1: But you know, there were arguments on policy for why
Speaker 1: Obama shouldn't win election in twenty twelve. They were real.
Speaker 1: I mean, healthcare was obviously a huge one. Obamacare, which
Speaker 1: was supposed to fix our healthcare. Does anyone feel like
Speaker 1: it fixed the healthcare system? It expanded the welfare roles
Speaker 1: on Medicaid, and some people in the individual markets got
Speaker 1: a little bit of subsidy from the government did a
Speaker 1: little bit better off. Other people individual markets did worse
Speaker 1: off because guess what, they're subsidizing the people that are
Speaker 1: better off. That's all it was. That was all that fight,
Speaker 1: ultimately in terms of the implementation of that healthcare plan
Speaker 1: came down to that. But that was a real argument
Speaker 1: on policy difference. Well, we're offered for why Trump. It's
Speaker 1: not just please vote Democrat instead of Trump, it's you
Speaker 1: must vote Democrat because Trump is, to borrow from Pelosi
Speaker 1: and others, a clear and present danger to the United States,
Speaker 1: a danger they say. And I always turround and I say,
Speaker 1: based on what keep in mind that they're where arguments
Speaker 1: that could have and should have been made about why
Speaker 1: Obama should not have been reelected that we're not really
Speaker 1: made because the media was more in the tank for
Speaker 1: Obama than they were even for Hillary. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: more in the tank in twenty sixteen versus twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: You know, Obama was absolutely sacred to the Democrat media apparatus.
Speaker 1: If you were a journalist and you were not pro Obama,
Speaker 1: you know, ninety five percent of your peers were against you.
Speaker 1: So there were things like, for example, the escalation of
Speaker 1: the war in Afghanistan, and which was a very underreported
Speaker 1: thing because there were a lot of casualties, a lot
Speaker 1: of people died, a lot of people lost their lives
Speaker 1: in this country fighting in Afghanistan because Commander then Commander
Speaker 1: in chief Obama had this very very basic formulation of
Speaker 1: Iraq as the bad war. Afghanistan is the good war.
Speaker 1: I don't want to look weak. Let's send one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand plus troops to Afghanistan and let them go clear
Speaker 1: out Kandahar and Helmond and see how that goes for them.
Speaker 1: Let's send the Marines down into the most intense ground
Speaker 1: combat of that period of the Afghan War and then
Speaker 1: just figure out everything later on. I guess that's what
Speaker 1: they did, and there there were hundreds of huge spike
Speaker 1: and casualties in Afghanistan. Where was the anti war movement
Speaker 1: when Obama's Oh they weren't. It didn't really exist. You know,
Speaker 1: once or twice a year you'd have some shrieks from
Speaker 1: some of the Code Pink ladies or something, but that
Speaker 1: was it. The anti war movement effectively disappeared when Obama's
Speaker 1: in office because it was so important to the left
Speaker 1: to make sure Obama got two terms. Eight years wasn't
Speaker 1: enough for four. I had to have eight years. We
Speaker 1: were at this point now where the separation in perception
Speaker 1: between those who hate Trump and those who are willing
Speaker 1: to either support Trump or are die hard Trump supporters
Speaker 1: is so vast that it is really hard to have
Speaker 1: a conversation. I mean, Trump's approved rating is so high
Speaker 1: with good reason. Any Trump supporter could look any Trump
Speaker 1: detractor in the eyes and say, what am I supposed
Speaker 1: to hate so much about what's happening in the country
Speaker 1: from the perspective of the United States government and what
Speaker 1: the government is doing. That I have rising wages, that
Speaker 1: I have more money in my pocket because of a
Speaker 1: tax cut, that unemployment to super low, that labor is
Speaker 1: better off now than it was three years ago. That
Speaker 1: I mean, you get on the list. That we're not
Speaker 1: fighting and or escalating a major war anywhere. What is it?
Speaker 1: We're not getting hit with mass casualty terror attacks on
Speaker 1: a regular basis inspired by a metastasizing cancer in Syria
Speaker 1: known as the Islamic State. Because the Islamic State was
Speaker 1: crushed crushed by whom, Oh, yeah, that's right Trump. The
Speaker 1: Iranians have gotten a little quieter. Why oh, because Solomony
Speaker 1: got taken out after years and years of people in
Speaker 1: both parties saying, ooh, can't do that. Now, even some
Speaker 1: European leaders have looked at this and said, well, I mean,
Speaker 1: it has changed the calculation for the Iranians quite a bit,
Speaker 1: hasn't it. I'm not going to just get away with
Speaker 1: doing whatever they want, and oh, we don't want we
Speaker 1: don't want to antagonize the Molas. We don't want to
Speaker 1: escalate there. That gave the Molas a freehand, not anymore.
Speaker 1: Trump comes along and says, okay, in the administration now
Speaker 1: with the peace plan with Israel and the Palestinians, says,
Speaker 1: we're just dealing in reality. Israel's not going anywhere, Israel
Speaker 1: is secure, Israel's doing well. Palestinians, you want things to
Speaker 1: get better. Start acting like people in other parts of
Speaker 1: the world when they want things to get better. No
Speaker 1: more hamas, no more terrors, and none of this stuff
Speaker 1: where you can keep doing that and not gonna get
Speaker 1: what you want. What is the thing that I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to see in the Trump administration and hate so much?
Speaker 1: And this is why I find that never trumpers, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, in the Iowa Caugus is Joe Walsh,
Speaker 1: who's just really just embarrassing. He got one point four
Speaker 1: percent I think of the vote, and Bill Weld got
Speaker 1: like point seven percent or something like that. Good job, guys,
Speaker 1: really glad you're speaking truth the power on this. But
Speaker 1: the whole point is that we talk about them. The
Speaker 1: whole point is that just because they register on the
Speaker 1: scoreboard anywhere, even if they registered at zero percent, we
Speaker 1: got to say, up, there's these other guys registering at
Speaker 1: zero percent. Trump had ninety seven percent of the votes
Speaker 1: in Iowa, ninety seven percent of the supporters in the
Speaker 1: Republican Iowa caucuses. And guess what that's about. What he
Speaker 1: has within the Republican Party. Democrats can keep telling us
Speaker 1: that the country is in terrible shape, that things are
Speaker 1: so bad. But he's going to go out there tonight
Speaker 1: in a State of the Union address, armed with facts, figures,
Speaker 1: armed with a reality, not a clever narrative creation machinery.
Speaker 1: Not oh if only you look at it this way
Speaker 1: or from this side. You know. Obama's whole thing was
Speaker 1: because when he came into office, the economy is going
Speaker 1: through recession. He always just pointed to the worst possible
Speaker 1: years of that recession and then pointed to, you know,
Speaker 1: the best I'm sorry, the worst months of that recession,
Speaker 1: then pointed the best months of when he was in
Speaker 1: office that see, I saved the economy. No, I mean
Speaker 1: the economy just didn't completely collapse with Obama in office,
Speaker 1: but it was the weakest recovery in the second since
Speaker 1: the Second World War. And people forget this. It was
Speaker 1: Bush who stabilized the banks. It was Bush who did tarp,
Speaker 1: it was not Obama. Obama did the stimulus, which was
Speaker 1: basically just throw a whole lot of cash. Dak's bear
Speaker 1: cash at uh. You know, all kinds of social welfare programs,
Speaker 1: extension of unemployment insurance UH and and some other just
Speaker 1: grab bag things for left wing interest all over the place. Right.
Speaker 1: But that's that was when an appammy Obama did saved
Speaker 1: the economy. Economy was in, it was in a weak
Speaker 1: recovery when he was going for reelection. Trump goes out
Speaker 1: there tonight and he should be doing a victory dance.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a shame that he hasn't already been
Speaker 1: acquitted that well. I don't know why they delayed this.
Speaker 1: By the way, they should have had the EQUATA vote
Speaker 1: on Friday so Trump could go out there. You know,
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell, cocaine, Mitch, where are you out on this?
Speaker 1: Because Trump should be He should He has earned the
Speaker 1: right in the state of Union restaurant to spike the football.
Speaker 1: Spike the football on behalf of the American people for
Speaker 1: whom things are good, things are going well. These are not.
Speaker 1: These are not dark and scary and ominous days for
Speaker 1: the country. These are prosperous and happy and peaceful days
Speaker 1: for the country. Whether Democrats accept that or not doesn't
Speaker 1: change what is true. And this is part of the
Speaker 1: desperation they have. Trump is at a higher approval rating
Speaker 1: at this point at his presidency than Obama was, and
Speaker 1: Democrats recognize that if if he is judged on the
Speaker 1: merits of his presidency, guess what he's going to win reelection.
Speaker 1: You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton
Speaker 1: Show podcast. It is amazing. Just as I talk to
Speaker 1: your team about stats and figures and numbers, this story
Speaker 1: today that there are five tech companies that make up
Speaker 1: eighteen percent of the stock market is that's a stunning figure.
Speaker 1: But it's also a way to keep in mind, it's
Speaker 1: a way to understand the shift in power that has occurred.
Speaker 1: And part of the the media desperation you're seeing now,
Speaker 1: it's because they're all a bunch of Democrats. They don't
Speaker 1: understand that how other people see the world. They don't
Speaker 1: even pretend to try. But beyond that, the power, the
Speaker 1: cultural and economic and narrative projection power that the mainstream
Speaker 1: news outlets had is lessening all the time, and it's
Speaker 1: being replaced with Google, Facebook, you know, even you know, Amazon,
Speaker 1: Amazon obviously owns the Watchington Post, Jeff Bezos does. But
Speaker 1: we've got to look more into this because we are
Speaker 1: we are heading more and more into what feels like
Speaker 1: a tech oligarchy, oligawky. As Bernie says, thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to The bus Essence Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on
Speaker 1: Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcasts. It really supports veterans. I'm an Air Force
Speaker 1: bettered myself, so I really respect that because, like no
Speaker 1: other president has really been actually sticking the neck out
Speaker 1: for us, and I really appreciate what he's been doing
Speaker 1: for the VA and um he's trying to keep us
Speaker 1: out of wars. You know a lot of the things
Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna do, Like I thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna get us in the war with North Korea
Speaker 1: that didn't happen. Let's didn't get us in the war
Speaker 1: with Iran. That absolutely didn't happen. And he's a real
Speaker 1: strategic genius. And I really mussed the dude. He's dope,
Speaker 1: I love it. Are you going to vote for the
Speaker 1: president of twenty twenty? I appears so question. That's that's
Speaker 1: that's not even that's no question. That's why I'm here.
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely gonna vote for him. Not Spanish, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna vote for him. And again, yes, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: out of president twenty So that the gentleman that started
Speaker 1: that soundclip is an African American and veteran, and he's
Speaker 1: just saying why, based on results, based on the merits,
Speaker 1: he's going to vote for Trump. And then you had
Speaker 1: a woman, it was Latina, who also says that she's
Speaker 1: going to vote for Trump. Again. Now, I have no
Speaker 1: illusions here. Trump is not gonna get, you know, thirty
Speaker 1: or forty percent of the African American vote. He's not
Speaker 1: going to get thirty or forty percent of the Latino vote,
Speaker 1: although he probably will get twenty percent. I mean, you'll
Speaker 1: do a little better, I think than previous Republican presidents
Speaker 1: have done. But if he could even get fifteen percent
Speaker 1: maybe of the African American vote, it's it's all. It
Speaker 1: would be all over for Democrats if that were to happen.
Speaker 1: And one part of the Trump presidency that I think
Speaker 1: is so troubling for Democrats is that because it's a
Speaker 1: because there's such a a clear advocacy based on the
Speaker 1: results of the presidency, things done for people, more money
Speaker 1: in your pocket, more jobs in your neighborhood, less regulation,
Speaker 1: choking your business off, doing all the things that conservatives
Speaker 1: have been saying along this this will make things better,
Speaker 1: this will make things better. You know, you have this
Speaker 1: competing vision of governance playing out in the country. You
Speaker 1: have the Trump view of pushing the interests of this country,
Speaker 1: trying to do everything possible to promote greater wealth for
Speaker 1: the American people, greater freedom for the American people, less
Speaker 1: government messing up your life, doing things that shouldn't do.
Speaker 1: And so that's at the federal level, but that plays
Speaker 1: out in different ways in each of the states as well.
Speaker 1: And then at the state level, you have California, you
Speaker 1: have New York or we're currently doing this show from
Speaker 1: and you see what happens when Democrats get their way,
Speaker 1: unobstructed by any Republicans to temper their leftist passions to
Speaker 1: slow down things from the state from the status perspective.
Speaker 1: So this is something that I think people are also
Speaker 1: seeing now an understanding that this is the greatest danger
Speaker 1: that Trump really poses is not just to the left
Speaker 1: and to the establishment in politics and media and just
Speaker 1: to to really to the ruling class in this country,
Speaker 1: which you could define in many ways, but people who
Speaker 1: have been ensconced in wealth and power, who often are
Speaker 1: there for either combination of luck, right place, right time
Speaker 1: because of the perception of their excellence that's a result
Speaker 1: of going to certain institutions or working at certain institutions.
Speaker 1: That it's just all a perception game. It's all well,
Speaker 1: these people should be making all the decisions, they should
Speaker 1: be the ones that are in charge. We should listen
Speaker 1: to the so called experts on this because they know
Speaker 1: more than us and therefore the outcomes will be better.
Speaker 1: Trump comes along and says, who are these experts? Have
Speaker 1: they been right before? Are they good at this? This
Speaker 1: is why I was at the LAP. I mean, foreign
Speaker 1: policy has been has been one of the most fantastic
Speaker 1: examples of this, because you have this whole foreign policy
Speaker 1: intelligentsia that has all of these maxims, all of these
Speaker 1: ideas that if you challenge them, you just don't know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. And then Trump comes along goes, now,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do something differently. We're going to take a
Speaker 1: different approach to China, to North Korea, to Iran, to
Speaker 1: the Middle Eastern general, to the Israeli Palestinian issue. To Russia.
Speaker 1: Oh I know, Oh, he does all of Russia's bidding, right.
Speaker 1: He does Russia's bidding by sending lethal aid to the
Speaker 1: Ukrainians that Obama wouldn't send, and by blowing up two
Speaker 1: hundred Russian paramilitary paramilitary fighters in the Syrian desert because
Speaker 1: they were threatening our Kurdish allies. Think of how quickly
Speaker 1: they cycle through narratives about how the Trump is the
Speaker 1: worst ever. We were going to have genocide in Syria
Speaker 1: of the Kurds because of Trump. That didn't happen. As
Speaker 1: I was telling of the time, people need to come down.
Speaker 1: That's not going to happen. We were gonna have World
Speaker 1: War three because of taking out Salamani in the Iranian
Speaker 1: response didn't happen. In fact, not only did the Iranian
Speaker 1: response show that they're a little scared to Trump, but
Speaker 1: the Iranian response showed that there are a bunch of
Speaker 1: that the Molas and their regime is grotesquely incompetent. They
Speaker 1: blew a civilian jet members a civilian jet flying out
Speaker 1: of their main airport of their capital city. They blew
Speaker 1: it out of the sky with missiles. And this wasn't
Speaker 1: like an international airspace. And there are some situations where
Speaker 1: you can understand there's there's even you know, the margin
Speaker 1: for air would be a little bit wider because you
Speaker 1: can see how a mistake could be made flying out
Speaker 1: of your capital city, taking off, blowing out of the
Speaker 1: sky right away. That's the big bad Iran that we're
Speaker 1: so scared to defy and scared to upset, or at
Speaker 1: least that both parties. For a long time now, I
Speaker 1: haven't wanted to challenge the mullas when Trump comes along
Speaker 1: and says, why are you so smart? Why are you
Speaker 1: supposed to be so good at this? By the way,
Speaker 1: I don't reject expertise. I love expertise. I think expertise
Speaker 1: is fantastic. One of the reasons why I generally only
Speaker 1: have a small number of guests on this show is
Speaker 1: because I only want to bring people on who are
Speaker 1: either really insightful or really entertaining or both. Not just
Speaker 1: people that can do what I do, which is tell
Speaker 1: you what's going on in the world, and not do
Speaker 1: it as well as I do. That's fine. I mean
Speaker 1: I don't need that, right, I'd rather I don't want
Speaker 1: to pretend somebody has a special knowledge that they don't have.
Speaker 1: But when someone does, I mean I bring on you know,
Speaker 1: my friend Annie McCarthy, for example, because he knows so
Speaker 1: much about federal law and the criminal justice system of prosecution.
Speaker 1: You know, it knows more than me on that in
Speaker 1: that area. You know, I talked to producer Mark about
Speaker 1: the Rangers and hockey and sports and what it is
Speaker 1: to be a real American because you know, he has
Speaker 1: special knowledge in those areas that I don't have as
Speaker 1: somebody from Manhattan, which is basically a foreign country. So
Speaker 1: you know, you look at these areas of expertise and governance,
Speaker 1: and we've been led to believe that there are all
Speaker 1: these people that are making these decisions that are really
Speaker 1: really wise. You know, you get into the discussions about
Speaker 1: who's smart, who's not, who's clever, who's not wise? Is
Speaker 1: about having intelligence, but also the application of intelligence in
Speaker 1: situations that bring about good outcomes. That's wisdom, right. Wisdom
Speaker 1: is knowing what to do in situations when you should
Speaker 1: and should not act. And we have a democratic party
Speaker 1: that never learns from the mistakes of the past, always
Speaker 1: wants to repeat them because they are deeply believe This
Speaker 1: brings us back to our conversation from yesterday. They believe
Speaker 1: that a government apparatus that gives you fewer and fewer choices,
Speaker 1: that makes more decisions for you, is inherently going to
Speaker 1: be better, and in fact, that's a more comfortable and
Speaker 1: I would even say more moral state in their mind,
Speaker 1: a state in which you are told what you can eat,
Speaker 1: what you can wear, where you can go, what you
Speaker 1: can say, how much of your property is really yours,
Speaker 1: how much of it you have to give to the state.
Speaker 1: You have no real say in the matter. You just
Speaker 1: go down the list of all of the freedoms. You know,
Speaker 1: what firearms you're allowed to have. You know, you got
Speaker 1: on the list of all the different freedoms that you
Speaker 1: would expect as an individual, that you would want as
Speaker 1: an individual. And the Democrats, each on each thing want
Speaker 1: more government intrusion in your life because they know more
Speaker 1: this is this is at the heart of central planning.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is at the heart of Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: socialism and Joe Biden's kind of lowest denominator Democrat pablum.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just the you know, the advantage that
Speaker 1: Biden gives the Democrats is the belief that he somehow
Speaker 1: is more moderate and more reasonable and more realistic. But
Speaker 1: they he's trying to take you in the same direction.
Speaker 1: The Democratic Party off today wants to take you in
Speaker 1: the same direction that Bernie Sanders does. Sanders is just
Speaker 1: more authentic and honest about it. You know, the Democrats,
Speaker 1: the Democrat apparatus of Pelosi and Schumer and Chief and Biden,
Speaker 1: the people that are well, Biden's not really you know,
Speaker 1: he's a former vice president, but he's still considered very
Speaker 1: much of the establishment. Same thing with John Kerry and
Speaker 1: these other figures. They want to believe, or they want
Speaker 1: you to believe, that they're just going to be better administrators,
Speaker 1: They're going to be wiser than the Republicans on these matters,
Speaker 1: and that might mean a little bit more, a little
Speaker 1: bit more tinkering around the edges, when in reality just
Speaker 1: means control. They want control and Trump is a continue
Speaker 1: challenge to all of that. How could he be better
Speaker 1: on foreign policy than his last three predecessors in office
Speaker 1: at a minimum? Right? How could he be better on
Speaker 1: that when he's not supposed to know anything. Oh, he
Speaker 1: can't find Ukraine on a map, they say, or he
Speaker 1: can't find a Ron on a map, or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: How could the economy be in the shape that it's
Speaker 1: in right down? The President's going into the State of
Speaker 1: the Union address tonight, And I really mean this. If
Speaker 1: you had told me on the day after Trump's twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen election victory, if you told me that right now,
Speaker 1: or if I had a time machine and could just
Speaker 1: wake up where we are today from where we were
Speaker 1: three years ago, I would say to you, or going
Speaker 1: on now four years I would say to you, there's
Speaker 1: no way this guy's came is not going to win
Speaker 1: re election, because what do you really want in a president.
Speaker 1: I've seen a return of some of these Democrats coming
Speaker 1: out with the oh you you know, my eleven year
Speaker 1: old said, why is Trump saying those mean things on TV?
Speaker 1: You know they love to do this. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't get it, and I hate it because it's so
Speaker 1: first of all usually false, meaning they're just making it up,
Speaker 1: you know, Daddy, I just wanted to know, you know,
Speaker 1: why is it that Trump doesn't allow for a more
Speaker 1: centrally planned, fixed to our healthcare system that would have
Speaker 1: a better distribution of healthcare goods to a greater section
Speaker 1: of the populace without disparities among racial and socioeconomic status.
Speaker 1: It's like, I'm sure your eight year old did not
Speaker 1: say that, lib I'm sure of it. I'd bet, I'd
Speaker 1: bet all the money I got, not a lot, But
Speaker 1: I'm sure your eight year old didn't say that. But
Speaker 1: they'd like to tweet this anyway. Oh, my eight year
Speaker 1: old wants to know why Trump is such a mean man. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's always like, what what are they talking about? Why
Speaker 1: do they think that there's all this wisdom that comes
Speaker 1: from the mouth of mouths of children and about political issues?
Speaker 1: This is I mean. And Greta Thunberg just got nominated
Speaker 1: for a second Nobel Prize, by the way, the second
Speaker 1: year I should say that she got nominated for a
Speaker 1: Nobel Peace Prize. So all you have to do is
Speaker 1: be a mouthpiece, be somebody that that mouths the slogans
Speaker 1: goes around spewing what the internationalist left wants, and you
Speaker 1: two can be a Nobel Peace Prize nominee at least,
Speaker 1: if not, if not a winner. But if you told
Speaker 1: me that we'd be here when Trump first won the presidency,
Speaker 1: I would turn around you and I would say he's
Speaker 1: got to win, right, Because isn't this what politics is
Speaker 1: really about? Producing results? Isn't that what this is? We
Speaker 1: have these elections so that we can make the wisest
Speaker 1: decisions we can about whom we entrust power to, and
Speaker 1: we do and we do all of this so that
Speaker 1: we can live in peace, live in prosperity, live in
Speaker 1: you know, as much freedom as we can have our
Speaker 1: rights protected and you know, the rights and shrine of
Speaker 1: the Institution, and even additional freedoms and liberties. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's isn't that what this is all about? For a
Speaker 1: lot of people, it's a bit sad, But it's about
Speaker 1: personal branding. It's about the way that's supporting one party
Speaker 1: or one candidate makes them feel about themselves. They don't
Speaker 1: look at the results, they don't look at what is
Speaker 1: happening with what the government actions that are being taken
Speaker 1: or not taken do in their lives. It's what are
Speaker 1: my buddies, you know, what are my colleagues, co workers,
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, at the construction site or in
Speaker 1: the faculty lounge or wherever. Right, what do they think
Speaker 1: of my politics? And does it advantage me socially to
Speaker 1: hold a certain political position or support a certain candidate.
Speaker 1: And as long as we live in a country where
Speaker 1: the media and academia and now it's largely the legal
Speaker 1: professional law schools, I mean, they're all working together to
Speaker 1: create the perception that Democrats are the good, nice, smart people.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how many victories Republicans rack up when
Speaker 1: they're actually in power, Democrats have already been brainwash into thinking, no, good, nice,
Speaker 1: smart people who care about the poor and care about
Speaker 1: the downtrodden, they support Democrats. Yeah, based on what That's
Speaker 1: what I always want to ask. You're in the freedom mud.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. So, Tam, I
Speaker 1: saw the news right after the show yesterday. It just
Speaker 1: broke broke for me. I mean I just saw it
Speaker 1: coming across on Twitter. Actually, that the single greatest, most powerful,
Speaker 1: most influential, I would say, most important voice in conservatism
Speaker 1: of my lifetime. Perhaps people would say, perhaps he himself
Speaker 1: would say, well, no second to Reagan, but the most
Speaker 1: powerful conservative voice of my lifetime, Rush Limbaugh, has come
Speaker 1: down with a very a very troubling diagnosis of advanced
Speaker 1: lung cancer. I will tell you this now, I've been honored,
Speaker 1: and I mean that it's a true honor. And I
Speaker 1: mean one of the the great phone calls that I
Speaker 1: have ever received was the first time Kit Carson, who
Speaker 1: also passed away just a few years ago, who was
Speaker 1: Rush Limballs. It was Kit Carson and mister Snerdley Are
Speaker 1: were the two guys that many of you know from
Speaker 1: Russia's show and you know, behind the scenes making sure
Speaker 1: everything on that show was as powerful and successful and
Speaker 1: entertaining and wonderful as it was. I remember I got
Speaker 1: that call from Kit Carson, and it was the only
Speaker 1: time I've ever received a phone call from somebody that
Speaker 1: I thought I was being put on, Like I thought
Speaker 1: it was a joke. I thought it was someone pretending
Speaker 1: to be kid, because why Kit Carson would call me
Speaker 1: to fill in for Rush Limball. The Rush Limball come on?
Speaker 1: And I ended up doing a number of I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably a dozen times or so filling
Speaker 1: in for Rush over the course of a couple of years,
Speaker 1: maybe more than that, and clearly led to me getting
Speaker 1: my own syndicated show. Was probably the single biggest break
Speaker 1: of my entire professional career to date. And really there
Speaker 1: were two moments that were game changers. One was, to
Speaker 1: his credit, Glennbeck finding me out of nowhere and just
Speaker 1: saying come work for me. I had never worked in media,
Speaker 1: so I always give Glenn credit for that. Also, Glenn,
Speaker 1: of course works for a premiere and iHeart media. And
Speaker 1: then Rush Limbaugh's phone call You're a few years after that,
Speaker 1: and I just bring it up because the impact that
Speaker 1: rushed at me. First of all, thoughts and prayers for Rush,
Speaker 1: and if anyone's going to beat this thing and come
Speaker 1: back even stronger, if that's possible, it's Russia Limbaugh. So
Speaker 1: I just I would only, I only would ever bet
Speaker 1: on Rush to win, whatever that means, and in this case,
Speaker 1: I would still put my money on Rush to come
Speaker 1: through and be fine. But I also would just say
Speaker 1: that I've never met Rush, I never had the honor
Speaker 1: of actually meeting him in person. I did a show
Speaker 1: many times. I know his staff very well. I think
Speaker 1: of them with tremendous fondness. They made me a better
Speaker 1: radio host. They made me better at what I do
Speaker 1: day in and day out here in media and talking
Speaker 1: to all of you. And Rush created this whole world
Speaker 1: that we now inhabit, that you who are listening to
Speaker 1: and watching this show inhabit, where we can have a
Speaker 1: real conversation, where we can speak the truth about things.
Speaker 1: Rush was the guy who was hacking that out of
Speaker 1: the woods when there was no trail. He was the trailblazer.
Speaker 1: He was the guy. And there are thousands of us
Speaker 1: who owe our careers, in our livelihood and really our
Speaker 1: life's mission to Rush Limbaugh. And there are hundreds of
Speaker 1: millions of us over the years in this country who
Speaker 1: in one way or another have benefited from what Rush
Speaker 1: has done already. So prayers up for Rush, the original,
Speaker 1: the Best, the one and only. Thanks for listening to
Speaker 1: The Bus Sesson Show podcast. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast,
Speaker 1: the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1: Team I want to bring you with some bring you
Speaker 1: some updates on the coronavirus situation that is rattling markets
Speaker 1: and just scaring people all over the world right now.
Speaker 1: But but I just want to say, first, this was
Speaker 1: circulating on social media. Does is Trump having his best
Speaker 1: week ever? I think that was a show. I wasn't
Speaker 1: it a show on E for a while, producer Mark right,
Speaker 1: Trump's having his or not Trump, but best week ever
Speaker 1: for different people. Yet it was a show where people
Speaker 1: are they having their best week ever? This is what's happened.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be Trump's week, we'll say, from last
Speaker 1: Wednesday to till tomorrow. So we're going ahead on this
Speaker 1: one a little bit. GPS blocked witnesses in the Peachman trial,
Speaker 1: the complete debacle with the Iowa Caucus is a State
Speaker 1: of the Union address tonight that is going to be
Speaker 1: a pep rally on steroids for the Trump agenda and
Speaker 1: all of its successes thus far, all time high job
Speaker 1: approval rating I left that out before, better than Obama's
Speaker 1: at this point, but also all time high for Trump
Speaker 1: acquittal tomorrow from the sham impeachment sign the US Canada Mexico,
Speaker 1: US Mexico Canada whatever trade deal. I mean, Trump is
Speaker 1: crushing it right now. I mean he's just doing a
Speaker 1: fantastic job, and yet there's such divisive, hateful stuff out there.
Speaker 1: About how Trump is terrible, I need to remove him
Speaker 1: from office and all this stuff. Anyway, It's just it's
Speaker 1: just insane. I really I do worry. I say this,
Speaker 1: and I know it's going to sound like I'm just
Speaker 1: being a bit a bit cheeky, but I really do
Speaker 1: worry about the psychological health of many, many, many, many
Speaker 1: Democrats across the country. The day after Trump is reelected,
Speaker 1: I just I'm not sure they can really handle it.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if they'll be able to
Speaker 1: process it. They're so convinced that he's the worst person ever,
Speaker 1: and yet the president is doing better than he's ever done,
Speaker 1: and his supporters are more locked in than they've ever
Speaker 1: been each year of the Trump presidency. I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've run out of I've run out
Speaker 1: of giving him superlatives. I don't know what else to say.
Speaker 1: It's just better than I thought it would be. And
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be good. I was
Speaker 1: a supporter, But here we are, all right. Coronavirus is
Speaker 1: it a Now you have the big debate over whether
Speaker 1: or not it qualifies as a pandemic. I mean, still
Speaker 1: most of the cases are in China, in Wuhan Province.
Speaker 1: And I've noticed that we were talking about experts in
Speaker 1: the last hour, and how we believe that experts have
Speaker 1: all of this this knowledge that we must always rely
Speaker 1: on it, and certainly in the medical field. That sure,
Speaker 1: I want super geniuses working in medicine. Why also, I
Speaker 1: want doctors to be paid well. I want medical researchers
Speaker 1: to be paid well. I want pharmaceutical companies to make
Speaker 1: real profits. I do want those things to happen because
Speaker 1: I want the best, you know, I don't want the
Speaker 1: Soviet Union's version of big pharma. I want an American
Speaker 1: capitalism's version of pharma. I want people who are staying
Speaker 1: late at the office, who could have had other jobs,
Speaker 1: but do this because they're really, really, really good at it,
Speaker 1: curing cancer and finding finding things out. So, you know,
Speaker 1: the medical area is one where we always want I
Speaker 1: think we we understand that we want to have the
Speaker 1: most knowledge possible. We want the best of the best.
Speaker 1: You know, just ask anybody, do you know do you
Speaker 1: care about your heart? Do you care about anything to
Speaker 1: do with your heart surgeons, politics, or anything else? You know,
Speaker 1: what color your heart surgeon is, what gender your heart
Speaker 1: surgeon is, or you just care about you want the
Speaker 1: best heart surgeon you can possibly get. And I think
Speaker 1: nine percent of people in this country and probably around
Speaker 1: the world would say no, No, I just want the
Speaker 1: person who's the best. So we want those who are
Speaker 1: in the medical field. You know, that's that's not subjective.
Speaker 1: It's not like literature professors really cooh, maybe we needed
Speaker 1: to be more representative of whatever. No, we just want
Speaker 1: the best of the best. Unfortunately, in some cases, and
Speaker 1: you graduate school admissions and other as they've fallen away
Speaker 1: from this, even for medical school admissions, and that's that's troubling.
Speaker 1: But you look at the experts on what to do
Speaker 1: about a pandemic, and it's yet another one of these
Speaker 1: moments where if you're paying attention, you see they're not
Speaker 1: really sure. You have some people who are coming out
Speaker 1: who are elevated as the voices we should be listening
Speaker 1: to on this, you know, specialized epidemiologists and it's a
Speaker 1: fun word to say epidemiologists, specialized people dealing with with outbreaks,
Speaker 1: dealing with contagion, mass contagion. And they'll tell you that
Speaker 1: flight bands don't work and are counterproductive and are a
Speaker 1: bad thing, and they say, well, hold on a second,
Speaker 1: if we can't if containing the virus from being actually
Speaker 1: shipped all over the world on planes. I mean, you
Speaker 1: look at the spread of pathogens in the past that
Speaker 1: led to mass outbreaks, led to mass casualties, and one
Speaker 1: of the reasons that you would have outbreaks of disease,
Speaker 1: like going all the way back to the days of
Speaker 1: the Black Death, bubonic plague. Again, a lot of this
Speaker 1: pandemic disease. Now keep in mind Europeans were the source
Speaker 1: of New World pandemics, So I mean, disease has just
Speaker 1: moved from the greatest concentrations of people, which have been
Speaker 1: in Asia for millennia. You know, they moved west because
Speaker 1: of the age of exploration, the age of the great
Speaker 1: sailing ships, and so all of a sudden ports places
Speaker 1: like Venice. That's where initially the Black Death showed up
Speaker 1: in Europe, and then and our diseases in Europe made
Speaker 1: their way too, So you know, people get there. There's
Speaker 1: this cultural sensitivity about speaking honestly about this. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: if we're going to talk about how about how flu
Speaker 1: viruses originate in Asia and how some of the practices
Speaker 1: of animal husbandry, which is this way of saying, you know,
Speaker 1: raising animals for livestock and all. Why I keep saying,
Speaker 1: it's like I'm getting all Shakespearean over here. There's husbandry
Speaker 1: in heaven. It's actually what he says in Macbeth for
Speaker 1: when there's not much of the moonlight coming in Producer Mark,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm here for. You just want to be
Speaker 1: a husband so bad that up, I've fairly got husband
Speaker 1: on the mind. So I gotta I gotta gotta find that,
Speaker 1: missus Sexton. So if we take the model though, of well,
Speaker 1: the disease has spread throughout the Western World, starting in
Speaker 1: the Asian lamb Master. Let's keep in mind that we
Speaker 1: the explorers of the New World, the Europeans. When I
Speaker 1: say we, I just mean, you know, the West, we
Speaker 1: brought disease that wiped out the New World effectively. So
Speaker 1: we were the source of pandemics, smallpox notably, and influenza
Speaker 1: and some other things that came in and just effectively
Speaker 1: eradicated the populations of the New World, of the native peoples.
Speaker 1: That was what really did especially, I mean smallpox destroyed
Speaker 1: whole minor civilizations. Okay, so that's this is people say, oh,
Speaker 1: let's not talk about how these disease originated in Asia.
Speaker 1: Know they originate in Asia, they go to the rest
Speaker 1: of the world, and we have a history. We e
Speaker 1: the Europeans spread lots of disease. So disease is a
Speaker 1: human thing, right, It's not a nationality thing. It's we're
Speaker 1: all just trying to avoid untimely death and all the
Speaker 1: pain and laws that comes from pandemic disease. Okay, so
Speaker 1: now let's just look at this from the expert perspective.
Speaker 1: Some of them are saying that we shouldn't have these
Speaker 1: flight bands in place, and I just sit here and
Speaker 1: I say, well, it shouldn't. We be all in the
Speaker 1: same page about continuing to say, oh no, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't really work, and it ends up economically depressing areas,
Speaker 1: And then there's less honesty about whether in governments because
Speaker 1: they don't want to lose all the revenue from having
Speaker 1: the flight bands and you have all this stuff, and
Speaker 1: so the experts don't agree on what to do about
Speaker 1: this necessarily, which I always feel is a place that
Speaker 1: we have to remember. We find ourselves as the public
Speaker 1: figuring out who we should listen to and asking those
Speaker 1: who make decisions in power based upon expertise to understand
Speaker 1: that even scientific expertise can be a whole lot there's
Speaker 1: a whole lot of descent, a whole lot of competing
Speaker 1: theories about what to do in pandemic disease is one
Speaker 1: of those areas you think about, even to just yesterday,
Speaker 1: prous of work, you know. I saw that they're saying
Speaker 1: now that babies unless they have a real allergy to it,
Speaker 1: a true allergy, not alike. I read something on Gwyneth
Speaker 1: Paltrow's Goop site that says, we have allergies to it,
Speaker 1: that milk, and in fact, whole milk is good for babies.
Speaker 1: Now again they've decided that's really good for babies. You
Speaker 1: show young and young people growing whole milk, full fat milk,
Speaker 1: very good things when they feel like it. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: because like there was a few years ago, like oh no,
Speaker 1: cow's milk bad, you know, antibiotics, all these things everything.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even supposed to drink whole milk. I mean,
Speaker 1: I love whole milk, by the way, really yeah of coral,
Speaker 1: yeah totally. I'm I'm a little bittle bit of a
Speaker 1: milk snob. I will only drink organic milk. It tastes better. Oh,
Speaker 1: you're one of those. And it has nothing to do
Speaker 1: like a producer. Mark is a fancy milk guy. It
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with like, oh I need to
Speaker 1: drink organic. No, it just tastes better. I have. I
Speaker 1: have hazel nut milk, and I will tell you that
Speaker 1: I pour hazel nut milk in my Black Rifle coffee
Speaker 1: in the morning, which I'm not sure if that's okay.
Speaker 1: I wanted the Black Rifle guys to find out that
Speaker 1: I'm pouring hazelnut milk and they're delicious coffee to taste
Speaker 1: like hazelnut, right, Well, it's just it's just milk hazelnuts. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So it tastes like hazel what's wrong with that? It's
Speaker 1: a little fruit through you know what I mean. I mean,
Speaker 1: we'll get that and like, you know, I feel like
Speaker 1: I feel like in America, we like we like that
Speaker 1: little plastic creamer thing that can last like fifteen years,
Speaker 1: Like after the nuclear apocalypse, you could still open one
Speaker 1: of those little creamer plastic things they have in the andy.
Speaker 1: It still tastes the same. Whatever it is, just putting
Speaker 1: your tail in your coffee, it's just wet. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: have you ever had any tel Now you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to roll me into this place. I have ever had
Speaker 1: to tell you. I don't know. You could put an
Speaker 1: tell on my shoes and I would eat them on
Speaker 1: the planet. I'm talking about the tell I was talking
Speaker 1: about pandemic did all right, I'm gonna go back to
Speaker 1: pandemic disease here, and what's going on with coronavirus? Hold
Speaker 1: on a second. You're in the Freedom hud. This is
Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show podcast. So the experts on coronavirus
Speaker 1: aren't aren't seeing out eye, And I wanted to tell
Speaker 1: you on what to do about it necessarily, and we
Speaker 1: have to rely on the Chinese government. And it's interesting because,
Speaker 1: you know, pandemic disease is a place where you see
Speaker 1: the crossover of people who are very status and people
Speaker 1: who are believing in much more limited government. Because this
Speaker 1: is really a national pandemic disease automatically, phil falls into
Speaker 1: a really a national security exception. I mean, the only
Speaker 1: way that you're going to stem these things, You're not
Speaker 1: going to rely on the private sector to just do
Speaker 1: its thing right all of a sudden, you want government action.
Speaker 1: And there's some interesting history here. I'm gonna bring it
Speaker 1: back to New York City for a second on how
Speaker 1: to stemp pandemic diseases, because I told you yesterday about
Speaker 1: I think it was the eighteen thirty two and eighteen
Speaker 1: forty nine the cholera epidemics in New York City killed
Speaker 1: thousands of people, which would be more like one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand people in New York City today if you adjusted
Speaker 1: for population size. Well, there was some sense that the
Speaker 1: water was dirty. They didn't really understand microbiology at that point,
Speaker 1: but they knew the water was dirty. And so what
Speaker 1: ended up happening, Well, the state of New York had
Speaker 1: to come up with a plan to deal with this,
Speaker 1: and there were some experts who said, we're gonna we
Speaker 1: build an aqueduct. An aqueduct from what is now the
Speaker 1: Croton Reservoir System brings water into New York City. People
Speaker 1: have clean fresh water, better for everybody, great for public health.
Speaker 1: We need to do this. But instead you had competing interests,
Speaker 1: in this case, competing commercial interests. A fellow named Aaron Burr.
Speaker 1: You guys all remember him, right. Aaron Burr wanted to
Speaker 1: found a bank, but you needed a charter from the
Speaker 1: state of New York to found a bank back in
Speaker 1: seventeen ninety nine, and to get that charter, you had
Speaker 1: to say that there was going to be some public good.
Speaker 1: So what he set up was a water company, a
Speaker 1: water company called the Manhattan Company, and this was going
Speaker 1: to be a competitor to you guessed at Alexander Hamilton's
Speaker 1: Bank of New York. So the Manhattan Company comes in
Speaker 1: and says, oh, we have this charter, now what should
Speaker 1: be doing the public good of bringing water in and
Speaker 1: so we will pull together funds to create a water
Speaker 1: system for the city of New York, which will help
Speaker 1: prevent these outbreaks of things like yellow fever and cholera
Speaker 1: and you know other diseases pathogens, bacteria, protozoa that float
Speaker 1: in the water. Usually it has to do with not
Speaker 1: to be gross if you're if you're eating lunch, turn
Speaker 1: away for a second. Usually has to do with essentially
Speaker 1: human wastewater getting into your drinking water. That was the
Speaker 1: big problem, especially with wells. They didn't really understand that
Speaker 1: that the water groundwork can be infected and seep into wells,
Speaker 1: that they're not protected properly. So the Manhattan Company decides
Speaker 1: that they're going that they have this charter and they're
Speaker 1: going to bring in a water system. But what do
Speaker 1: they do well, they just want to make profit. Aaron
Speaker 1: Burd just wants to make more money because any money
Speaker 1: left over after they've raised the funds to build the
Speaker 1: aqueduct system into New York in seventeen ninety nine, any
Speaker 1: money that they have left over, they can use for
Speaker 1: banking purposes. Ah. Yes, So the Manhattan Company decides instead
Speaker 1: of using metal pipes, iron pipes to bring in the water,
Speaker 1: they want to use wooden pipes, holid out trees instead
Speaker 1: of using Instead of using a more mechanized system to
Speaker 1: initially flush the water out, they used horse drawn system
Speaker 1: to do so. They essentially cut corners. And the biggest
Speaker 1: corner of all was instead of bringing water in from
Speaker 1: the Croton Reservoir system north of the city, pristine, clear,
Speaker 1: beautiful water, which also would have been How when you
Speaker 1: run water over sand and gravel, there's a process you
Speaker 1: run it through sand and gravel, it can be cleaned
Speaker 1: distilled to a certain degree. That way, a large percentage
Speaker 1: of pathogens can be removed from water just through that
Speaker 1: simple filtration system, and really a natural filtration system, and
Speaker 1: instead they get all cheap on it, and they decide
Speaker 1: to go on the cheap and they also bring in
Speaker 1: water from a stagnant pool here in the city to
Speaker 1: distribute to people as part of this water system. And
Speaker 1: sure enough, there is a whole lot of disease that
Speaker 1: results from this disease that is primarily affecting those who
Speaker 1: cannot escape the city when their outbreaks, those who do
Speaker 1: not have country homes or homes, and other parts of
Speaker 1: the city. And so the five points that I mentioned
Speaker 1: to you, and Irish and freed slaves and newly arrived
Speaker 1: Irish immigrants getting the worst end of this. Interesting little
Speaker 1: historical note too. The Manhattan Company, which was founded by
Speaker 1: Aaron Burr, you know, Aaron Burr was Vice President of
Speaker 1: the United States, got second most votes after Thomas Jefferson,
Speaker 1: and that was the way they used to do this
Speaker 1: system then and Alexander Hamilton was talking a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff about Burr and also including his rapacious greed and
Speaker 1: his practices as a founder of the Manhattan Company. And
Speaker 1: as we know, that led to a duel in Weehawk
Speaker 1: in New York. Hamilton shot his gun to defend his honor,
Speaker 1: but away from Burr Burr just put one right in
Speaker 1: his chest killed him. Interestingly enough, that Water company you
Speaker 1: probably all have heard of that Manhattan the Manhattan Company,
Speaker 1: which was initially set up to bring water into the
Speaker 1: city of New York. Because that, through iterations of corporate mergers,
Speaker 1: became what is known as JP Morgan Chase, the second
Speaker 1: largest bank in the world. That is how it started
Speaker 1: out bringing dirty water to poor people to save money
Speaker 1: so they could lend money out and make it on
Speaker 1: the banking side. That is the reality of it. That's
Speaker 1: also why if you look at the JP Morgan Chase logo,
Speaker 1: you might look in and say, oh, it just looks
Speaker 1: like a corporate logo. Uh. JP Morgan Chase's corporate logo
Speaker 1: comes from the Greek god of the ocean, oceanics Poseidon
Speaker 1: kind of but oceanics. Uh, that's that's where all this
Speaker 1: comes from. Isn't that interesting? There was a in fact,
Speaker 1: they used to hold meetings up until I think it
Speaker 1: was eighteen ninety nine. The board of JP Morgan, which
Speaker 1: it wasn't called JP Morgan at the time it went.
Speaker 1: It went through very you know, there's all this different
Speaker 1: consolidations that occurred. But that the company that was the
Speaker 1: Manhattan The Manhattan Company even after it gave up, and
Speaker 1: it gave up pretty quickly having anything with water held
Speaker 1: itself up as as a water as a water company,
Speaker 1: and they would have these board meetings and they would
Speaker 1: all have drinking glasses out with water, and it's sort
Speaker 1: of as as a tradition, but that is in fact
Speaker 1: the origin story of the second largest bank in the
Speaker 1: world today, JP Morgan Chase. It started out it was
Speaker 1: founded by Aaron Burr to compete with Alexander Hamilton, and
Speaker 1: they decided to bring dirty water to poor people, which
Speaker 1: poisoned them and their children, in order to make a
Speaker 1: little more money. You can imagine there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that point to this now and say corporations are bad.
Speaker 1: But I would point to this and say, well, maybe
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have had chrony capitalism and the charter necessary
Speaker 1: to form the bank in the first place coming from
Speaker 1: the state of New York which decided there had to
Speaker 1: be a social welfare component for a company that had
Speaker 1: no interest in social welfare. See what I did there.
Speaker 1: But that is the fun history lesson of today. Producer Mark,
Speaker 1: was that your favorite history lesson so far? Is that
Speaker 1: is that top of the list? JP Morgan Chase. If
Speaker 1: you go in there, I'd be like, Hey, you guys
Speaker 1: still feeding dirty water to poor people? Yeah, I should absolutely.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they will understand what I'm saying too. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure that your average teller would necessarily or even
Speaker 1: your average JP Morgan Chase managing director would know the backstory.
Speaker 1: But does ce don't even know that. I don't know,
Speaker 1: just buck no more than the CEO. It's always possible.
Speaker 1: It's a thing that could happen. Yeah, So that's that's
Speaker 1: how we got say, pandemic disease in New York City
Speaker 1: was what led to the founding of the second largist
Speaker 1: Bank of the World, which I'm sure some of you
Speaker 1: have accounts with and do you're checking with, et cetera, etc.
Speaker 1: You can now you can drop a little knowledge and
Speaker 1: you walk in your JP Morgan Chase branch and just
Speaker 1: be like, Hey, where do you guys get your drinking
Speaker 1: water from? Thanks for listening to the bus Session Show podcasts.
Speaker 1: Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. I know I'm going to
Speaker 1: get notes on this one, so I said this before.
Speaker 1: He's like Posidon, but Oceanis was the Titan god of
Speaker 1: the water, whereas Poseidon is an Olympian from Mount Olympus,
Speaker 1: which we actually randomly mentioned before on the show. So
Speaker 1: Oceanis was from the Titan period of Greek mythology and
Speaker 1: Poseidon is from the Olympian school of make believe gods
Speaker 1: from the Greeks. Anyway, I because I knew Producer Mark
Speaker 1: I was gonna get a hammer on that one. Now
Speaker 1: we can begin our role call. Please like soft butter
Speaker 1: on warm toast, time to spread some freedom coast to coast.
Speaker 1: It's time for roll call. It is time for roll call.
Speaker 1: First up, we've got Adam, who writes in. Producer Mark
Speaker 1: I recently saw the Harlem Globetrotters. I think the song
Speaker 1: might be Bucks Kryptonite Shields high. I assume there's a
Speaker 1: lot of whistling, and I meant you like when I
Speaker 1: have sound effects ready, thank you. I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have an injurism. That's enough, that's enough. Sure, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we're good. Okay, Look, whistling is not something
Speaker 1: that people need to do. I'm just just putting it
Speaker 1: out there. Bill Hey, Buck, I have recently started listening
Speaker 1: to your podcast, and I have to say it's quickly
Speaker 1: become my favorite. I just and I purchased a couple
Speaker 1: of Tomahawk ribis and tried the reverse your method. I
Speaker 1: will never grill my ribbis again. Shield's high. Well, Bill,
Speaker 1: First of all, you have fantastic taste in podcasts and
Speaker 1: in red meat. Ribi is my favorite cut. I recently
Speaker 1: had had a kind of American style wag you that
Speaker 1: starts with a Z and I'm trying to remember if
Speaker 1: I could even tell you. I think it was like
Speaker 1: a zamboni or something like that. It was, Oh, zabuton.
Speaker 1: There we go. I want to make sure I got
Speaker 1: this one right. I had a zabuton steak. I made
Speaker 1: it for myself. Wow. It was fantastic, highly highly recommend
Speaker 1: because it was similar, I believe, to a butcher's steak. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's similar to a butcher's steak or butcher's cut steak,
Speaker 1: which is also excellent. You look at it, it it almost
Speaker 1: looks like a short rib. It's a bit thick and
Speaker 1: kind of square. Usually the way they cut up it
Speaker 1: is it was delicious. Yeah. Reverse Here here's the thing
Speaker 1: I understand, there's nothing quite as satisfying. It's throwing a
Speaker 1: big hunk of red meat on a on a really
Speaker 1: hot grill outdoors. You hear the seer, you smell it,
Speaker 1: all the men of making myself hungry, all the you know,
Speaker 1: the charcoal and carbonization and all this stuff adds all
Speaker 1: this flavor. But you know it doesn't add flavor when
Speaker 1: the outside of your meat is blackened and you get
Speaker 1: to the center of your very expensive, very delicious cut
Speaker 1: of red meat and it is like stone cold and purple. Now,
Speaker 1: some of you might like your steak black and blue.
Speaker 1: I am not one of them. I like it medium
Speaker 1: rare because I'm a civilized fellow rare. I will do
Speaker 1: sometimes I will say that if I'm really living on
Speaker 1: the edge. But I like I'm a medium rare guy.
Speaker 1: And if you reverse sear and you just look it
Speaker 1: up on YouTube, I should do it. You know what,
Speaker 1: because we are going to have a YouTube channel up
Speaker 1: to in producer Mark, we keep stopping and starting on
Speaker 1: this one. I'm going to do a whole bucks reverse
Speaker 1: sear method where maybe I'll sit there and I'll talk
Speaker 1: politics while I reverse seer a steak, and we'll put
Speaker 1: this on YouTube. Well, that would be interesting and it'll
Speaker 1: be like Buck's Cooking School. That's what I'm saying. While
Speaker 1: you talk politics, I mean, or just about things you
Speaker 1: don't even need the politics. Yeah, I probably just do
Speaker 1: like history lessons or something, or talking about something more
Speaker 1: interesting than politics. But the reverse, hear. Have you tried
Speaker 1: to your producer Mark, I would like you and the
Speaker 1: missus the next time you guys are doing red meat
Speaker 1: at home. She doesn't need red meat. That's right, you
Speaker 1: told me that, So do you ever? Do you? You
Speaker 1: know it's too much point myself. Yeah, okay, forget that.
Speaker 1: I'll have you guys over some time. I'll cook you.
Speaker 1: I'll cook you guys the reverse your method, because if
Speaker 1: you're really into cooking it perfectly, I mean, you want
Speaker 1: it exactly the right temperature and exactly the right seer
Speaker 1: on the outside. Reverse here, it's it's annoying. It turns
Speaker 1: it a little bit more into a chemistry experiment. I
Speaker 1: love taking my burger, throwing it on and I can
Speaker 1: do the field test, which is when you just push
Speaker 1: it and you can tell in the center based on
Speaker 1: how squishy it is, whether or not it's whether well
Speaker 1: it's ready. I'm I can prey. If the burger is
Speaker 1: thin enough, I can do that. If it's too thick,
Speaker 1: you can't because then it's just it's motion in the middle.
Speaker 1: You can't tell. But if you do the reverse here
Speaker 1: things you have to you have to do it like
Speaker 1: a science experiments where you're putting the thermometer in like
Speaker 1: every because you'll reach a certain point and you'll get close.
Speaker 1: But you want to get a perfect you gotta put
Speaker 1: it in like every five minutes to see. So it's
Speaker 1: a little much better cook than I expected. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: I've skills. Yeah, oh no, no, no, I actually make
Speaker 1: it happen, man, I make it happen. You're you're a
Speaker 1: single man in New York. You know you gotta know
Speaker 1: how to cook. That's true. You know what I'm saying. Damn,
Speaker 1: restaurants are expensive. So I'm glad you like the reverse
Speaker 1: her method. Everyone else at home, you're probably saying, bucket
Speaker 1: sounds fancy, It sounds like a fancy French word for
Speaker 1: surrender reverse here, But no, it really is, in fact
Speaker 1: a great way to cook your meat. And you will
Speaker 1: you will love it. Um you will think it is
Speaker 1: fantastic once you've done it, and it's the way you
Speaker 1: want to cook your meat all the time. Leanne. Right,
Speaker 1: So what's the name of your brother's gluten free bakery, Leanne.
Speaker 1: My brother is the founder of a luten free baked
Speaker 1: goods company called Susie's s O O Z y Um.
Speaker 1: They have them in a bunch of national retailers. You
Speaker 1: can just see them online. You'll check it out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing, the best gluten free products you'll
Speaker 1: get in my opinion, of course, my Rose company, but
Speaker 1: I really do believe this best gluten free products you'll
Speaker 1: find anywhere in the baked It's in the frozen section
Speaker 1: of the grocery store, by the way. And that's another
Speaker 1: thing too. I used to think frozen was equaled, not fresh.
Speaker 1: When I was young, I didn't really understand this. The
Speaker 1: freezer is a critical part of, you know, your whole
Speaker 1: culinary life and experience, because the freezer is where you're
Speaker 1: going to keep a lot of meat that stays for
Speaker 1: a very long time, that stays good. It's freezer is
Speaker 1: not just for TV dinner. Freezer is for fruits and
Speaker 1: vegetables picked at maximum ripeness. So that when you want them,
Speaker 1: you have them, and you don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 1: You can keep I mean I've pulled. I've pulled ground
Speaker 1: chuck for example, really good ground chuck out of the
Speaker 1: freezer after a couple of months and made a burger
Speaker 1: out of it. It It was absolutely fantastic. Gotta make sure
Speaker 1: it stayed frozen the whole time. But you ever you
Speaker 1: rocked the freezer, freeze is always full. Though. If you
Speaker 1: go to a restaurant food taste frozen, that's probably well,
Speaker 1: that's a bad thing, right, they're moving, so they should
Speaker 1: be moving so much product through that why would they
Speaker 1: have to use the freezer. But at home it's a
Speaker 1: very normal thing. At home, it's very very economical. You
Speaker 1: gotta be jays or something very economical, right, And if
Speaker 1: you get a great deal on for example, you know,
Speaker 1: if you get a great deal on Prime rib or something,
Speaker 1: you know you use some of it maybe right away,
Speaker 1: but if you know, obviously you don't want to throw
Speaker 1: it out. Food cost will just go up if you
Speaker 1: do that, your own personal food costs. So I would
Speaker 1: say go for it. But baked goods, here's a little
Speaker 1: trick for you. Do you go to the county fair
Speaker 1: and you get a delicious uh you know, to some
Speaker 1: delicious chocolate chip cookies that are still moist and whatever.
Speaker 1: If you put them in the freezer right away, if
Speaker 1: you're not gonna eat all of them, you can pull
Speaker 1: them out and you can even just you don't have
Speaker 1: to thaw them. You can just put them in the microwave.
Speaker 1: They'll be almost every bit as good as when they
Speaker 1: came out of the oven. I mean truly minimal. Minimal. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 1: you can do with really any baked good. I've done
Speaker 1: it with um if you take so. I sometimes will
Speaker 1: find like fancy gluten free paste trees are bread, like
Speaker 1: gluten free pistachio bread is something. I found that a
Speaker 1: few coffee shops in New York are very fancy. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they kind of are everywhere. Now. I was in
Speaker 1: Nashville and they're like, excuse me, like I'm doing some
Speaker 1: chemistry with your coffee. I was like, this is Nashville.
Speaker 1: What are you doing, sir? Give me a cup of joe? Yeah. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know if you if you take like banana bread,
Speaker 1: for example, that's fresh, and you put it in the freezer,
Speaker 1: it'll be fine. So that's a thing you can do
Speaker 1: with Susie's. I mean they have muffins and donuts. And
Speaker 1: you take producer Mark Howlin, he'll tell you what it
Speaker 1: was very good. Yeah, you put it in the microwave
Speaker 1: for thirty or forty seconds and it's fantastic. Joe, right buck,
Speaker 1: Hey man, hope life's good. Keep fighting the good fight.
Speaker 1: I wanted my wife to listen to the let me
Speaker 1: tell you a story about Kobe Bryant monologue about the
Speaker 1: boy he visited the hospital, but I couldn't find it?
Speaker 1: Could you or producer Mark point me in the right direction?
Speaker 1: Shields high? Um, I do you want? Do you want
Speaker 1: the thing? I have to know? Joe, We're happy to
Speaker 1: put into the right direction. But just right back us.
Speaker 1: Know if you're looking for what I said about that
Speaker 1: on the show, or if you're looking for just the
Speaker 1: Facebook post it was based, do you want to read
Speaker 1: or do you want to hear? It? Is what we have.
Speaker 1: I think a couple of people who wanted to read it.
Speaker 1: They want to say, no, where to find it? Want
Speaker 1: to read it? I will send it then to producer
Speaker 1: Mark and we can put it up on the Facebook
Speaker 1: page Facebook dot com slash Buck Sexton. So because I
Speaker 1: have it, I have it somewhere. So that's the that's
Speaker 1: the best way I think we can go about that,
Speaker 1: all right. Next up here, Mike hi Buck. Like all
Speaker 1: of us, I was devastated to hear Rush's announcement. Thankfully
Speaker 1: he has. He is a fighter that has millions praying
Speaker 1: for his recovery. It reminds me of how we so
Speaker 1: easily take for granted the influential conservative voices that offer
Speaker 1: real insight and wisdom, especially when good humor is involved.
Speaker 1: The importance of laughter can never be underestimated. I listened
Speaker 1: to several radio shows and find yours the only other
Speaker 1: one that gives me the same genuine satisfaction as L.
Speaker 1: Rushbo does. So keep up what you're ps. Do you
Speaker 1: think Rush should receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from
Speaker 1: Trump for what it's worth? Seems like a fitting gesture,
Speaker 1: But maybe Rush wouldn't like the spotlight on him in
Speaker 1: that way. Just a thought any anyhow, Shields High. First
Speaker 1: of all, Mark, I mean, Mike, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for the kind note. And yeah, we're all we're all
Speaker 1: pulling for Rush. And if anyone, if anyone's going to
Speaker 1: come out of this. Uh, you know, fine, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Rush Lombaugh and then guy's a fighter as forum.
Speaker 1: Whether he should get the Medal of Freedom, I think
Speaker 1: that's a great idea. I don't I don't know, As
Speaker 1: I said earlier in the show, I've never met Rush,
Speaker 1: never even talked to Rush, but I think that that
Speaker 1: would certainly be fitting. And he created he created, really,
Speaker 1: you know, an industry, you know, I mean, Rush is
Speaker 1: like think of him almost like the Steve Jobs of
Speaker 1: talk radio, and that he created this whole world that
Speaker 1: didn't really exist before. People might say, oh, there was
Speaker 1: there was you know, they're a talk host before I
Speaker 1: think there was this guy Bob Grant, who I think,
Speaker 1: I'm not a talk radio story by any stretch. I
Speaker 1: don't know that much about it before my time. But Rush,
Speaker 1: I mean there was a time when I was younger,
Speaker 1: I remember him. It was basically Rush Limbaugh. And then
Speaker 1: it came up with the Internet, the Drudge Report, and
Speaker 1: you had Fox News starting in nineteen ninety six. But
Speaker 1: the whole world of conservative the alternative that conservative media
Speaker 1: presented to the American people was only really possible because
Speaker 1: of the trailblazing that rush Limbaugh did. He created that
Speaker 1: space that now so many of us have rushed alongside
Speaker 1: him to try and you know, to try and fill
Speaker 1: in our own way. But he was leading the charge.
Speaker 1: We were the ones that came in after him, the
Speaker 1: generations that came after him, and other talk hosts from
Speaker 1: his generation too. You're in the freedom hunt. This is
Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show podcast. All right. We got Richard
Speaker 1: writing in for Roll Call. Buck. I work third so
Speaker 1: I get paid to be up. Huh, Okay, I'm watching
Speaker 1: this Iowa debacle. This is why you stress test your software.
Speaker 1: Remember when Romney's Get out the Vote app crashed on
Speaker 1: election day? The Dems now just did the same thing.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just better to use paper to record votes
Speaker 1: and a phone call to them to put them in.
Speaker 1: And these people want to take over everyone's healthcare. They
Speaker 1: can't make an app to record one thousand, six hundred anyone,
Speaker 1: cacus precinct results, shields and wait times high. Yeah, Richard's
Speaker 1: a bad look for the Democrats, no question about it.
Speaker 1: Bad look from the Democrats. This was not you know,
Speaker 1: we should expect that they'd be more capable than this.
Speaker 1: Even for Democrats, this was particularly weak Carl. Next up, Buck,
Speaker 1: I wanted to point out a characteristic of yours I
Speaker 1: think separates you from other show hosts and why I've
Speaker 1: stuck with you for going on five years. You have
Speaker 1: great instincts. What I mean is you always know exactly
Speaker 1: what those on the left wing will say or do
Speaker 1: in a given situation, how they really think, and what
Speaker 1: motivates them. It's more than just understanding their arguments. You
Speaker 1: know what makes them tick, and you see through fakes,
Speaker 1: almost like you have a sixth sense, always spot on.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm tired of people citing the
Speaker 1: fact that Bernie is consistent, as if that's some sign
Speaker 1: of higher morality or honesty. No, no, he's just an
Speaker 1: ideological fanatic. When the rest of America recognized communism for
Speaker 1: what it is post Cold War, all Bernie did was
Speaker 1: changed the name out Front Communist to Democratic Socialist, like
Speaker 1: a bad buffet that got shut down for healthclad violations
Speaker 1: and opens the next day under a new name. Shields High. Carl,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I appreciate your your insights on
Speaker 1: Bernie's changing of the nomenclature for his ideology, and then
Speaker 1: also the kind words about my instincts on the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate five years. Man, that's great.
Speaker 1: That's we've spent a lot of time together. That's why
Speaker 1: I always love the team because whenever they see me
Speaker 1: on the real world, people who listen to the show,
Speaker 1: the didn't know me. I mean, they've spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time hanging out with me. They know what I think,
Speaker 1: they know what I sound like, they know they know
Speaker 1: my I was gonna say my kids names, whoops, no
Speaker 1: kids yet. They know my parents dogs name, they know
Speaker 1: my siblings names. All that dusted hey, buck listening and
Speaker 1: the TV analogy used actually proves your argument wrong. The
Speaker 1: reason those TV's are cheaper and better is because they're
Speaker 1: made in China, and as you know, they're communists. Just
Speaker 1: saying no dustin that doesn't prove the argument wrong, because
Speaker 1: the argument is that when people are incentivized, they will
Speaker 1: make they will make better products and make them more cheaply.
Speaker 1: The Chinese are incent We're incentivized to do that too,
Speaker 1: and that's why you are able to buy a television
Speaker 1: that today is three hundred dollars that ten years ago
Speaker 1: would have been three thousand dollars. That's why you carry
Speaker 1: around a supercomputer in your pocket. Capitalism is not limited
Speaker 1: to this country. We are in a global market. So
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing how TV's getting cheaper because they're made
Speaker 1: in China. Prove that capitalism does not result in better
Speaker 1: and more and more efficient products. And in fact, China
Speaker 1: has embraced market economics in certain sectors of its economy,
Speaker 1: certainly in its global exports, because that's how it's making
Speaker 1: so much money in China. Is not a true China
Speaker 1: is a is a command control Uh, you know, China
Speaker 1: is essentially an authoritarian capitalist country. Now it's not really
Speaker 1: it's it's not a communist country. There's no way, because
Speaker 1: you know, you got people driving or I think people
Speaker 1: rolling over the place. I was just there, what nine
Speaker 1: months eight months ago, people driving around and BMW's all
Speaker 1: over the place. My friends, this is not the Soviet
Speaker 1: Union communism that you're used to, Erica. I wasn't bothered
Speaker 1: by the Bloomberg ad. On the contrary, I want all
Speaker 1: the Democratic presidents for candidates to waste their campaign funds
Speaker 1: on ads that try to persuade me to vote for them. Well, Erica,
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that, because you know, we as
Speaker 1: we've told you, we have no we have no ability
Speaker 1: to control political ads that go on the ad space,
Speaker 1: on the podcast or on our radio show here, because
Speaker 1: there are fair you know, equal time regulations, fair time
Speaker 1: regulations that come into play during a political cycle. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, if we can get some of that Bloomberg
Speaker 1: cash right, producer Mark Bruce and Martney's a new pair
Speaker 1: of shoes. Yeah, I need a lot of things. If
Speaker 1: he wants to donate money directly to me, that'd be great. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, if Bloomberg just wants to like sponsor the
Speaker 1: first hour of the Buck Sex and Show Off, all
Speaker 1: I have to do is be like, Hi, I'm ay
Speaker 1: a Bloomberg vote. I don't think you would like the
Speaker 1: impression very much. Well, at least I'm saying he's not
Speaker 1: super short like Trump. Yeah, that's true. You defend him earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: see exactly, Peter. You're Elizabeth warren impersonation last week regarding
Speaker 1: her celebrity crush on The Rock was so funny that
Speaker 1: now you have at least three new podcasts subscribers because
Speaker 1: of it. Well, thank you, Peter. Is there a way
Speaker 1: that Chief Justice Roberts can be forced to explain these
Speaker 1: reasons for refusing to read Ran Paul's question with Eric
Speaker 1: Charromello's name in it. I found that appalling, and I
Speaker 1: wish Rand had pressed the issue. I believe that forcing
Speaker 1: the issue would either force Roberts to pretend to be
Speaker 1: embarrassingly stupid or out him as the partisan fraud he is,
Speaker 1: or some combination thereof Shields High, Peter, Peter, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the mechanism would be for getting
Speaker 1: an answer from Justice Roberts on that one, but I
Speaker 1: would like an answer. I'm with you. I don't understand
Speaker 1: what the heck was going on there. That struck me
Speaker 1: as way off, Sam tonight, I was way off, all right, everybody.
Speaker 1: The show was amazing today, It'll be amazing tomorrow. Thank
Speaker 1: you for spending your time with us. Please tell people
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Speaker 1: Until next time, Shield's High,