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Speaker 1: All of us are faced with two choices, both of
Speaker 1: which are lousy. One choice is vote against the objection,
Speaker 1: and tens of millions of Americans will see a vote
Speaker 1: against the objection as a statement that voter fraud doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: isn't real and shouldn't be taken seriously, and a great
Speaker 1: many of us don't believe that. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: most if not all, of us believe we should not
Speaker 1: set aside the results of an election just because our
Speaker 1: candidate may not have prevailed. And so I endeavored to
Speaker 1: look for door number three, a third option. And for
Speaker 1: that I look to history, to the precedent of the
Speaker 1: eighteen seventy six election, the Hayes tild An election, where
Speaker 1: this Congress appointed an electoral commission to examine claims of
Speaker 1: voter fraud. Five House members, five senators, five Supreme Court
Speaker 1: justices examine the evidence and rendered a judgment. And what
Speaker 1: I would urge of this body is that we do
Speaker 1: the same, that we appoint an electoral commission to conduct
Speaker 1: a ten day emergency audit consider the evidence and resolve
Speaker 1: the claims. For those on the Democratic aisle who says
Speaker 1: say there is no evidence they've been rejected, then you
Speaker 1: should rest in comfort. If that's the case, an electoral
Speaker 1: commission would reject those claims. But for those who respect
Speaker 1: the voters, simply telling the voters go jump in a lake,
Speaker 1: the fact that you have deep concerns is of no
Speaker 1: moment to us that jeopardizes I believe the legitimacy of
Speaker 1: this and subsequent elections. We can handle the truth, and ultimately,
Speaker 1: the truth is what this is all about. Getting to it,
Speaker 1: finding out what is real, what is not, what actually
Speaker 1: happened in this election. It is essential our entire system
Speaker 1: rests on the premise that we believe there is a
Speaker 1: good faith and there is a fairness in the operating
Speaker 1: procedures of this Republic. Senator Ted Cruz there speaking well
Speaker 1: to that point. And yet do we feel any better
Speaker 1: about it today than we did yesterday? No, of course,
Speaker 1: we feel most likely considerably worse. Why is that. Let's
Speaker 1: first start with why people were marching in DC yesterday.
Speaker 1: Let's start on that issue, because it's many things. The
Speaker 1: media and the focus is on those who believe that
Speaker 1: this was a stolen election, and that is certainly a
Speaker 1: big part, perhaps a majority, of all of the concern
Speaker 1: and anger out there on the streets. But what else
Speaker 1: was motivating this? Why do people feel the need to
Speaker 1: take time out of their lives in a very difficult year,
Speaker 1: with a lot of stresses around us because of COVID
Speaker 1: and everything else. Why would hundreds of thousands of people
Speaker 1: gather together in DC to make their voices heard. We
Speaker 1: have been drifting as a nation toward a culture politically
Speaker 1: socially where there is no middle ground allowed, there's no
Speaker 1: dissent allowed, the rights of political minorities are increasingly trampled on,
Speaker 1: and there is an incredibly powerful system, one that even
Speaker 1: goes beyond what you've seen and some of the other
Speaker 1: authoritarian regimes of history, in that it is entirely capable
Speaker 1: of leveraging information technology, the global marketplace wealth on a
Speaker 1: scale that human beings have never seen, to brainwash, to control,
Speaker 1: to determine. And it feels like a rigged game, right.
Speaker 1: It feels as though what we do does not really
Speaker 1: change very much, and it feels as though we're not
Speaker 1: allowed to even raise add up anymore and talk about
Speaker 1: it publicly for fear of being ostracized by these social
Speaker 1: media companies that I know that we have to get
Speaker 1: used to this idea. Social media is not something that
Speaker 1: kids use now just to say hi to each other
Speaker 1: and communicate. Social media is a dominant force in the
Speaker 1: flow of information in this country and around the world.
Speaker 1: It is more powerful than the traditional media because it
Speaker 1: determines what traditional media you get to see. Wokeness this
Speaker 1: is another way of describing political orthodoxy of the left,
Speaker 1: and wokeness is ever evolving because ultimately it's true goal
Speaker 1: is not changing society so that everybody is equal. It's
Speaker 1: true goal is just power, and then it will figure
Speaker 1: out what it decides to do with it, because it
Speaker 1: doesn't even know what it wants. Why does it feel
Speaker 1: like there's an inherent schizophrenia in the Democrat lefts woke
Speaker 1: ideology because there is. There are multiple personalities at war
Speaker 1: with each other inside of the Democrat mind on this issue.
Speaker 1: Because you can never be sure that you're woken up,
Speaker 1: it has to constantly evolve and seek out new targets.
Speaker 1: It's effectively a colonial project for the mind right. It
Speaker 1: is dominating your consciousness, that's what it seeks to do,
Speaker 1: and that it can entirely control you and then figure
Speaker 1: out how to create an entirely equal society. And what
Speaker 1: would that even look like. As we know, societies that
Speaker 1: put the greatest emphasis on achieving absolute equality achieve the
Speaker 1: exact opposite, and history speaks very clearly on that. So
Speaker 1: people are upset because of all of these things. And
Speaker 1: then also we have suffered through the single worst year
Speaker 1: in terms of our individual freedoms, in terms of government
Speaker 1: overreach of my lifetime. But they use this idea that
Speaker 1: the government can protect you from COVID to justify all
Speaker 1: of it. They use the notion that if you only listen,
Speaker 1: you'll be saving lives, you'll be protecting people, and if
Speaker 1: you're not willing to listen, if you want to dissent,
Speaker 1: you are putting people at risk. This was a recipe
Speaker 1: for absolute control, and they've edged closer and closer to
Speaker 1: that this year than I thought would be possible honestly
Speaker 1: in my lifetime. And for what are we safer from
Speaker 1: COVID with Think of all the government mandates and shutdowns
Speaker 1: and everything they've done. Does anyone look at what's happening
Speaker 1: right now in the country with hospitalizations and cases, and
Speaker 1: think anything other than the virus is gonna virus. It spreads.
Speaker 1: You do your best to stay healthy and stay away
Speaker 1: from it, but the government cannot protect you. Am I
Speaker 1: missing something? Where where's the example of great government success
Speaker 1: in this You had Operation Warp Speed, which is a success,
Speaker 1: but the distribution of this vaccine is already a cluster.
Speaker 1: And then you look at all the lockdown, at the masking,
Speaker 1: all these policies they have instituted, and for what does
Speaker 1: it feel like the journalists who are supposed to be
Speaker 1: speaking truth to power, these media companies that have gotten
Speaker 1: in many cases, especially the social media companies wealthier, more
Speaker 1: influential during lockdown because we are now replacing human contact
Speaker 1: and living life with screens. We all live our life
Speaker 1: now if you're working remotely, unless you're an essential and
Speaker 1: you have to actually go into your job, we're living
Speaker 1: our life just in front of these screens where you're
Speaker 1: being bombarded with information that's destructive, often that's false, that's vicious,
Speaker 1: and that has an agenda, and that's really almost all
Speaker 1: the time. And we're replacing those basic bonds of human
Speaker 1: content act that remind us all that we are in
Speaker 1: this together, and we are all on borrowed time. And
Speaker 1: when we're talking about Americans, our fellow Americans were losing
Speaker 1: sight of the fact that we live in the greatest
Speaker 1: country in the history of the planet. That's an amazing statement,
Speaker 1: isn't it. And I'm sorry if it sounds a little
Speaker 1: hokey today. I'm sorry if it's a little bit corny
Speaker 1: to some of you. But we right now are living
Speaker 1: in the greatest country, in the greatest, wealthiest, happiest time
Speaker 1: in human history, and we are lucky to be here,
Speaker 1: and we need to preserve it. Yes, we need to
Speaker 1: fight for them to understand what's so great about it.
Speaker 1: But what I see out there right now is this
Speaker 1: ideological cancer of destroy. Destroy the dissenters, Destroy those who
Speaker 1: believe in liberty, in limitations on government, Destroy those who
Speaker 1: think the Constitution is supposed to prevent all the great
Speaker 1: plans that the experts are honjuring up for us. Isn't
Speaker 1: this year of the lockdown? Isn't twenty twenty. I know
Speaker 1: we're in twenty twenty one now, but I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: the last twelve months. Isn't it a repudiation of the
Speaker 1: elites and of government control. It doesn't feel like they
Speaker 1: think that. That's for sure. We were very aware of that.
Speaker 1: But anybody who's being honest about it would say, we
Speaker 1: need a return to first principles here in this country.
Speaker 1: We need an understanding of what it is that we
Speaker 1: are seeking to create in our society every day, and
Speaker 1: for us to get there, we need to have a
Speaker 1: combin We need to have a combination of things all
Speaker 1: come together at once. We need a relentless, unapologetic search
Speaker 1: for the truth. We need the courage and bravery to
Speaker 1: stand for our principles, and we have to remember that
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, what we're all trying
Speaker 1: to do, all of us who are approaching this in
Speaker 1: good faith, with love and reverence for the history of
Speaker 1: this country, for this amazing nation, is to make this
Speaker 1: a better place for all of us, even the wackos,
Speaker 1: even the people of Antifa. I want a better America
Speaker 1: that they are fortunate to live in because our ideas prevail.
Speaker 1: And I know that can be a hard thing. You
Speaker 1: want to think about about destroying your enemy. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: want to think about defeating the other side. And we
Speaker 1: want to win at the ballot box. We want to
Speaker 1: win on the battlefield of ideas. But isn't it this
Speaker 1: beautiful thing about this country that victory achieved the right
Speaker 1: way means that it's a better country for all of us,
Speaker 1: even the leftists, even the losers, even the crazies. It's
Speaker 1: a better America that's more secure, more rule of law,
Speaker 1: more prosperity, more individual liberty. That is what That's why
Speaker 1: I show up every day, That's why we do this
Speaker 1: thing that we're doing here on this show. So I
Speaker 1: think a return to those first principles for all of
Speaker 1: us at this moment when I know so many feel dejected,
Speaker 1: feel like they have been cast aside, and feel like
Speaker 1: we had a momentum. We had a moment and it
Speaker 1: lasted for three years. The COVID year was something else.
Speaker 1: The COVID year through the whole project of making America
Speaker 1: great again into this different cycle. We were just all
Speaker 1: locked down and trying to stay alive, trying to do
Speaker 1: what we can to help our neighbors and prevent the
Speaker 1: government from shutting down more businesses and more churches than
Speaker 1: they already were. There's a lot of anger out there
Speaker 1: and that's not going to go away. But we have
Speaker 1: to explore together, honestly, what is working for us, what
Speaker 1: can we do, and what does the future look like.
Speaker 1: The reasons for the march yesterday in DC were patriotic
Speaker 1: and decent, and I support them and I'm with them,
Speaker 1: and we have to also know that we maintain principles
Speaker 1: even in the face of the most vicious, underhanded, cheating,
Speaker 1: maniacal opposition. We cannot become that which we seek to defeat.
Speaker 1: And I don't think we're even close to it. And
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the double standards and all this.
Speaker 1: We're gonna discuss all that on the show. But let's
Speaker 1: all just take this moment to remember why it is
Speaker 1: that we do what we do and what makes us
Speaker 1: who we are as patriots, conservatives, Americans. What is it
Speaker 1: that is so special about all you know or else?
Speaker 1: Why not just go live in New Zealand, Why not
Speaker 1: just move to some other place? Right? No, we understand
Speaker 1: that there's something special about this and we can tinue
Speaker 1: to fight for it, and we'll do everything we can
Speaker 1: to preserve it, win or lose, my friends, that is
Speaker 1: our mentality. We are warriors for the cause of our
Speaker 1: ideological battles. Knowing that there is no guaranteed result, but
Speaker 1: that the fight is worth having anyway. Thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to the Bucksexton Show podcast. Get the latest news and
Speaker 1: information from Buck by heading to Bucksexton dot com. And
Speaker 1: we will always be grateful to the men and women
Speaker 1: who stayed at their posts to defend this historic place.
Speaker 1: To those who wreaked havoc in our capital today, you
Speaker 1: did not win. Violence never wins. Freedom wins. And this
Speaker 1: is still the People's House. And as we reconvene in
Speaker 1: this chamber, the world will again witness the resilience and
Speaker 1: strength of our democracy. For even in the wake of
Speaker 1: unprecedented violence and vandalism at this Capitol, the elected representatives
Speaker 1: of the people of the United States have assembled again
Speaker 1: on the very same day to support and defend the
Speaker 1: constitution of the United States. Let me ask you, do
Speaker 1: you think that Vice President Pence is a good man?
Speaker 1: Do you think that he loves this country? Do you
Speaker 1: think that he knows as well as really anyone, with
Speaker 1: perhaps the exception of the President himself, how much is
Speaker 1: at stake here and how much could have been done
Speaker 1: for the good of the country had this election outcome
Speaker 1: been different. I think we have to approach some of
Speaker 1: these some of these questions in a systematic way so
Speaker 1: we can all ground ourselves here. At a moment of
Speaker 1: of particular disappointment and all this frenzy of you know,
Speaker 1: people that are not pointing fingers at each other and
Speaker 1: everything else, what's really happened here, my friends, is we've
Speaker 1: come to a recognition and it's one that I've been
Speaker 1: trying to to edge us toward here. And I appreciate
Speaker 1: so much that all of you know that what I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I think this thing is going to happen.
Speaker 1: It's not when I'm talking about the Biden Harris presidency,
Speaker 1: which is happening. When I say that, it's not to antagonize.
Speaker 1: It's not because I like taking some kind of a
Speaker 1: sour position or anything else. It's because we need to
Speaker 1: get ready for what's coming. Psychologically and emotionally. We need
Speaker 1: to be prepared for this because it's happening. And I've
Speaker 1: been saying it for weeks. And there are a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there, and I don't like to do this, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, the other hosts and stuff, but there are
Speaker 1: a lot of people that are playing this game, and
Speaker 1: they're pretending that there was some last minute secret that
Speaker 1: was going to say us from this. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: look at you, my fellow Americans, my friendly Patriots team Buck,
Speaker 1: I see all of you across the country, and I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm here with you, waiting for this onslaught.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to promise you that the cavalry is
Speaker 1: going to come over the hill and we're not even
Speaker 1: gonna have to take any losses metaphorically speaking, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to make that promise because I don't believe it,
Speaker 1: because it's not true. Vice President Pence, I think you
Speaker 1: would agree with me, is a good man who has
Speaker 1: been very loyal to this president, very loyal to the
Speaker 1: MAGA agenda, and he is doing his best for America
Speaker 1: under the circumstances, and he has been put in a
Speaker 1: very difficult position. The people who are turning on Vice
Speaker 1: President Pence right now, I think are forgetting that the
Speaker 1: actions up to this point of individuals should have already
Speaker 1: shown us what, you know, the totality of the actions
Speaker 1: of people like Mike Pence should show us that we've
Speaker 1: we've done what we can. It is possible, and if
Speaker 1: I can, it's it's almost painful to say this out loud.
Speaker 1: It is possible, friends, that we gave it everything we
Speaker 1: had and we are fighting with everything we've got, through
Speaker 1: all the mechanisms at our disposal, and we still lost.
Speaker 1: And whether it's lost through cheating or lost through through
Speaker 1: legitimate victory, even with some degree of cheating, which is
Speaker 1: assured of course, So please, don't you don't need to
Speaker 1: tell me, Buck, you don't think there was. Of course
Speaker 1: there was cheating. I don't know how much cheating. I
Speaker 1: suspect it was substantial, but if you can't prove it, it
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. We are dealing with that sense of
Speaker 1: loss now. But with that loss also comes a recognition
Speaker 1: that we do have so much left to fight for
Speaker 1: and so much more ahead of us. And also see
Speaker 1: the way the other side is seizing upon this moment
Speaker 1: and understand that we're in for a whole new level
Speaker 1: of fight. My friends, You're in the freedom hunt. This
Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. For more buck head
Speaker 1: to Bucksexton dot com and remember to subscribe to the podcast. Fronto.
Speaker 1: Reagan once said, peace is not the absence of conflict.
Speaker 1: It is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Speaker 1: The peaceful people in my state in Oklahoma want their
Speaker 1: questions answered, but they don't want this what happened today.
Speaker 1: They want to do the right thing, and they also
Speaker 1: want to do it the right way. They went onto
Speaker 1: their constitutional process, but they also want to have debate
Speaker 1: about election security because they want to make sure it's right,
Speaker 1: which is why it's an important issue that still needs
Speaker 1: to be resolved. Transparency and government just doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: a bad idea. Obviously, the commission that we have asked
Speaker 1: for is not going to happen at this point, and
Speaker 1: I understand that. And we're headed towards tonight, towards the
Speaker 1: certification of Joe Biden to be the President of the
Speaker 1: United States, and we will work together in this body
Speaker 1: to be able to set a peaceful example the day's ahead.
Speaker 1: That was GEOP Senator James Langford who was addressing the
Speaker 1: Congress last night on the floor of the of the
Speaker 1: Senate when he was saying, there's not going to be
Speaker 1: some commission, and this is it. This election's done. That's
Speaker 1: where we are, and and I understand that that's so
Speaker 1: disappointed to hear. And for those who are and look,
Speaker 1: I you you are always I always welcome a criticism
Speaker 1: from from people that I consider to be my side,
Speaker 1: my own team, when it's in good faith. Right. So
Speaker 1: when people write in with all caps, lots of curse
Speaker 1: words and say terrible things about me, I'm like, what
Speaker 1: what is that accomplishing? Right? But anybody who has a
Speaker 1: valid or I shouldn't even say valid, has a good
Speaker 1: faith criticism, I welcome it. And sometimes sometimes people write
Speaker 1: into this show and I read and the first thing
Speaker 1: I think when I read their comments about something that
Speaker 1: I've said or about a direction we've gone editorially, is
Speaker 1: they're right. That does happen? That does I want to
Speaker 1: admit that to you. I know that there's a whole
Speaker 1: a kind of radio industry built around people who are
Speaker 1: never never wrong. Right. I don't do that, So that
Speaker 1: does happen. So I don't think that I read these
Speaker 1: things and don't realize that's a completely valid point, or
Speaker 1: even more than that, that they're they're right and I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: So for those who are telling me and I think
Speaker 1: we have to have this this is like a family discussion. Now,
Speaker 1: That's how I view this. I sit here talking to
Speaker 1: all of you as I would if there had been
Speaker 1: some incident, you know, with my cousins or something, and
Speaker 1: we're all sitting down at the table to have a
Speaker 1: discussion about what's gone on so we can move forward
Speaker 1: in the most positive fashion. Because not only am I
Speaker 1: on your team, I want to be a leader on
Speaker 1: your team. I want to be somebody you can always
Speaker 1: count on that you know is there for you. You
Speaker 1: could trust me. I tell you the truth. I stand
Speaker 1: on the principles we share, and I even will show
Speaker 1: some courage in public about difficult issues. But sometimes courage
Speaker 1: means telling people things that aren't necessarily going to appeal
Speaker 1: to them. And I think one of the one of
Speaker 1: the challenges that we've had in the Trump era on
Speaker 1: the right is that there has been very little space
Speaker 1: for that. There's really been, and I'll just say it,
Speaker 1: there's really been almost no market for trying to criticize
Speaker 1: the Trump agenda from or rather from a Trump administration,
Speaker 1: not the agenda, the Trump administration, from a perspective of
Speaker 1: how can we be more effective in achieving goals that
Speaker 1: this presidency set out for? How can we do a
Speaker 1: better job of getting these things? We created a bit
Speaker 1: of a bit of a silo where all all of
Speaker 1: the public commentary went into this one place and it
Speaker 1: was Trump is awesome and he's doing all these amazing things,
Speaker 1: and we were allowed to say, up is awesome, comma,
Speaker 1: but I wish he would or Trump is doing a
Speaker 1: great job on this. But you sit here and you say, well,
Speaker 1: one place and for those you were wondering, what have
Speaker 1: you said about this buck that would be an example
Speaker 1: of this. Trump's picks for his advisors and for some
Speaker 1: of his White House personnel was was abominable. I mean
Speaker 1: it was truly awful, and there was a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of well he can't trust anybody, or well,
Speaker 1: you know he meets family members around him, or all
Speaker 1: all these things. You know, at some point you can
Speaker 1: kind of justify anything in this realm. Is it serving
Speaker 1: the president to do that? Is it serving the agenda?
Speaker 1: Is it serving all of us? The president being in
Speaker 1: the office. I know he was entertaining and he has
Speaker 1: tweets were remaining, but ultimately he was trying to achieve
Speaker 1: things for you and for me. Some of them he did,
Speaker 1: but some of them he didn't. Does anybody want to
Speaker 1: argue now that we have a big, beautiful wall from
Speaker 1: sea to c to Shining Sea. We do not. And
Speaker 1: I know that there are all these reasons and there,
Speaker 1: but we would have been more effective in getting some
Speaker 1: of these things done if there had been more room
Speaker 1: to be able to say, I'm on the team, but
Speaker 1: you know this needs to be done differently. I'm sure
Speaker 1: many of you have played team sports, so many of
Speaker 1: you have. You know, you've been on a football team
Speaker 1: or a basketball or lacrosse or whatever, and you know
Speaker 1: you'll come together in the huddle. Is it. Is it
Speaker 1: a good thing to say, guys, we're down, We're down
Speaker 1: by a lot at halftime, but you know what, we're amazing.
Speaker 1: Let's do everything exactly the same way we're doing I
Speaker 1: was gonna say that there was a lot of that
Speaker 1: within the GOP and you know that, you know I'm
Speaker 1: telling you the truth. Every single one of you knows
Speaker 1: that I'm telling you the truth right now. There was
Speaker 1: a lot of that. It was we'll hold on a second,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe we need a greater focus on this, or
Speaker 1: you know, hold on, maybe the the outreach to Kim
Speaker 1: Jong un isn't isn't a worthwhile expenditure of presidential time
Speaker 1: and resources? And you know, and I'm not even saying
Speaker 1: that was true. We're done. I'm just pointing out if
Speaker 1: you said that, you were shouted down, if you said that,
Speaker 1: people thought that you were no longer on the team.
Speaker 1: And you know, the Democrats legally outmaneuvered. I want to
Speaker 1: say legally, I don't mean that what they did was
Speaker 1: necessarily legal, but they understood that changing these processes for
Speaker 1: mail and balloting in these states, they knew that that
Speaker 1: was going to give them an enormous advantage going into
Speaker 1: the election, and they're needed to be legal challenges brought
Speaker 1: and put the mechanisms in place for accountability and integrity.
Speaker 1: Before the election. The RNC and yes, the Trump campaign
Speaker 1: were asleep at the wheel on this again. I know
Speaker 1: it's not comforting. I am telling you the truth. I
Speaker 1: know it's not exciting, and you know it doesn't make
Speaker 1: us all feel warm and fuzzy. This is what happened.
Speaker 1: And I think yesterday in a lot of ways, I
Speaker 1: don't mean the incident even a Capitol Hill, I just
Speaker 1: mean the whole The takeaway from the day with the certification,
Speaker 1: everything else and all the people gather into DC was
Speaker 1: we now have to stare truth right in the face
Speaker 1: and handle it. We're there, friends, were there. The Democrats
Speaker 1: won these two Senate seats. Democrats are going to be
Speaker 1: the next president and vice president have the presidency for
Speaker 1: the next four years. The Democrats have control of the House.
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are going to be the
Speaker 1: two most powerful elected legislative officials in the country. That's
Speaker 1: where we are. And now we can get a little
Speaker 1: bit into the tactics here the decision making. Let's all
Speaker 1: understand this marching and DC I am. I was so
Speaker 1: pleased that people were overwhelmingly marching and this whole thing
Speaker 1: about being a peaceful march. You know, let's let's set
Speaker 1: a different standard, a law abiding march, because remember, if
Speaker 1: we're gonna have marches that don't abide by the laws,
Speaker 1: first of all, we're hypocrites because of the Do you
Speaker 1: know anybody that hammered BLM more than me in June?
Speaker 1: In June this year, I'll really ask you that a
Speaker 1: lot of Republicans are running scared, didn't want to be called,
Speaker 1: Oh that's racist, don't criticize BLM. Did I ever back
Speaker 1: down on that one? Was I ever saying, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, be BLM. We should we should concede to
Speaker 1: this group and everything else. No, but we have to
Speaker 1: establish what our principles are. And I know that sounds
Speaker 1: a little hall monitoris sometimes right, Oh, another person, another
Speaker 1: person in the media that's telling us about Oh, we
Speaker 1: have two principles. I try to conduct myself publicly, you know,
Speaker 1: as as in a way where I'm proud of what
Speaker 1: I do. And I can always look my family members
Speaker 1: and loved ones and people that matter most in the
Speaker 1: eye and feel like I'm I'm proud and they're proud
Speaker 1: of me because of the way I conduct myself. So
Speaker 1: I don't do you know, I don't say horrific things
Speaker 1: to people. I don't go after people in deeply vicious
Speaker 1: personal ways and all this stuff. I try to establish
Speaker 1: some boundaries. I try to work through through my day
Speaker 1: to day of doing a show many many hours of content,
Speaker 1: as you know, extemporaneous. It's all just flowing out of
Speaker 1: my brain every day. And I try to do it
Speaker 1: in a way that is advancing things and making I
Speaker 1: try to do things that make it better, you know.
Speaker 1: That's that's my approach. Now, let's talk. So why why
Speaker 1: am I giving this preamble? Now, let's talk about what
Speaker 1: happened at Capitol Hill, because I had a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, oh I lost you know Twitter followers yesterday,
Speaker 1: not all of them obviously, but I like probably thousands
Speaker 1: of them on eyed people that are writing to me saying,
Speaker 1: you know, what has the establishment done to get to me? Okay,
Speaker 1: just put aside everything else for a second, but put
Speaker 1: put aside that, you know, like so many others in
Speaker 1: my generation, instead of going to Wall Street, I joined
Speaker 1: the CIA so I could I could quite literally be
Speaker 1: involved in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. I mean
Speaker 1: put aside that I actually try to put my money
Speaker 1: where my mouth is on different issues professionally and in
Speaker 1: my life. It's not about me. Let's just look at
Speaker 1: this tactically. We're having we're having a hot wash here, friends,
Speaker 1: We're having a an after action report. What was the
Speaker 1: point of people going inside the Capitol yesterday, breaking the law,
Speaker 1: breaking windows, and and engaging in that behavior. What was
Speaker 1: that for? I'm saying, put it, put aside whether you
Speaker 1: think that this is called for or not for a second.
Speaker 1: And I have been very clear that I think that
Speaker 1: this was I've called it a blunder. I called it
Speaker 1: a blunder on Tucker Carlson's show last night with four
Speaker 1: million people watching, But what was it going to accomplish?
Speaker 1: And I know we kind of people look at me there,
Speaker 1: oh and some are some are gonna turn off, They're
Speaker 1: gonna turn off the radio into the trump of the podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your friend. We are in this together, and
Speaker 1: I'm speaking to you with respect and honesty because this
Speaker 1: audience that the greatest honor of my life to date
Speaker 1: has been the people that listen to this show in
Speaker 1: the numbers that they do, with the trust and the
Speaker 1: respect that they do now going on many years. And
Speaker 1: so I speak to you with that in mind. And
Speaker 1: those of you who have met me in public, no,
Speaker 1: I light up. I love when anybody from Team Buck
Speaker 1: comes up to me and says, hey, are you Buck Sexton?
Speaker 1: I like your show or something. It makes every time
Speaker 1: it happens. It makes my day. Every time it happens.
Speaker 1: It makes me feel like what I'm doing here is
Speaker 1: worthwhile because invariably, all all the people that do listen
Speaker 1: to the show, that I meet in real life and
Speaker 1: that reach out to me and that I talk to
Speaker 1: and everything, there's such good people. There's there's a fundamental
Speaker 1: decency and kindness, and they're just solid. They're just solid Americans.
Speaker 1: And so that's how I view everybody who listens to
Speaker 1: this show. And so that's why I also speak to
Speaker 1: you the same way as I said I would if
Speaker 1: there had been some incident within my own family. What
Speaker 1: was it going to accomplish to have the stormy of
Speaker 1: Capitol Hill? It was going to do what I mean
Speaker 1: and real And for anybody who I know, a lot
Speaker 1: of you agree with me, by the way, and a
Speaker 1: lot of you feel like I'm but there there's there's
Speaker 1: a contingent out there of people who are going to
Speaker 1: be listening right now, and their approach will be, oh,
Speaker 1: Buck has gone soft, or oh I thought you supported this,
Speaker 1: and and I look, I'll take all that heat. And
Speaker 1: that's fine, and you know you're all of you are
Speaker 1: more than entitled to your opinions. But I'm going to
Speaker 1: I'm speaking to those people now who disagree with me
Speaker 1: on this but are at least open to hearing my
Speaker 1: my reasoning on it, or at least open to hearing
Speaker 1: why it is that I'm taking the position that I
Speaker 1: do what was it going to accomplish? So so I
Speaker 1: can take a step back. What does blam and what
Speaker 1: do Antifa think they accomplish by doing what they do?
Speaker 1: So we'll put a hold on even answering the question
Speaker 1: what does be eliminenty? But what do they think they
Speaker 1: get out of burning down stores, looting, rioting? And yes,
Speaker 1: I know they over the Kavanaugh hearing, They you know,
Speaker 1: flooded into the heart Senate building. Protesters you know, went
Speaker 1: in there and in huge numbers, and this happens. They
Speaker 1: took over the Capitol building and in Wisconsin years ago,
Speaker 1: left wing protesters. I know about all that. Why do
Speaker 1: they do that? They do it to intimidate people. They
Speaker 1: do it so that everyday Americans are scared to oppose them.
Speaker 1: It is about fear. That is why they loot and
Speaker 1: burn down and destroy, And it's about exercising their own
Speaker 1: feelings of rage. And it's about self. It's self gratification
Speaker 1: and intimidation. That's why they do it. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: say it. That's not who we are. That's not who
Speaker 1: we are. And everyone can get to get mad at
Speaker 1: me and everything else. I would ask you this, what
Speaker 1: would any of you ever think if I was with
Speaker 1: you at a march that I would say, or that
Speaker 1: I would, even in my on my own goat, run
Speaker 1: up and smash a window and punch a police officer
Speaker 1: in the face because I'm upset about politics. That's what
Speaker 1: was happening yesterday. Okay, so we know why BLM, We
Speaker 1: know why these these groups do what they do and
Speaker 1: why it's wrong. What was the purpose yesterday of going
Speaker 1: And it wasn't an insurrection, it wasn't a terrorist attack.
Speaker 1: I understand all of that, of course, and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the media double standards. What was it going to accomplish?
Speaker 1: The sad part of it is, you know what it did?
Speaker 1: You know it because you know it didn't change It's
Speaker 1: not going to change the It's not going to change
Speaker 1: anything except it emboldens our worst, most dishonorable opposition. It
Speaker 1: emboldens the left, and we are going to be paying
Speaker 1: a price for this now on the battlefield of ideas
Speaker 1: for some time. You know, I'm telling you the truth,
Speaker 1: and you know that there is a lot of double
Speaker 1: standard out there about this, and yes, we should address that,
Speaker 1: and we will in a moment. You're in the freedom hunt.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get more from
Speaker 1: Buck by following him on social media at buck Sexton
Speaker 1: on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The reason they could easily
Speaker 1: and casually with their cameras on film themselves throwing things
Speaker 1: through the walls of our capitol, our property, going inside
Speaker 1: the Capitol, sitting in Speaker Pelosi's office, castually take pictures
Speaker 1: of themselves. Have that played on Fox News. They know
Speaker 1: that they are not in Jeffrey because the cops are
Speaker 1: taking selfies with them, walking them down the steps to
Speaker 1: make sure they're not earth, taking care with their bodies,
Speaker 1: not like they treated Freddy Gray's body. White Americans aren't
Speaker 1: afraid of the cops. White Americans are never afraid of
Speaker 1: the cops, even when they're committing insurrection, even when they're
Speaker 1: engaged in attempting to occupy our capital to steal the
Speaker 1: votes of people who look like me, because in their minds,
Speaker 1: they own this country, they own that capital, they own
Speaker 1: the cops, the cops work for them, and people like
Speaker 1: me have no damn right to try to elect a
Speaker 1: president because we don't get to pick the president. They
Speaker 1: get to pick the president. They own their president, they
Speaker 1: own the White House, they own this country. Disgusting. I mean,
Speaker 1: you need to hear that, though disgusting? Did she not
Speaker 1: have access you worked in a news organization? Did you
Speaker 1: not have access to the Internet. A woman was killed
Speaker 1: among the people entering Capital shot in the neck, and
Speaker 1: there's a video of it, and it's graphic, and I
Speaker 1: do not see the need for the use of lethal
Speaker 1: force under the circumstances. I don't see it. I've talked
Speaker 1: to I've talked to friends of mine of law enforcement.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you know, what, is there some you know,
Speaker 1: barricaded public official exception or something. She wasn't an imminent
Speaker 1: threat to anybody. She was killed, shot in the neck
Speaker 1: through a door, but they still go with the preferred
Speaker 1: narrative about this. We have now we have to disassemble
Speaker 1: the lies of the left around what happened yesterday. You're
Speaker 1: in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 1: For more buck head to Bucksexton dot com and remember
Speaker 1: to subscribe to the podcast. For me, the saddest moment
Speaker 1: was watching them attempt to take down the flag of
Speaker 1: the United States to put up a Trump sign. Think
Speaker 1: about that for a minute. I think this is a
Speaker 1: nine to eleven level event in the sense that we
Speaker 1: are going to remember where we were, what we were
Speaker 1: doing when we turned on the television and watched the
Speaker 1: events yesterday. It is searing in my view, and I
Speaker 1: for one will never look at a maga had again
Speaker 1: without thinking of this day. And if you are a
Speaker 1: decent American, put away your maga had, put away your
Speaker 1: Trump flag. Remember what those symbols were used for on
Speaker 1: this day. Settle down there, buddy. It's not a nine
Speaker 1: to eleven moment. Our three thousand people died on nine
Speaker 1: to eleven, Good, good, heavens. This was. This was people
Speaker 1: making a bad decision to run on Capitol grounds and
Speaker 1: destroy property. And someone lost her One person lost her
Speaker 1: life as a result of what happened yesterday. And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting to hear what the justic I've seen
Speaker 1: the video THEO to me does not look like a
Speaker 1: justified shooting at all. But I there, this was a
Speaker 1: particular circumstance. You know, if you were if you were
Speaker 1: barricaded in your home and there was a mob outside
Speaker 1: coming through the door in the window, that's one thing.
Speaker 1: If you're in the halls of Congress, I I'm open,
Speaker 1: I'm open to being told I'm wrong on this from
Speaker 1: what I see not a justified shooting. And think about this,
Speaker 1: if that person could be shot, cool, could you open
Speaker 1: fire on all the on all the rioters? Would you
Speaker 1: open fire on all of them? Because the standard would
Speaker 1: seem to still be in place that any person that's
Speaker 1: smashing windows and going through doors you need to shoot
Speaker 1: them if you're Capitol Hill police. So that that needs
Speaker 1: to be looked at much more thoroughly than what we've
Speaker 1: we've seen so far in the public discourse around it.
Speaker 1: But this is where I tell you about the tactic,
Speaker 1: the tactics part of all of this, and the assessment
Speaker 1: that we have to do now of what we what
Speaker 1: was lost as a result of this. For the movement,
Speaker 1: they they are going to play this, They're going to
Speaker 1: exaggerate it, and they're going to pretend that this is
Speaker 1: the only political violence we've seen in this country in
Speaker 1: four years. Is that enraging? Yes? It is. Is it
Speaker 1: a lie? It absolutely is. But as as we look
Speaker 1: at this, we also have to say, you know, to
Speaker 1: take me back to the initial premise here, what was
Speaker 1: gained by any of this? The answer is nothing. The
Speaker 1: answer is nothing. And I don't really understand the mentality
Speaker 1: why people feel like it's we we are not allowed
Speaker 1: to now say that we do we draw any lines.
Speaker 1: I just wantn't know what what would be for those
Speaker 1: for those out there who think that this was a
Speaker 1: in any way understandable And there's this fine line between
Speaker 1: I understand all the anger, but I don't understand doing this. No, can't,
Speaker 1: can't do it. And the left is now going to
Speaker 1: use this in everywhere. They're going to ram this down
Speaker 1: our throats for more authoritarianism and and for what right
Speaker 1: there was? There was no gain from it. I know
Speaker 1: people get mad at me. I'm telling the truth and
Speaker 1: this if someone wanted to baby on this, we happen
Speaker 1: to be at any person on this issue. It's important
Speaker 1: that we get this right. We either have principles or
Speaker 1: we don't. Right. We either and people are gonna tell me, oh,
Speaker 1: but we have to fight the way that they fight. Really,
Speaker 1: do do we want? I mean, and let's let's then
Speaker 1: let's then take that, let's step further. Do we want
Speaker 1: a right wing antifa? Do we want a right wing
Speaker 1: group that goes around destroying stores, attacking people? The answer is,
Speaker 1: of course not. But if you are going to say that,
Speaker 1: sometimes we just got to break into a building because
Speaker 1: there's there's no options left or are we're gonna tell
Speaker 1: me that? Well, then where does that? When does that
Speaker 1: go away? When when are we able to do that?
Speaker 1: And I have to say now now we need to
Speaker 1: understand we need each other more than ever because the
Speaker 1: stuff that the left is going to be saying about
Speaker 1: this for a long time to come is they're going
Speaker 1: to leverage this one a lot. I would I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised. You know, social media has already you know
Speaker 1: they've done this. They have banned Trump from Twitter, the
Speaker 1: president of the United States. They have banned him from Twitter,
Speaker 1: they have banned him from Instagram, and they have banned
Speaker 1: him from Facebook as of today, and they're going to
Speaker 1: keep the bands in place until the transition of power happens.
Speaker 1: That's right. You have media companies now openly and actively
Speaker 1: saying they are suppressing the sitting president of the United
Speaker 1: States until they're the transition of power. This this is
Speaker 1: where we are now. There's there's all this talk about
Speaker 1: invoking the twenty fifth Amendment, and there's that that's, by
Speaker 1: the way, a terrible I mean a terrible idea, A
Speaker 1: terrible idea all right, that there's no reason, there's no
Speaker 1: need to do that, There's no reason to do that
Speaker 1: at this point. Um, we we are heading toward a
Speaker 1: transition and an inauguration within two weeks, and I view
Speaker 1: it as people would would just think that, you know,
Speaker 1: the fix was even more in or you can't let that,
Speaker 1: you can't let Trump be president for two more weeks. So, friends,
Speaker 1: I I don't know. I would I would like to
Speaker 1: be pointed toward the the conservative the conservative media person
Speaker 1: out there for those of you again who who are
Speaker 1: and I know some of you are, so it's it's
Speaker 1: some of you are very frustrated that I'm telling you
Speaker 1: these things and have been for the last last twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. We'll really I've been saying for weeks now
Speaker 1: that this is where we're heading in terms of the
Speaker 1: Biden transition and Biden's going to be president. We've known this,
Speaker 1: and I think the president, the president saying that there
Speaker 1: is that there's election fraud is true. The president saying
Speaker 1: that we have unanswered questions about the election fraud is
Speaker 1: completely fair and proper. But taking it to this point
Speaker 1: now where there's a belief that the election that we
Speaker 1: don't we no longer have to respect the results of
Speaker 1: the system as they stand. Well, now we're talking about
Speaker 1: rejection of the system wholesale, and let's all be very
Speaker 1: clear about that. And if that's where you want to go,
Speaker 1: you're heading down a very dark and very dangerous path.
Speaker 1: And that's not what we want, that's not what we
Speaker 1: should have in our in our country. Yes, BLM and
Speaker 1: Antifa are treated entirely differently by the press. Yes, they
Speaker 1: burn things down, and the journalists go outside and they say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's a mostly there's a mostly peaceful protest. Oh of
Speaker 1: the ducking, whether molotov cocktails are flying past their heads.
Speaker 1: The left gets away with political violence. It's not fair,
Speaker 1: it's wrong. But the way we win is by convincing
Speaker 1: and showing enough of our fellow Americans that this is disgusting,
Speaker 1: it's disgraceful, and it is entirely coddled, if not supported
Speaker 1: by the Democrat Party. And this makes it all much
Speaker 1: harder to do that, which is why I don't I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't approve of it morally, I don't approve of
Speaker 1: a tactically, And for people are gonna tell me, oh
Speaker 1: but buck, look what they're willing to do. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wanted there's a special counsel for Russia collusion that
Speaker 1: the Attorney General Barr has has already put in place.
Speaker 1: I wanted a special counsel for Hunter Biden. I want
Speaker 1: us to do what they did within the confines of
Speaker 1: the law. That's where we you know, we have to
Speaker 1: draw a line and we have to all be united
Speaker 1: in that one. And is it is it hypocritical? Is
Speaker 1: it a degree of madness for people who were cheering
Speaker 1: on the left as they did their maniacal, you know,
Speaker 1: destruction campaigns? Is it's disgusting. I absolutely hate it. I
Speaker 1: think they're cowards. I think they're frauds. But one thing
Speaker 1: that I will tell you, and this is and at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I actually spoke to my
Speaker 1: I spoke to my family about this last Night's just
Speaker 1: let them know. It is because I respect this audience
Speaker 1: so much and because I respect what I do, that
Speaker 1: I will tell you the truth. And that's what I think.
Speaker 1: I'm i'm I think I do it every day. But
Speaker 1: today that involves saying things that are going to make
Speaker 1: some of you upset with me. You're gonna make some
Speaker 1: of you on follow me and uh, and maybe you
Speaker 1: know you'll take a break from listening to the show.
Speaker 1: I can't change that. I won't lie to you, and
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope you appreciate where that comes from.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean I'm always right you. If you think
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, fine, If you think that I don't understand
Speaker 1: the full scale of what's going on here and the
Speaker 1: way this system is, that's you're completely entitled that opinion.
Speaker 1: But I would hope that those of you who and
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know who who agrees withdrawing
Speaker 1: a line and the unhelpful nature of Yes, what percentage
Speaker 1: of folks listening across the country you're with me? I mean,
Speaker 1: I would guess it's maybe fifty fifty, sixty forty. I
Speaker 1: don't know. That's that would be my estimate, and we'll
Speaker 1: never have an answer for that. But that's just so
Speaker 1: you know where my head is on this. But for
Speaker 1: those who think that it's wrong to criticize the illegal,
Speaker 1: and that's a completely separate thing than the hundred fifty
Speaker 1: thousand or whatever it was people marching through the streets protest,
Speaker 1: those are my brothers and sisters. Those are my people.
Speaker 1: They listen to this show. They support me, They're the
Speaker 1: reason I have a job. So I got nothing but
Speaker 1: love and respect for them. But I tell people, even
Speaker 1: the people closest to me, when I think that they've
Speaker 1: made a mistake, and I owe that to all you.
Speaker 1: And I said to my family last night, and they
Speaker 1: God bless them, they back me up. I said, guys,
Speaker 1: I've got to be principle. I've got to be true
Speaker 1: to myself, to this work, to the audience, to be
Speaker 1: principled at this point, and and that means staring, staring
Speaker 1: into what is happening now and telling them what I
Speaker 1: see happening. I don't think that you would find a
Speaker 1: radio host who has seen more things, more trends, big
Speaker 1: trends coming in recent months than I have, particularly when
Speaker 1: you look at lockdowns and masks and all these things.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting. I actually went on Michael Malice's show,
Speaker 1: who is quite an interesting, quite an interesting guy. I
Speaker 1: wanted to show, maybe almost exactly twelve months ago now,
Speaker 1: and I said that Democrats would refuse to certify the election,
Speaker 1: was my prediction on his show. And here we are
Speaker 1: with a lot of Republicans who don't want to certify
Speaker 1: the election. So I saw something, I just didn't see
Speaker 1: which side it would be coming from.