1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: You're in the freedom hunt. Thanks for listening to the 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: buck Sexton Show podcast to get the latest from Bucket 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: buck Sexton dot com. You may have heard of Florida 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 1: Man at some point. This may be a phrase that 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: you've come across. It used to meet a guy in 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: flip flops with a mullet who led cops on a 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 1: high speed car chase with an alligator strapped at the 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: roof of his oldsmobile. But now it's anyone fleeing the 9 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: tyranny of poorly run blue states in search of freedom, 10 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: gun rights and zero percent state income tax. Our country 11 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: was set up so that states, as you know, would 12 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: be laboratories of our democracy, that states would be able 13 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 1: to try different policies, and people could move depending on 14 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 1: what they wanted, what they liked, and how it was 15 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: all going well. It's amazing to me that you have 16 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: such a clear, such a clear winner here with the 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: state of Florida, as well as some other red states 18 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,559 Speaker 1: that are doing quite well. A lot of Californians leaving 19 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: for Idaho, for example. You've had a big surge of 20 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: people to Montana, which is actually not that read as 21 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: a state, but it is majority Republican and this is 22 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: going on at a time when we've really been reliant 23 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: on state governments in ways that we haven't seen in 24 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: a very long time. Because of the COVID pandemic. The 25 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: state's authority to take action on health matters has really 26 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: made a big difference in our lives. We had been, 27 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: especially conservatives, focused on the tyranny of the federal government 28 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: for a very long time. But as we see, state 29 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: governments can be either protectors of your rights and liberties 30 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: or they can trample on them even more. And the 31 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: states that have had the most control over day to 32 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: day life during the pandemic, the ones that have taken 33 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: the most extreme measures and that have favored thetist authoritarian 34 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: point of view, are big losers in all of this. 35 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: And Governor Rhonda santist down in Florida is a beacon. 36 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: Dare I say the Sunshine State is a beacon of 37 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: light for the rest of the country for what is possible, 38 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: for what could have been in New York, in California, 39 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: in Illinois, in many places, and he's running with it. 40 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: People have been asking me what is the future of 41 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: the GFP, and I keep saying, nobody knows, which I 42 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 1: understand is an easy answer to a very complicated question. 43 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: But we still have this impeachment trial of Donald Trump 44 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: coming up, which will definitively one way or the other 45 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: tell us whether he can run for office again. And 46 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: even if he were to be barred from holding office 47 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: in the future, which I don't think will happen, his 48 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: children will likely run for office, one or several of them. 49 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: So the Trump named, the Trump brand will continue on. 50 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: But there are others that you are seeing now who 51 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: I think are going to be increasingly looked to for 52 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: leadership in the GOP, and Governor Rhonda Santis is at 53 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: the top of that list right now. He hasn't been 54 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:20,959 Speaker 1: involved in all the election disputes and all that craziness 55 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: that happened after November. He was busy running his state 56 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: and running it quite well. And I've experienced some of this. 57 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: I've made a couple of trips now down to Florida 58 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: to see what it's like to be in a place 59 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: where people are largely living their lives despite the pandemic. 60 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: And now de Santis is going even a few steps 61 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: further by saying that he's going to take actions that, 62 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: let's be honest, should have been taken by Republicans when 63 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: they had a majority in the House and the Senate 64 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: and the Trump presidency, but they didn't. Big tech control 65 00:03:54,760 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: its financial contributions to politicians, and just its overall influence 66 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: on our entire system is hard to overstate. And the 67 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: GOP has a lot of answers, a lot of answers 68 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: that are required at this point as to why they 69 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: didn't do more. Why didn't they take action when they 70 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: could have. We heard a lot of talk about Section 71 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: two thirty nothing was done. Well, DeSantis is doing something. 72 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: He is pointing out. First of all, this is necessary 73 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: for everybody to understand. Everyone across the country needs to 74 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 1: know that big tech is now openly at war with 75 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: conservative ideas and speech. They're not going to ban everybody, 76 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: They're just going to ban selectively to chill the speech 77 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 1: of other people. You don't have to kick everybody off. 78 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: You just kick off a few prominent people here and 79 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: there for their wrong think, and everyone else gets the 80 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 1: message and they fall in line. Desantists spoke earlier this 81 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: week about this. Here's what he said, Play thirteen. At 82 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: the turn of the twenty first century, online tech now 83 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: represented tools to liberate Americans from reliance on distrusted legacy 84 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: media outlets. A social media proliferated over the past decade. 85 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 1: Citizens could directly connect with large numbers of people and 86 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: could cut out corporate media outlets entirely. Over the years, however, 87 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: these platforms have changed from neutral platforms that provided Americans 88 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: with the freedom to speak to enforcers of preferred narratives. Consequently, 89 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: these platforms have played an increasingly decisive role in elections 90 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: and have negatively impacted Americans who dissent from orthodoxy's favored 91 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 1: by the big tech cartel. Not allowed to break from it, 92 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 1: not allowed to say that you disagree with the dominant narrative, 93 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: or else they punish you. And for people who think 94 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: that this only effects and I believe this has been 95 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: one of the challenges on the right because we're just 96 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: we're less active on a lot of these platforms our 97 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,119 Speaker 1: people so to speak, I mean, Republican voters are far 98 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: outnumbered by Democrats on platforms like Twitter and Instagram, although 99 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: Instagram's catching up a bit. Facebook is where where you 100 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: would still find a lot of conservatives. But as you know, 101 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: Facebook is now as bad an offender as any of 102 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: the others. But this affects you no matter what your 103 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: business is. You could run a flowers shop and you 104 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: say the wrong thing about COVID policy, and all of 105 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: a sudden you're not able. You know, your your account 106 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,159 Speaker 1: is shut down. Well, if you need that account to 107 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: promote what your what your store does, you could be 108 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 1: put out of business pretty quickly. And if you say 109 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: the wrong thing, you could also end up getting a 110 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: pile on from social media. And they'll never stop that, right, 111 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: they won't. They won't try to prevent people from having 112 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: their lives ruined by the by the social media mop. 113 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: So there's a lot of consequences even for folks in 114 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 1: their in their day to day from this, no matter 115 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: who you are, no matter what you do for a living. 116 00:06:56,279 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 1: And this it's deeply on American. We need to understand. 117 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: That's the way we should speak about this. It is 118 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: deeply un American for companies to suppress political speech when 119 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: they exist and they created themselves, I mean they were built, 120 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: They made they made promises around being free exchange of 121 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: idea platforms, so they essentially lied to us. I mean 122 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: this was all abait and switch. They said, oh no, 123 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: as long as you don't do anything illegal, as long 124 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: as you're not doing something that we could all agree 125 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: as egregious death threats, putting illegal content online, things like that. 126 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: As long as you're not doing that, we'll let you 127 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: share your ideas. Not then they changed because the little 128 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: woke children who run these companies now, because even though 129 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: they're not necessarily the ones at the top of the 130 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: org chart, they're so vehement in their ideas. I mean, 131 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: they're so absolutely scornful of people at different points of 132 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: view that they'll just torch anyone who gets in their way, 133 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: including people in their own company who try to be 134 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: a little bit more adult, people who try to be 135 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: a little bit more fair minded about all of this. 136 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: DeSantis telling everybody that cancelation can happen to anyone and 137 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: this needs to stop. Play fourteen Hunter Biden's story was true, Okay, 138 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: we now know was true, and the typical corporate media 139 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: outlets they just chose to ignore it. Obviously they wanted 140 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: to beat Trump, they had they had a view on 141 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: the election. They didn't want to give it any air. 142 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: So we rely on social media to go around that, 143 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: not let corporate legacy media outlets control the discourse and 144 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 1: let us speak so you had the New York Post 145 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,719 Speaker 1: to run it, and you couldn't get any tracks. Shit, 146 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: you couldn't get any reach on it because Big Tech 147 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: put their thumb on the scale. So that was true 148 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: what they said at the time, Oh it was. It 149 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: was it's a conspiracy or it's based on hacked information. 150 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? You're trying to tell me if 151 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: there was hacked information that could damage me, you guys 152 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: wouldn't print it. Give me a break. You can whiz 153 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: on my leg, but don't tell me it's raining. You 154 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,559 Speaker 1: guys would print it every single day if you could, 155 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: and Big Tech would allow it to proliferate every single 156 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: day twenty four seven. So it's not being done in 157 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: a principled basis, and it's not there's there's threats on me, 158 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: and it only gets taken down if law enforcement goes 159 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: and tells tells them to do it. Otherwise it just 160 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: stays up. They're not moderating any of that, So they 161 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: haven't done a good job in it. The thumbs always 162 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 1: on the scale and run one direction, and we just 163 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 1: need to bring we need to bring some protection for folks. 164 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: I really really worry when you have a business owner 165 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 1: that may rely on some of these tools to do 166 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: small business. If they engage in wrong think or they 167 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,559 Speaker 1: go to the wrong political event, then all of a 168 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: sudden they can act in concert and just take take 169 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: you off. You need to have protection against that. And 170 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: he's not just speaking about this. This isn't just a 171 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,079 Speaker 1: rhetorical thing. He's going to push for action and that 172 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:06,199 Speaker 1: at the state level in Florida to protect people states. 173 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: You know, Facebook and these other companies they're operating in Florida, 174 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: and so he wants the state legislature to start creating 175 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: protections in that state for your data against political discrimination. 176 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: I mean, ultimately, what we really have to do is 177 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: wherever we can create categories or add a category of 178 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: political discrimination to anti discrimination law. And I know that 179 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: some people say no, but that's not. The libertarian view 180 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: is that we should people private businesses should be able 181 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 1: to do Yeah, but they can't and that's never going 182 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: to change. So we can either create protections for more 183 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: people so that we have actually some hope of being 184 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 1: able to win this win this political and cultural fight 185 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: over the long term of free speech, or we can 186 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: just continue to suffer and get crushed. So Desantists is 187 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: saying that they're going to start doing things in Florida. 188 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,839 Speaker 1: He wants the legislature, the state legislature to go along 189 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 1: with this, to create protections for people from big tech. 190 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: This is the beginning of what needs to happen. People 191 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: ask me, how do we deal with this or what 192 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 1: are the next steps we need to soothe them. There 193 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: needs to be financial pain, or at least likely the 194 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 1: likely prospect of financial pain that has to happen. There 195 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: have to be consequences for the kinds of censorship, for 196 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: the overreach that we're seeing, or else they'll keep just 197 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: doing it. There was this idea, and I've been telling 198 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: you this from the very beginning. Oh, don't worry. Once 199 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: the election stuff is over, once Joe Biden's president, they're 200 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: going to let people go back to normal. No, they're not. 201 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: Why would they. They got away with it. They were 202 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: able to exercise these companies in concert with the Democrats, 203 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: they're able to team up and exercise power. Now there 204 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:51,079 Speaker 1: guy Joe Biden's in office. You think they're going to 205 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: back off? Now? You think that they really view what 206 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: they did as anything other than a huge win. No, 207 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: that's why you've got to have Republicans in places where 208 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 1: they do have power and control to wield it in 209 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: defense of liberty. Passivity when liberty is under assault is 210 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: not a virtue. And a lot of conservatives, i think, 211 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: have adopted this position of well, just let the market speak, 212 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:19,839 Speaker 1: or well just let things play out and we'll see. 213 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: Well we are seeing because that had been largely the approach, 214 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: and it is a disaster and it hurts individuals. It 215 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:35,959 Speaker 1: hurts people, It ruins their livelihoods, it destroys their business models. 216 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: I mean, they kicked Parlor off the Internet, and people 217 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: were cheering this on in tech circles as if somehow 218 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: this had achieved something. Meanwhile, Facebook was more of a 219 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: place where there was conspiracy hatched about the Capitol Hill riot, 220 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: but it didn't matter because they were still trying to 221 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: just kick off Parlor because Parlor won't play by the 222 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: actual rules, meaning whatever democrats want, those are the only 223 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: real rules. The principle is the democrats have power and 224 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: they will crush you if you don't do what they want. 225 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: That's the only principle they buy by. Desantist knows this 226 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: and he's had an off of it. Plate twelve or 227 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 1: is This going to be a big fight in the 228 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: legislative session. Hopefully we'll be able to get a lot 229 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,080 Speaker 1: of support. I think most folks do want protections for 230 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 1: their privacy and their data. I think most folks want 231 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: protections from being the platform. And it's not just being 232 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: banned from Twitter or something. As we've seen, these companies 233 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: can act, they can collude. They can deny you if 234 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 1: you're a small business of payment processing, the ability to 235 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: use email and text. So what you go to a 236 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: rally that they don't like, or you engage in wrong 237 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: think and all of a sudden, your flower business is 238 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: decapitated for for a month because they take action. That 239 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: is what is happening in this country. The left is 240 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 1: a totalitarian political ideology in America right now. They don't 241 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 1: care that you are suffering, they don't care that you 242 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: don't have freedom. They advocate for more of this, They 243 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: demand more of this. So we can either continue to lose, 244 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 1: continue to be on our back, the back of our heels, 245 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: and hope that somehow they just get tired of this 246 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: and stop, or we can find ways to fight back. 247 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: We can find ways to make these organizations and eventually, 248 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 1: of course these Democrat politicians. But for now, it would 249 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: be helpful just to make the companies that are doing 250 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: the bidding of the far left in America make them 251 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: stop because there's a consequence, there's a cost to what 252 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: they're doing right now, you know, the only cost is 253 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: they win, we lose. And conservatives say they're going to 254 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: retreat from public life. That's not the answer. You're listening 255 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure you subscribe 256 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you 257 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: get your podcasts. You are correct, you remember correctly. I 258 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: do believe that this is constitutional. I think that the 259 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: Constitution sets out exhaustively what times what power the Senate 260 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: has to try and convict officials. It says that you 261 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: can try and convict the President of the United States, 262 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: not an ex president, not a private citizen. I think 263 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: that there's no jurisdiction here, to use a legal term, 264 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: The Senate just doesn't have the authority to try and 265 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: convict a private citizen. The right remedy, the Constitution makes 266 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: clear is criminal proceedings by in the criminal justice system. 267 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: If you think you've got a private citizens committed a crime, 268 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: that person, even if they are an ex president can 269 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: be tried and so forth, but the Senate does not 270 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: have the power to do that. Unconstitutional actions from the 271 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: Democrats now that they're in the majority in the Senate 272 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: not a surprise, or they have a day fact a 273 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: majority as you know, fifty fifty with Kamala as the 274 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: tying a tiebreaking vote. So there's a part of me 275 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: that's happy that they'll be making I mean, there he 276 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: head Senator Josh Holley. Party is glad they'll make this 277 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: argument because it's the right one. I mean, I think 278 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: they're correct and this is an abuse, but they also 279 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: because they're being forced to go to this trial. I 280 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: hope the people that are speaking in favor of Trump's 281 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: position on this will explain how this is all just 282 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: so disruptive, pointless, and vindictive. Now it's pointless if you're 283 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 1: a rational person who wants what's best for the country. 284 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: If you're a Democrat who's still furious about all the 285 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 1: terrible things that happened with Trump, terrible things that happened 286 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: for four years under Trump's presidency, then you view this 287 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: as payback. It's also an attempt for the Senate Democrats 288 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: and for the Democrat Party overall to enshrine a narrative 289 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: of the insurrection, and the insurrection is going to be 290 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: used to bludgeon Conservatives and Republicans for years and years, 291 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: if not decades to come, if we allow the narrative 292 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: to be seized in this way. Make no mistake about it. 293 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: This is one of the reasons among many that I 294 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: was so angry on the day of January sixth as 295 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:11,199 Speaker 1: soon as it happened, and I made no I you 296 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: know how I feel if you listened to the show 297 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 1: I was. I was honestly enraged because I realized on 298 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 1: every level how counterproductive, how stupid, how damaging it is, 299 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 1: and how much it hurts the cause of conservatism and 300 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 1: hurts the cause of Trump and MAGA in America. First, 301 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 1: Democrats are leveraging this. This is now their primary tool 302 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: of ideological suppression, or their primary argument for it is 303 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: what happened on January six and now they want to 304 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:43,919 Speaker 1: talk more about it and get into the Senate record 305 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: that Trump was part of an insurrection, He tried to 306 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: create a coup. We have to fight that on the merits, 307 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 1: not just as a procedural matter. The Democrats are lying 308 00:17:56,320 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: about this. This is the Fuck Sexton Show podcast. Follow 309 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 1: Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. That's a question on impeachment. 310 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,640 Speaker 1: The impecient managers have now laid out their case. Trump's 311 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: team is leaving open the door, it seems to arguing 312 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 1: election fraud in the trial to repeating the false claims 313 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,119 Speaker 1: that somehow Trump won the election, those same false claims 314 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: that fueled the riot. Is this administration concerned that the 315 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 1: former president's defense could incite for further violence, Well, certainly, 316 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:35,160 Speaker 1: watching reactions in the country, watching the potential for violence 317 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: is something that we will do closely from the White 318 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 1: House across the country, no matter what prompts it. And 319 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 1: that's something we will certainly keep an eye on. But 320 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: you know, I think in this case, as you know, 321 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: there have been dozens and dozens of court cases that 322 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 1: have been debunked. The President of the United States is 323 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: sitting in the Oval office, engaging and governing a country. 324 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 1: And obviously we have moved forward even more than we 325 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: were prior to the inauguration in proceeding in delivering on 326 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 1: what the American people decided on in November. Not to 327 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 1: be mean, Jen Saki is really the most eloquent communicator 328 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: that they could find for this role. Really okay, you 329 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,879 Speaker 1: know it's the Democrats choice, but shocking that this is 330 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: the best choice that they could make. But anyway, there 331 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: must be things that we don't really know about this, 332 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: or maybe we do. The Trump team arguing about election 333 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: fraud would be a bad idea. I hope they don't 334 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: do it. I know that there's been some shake up 335 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 1: among the lawyers who were going to be defending the 336 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: president at this impeachment trial. You remember the last impeachment trial, 337 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 1: by the way, No you don't. I'm sure. I mean 338 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: you remember it happened, right, But does anyone remember the arguments? Oh? 339 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,199 Speaker 1: MSNBC was they were just, oh my gosh, they were 340 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,239 Speaker 1: all a flutter with the amaz the speeches given by 341 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: these brilliant legal theorists who are just going on and 342 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 1: on and people like Adam Schiff about the Constitution and 343 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 1: our republic and all this stuff. People don't give a 344 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 1: crap about the Constitution or a republic. Please. They're authoritarians. 345 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 1: They don't accept individual agency and human liberty. They want 346 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: to be in control. They want to tell you what 347 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: to do. You do this because I said so, or 348 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: I'll send big scary people with guns to make you 349 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: do it. That's really the Democrat mentality. And here we are. 350 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 1: So I hope that the president's team doesn't argue about 351 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,199 Speaker 1: the election, because this is really not ultimately about election fraud. 352 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 1: This is all about They're pushing all of this around 353 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:45,879 Speaker 1: the notion of Trump inciting an insurrection and whether there 354 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 1: whether there was fraud or not, the insurrection aspect of 355 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,679 Speaker 1: it is the main line of attack, and that's going 356 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:54,439 Speaker 1: to be the main line of attack against all the 357 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: rest of us. There's no way they're going to litigate 358 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 1: in court the election. I'm just telling you this, And 359 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,439 Speaker 1: if you don't believe me or you're frustrated hearing this, 360 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: circle back with me in a couple of weeks and 361 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 1: see if I'm right. They're not going to be able 362 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,880 Speaker 1: to present anything in court that settles the issue one 363 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: way or another about election fraud allegations, and it will 364 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,400 Speaker 1: only play into the Democrats hands because right now it's 365 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: there were lies, the lies led to the insurrection and 366 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 1: now they're still lying about it. If they were to 367 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: present that, no, what needs to happen is they should 368 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 1: argue that the unconstitutionality of this, which I think is 369 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 1: clear and also the way that this is being exploited 370 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: and exaggerated. And why are Democrats so set on bringing 371 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: this prosecution in the Senate of the former president. It's 372 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: because they're trying to get as much on the record 373 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: as possible, trying to create as much noise as they 374 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: can around the Republican the Trump insurrection. They just want 375 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: this to be in big bold letters and all the 376 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: newspapers and then all the history books. And anytime someone 377 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: comes along and says, hey, I'm a conservative populist and 378 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 1: i have a vision for the future, and I'm going 379 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 1: to fight against these leftist authoritarians and I want to 380 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: make America a free country again, anyone who says anything 381 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: like that is going to be shouted down with, Oh, 382 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 1: he's advocating for the insurrection. Wait what, Yeah, that's right. 383 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 1: They're intentionally painting with the broadest possible brush. They're smearing people. 384 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 1: They're talking about MAGA terrorists. And I didn't even get 385 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,400 Speaker 1: into this. You had another former and former CIA guy 386 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 1: writing and I don't even know where it was, writing 387 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: in one of the big I think it was the 388 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: Washington Post, about how we need to treat the Trump 389 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:42,880 Speaker 1: insurrection like the ghottest insurgency global insurgency of the early 390 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: two thousands. So I want us all be very clearly, 391 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,959 Speaker 1: as I've been saying to you, they are comparing people 392 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: running around inside the capital taking selfies with people who 393 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 1: run drive planes full of civilians into buildings of civilians, 394 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: killing thousands of people, that decapitate people on videos, who mutilate, 395 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: murder and rape and pillage on levels that are truly, 396 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: truly horrific beyond words. They're comparing those things and saying 397 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: that they're the same. It's basically the same. Yeah, as 398 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 1: as as Tucker calls him a Chewbacca man, the guy 399 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: who's running around with the furry hat and everything inside 400 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: the capitol just like Zoehie, I mean, same same level 401 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 1: of risk, same level of danger. Is like is like 402 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: bin laden with a different, you know, different head covering. 403 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,719 Speaker 1: That's really what these democrats this is insane. I mean, 404 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: the people that are arguing this are shameful and disgusting, 405 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 1: and I'm sure they know Trump supporters and have friends 406 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 1: and neighborsh voter for Trump. They'd never say this stuff 407 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: to their faces because they're all such little cowards. One 408 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: thing that is really a a common almost defining characteristic 409 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 1: of the contemporary liberal America is a lot of their 410 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: political beliefs are always that they're willing to share them 411 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: to friendly audience. They're willing to say it when they've 412 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: got a mob around them that agrees with them. But 413 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 1: one on one, all of a sudden, they become very wimpy. 414 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: They really don't actually want to have to defend these ideas, 415 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 1: so they want to call everybody who supports Trump a 416 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: maga terrorist, or imply at least that we're all maga terrorists. 417 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that to your face. Though they 418 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: are a bunch of there's a lot of cowardice. There's 419 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 1: a lot of cowardice on the left, and I think 420 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 1: it's a part of the political culture in a way 421 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: that we can all see. You're aware of it, right, 422 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: They don't they don't take up they don't take unpopular 423 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: stands in order to defend people that they know are 424 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: good and the right. No, they just they go along 425 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: with the mob all the time. Now it's not everybody, obviously, 426 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,360 Speaker 1: but it's very very commonplace, and I think it's almost celebrated, 427 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 1: and there's a particularly the the lib Beta mail is 428 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 1: the standard. You know, all these guys who kind of 429 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: remind you of Pajama Boy from the Obama era, Remember 430 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 1: Pajama Boy during Obamacare. Remind you of Pajama Boy. And 431 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: they will say these things about how they need to 432 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,719 Speaker 1: put down the insurrection and use the FBI and use 433 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: the military against all these people. But they'll never actually 434 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: walk up to your face on the street and say, yeah, 435 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: you're an insurrectionist, not by themselves. Only if they've got 436 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: a thousand of their buddies, all you know, chanting about 437 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: blamb or anti far or whatever, then then they get tough. 438 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: Annie McCarthy, as you know, as a guy I've had 439 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: on the show many times. I've known Andy for many years. 440 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: I like and he's a very smart guy. He is 441 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,919 Speaker 1: very upset with Trump. So there are people who are 442 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,479 Speaker 1: who are on our team, so to speak, and who 443 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 1: are good faith, patriotic Americans who are really angry about 444 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 1: what happened with Trump, and I can understand they're point 445 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 1: of view. But here's what Andy's saying about the Trump 446 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: impeachment and what he sees it as Play eleven. This 447 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: really is not a legal determination, it's a political judgment. 448 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: And whether or not the impeachment can properly go forward 449 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,959 Speaker 1: is a question constitutionally that is left exclusively to the Senate, 450 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:26,640 Speaker 1: which is a political body, and they've obviously voted to proceed. So, 451 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: you know, I think you can make very strong legal 452 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,399 Speaker 1: points on both sides. I'm more persuaded by the side 453 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: that says that the impeachment power was always understood to 454 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: apply to people who are out of office as well 455 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 1: as in office. But it's a debatable point. I think 456 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: it's beside the point. It's a legal it's a political determination. 457 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,639 Speaker 1: So Masayan ultimately comes down to whether or not the senators, 458 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: you know, whether or not the Senators want to convict 459 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: the president for insurrection. You know, even if we argue, 460 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: even if the Trump Trump team argue that there is 461 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: an unconstitutionality to this, probably not going to carry the argument. 462 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: So that's why it's also important to dig in on 463 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: the claim that Trump was inciting insurrection is not true. 464 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 1: It is a lie, It is a smear, and to 465 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: call what happened on January sixth and insurrection in and 466 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:24,159 Speaker 1: of itself is dishonest. So that's how we have to 467 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: fight against this narrative. We'll see who Trump has making 468 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: the case in about a week or so. This is 469 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Join the conversation and message 470 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: Buck on Facebook, Instagram, or email Team Bucket iHeartMedia dot com. 471 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 1: He may read it on the show. These three different 472 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: executive orders about I want to make it clear. There's 473 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: a lot of talk with good reason about the number 474 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 1: of executive orders that I've signed. I'm not making new law. 475 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:58,919 Speaker 1: I'm eliminating bad policy. What I'm doing is taking on 476 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:04,719 Speaker 1: the issues that the president, the last president Nined States, 477 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: issued executive orders I thought were very counterproductive to our security, 478 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 1: counterproductive to who we are as a country, particularly in 479 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 1: U in the ear of immigration. This about how America 480 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,919 Speaker 1: is safe or strong, or more prosperous when we have 481 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 1: a fair, orderly and humane legal immigration system. I'm not American. 482 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 1: I'm not making new law. I'm just getting rid of 483 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:36,919 Speaker 1: bad policy by basically making laws. Notice the way that 484 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: he tries to tell you what you see, what you observe. 485 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 1: That does That's not real, that doesn't count. Don't don't 486 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: pay attention to your lying eyes and ears. Listen, listen 487 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: to the Joe Biden talking point here. Now what he's 488 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: doing is in fact creating laws, or he's taking actions 489 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: that have the force of law, and he's doing it 490 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,239 Speaker 1: because he doesn't like what was done before, or he 491 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: wants things to change and how they are now. But 492 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: he's basically writing lass that's what these executive orders are. 493 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: And the the sleight of hand here where it's all 494 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: of a sudden just getting rid of the bad policies 495 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: of the past. Well, that's just a judgment call. That's 496 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: not a way of explaining how what Biden's doing here 497 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: isn't in some way overreach. Isn't the current president of 498 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: the United States acting like he well, doing exactly what 499 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: he said he wasn't going to do back in October. 500 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: You remember that we actually probably could find that clip 501 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: for you would say you can't you can't rule by 502 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: executive order. They had this whole Biden presidency. Remember I've 503 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 1: said this to you so many times. Republicans run and 504 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 1: tell you what they what they want to do, and 505 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: then they try to keep their promises. But they have 506 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 1: some people who fall away or there's you know, intra 507 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: party strife or whatever. Democrat for president run pretending to 508 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: be something entirely different, and then they get an office 509 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: and as well, we're not doing that anymore, now that 510 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: we've fooled enough people in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania into thinking that, 511 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: you know, we care about unions really, or that we 512 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: care about the rule of law or whatever it may be. 513 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: Once we've done that head fake, then we get to 514 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: really go to work then push the left wing policies 515 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: that we claimed during the election we had no interest in. Oh, 516 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: we would never do that. Good old blue collar Joe. 517 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: He's not gonna not gonna sell you out for foreign labor. 518 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,959 Speaker 1: He's not gonna do that. No union, guys, you can 519 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: trust blue collar Joe. Now you can't, Guys. The whole 520 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: thing is a fraud. Joe Biden's been whatever whatever he 521 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 1: has had to be when he had to be it 522 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,239 Speaker 1: to get the most votes he could where he needed to. 523 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,920 Speaker 1: That is Joe Biden's entire political career. No one even 524 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: really knows what this guy believes stands for. If I 525 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: ask you what issue was Joe Biden most passionate about 526 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 1: if you knew his record, you might say making sure 527 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: that credit card companies can charge usurious rates and that 528 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: it's almost impossible to discharge credit card debt in bankruptcy. Right, 529 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 1: if that's what Joe Biden as a Delaware senator was 530 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 1: really passionate about. Right. I mean, if I ask you 531 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: what is Joe Biden all about, at the end of 532 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 1: the day, you'll hear different things from different people. Maybe 533 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: they'll say foreign policy. I think Jensaki said his first 534 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 1: passionate as foreign policy. It's amazing because Joe Biden has 535 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: been reliably wrong on foreign policy for forty years. He's 536 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 1: just had bad judgment. His judgment on foreign policy is awful, 537 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,719 Speaker 1: but his judgment on these executive orders is also terrible. 538 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 1: Not a surprise. Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona said this 539 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: about Biden's specifically his immigration executive orders. Play for President. 540 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: Biden has issued another round of executive orders, this time 541 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 1: focusing on immigration, and what he's doing is basically reinstating 542 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: the catch and release program with regard to the asylum program, 543 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: so people can come the clearer asylum status are going 544 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: to be released into the interior again. He's also ostensibly 545 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 1: trying to parole parents who got their kids into the 546 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: country somehow but are somewhere outside of the United States. 547 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: Those children have been largely placed in the homes of relatives, 548 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 1: many of whom are also in the country illegally, and 549 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: so he's trying to get around the task force that's 550 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:42,200 Speaker 1: going on with a current legal case. These types of 551 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: things created centives for people that illegally entered the United 552 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: States of America, and what that does is increase the 553 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 1: power and strength of the human smuggling cartels, the drunk 554 00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: smuggling cartels that are running the situation south the borders. 555 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 1: That's where these things are, and I'm going to keep 556 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:12,840 Speaker 1: fighting against that. He's right, what he's saying is all true. 557 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: First off, this is we're going through the same thing 558 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: all over again, deja vu all over again, Yogi Bara, 559 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 1: where you had people shown up at the border claiming asylum, 560 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 1: and there were folks like me who did research and 561 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 1: went to the border and figured out from border patrol, 562 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 1: from the cases, from the numbers that were actually coming 563 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,600 Speaker 1: up every day, that they were lying. Essentially, the people 564 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: are showing up at the border, they had been coached 565 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 1: and they were claiming that they faced violence in their 566 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: home country, but that was just a past incredible fear standard, 567 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 1: and then they wouldn't show up in court when it 568 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: was time to show up, and explain really why they 569 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 1: needed asylum. Right, So they were exploiting the good faith, 570 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 1: in goodwill of the American people at the border. And 571 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 1: there was all this fighting, you know, into the Trump 572 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: presidency from the Democrats. You were saying that's not true 573 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,840 Speaker 1: and we're a nation of immigrants and all this stuff. 574 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,040 Speaker 1: They were wrong. It was a lie because when they 575 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: remain in Mexico program, all of a sudden, oh, you 576 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: can still go to court to plead you know, your 577 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: asylum case in court as a Central American for example, 578 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 1: but you gotta wait in Mexico, which means you don't 579 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 1: get to just go into the American interior, disappear and 580 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 1: never show up in court. Oh and then all of 581 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,720 Speaker 1: a sudden, the newest, all of a sudden asylum cases 582 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:31,000 Speaker 1: dropped off a cliff. Gee, I wonder why, right, Democrats 583 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: were lying. They were lying until we could it was 584 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,319 Speaker 1: obvious what was going on. But until we had all 585 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,400 Speaker 1: the data to prove what was going on, they were 586 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,319 Speaker 1: just going to continue to perpetuate the lie, which is 587 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 1: what they did. And now that we have all the data, 588 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 1: they're just gonna they're just acting like, oh, well it's 589 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,840 Speaker 1: different now, so let's let's go back to the previous 590 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 1: policy where people who show up get to claim, oh, 591 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: I have a credible fear, and then they get to 592 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 1: stay in the country. And this is an end run 593 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,839 Speaker 1: on the immigration system and all the legal immigrants, you know, 594 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,240 Speaker 1: Ask them about this, Ask them how they feel about 595 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,160 Speaker 1: people showing up crossing in the country illegally, because they're 596 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,920 Speaker 1: often doing an illegal surrender after they crossed the border, 597 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:14,800 Speaker 1: and then they find themselves in the country without any restraint. 598 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:16,439 Speaker 1: They can go anywhere they want, to do whatever they want, 599 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,840 Speaker 1: and they never show up again. But Democrats acting like 600 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:21,919 Speaker 1: we didn't learn the lessons we learned because they don't 601 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,799 Speaker 1: care because they want a de facto open border. This 602 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:31,160 Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Follow Fuck on Facebook, Instagram, 603 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 1: and Twitter. Our friend will Rick Cardella is in the mix. 604 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,600 Speaker 1: He is at the Washington Examiner. He's down in DC, 605 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,440 Speaker 1: gonna tell us what's going on inside the Beltway. Will 606 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 1: great to have you back, Ain. You good to be back, Buck, 607 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on. So we were talking about 608 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 1: a lot of things today. One that's at the top 609 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: of my mind is these immigration executive orders we saw 610 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,839 Speaker 1: before that what they told us, which is that These 611 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,600 Speaker 1: are people claiming asylum, who are claiming asylum for the 612 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,400 Speaker 1: right reasons, and they're not going to just fail to 613 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,360 Speaker 1: show up for their actual image, their actual asylum hearing 614 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,200 Speaker 1: in court. That was a lie. We've already seen this, 615 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,000 Speaker 1: that wasn't true. That's why they remain in Mexico. Program 616 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 1: resulted in a huge drop in these asylum requests and 617 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 1: people showing up at the border. Now, Biden's going back 618 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,400 Speaker 1: to what I mean, I don't see how we can 619 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,320 Speaker 1: view this as anything other than the Democrats doing everything 620 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 1: they can and moves as close as possible to a 621 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,920 Speaker 1: de facto open border or an even more porous border. Well, yeah, absolutely. 622 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,840 Speaker 1: And look, I don't know if you remember during the 623 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 1: debate when Trump mentioned coyotes and no one on the 624 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,439 Speaker 1: left knew what a coyote was. Well, you know, that's 625 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,360 Speaker 1: a shame, because you know whose business is going to 626 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,320 Speaker 1: boom our coyotes on the border. These are human smugglers. 627 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,080 Speaker 1: They treat people like garbage, and now their businesses is 628 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,440 Speaker 1: on the uptick because Biden's going back to all the 629 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,800 Speaker 1: same garbage policies that led to the Obama dubbed a 630 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,320 Speaker 1: humanitarian crisis on our southern border. Remember kids in cages 631 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:01,520 Speaker 1: that happened under Obama. You know, Biden just had to 632 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,759 Speaker 1: open up another migrant detention center at the border for overflow. 633 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 1: Where do you think those kids are going to go. 634 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,920 Speaker 1: They're all going to go right back into these detention centers. 635 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,359 Speaker 1: The Left isn't mentioning any of it. They've incentivized these 636 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,920 Speaker 1: people to come here. And look, coyotes are using Biden's 637 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,839 Speaker 1: words to up their client base and smuggle people into 638 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,080 Speaker 1: the country. You know, this is truly pernicious. And look, 639 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,640 Speaker 1: they don't care about these kids. They use them, they 640 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,120 Speaker 1: put words in their mouth. This isn't about caring about kids. 641 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: This is about getting a voter based for the Democratic Party. 642 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:35,439 Speaker 1: It's also about displacing and lowering low income wages so 643 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,439 Speaker 1: that there are p When they do raise minimum wage, 644 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,400 Speaker 1: it will kick a lot of people, you know, offer 645 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,080 Speaker 1: the roles, they won't be able to get human capital, 646 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,799 Speaker 1: and they'll be dependent on government for generations to come. 647 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,960 Speaker 1: It also seems like there's some effort here for the 648 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,680 Speaker 1: Biden administration to shield Democrat members of Congress from having 649 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,760 Speaker 1: to take to votes on this, at least for right now. 650 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,720 Speaker 1: Why not? I mean they have the majority in the House, 651 00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,799 Speaker 1: they have a de facto majority in the Senate. Why 652 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,200 Speaker 1: not actually pass legislation if they want to? If they 653 00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:07,319 Speaker 1: want to change the rules in effect around immigration, they 654 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,480 Speaker 1: can do so. But Biden prefers to just use the 655 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,320 Speaker 1: pen on the phone method book. They have no mandate, 656 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,120 Speaker 1: He has no political capital. He barely won the Senate. 657 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,799 Speaker 1: That was a squeaker. You know, they lost seats in 658 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 1: the House. Joe Biden, you know, his already underwater and 659 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:29,240 Speaker 1: his approval rating, he doesn't have a mandate. People don't 660 00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,480 Speaker 1: like his policies. They didn't like Barack Obama's policies, but 661 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,759 Speaker 1: they like Barack Obama. People don't like Biden as much 662 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,480 Speaker 1: as they liked Obama, and they certainly don't like his policies. 663 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,920 Speaker 1: People forget Trump. Everybody really liked Trump's policies. It was 664 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:46,279 Speaker 1: Trump as his personality is what people didn't like. So, 665 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 1: you know, Biden's finding out pretty quickly here that governing 666 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,560 Speaker 1: isn't as easy as staying in your basement and campaigning. 667 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,879 Speaker 1: And look, this is just going to compound. People don't 668 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,800 Speaker 1: want these policies. His improvement approval rate, he's going to 669 00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:58,920 Speaker 1: drop even further, he's gonna have less and less of 670 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,640 Speaker 1: a mandate and it's going to be a bloodbath in 671 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:04,160 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Now, let's talk about where we are 672 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:09,280 Speaker 1: on this rescue package, stimulus package, spending whatever they're calling 673 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,480 Speaker 1: it today. Senator Lindsey Graham, who of course was on 674 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,080 Speaker 1: Fox News last night, and you know every night he's audies. 675 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,680 Speaker 1: He's going to get answers any moment now, he's going 676 00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,480 Speaker 1: to get to the bottom and get the answers that 677 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,080 Speaker 1: we need on all this stuff. Sure he is here, 678 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,560 Speaker 1: he is, though, telling everybody about the spending package or 679 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,560 Speaker 1: play nineteen. And I do believe that this one point 680 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,680 Speaker 1: nine three in dollars package is going to do more 681 00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 1: harm than good to the American economy. And the reason 682 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,720 Speaker 1: we're having this debate, the way we're having this debate 683 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:44,399 Speaker 1: is because they have unlimited power. My Democratic colleagues, you've 684 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:48,439 Speaker 1: chosen to do this. The ten Republicans who went down 685 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,560 Speaker 1: to the White House, I appreciate their effort. Maybe some 686 00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,280 Speaker 1: good will come from that, But this process we're engaged 687 00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:59,120 Speaker 1: in today makes me wonder if it was worth their time. 688 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,000 Speaker 1: Maybe we can pull a rabbit out of the hat 689 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,799 Speaker 1: and find a bipartisan compromise consistent with what we've done 690 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:10,800 Speaker 1: over the last year. If not, we're going to march 691 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:15,280 Speaker 1: down the reconciliation road. We're gonna take one point nine 692 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,840 Speaker 1: train dollars of spending and let one party spend it. 693 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,359 Speaker 1: What happens if Democrats will go forward with a one 694 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,879 Speaker 1: point nine trillion dollars spending package and do it through 695 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:31,560 Speaker 1: the essentially the budgetary gimmick or trick in Congress of Reconciliation. Well, 696 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,760 Speaker 1: I think I've been on your show many times, Buck, 697 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:37,200 Speaker 1: and we talked about this at nauseum, that what the 698 00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:41,359 Speaker 1: Democrats did with COVID was to hijack the economy from 699 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and that was so they can win the 700 00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:47,400 Speaker 1: election in twenty twenty, and that these governors, in particular 701 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:51,040 Speaker 1: New York in California, which have tremendous economies, if you 702 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,680 Speaker 1: shut those down, you're going to hurt the entire American economy. 703 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:55,600 Speaker 1: This is a bail this is their bailoff. This is 704 00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,719 Speaker 1: their way to co opt the federal printing press. They 705 00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,759 Speaker 1: don't they need to balance their budgets, they don't have 706 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,960 Speaker 1: a printing press. They did that with the guarantee that 707 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:04,759 Speaker 1: the left is going to come in there and give 708 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,560 Speaker 1: them pay them all. Three hundred and seventy billion dollars 709 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,399 Speaker 1: goes to states. This is just a payoff for help 710 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,800 Speaker 1: in bide and get into office. The rest is handouts 711 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,480 Speaker 1: to cronies. And look, this is their generous medicaid funding 712 00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:16,680 Speaker 1: that they have in part two to Obamacare, and in 713 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,040 Speaker 1: part two because they're leftists, to just throw money out 714 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,439 Speaker 1: the window, and look, you know you do. You will 715 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,760 Speaker 1: have inflationary pressures. If the economy opens and you're throwing 716 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,160 Speaker 1: this money into the economy and the velocity of money 717 00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,839 Speaker 1: picks up, you're going to have a massive problem. You know, 718 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,799 Speaker 1: you can devalue the dollar. Yelling came out and said, 719 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,520 Speaker 1: or I'm sorry. Powell came out and said their target 720 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,160 Speaker 1: inflation is two percent. They're a little bit under there now. 721 00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,640 Speaker 1: So it seems like they're willing and ready to throw 722 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,560 Speaker 1: money around. We'll see what happens in the long run. 723 00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,120 Speaker 1: In particular, if things start to open, we need things 724 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:48,399 Speaker 1: to open now, that would be the best stimulus. All 725 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:52,200 Speaker 1: the stimulus crap talk is just a handout to their cronies. Yes, 726 00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,520 Speaker 1: and it seems like the only place where there's always 727 00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,239 Speaker 1: a slowdown is in actually just getting money into the 728 00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,080 Speaker 1: hands of people affected by this. I Biden was saying 729 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,759 Speaker 1: it would be two thousand dollars. Now that now they've 730 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,759 Speaker 1: dropped that down, I think it's the fourteen hundred was 731 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:10,240 Speaker 1: the latest number that I saw. Well, they were pushing 732 00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,400 Speaker 1: the two thousand in order to win those two Senate 733 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,080 Speaker 1: seats in Georgia. And now all of a sudden has 734 00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,399 Speaker 1: changed all over again, and really what we see will 735 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,239 Speaker 1: is the blue state exodus. They want to try to 736 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,480 Speaker 1: paper this over with money by sending a lot of 737 00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,640 Speaker 1: federal tax dollars to Los Angeles, to New York City, 738 00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:31,840 Speaker 1: and to New York and California as states. Isn't it 739 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:35,000 Speaker 1: interesting that you know they wanted to cut money out 740 00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,760 Speaker 1: giving it to the people whose businesses are forcefully shut 741 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:41,000 Speaker 1: down everyday American people, so that they can increase the 742 00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,279 Speaker 1: amount they give to their blue state cronies and governors 743 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,439 Speaker 1: and all of these people who haven't lost a dime. 744 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,840 Speaker 1: In fact, I think some of them got to pay increase. 745 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,680 Speaker 1: They have paid no price for their terrible decision making. 746 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,760 Speaker 1: Then they get paid off and the American people actually 747 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,879 Speaker 1: get less. Then people wonder why everyone's so ticked off 748 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,719 Speaker 1: all the time. These people are in another world, They're 749 00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:02,960 Speaker 1: in another reality, and the thing is is that they 750 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,799 Speaker 1: never pay a price for being wrong. Speaking of Will 751 00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:09,480 Speaker 1: Ricardella of the Washington Examiner, and Will, speaking of Washington, 752 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:14,160 Speaker 1: tell us what's going on here in DC with people 753 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:18,960 Speaker 1: demanding either being kicked off of committees or kicked out 754 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:23,560 Speaker 1: of Congress entirely for this new member of Congress from Georgia, 755 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,040 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green MTG is how people are referring to 756 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:31,080 Speaker 1: on the internet. They want the ouster of MTG. What 757 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,279 Speaker 1: do you make of all this? Well, look you have 758 00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,480 Speaker 1: now you have Democrats who fight, You say what you 759 00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,759 Speaker 1: want about them. They're fighters and they're willing to knock 760 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,800 Speaker 1: her off. Look, we had Ellian olmar Aoc just accused, 761 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,480 Speaker 1: you know, Ted Cruise of attempted murder last week and 762 00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,440 Speaker 1: it's like it didn't happen. And all we talked about 763 00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:51,280 Speaker 1: is Marjorie Taylor Green. And then the cheese into conspiracy theories. 764 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:56,640 Speaker 1: The entire Democratic Party pushed a conspiracy theory for three years. 765 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,240 Speaker 1: When they push a conspiracy theory, they get a special counsel. 766 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,640 Speaker 1: A three year in instigation headlines, the media is behind 767 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,759 Speaker 1: them when they're right. When someone on the right says 768 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,360 Speaker 1: something coopy and a conspiracy theory without to get expelled, 769 00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:11,560 Speaker 1: every person in that parties labeled a conspiracy theorist. Do 770 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,000 Speaker 1: you see how this works? This is a garbage. Adam 771 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,080 Speaker 1: Shift said he had evidence of Russian collusion. Here's this 772 00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,520 Speaker 1: guy still on a he's a committee chair. You know. Rep. 773 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,120 Speaker 1: Swallwell said the same thing, The man's a kook. Then 774 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,040 Speaker 1: he was with a Chinese spy, and the Goops focused 775 00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,640 Speaker 1: on Marjorie Taylor Green. Why don't you tell them that 776 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,879 Speaker 1: if Green's expelled, we need to expel everybody who participated 777 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,880 Speaker 1: in the Russian collusion conspiracy theory. You all have to 778 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,680 Speaker 1: go to Well. I'm concerned as well that there's a 779 00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,279 Speaker 1: there's a feeling right now within the GOP that we 780 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:46,719 Speaker 1: can buy off this ascendant totalitarian left by just you know, 781 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,279 Speaker 1: if we feed the crocodile a few of our own, 782 00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:53,880 Speaker 1: it'll leave us alone. This is a strategy that history 783 00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,720 Speaker 1: and common sense should tell members of the GOP apparatus 784 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,719 Speaker 1: is disastrous. But I do think we're going down that 785 00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:04,239 Speaker 1: pathway right now. Oh absolutely, The old crocodile will eatis les, 786 00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:06,800 Speaker 1: last garbage. Look, I think a lot of these people 787 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:11,200 Speaker 1: understand that government, like the left gives government power, right, 788 00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:14,879 Speaker 1: there are Republicans who are in government. They like power too. 789 00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:18,120 Speaker 1: I mean it's it's seductive. So, you know, do they 790 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,360 Speaker 1: really have our best interests at heart? Here? A huge 791 00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,000 Speaker 1: government with a ton of power also gives a Republican 792 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,120 Speaker 1: Party power. I'm not. That's not to say that the 793 00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,560 Speaker 1: civil society doesn't permeate the Republican Party entirely, but it 794 00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,480 Speaker 1: seems like they try to dismiss their constituents. They don't 795 00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,520 Speaker 1: care about, like but you know, losing gracefully. They're happy 796 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,080 Speaker 1: to do it. They don't want to fight. And the 797 00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,720 Speaker 1: left or fighters, they've been fighting for one hundred years. 798 00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:46,640 Speaker 1: They've been infecting our institutions from academia, Hollywood, the administrative 799 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,680 Speaker 1: state for one hundred and ten years now. That's what 800 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,239 Speaker 1: the progressive movement has done, and the GOP have just 801 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,600 Speaker 1: kind of been like, oh, well, whatever, we can't say 802 00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,640 Speaker 1: anything about that. And that's why we're in this position today. 803 00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,640 Speaker 1: What do you think we do about the takeover institutions? 804 00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:03,200 Speaker 1: Because that's really for me, that's the piece here that 805 00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,520 Speaker 1: has greatly magnified concerns over Yeah. Look Obama in two 806 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,759 Speaker 1: thousand and two thousand and nine had the Senate, had 807 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,200 Speaker 1: the House, and you know, we made it through that 808 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,840 Speaker 1: as a country. There was some very bad decision making 809 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:16,520 Speaker 1: and some damage dumb, but we made it through that 810 00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:20,160 Speaker 1: as a country. But right now, when you have Biden 811 00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,160 Speaker 1: with this as you'd say, very narrow Senate majority, but 812 00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:26,520 Speaker 1: a still essentially the ability to push anything they want 813 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,760 Speaker 1: through the Senate if they get all Democrats on board. 814 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,319 Speaker 1: Obviously they still have majority in the House. But you 815 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,680 Speaker 1: add to that that corporate America, and it's not just 816 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:38,240 Speaker 1: social media. I mean major companies of all kinds, major 817 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:42,600 Speaker 1: hotel chains, you know, companies that are selling you your lawnmower, 818 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:46,440 Speaker 1: whatever it may be. They're all in on wokeness now too. 819 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:50,719 Speaker 1: So it feels like there's a magnifying, a force multiplier 820 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,960 Speaker 1: effect going on right now, not only of the political 821 00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,440 Speaker 1: victories that the left has pulled off in recent months, 822 00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:01,080 Speaker 1: but also the cultural and private sector muscle that they're 823 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,480 Speaker 1: able to bring to bear. Well, that's exactly right. And 824 00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:05,600 Speaker 1: look what the left is when you know, when Trump 825 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,759 Speaker 1: won and we had one Republicans had the House and 826 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,160 Speaker 1: the Senate, and they had all three branches of government. 827 00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,480 Speaker 1: They fought back at the state level. They all of 828 00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:17,080 Speaker 1: a sudden anytime the Left loses and the Republicans control 829 00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,920 Speaker 1: more than two branches of government. Federalisms a thing again. 830 00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:23,840 Speaker 1: States have rights again, rights we need. That's what the 831 00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,120 Speaker 1: Republicans have to do is fight back at the state level. 832 00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:29,279 Speaker 1: They control a lot of these legislatures, they control a 833 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:31,880 Speaker 1: lot of these governorships, and they need to bog this 834 00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:35,560 Speaker 1: down litigation. Look, Donald Trump appointed over two hundred federal judges. 835 00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:37,520 Speaker 1: They have a case to make here and a lot 836 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:39,840 Speaker 1: of these policies in fighting back. Look, they're already starting 837 00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,600 Speaker 1: with sanctuary gun states and so on. They don't have 838 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:47,120 Speaker 1: to support and help federal law enforcement. They don't. I mean, 839 00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:52,040 Speaker 1: that's the point of some of these federalism and the 840 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,000 Speaker 1: tenth Amendment and the ninth Amendment is to kind of 841 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:55,879 Speaker 1: fight back against these things. And they need to take 842 00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:57,959 Speaker 1: it to court. They need to fight until twenty twenty 843 00:47:57,960 --> 00:47:59,880 Speaker 1: two and they can get some seven one of the 844 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,160 Speaker 1: government back and reduce the administrator. State. Congress needs to 845 00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:04,759 Speaker 1: take back a lot of the power they handed the 846 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,960 Speaker 1: executive branch. It's just become too overwhelming. So I think 847 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,920 Speaker 1: do you think DeSantis might get some some traction here 848 00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:15,480 Speaker 1: with his efforts to push back on big tech, specifically 849 00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,600 Speaker 1: in his state. Yes, I look, that dropped you last night. 850 00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,240 Speaker 1: I haven't seen anything fly like that in social media 851 00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,640 Speaker 1: in a long time. Um So, yes, I think from 852 00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:28,080 Speaker 1: a grassroots standpoint, that's huge. Whether or not you agree 853 00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,120 Speaker 1: with it. Some conservatives may not and so on on 854 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,719 Speaker 1: free speech grounds, but that's what people like, and that's 855 00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:34,359 Speaker 1: what they want to share, and that's what the that's 856 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,439 Speaker 1: what they want to be discussed right now. Big tech 857 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,640 Speaker 1: is a major issue in all of the censorship and 858 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,640 Speaker 1: sifling conservative voices is one of the biggest issues for 859 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:47,040 Speaker 1: conservatives right now. So yeah, absolutely, de Santis is making 860 00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:50,800 Speaker 1: a push for a twenty twenty four run. We'll record 861 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,520 Speaker 1: tell everybody Watchton Examiner dot com go check it out. 862 00:48:53,560 --> 00:49:04,360 Speaker 1: Will Thanks so much, man. Thanks Buck. You're listening to 863 00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,560 Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure you subscribe to 864 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,400 Speaker 1: the podcast on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you 865 00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:13,200 Speaker 1: get your podcasts. It's maybe hard to believe we don't 866 00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:15,280 Speaker 1: spend a lot of time talking about our thinking about 867 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,200 Speaker 1: President Trump. Here, former President Trump to be very clear. Um. 868 00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,359 Speaker 1: I think that's a question that's probably more appropriate for 869 00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:27,719 Speaker 1: Republican members who are looking for ways to support a 870 00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:31,200 Speaker 1: bipartisan package and whether that gives them space. But I 871 00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,760 Speaker 1: can't say we miss him on twitters support the continuing 872 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:39,440 Speaker 1: the of I think that's a decision made by Twitter. 873 00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:42,400 Speaker 1: We've we've certainly spoken to and he's spoken to UM 874 00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:45,399 Speaker 1: the need for social media platforms to continue to take 875 00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,160 Speaker 1: steps to reduce hate speech. But we don't have more 876 00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,600 Speaker 1: for you on it than that hate speech. What what 877 00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:56,080 Speaker 1: hate speech is drump guilty of when it comes to 878 00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:59,560 Speaker 1: election challenges, That that's now hate speech. Now, we've we've 879 00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,719 Speaker 1: been worried about this along. We've known that the left 880 00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:05,719 Speaker 1: is very because at the core of their being, I mean, 881 00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,040 Speaker 1: to be a leftist in America today is to be 882 00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:13,000 Speaker 1: somebody who believes in the necessity of control, of absolute 883 00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,520 Speaker 1: control over other people in the name of the collective. 884 00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:17,920 Speaker 1: And you have to be a part of that collective. 885 00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:19,920 Speaker 1: So you're on the winning side, and you can tell 886 00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:23,919 Speaker 1: everybody who's outside the collective do this or else do 887 00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:26,640 Speaker 1: this because I say so. And it's not even just 888 00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:30,160 Speaker 1: about actions, it's about speech and thought. Now, as well, 889 00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,200 Speaker 1: and this has been a long time in coming, but 890 00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,799 Speaker 1: just be very clear, this comes from the very top 891 00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:41,719 Speaker 1: the Biden administration, Joe Biden himself. They are favorable to 892 00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:46,759 Speaker 1: this notion. They are They are completely on board for 893 00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:48,960 Speaker 1: censor and conservative opinions that they don't like. This is 894 00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,200 Speaker 1: why it's it's so important, it's so essential that we 895 00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:59,719 Speaker 1: find ways to finally bring about some consequence for those 896 00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:04,480 Speaker 1: social media entities that are doing this. Sue them. Boycotting 897 00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,120 Speaker 1: them isn't gonna work. Sue them, drag them into court, 898 00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,839 Speaker 1: force them to explain why they do what they do, 899 00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,960 Speaker 1: and then regulate them. I do a radio show or 900 00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,040 Speaker 1: on gosh, I don't know, one hundred and eighty some 901 00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,279 Speaker 1: odd stations now across the country. There's all kinds of 902 00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,640 Speaker 1: restrictions on what I can say on radio. The government 903 00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:28,480 Speaker 1: involves itself there, there's FCC stuff, and there's all kinds 904 00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,239 Speaker 1: of things that I have to be aware of. I 905 00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:33,880 Speaker 1: don't just get to say whatever I want now. Politically, 906 00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:35,759 Speaker 1: I get to say what I want, thank god, because 907 00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:39,759 Speaker 1: radio is not yet locked down the way that the 908 00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,520 Speaker 1: Internet is, where they can use algorithms or just individuals 909 00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,279 Speaker 1: who are partisans to look for certain words. I mean, 910 00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:49,480 Speaker 1: there's a there have to be people actually listening to 911 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,719 Speaker 1: you on radio who then want to go after you 912 00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,719 Speaker 1: for hearing your words. Whereas on social media, I mean, 913 00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,439 Speaker 1: if you use the wrong hashtag. You know, if you used, 914 00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:00,479 Speaker 1: for example, the hashtag stop the Steel a few weeks ago, 915 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:04,520 Speaker 1: they might just disable your account. I mean, you're gone, right, 916 00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:08,520 Speaker 1: So think about how that influences the national conversation and 917 00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:12,840 Speaker 1: what this all means. But you know, the Republicans we 918 00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:16,280 Speaker 1: have we have an uphill battle here, There's no question 919 00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:19,120 Speaker 1: about it. We have an uphill battle because the left 920 00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:24,399 Speaker 1: hasn't only seized the control of social media companies but 921 00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:28,160 Speaker 1: corporations in general. I mean you now run a risk. 922 00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:34,600 Speaker 1: You run a risk anytime you open your mouth in 923 00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:38,160 Speaker 1: a company now about anything political, even on your own time, 924 00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,600 Speaker 1: on your own dime, they may decide that they have 925 00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:42,920 Speaker 1: to make an example of you and you have to 926 00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:46,919 Speaker 1: part ways. They're coming as close as possible right now. 927 00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,360 Speaker 1: They're coming as close as they can, I should say, 928 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:55,319 Speaker 1: to outlawing conservatism. I mean, ultimately, if you really want 929 00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,400 Speaker 1: to understand the left wing mindset, if you really want 930 00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,560 Speaker 1: to understand how liberals think, the way they do, why 931 00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:01,600 Speaker 1: they think the way they do. All you have to 932 00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:05,839 Speaker 1: do is just start from the premise that if they 933 00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:09,960 Speaker 1: could make your beliefs illegal, they would. I don't want 934 00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:13,400 Speaker 1: to make liberal beliefs or leftist beliefs illegal. I just 935 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:15,719 Speaker 1: disagree with them, and I think we need to have 936 00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:20,240 Speaker 1: a public debate and argument about whose right and why, 937 00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,920 Speaker 1: and let everyone know and engage in that. Intellectual freedom 938 00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,000 Speaker 1: is the basis of human freedom, and the left seeks 939 00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:30,600 Speaker 1: to destroy that. They seek to undermine that openly. Now 940 00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,560 Speaker 1: more so than ever before in my life. You're in 941 00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:36,480 Speaker 1: the freedom hunt. Thanks for listening to The buck Sexton 942 00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:40,439 Speaker 1: Show podcast. Get the latest from Bucket buck Sexton dot com. 943 00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:46,000 Speaker 1: What is merit? I know, I asked the question, and 944 00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,400 Speaker 1: you probably have an answer right away. Merit is the 945 00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:54,520 Speaker 1: worthiness of some kind of achievement, or merit is proving 946 00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:58,880 Speaker 1: ability and skill in a certain area, excelling among one's peers. 947 00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,880 Speaker 1: That's what merit is. Right, if you're a and if 948 00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:06,319 Speaker 1: you're a National Merit scholar, you did well enough on 949 00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:10,600 Speaker 1: the SATs. Right, if you had a Meritorious service award, 950 00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,480 Speaker 1: you were particularly good at your job or or in 951 00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:17,239 Speaker 1: your service to your country, your community. We know what 952 00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:22,399 Speaker 1: the word means, but there's an effort to act like 953 00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,600 Speaker 1: we don't actually and then it comes from the left. 954 00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:29,080 Speaker 1: They're undermining the very, the very concept of merit. And 955 00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,359 Speaker 1: and I want to address this because you'll see so 956 00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:36,520 Speaker 1: much more of this in the Biden administration, because it's 957 00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:41,759 Speaker 1: also central to wokeness and the identity politics, the intersectionality 958 00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:46,040 Speaker 1: beliefs of the left that we're all in this society 959 00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:49,680 Speaker 1: of groups oppressing other groups, and there's a hierarchy of oppression, 960 00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:52,680 Speaker 1: and you can't just treat people as individuals. It's all 961 00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:54,759 Speaker 1: about what group are they in, and the government gets 962 00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,440 Speaker 1: to make determinations about how to make things more fair 963 00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:59,399 Speaker 1: depending on what group you're in. This is where we are, 964 00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:03,280 Speaker 1: right and there are all these different corollaries and different 965 00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:10,200 Speaker 1: variations on this affirmative action policies, prioritizing minority and underserved 966 00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:13,480 Speaker 1: groups for the vaccine even though age is the primary 967 00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:16,560 Speaker 1: characteristic for those who are at high risk. Anyway, you 968 00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:20,759 Speaker 1: have this play out and in San Francisco right now. 969 00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,880 Speaker 1: This this happens often in New York because there's a 970 00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:25,800 Speaker 1: school and I'll take it to San Francisco side of 971 00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:27,799 Speaker 1: this in a moment for a reason. But in New 972 00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,560 Speaker 1: York there's a school called stuives In High School, and 973 00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:32,920 Speaker 1: there are a few schools actually stives In High School, 974 00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:37,040 Speaker 1: Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech. And you get into these 975 00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:40,400 Speaker 1: schools are These are public schools funded entirely by attacks. 976 00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:43,160 Speaker 1: We're part of the public school system. But admission is 977 00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:46,920 Speaker 1: highly competitive based upon a test, and whoever gets certain 978 00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,520 Speaker 1: score on the test gets the opportunity to go to 979 00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:52,920 Speaker 1: these schools. And in order of difficulty to get in, 980 00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:56,319 Speaker 1: it's Stives and Bronx Science, then Brooklyn Tech. So I 981 00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:58,720 Speaker 1: took this test, I actually got into Stuyvesant. I didn't 982 00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,200 Speaker 1: end up going, but I I did think about going 983 00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,279 Speaker 1: to the gifted public school here in New York and 984 00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:06,839 Speaker 1: had that opportunity, should I have wanted it. Stuyveson, though, 985 00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:14,360 Speaker 1: is is constantly criticized for being somehow racist, which is 986 00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:19,479 Speaker 1: fascinating because Stiveson is over seventy percent Asian. So it's 987 00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:24,880 Speaker 1: they say it's racist, but it's benefiting overwhelmingly Asian Americans 988 00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,479 Speaker 1: in New York City. Why is that? Is it because 989 00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,960 Speaker 1: of Asian privilege? Is it because you have so many 990 00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,160 Speaker 1: of these so many of them are children of first 991 00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:39,040 Speaker 1: generation immigrants. You know, people that that run small businesses, 992 00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:42,120 Speaker 1: that work very hard here in New York City so 993 00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:45,080 Speaker 1: that they can have their child go to a place 994 00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,200 Speaker 1: like stives in high schools. They can provide for them 995 00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:52,120 Speaker 1: and push their education. And the Left doesn't like this. 996 00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:54,439 Speaker 1: This is a problem for the left because their whole 997 00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:58,760 Speaker 1: narrative is that there's white privilege, right, that white people 998 00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,600 Speaker 1: don't really earn what they have in the same way 999 00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,360 Speaker 1: that white people are part of an unfair system that 1000 00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:08,200 Speaker 1: oppresses other people. But you have these different case studies 1001 00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,640 Speaker 1: where it's actually Asian Americans. If we're going to do 1002 00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:14,200 Speaker 1: this by race, that's what we're talking about, Asian Americans 1003 00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:20,480 Speaker 1: who are the greatest beneficiaries of a pure meritocracy and education. 1004 00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:23,680 Speaker 1: All right. In this is in New York. It's also 1005 00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:28,560 Speaker 1: true in San Francisco, or rather in California in general. 1006 00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:32,680 Speaker 1: You've had this at the top. California State schools like 1007 00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:37,360 Speaker 1: Berkeley and UCLA have a very high Asian American population 1008 00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:40,520 Speaker 1: because it's about GPA and an SAT scores to get 1009 00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:42,720 Speaker 1: into those schools. They got rid years ago. Now they've 1010 00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:47,720 Speaker 1: brought it back of race based admissions, and so Asians 1011 00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:51,360 Speaker 1: skyrocketed in their numbers of admissions to these places, and 1012 00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:55,400 Speaker 1: there was a drop, but not a major drop in 1013 00:57:55,600 --> 00:58:00,240 Speaker 1: admissions of black and Latino students in these schools. That's 1014 00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:04,160 Speaker 1: what ended up happening. Well, now you have a situation 1015 00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:06,680 Speaker 1: with the Lowell High School in San Francisco. This was 1016 00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:10,320 Speaker 1: from NBC News quote. The San Francisco School Board might 1017 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:14,280 Speaker 1: junk grade and testing requirements for its nationally acclaimed Lowell 1018 00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:17,680 Speaker 1: High School, which has long been enlightening rod for issues 1019 00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:21,240 Speaker 1: of race in education. The school is the San Francisco 1020 00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:25,200 Speaker 1: Unified School District's only nine through twelve campus that uses 1021 00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:28,680 Speaker 1: a formula of grades and standardized test scores for admission 1022 00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:31,880 Speaker 1: of most students, but that might change because of a 1023 00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:36,200 Speaker 1: resolution presented by board members this week. The proposal calls 1024 00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:39,800 Speaker 1: for a random lottery for admission to Lowell, which is 1025 00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:44,960 Speaker 1: majority who wants to guess Asian American, to replace the 1026 00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:49,800 Speaker 1: current grade and test system, which allegedly excludes students of 1027 00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:55,440 Speaker 1: color and perpetuates the opportunity gap is destroying the actual 1028 00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:58,840 Speaker 1: language we use to describe these things. The opportunity gap 1029 00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:02,120 Speaker 1: is not destroy by having a school that gives some 1030 00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:06,160 Speaker 1: students who are excelling an opportunity. Particularly we're talking about 1031 00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:08,920 Speaker 1: Asian American students. I don't think anybody is running around 1032 00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,840 Speaker 1: talking about Asian privilege quite yet, but maybe they will. 1033 00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,919 Speaker 1: But if you want to know what kind of we're 1034 00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:18,120 Speaker 1: welly in nonsense is being spewed by people who are 1035 00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:21,840 Speaker 1: commissioners of the San Francisco Public school system, here is 1036 00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:24,160 Speaker 1: And I want you to listen very closely to what 1037 00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,520 Speaker 1: she says. One of these commissioners in San fran Out 1038 00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:32,440 Speaker 1: in California, Alison Collins, talking about merit play one. Well, 1039 00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:38,240 Speaker 1: when we talk about merit, meritocracy, and especially meritocracy based 1040 00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:42,400 Speaker 1: on standardized testing, I'm just gonna say it, in this 1041 00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:47,360 Speaker 1: day and age, we cannot miss words. Those are racist systems. Well, 1042 00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:49,880 Speaker 1: if you're going to say that merit, you know, is 1043 00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:53,960 Speaker 1: like fair, it's it's the antithesis of fair, and it's 1044 00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:58,040 Speaker 1: the antithesis of just And so you know, you can't 1045 00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:01,040 Speaker 1: use equity or you can't you know, talk about social 1046 01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:03,200 Speaker 1: justice and then say that you want to have a 1047 01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:07,440 Speaker 1: selective school that keeps certain kids out from the neighborhoods 1048 01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:09,960 Speaker 1: that you think are dangerous, Like that's all kind of 1049 01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:13,640 Speaker 1: Trumpian language, and in San Francisco, I'm proud to be 1050 01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:16,000 Speaker 1: a member of the board, and I'm proud of our 1051 01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:19,360 Speaker 1: families and our student leaders, and I'm you know, I 1052 01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:22,360 Speaker 1: don't think we should be shy about naming those things. Okay, well, 1053 01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,960 Speaker 1: let's actually talk about this, miss Allison Collins. Let's let's 1054 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:30,760 Speaker 1: really dig into what she says here. Standardized tests or racist? 1055 01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,680 Speaker 1: Now that's where we are. Oh, okay, how are we 1056 01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:36,960 Speaker 1: supposed to measure educational achievement? Is educational achievement ever an 1057 01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:40,320 Speaker 1: objective thing? Are some kids better at math than others? 1058 01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:45,200 Speaker 1: Do some kids read with greater skill and speed and fluency? 1059 01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:49,200 Speaker 1: Read and write with greater skill, speed, and fluency than others? Yes? 1060 01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:51,640 Speaker 1: Or no? Is there any way at all to measure 1061 01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,560 Speaker 1: these things? Are some kids better students than other kids? 1062 01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:57,400 Speaker 1: Are some kids smarter than other kids? Is there are 1063 01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:00,640 Speaker 1: these real things? Or not? Because if real and we 1064 01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:06,000 Speaker 1: can measure them, then what is she really saying? What 1065 01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:09,400 Speaker 1: is her point? If San Francisco says that there's there's 1066 01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:12,360 Speaker 1: a test that's open that to anybody who wants to 1067 01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:14,560 Speaker 1: go to this school, and it's going to measure your 1068 01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:18,360 Speaker 1: ability in these subjects and it's essentially made the best 1069 01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:20,320 Speaker 1: man or woman or this kid of this case made 1070 01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:23,880 Speaker 1: the best you know, boy or girl. When what's the 1071 01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:28,000 Speaker 1: problem with that? Why is that an issue? Well, because 1072 01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:35,320 Speaker 1: it doesn't have the representational representational conclusions here that they want. 1073 01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:38,960 Speaker 1: It does not have enough black and brown students, as 1074 01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:41,880 Speaker 1: they say, that's that's the problem. Now there's a majority 1075 01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:43,760 Speaker 1: of Asian students. But they're going to say it's white 1076 01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:46,520 Speaker 1: privilege and Trumpian language somehow. Hold on, how is that? 1077 01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:48,880 Speaker 1: How is it a Trumpian thing for a lot of 1078 01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:52,280 Speaker 1: Asian kids to excel in the San Francisco school district 1079 01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:55,000 Speaker 1: and at the same the exact same situation that plays 1080 01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,640 Speaker 1: out here in New York City with stives in high school? 1081 01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:01,080 Speaker 1: Why is there racism here? You're going to tell me 1082 01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,000 Speaker 1: that some kid who has parents who just got here 1083 01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:08,240 Speaker 1: first generation immigrants from Vietnam and who came here penniless, 1084 01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:12,560 Speaker 1: he does he have some big advantage over his black 1085 01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:15,920 Speaker 1: and brown peers. If so, I'd like to know what 1086 01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:19,880 Speaker 1: it is. You know, but that the Democrats they do this, 1087 01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:23,200 Speaker 1: They pander and they talk around the issue. They speak 1088 01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:25,760 Speaker 1: around the issue. They won't actually say what they're really saying, 1089 01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:28,840 Speaker 1: which is that they just view standardized tests as racist. 1090 01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:32,960 Speaker 1: We'll explain that while are standardized test racist, aren't there 1091 01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:34,920 Speaker 1: members of the black and brown community who do it 1092 01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,480 Speaker 1: incredibly well on standardized tests too. Of course there are 1093 01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:41,760 Speaker 1: so in what way are they racist now that they 1094 01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,480 Speaker 1: just say this? But you're going to see so much 1095 01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:47,320 Speaker 1: more of it because merit itself as a concept, if 1096 01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:51,560 Speaker 1: it does not support the victimology and oppression narratives of 1097 01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:55,840 Speaker 1: the left, merot itself as a concept is under attack. 1098 01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:58,880 Speaker 1: There's no such thing as achievement. You didn't build that, 1099 01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:02,640 Speaker 1: You didn't take that test and get such a high score. Right, 1100 01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,760 Speaker 1: It's not about you, It's about society. It's about your privilege. 1101 01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:08,960 Speaker 1: I have to give credit to Tucker Carlson. I thought 1102 01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:10,760 Speaker 1: it was a brilliant insight he had on his show 1103 01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,560 Speaker 1: last night when he said, you know, you'll never hear 1104 01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:17,680 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos, You'll never hear George Soros, these white billionaires 1105 01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:21,720 Speaker 1: who fund all this wokeness and fund all this left 1106 01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:25,640 Speaker 1: wing insanity, you never hear about their white privilege. And 1107 01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:28,080 Speaker 1: these are the most privileged people in real terms, in 1108 01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:31,640 Speaker 1: a real way, in the whole world. This is about power. 1109 01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:34,240 Speaker 1: What you're seeing in dynamics of power. People that will 1110 01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:37,000 Speaker 1: put principle aside, will even change the plain meaning of 1111 01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:42,480 Speaker 1: language in their pursuit of power. That's what's actually happening here, right. 1112 01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:46,840 Speaker 1: It is not right to penalize Asian students, predominantly Asian 1113 01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:51,439 Speaker 1: students at this school because they are better at academics 1114 01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:55,400 Speaker 1: than some of their peers in other minority groups. That's 1115 01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:58,720 Speaker 1: not fair, that's not rooted in any principle. That's just 1116 01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:02,080 Speaker 1: what the left wants, because the left wants to tell 1117 01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:06,400 Speaker 1: communities that are struggling academically, or students that are struggling 1118 01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:10,600 Speaker 1: academically in San Francisco. In this case, then it's not 1119 01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:13,960 Speaker 1: the it's not their problem, it's not their fault. It's 1120 01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:19,800 Speaker 1: not up to them. It's society, and it's society oppressing them. Somehow. 1121 01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:23,000 Speaker 1: Society doesn't oppress these Asian students though, And we never 1122 01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:26,040 Speaker 1: get an explanation as to why that is. It's still 1123 01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:28,600 Speaker 1: white privilege, even though the privilege is really going to Asians. 1124 01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:32,480 Speaker 1: Why is that? We should We should ask Commissioner Colleges, 1125 01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:35,240 Speaker 1: But she would say, oh, it's Trumpian language. Trump's not 1126 01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:37,120 Speaker 1: even president anymore. No, one's even heard from a guy 1127 01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:42,800 Speaker 1: in weeks. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Follow 1128 01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:47,760 Speaker 1: Buck on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I think that what 1129 01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:51,959 Speaker 1: we're doing to poor kids is a disgrace. These poor 1130 01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:57,040 Speaker 1: kids are not in school. They will never recover from this, 1131 01:04:57,120 --> 01:05:00,280 Speaker 1: and they had a bad education experience. Anyways, we have 1132 01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:04,200 Speaker 1: not had good schools for poor kids, and this now 1133 01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:08,280 Speaker 1: is just so much worse. The President has to stand 1134 01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:12,880 Speaker 1: up to the unions and teacher unions, teachers teachers unions, 1135 01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:14,880 Speaker 1: you know, the teachers say, well, I don't want to 1136 01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:17,160 Speaker 1: go back because it's dangerous. We have a lot of 1137 01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:21,120 Speaker 1: city and state and federal employees who run risks. That's 1138 01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:24,960 Speaker 1: part of the job. You run risks to help America, 1139 01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:27,520 Speaker 1: to help your state, to help your city, to help 1140 01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:31,680 Speaker 1: your family. And there's just no reason not to have 1141 01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:37,320 Speaker 1: the schools open. The virtual classes are a joke. It 1142 01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:41,040 Speaker 1: is worse than a joke. Poor people don't have iPads, 1143 01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:44,720 Speaker 1: they don't have WiFi, they don't have somebody at home 1144 01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:48,120 Speaker 1: to sit during the day and force the child to 1145 01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:52,280 Speaker 1: pay attention. And without that, the virtual learning just does 1146 01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:56,200 Speaker 1: not exist. And the teachers unions you see in Chicago 1147 01:05:57,040 --> 01:06:00,160 Speaker 1: and in New York. We've had problems. It's time for 1148 01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:03,040 Speaker 1: Joe Biden to stand up and say the kids are 1149 01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:09,080 Speaker 1: the most important things important to players here, and the 1150 01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:11,520 Speaker 1: teachers just are going to have to suck it up 1151 01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:17,400 Speaker 1: and stand up and provide an education. Otherwise these kids 1152 01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:21,040 Speaker 1: have no chance whatsoever. Stephanie, it is a disaster what's 1153 01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:24,760 Speaker 1: happening to them. Everything that Minnie Mike Bloomberg here is 1154 01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:28,680 Speaker 1: saying is true. So this is why I do separate 1155 01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:34,560 Speaker 1: it sometimes out between lunatic, incompetent Democrats and competent but 1156 01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:38,560 Speaker 1: wrong on some things Democrats. You know, there's there's the 1157 01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:42,080 Speaker 1: sort of AOC wing of the Democrat Party which is 1158 01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:44,960 Speaker 1: just coming up with crazy ideas that are disastrous, that 1159 01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:47,840 Speaker 1: that won't work, that they couldn't even implement. It's just 1160 01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:49,440 Speaker 1: a it's just a mess. I mean, the whole thing 1161 01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:53,480 Speaker 1: is stupidity on steroids. And then there's the Mike Bloomberg 1162 01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:58,200 Speaker 1: Democrat Party or Mike Bloomberg's within the Democrat Party, who yes, 1163 01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:00,280 Speaker 1: he's a he can be a little can be a 1164 01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:03,480 Speaker 1: little tyrannical, he's antisecond amendments. He doesn't want you to 1165 01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:07,200 Speaker 1: drink a big soda, but you know, if he's gonna 1166 01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:09,760 Speaker 1: tell the city workers that they got to clean up 1167 01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,040 Speaker 1: the streets and get the trash off the streets, he's 1168 01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:14,280 Speaker 1: pretty good at that. He's pretty good at that. And 1169 01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:18,280 Speaker 1: I've always said, you know, Bloomberg's Bloomberg's tenure in New 1170 01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:21,600 Speaker 1: York City was a golden age, a golden age because 1171 01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:24,920 Speaker 1: on things that shouldn't really be about politics, it's about results. 1172 01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:29,800 Speaker 1: He was pretty solid back the NYPD kept in place 1173 01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:34,320 Speaker 1: good NYPD policies. See that that's what ultimately politics is 1174 01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:36,920 Speaker 1: the debate to get to the results right. And what 1175 01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:38,919 Speaker 1: I want are the good results for the American people. 1176 01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:42,000 Speaker 1: What I want are good results for you know, folks 1177 01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:46,960 Speaker 1: across the country that they're safer, happier, more secure, and 1178 01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:51,080 Speaker 1: are able to pursue happiness in their own way, better 1179 01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:54,560 Speaker 1: in places because of decisions that are being made by 1180 01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:59,520 Speaker 1: those in authority, because the system is working and functioning, 1181 01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:02,760 Speaker 1: auctioning reasonably well around them. So Bloomberg, for all the 1182 01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:05,280 Speaker 1: criticism and I got a lot of criticism of Bloomberg 1183 01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:07,520 Speaker 1: that we could spend another another day, another time getting 1184 01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:10,000 Speaker 1: into he's not an idiot, is a very smart man, 1185 01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:13,080 Speaker 1: and he knows how to make things happen, and he's 1186 01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:17,200 Speaker 1: saying that this zoom learning in the public schools thing 1187 01:08:17,240 --> 01:08:21,240 Speaker 1: is a disaster, which of course it is. But what not? 1188 01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:23,440 Speaker 1: Now here's where we get to where, Here's where ideology 1189 01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:26,920 Speaker 1: blinds him? What is the flaw everything he said? He's 1190 01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:30,040 Speaker 1: assessment of the problems within the school system right now, 1191 01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:34,040 Speaker 1: particularly for underprivileged kids because of the COVID lockdowns. His 1192 01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:37,960 Speaker 1: assessment was absolutely correct. What's the problem with what he said? 1193 01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:41,080 Speaker 1: Where does it all fall apart? Oh? When he says, 1194 01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:43,680 Speaker 1: you know, Biden's going to need to stand up and 1195 01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:46,320 Speaker 1: he's going to need to stand up to the unions, 1196 01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:50,280 Speaker 1: that's never going to happen. The Democrats are owned by 1197 01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:55,719 Speaker 1: these teachers union. Democrat politicians will never cross the teachers unions. 1198 01:08:55,760 --> 01:08:58,680 Speaker 1: At best, they're going to try to negotiate, try to 1199 01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,360 Speaker 1: beg and plead with the unions. Hey guys, you're really 1200 01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:03,640 Speaker 1: hurting the brand. Dear, you're making things harder for us. 1201 01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:05,840 Speaker 1: Come on, please, please please. They're never going to call 1202 01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:09,920 Speaker 1: them out for this. The teachers unions aren't abomination. There 1203 01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:12,479 Speaker 1: should be no such thing as teachers unions. They should 1204 01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:16,880 Speaker 1: not exist. They are public sector unions that should be disbanded. 1205 01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:20,960 Speaker 1: But Democrats get huge they get huge donations from them, 1206 01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:24,000 Speaker 1: all kinds of benefits from them, and they protect teachers 1207 01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:28,519 Speaker 1: from accountability, and they protect these bureaucrats and they're little 1208 01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:31,439 Speaker 1: perks that work for these unions, so they're able to 1209 01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:33,840 Speaker 1: do this and the children are suffering. It is children 1210 01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:37,920 Speaker 1: last in the Democrat party. When you're looking at what 1211 01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:40,120 Speaker 1: these unions are doing, it is very clear. It is 1212 01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:46,280 Speaker 1: obvious that that's what's happening, and there should be far more, 1213 01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:49,960 Speaker 1: far more anger about this. LORI lightfoot those telling you 1214 01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:51,960 Speaker 1: guess what they're gonna do, now, what they're gonna say 1215 01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:54,559 Speaker 1: about who's to blame play twenty. So, look, this is 1216 01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:59,559 Speaker 1: a very difficult situation and we're in it still because 1217 01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:02,800 Speaker 1: of the competence of the previous administration. So I think 1218 01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:05,840 Speaker 1: it's important for both sides to come to the table 1219 01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:09,360 Speaker 1: in good faith, recognize that we're both trying to work 1220 01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:13,120 Speaker 1: through a very challenging situation, but we must get a 1221 01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:17,320 Speaker 1: deal done. So I've tried to say, let's cool down, 1222 01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:21,800 Speaker 1: let's lower the temperature, but let's focus on bridging the 1223 01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:24,479 Speaker 1: divide in the remaining issues so we can get a 1224 01:10:24,479 --> 01:10:28,400 Speaker 1: deal done and those seventy thousand plus parents who said 1225 01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:30,960 Speaker 1: I want to come back to in person for my 1226 01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:34,080 Speaker 1: student if they have the option to do so. Yeah, 1227 01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:37,920 Speaker 1: they're blaming Trump, folks. It's Trump's fault that the Chicago 1228 01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:45,000 Speaker 1: teachers unions refuse to be reasonable. Yeah. Sure. This is 1229 01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:49,800 Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Follow Buck on Facebook, Instagram, 1230 01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:56,080 Speaker 1: and Twitter. It's February. They got vaccines and distribution and 1231 01:10:56,640 --> 01:10:59,280 Speaker 1: we have lockdown still going on. When is this going 1232 01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:02,000 Speaker 1: to end? When is this going to change? In New 1233 01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:03,880 Speaker 1: York and in the rest of the country. We got 1234 01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:06,240 Speaker 1: our friend Carol Markowitz. She's a commist for the New 1235 01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:08,680 Speaker 1: York Post. She joins us now she's been one of 1236 01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:10,800 Speaker 1: the fighters on this issue. Carol, great to have you back. 1237 01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:14,479 Speaker 1: Thank you for having me Buck. So let's start with this. 1238 01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:17,880 Speaker 1: You see that that fauci's now saying it's possible the 1239 01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:22,400 Speaker 1: CDC might actually change its recommendation that we need to 1240 01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:25,880 Speaker 1: double mask now that we actually might be heading. And 1241 01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:28,160 Speaker 1: I say this as somebody who's been making fun of 1242 01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:30,599 Speaker 1: this for months but kind of knowing that it's coming, 1243 01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:33,160 Speaker 1: and now it's now it's real, just like I thought, 1244 01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:35,400 Speaker 1: just like you thought it would be. Yeah, yeah, I 1245 01:11:35,439 --> 01:11:38,280 Speaker 1: think you've been at the forefront of it. I definitely 1246 01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:40,960 Speaker 1: was more like, that's funny, that's never going to happen. 1247 01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:45,360 Speaker 1: But yeah, you were predicting it for a while. I 1248 01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:48,120 Speaker 1: don't know. I think two masks is irresponsible. I think 1249 01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:50,280 Speaker 1: it had to be eight or more. It's it's just 1250 01:11:50,439 --> 01:11:53,519 Speaker 1: that's where our baseline should be. I keep telling people 1251 01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:57,120 Speaker 1: that if the if the new theory is anything that 1252 01:11:57,120 --> 01:12:00,439 Speaker 1: could even theoretically reduce even one covid K, can be 1253 01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:05,160 Speaker 1: a government mandate. They should limit how many times, how 1254 01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:07,840 Speaker 1: many times a minute you're allowed to breathe and if 1255 01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:10,639 Speaker 1: you got to hold your breath sometimes because every time 1256 01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:13,280 Speaker 1: you breathe out, that's when you're expelling the virus theoretically, 1257 01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:16,439 Speaker 1: so so we should mandate breath for everybody. Now, I mean, 1258 01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:19,680 Speaker 1: we're getting we're getting so crazy and and Carol, here 1259 01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:22,680 Speaker 1: here's my problem. Yeah, I know I worry I say 1260 01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:24,320 Speaker 1: this stuff out loud there, I'd say, well, we should 1261 01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:26,439 Speaker 1: have goggles because you know, virus from coming through your eyes. 1262 01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:28,720 Speaker 1: They've actually brought that up briefly in the past too, 1263 01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:33,360 Speaker 1: these so called experts. Um when is when is society? 1264 01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:36,080 Speaker 1: I worry that there are a lot of people who, 1265 01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:38,040 Speaker 1: you know, the people that are so afraid that they 1266 01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:41,160 Speaker 1: can't think straight. There are the people that just don't 1267 01:12:41,280 --> 01:12:42,680 Speaker 1: admit that they were wrong, so they're never going to 1268 01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:45,320 Speaker 1: change their opinions. But now I'm also thinking maybe there 1269 01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:46,880 Speaker 1: are a lot of people who kind of like this 1270 01:12:47,400 --> 01:12:51,360 Speaker 1: new normal of like limited human contact, order your food, 1271 01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:54,160 Speaker 1: other you know, essential workers make and bring your food 1272 01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:57,160 Speaker 1: to you, you sit on zoom calls. I think that's 1273 01:12:57,200 --> 01:13:00,759 Speaker 1: part of it. Absolutely. I call those people that jama class. 1274 01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:03,080 Speaker 1: And I'm in that pajama class. I worked from home. 1275 01:13:03,120 --> 01:13:05,519 Speaker 1: I've worked from home before the pandemic, so I totally 1276 01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:07,960 Speaker 1: get it. My life was We're doing food on see 1277 01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:10,160 Speaker 1: lives and you know, having everything brought to me and 1278 01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:12,760 Speaker 1: it's nice. But you know, I'm sure people are liking it. 1279 01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:17,160 Speaker 1: But let's not pretend that we're in anything really resembling 1280 01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:20,519 Speaker 1: a lockdown when this is happening because people are working. 1281 01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:23,280 Speaker 1: It's just not this pajama class that's working and they 1282 01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:24,880 Speaker 1: like it that way. Well, this is what I've been 1283 01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:27,400 Speaker 1: saying too. I get so angry, Carol when people tell 1284 01:13:27,479 --> 01:13:29,360 Speaker 1: me I have a friend right now who's basically fled 1285 01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:32,920 Speaker 1: the US to Australia, and his whole thing is Australia 1286 01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:36,160 Speaker 1: did this. Australia did this right, you know, and America 1287 01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:38,280 Speaker 1: should have done like Australia, doesn't. I say, well, hold 1288 01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:42,280 Speaker 1: on a second, and therefore what really should have happened 1289 01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:44,120 Speaker 1: here is that we should have had the kind of 1290 01:13:44,160 --> 01:13:46,280 Speaker 1: lockdowns that Australia did. But let me start with the 1291 01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:49,679 Speaker 1: few things. We're one twentieth the population. We have thirty 1292 01:13:49,720 --> 01:13:52,639 Speaker 1: times the population density of Australia in the United States, 1293 01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:54,439 Speaker 1: believe or not. I mean, it's Australia is not a 1294 01:13:54,479 --> 01:13:58,679 Speaker 1: densely populated place at all. And you know, you addle 1295 01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:01,760 Speaker 1: these things up. But then also we've never been we 1296 01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:05,880 Speaker 1: people keep saying lockdown works, lockdown works. Then I keep saying, yeah, 1297 01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:08,040 Speaker 1: but we don't even really we do. We get all 1298 01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:11,280 Speaker 1: the pain and none of the upside, because, as you say, 1299 01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:14,000 Speaker 1: there are still people. There are essential workers all over 1300 01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:16,320 Speaker 1: the place. The New York City Subway is still running. 1301 01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:18,720 Speaker 1: There are people who are getting infected, they're going out, 1302 01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:22,120 Speaker 1: they're doing these things. But we shut down some businesses 1303 01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:25,479 Speaker 1: and some opportunities for people, and it's just all it's 1304 01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:28,439 Speaker 1: just all made up as we go along. Absolutely, and 1305 01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:30,640 Speaker 1: you know. The other thing is as soon as you 1306 01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:33,760 Speaker 1: come out of the lockdown, it comes back. It's not 1307 01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:38,080 Speaker 1: like Australia is having this where we keep harving cases 1308 01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:41,479 Speaker 1: at the quarantine hotels because high people are coming in 1309 01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:44,920 Speaker 1: with it. So unless you're planning to just lockdown your 1310 01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:50,120 Speaker 1: country really definitely and not allow any visitors whatsoever, not 1311 01:14:50,200 --> 01:14:53,200 Speaker 1: allow any business entity to go on, you're going to 1312 01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:56,080 Speaker 1: have cases. And I keep saying also, it's no lockdowns work. 1313 01:14:56,160 --> 01:14:58,559 Speaker 1: Sure lockdowns works. If we never come out of our houses, 1314 01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:02,120 Speaker 1: we won't get coronavirus, but somebody's data leave their house, 1315 01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:05,040 Speaker 1: so that's where it's going to spread. And it's just 1316 01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:08,960 Speaker 1: it's unrealistic. I feel like there's nothing scientific based anymore. 1317 01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:12,599 Speaker 1: It's all completely what you feel. And our elected officials 1318 01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:15,719 Speaker 1: reflect that. I mean, nobody feels more than Governor Como 1319 01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:19,439 Speaker 1: and governor you know, Gavin Newsom there the two biggest 1320 01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:23,000 Speaker 1: like make decisions based on their emotions kind of leaders. 1321 01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:28,280 Speaker 1: And you're absolutely right, because what's crazy is people like it. Yeah, 1322 01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:32,080 Speaker 1: I've been surprised by I've been able to predict with 1323 01:15:32,120 --> 01:15:36,240 Speaker 1: the bureaucrats and what the so called medical establishment because 1324 01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:38,439 Speaker 1: it's always just you're always seeing just one little, you know, 1325 01:15:38,479 --> 01:15:41,320 Speaker 1: the tip of the iceberg. With the actual medical establishment. 1326 01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:43,240 Speaker 1: There are so many doctors that talk to who are 1327 01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:48,080 Speaker 1: horrified at the school closures, who say that masks were Yeah, 1328 01:15:48,080 --> 01:15:51,240 Speaker 1: maybe it helps if it's one of you know, ten 1329 01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:54,000 Speaker 1: other things you're doing, and you're doing it perfectly, and 1330 01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:55,640 Speaker 1: you're doing it all the time. You know. It's like 1331 01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:58,080 Speaker 1: there's so much out there that never gets talked about 1332 01:15:58,120 --> 01:16:00,280 Speaker 1: from the medical community too. But the part of this, 1333 01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:03,360 Speaker 1: Carol that I haven't been, that I had not been 1334 01:16:03,360 --> 01:16:06,040 Speaker 1: able to anticipate, was and I see this here in 1335 01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:10,160 Speaker 1: New York, how many people are like, no, this is okay. Actually, 1336 01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:12,439 Speaker 1: I think we continue. I think we continue like this 1337 01:16:12,479 --> 01:16:14,760 Speaker 1: as long as we have to. I'm not I'm not 1338 01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:18,240 Speaker 1: that bothered by this lockdown. I'm still getting paid. People 1339 01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:20,800 Speaker 1: bring me my food. And you know, I didn't like 1340 01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:22,920 Speaker 1: the outdoors that much anyway. I live in New York. 1341 01:16:22,960 --> 01:16:26,520 Speaker 1: That that's really what There's a lot of people like that. Yeah, absolutely, 1342 01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:29,800 Speaker 1: it's terrifying. I don't know, the worst thing for me, 1343 01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:33,160 Speaker 1: being a parent of three public school children, is I 1344 01:16:33,320 --> 01:16:36,040 Speaker 1: was summer there would be riots in the streets when 1345 01:16:36,040 --> 01:16:38,760 Speaker 1: they didn't open schools, and then I was really sure 1346 01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:41,719 Speaker 1: there riots in the streets when they opened only private 1347 01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:45,480 Speaker 1: schools but not public schools. But no one cares. It's 1348 01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:47,320 Speaker 1: crazy to me, and I just I don't I don't 1349 01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:49,160 Speaker 1: know how to get through to these people, like they 1350 01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:52,880 Speaker 1: have stopped educating your children, Like maybe we should care 1351 01:16:52,920 --> 01:16:56,479 Speaker 1: about this, but nobody does. And I don't know. I 1352 01:16:56,880 --> 01:16:59,479 Speaker 1: looked like when I see protests in Europe, like Europe 1353 01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:02,960 Speaker 1: is out freedoming to us, that's crazy me, and yet 1354 01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:05,479 Speaker 1: here we are. Yeah. I mean, if you've seen even 1355 01:17:05,479 --> 01:17:08,400 Speaker 1: in what's going on in the Netherlands, they've had really intense, 1356 01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:12,240 Speaker 1: really serious anti lockdown protests going on there. It's happened 1357 01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:15,400 Speaker 1: in some other in other countries as well. But I'm 1358 01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:17,880 Speaker 1: I'm shocked. I mean, it's it's one of the things 1359 01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:20,160 Speaker 1: that I've still been trying to wrap my mind around. 1360 01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:23,200 Speaker 1: I figured at some point, you know, my fellow New Yorkers. 1361 01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:25,600 Speaker 1: I know I'm outvoted by them, you know, eight or 1362 01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:28,639 Speaker 1: nine to one, my Democrats, but I thought they'd say, okay, guys, 1363 01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:34,640 Speaker 1: the science is in schools absolutely should be open. But no, 1364 01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:36,639 Speaker 1: a lot of Democrats are like, hey, I'm just gonna 1365 01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:40,120 Speaker 1: watch MSNBC and listen to talking points about how the 1366 01:17:40,120 --> 01:17:43,720 Speaker 1: teachers unions are just representing the interests of their constituents 1367 01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:46,719 Speaker 1: and their safety. It's like, no, they're actually holding people's families, 1368 01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:50,080 Speaker 1: holy people's children hostage so that they can sit at home. 1369 01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:52,000 Speaker 1: And I mean, I'm so sick of people saying, oh, 1370 01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:54,479 Speaker 1: the teachers are worried. Most teachers are in their twenties 1371 01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:57,520 Speaker 1: and thirties in the public school system. Okay, the majority 1372 01:17:57,560 --> 01:17:59,519 Speaker 1: of them are not, are not even close to being 1373 01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:04,000 Speaker 1: at risk. And then some get vaccinated and refuse to 1374 01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:07,920 Speaker 1: go back and teach after they're vaccinated. Right, it's a travesty. 1375 01:18:08,080 --> 01:18:10,280 Speaker 1: I don't know. And you're talking about those people, you know, 1376 01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:12,880 Speaker 1: I'll just stay home and watch. Yeah, while they were 1377 01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:15,920 Speaker 1: nanny takes their kids to their pod. We're gonna have 1378 01:18:15,920 --> 01:18:19,400 Speaker 1: a private tutor and like their kids are gonna be fine. Um, 1379 01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:22,719 Speaker 1: the rest of the kids aren't. And it's this gulf 1380 01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:25,280 Speaker 1: is going to be just insurmountable. I don't know what's 1381 01:18:25,320 --> 01:18:28,000 Speaker 1: going to happen, but I don't know how kids who 1382 01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:29,640 Speaker 1: didn't go to school for a year are going to 1383 01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:31,880 Speaker 1: compete with kids who went to school every day. And 1384 01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:35,040 Speaker 1: have a normal existence. And it's and those people don't 1385 01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:37,200 Speaker 1: live far away. You can have kids and queens who 1386 01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:39,120 Speaker 1: didn't go to school, kids in Long Island who did, 1387 01:18:39,439 --> 01:18:41,439 Speaker 1: and they're gonna be like two miles apart, and it's 1388 01:18:41,439 --> 01:18:43,519 Speaker 1: going to be clear which one is like on a 1389 01:18:43,600 --> 01:18:45,960 Speaker 1: path to success and which one is. And another thing 1390 01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:49,439 Speaker 1: for me, and this is really where i've the things 1391 01:18:49,439 --> 01:18:51,439 Speaker 1: that I saw that are happening, or the things that 1392 01:18:51,439 --> 01:18:54,520 Speaker 1: I knew that would be bad. But it's the absence 1393 01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:59,240 Speaker 1: of the corrective, the absence of the of the backlash 1394 01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:01,720 Speaker 1: to those things. Right like when when when, when I've 1395 01:19:01,720 --> 01:19:03,479 Speaker 1: been at you know this, I've been saying, they're gonna 1396 01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:05,479 Speaker 1: say double masking and they're gonna say a ninety five 1397 01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:08,400 Speaker 1: masks too. I've been saying that since the summertime, said 1398 01:19:08,400 --> 01:19:10,759 Speaker 1: just wait, that's where when they don't, when this doesn't 1399 01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:13,280 Speaker 1: work the way they promised us it would, that'll be 1400 01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:15,040 Speaker 1: this the goal post shift. And we are in the 1401 01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:18,080 Speaker 1: middle of that right now. I figured, Okay, well I 1402 01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:20,519 Speaker 1: saw it, but at least people would say, well, now 1403 01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:22,720 Speaker 1: I realize this guy Fauci is a moron, and like 1404 01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:24,960 Speaker 1: this is just all about control and he's making it 1405 01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:26,920 Speaker 1: up his Nope, people are like, oh, you're right, double 1406 01:19:26,960 --> 01:19:28,960 Speaker 1: you know the way that they'll just all of a 1407 01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:32,360 Speaker 1: sudden turn on a dime and say, okay, even if 1408 01:19:32,479 --> 01:19:35,280 Speaker 1: even if what you know, what should be clear now 1409 01:19:35,560 --> 01:19:38,240 Speaker 1: is clear to people, they don't react the way I 1410 01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:41,000 Speaker 1: thought they would and or the way they thought a 1411 01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:43,400 Speaker 1: lot of people would. And now I mean with with 1412 01:19:43,479 --> 01:19:46,760 Speaker 1: the school issue and with the state issue even I mean, 1413 01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:48,439 Speaker 1: look at you know, I know you're in Florida. You 1414 01:19:48,439 --> 01:19:50,240 Speaker 1: know you're a New Yorker, but you're down in Florida. 1415 01:19:50,240 --> 01:19:51,800 Speaker 1: At the meantime, I've been down in Florida a few 1416 01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:56,280 Speaker 1: times as well. DeSantis straight up says now in press conferences, 1417 01:19:56,320 --> 01:20:00,439 Speaker 1: Lockdown's failed, right, and the data supports him. But somehow 1418 01:20:00,479 --> 01:20:02,000 Speaker 1: we can't get the country to focus on this for 1419 01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:04,280 Speaker 1: a second and say, hold on, we ran the experiment 1420 01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:09,000 Speaker 1: here and Florida one right, Yeah, there's no sanity around that. 1421 01:20:09,280 --> 01:20:11,759 Speaker 1: You know, you pointed out New Yorkers are very liberal. 1422 01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:14,000 Speaker 1: I'm a lifelong New Yorker, you're a lifelong new Yorker. 1423 01:20:14,120 --> 01:20:16,920 Speaker 1: We're not waiting for our city to become conservative, right, 1424 01:20:16,920 --> 01:20:19,080 Speaker 1: Like that's just not going to happen. But I really 1425 01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:23,360 Speaker 1: it's broken me how much I've seen New Yorkers not 1426 01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:27,479 Speaker 1: be sane during this process, and it's really it's changed 1427 01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:30,479 Speaker 1: my perception of my city and of my neighbors, of 1428 01:20:30,800 --> 01:20:34,960 Speaker 1: the fellow residents, because I saw something that I can't unsee, 1429 01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:39,160 Speaker 1: which is that they completely lost track of sanity and 1430 01:20:39,240 --> 01:20:43,439 Speaker 1: they engaged in conspiracy theories about places like Florida, where 1431 01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:46,000 Speaker 1: they were following the science and where the numbers are clear, 1432 01:20:46,479 --> 01:20:48,800 Speaker 1: and you just couldn't wrap their minds around it. And 1433 01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:52,160 Speaker 1: it's really tough for me to imagine a future in 1434 01:20:52,200 --> 01:20:54,320 Speaker 1: New York because of it. I love New York. I 1435 01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:56,680 Speaker 1: really never wanted to move anywhere else. We're going to 1436 01:20:56,760 --> 01:20:59,200 Speaker 1: raise our kids in Brooklyn and retire to Manhattan. But 1437 01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:01,120 Speaker 1: I don't know that I cann't see what I saw 1438 01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:04,040 Speaker 1: this last year. We're speaking to Carol Markowitz. She's a 1439 01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:06,920 Speaker 1: a columnist for The New York Post, writing a lot 1440 01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:12,160 Speaker 1: about lockdowns, particularly the school closures issue that's been going on. Carol, 1441 01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:15,160 Speaker 1: I want to ask about the Governor Cuomo. Um. You know, 1442 01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:16,920 Speaker 1: on the one hand, I'm running around giving Rond de 1443 01:21:16,960 --> 01:21:19,880 Speaker 1: Santis high fives whenever I can, because you know, he's 1444 01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:22,400 Speaker 1: the results because of results, because of what's actually happened 1445 01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:24,880 Speaker 1: in his state. You know, their tax their tax revenues 1446 01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:26,640 Speaker 1: up three hundred million dollars. Think about that in a 1447 01:21:26,640 --> 01:21:31,000 Speaker 1: pandemic here. And meanwhile you look at the the Cuomo 1448 01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:33,400 Speaker 1: side of the equation. Why is it that all of 1449 01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:36,160 Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, is it because they'd rather have 1450 01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:40,040 Speaker 1: Leticia James as the governor of New York? You know, 1451 01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:42,240 Speaker 1: she came out with this reporter that the nursing homes. 1452 01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:45,479 Speaker 1: It feels a little bit like the left has started, 1453 01:21:45,479 --> 01:21:48,439 Speaker 1: the Democrats have started to turn on Cuomo. Is it 1454 01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:50,760 Speaker 1: because they just can't prop up the lies anymore? Or 1455 01:21:50,800 --> 01:21:54,800 Speaker 1: you think there's something else working here? What changed? I 1456 01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:57,000 Speaker 1: do think they can't prop up the lines anymore. I 1457 01:21:57,000 --> 01:22:00,320 Speaker 1: think the facts are the facts, and I don't think 1458 01:22:00,320 --> 01:22:02,400 Speaker 1: that they can get around it for too much longer. 1459 01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:06,360 Speaker 1: They still will try. Let's be clear here. You know, 1460 01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:10,800 Speaker 1: even with that report, I haven't seen sort of the outrage. 1461 01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:14,080 Speaker 1: Imagine that report came out about Governor de Santisa Florida. 1462 01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:16,960 Speaker 1: That would just be wall to wall news like sure, 1463 01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:20,040 Speaker 1: CNN covered the report, but do they make it an 1464 01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:22,600 Speaker 1: all day story? Did MSNBC do that, of course not, 1465 01:22:22,760 --> 01:22:25,320 Speaker 1: but they would have if he was a Republican. So 1466 01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:27,800 Speaker 1: and the thing that you know, you and I keep 1467 01:22:27,840 --> 01:22:31,040 Speaker 1: coming back to is he still enjoys a very high 1468 01:22:31,120 --> 01:22:33,160 Speaker 1: level of support in New York and that's very hard 1469 01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:37,560 Speaker 1: to get around. So when he does crazy things like announces, 1470 01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:40,479 Speaker 1: you know, three or four days ago that restaurants will 1471 01:22:40,520 --> 01:22:44,679 Speaker 1: open on February fourteenth, you know, weeks into the future, 1472 01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:48,200 Speaker 1: nobody's saying, wait a minute, what changes between now and then? 1473 01:22:48,360 --> 01:22:51,479 Speaker 1: Where Where is the city council members who to stand 1474 01:22:51,520 --> 01:22:54,040 Speaker 1: up for their own districts and say, these restaurants in 1475 01:22:54,080 --> 01:22:57,040 Speaker 1: my district are closing, they have closed, They don't need 1476 01:22:57,080 --> 01:22:59,120 Speaker 1: two more weeks of closure. We could just open them 1477 01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:02,200 Speaker 1: right now. You know, where is CNN? Where is MS ABC? 1478 01:23:02,360 --> 01:23:05,160 Speaker 1: Where does anybody used to say these policies don't make 1479 01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:09,479 Speaker 1: any sense and they're just not They're not around one there. Yeah, 1480 01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:11,439 Speaker 1: you know, I was gonna say, what one part of 1481 01:23:11,439 --> 01:23:14,080 Speaker 1: this that's also been really really troubling to me, And 1482 01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:15,680 Speaker 1: it's why, for the first time in my life, I 1483 01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:20,200 Speaker 1: really do consider permanently um, you know, changing changing residents 1484 01:23:20,240 --> 01:23:22,519 Speaker 1: here at leite, meaning leaving the city or the state, 1485 01:23:22,520 --> 01:23:24,640 Speaker 1: and I've been here really almost my entire life. I mean, 1486 01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:26,479 Speaker 1: I had to go for work a couple of times elsewhere, 1487 01:23:27,320 --> 01:23:30,040 Speaker 1: but it's because I had always felt like, you know, 1488 01:23:30,080 --> 01:23:33,680 Speaker 1: New York was the example of a place where there 1489 01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:36,800 Speaker 1: were some things where politics were more or less either 1490 01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:39,320 Speaker 1: put aside, or you could say it became truly bipartisan, 1491 01:23:39,640 --> 01:23:43,479 Speaker 1: making a cleaner, safer, better city that people all over 1492 01:23:43,479 --> 01:23:46,479 Speaker 1: the world wanted to visit, That businesses were thriving in, 1493 01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:48,639 Speaker 1: that people wanted to come to that you know, rents 1494 01:23:48,640 --> 01:23:50,360 Speaker 1: were skyrockman, that part of it. You know, it was 1495 01:23:50,400 --> 01:23:52,560 Speaker 1: not great for us, but you know, it was indicative 1496 01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:55,800 Speaker 1: of the supplying demand of people wanting to be here, 1497 01:23:55,840 --> 01:23:59,440 Speaker 1: wanting to be in this city, and understanding that Okay, 1498 01:23:59,479 --> 01:24:01,360 Speaker 1: you know we don't always have to have you know, 1499 01:24:01,400 --> 01:24:04,479 Speaker 1: the fights about religious freedom and all those things with 1500 01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:06,559 Speaker 1: our with our fellow New Yorkers, we could put that 1501 01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:08,519 Speaker 1: aside for a second and say we all agree we 1502 01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:12,160 Speaker 1: want safe streets, clean streets, good schools. With the pandemic, 1503 01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:15,360 Speaker 1: it's turned into yeah, I know we're suffering, and this 1504 01:24:15,439 --> 01:24:18,440 Speaker 1: is idiotic and this and the and the city's deteriorating, 1505 01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:22,360 Speaker 1: but we're still going to support our Democrat you know, leadership. Yeah, 1506 01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:23,880 Speaker 1: and that's where I feel like, Okay, well now we 1507 01:24:23,960 --> 01:24:26,680 Speaker 1: got to draw a line, right, that's absolutely right, and 1508 01:24:26,720 --> 01:24:29,080 Speaker 1: it's been heading sort of in that direction, but the 1509 01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:32,559 Speaker 1: pandemic just brought it to, you know, to the front um. 1510 01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:34,680 Speaker 1: I think so much of what's been happening in New 1511 01:24:34,760 --> 01:24:38,040 Speaker 1: York for the last couple of years has been the slide. 1512 01:24:38,120 --> 01:24:40,519 Speaker 1: But the thing is, it's it's very easy to ignore 1513 01:24:40,680 --> 01:24:43,280 Speaker 1: say a mayor Bill de Blasio, when times are good 1514 01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:45,800 Speaker 1: whatever he wants to take money from the rich due 1515 01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:48,040 Speaker 1: to the poor, and like he can make any proclamation 1516 01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:51,599 Speaker 1: you want. But when he when when times are bad, 1517 01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:55,080 Speaker 1: I think all of that incompetence really is more noticeable. 1518 01:24:55,720 --> 01:24:58,920 Speaker 1: It's easy to be a bad leader when things are 1519 01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:01,800 Speaker 1: going well, and that's what this leadership in New York 1520 01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:03,880 Speaker 1: has had for a while. But now things aren't and 1521 01:25:03,960 --> 01:25:07,040 Speaker 1: they can't well. I think also California I was considered 1522 01:25:07,080 --> 01:25:09,840 Speaker 1: ahead of New York on this on this timeline of 1523 01:25:10,360 --> 01:25:13,280 Speaker 1: how long it takes to ruin a place that is 1524 01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:17,759 Speaker 1: gifted with a lot of wealth and talent and history, 1525 01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:21,120 Speaker 1: and just you know, California was like it was like 1526 01:25:21,160 --> 01:25:24,240 Speaker 1: the was the American dream. Really in the eighties. I 1527 01:25:24,240 --> 01:25:25,920 Speaker 1: mean you and I grew up. We're close to the 1528 01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:28,639 Speaker 1: same age. All the movies were setting. You know, everybody 1529 01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:31,160 Speaker 1: wanted to be a kid growing up in like you know, 1530 01:25:31,520 --> 01:25:34,280 Speaker 1: Pasadena or Santa Monica or you know whatever. That was 1531 01:25:34,320 --> 01:25:37,639 Speaker 1: like the height of America. And now people are fleeing 1532 01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:42,839 Speaker 1: California for Nevada, for for Colorado, for Idaho, for Texas. 1533 01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:45,280 Speaker 1: Now people are fleeing you know, New York, which was 1534 01:25:45,320 --> 01:25:47,839 Speaker 1: the greatest city in the world. They're fleeing for Florida 1535 01:25:47,840 --> 01:25:50,639 Speaker 1: and North Carolina and all the and I mean this 1536 01:25:50,720 --> 01:25:53,160 Speaker 1: is where this is. It takes time for a Cuomo, 1537 01:25:53,360 --> 01:25:57,040 Speaker 1: a Newsom, a Deblasio to ruin a place. But they've 1538 01:25:57,040 --> 01:25:59,800 Speaker 1: had some time, Carol. Yeah, and they had it sped 1539 01:25:59,880 --> 01:26:03,240 Speaker 1: up for them with the pandemic. But yeah, absolutely, they've 1540 01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:05,400 Speaker 1: had some time. It's crazy that people like me and 1541 01:26:05,439 --> 01:26:07,680 Speaker 1: you are thinking of leaving and that they're not doing 1542 01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:10,920 Speaker 1: anything about it. I just I don't understand how they 1543 01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:14,120 Speaker 1: just accept that they're seeing this migration out of the 1544 01:26:14,160 --> 01:26:16,599 Speaker 1: state and not doing anything. Yeah, it's like they don't well, 1545 01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:18,679 Speaker 1: I guess they just figured they're gonna federally they're gonna 1546 01:26:18,680 --> 01:26:21,160 Speaker 1: push for more federal income tax and redistribute the wealth 1547 01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:24,120 Speaker 1: that way. But Carol Mark, whit's everybody, Carol, stay warmed 1548 01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:26,360 Speaker 1: down there in Florida. And thanks so much for joining 1549 01:26:26,400 --> 01:26:29,800 Speaker 1: us from the New York Post. Thanks so much. This 1550 01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:33,479 Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Join the conversation and 1551 01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:38,520 Speaker 1: message Buck on Facebook, Instagram, or email Team Bucket iHeartMedia 1552 01:26:38,600 --> 01:26:41,000 Speaker 1: dot com. He may read it on the show. Well, 1553 01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:43,760 Speaker 1: let me say, worried about President Baden's executive orders on 1554 01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:49,960 Speaker 1: all in Gash right, they are immeasurably foolish. They're gonna 1555 01:26:49,960 --> 01:26:54,759 Speaker 1: gut Luciana like a fish. One third of my state's GDP. 1556 01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:58,320 Speaker 1: It's related to all in gash and our state is 1557 01:26:58,360 --> 01:27:02,080 Speaker 1: not alone. His war on all and gas is gonna 1558 01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:05,680 Speaker 1: hurt America. It's gonna hurt America. It's gonna hurt individual 1559 01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:11,280 Speaker 1: Americans a whole lot, and they don't care. And this 1560 01:27:11,320 --> 01:27:13,000 Speaker 1: is what you need to understand we're up against here, 1561 01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:16,920 Speaker 1: that this is the real the Democrat administration that we 1562 01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:20,280 Speaker 1: are currently faced with. A Biden administration is very ideologically driven. 1563 01:27:20,320 --> 01:27:24,280 Speaker 1: It is the apparatus of the left that's who's making 1564 01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:27,799 Speaker 1: the decisions. That's who is in charge. So Joe Biden 1565 01:27:27,920 --> 01:27:30,160 Speaker 1: can go and do his whole oh you know, rull 1566 01:27:30,200 --> 01:27:32,720 Speaker 1: up a sleeves and I was you know, you know, 1567 01:27:32,760 --> 01:27:36,400 Speaker 1: I was a guy who's friends with the coal miners 1568 01:27:36,439 --> 01:27:38,120 Speaker 1: and all this stuff that he says, I mean, all 1569 01:27:38,160 --> 01:27:40,800 Speaker 1: the nonsense stories that Joe Biden's always telling people. You 1570 01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:41,840 Speaker 1: can do that as much as he wants. At the 1571 01:27:41,920 --> 01:27:43,800 Speaker 1: end of the day, the Democrat Party is a far 1572 01:27:43,920 --> 01:27:48,320 Speaker 1: left progressive entity now that would be unrecognizable the Democrats 1573 01:27:48,360 --> 01:27:52,200 Speaker 1: fifty years ago, even thirty years ago. And here we 1574 01:27:52,280 --> 01:27:56,160 Speaker 1: are with executive orders that are going to have really 1575 01:27:56,160 --> 01:27:58,720 Speaker 1: negative that are really gonna hurt people. I mean, he's 1576 01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:01,000 Speaker 1: hurting people. He's hurting people because they believe in all 1577 01:28:01,080 --> 01:28:04,080 Speaker 1: the scary climate change the CO two in the big 1578 01:28:04,120 --> 01:28:08,760 Speaker 1: sky is gonna come down on Austin. So they're absurd 1579 01:28:08,840 --> 01:28:11,200 Speaker 1: quasi religious belief about the end of the world coming 1580 01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:13,720 Speaker 1: because of CO two in the air, which is just bonkers, 1581 01:28:15,320 --> 01:28:19,960 Speaker 1: is making them feel justified in taking actions that are 1582 01:28:19,960 --> 01:28:23,240 Speaker 1: gonna make people not able to pay their bills, kind 1583 01:28:23,280 --> 01:28:27,080 Speaker 1: of kick people out of their homes, shutter businesses, and 1584 01:28:27,200 --> 01:28:29,280 Speaker 1: there's real pain, there's real misery that comes from this. 1585 01:28:29,280 --> 01:28:32,400 Speaker 1: There's real problems that this creates. They just don't care 1586 01:28:32,920 --> 01:28:37,599 Speaker 1: price they're willing to pay. This is like a cult 1587 01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:40,719 Speaker 1: belief and the Democrat the Democrats always said that Trump 1588 01:28:40,840 --> 01:28:43,519 Speaker 1: was a cult and all this stuff. Now you see 1589 01:28:43,400 --> 01:28:46,360 Speaker 1: we move on now, and conservatives we're looking looking to 1590 01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:47,880 Speaker 1: the future and trying to figure out what we're gonna 1591 01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:51,519 Speaker 1: do here. For Democrats, it's you cannot you cannot deviate, 1592 01:28:51,600 --> 01:28:54,920 Speaker 1: You cannot do anything other than nod your head, bend 1593 01:28:54,920 --> 01:28:58,800 Speaker 1: the knee, and degree with the climate change cult. It 1594 01:28:58,920 --> 01:29:04,400 Speaker 1: is absolutely mandatory. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, 1595 01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:06,960 Speaker 1: make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeart 1596 01:29:07,080 --> 01:29:11,920 Speaker 1: Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Like Soft 1597 01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:15,559 Speaker 1: Butter on Warm Toast. It's time to spread some freedom 1598 01:29:15,600 --> 01:29:21,960 Speaker 1: from coast to coast. It's time for roll Call. You 1599 01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:24,559 Speaker 1: know they're doing they're doing a Buck Rogers. This surrounds 1600 01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:26,080 Speaker 1: you some sort of space show or so. You know 1601 01:29:26,080 --> 01:29:29,400 Speaker 1: they're doing a Buck Rogers remake. You hear about this. 1602 01:29:29,520 --> 01:29:34,200 Speaker 1: I don't even know who Buck Rogers is, Captain William 1603 01:29:34,280 --> 01:29:37,439 Speaker 1: buck Rogers. It's gonna They're gonna be there's gonna be 1604 01:29:37,439 --> 01:29:40,479 Speaker 1: a new this is, according to Den of Geek, which 1605 01:29:40,520 --> 01:29:43,240 Speaker 1: is the place I should probably be hanging out. Um 1606 01:29:43,600 --> 01:29:47,160 Speaker 1: Buck Rogers coming back. Legendary Entertainment is snagged the movie 1607 01:29:47,240 --> 01:29:52,400 Speaker 1: rights to the ninety two year old character, and Buck 1608 01:29:52,479 --> 01:29:55,719 Speaker 1: Rogers brought sci fi elements like ray guns, rocket ships, lasers, 1609 01:29:55,720 --> 01:29:58,800 Speaker 1: and jet packs in a popular culture. According to Den 1610 01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:00,800 Speaker 1: of Geek. Here with the prop He's vision of the 1611 01:30:00,840 --> 01:30:04,320 Speaker 1: future an emphasis on action and adventure, influencing everything from 1612 01:30:04,360 --> 01:30:08,439 Speaker 1: Disney's Tomorrowland attraction to George Lucas's original concept for Star Wars. 1613 01:30:09,120 --> 01:30:11,320 Speaker 1: The movie will bring Buck all the way back to 1614 01:30:11,360 --> 01:30:15,400 Speaker 1: his roots by adapting Armageddon twenty four nineteen, a d 1615 01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:20,080 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty eight novella in which the character made his debut, 1616 01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:23,840 Speaker 1: written by Philip Francis Nolan and published in the iconic 1617 01:30:23,880 --> 01:30:27,800 Speaker 1: pulp fiction magazine Amazing Stories. So the tale follows the 1618 01:30:27,800 --> 01:30:31,320 Speaker 1: adventures of Anthony Rodgers Buck Rogers, a World War One 1619 01:30:31,400 --> 01:30:35,559 Speaker 1: veteran who's investigating strange phenomena in an abandoned Pennsylvania coal 1620 01:30:35,600 --> 01:30:40,120 Speaker 1: mine for his company, the American Radioactive Gas Corporation. When 1621 01:30:40,120 --> 01:30:44,120 Speaker 1: he's trapped by a cave in, Rogers falls into suspended 1622 01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:47,439 Speaker 1: animation and reawakens four hundred and ninety two years later 1623 01:30:47,439 --> 01:30:51,400 Speaker 1: in the twenty fifth century, Boom Buck Rogers. You know 1624 01:30:51,400 --> 01:30:53,040 Speaker 1: what I'm excited about this producer Mark. I don't even 1625 01:30:53,120 --> 01:30:55,120 Speaker 1: know the Buck Rogers stuff, like, I don't even know 1626 01:30:55,160 --> 01:30:56,639 Speaker 1: about it. But do you know why I'm excited? Because 1627 01:30:57,160 --> 01:31:03,280 Speaker 1: Buck exactly, and we need we need a new person 1628 01:31:03,800 --> 01:31:05,360 Speaker 1: so that when I say my name is Buck. This 1629 01:31:05,400 --> 01:31:07,679 Speaker 1: is what happens to me in life. I say, someone says, 1630 01:31:07,680 --> 01:31:11,599 Speaker 1: excuse me, sir, I'm at Starbucks and I and they, 1631 01:31:11,640 --> 01:31:14,599 Speaker 1: you know, they say, what's your name? And I say, oh, 1632 01:31:14,680 --> 01:31:17,320 Speaker 1: my name is My name is Buck. They say, okay, Bob. 1633 01:31:18,120 --> 01:31:20,120 Speaker 1: Happens all the time, and I'm like, this, Buck really 1634 01:31:20,160 --> 01:31:22,720 Speaker 1: sound that much like Bob. But anyway, okay Bob, and 1635 01:31:22,760 --> 01:31:24,160 Speaker 1: they write, you know, they're about to write Bob, but 1636 01:31:24,280 --> 01:31:25,720 Speaker 1: no, no no, no no, it's Buck. And then they'll and then 1637 01:31:25,760 --> 01:31:29,439 Speaker 1: the staff will look at me and say, like, uncle Buck. 1638 01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:34,200 Speaker 1: That needs to change. Buck Rogers is a space age 1639 01:31:34,240 --> 01:31:37,839 Speaker 1: superhero and that's the association we want. I mean, hopefully 1640 01:31:37,840 --> 01:31:39,960 Speaker 1: one day it'll be like Buck Sexton the radio host, 1641 01:31:40,479 --> 01:31:43,240 Speaker 1: but for right now, it's, uh, we gotta get away 1642 01:31:43,240 --> 01:31:45,519 Speaker 1: from Uncle Buck. I mean, you'd rather than call you 1643 01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:49,080 Speaker 1: Bob or uncle Buck than the other thing that your 1644 01:31:49,160 --> 01:31:53,800 Speaker 1: name rhymes with. Thanks, Mark, Thanks, appreciate, appreciate that, buddy. 1645 01:31:53,960 --> 01:31:58,439 Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I'm saying it could be worse, That's what. Yeah, thanks, 1646 01:31:58,960 --> 01:32:01,519 Speaker 1: It could be worse. It could be worse. Yes, I 1647 01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:05,479 Speaker 1: remember the name game as a child Buck Bucko. It 1648 01:32:05,520 --> 01:32:09,840 Speaker 1: could be worse. Yeah, don't don't say that on the radio, please, Yeah, 1649 01:32:09,880 --> 01:32:13,439 Speaker 1: Buck buck bow Buck Fanana Fane. We all remember how 1650 01:32:13,439 --> 01:32:17,679 Speaker 1: that went. So anyway, obviously really reliving now child childhood 1651 01:32:17,680 --> 01:32:20,240 Speaker 1: traumas on the radio. But I saw this Buck Rogers 1652 01:32:20,240 --> 01:32:23,880 Speaker 1: thing and I was kind of excited about it. Um uh, 1653 01:32:24,120 --> 01:32:27,559 Speaker 1: producer Mark, any any news from from Markland this week? Just? Uh? 1654 01:32:27,720 --> 01:32:30,120 Speaker 1: You know, do you have you made your pick for 1655 01:32:30,160 --> 01:32:32,639 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl yet? Have I asked you? You haven't. 1656 01:32:32,680 --> 01:32:35,840 Speaker 1: I don't think I have yet. Who who is gonna win? 1657 01:32:36,040 --> 01:32:38,600 Speaker 1: I'm leaning towards the Chiefs, but you know what, I 1658 01:32:38,600 --> 01:32:40,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't be shocked if the Buccaneers won either. This is 1659 01:32:40,960 --> 01:32:45,040 Speaker 1: gonna be a great game. Tom Brady is uh, He's 1660 01:32:45,040 --> 01:32:48,360 Speaker 1: an American icon, that's for sure. But this Mahomes character 1661 01:32:48,479 --> 01:32:51,840 Speaker 1: is also apparently a just I think he's way to 1662 01:32:51,960 --> 01:32:54,240 Speaker 1: being an American icon if he if he's not already, 1663 01:32:54,240 --> 01:32:57,640 Speaker 1: he's if his career goes as expected, you know, he 1664 01:32:57,720 --> 01:32:59,800 Speaker 1: keeps up this pace, he'll be the best quarterback of 1665 01:32:59,840 --> 01:33:02,720 Speaker 1: all time. That's pretty astonishing. So all right, it'll be 1666 01:33:02,760 --> 01:33:04,640 Speaker 1: it'll be a good game. We'll check it out. What now, 1667 01:33:04,720 --> 01:33:07,439 Speaker 1: let's talk some Super Bowl dishes. What are the what 1668 01:33:07,520 --> 01:33:11,240 Speaker 1: are the go tos in the Mark household for Super Bowl? 1669 01:33:11,280 --> 01:33:13,639 Speaker 1: What do you have to add? Well, my wife always 1670 01:33:13,720 --> 01:33:18,360 Speaker 1: makes for any big game buffalo chicken dip, which is 1671 01:33:18,680 --> 01:33:21,120 Speaker 1: heaven on earth. But have you ever had anything like it? No? 1672 01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:23,439 Speaker 1: I mean it sounds good. What is it? You basically 1673 01:33:23,439 --> 01:33:27,360 Speaker 1: shred up some chicken breasts, put some cream cheese, hot sauce, 1674 01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:30,200 Speaker 1: and I think there's a few other ingredients, other cheeses. 1675 01:33:30,640 --> 01:33:32,439 Speaker 1: Mix it up, put it in the oven for an 1676 01:33:32,439 --> 01:33:35,559 Speaker 1: hour or so, comes out perfect, just some chips on 1677 01:33:35,600 --> 01:33:38,680 Speaker 1: the side, whatever else you want. Yeah, you know, it's 1678 01:33:38,680 --> 01:33:41,599 Speaker 1: amazing how many how many dishes there are that I've 1679 01:33:41,640 --> 01:33:43,200 Speaker 1: eaten in the past, and then when I figure out 1680 01:33:43,240 --> 01:33:45,960 Speaker 1: how you make them, you know what the secret ingredient is? 1681 01:33:46,479 --> 01:33:51,519 Speaker 1: Cream cheese. Cream cheese makes almost anything taste better. Like 1682 01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:53,840 Speaker 1: any recipe where they but there's cream cheese, You're like, 1683 01:33:53,920 --> 01:33:56,280 Speaker 1: I'll eat that, you know what? You know what I'm saying, Yeah, 1684 01:33:56,320 --> 01:33:59,200 Speaker 1: there's almost nothing I won't eat with cream cheese in it, exactly. 1685 01:33:59,520 --> 01:34:01,840 Speaker 1: I mean people even any cream cheese and sushi for 1686 01:34:01,880 --> 01:34:06,360 Speaker 1: heaven's sakes, right the Philadelphia role, Yeah, cream cheese and 1687 01:34:06,360 --> 01:34:09,400 Speaker 1: anything makes it better. So that's that's one of those 1688 01:34:09,439 --> 01:34:11,719 Speaker 1: things where at any recipe I see that, I go, oh, okay, 1689 01:34:11,720 --> 01:34:12,960 Speaker 1: this will this will be kind of a good one. 1690 01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:16,040 Speaker 1: We tend to do barbecue in the in the Sexton 1691 01:34:16,120 --> 01:34:21,679 Speaker 1: family for for Super Bowl purposes, So anything's with a barbecue, barbecue, ribs, chicken, 1692 01:34:22,439 --> 01:34:24,839 Speaker 1: brisket obviously we know I'm a big fan of brisket, 1693 01:34:25,240 --> 01:34:27,960 Speaker 1: and I'm hoping I'm gonna cook really a beautiful steak 1694 01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:30,439 Speaker 1: for myself this weekend at some point too. That's something 1695 01:34:30,439 --> 01:34:33,240 Speaker 1: I've got on the You're the one who while the 1696 01:34:33,280 --> 01:34:36,360 Speaker 1: game's going on, cooking the steak everyone else is watching 1697 01:34:36,439 --> 01:34:39,479 Speaker 1: the game and then show Yeah of course, yeah, well 1698 01:34:39,479 --> 01:34:43,920 Speaker 1: who's doing the halftime the weekend right? Tell me this? Yes, 1699 01:34:44,320 --> 01:34:47,679 Speaker 1: And he doesn't spell his name like an actual weekend right, 1700 01:34:47,800 --> 01:34:49,800 Speaker 1: I don't think so. I'm not very familiar with this. 1701 01:34:49,880 --> 01:34:52,960 Speaker 1: It's like wk n D or something like that. It's 1702 01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:58,599 Speaker 1: definitely I'm not I'm not into the contemporary music these days. 1703 01:34:58,680 --> 01:35:02,160 Speaker 1: I think that music is just keeps getting worse every year. 1704 01:35:02,200 --> 01:35:04,000 Speaker 1: And I know that's a grumpy, get off my lawn 1705 01:35:04,120 --> 01:35:06,240 Speaker 1: kind of thing to say, but I think music is 1706 01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:08,479 Speaker 1: just in this constant state of decline in this country 1707 01:35:08,479 --> 01:35:11,040 Speaker 1: these days. Yeah, there's very few new artists that I like. 1708 01:35:11,120 --> 01:35:13,560 Speaker 1: There's artists that have been around a long time that 1709 01:35:13,680 --> 01:35:15,920 Speaker 1: still make new music that I like, but there's nobody 1710 01:35:15,960 --> 01:35:18,160 Speaker 1: that's you know, last couple of years. When was the 1711 01:35:18,240 --> 01:35:20,040 Speaker 1: last time you heard about a new band that you're like, 1712 01:35:20,120 --> 01:35:22,240 Speaker 1: These guys are awesome. I want to go download all 1713 01:35:22,240 --> 01:35:25,639 Speaker 1: their songs. Oh, I can't think of one. But it's 1714 01:35:25,680 --> 01:35:27,920 Speaker 1: been forever for me. I mean I can't even you know, 1715 01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:30,680 Speaker 1: like ten or fifteen years at this point. Anyway, all right, 1716 01:35:30,760 --> 01:35:34,240 Speaker 1: bucking Mark's grump corner, We're gonna move on here to 1717 01:35:34,240 --> 01:35:36,559 Speaker 1: to what the folks have to say in the roll call. 1718 01:35:36,640 --> 01:35:39,120 Speaker 1: Please remember, I got to buckxxon dot com. Sign up 1719 01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:41,880 Speaker 1: for our newsletter that we're gonna be putting out. You 1720 01:35:41,920 --> 01:35:44,040 Speaker 1: gotta give us emails. We're gonna the more emails we get, 1721 01:35:44,040 --> 01:35:46,760 Speaker 1: the more newsletters we can put out. That's how we 1722 01:35:46,840 --> 01:35:50,240 Speaker 1: do it. Let's get to it. Brian, Hey, bucking Mark, 1723 01:35:50,800 --> 01:35:52,240 Speaker 1: my wife and I went to Florida for the New 1724 01:35:52,280 --> 01:35:55,599 Speaker 1: Year's holiday from Michigan so we can enjoy some freedom 1725 01:35:55,640 --> 01:35:57,320 Speaker 1: for a change. I couldn't agree with you more. I'm 1726 01:35:57,320 --> 01:35:59,840 Speaker 1: moving to Florida. We left there already looking for jobs 1727 01:35:59,840 --> 01:36:03,400 Speaker 1: and house. Luckily we both have careers. We can get 1728 01:36:03,400 --> 01:36:05,640 Speaker 1: a job anywhere. It's nice. They have a governor and 1729 01:36:05,680 --> 01:36:07,879 Speaker 1: a government that does its best to protect its citizens 1730 01:36:07,880 --> 01:36:10,599 Speaker 1: from the federal government. Just one favor, I asked, stop 1731 01:36:10,640 --> 01:36:12,320 Speaker 1: talking up Florida. I'd like to be able to afford 1732 01:36:12,320 --> 01:36:14,880 Speaker 1: a house down there. Shield's Eye. Fellow patriots and Brian 1733 01:36:14,920 --> 01:36:16,960 Speaker 1: people have been telling me that they're like, shud, don't 1734 01:36:17,040 --> 01:36:20,960 Speaker 1: you know only we only want Republicans going. I'm like, well, 1735 01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:23,599 Speaker 1: who are you think listening to this show? Were conservatives? Right? 1736 01:36:23,640 --> 01:36:26,960 Speaker 1: I mean, so there are some Democrats, and welcome to 1737 01:36:27,160 --> 01:36:29,960 Speaker 1: Democrat Democrat team. Buck, You're always welcome. I think there's 1738 01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:31,920 Speaker 1: not that many of you, but you know, people are 1739 01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:33,920 Speaker 1: gotta move. They gotta move down to Florida. The ones 1740 01:36:33,920 --> 01:36:37,000 Speaker 1: that are leaving these blue states. Hopefully they all understand 1741 01:36:38,400 --> 01:36:40,640 Speaker 1: why they're leaving and why they wouldn't want that to 1742 01:36:40,680 --> 01:36:45,240 Speaker 1: be replicated down in Florida. So I'm I'm very bullish, 1743 01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:48,720 Speaker 1: very bullish on Florida. I own property in Florida through 1744 01:36:48,720 --> 01:36:51,760 Speaker 1: my friends. It done for your real estate, so you know, 1745 01:36:51,920 --> 01:36:56,160 Speaker 1: I'm all about it. I think Florida's Florida's the future. 1746 01:36:56,520 --> 01:37:01,680 Speaker 1: It really is, and we wanted to be a conservative 1747 01:37:01,760 --> 01:37:03,439 Speaker 1: utopia to the degree it can be. I know there's 1748 01:37:03,479 --> 01:37:05,400 Speaker 1: a lot of Democrats in Florida. It's you know, probably 1749 01:37:05,439 --> 01:37:08,920 Speaker 1: forty nine fifty one or something now Republican Democrat. But 1750 01:37:09,000 --> 01:37:11,720 Speaker 1: as long as it stays stays in the in the 1751 01:37:11,760 --> 01:37:15,439 Speaker 1: red column, you can have, I mean all this sort 1752 01:37:15,439 --> 01:37:17,960 Speaker 1: of stuff. You can own a gun procer Mark. You know, 1753 01:37:18,040 --> 01:37:20,040 Speaker 1: my brother's down there tell me that the gun laws 1754 01:37:20,040 --> 01:37:22,280 Speaker 1: are basically, oh, you want to go get a concealed 1755 01:37:22,280 --> 01:37:24,920 Speaker 1: carry permit, Great, you can, and it's got reciprocity in 1756 01:37:24,960 --> 01:37:27,720 Speaker 1: like a few dozen states. In New York, if you 1757 01:37:27,720 --> 01:37:32,400 Speaker 1: want to get a gun permit, they're like, you're it's suspicious. 1758 01:37:32,720 --> 01:37:34,200 Speaker 1: The police here, like, what do you mean you want it? 1759 01:37:34,240 --> 01:37:35,960 Speaker 1: You want to conceal carry permit. We're not going to 1760 01:37:36,040 --> 01:37:38,280 Speaker 1: give you that. Why do you need that? That's what 1761 01:37:38,400 --> 01:37:40,519 Speaker 1: they say here in Florida. They're like, of course, you're 1762 01:37:40,520 --> 01:37:44,360 Speaker 1: an American, go get yourself a gun. It's amazing. Have 1763 01:37:44,439 --> 01:37:46,640 Speaker 1: you ever been shooting? Mark? I have not. I've never 1764 01:37:46,680 --> 01:37:51,320 Speaker 1: shot a gun. I don't even ever ever held a gun. Wow, Buddy, 1765 01:37:51,680 --> 01:37:53,720 Speaker 1: I mean born and raised in New York. Yeah, if 1766 01:37:53,760 --> 01:37:55,200 Speaker 1: the flu well, no, I know that's that. The people 1767 01:37:55,200 --> 01:37:58,080 Speaker 1: can't even imagine that here. I mean, yeah, if you 1768 01:37:58,120 --> 01:38:00,720 Speaker 1: have a gun in New York, chains are you're either 1769 01:38:00,760 --> 01:38:03,400 Speaker 1: a copper criminal. There's very few. There's very little in between. 1770 01:38:03,680 --> 01:38:05,360 Speaker 1: Very few people in New York City. I mean there 1771 01:38:05,360 --> 01:38:10,360 Speaker 1: are some, but very few have a legal firearm here. Mark. 1772 01:38:10,360 --> 01:38:13,080 Speaker 1: We'll have to take you shooting at some point, buddy, Yeah, absolutely, 1773 01:38:13,120 --> 01:38:16,479 Speaker 1: once we get Yeah, there are there are those places. 1774 01:38:16,479 --> 01:38:18,320 Speaker 1: It's kind of like Vegas. There are these places where 1775 01:38:18,360 --> 01:38:21,240 Speaker 1: you can go and pay to shoot a machine gun 1776 01:38:21,520 --> 01:38:23,120 Speaker 1: and it seems all cool and stuff, but that's not 1777 01:38:23,200 --> 01:38:26,240 Speaker 1: It's much more fun to go and actually, you know, 1778 01:38:26,240 --> 01:38:28,439 Speaker 1: shoot a pistol that you own, or go with a 1779 01:38:28,479 --> 01:38:30,880 Speaker 1: friend and you know shoot a shoot an aar or 1780 01:38:30,880 --> 01:38:33,559 Speaker 1: something and really work on your your marksmanship and your 1781 01:38:33,560 --> 01:38:37,160 Speaker 1: your basic firearm skills because those machine gun places they 1782 01:38:37,240 --> 01:38:39,880 Speaker 1: charge you a ton of money and they basically hold 1783 01:38:39,920 --> 01:38:42,080 Speaker 1: the gun while you hold it like you're a little kid, 1784 01:38:42,360 --> 01:38:43,880 Speaker 1: and they let you just depress the trigger and it 1785 01:38:43,880 --> 01:38:45,400 Speaker 1: goes blah blah blah blah blam for a second, and 1786 01:38:45,439 --> 01:38:47,840 Speaker 1: then it costs you like four hundred dollars. So those 1787 01:38:47,880 --> 01:38:52,679 Speaker 1: are not I had to take some some clients once 1788 01:38:52,760 --> 01:38:55,080 Speaker 1: when I was out or you know, people for for 1789 01:38:55,120 --> 01:38:57,760 Speaker 1: business purposes. When I was in Vegas, we went to 1790 01:38:57,800 --> 01:39:00,280 Speaker 1: one of these places, and it's an experience, but I 1791 01:39:00,360 --> 01:39:03,400 Speaker 1: was like, I don't want to fire ten rounds with 1792 01:39:03,439 --> 01:39:06,320 Speaker 1: the squad automatic weapon, Like I want to have the 1793 01:39:06,360 --> 01:39:09,200 Speaker 1: squad automatic weapon for the afternoon with you know, hundreds 1794 01:39:09,240 --> 01:39:11,400 Speaker 1: of rounds and you know, really, and that was not 1795 01:39:11,560 --> 01:39:13,599 Speaker 1: a that was not how it went down. So we'll 1796 01:39:13,600 --> 01:39:15,720 Speaker 1: take we'll take your shooting at some point. It's a 1797 01:39:15,720 --> 01:39:18,400 Speaker 1: it's a good experience. It's experience everybody should have. Yeah, 1798 01:39:18,920 --> 01:39:21,519 Speaker 1: and you also appreciate. But I will say this, once 1799 01:39:21,560 --> 01:39:24,360 Speaker 1: you've actually shot a gun, Mark and you watch movies 1800 01:39:24,400 --> 01:39:27,240 Speaker 1: and you see these guys who were like do a 1801 01:39:27,360 --> 01:39:30,040 Speaker 1: back flip and then three rolls on the ground and 1802 01:39:30,120 --> 01:39:32,720 Speaker 1: with their left hand turn their pistol sideways and they 1803 01:39:32,720 --> 01:39:35,040 Speaker 1: shoot a guy. They shoot the bad guy in the 1804 01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:38,680 Speaker 1: forehead from you know, two hundred yards away from a 1805 01:39:38,720 --> 01:39:42,040 Speaker 1: moving helicopter. You're gonna be like, I don't think that's 1806 01:39:42,040 --> 01:39:45,200 Speaker 1: how it really happens. That's because it's not. That's the 1807 01:39:45,320 --> 01:39:48,000 Speaker 1: very hard Actually, that's one of the big critiques always 1808 01:39:48,000 --> 01:39:50,360 Speaker 1: of twenty four is how does Jack Bahar never run 1809 01:39:50,400 --> 01:39:51,920 Speaker 1: out of ammo and how does he shoot at those 1810 01:39:51,920 --> 01:39:56,960 Speaker 1: weird angles all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's I'm 1811 01:39:57,000 --> 01:39:58,880 Speaker 1: sure I haven't eve seen twenty four, but I'm sure 1812 01:39:58,920 --> 01:40:02,240 Speaker 1: that's all very true. So it's something I mean, it's 1813 01:40:02,320 --> 01:40:04,680 Speaker 1: very entertaining. But I'm sure for somebody like you, you 1814 01:40:04,720 --> 01:40:07,320 Speaker 1: would just point out the inaccuracies. I used to have that, 1815 01:40:07,360 --> 01:40:10,320 Speaker 1: but I'm so long out of that world in the 1816 01:40:10,400 --> 01:40:13,320 Speaker 1: CIA and everything that I feel like now I'm I 1817 01:40:13,439 --> 01:40:15,479 Speaker 1: watched this almost like I watched it like a civilian. 1818 01:40:15,520 --> 01:40:17,679 Speaker 1: Now I'm like, heah, whatever, But there was a time 1819 01:40:17,720 --> 01:40:19,519 Speaker 1: and I was like, that's not how that would go, Like, 1820 01:40:19,600 --> 01:40:21,920 Speaker 1: that's not the way we would write that report up, 1821 01:40:21,920 --> 01:40:24,760 Speaker 1: and blah blah, blah everything. I was like, I was 1822 01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:27,160 Speaker 1: that guy. That's actually what I do. Anytime there's like 1823 01:40:27,200 --> 01:40:30,080 Speaker 1: a show that involves TV news, like behind the scenes 1824 01:40:30,120 --> 01:40:32,360 Speaker 1: in the control room, they're like, well, that's not how 1825 01:40:32,360 --> 01:40:35,880 Speaker 1: it's supposed to go. No stuff like that. Yeah, nope, yeah, yeah, 1826 01:40:36,439 --> 01:40:38,640 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of at least back in 1827 01:40:38,680 --> 01:40:41,120 Speaker 1: the day, a lot of a lot of profanity in 1828 01:40:41,400 --> 01:40:44,840 Speaker 1: the actual control room for news shows going on, because 1829 01:40:44,840 --> 01:40:47,400 Speaker 1: I think that was just back in the day. Yeah. Still, 1830 01:40:47,880 --> 01:40:50,000 Speaker 1: so that that's one thing people would need to get 1831 01:40:50,080 --> 01:40:53,280 Speaker 1: used to, all right, Maureen, Hey Bucket producer Mark, love 1832 01:40:53,320 --> 01:40:55,559 Speaker 1: you guys, and I love your embrace of the flip 1833 01:40:55,600 --> 01:40:59,400 Speaker 1: flops around the clock. Buck I'm a coastal California girl, 1834 01:40:59,479 --> 01:41:01,960 Speaker 1: so flip or year round here, even in the rain. 1835 01:41:02,680 --> 01:41:05,400 Speaker 1: I laughed at producer Marks reluctant to be that laid 1836 01:41:05,400 --> 01:41:09,800 Speaker 1: back though he's seriously East coast. But I'm totally with 1837 01:41:09,840 --> 01:41:12,920 Speaker 1: the producer Mark on the Birkenstocks. Just say no, Bucks, 1838 01:41:12,920 --> 01:41:16,960 Speaker 1: step away from the Birkenstocks. Flip flops, no problem. Pajama 1839 01:41:17,000 --> 01:41:21,280 Speaker 1: pants maybe, but birkenstocks, no way. And with socks on, 1840 01:41:21,520 --> 01:41:25,280 Speaker 1: dear god, no. Um. So she's she's agreeing with you 1841 01:41:25,280 --> 01:41:27,439 Speaker 1: on the on the Birkenstocks. But now now I just 1842 01:41:27,479 --> 01:41:30,280 Speaker 1: want to be defiant and rock the rock the Birks, 1843 01:41:30,439 --> 01:41:32,840 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I mean I could if 1844 01:41:32,880 --> 01:41:35,559 Speaker 1: you grew your hair out a lot more and like 1845 01:41:35,640 --> 01:41:37,599 Speaker 1: let the beard go, didn't trim it for a while, 1846 01:41:37,640 --> 01:41:40,240 Speaker 1: then war broken Stocks, I could see it. Yeah. No, 1847 01:41:40,320 --> 01:41:43,800 Speaker 1: you would look mightily homeless and like you just went 1848 01:41:43,840 --> 01:41:50,200 Speaker 1: to um, Who's a Grateful Dead concert? Yeah? But oh yeah, 1849 01:41:50,200 --> 01:41:53,439 Speaker 1: the yeah yeah yeah. And Jerry Garcia, right, he's he's 1850 01:41:53,479 --> 01:41:56,840 Speaker 1: not alive anymore, right, isn't No, he's not? Yeah, fish 1851 01:41:57,560 --> 01:42:01,960 Speaker 1: yeah another one, ye oh yeah. People love that stuff. 1852 01:42:02,000 --> 01:42:04,960 Speaker 1: I never understood the appeal of fish, but people said 1853 01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:08,080 Speaker 1: it was like the greatest live expeeds every man like 1854 01:42:08,240 --> 01:42:10,960 Speaker 1: you just to see you just dropped some acid, You 1855 01:42:10,960 --> 01:42:12,960 Speaker 1: see all the colors, You smoke a little weed, you 1856 01:42:12,960 --> 01:42:15,040 Speaker 1: eat some ice cream. And I was always I don't know, 1857 01:42:15,040 --> 01:42:18,320 Speaker 1: I don't do any of those things except accepted ice cream. Unfortunately, 1858 01:42:18,360 --> 01:42:21,160 Speaker 1: so they would sell out the garden for two weeks 1859 01:42:21,200 --> 01:42:26,000 Speaker 1: at a time, Madison Square Garden. That's amazing, that's amazing. 1860 01:42:26,040 --> 01:42:29,559 Speaker 1: They were. They were a really successful music act, So 1861 01:42:29,880 --> 01:42:32,240 Speaker 1: I'm not surprised to hear that this is the Buck 1862 01:42:32,320 --> 01:42:37,560 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Join the conversation and message Buck on Facebook, Instagram, 1863 01:42:37,920 --> 01:42:41,599 Speaker 1: or email Team Bucket iHeartMedia dot com. He may read 1864 01:42:41,640 --> 01:42:43,920 Speaker 1: it on the show. Ray is next up here. Hey, Buck, 1865 01:42:43,960 --> 01:42:47,040 Speaker 1: I'm a faithful daily listener from the communist state of Minnesota. 1866 01:42:47,120 --> 01:42:50,360 Speaker 1: I find your podcast to be entertaining and insightful. I 1867 01:42:50,400 --> 01:42:52,800 Speaker 1: know we're looking our wounds over the election and the 1868 01:42:52,840 --> 01:42:55,760 Speaker 1: censorship by big tech. Always remember the left will overreach 1869 01:42:56,240 --> 01:42:58,960 Speaker 1: because they are tyrants and it's in their DNA shields. 1870 01:42:59,000 --> 01:43:02,960 Speaker 1: High Well, Ray, thank you so much, and I really 1871 01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:06,880 Speaker 1: appreciate that you find this show entertaining and insightful. And yeah, 1872 01:43:06,920 --> 01:43:08,680 Speaker 1: we are in a little bit of a we're in 1873 01:43:08,680 --> 01:43:11,479 Speaker 1: a regrouping phase right now. Let's just let's just accept 1874 01:43:11,520 --> 01:43:15,520 Speaker 1: and be honest about that. That's what that's where conservatism 1875 01:43:15,800 --> 01:43:20,160 Speaker 1: is right now. We are in a regrouping moment here. 1876 01:43:20,240 --> 01:43:24,360 Speaker 1: But we will do so, we will get we will 1877 01:43:24,400 --> 01:43:27,920 Speaker 1: get to a better place here right now. I know 1878 01:43:28,000 --> 01:43:30,400 Speaker 1: it feels even a little hopeless for some folks, but 1879 01:43:30,439 --> 01:43:33,960 Speaker 1: don't worry about it. It's going to get better. I 1880 01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:36,479 Speaker 1: got to be an optimist. Sometimes we're figure it all 1881 01:43:36,520 --> 01:43:40,479 Speaker 1: out we'll figure it out together. Katie. I've only recently 1882 01:43:40,479 --> 01:43:42,760 Speaker 1: started listening to you. I really appreciate your high road 1883 01:43:42,760 --> 01:43:44,840 Speaker 1: approach and how you tie events and new stories to 1884 01:43:44,880 --> 01:43:48,120 Speaker 1: the bigger picture. From what I've heard so far, your 1885 01:43:48,120 --> 01:43:51,320 Speaker 1: discussions are really about who is right, so fleeting, emotional 1886 01:43:51,360 --> 01:43:54,160 Speaker 1: and subjective, but what is right a more rational discussion 1887 01:43:54,200 --> 01:43:56,880 Speaker 1: and approach Shield's high. Well, thank you Katie for your 1888 01:43:56,920 --> 01:44:01,000 Speaker 1: astute observations about the show, and we certainly aspire to that. 1889 01:44:01,880 --> 01:44:04,479 Speaker 1: Try to try to make this as much about Look, 1890 01:44:04,520 --> 01:44:06,960 Speaker 1: this is always I mean, all all news is a 1891 01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:10,280 Speaker 1: form of brain engagement that is also entertainment, right, I mean, 1892 01:44:10,360 --> 01:44:13,560 Speaker 1: learning is entertaining, and anything where you're getting new information 1893 01:44:14,120 --> 01:44:16,840 Speaker 1: entertains a part of your brain. But we try to 1894 01:44:16,880 --> 01:44:20,519 Speaker 1: make this as as substantive as I possibly can and 1895 01:44:21,080 --> 01:44:24,240 Speaker 1: get to the why and the what matters as as 1896 01:44:24,320 --> 01:44:26,519 Speaker 1: quickly as I can every day and as much as 1897 01:44:26,560 --> 01:44:29,479 Speaker 1: I can every day. Well also, you know, making fun 1898 01:44:29,520 --> 01:44:32,320 Speaker 1: of Bernie Sanders accent and do another silly thing sometimes. 1899 01:44:32,320 --> 01:44:35,360 Speaker 1: So we got a lot going on. But I'm glad 1900 01:44:35,400 --> 01:44:37,559 Speaker 1: you appreciate this show, and thank you very much for listening. 1901 01:44:38,320 --> 01:44:40,760 Speaker 1: Brian Buck and Mark, I hope you guys are well. 1902 01:44:40,800 --> 01:44:43,000 Speaker 1: I just flew home from working a boat show in 1903 01:44:43,080 --> 01:44:45,479 Speaker 1: Palm Beach and it was everything I thought it could be. 1904 01:44:45,960 --> 01:44:48,040 Speaker 1: Really hope you guys are permanently getting down the Delray 1905 01:44:48,080 --> 01:44:51,280 Speaker 1: Beach sooner than later. Florida is filling up fast. Anyway, 1906 01:44:51,360 --> 01:44:54,400 Speaker 1: news hit that about the CCP no longer recognizing the 1907 01:44:54,479 --> 01:44:58,120 Speaker 1: British Overseas Passport, which is essentially meaning three hundred thousand 1908 01:44:58,120 --> 01:45:01,639 Speaker 1: people are fleeing Hong Kong for the UK. My gut 1909 01:45:01,640 --> 01:45:03,360 Speaker 1: tells me that's only a matter of time until the 1910 01:45:03,439 --> 01:45:07,880 Speaker 1: CCP consumes Taiwan, like soon they know they can make 1911 01:45:07,920 --> 01:45:11,200 Speaker 1: their move with effeckless and compromise Biden administration, who will 1912 01:45:11,240 --> 01:45:13,840 Speaker 1: do nothing. Could you do a deep dive on Taiwan 1913 01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:17,719 Speaker 1: and if they are to remain independent from CCP, Brian, 1914 01:45:17,760 --> 01:45:19,880 Speaker 1: I am interested in doing that, and so let me 1915 01:45:19,880 --> 01:45:22,599 Speaker 1: think about how we could bring more information about that 1916 01:45:22,920 --> 01:45:26,040 Speaker 1: to the forefront, because this is that's a major geopolitical 1917 01:45:26,040 --> 01:45:32,559 Speaker 1: event that I think is seeming increasingly increasingly likely and 1918 01:45:32,720 --> 01:45:37,520 Speaker 1: not not certain, but likely, and that would have huge ramifications. 1919 01:45:37,560 --> 01:45:40,960 Speaker 1: I mean that China officially taking Taiwan would have a 1920 01:45:41,000 --> 01:45:46,439 Speaker 1: lot of ramifications all over the world. Rannon Shields II. Buck, 1921 01:45:46,479 --> 01:45:48,280 Speaker 1: I want to say thank you for the show you 1922 01:45:48,360 --> 01:45:50,479 Speaker 1: do and you tell the truth and you tell it 1923 01:45:50,520 --> 01:45:52,400 Speaker 1: how it is, and I consider you a friend too. 1924 01:45:52,479 --> 01:45:54,880 Speaker 1: Thank you. Also look forward to listening to your show 1925 01:45:54,920 --> 01:45:57,840 Speaker 1: each day. Then it goes to Rush, oh Rihanna, thank 1926 01:45:57,880 --> 01:45:59,840 Speaker 1: you so much. And I'm in great company there with 1927 01:45:59,840 --> 01:46:03,080 Speaker 1: the one and only, the truly great Rush Limbaugh. So 1928 01:46:03,160 --> 01:46:05,960 Speaker 1: thank you. You've got excellentation in radio shows, that's for sure, 1929 01:46:06,560 --> 01:46:08,719 Speaker 1: and team that's gonna be it for me for today. 1930 01:46:08,880 --> 01:46:12,080 Speaker 1: Please do pass the buck, tell somebody in your life 1931 01:46:12,080 --> 01:46:16,080 Speaker 1: about the Bucks Exton Show, and until tomorrow, we've all 1932 01:46:16,120 --> 01:46:19,080 Speaker 1: got our orders. Shields high,