1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: This is Buck's first thoughts, the news you need to 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: get through your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: you subscribe on the iHeart app or wherever you get 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: your podcasts. I know we're all supposed to spend this week, 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:19,240 Speaker 1: every moment, every day just listening to all the analysis 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: from the Trump haters out there of how he incided 7 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: an insurrection, how this was worse than nine to eleven. 8 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 1: If you don't agree with people who are exaggerating and 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: in pure hysterics over the riot of January sixth, you're complicit. 10 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: You're a bad person. I don't want to do that. Instead, 11 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about something that I 12 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: think is a longer term and much more imminence issue 13 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: for American politics, because it's everywhere, it's all over, and 14 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: it's ruining our country every day. It's not a one off, 15 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: it's not just a thing where you can point to 16 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: a few bad actors. It's all over the place, and 17 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 1: it is wokeness. And you have now a story in 18 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: the Daily Mail that I found very interesting and it 19 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: is essentially telling us, well, here's the title. Out of 20 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: control woke leftism and cancel culture from the US is 21 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: a threat to France because it attacks the nation's heritage 22 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: and identity, according to French politicians and intellectuals. Let explaining 23 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: why I think this is so important. During the post 24 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,040 Speaker 1: nine eleven period known as the Global War on Terror, 25 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 1: there were a handful of countries that were known as 26 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: the main exporters of jihadism, which is the radical Islamic 27 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: belief system at the heart of groups like al Qaeda, 28 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: radical Islamic terrorists. We're operating in dozens of countries, but 29 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: some of them, like Pakistan and Iran, we're actively spreading 30 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: their extremist ideology all over the world. And at the 31 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: top of the list, the super spreader of hardcore islam 32 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: terrorist ideology was as I'm sure many of you will remember, 33 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: are supposed ally Saudi Arabia. Fifteen of the nineteen nine 34 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: to eleven hijackers from Saudi Arabia. Well, it seems to 35 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 1: me that some in the Western world they're starting to 36 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: figure out that America is the Saudi Arabia of wokeness 37 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: and cancel culture, spreading it all over the place. That's right, 38 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: we are spreading wokeness and cancel culture to the furthest 39 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: corners of the globe from Austria to Australia, and some 40 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: countries are recognizing that the inevitable result of this is 41 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: going to be greater division, the undermining of these societies, 42 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: and perhaps even pushing some of them closer to social 43 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: dissolution and perhaps even revolution. Our college campuses, as we 44 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: know here, have already infected the rest of American society 45 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: with the ideological rot of identity, politics, intersectionality, and political correctness. 46 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: Words equals violence when they say, and violence in response 47 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:11,679 Speaker 1: to words they'll justify. Somehow, these bad ideas are metastasizing 48 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: around the globe, and at least some remaining outposts of 49 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: Western civilization France, as I mentioned in the piece by 50 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,799 Speaker 1: the Daily Mail, realize that wokeness can ruin their societies too. 51 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: My fellow Americans, this should be a wake up call. 52 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: France is hardly a stranger to radical politics, quite the opposite, 53 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: As I'm sure you know, if anyone tries to make 54 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: a Frenchman work a minute more than thirty five hours 55 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: a week, or raises the price of croissant a few cents, 56 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: all of a sudden there are armies of student demonstrators 57 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: taking to the streets. I think you can make a 58 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: strong argument that protesting is actually France's national sport, going 59 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: all the way back to seventeen eighty nine or so, 60 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: and you could ask Marie Antoinette how that one turned 61 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: out not so good. But French intellectuals, lead institutions and politicians, 62 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: including President Makron of France himself, have been calling on 63 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: their countrymen to reject the wokeness ravaging American brains before 64 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: it's too late. They see what will happen, and they 65 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: don't want it to happen in those countries. They understand 66 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: that whatever levels of socialism and stadism they're currently going through, 67 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 1: having people turn on each other and having certain groups 68 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: believe that they are in a constant, a constant struggle 69 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: against all other groups, they must rewrite history. They must 70 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 1: lie if they have to, in order to make certain 71 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: groups seem like they're still responsible for the evils of society. 72 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: This kind of pointing to the other and attacking is 73 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: just destructive, and the French realize it, some of them do. 74 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: I'm sure there are many who go along with this, 75 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: We know there are, but this comes from our universities. 76 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: As you know, there's a particular fear of what's on 77 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: our campuses. The French education minister Jean Michel Blancier blanc 78 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: May we warned back in October of the need to 79 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 1: wage battle against an intellectual matrix from American universities. The 80 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: BLM protests all over Europe, for example, in the aftermath 81 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 1: of George Floyd's death in Minnesota. We're a strong indicator 82 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: of how far and wide woke ideology has spread. Democrats, 83 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 1: social justice movements and memes are now global, and that 84 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: means the divisive tactics and authoritarian impulses of the American 85 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: left will undermine the foundations of liberal democracies all over 86 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: the globe if unchecked. These ideas of wokeness come from 87 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: our campuses, the notion that true liberty is found in 88 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:54,600 Speaker 1: the suppression of free speech, that true freedom comes from 89 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: others controlling you for the benefit of the collective, turning 90 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,359 Speaker 1: the American experiment at its foundation on its head. That 91 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: really began on our college campuses goes back to the 92 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, and you could even trace it further back 93 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 1: than that that the dawn of the progressive movement in America, 94 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: which in many ways is just a heresy of the 95 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: Marxism that ravaged Europe. But marx is not dead and gone, really, friends, 96 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: that's what you're seeing. You can call it cultural Marxism, 97 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: you can call it woke authoritarianism. It's back, it's ascendant, 98 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: it is here. It's the reason why social media companies 99 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: are now actively censoring, basically anyone who challenges the consensus, right, 100 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: anyone who says things that are deemed too unpopular, all 101 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: of a sudden are shut down. And now we have 102 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: a government in the Biden administration that's entirely willing to 103 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: go along with this. We are in the greatest danger 104 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 1: of true suppression of not just free speech, but the 105 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: true eradication of importance of essential individual freedoms today. Then 106 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: we've been in my lifetime. And there are people in 107 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: this country who are not only cheering it on here, 108 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 1: but want this for the rest of the world. Whatever 109 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: Marxists and authoritarian elements are in Europe, or in Australia 110 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: or in other Westernized countries, they seek to make common 111 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: cause with them and to force all these nations to 112 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: bend the knee because of a history of colonialism or 113 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: a history of global oppression, or whatever it may be. 114 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: Do you think the Chinese are doing any of this. 115 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: Do you think they're sitting around? No. In fact, increasingly 116 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: you see that China is assertive in the greatness of 117 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: its nationalism. China is going authoritarian in the other direction, 118 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: not how awful the history of that country is, but 119 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: how incredible it is, and how the future belongs to China. Meanwhile, 120 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: in America and the West, we are decadent. We've become 121 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: so comfortable, so wealthy, live lives of so much relative ease. Yes, 122 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: even the underclass in our countries compared to what was 123 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: the norm of generations past, leading incredibly bountiful, healthy and 124 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: long lives. And so we lose this sense that we 125 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: can lose all of this. Look at the Soviet Union, 126 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: look at what happened in the twentieth century in Germany, 127 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: look at what happened in Russia, the countries that went 128 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 1: through revolutions that of course had the greatest of ideals 129 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,839 Speaker 1: in some cases, I mean France of course comes to 130 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: mind back in the seventeen nineties. But even the Soviet Revolution. 131 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: They bring this up as right now we all know 132 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: how it ended. And the Soviet Union was a totalitarian misery, 133 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: but it was overtaken by this extreme authority and totalitarian 134 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 1: ideology that enslaved essentially everybody who fell behind the Iron curtain. 135 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: Look at you, look at what happened in Nazi Germany. 136 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 1: It's often forgotten by people that Germany was until the 137 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: First World War and thereafter really among the most sophisticated, 138 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: intellectual and wealthy countries in the world at the time. 139 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: But bad ideas made it a monster, right, made it 140 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: the great evil of the twentieth century. And yet here 141 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: we are now with some of the roots of these ideas, 142 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: whether we're talking about the Soviet Union, we're talking about 143 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: Nazi Germany, or yes, in fact, talking about revolutionary France, 144 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: the roots of some of these ideas coming back here 145 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:48,359 Speaker 1: in America in new form. That there is a constant 146 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:53,680 Speaker 1: war of some against the other within our society, intersectionality, 147 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: that there are individuals who must be judged not by 148 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: what they do and the content of their character and 149 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: their own actions, but by the history of people who 150 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: share their superficial characteristics. You will see how white Americans 151 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 1: are constantly told, for example, that they have to pay 152 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: for the sins of ancestors that they may not have 153 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: even had. In this country, we've had a lot of 154 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: people who are relatively new arrivals who are white. But 155 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, right. Identity politics isn't based in truth. 156 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: It's based in emotion and the frenzy of the mob. 157 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: Whatever works when it has to work. So what some 158 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: are seeing is that this Americanized version of woke authoritarianism, 159 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: or really the origins of woke authoritarianism start here, and 160 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: they now the tentacles have spread all over the world 161 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: or are starting to, and they don't want it. Well, 162 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: if they can recognize in countries with bigger government than ours, 163 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: with more with more controls on free speech already, if 164 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: they can realize what a danger this is may weekend too. 165 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 1: What we're seeing across the Atlantic is what has become 166 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: increasingly apparent here at home. Wokeness is a form of 167 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: early stage totalitarianism. Identity politics create hostility and volatility in 168 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: modern societies like ours that are held together not by tribe, religion, 169 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: or skin color, but shared values, history, and ideas. Once 170 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: those are undermined at their very foundation, the social bonds 171 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: needed to make a liberty based rule of law nation 172 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:35,839 Speaker 1: state function come apart, and look, there's no guarantee of 173 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: victory even if we fight this battle right now, as 174 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: you know, we have a new bide administration. We have 175 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,080 Speaker 1: a Democrat party in America that has a lust for 176 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: power that makes it embrace woke authoritarianism and poisonous identity politics. 177 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: But when even our social cousins, if you will, in Paris, 178 00:11:54,679 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: recognize that America is heading for cultural dissolution if it 179 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,679 Speaker 1: continues down at this wokeness path, it's long pastime for 180 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: those of us who still care about the American experiment 181 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:11,599 Speaker 1: to confront that destructive, dishonest, and insane ideas that the 182 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: left has mainstreamed. That's where we are. This is what 183 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 1: we face now, a new administration that embraces all of this, 184 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: and a recognition that there can be no peace, there 185 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: can be no live and let live with those who 186 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: want to dictate every aspect of your life based on 187 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 1: the false idols of wokeness. This is the Buck Sexton 188 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: Show podcast. Follow Buck on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Former 189 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 1: President Trump was banned. If he came back, ran for 190 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 1: office again and was elected president, would you allow him 191 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: back on the platform. So, the way our policies work, 192 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 1: when you're removed from the platform, you're removed from the platform, 193 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: whether you're a commentator, you're a CFO, or you are 194 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: a former or current look official. And so remember, our 195 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 1: policies are designed to make sure that people are not 196 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: inciting violence, and if anybody does that, we have to 197 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: remove them from the service, and our policies to allow 198 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: people to come back. The CFO of Twitter saying that 199 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: even if Trump tried to run again for president, not 200 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 1: going to be back on Twitter. He's off Twitter forever. 201 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: We have a former president of the United States who 202 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: have some of the most powerful companies in the world 203 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 1: actively working against so that he cannot share his message. 204 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: And for the people who say, oh, they're private companies, yeah, 205 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: what about all the regulations on other companies? What about 206 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 1: common carrier regulation? What about the phone lines? The Internet 207 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: is how we communicate. Now it's not okay for some 208 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: individuals to control it. But if you're woke, you don't 209 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 1: care that it's suppressing people. In fact, you like that 210 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: it's suppressing people. You think it's great. This is how 211 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: your side wins, This is how they won the election. 212 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: The election was absolutely stacked in favor of Biden for 213 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: a number of reasons. One of them is that you 214 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: had social media companies actively collude to suppress information against 215 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: their preferred candidate. I mean, they might as well have 216 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: been getting a paycheck from the DNC with the Hunter 217 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: Biden story. We all saw it, we all know it. 218 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: This is what we are up against now. Yes, there's 219 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: the election, which is certainly important, and we have lost 220 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: and Joe Biden is now president. But there's also the 221 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: control of institutions and how they're now forcing people. We 222 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 1: often talk about the brainwashing and the way that there's 223 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: this this ideological pressure on people to conform, but it's 224 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 1: more than that. It's financial pressure. It's it's bringing professional 225 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 1: pressure to bear. You know, you could you could lose 226 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: access to the two critical communication forms. Maybe they decide 227 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: that they're going to kick you off their banking service. 228 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: Maybe you can't get a credit card anymore from a 229 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: certain company if you speak out too much in the 230 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: wrong way. And who decides what's wrong? All these these 231 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: little quizzling fact checkers behind the scenes, working in concert 232 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: with the social media companies. All they're doing is laundering 233 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: their censorship, that's all that is. But if you ask 234 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: questions about this, they punish you, just like they do 235 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: in authoritarian regimes. I mean, the difference what you're seeing 236 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: right now between how authoritarians and works in a mariuca 237 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: versus how it's been in other places at other times 238 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: is here. It's a kind of it's a soft authoritarianism 239 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,200 Speaker 1: in that all the inducements are for you to comply. 240 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: Right now, it's it's carrots, not really sticks. There are 241 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: some sticks, but it's really mostly carrots. But that's powerful enough. 242 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: But we're going to see that change over time because 243 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: they're going to become convinced that they are the final 244 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: arbiters of truth as they as they have been doing 245 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: over the last year. You've seen this already with the 246 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: COVID lockdowns with Joe Biden, with Donald Trump, with the 247 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: biggest issues of public debate. They think they have a finality, 248 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: a finality when it comes to truth. That is absurd. 249 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: But this is what the left embraces. This is where 250 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: they are. Here's another example of this. Jensaki, the White 251 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: House Press secretary, not all that bright, but notice what 252 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: happens when when she's asked a question about trans girls 253 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: competing in girls sports play three only on President Biden's 254 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: transcender rights executive actions specifically when it applies to high 255 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: school sports. What message with a White House half of 256 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: trans girls and CIS girls who may end up competing 257 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: against each other in sparking some lawsuits and some concern 258 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: among parents. So there's administrates have guidance for schools on 259 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: dealing with the disputes rising over trans girls competing against 260 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: and CIS girls. I'm not sure what your question is 261 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: the presidence executive order has. I'm familiar with the order, 262 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,679 Speaker 1: but what was your question about question? Does a president 263 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 1: have a message for local school officials and dealing with 264 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: these kind of disputes that are already starting to rise, 265 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 1: y know, trans girls for competing and CIS girls in 266 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: a level playing field. It's particularly in high school sports 267 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,679 Speaker 1: when it leads to college scholarships. Is there any kind 268 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: of messaging or clarification that the White House wants to 269 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: give on the executive order? I would just say that 270 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 1: the President's belief is that trans rights are human rights, 271 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: and that's why he signed that executive order, And in 272 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: terms of the determinations by universities and colleges, I'd certainly 273 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 1: deferred to them. See that trans rights are human rights. 274 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: Shut up with your question, right, from the White House. 275 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 1: You're in the freedom hunt. Thanks for listening to The 276 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest from Buck at 277 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: buck sexton dot com. Well, everyone, everyone wants the kids 278 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 1: back in school. The science says the kids who would 279 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: go back in school, all the all the everything says 280 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: we should do that. Everyone wants kids back in school, 281 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: except the politicians and the teachers unions, which tells you everything. 282 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,400 Speaker 1: So this is this is crazy one day a week. 283 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 1: Let's get them back five days a week. Let's have 284 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: kids get back in school and learn the things that 285 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,479 Speaker 1: they're supposed to be learning. Um. I think again, the 286 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: American people see this as just craziness. Parents want their 287 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:28,679 Speaker 1: kids to get an education, they want them back in school. 288 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 1: Let's make it happen. Let's stand up for the kids 289 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: and the families of this country, not the politicians and 290 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 1: the teachers union. I love watching the Democrats stirring around 291 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: here with this, with this problem. They don't know what 292 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: to do. Oh what are we gonna do? Because people 293 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 1: are figuring out what the heck is really happening, Jim Jordan, 294 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 1: They're laying down the law of course, here's here's what's 295 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: going on. People have figured out right. The ablic public 296 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: opinion has shifted now where if you think that it 297 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 1: is dangerous for children to be in school, you are ignorant. 298 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: If you think that COVID nineteen is a threat to 299 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:13,159 Speaker 1: K through eight age children, you just don't know what 300 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: you're talking about. And if you think that they put 301 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: teachers at substantial risk of transmission from the kids, which 302 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,479 Speaker 1: is supposed to be the explanation for other schools have 303 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: to be shut down, you just haven't read about the subject. 304 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: There's no more debate, there's no more you know, Oh, 305 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 1: but what about but what about? No? Based on the 306 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: information we have right now, and the information is clear, 307 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:41,640 Speaker 1: The data, as Fauci says, is clear, schools should be open. 308 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 1: And Democrats, if you recall, we're all in on keeping 309 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: on closing schools as much as they could back in 310 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: the fall when it was most damaging for Trump's reelection chances, 311 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 1: because how can you really feel like you're doing well 312 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,679 Speaker 1: against the virus and attorney to we'll see with millions 313 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 1: and millions of children around America not able to be 314 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: in school, and we know that the zoom school is 315 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: a joke, especially for the kids who really needs school. 316 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 1: For whom it provides structure and socialization and time with 317 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: concerned adults looking out for their welfare and instructing them, 318 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: not just about the ABC's and you know, basic algebra 319 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: or whatever, but about what it means to be a 320 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,360 Speaker 1: productive person in America, what it means to be active 321 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: in society and contributing. Right, these are all things that 322 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: come from being in school. Now, not entirely, of course, 323 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 1: family is even more important, but these are things that 324 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: are certainly helpful in that process. And they shut the 325 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: schools down. They shut it down for political and they 326 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 1: shut them down for political reasons. And let me let 327 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: me say this, it's not even just the numbers when 328 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 1: I talk to you about how school shutdowns that the 329 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: data is clear. We did an experiment here, because you 330 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: have private and parochial schools in places like New York 331 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: City that are open. They are open, they are they 332 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: have people going in instructing children in person. The Catholic 333 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: schools have been doing this, and they deserve a lot 334 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: of credit, a lot of credit for putting education and 335 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,439 Speaker 1: the needs and the and the benefits that would come 336 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 1: for children above lazy, power hungry adults. Because that's why 337 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: the schools were closed. That's what the teachers unions represented, 338 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,199 Speaker 1: and that's why the Democrats went all along with this. 339 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: It hurt Trump, it added to the panic. The panic 340 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: was being exploited by Democrats for the election. And oh, 341 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: by the way, you think the teachers unions had any 342 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: problem whatsoever with telling all their members stay home, zoom zoom, teacher, 343 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,360 Speaker 1: get your full paycheck, full benefits, stay on your ten 344 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: year track or whatever, you know, keep your ten year 345 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 1: You're good to go. You think you think they were 346 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: worried about that. No, teachers unions don't give a damn 347 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: about your kids. That's what you've actually seen in real time. 348 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: Don't care. They do not care. And this has become 349 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: a thankfully a political liability for Democrats because remember, you 350 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: have the data on children being fine overall in schools, 351 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: not even just in America, all over the world. And 352 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: you know, a young, healthy immune system kicks kicks covids, 353 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 1: but thank god, like it's nothing. If the kid even 354 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: shows symptoms, it's like a sniffle. And yet they shut 355 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: down the schools. We ran the experiment of having some 356 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: schools open while the public schools, the government schools were closed. 357 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: Who benefited in that. Yeah, and so now the Democrats 358 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 1: have to deal with Oh wait, you mean that people 359 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: have figured out our game. So this is even more 360 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: perfect because because they're just making it worse. Really, and 361 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: they're little, they're little quizzlings in the media, the little 362 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 1: cowards carrying water for the Democrats all across the news 363 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 1: media now, even though their own constituents. You know, you 364 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: think about the people that that read the New York 365 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: Times in New York City, for example, people that read 366 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,879 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Times, or read whatever the newspaper in 367 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 1: Austin is. I have no idea Austin City Ledger. Maybe 368 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,880 Speaker 1: does that sound right? Something like that? Producer Mark, tell 369 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 1: me what it is. But you know, you read the 370 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 1: Denver posts. I know, we've got a big audience out 371 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: in Denver. They put the interests of the National Democrat 372 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 1: Party and Joe Biden ahead of the people that are 373 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: keeping their publications afloat, ahead of the people that are 374 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 1: actually reading. You know, are that are They're supposed to 375 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,479 Speaker 1: represent their interests against power, But that's actually not how 376 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 1: journalism works today. It's all about supporting the National Party. 377 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: It's all about doing your part for the Biden team, 378 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,479 Speaker 1: the Biden administration, they don't give a damn about you. 379 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 1: They really don't. All these journalists, all this media stuff 380 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:03,239 Speaker 1: you're seeing, So watch as they try to cover up 381 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: for this, because they're saying, Oh, Joe Biden with his oh, 382 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: we're gonna hud a hundred age you're masking and then 383 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: we're gonna we're open up the schools. We open up 384 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 1: the schools. It's gonna be great, but they'll be like 385 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: open once in a while. Wait what I thought we're 386 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: opening them up? Oh no, the Biden plan is not. 387 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: What's not what they're gonna They're gonna tell you schools 388 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 1: are open. And then what they're doing is they're playing 389 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,360 Speaker 1: with the definition of what open really means and how 390 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 1: many of them will be open. Here is White House 391 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: Press Secretary Saki bomb play one, all of us opening 392 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 1: up schools swiftly and safely. Could you have us understand 393 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 1: what the White Houses or what the president's definition of 394 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,880 Speaker 1: open schools is. Does it mean teachers in classroom, teaching 395 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 1: students in classroom? Does it just mean kids in classroom 396 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 1: with the remote screen? Help us understand sure his goal 397 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: that he set is to have the majority of school 398 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: so more than fifty percent open by day one hundred 399 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 1: of his presidency. And that means some teaching in classrooms, 400 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: so at least one day a week. Hopefully it's more, 401 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 1: and obviously it is as much as as safe in 402 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: each school and local district. You say some teaching that 403 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: you didn't use the same majority qualifier there. You just 404 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 1: have to have some teaching in school, some teachers in school, 405 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: not the majority of teachers in school and the majority 406 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 1: of classrooms. Well, teaching at least one day a week 407 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 1: in the majority of schools by day one hundred, and 408 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 1: that's in person teaching. In person teaching, yes, one day 409 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 1: a week. Friends, there they're setting the definition for you 410 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 1: right now. They're setting the groundwork for this so that 411 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 1: they can get away with this later. One day a 412 00:25:55,520 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: week of in person instruction and that counts. Understand, that 413 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:05,679 Speaker 1: counts as school being open. Oh okay, And this reporter 414 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: did ask some questions, because I will say there are 415 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: some you know, we have to refer to journalists in 416 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,879 Speaker 1: very broad terms. There are some journalists out there who 417 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 1: are starting to realize as child depression and even attempted 418 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 1: suicide and suicide is going up and up and up, 419 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: and children, particularly low income family and minority children, are 420 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,719 Speaker 1: the ones who are suffering the most from this. As 421 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 1: all that's happening, as the data is just getting it's 422 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: so obvious now they can't they can't get away with 423 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,120 Speaker 1: lying about it the same way. So what they're gonna 424 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: do is now lie about how they agree, and they're 425 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: dealing with it, but they're not really going to deal 426 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,479 Speaker 1: with it. They're not really going to deal with it 427 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: because here's another problem, and this is this is the 428 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 1: the contrarian logic of the lockdowners at work. If they 429 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 1: open schools in April, first off, that means that they're 430 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: only going to be open for two months before the 431 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,679 Speaker 1: school year technically ends. But if they open schools in April, 432 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: you will say, well, hold on, there's still COVID out there. 433 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: Why weren't we able to have the schools open sooner 434 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: than that? On what basis? And you might ask the 435 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 1: question point to where there was a real risk for 436 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 1: children even twelve months ago in the schools, Show me 437 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: one data set that leads to a reasonable conclusion that 438 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 1: schools should be closed. They can't. They can't. The schools 439 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: will start to open and everything will be fine. They 440 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: have to draw it out though, and do it very 441 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: slowly to make it seem like, oh, but we're just 442 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: being cautious, you see, We're just being careful. Yeah, they're 443 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: lying to you. One day a week of instruction, how 444 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: many teachers are even going to show up? That journalists 445 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: asked the question because there are some journals have their 446 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: kids in public schools. I know this, and some of them, 447 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,879 Speaker 1: you know, not the fancy CNN anchors, their children go to, 448 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: you know, forty fifty thousand dollars year private school for 449 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: first grade. But some journals have their kids in places 450 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: where they have been doing zoom school, and they understand 451 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,919 Speaker 1: that this is nonsense, and so they're asking questions like, 452 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 1: what does in person instruction even mean one day a week? 453 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 1: Are all the teachers going to be going in? Or 454 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 1: most of the teacher's gonna be going in? Or here's 455 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: what I foresee, and this is really what I'm getting to. 456 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: You will have schools where the children are showing up 457 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 1: on a rotational basis for one day a week of 458 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 1: in person instruction, and it will be like a giant 459 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: study hall session where if they can, they'll put them all, 460 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: you know, they'll they'll set them up with zoom at 461 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: a at a desk, socially distanced with a mask on, 462 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 1: like they're in some kind of a science experiment, and 463 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: they'll be a handful of teachers triple masked standing in 464 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: the front of the room saying, all right, everybody, sit there, 465 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: watch your zoom. They're not really going to open schools 466 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: one day a week on what basis that one day 467 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 1: a week is the same mentality as were four masks, 468 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: because well, of course, anything we can do to help, 469 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: and one day a week means sure you're going to 470 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 1: have less risk. But isn't five days a week of 471 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 1: in person instruction totally acceptable risk? Isn't one mask or 472 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 1: dare I say no mask acceptable risk as well? For 473 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 1: a vast majority of people. Well, these are the questions 474 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: that they don't want to answer because there is some fear. 475 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: I don't think it's nearly as much fear as it 476 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 1: should be. There is some fear among the lockdowners that 477 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: the American people will wake up and realize they've been 478 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: lied to and this is a scam, and the people 479 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: in charge who are saying shut up were the experts 480 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: were wrong and wrong and wrong again, you're listening to 481 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: the Fuck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure you subscribe to 482 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,520 Speaker 1: the podcast on the iHeartRadio act or wherever you get 483 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 1: your podcasts. Impeachment can tinuing on today with this trial. 484 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 1: I think it's the whole thing a waste of everyone's time. 485 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: I've even wondered maybe the best thing to do would 486 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: have been for the president of the United States too. 487 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the former president of the United States to 488 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: not even present a defense at all. Just let them 489 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: try him in absentsion. Just let them do what they're 490 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: doing and leave it to the Republicans in the Senate 491 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 1: to make up their own minds. Yes, it is true. 492 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 1: I watched the first of the two lawyers presenting Trump's defense. 493 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 1: It did seem a bit like I'm just going to 494 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 1: be honest with you. It seemed a bit like, you know, 495 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: Trump had passed a billboard on the highway with you know, 496 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,959 Speaker 1: are you injured? Question mark and call the number and said, hey, 497 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 1: I want to present my defense in the United States Congress. 498 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 1: For That's about the quality of the first attorney shown. 499 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 1: The second attorney, who spoke in the president's behalf was 500 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: was much stronger, much more effective. The first one was 501 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 1: not good, did not do a competent job. But they're 502 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 1: speaking of shown there was a I think the point 503 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: that hasn't gotten enough attention that he made very well 504 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,640 Speaker 1: with a montage was that somehow they're impeaching this president, 505 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: former president after he leaves office, and they want us 506 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: to believe that it's because that's what judgment requires. But 507 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 1: they've been trying to impeach him for four years and 508 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: saying they were going to. I'm not I'm not exaggerating this. 509 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,479 Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. I'm not pulling s out 510 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: of thin air. They've been saying they were going to 511 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 1: impeach him for four years, and that's very clear by 512 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 1: this montage. A lot of what David shown, Trump's attorney 513 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: plays here comes from twenty seventeen. It's twenty twenty one, 514 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: as you know, and you add Democrats, in some cases 515 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: the same democrats today we were saying, well, now we 516 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: really have to impeach him. We're saying it in twenty seventeen. 517 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 1: They impeached him a year ago on some nonsense. Remember 518 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Colonel Vinman, Oh yes, the great hero of our republic. 519 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that guy, he's really doing a great job. 520 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: Give me a break. This was the single, I think 521 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: the single most effective moment in many ways, of the 522 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 1: Trump defense presentation yesterday. Here it is play too. Donald 523 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,840 Speaker 1: Trump has already done a number of things which legitimately 524 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 1: raised the question of impeachment. I don't respect this president, 525 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: and I will fight every day until he is impeached. 526 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: That is grounds to start impeachment proceedings. Those are grounds 527 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: to start impeachment. Those are grounds to start impeachment proceedings. Yes, 528 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,720 Speaker 1: I think that's grounds to start impeachment proceeding. I rise today, 529 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 1: mister Speaker, to call for the impeachment of the President 530 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: of the United States of America. I continue to say, 531 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 1: mpay Tim m pays forty five, and pays forty five. 532 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 1: So we're calling upon the House to begin impeachment hearings 533 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 1: immediately on the impeachment Donald Trump. Which you vote yesterday? 534 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 1: I would vote yes. I would vote I would vote 535 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 1: too much, because we're gonna go in there. We're gonna 536 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 1: impeach some other. But the fact is I introduced articles 537 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 1: of impeachment in July of twenty seventeen. We don't impeach 538 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: this president. He will get re elected to most requires 539 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: me to be for impeachment, having impeachment hearing that needs 540 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 1: to scarlet on his chest. Representatives should begin impeachment proceedings 541 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 1: against this president. It is time to stay in teachment 542 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:36,640 Speaker 1: charges against him, bringing impeachment charges. My personal view is 543 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,959 Speaker 1: that he originally deserves impeachment. How did impeach me? Riley 544 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 1: and we already to impeach though, that was from before 545 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,479 Speaker 1: the Capitol Hill riot, that was from before the twenty 546 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 1: twenty election, that was right after the twenty sixteen election. 547 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,000 Speaker 1: And they have they have a fair mind when it 548 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 1: comes to this president. Now they're giving him a keep 549 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 1: saying President, I'm sorry, ex President. They have a fair 550 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 1: mind when it comes to their judgment about Donald Trump. Really, 551 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,919 Speaker 1: who could actually believe that? Who could think that these 552 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:18,319 Speaker 1: are are people who could be trusted. I understand that 553 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,760 Speaker 1: this is not a criminal trial, so they're not actually 554 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 1: going through jury selection, But if you were, if we 555 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,440 Speaker 1: want to look at a framework for understanding this, if 556 00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 1: they were going to be jurors on a trial, you'd say, 557 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,080 Speaker 1: you can have these people. They've wanted to convict the 558 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,279 Speaker 1: defendant from before the crime in question, and they were 559 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:41,759 Speaker 1: trying to they brought false charges against him before of corruption, 560 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:47,799 Speaker 1: right of inducement to election interference? What election interference by 561 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,279 Speaker 1: talking to the President of Ukraine about Drew Biden and 562 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 1: nothing happened. That's what they said. Trump's arrangement syndrome is 563 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:02,520 Speaker 1: not gone. They're just finding new targets for their mania. 564 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,680 Speaker 1: But first they're gonna get one last good shot in 565 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,720 Speaker 1: on the former president. That's what this is all about. 566 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 1: This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to 567 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 1: get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 568 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,439 Speaker 1: you subscribe on the iHeart Act or wherever you get 569 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 1: your podcasts. Emotional appeal is that the center of democrat ideology, 570 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,720 Speaker 1: of wokeness, of the Left's approach to pretty much everything. 571 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,480 Speaker 1: And that's why emotional manipulation is so critical to their politics. 572 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 1: The way that they will reach out to the public, 573 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,440 Speaker 1: the way that they'll try to convince you of the 574 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,960 Speaker 1: rightness of their argument, is rooted in emotional appeal much 575 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,560 Speaker 1: more so than reason. And that's why, for example, during 576 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen crisis, exaggerating the risk to people and 577 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 1: I'm not assuming that people had some exaggerated risk in 578 00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:59,600 Speaker 1: their minds. People under fifty based on the polling were 579 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,880 Speaker 1: thirty to forty times something like that. More afraid. They 580 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,239 Speaker 1: thought they had a thirty to forty times higher chance 581 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,440 Speaker 1: of dying from COVID than they actually did. Buy the numbers. 582 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,640 Speaker 1: That's not an accident. It's because you get people terrified, 583 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 1: and that's what the media did. They terrified everybody, and 584 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,239 Speaker 1: then you tell them that you'll provide them safety. Oh 585 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: and anyone who's telling them not to be terrified is 586 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,960 Speaker 1: going to hurt their safety. And look at that. You 587 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:29,520 Speaker 1: have control. You have control. We've seen them use this 588 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:34,960 Speaker 1: playbook with real expertise. Unfortunately, under the COVID nineteen pandemic. 589 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,200 Speaker 1: I still believe to this day that Donald Trump, were 590 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:43,400 Speaker 1: it not for COVID and the unfair weaponization of COVID 591 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:47,640 Speaker 1: through media dishonesty against Donald Trump, meaning that Trump was 592 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 1: the cause of COVID, He's the reason for all these 593 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 1: people dying, I think he would have won reelection. But 594 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,200 Speaker 1: you know, you go to army with the good army, 595 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 1: go to war with the army you have. You know, 596 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,160 Speaker 1: you play poker with the card in your hand, and 597 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,360 Speaker 1: you go into an election with the world or the 598 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,600 Speaker 1: state that it's in and there's there's no way around that. 599 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,440 Speaker 1: But but they're not making an argument on They have 600 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,720 Speaker 1: not been making an argument based on the facts with COVID. 601 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:19,360 Speaker 1: They've really been making it based on fear and exaggerating 602 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,440 Speaker 1: to the general public what the risks are and then 603 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,320 Speaker 1: seizing control as a result of that. Okay, I'll do 604 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:26,919 Speaker 1: I'll do anything if you if you make me safe. 605 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:28,560 Speaker 1: I mean, how many of us I've had this experience. 606 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,400 Speaker 1: You go into a doctor's office, you've had you've had 607 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,319 Speaker 1: a really bad problem that's been really just just been 608 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,600 Speaker 1: nagging at you for a while, whatever it may be. 609 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,040 Speaker 1: You know you've got you know, you got knee pain 610 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:40,719 Speaker 1: or something. You go into your shay Doc, I'll do 611 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,120 Speaker 1: anything you say, just make it stop, right, I've been there, 612 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,400 Speaker 1: I get it. Unfortunately, sometimes doc can't really do anything. 613 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,400 Speaker 1: But you know, Doc, I'll do anything you say. I 614 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,160 Speaker 1: just need the pain to stop. That's what the that's 615 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:53,960 Speaker 1: what they effectively did. That's what the left did to 616 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,120 Speaker 1: the American people with COVID. Okay, we're so terrified, please 617 00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:02,000 Speaker 1: just and anything to keep us safe. And they're using 618 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:06,120 Speaker 1: a similar tactics of fear when it comes to this impeachment. Now, 619 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,520 Speaker 1: it's not going to work. They're not going to get 620 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,759 Speaker 1: Republicans to go along with this. It would be Democrats 621 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:16,920 Speaker 1: are inviting the GOP to creates its own to cause 622 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:22,200 Speaker 1: its own implosion. That's really what's going on here, that's 623 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:28,480 Speaker 1: really the decision making. This is why they've got they 624 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,839 Speaker 1: got up up the ante on the emotions. They got 625 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,719 Speaker 1: to take it to hold. They're trying to obscure the 626 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,880 Speaker 1: real intent here, which is effectively the destruction of the 627 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,359 Speaker 1: Republican Party. They're they're trying to induce us to do this. 628 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,120 Speaker 1: And if we're looking for a tior eyed appeal, I 629 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,680 Speaker 1: guess you can't. Well, there are actually a few. There 630 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:51,880 Speaker 1: was Raskin yesterday. But here's Mika Brazinski trying to manipulate 631 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,799 Speaker 1: the whole country's emotions on national TV. Play for But 632 00:38:54,960 --> 00:39:00,080 Speaker 1: they came because of Trump and everybody knows it. To 633 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:05,799 Speaker 1: move on, they say, everybody knows why these people were 634 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:13,120 Speaker 1: there desecrating the people's house, ruining things, hurting people, murdering people, 635 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:17,800 Speaker 1: naming people, and using the American flag as a weapon. 636 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,399 Speaker 1: They were doing it for Trump. And the frustrating thing 637 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:26,880 Speaker 1: here is that this has to be explained explicitly to Republicans, 638 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,439 Speaker 1: and they turn away. They can't make this math themselves. 639 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:35,960 Speaker 1: It's not stupidity, I'm sorry, it's something way worse. This 640 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,919 Speaker 1: is evil. If you can't see what happened here, look 641 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,920 Speaker 1: in the mirror, because there's a big problem with your 642 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,760 Speaker 1: moral core, and you're not a patriot if you can't 643 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,280 Speaker 1: see what happened here and stand on the right side 644 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 1: of history. Notice the emotional appeal and also the conflation 645 00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,480 Speaker 1: of two things. And this is at the center of 646 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,160 Speaker 1: the actual argument. This is at the center of whether 647 00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:05,160 Speaker 1: or not they should hold Donald Trump accounting for what 648 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:10,400 Speaker 1: happened to Capitol Hill. She's acting like people who don't 649 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:16,160 Speaker 1: believe that that Trump is the cause or rather ordered 650 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:21,319 Speaker 1: the insurrection, which was really a riot, not an insurrection, 651 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,680 Speaker 1: but that that Trump was was the the the person 652 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,640 Speaker 1: who gave you know, did he order the code read? Essentially, 653 00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,400 Speaker 1: we're trying to you know, did Trump order the code 654 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:34,000 Speaker 1: read borrowed from Colonel Nathan our jessep United States Marine 655 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:39,200 Speaker 1: Corps guantanamobey Cuba and the answers? Trump did not? In fact, 656 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:43,320 Speaker 1: you know, he's he's saying, you're gosh darn right. I didn't. 657 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,960 Speaker 1: He did not order the code read. He said, have 658 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,400 Speaker 1: your voices be peacefully heard. But what they're doing is 659 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,040 Speaker 1: suggesting that people, if you don't think that Trump is 660 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:56,160 Speaker 1: responsible for this, you don't condemn this, And that's false. 661 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,560 Speaker 1: That's false. And I will say that it was an 662 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,480 Speaker 1: unsettling couple of days after the Capitol Hill riot, where 663 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,719 Speaker 1: I had people, including some who have followed my work 664 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,520 Speaker 1: for a long time, including some conservatives in media, handful 665 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:14,920 Speaker 1: of them who publicly a couple of times but also 666 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,840 Speaker 1: in private, were why are you coming down so hard 667 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:21,799 Speaker 1: on the rioters? Because I saw it for what it 668 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,600 Speaker 1: was right away, and it wasn't hard to this is 669 00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:30,000 Speaker 1: it was. The whole thing was awful. It was wrong 670 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,880 Speaker 1: and dumb. But some people didn't really understand that that 671 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,160 Speaker 1: full scope. And I think they have since learned the 672 00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:41,279 Speaker 1: error of their ways. But overwhelmingly, I mean ninety nine 673 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:45,120 Speaker 1: point nine percent of people that I know and I 674 00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,759 Speaker 1: talked to you about this were immediately horrified and we 675 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,480 Speaker 1: knew exactly what was going to happen that riot. I 676 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,000 Speaker 1: went on I remember I went on Tucker Carlson's show 677 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:56,920 Speaker 1: on January sixth. That night you go back and see it. 678 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,319 Speaker 1: This is terrible, and it's going to be you used 679 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:05,600 Speaker 1: as a battering ram against conservatism, against your liberties, against 680 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,799 Speaker 1: your constitutional rights, against your freedom as an American. It's 681 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:13,399 Speaker 1: going to be used to oppress you now. And I'm 682 00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,040 Speaker 1: sorry that the people who were involved in the actual 683 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:20,560 Speaker 1: riot were so reckless and so foolish that they couldn't 684 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,920 Speaker 1: see that. But it's a different thing to say the 685 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:29,480 Speaker 1: riot was awful and dumb, which I have said from 686 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,080 Speaker 1: the beginning and do every day. And it's even we 687 00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:33,600 Speaker 1: get into this thing, we have to keep, you know, 688 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,799 Speaker 1: we have to keep say, oh, you know, I can, 689 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:37,920 Speaker 1: damn I can, Damn I can, damn. You know, We're 690 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,839 Speaker 1: always having to do this preamble because if you don't, 691 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,279 Speaker 1: then you get it. Then you get pulled off air, 692 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,480 Speaker 1: then you get attacked, then you're kicked off of social media. 693 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,880 Speaker 1: Oh he he's only condemned it one hundred times, but 694 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:49,920 Speaker 1: then he talked about it and didn't condemn it enough. 695 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:51,440 Speaker 1: So let's go and get him. This is the game 696 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:56,040 Speaker 1: that they play. This is how the authoritarian left conducts itself. 697 00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,560 Speaker 1: But Mika Praschinski is a perfect example of this. If 698 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:03,240 Speaker 1: you don't if you don't condemn the riot, Comma, I'm sorry, 699 00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,279 Speaker 1: the insurrection is what she would say, right, But if 700 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:10,560 Speaker 1: you don't condemn the riot by blaming Trump for it 701 00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:16,520 Speaker 1: as the causative factor, as directly responsible. They are treating 702 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:21,200 Speaker 1: this as if Trump yelled over a loudspeaker, go desecrate 703 00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:24,200 Speaker 1: the Capitol. That's what they are doing. They're acting like 704 00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:28,640 Speaker 1: that's what happened here, and that is not true. And 705 00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:33,120 Speaker 1: it matters that that is not true. He said, go 706 00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:37,120 Speaker 1: have your voices be peacefully heard. I am very frustrated 707 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,360 Speaker 1: with the way that Trump handled the post election period. 708 00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:42,440 Speaker 1: And that doesn't mean that I don't think that there 709 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,480 Speaker 1: were stuff to look into the election. I did, I 710 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,759 Speaker 1: still do. I still do want to look at some 711 00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,680 Speaker 1: of the outstanding questions from the election, if nothing else 712 00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:56,120 Speaker 1: to allay any fears to finally put away. Okay, well 713 00:43:55,880 --> 00:44:00,520 Speaker 1: we got an answer to that question, you know. And 714 00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,840 Speaker 1: I spoke to a very high level person at the 715 00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:07,279 Speaker 1: DOJ about remember the suitcases under the desk in Atlanta, 716 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,640 Speaker 1: and the person told me we looked at it the 717 00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:15,120 Speaker 1: highest level. It wasn't there was nothing elicit there, nothing happened, 718 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,879 Speaker 1: and it's somebody who's a Trump supporter who I trust. So, 719 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:22,920 Speaker 1: you know, we were told things that weren't that weren't 720 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:27,920 Speaker 1: always accurate. It was a very emotional, intense time. But 721 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:33,840 Speaker 1: we have to maintain some objective, rational reality here. And 722 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,879 Speaker 1: acting like president they are making the charge, they're making 723 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:41,239 Speaker 1: a very specific allegation here that President Trump said go 724 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:46,120 Speaker 1: do this thing, and he did not say that. They 725 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,960 Speaker 1: can cry, as Raskin did yesterday and Mika's doing and others. 726 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,440 Speaker 1: They can talk about how much they love the Constitution, 727 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:56,000 Speaker 1: they love America and all this stuff, while of course 728 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,879 Speaker 1: they're throwing our borders wide open and you know, our 729 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:01,360 Speaker 1: that you shouldn't be able to go to church the 730 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,640 Speaker 1: first time. It doesn't really apply because of COVID and 731 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:07,239 Speaker 1: you know all the the green new deals, insanity, all 732 00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:09,080 Speaker 1: this stuff they're doing. Oh yeah, but they love America 733 00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,400 Speaker 1: so much. Sure, they love the land of Freedom. Yeah, 734 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,520 Speaker 1: I believe that one. But at the end of the day, 735 00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:19,480 Speaker 1: they cannot change the critical central fact here, which is 736 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,480 Speaker 1: what all this really turns on. Donald Trump did not 737 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:26,680 Speaker 1: tell an angry mob to go to go storm the Capitol. 738 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:31,440 Speaker 1: He did not do it. And this reminds me a 739 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,520 Speaker 1: little bit of the incident with John Adams, the very 740 00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:38,240 Speaker 1: famous incident with the British soldiers, where you know, American 741 00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,799 Speaker 1: public opinion was not with those soldiers, obviously, not with 742 00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:45,520 Speaker 1: those Red coats. But there was a mob attacked the 743 00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:49,279 Speaker 1: red coats. The red Coats defended themselves, and that is 744 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,080 Speaker 1: you know, that is a not even just a common law, 745 00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,080 Speaker 1: that is a natural law, that is a moral law. 746 00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,880 Speaker 1: You have a right to defend yourself. And as we know, 747 00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:01,880 Speaker 1: Adams got those Red coats the equip and that was 748 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,640 Speaker 1: the right move because under the law at the time 749 00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,560 Speaker 1: they were right, and under the law at any time 750 00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:11,360 Speaker 1: you'd be right to defend yourself against a violent mob. 751 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,520 Speaker 1: And now we have a situation where it all turns 752 00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,800 Speaker 1: on the question of did Donald Trump order the riot 753 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,440 Speaker 1: to happen? We all know the answer is no, he 754 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,400 Speaker 1: did not order the riot to happen. And his rhetoric 755 00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,120 Speaker 1: and his tone and what he said in the months 756 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:33,840 Speaker 1: before and all of that cannot be used in place 757 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,959 Speaker 1: of this simple truth that is not the same thing. 758 00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,360 Speaker 1: That does not make the statement true that Donald Trump 759 00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:44,640 Speaker 1: ordered the riot. He did not. And they can keep trying, 760 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,880 Speaker 1: and they're going to pound this all throughout the trial 761 00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,600 Speaker 1: at the end of the day. He did not give 762 00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:52,879 Speaker 1: the order, He did not tell them to do this, 763 00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:56,680 Speaker 1: and therefore it would be wrong to hold him responsible 764 00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,480 Speaker 1: for something that he did not do.