1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Our two of Clay and Buck starts 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:10,120 Speaker 1: right now. Everybody, Thanks for joining us, Thanks for sticking 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: with us. If you were with us in the first hour, 5 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: we sep we're going to dive into the issue of crime. 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: I still think that this is likely to be a 7 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 1: very important part of the twenty twenty four picture. But honestly, 8 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: it's just critical in the meantime to get the truth 9 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: out there as much as possible, because there's always the 10 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: chance that some Democrat mayor governor police commissioner, state legislature, whatever, 11 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: always a chance that a Democrat may see the light 12 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: on this and decide that he or she is going 13 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: to try to bring the crime numbers down. I want 14 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 1: to give you a couple of case studies in this 15 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: right now. One is the question we asked before getting 16 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: into this hour, and because this is this is quite 17 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: a moment, one of the things we've often talked to 18 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: you about out is how many times people that commit 19 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: serious crimes, heinous, violent crimes that end up getting the headlines, 20 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: how many times they've been arrested already. And that's really 21 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: important because we were led to believe by the criminal 22 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: justice reform movement, which took years and years and millions 23 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: and millions of dollars of Soros money to those prosecutors 24 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: and Democrat Alie media constantly telling these stories, Oh my gosh, 25 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:32,319 Speaker 1: do you know the story of this person who was 26 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: found with half a marijuana cigarette and he got seventeen 27 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: consecutive life sentences, and we goes, oh my gosh, that's terrible, 28 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: that's in joy and by the way, that would be injustice, right, 29 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: But is that really what's going on? Is that really 30 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: what's happening? Well, I bring you the case of Washington, 31 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: d C, our nation's capital, which, let's note is probably 32 00:01:54,360 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: the greatest concentration of law enforcement agencies and personnel anywhere 33 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: on US soil. I can't think of another place. I mean, 34 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: New York has a lot as well, but DC AD, 35 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: you got DC Metro, and you got his secret services. 36 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 1: I can't even rattle off all the different agencies that 37 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: have men and women with guns who are enforcing the 38 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: law in that you have in Washington, DC. So how 39 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: many times has the average murder suspect homicide suspect been arrested? Well, 40 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: here is DC Police Chief Robert CONTI play it. What 41 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: we gotta do if we really want to see homicides 42 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: go down, is keep bad guys with guns in jail, 43 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 1: because when they're in jail, they can't be in community 44 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: shooting people. So when people talk about what we're going 45 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: to do different, or what we should do different, what 46 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: we need to do different, that's the thing that we 47 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: need to do different. We need to keep violent people 48 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: in jail. Right now, the average homicide suspect, the average 49 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: homicide suspect has been arrested eleven times prior to them 50 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: committing a homicide. That is a problem. That is a problem. 51 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: You know what I want to know. I mean eleven times, 52 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: everybody was the answer. We even had Ali on our staffs. 53 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: As she would have guessed six, I would have guessed 54 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: six as well. Is mind blowing crazy for people out 55 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: there who are when I saw this trend trending yesterday 56 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: and I saw the number eleven times, eleven times to 57 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: be arrested. And we've talked about this on the program before, 58 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: that this idea that murders just come out of nowhere. 59 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: Most people don't commit an extremely violent act the first 60 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: time they break the law, right There are exceptions, but 61 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: most people don't jump from a life of following the 62 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: law to suddenly committing murder. Usually there is a progression 63 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: of violence that occurs, a stair step, as it were. 64 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: And this ties in in a big way, buck with 65 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: what's going on right now in DC, because not only 66 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: are the police department and all the officials fed up 67 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: with they're arresting these guys all these times and then 68 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: getting back out on the street and harming most often 69 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: black people, right because the vast majority of murders that 70 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: occur in Washington, DC are of black victims, most often 71 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: killed by other black people. Right, So when you're arresting 72 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: this guy eleven times and BLM is out there saying 73 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: we've got to have racial equity, well how about the 74 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 1: people who are murder victims who are overwhelmingly black. If 75 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: black lives matter, why don't you care about protecting innocent 76 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 1: lives that are being taken all over this country right now? 77 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: Is the black murder rate has skyrocketed in the way 78 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: to wake of George Floyd, with almost all of those 79 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: murders being committed by other black people, right, fifty percent increase, 80 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: I think in the black homicide rate is the number 81 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: in the wake of the George Floyd incident. So buck 82 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: DC sees all this data, right, this is not some hypothetical. 83 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: You can legitimately look at the murder rate, violent crime rate, 84 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: and what do they decide to do? Pass a new 85 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: bill that will actually hold people who commit violence less 86 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: accountable than they are right now, Oh, we can get 87 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: even more specific in that data set, because that is 88 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 1: what they're doing. And now you actually have Congress stepping 89 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: in to say, you guys can't do this. Okay, we 90 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: have to show up to work in the Capitol. Basically 91 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: is what they've said. But you bring up that they 92 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: would the DC Council and it was over the objection 93 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 1: of Mayor Bowser. I actually from the police chief everybody 94 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 1: in DC that that was not on the council. Basically, 95 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 1: it was like, you guys are imbeciles. I have friends 96 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: who have worked in Bowser's for Muriel Bowser in the past, 97 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: and they've told me that, you know, while the Mayor's 98 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: definitely a Democrat and you know, very pro BLM and 99 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 1: all of that when that was happening, also pro business 100 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: and also understands that if if all the businesses start 101 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 1: to leave downtown DC. You got a big problem. Now 102 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: the council, the DC Council is completely insane, obviously representing 103 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: the various districts of the district or whatever they call them, 104 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: you know, the different sections, and so you brought up 105 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 1: the I just thought this was amazing, Clay. There were 106 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty five carjackings in Washington, DC in 107 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Carjackings is a particularly big problem in 108 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: DC has become and it has been going up for 109 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: the last five years. One of the things in the 110 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 1: DC Council Crime Bill, or you know, soft on crime 111 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: bill as people are calling it, was a less severe 112 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: sentence for carjacking. So they have a carjacking problem that 113 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: is out of DC. Is not that big of a city, 114 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: DC proper. It's like six hundred thousand people. I mean, 115 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: it's when you add the you know, the Beltway, and 116 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 1: everything gets a lot bigger. But this is about DC city, 117 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: this is the urban center. You've almost five hundred carjackings 118 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: a year in this city. And there are people who 119 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 1: are in charge of writing the local laws and they think, 120 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: you know what we gotta do, Let's send carjackers to 121 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: prison for less time if we send them to prison 122 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: at all. By the way, you know, maybe they get 123 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: a suspended sentence, or maybe we just drive the charges 124 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 1: to a weapon's possession. And by the way, the d 125 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: the DC Police chief rather when he said about the 126 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: eleven times, notice he says, keep people who are violent 127 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: with guns in prison. Here is where just everyone you 128 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: always need to remember this. This is so important. For 129 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: all their talk about guns and getting illegal guns off 130 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: the streets, Democrats are caught in a bind. They have 131 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: a problem because a vastly disproportionate number of the gun 132 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: arrests in name a major American city affect African American defendants. Ye, 133 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: so they don't actually want to send people who are 134 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: carrying illegal guns in cities to prison for a long 135 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: time because it's going to have a disproportioned impact on 136 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: the black community in their city. So what do they do. 137 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: They talk about banning aar fifteens at the national level, 138 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: and at the local level, they're letting people get off 139 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: with guns with nothing. They in Philadelphia lay half of 140 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: the gun of the gun possession illegal possession. I think 141 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: it was felon in possession. Krasner just said, yeah, we're 142 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: not going to charge it, and if you want to 143 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: know the panic that has set in, I don't think 144 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: this is a coincidence. We saw Lori Lightfoot get absolutely 145 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: walloped in Chicago over the crime issue. So putting this 146 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: into the context of Democrats being extremely soft on crime, 147 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: I think the Biden administration panicked here. And let me 148 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: explain what I think happened. So the House votes against 149 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: repealing Most Democrats, I think one hundred and seventy Democrats 150 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: in the House voted against repealing this soft on crime 151 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: bill that was passed by the DC Council. And for 152 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: everybody out there who's forgotten, Buck and I both lived 153 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: in DC, so we experienced this to some degree. Every 154 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: law in DC, because they are not a state, is 155 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: subject to federal review and oversight. So Republicans have taken 156 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: control of the House, they see this bill. One of 157 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: the Democrat congresswomen, by the way, was just a victim 158 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: of being attacked on our way to work. I think 159 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: one hundred and seventies. Still Democrats say we're not gonna 160 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: rescind this bill. We're gonna let DC get even softer 161 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: on crime. It passes the House, it then is going 162 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: into the Senate, the Biden administration comes out and says, 163 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: we're not going to veto this, We're gonna allow it 164 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: to become law. So all of those Democrats who voted 165 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: in favor of DC are now getting their legs cut 166 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:36,559 Speaker 1: out from underneath them. Senator Schumer yesterday, I believe, or 167 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: the day before, Buck came out and said, yeah, you 168 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: know what, I'm actually going to support overturning this law too. 169 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: So Biden led all of these Democrats in the House, 170 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: and I don't think it's gotten enough attention. He didn't 171 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: tell them in advance, Hey, I'm not going to veto 172 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 1: this bill. He had all of them line up supporting 173 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: soft on crime policies by and large, and the Democrat 174 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: he's some flip, but not very many. And now the 175 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: Senate is going to support it, this Republican move, and 176 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: Biden's not going to veto it. So Biden, effectively, and 177 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: this is a big deal to bolster his own reelection chances, 178 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 1: cut the legs out from underneath all of these House 179 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: Democrats who marched out there saying this is an equity issue. 180 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: We've got to protect criminals. We're not going to change 181 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 1: this law that DC's counsel passed, and Biden said, oh, 182 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 1: by the way, I am because I want to get 183 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: elected and just slice the legs right out from underneath 184 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 1: his base, and they are furious at him. I think 185 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: it's a smart move by Biden, but I think he 186 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: let his base right over the middle and let him 187 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: get decked. Oh absolutely. And Biden, let's not forget he's cunning. 188 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: He's not right, but he's cunning. He has those long time, 189 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: you know, decades long experience in politics where he understands 190 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: what's going to benefit it first and foremost. Joe Biden, 191 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: this was the right move for This is the right 192 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 1: move for him. And would I would add into this 193 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 1: because I think that this is so important. I've been 194 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: very harsh, as somebody who has lived in New York 195 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: for over thirty years, right in Manhattan, in New York City, 196 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: very harsh on I think deservedly so on Mayor Adams 197 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: in his first year. However, the issue of subway crime 198 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: got to be so extreme, and it's the arteries of 199 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: New York City are the subway system. Without the subway, 200 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: you can't even begin to get enough people into work 201 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: and go into school and everything else. So people have 202 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: to be comfortable taking the subway or else the city 203 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: is just a giant traffic jam. And it already is that, 204 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: but I mean it's a traffic jam that doesn't move 205 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 1: without the subway. So what do they do? And this 206 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: is with a hocal by the way, also pushing for 207 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: this because she was starting to get a lot of 208 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: heat and Zelden was gaining ground on this when she 209 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:59,559 Speaker 1: was up for reelection play. They put more cops on 210 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: the subway system and and this is a really important 211 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: part of it. They said, you enforce the laws. So 212 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: guess what. They cracked down on fair evasion. It's like 213 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: we're living the Giuliani era in the nineteen nineties, just 214 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: a little tiny piece of it, but we're seeing the 215 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: light at the end of the tunnel, and it's like 216 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: Giuliani is kind of waving to us, like, hey, guys, 217 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 1: here's the way. Because they gave out ten thousand more 218 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: summons is on the subway in the so far this year, 219 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: whatever it is two months into this year compared to 220 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: last year. So they put more cops on the subway 221 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 1: system and told them we've got your back. You enforce 222 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: every law. Someone jumps a turnstile, you grab them, you 223 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: give them a someone's summons, someone, you know, whatever. Someone 224 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: breaks the law in any capacity, you actually enforce the law. Well, 225 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: guess what subway crime year to year right now is 226 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: down twenty one percent across all cazing that works. Isn't 227 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: it crazy? You put more cops in the place where 228 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: you need them, you tell them that they can do 229 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 1: their jobs, and you have less criminal craziness going on. Adam, 230 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 1: Maybe Adams, Maybe Adams has decided he actually wants to 231 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: be a good mayor, at least on the crime issue. 232 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: Maybe he started number I'm is crime right, Like, that's 233 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: literally the most important job. I would say, it is 234 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: protecting the lives of your citizens inside of your cities. 235 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,199 Speaker 1: Nothing else matters outside of that. In my opinion, that's 236 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: number one. It's very true, my friends, very important. Everybody 237 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: sees where this data. Also, they'll do things and not 238 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: admit that we were right. Always understand. 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We're talking about 275 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: issues of crime and Joe Biden cutting the legs out 276 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: from underneath the House Democrats, which has them in an uproar. 277 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: He's also contemplating changing migrant rules for a legal immigrant 278 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: families back to the rule that existed when Trump was president. 279 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: I think one of the great unreported stories of the 280 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: Biden administration so far is how many Trump policies, certainly 281 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: on China, but many others that Biden said were so 282 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: awful he actually let stay in place when he became president, right, 283 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: I mean remember AOC standing there in the all light 284 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: outfit crying over the migrants situation. Now Biden's like, you 285 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: know what, that probably makes more sense because five million 286 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 1: legals are here and we can't handle all the influx. 287 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: Five million more, five million more. Yes, so we have 288 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: been saying for a long time. Hey, you know, one 289 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: reason crime's probably up is because so many people are 290 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: wearing masks into stores. The number one thing you would 291 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: do before COVID if you were trying to commit a 292 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: crime was wear a mask. Now New York City Mayor 293 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: Eric Adams, he's like, I think we'd even do away 294 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: with the mask issue because it's creating more crime. Listen, 295 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: we are putting out a clear call to all of 296 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: our shops. Do not allow people to enter the store 297 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: without taking off their face masks, and then one stay 298 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: inside they could continue to where if they so desire 299 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 1: to do so. So you know, it's interesting because one 300 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: I was pointing out at the beginning, because I've hated masks, 301 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: I'd to put a mask on today. By the way, Yeah, 302 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: you were fired up this morning. Doctor's appointment at University 303 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: of Miami Medical Center and it's it's appalling how stupid 304 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: the people are in charge. It's appalling that the president 305 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: of University of Miami is allowing this to continue. This 306 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: is a decision by the University of Miami. This has 307 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: no there's no government mandate of any kind. But anyway, 308 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,679 Speaker 1: some of us pointed out in the beginning Clay that 309 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,479 Speaker 1: masking was actually banned in a lot of jurisdictions unless 310 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: needed for your job. So, yeah, if you're a carpenter 311 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: or you're doing something that's but to be in a 312 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: public place with a mask on because it's an obvious 313 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: safety issue. And people say, oh, there's gonna wear a mask. Anyway, 314 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: what are you going to create mask free zones? It's 315 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: no one's wearing a mask, but one break. You know, 316 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: think about it, like the old bank robbers that put 317 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: panty hose over their heads. If everyone has panty hose 318 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: over their heads, you don't notice it. If one person's 319 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: walking around with that or with a ski mask on, 320 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:56,399 Speaker 1: you notice it and you pay attention to them. And also, 321 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,879 Speaker 1: facial recognition will picked them up before they put the 322 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: mask on. That's the key. The facial recognition picks them up. Also, 323 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 1: any bank you ever went into if somebody had a 324 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,640 Speaker 1: mask on pre COVID, you'd be like, Oh, this dude 325 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,439 Speaker 1: might be about to rob the place. No, no kidding. 326 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: If you own a small business, you know the value 327 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: at time. Get Refunds dot Com does too. 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And 345 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 1: this may conjure up if someone were to hear this 346 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 1: and not know the context that there are you know, 347 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 1: DeSantis stormtroopers going around to different bookstores and life they 348 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: go into Barnes and Noble and they just grab a 349 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 1: whole stack of stuff and they no, no, no, none 350 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: of that is actually happening, as you all know. But 351 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,959 Speaker 1: the way the media talks about it is meant to 352 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:43,199 Speaker 1: be as much a lie as say they're calling the 353 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: parental rights an education bill in Florida, the don't say 354 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 1: gay bill. They're just lying. It doesn't even say gay 355 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 1: in the bill, so how could it be a don't 356 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: say gay bill. Point being here, folks, the propaganda that 357 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 1: they are deploying against the Descantists efforts here is of 358 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: the most dishonest and disgraceful kind. And he's had enough 359 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: of it, and as is his habit, he is taking 360 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: the fight to the media on this. So let's let's 361 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: discuss what's going on here. There are there are schools 362 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: out there that in Florida and in many states. By 363 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 1: the way, if you're living at a red state, you're 364 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: probably thinking, oh, that's that's something that No, No, it's 365 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: happening in your state too. It's happening all over the country. 366 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 1: What you find is that there are books that are 367 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 1: highly inappropriate for children that are in the classroom, and 368 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,439 Speaker 1: this keeps happening. We had Carol Mark Whittz on Yesterdays. 369 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 1: He's got a great book, Stolen Youth, which everybody should 370 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 1: check out. She goes into this and Ron de santists 371 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 1: to prove this point. It's not about banning a book 372 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: as in, we don't think there should be sold on Amazon, 373 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,959 Speaker 1: or we think that this should be you know, burned 374 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 1: in a pile in the backyard, and nobody should ever 375 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,360 Speaker 1: be allowed to see this. People want to write, you know, weird, trashy, 376 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: gross books or novels there. That's that's on them. Publishers 377 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: want to publish it, that's on them. But when it 378 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 1: comes to what children see, I think we can all 379 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 1: agree there should be some editorial hand in protecting them 380 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: from deeply not just deeply political, deeply sexualized agenda items. 381 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: And this is where Ronda Santis was in Oh was it? 382 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,400 Speaker 1: He was in Tampa yesterday and he started reading from 383 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,479 Speaker 1: some or rather there was a presentation about some of 384 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: these books that have been banned Play twenty one. When 385 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 1: they try to say that somehow like like like the 386 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: books being quote banned, like adults can can do what 387 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: they want on this stuff. That's that's available for everybody. 388 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: You know, some of that stuff would not be entertaining 389 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: for me. But that's fine. I mean, like, you know, 390 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,440 Speaker 1: you have the ability as adult to make your decisions, 391 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: but you know, eight year olds, nine year olds to 392 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: to have that thrust in them is not something that 393 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 1: that's appropriate. And you know, also you just many just 394 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,199 Speaker 1: mentioned like you know, they try to whatever they can 395 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 1: use the cudgel gets me just because I'm a target. 396 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: That's fine, Clay. They're going after them, as I understand it. 397 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: Yesterday they were reading from some of these books and 398 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 1: the media organizations had to pull away because of how 399 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 1: graphic some of the content was. Yeah, and again, I 400 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,199 Speaker 1: just think Republicans are not doing a good job of 401 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: explaining on this. And I don't really think it's very complicated. 402 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,479 Speaker 1: And I've been saying this, but I know a lot 403 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,199 Speaker 1: of staffers out there, listen, I know a lot of 404 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: politicians themselves, as they're out driving around in their districts, 405 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 1: they'll listen to this show. And we appreciate that this 406 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 1: is not a censorship story. It is being conveyed as 407 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: if it is a censorship story. What really is going 408 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: on is there is a decision being made about what 409 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: age appropriate books should be available in particular and elementary 410 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 1: school libraries. And if you put it in the context, 411 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:54,920 Speaker 1: that's why I just immediately pull it out and say, 412 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: put in the context of movies. No one ever argues 413 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: our rated movie are being banned from kids. Right, Most 414 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 1: young kids don't see our rated movies because the parents look, oh, 415 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: that's a rated R movie. It's probably inappropriate for my 416 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: six or seven year old, but I, as an adult 417 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: may go to that movie. That's all that's going on 418 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,199 Speaker 1: here is parents are looking and saying, this is not 419 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 1: a book that belongs in a library. And I give 420 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: credit to the De Santis camp for coming out and 421 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: reading some of these books and literally making some of 422 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 1: this video cut away because it's FCC violations potentially for 423 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: them to be sharing some of it. If you can't 424 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:40,160 Speaker 1: put it on a local television broadcast, then it probably 425 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 1: isn't appropriate for a second or third grader or god 426 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 1: forbid a first grader to be reading. And that is 427 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 1: all that's going on here. And when people understand that 428 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 1: that's the job of parents. We have to decide what 429 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: is age appropriate for our kids. It's one of the 430 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: most important jobs that we have. I think we could 431 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: just call these common sense pornographic material real restrictions. You know, 432 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: let's let's come up with a term, because that's what 433 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 1: this is. It is restricting by age access to material 434 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 1: that is highly highly sexualized. To your point, you could 435 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: do the same thing, uh, you know, you bring up 436 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 1: with movies. Would it be honest if somebody said that 437 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: enforcing a twenty one to buy alcohol law is that 438 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: banning alcohol? Banning alcohol? It's saying that people have a 439 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,159 Speaker 1: certain age. Can you know you haven't banned alcohol. No 440 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: book has been banned, So the word band should not. 441 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: We should ban the use of the word ban in 442 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: this context because it's a lie. And if you want 443 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: to know some of the books that are the New 444 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 1: Yorker is trying to write, you know, the New Yorker 445 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: is um just left wing propaganda with bigger words than 446 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 1: you usually see. And they try to pick out some 447 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,679 Speaker 1: of the books that are included in this, so you know, 448 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 1: there's some of the stuff that has been calling in 449 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 1: the question. Is the very explicit content in books like 450 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 1: The fifty seven Bus, which is a nonfiction young adult 451 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: book about an a gender teenager whose skirt gets set 452 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: on fire by another teen and the Hate you give, 453 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: a popular fiction story about the aftermath of the shooting 454 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,400 Speaker 1: of a young black man by a white police officer. 455 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 1: I mean, you're you're assigning this stuff to kids in 456 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 1: the sixth grade. I don't know. I think there's I 457 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: think there's better stuff to be assigning children who are 458 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 1: still learning to read at a high level and still 459 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,879 Speaker 1: learning to process information and need to learn history and 460 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: literature and reason and logic. No, let's have them read 461 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 1: about imaginary people being shot in racist murders by white 462 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,640 Speaker 1: police officers. This is the stuff that's being pulled out 463 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,439 Speaker 1: of the schools. And again, if you are a parent 464 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 1: and you see this and you say, my goodness, it 465 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: is incredibly important for my child's education that they read 466 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,239 Speaker 1: this book. No one is stopping you from going and 467 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: getting the book and bringing it into your household. There 468 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: is no band. This This is what the word band 469 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 1: is automatically designed to create. To connote the idea that 470 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 1: there's some sort of massive restriction that is going on 471 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: and it doesn't actually exist, because to your point, alcohol 472 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,360 Speaker 1: is not banned when you have to be twenty one 473 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:30,400 Speaker 1: to to consume it. R rated movies are not banned 474 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 1: when you have to be eighteen years old to buy 475 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: your own ticket for the R rated movie. Those exist. 476 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 1: There's just age appropriateness associated with those objects. You know, 477 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 1: I may think that the five day waiting period to 478 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,440 Speaker 1: pick up my AR fifteen was stupid, but it would 479 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: not be honest for me to come on and say 480 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 1: that my buying of the AR fifteen was banned. It 481 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 1: is not banned. There is some restriction on my access 482 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,439 Speaker 1: to it. So that word is a very specific thing, 483 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: as a very as if a connotation. And by the way, 484 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,360 Speaker 1: here is descendis again about what this is really meant 485 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,600 Speaker 1: to be, which is preventing. There's a very clear agenda 486 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:14,239 Speaker 1: from the left, from the Democrats to introduce highly not 487 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,919 Speaker 1: just sexual, controversial and sexual you know, oh, you know, 488 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 1: seven year olds should know what pan sexuality is. All 489 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: this crazy stuff out there. There's an agenda to do 490 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 1: what DESCENTI is saying. Look in Florida. At least they're 491 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: gonna protect kids from this play twenty. What you've seen 492 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: is a lot of false narratives put out. And I 493 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 1: think though there is a concerted effort to bring some 494 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: of this sexualization into the classroom, particularly in these young grades, 495 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: when we did do parents' rights and education bills. Think 496 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: as many of you know, but even when you're talking 497 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 1: about twelve thirteen year olds, to see some of that 498 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 1: stuff in there, I think most parents would say absolutely not. 499 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: You know, parents can have those discussions when they think 500 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 1: it's appropriate with their kid, but to have that is wrong. 501 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: I'm not interested play and hearing the opinions on what 502 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: books are appropriate for small children. I don't want to 503 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,360 Speaker 1: hear the opinions of the same activists in the same 504 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: idealogues that think that, you know, a forty five year 505 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: old man shaking his butt in a thong and fishnets 506 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: in front of small children because he's in drag is 507 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 1: somehow appropriate. Like there's something twisted and wrong on the 508 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,640 Speaker 1: left and we all see it. Buck. I'm old man. 509 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 1: As you like to point out, we got the internet 510 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 1: in school before I had the internet at home. Some 511 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:37,439 Speaker 1: this may shock you. Some teenage boys in my school 512 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: figured out there was pornography on the Internet, and they 513 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,479 Speaker 1: went and started looking up pornography on school computers. Probably 514 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: not very smart. This is early in the days of 515 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: the internet, right like nineteen nineteen ninety six era. You 516 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 1: know what the school did, They banned accessing pornography on 517 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: school computers. That seems totally rational, right, Like everybody out there, 518 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: the idea that your kid could sit down in a 519 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 1: computer lab and look up pornography at school is unacceptable. 520 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: And the Democrats here are basically arguing that that act. Clearly, 521 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: it's it's practically North Korea. What is Kim Jong n 522 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: ordering a crackdown on accessing porn in the schools. That's 523 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: what they're arguing. That's the point. I mean, that's crazy. 524 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: And I sit here and I think I can't imagine 525 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 1: any parent, of any sane parent I should say saying, yeah, 526 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: I want my kids looking up pornography on school computers, 527 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 1: especially in elementary school. But really, at any age, why 528 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: in the world would you want the same pornography available 529 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,239 Speaker 1: in a book. Just something to think about, you know, 530 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: all about how woke activist sees control of America's schools 531 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: now a group of investment firms Americans in trust with 532 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: our pensions and retirements, are playing woke politics with your 533 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: money without our knowledge or consent. A few large investment 534 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: firms names you know control trillions of dollars of your money, 535 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: and they're using those dollars to advance their woke ideology 536 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,959 Speaker 1: through a progressive social scoring program called ESG. They claim 537 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: it promotes corporate responsibility, but what they're really doing is 538 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: using americans hard earned money to finance their political agendas, 539 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: forcing businesses to comply or else. Some state leaders are 540 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: fighting back and more are joining up, letting those investment 541 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 1: firms know they can't play politics with our pensions. They 542 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 1: can either do their jobs, maximize returns for shareholders, or 543 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 1: get lost. To learn more, go to Consumers Research dot org. 544 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: They've been defending consumers against fraud and abuse for decades 545 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: still are. Go to Consumers Research dot org to learn 546 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: more about their mission to protect consumers from woke investment firms. 547 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: That's Consumers Research dot Org. Heard it on the show here. 548 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 1: More on the podcast Clay and Buck podcast Deep Dives, 549 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: more contents, more common sense. Find the guys on the 550 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 1: iHeart app or wherever you get your podcast, Welcome back 551 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 1: in play Travis Buck Sexton Show. We're talking about the 552 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: absurd use of the word band. It's a little bit 553 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: like the labeling. I would say left wingers are really 554 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 1: good at labeling when they said don't say gay, and 555 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: then everybody actually looked at the bill and they said, well, really, 556 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: this just stops Florida schools from talking about gender ideology 557 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: with kindergarten for second third graders. That seems totally normal, 558 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 1: This idea that books are being banned. It sends the 559 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 1: message of oh, there's somebody as they try to bring 560 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 1: a book into Florida that's stopping a truck and like 561 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 1: pulling books off and burning them. No, parents are making 562 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: decisions about what their kids should read. I'm like a 563 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,480 Speaker 1: lot of parents out there. I imagine Buck where I'm 564 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 1: begging my kids to read all the time. The rule 565 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 1: in the Travis household is if you bring a book 566 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 1: in to me in a bookstore and I look at 567 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 1: it and you know it's age appropriate right and you're 568 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: willing to read it, I'll buy it. Because I'm desperately 569 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 1: trying to get my kids to read. And some of 570 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,479 Speaker 1: them read really well, and other ones, We set an 571 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: alarm for twenty minutes and it feels to them like 572 00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: it's twenty hours. And I know there's a lot of 573 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 1: parents out there who understand this, but this is a 574 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: real issue that's going on. We got a caller out there. 575 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: One of the cities that we're number one in right 576 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 1: now is Louisville, Kentucky. Steve, you ran for the school 577 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: board in Louisville based on this issue specifically. Tell us 578 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,400 Speaker 1: about that. Well, yeah, And one of the things that 579 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 1: I was finding is opposition to the removal of these 580 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,400 Speaker 1: books seems to be focused on the characters in the book. 581 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 1: And the point that I tried to make to parents, 582 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 1: we don't oppose the identity of the characters in the books. 583 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 1: We opposed the contest. Excuse me. An example that I 584 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: gave was, I don't approve of fifty Shades of Gray 585 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 1: being in schools for middle schoolers, but I'm not anti 586 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 1: heterosexual people. I don't oppose or I do oppose books 587 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 1: that depict sexual lacks in nudity in all books. It 588 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 1: doesn't matter if the characters are straight, by gay or whatever. Yes, 589 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 1: now they're they're trying to hide behind the notion that 590 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: this is some kind of bigotry because if you're if 591 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 1: you have extremely explicit sexual content presented to a sixth 592 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 1: grader or a third grader, but it involves a pan 593 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: sexual or you know, non heteronormative UM, nonsenius, gender asexual, 594 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,719 Speaker 1: furry you know, I don't know. I mean there's all 595 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 1: these different you know, designations, um, but you know there 596 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 1: are fur. I just found out from a friend of mine, 597 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 1: Catalina Lauf. She just told me yesterday that she went 598 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: to a school board meeting up in Illinois when she's 599 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,479 Speaker 1: running for Congress, and that there are kids showing up 600 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: at school dressed as as furry animals. This is a thing. 601 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 1: And I was like, I was like, how is this? 602 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 1: And and what's the craziest part of it isn't just 603 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 1: the kids do this, It's that they're they're then arguing 604 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 1: this is this is a part of my identity, and 605 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 1: the school is terrified to do anything about it. I 606 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 1: asked her three times, I'm like, look, you're running for congress. 607 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 1: Are you serious about this? She said, yeah, this this 608 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,319 Speaker 1: happens now that they're kids who show up they say 609 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 1: I'm I'm a tiger, and I expect to be treated 610 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,799 Speaker 1: with tiger dignity. And this is a thing now, and 611 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,279 Speaker 1: I think there's actually a comedian, Sebastian Maniscalco did a 612 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 1: whole thing on this that even at his school, there 613 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:25,840 Speaker 1: was some kid who showed up and said he's like 614 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,319 Speaker 1: a lion or something, and they're all supposed to refer 615 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,879 Speaker 1: to the kid as a lion. And the teachers are 616 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 1: so terrified slash brainwashed that they go along with this stuff, 617 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 1: or or they're afraid they're going to be sued if 618 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,400 Speaker 1: they don't clay the real the real issue here for 619 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,839 Speaker 1: the left with all of this stuff is parents are 620 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:48,120 Speaker 1: waking up to someone chooses what books your kids read. Yes, 621 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 1: it can either be something you have been put in 622 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 1: that parents know about, or you can leave it to 623 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 1: the left wing commissars of the teachers unions who are 624 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 1: at the BECK and all of the activist class that 625 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 1: thinks the drag Queen Story Hour for five year olds 626 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:11,640 Speaker 1: is a great learning opportunity. I think Carol Markowitz yesterday 627 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,719 Speaker 1: with us Buck did a really good job answering your 628 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:18,359 Speaker 1: question because on this drag show aspect, I watched these 629 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,760 Speaker 1: videos and it's always white women, moms, who were taking 630 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: their kids to these drag shows. And I just think 631 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,440 Speaker 1: about it from the perspective, as I said with her yesterday, 632 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,719 Speaker 1: if I were a dad and I took my I 633 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,520 Speaker 1: have an eight year old. If I took my eight 634 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:37,440 Speaker 1: year old to a to a you know, sex themed 635 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 1: straight strip t show, right, normal heterosexual woman comes out 636 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,840 Speaker 1: like an a normal strip club that very popular. I 637 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 1: hear dressed scandalously and dances around as a stripper would 638 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,400 Speaker 1: in a heterosexual male strip club. If I took my 639 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,120 Speaker 1: second grader to that show, I would probably get charged 640 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 1: with a crime. And it would be so foreign to 641 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,279 Speaker 1: me as a dad to even think to do that 642 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,000 Speaker 1: because it was correct. You wouldn't even they wouldn't even 643 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,600 Speaker 1: let you in. It wouldn't be legal for you to 644 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,719 Speaker 1: bring your second grader in. Right, so correct, so it's 645 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,799 Speaker 1: not even like it's a description, But they also would 646 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,960 Speaker 1: There aren't like stripper brunches for dads, right, is what 647 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, you can't go to like, Hey, I'm 648 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: gonna go get waffles and I'm gonna take my eight 649 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:26,640 Speaker 1: year old and then there's gonna be a stripper, heterosexual stripper, 650 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,920 Speaker 1: and all these dads are gonna go, and we're just 651 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,759 Speaker 1: gonna go with our little kids, and we're gonna think 652 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:35,399 Speaker 1: it's normal. Women are doing this. And I watch these 653 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,000 Speaker 1: videos and I think to myself, how in the world 654 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,640 Speaker 1: are these moms making the decision and Carol hit on it. 655 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,839 Speaker 1: They're trying to prove how inclusive they are and how 656 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,960 Speaker 1: much they love the LGBT community. And it's become so 657 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,719 Speaker 1: inclusive that somebody stripping in front of a six year 658 00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:57,040 Speaker 1: old at a brunch is considered normal for these white women. 659 00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,239 Speaker 1: It's not. It's crazy.