August 1, 2022 • 37 mins
Buck hosts solo while Clay "takes a deserved vacation with the family." He promises there will be no kegs or refuse of parties strewn around when Clay returns. Buck thinks through the ramifications of Pelosi's Taiwan trip: Does America really want to go to war with China over Taiwan? He says, "Full-scale war with China over Taiwan? We're not treaty bound. We have a strategic ambiguity policy. Think about that." Nancy Pelosi is no freedom fighter. Buck says, "Pelosi's always playing an angle for Team Pelosi." Good news: Grain shipment leaves Ukraine. Joe Manchin proves he's just another lying Democrat. Buck can't believe the people of West Virginia have voted for him so many times and to remember that he IS a Democrat. Democrat spending bill will not fight inflation. Buck takes calls on Taiwan.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to the Monday edition of
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. This is Buck.
I'm gonna be in solo this week because our buddy
Clay is on a deserved vacation with the family having
a great time, and told him not to worry. He
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will come back and the house that is this radio
show will not have been strewn with kegs and the
refuse of too many parties. We're gonna keep it, keep
it professional. Here're gonna keep it focused on the news,
no big parties while Clay. While the Clay is away,
the Buck will play a little bit, not too much,
I promise. So he's gonna have a great time on vacation.
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He'll be back with us next Monday. I got you
every day this week, and we already have a ton
of news to break down today together. We have the
aftermath of that anti inflation bill that'll make inflation worse
or really do very much, but it will just spend
a whole bunch of money. We'll discuss why did Joe
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Manchion go along with this? Is it totally a done deal.
I think it is, but there are some who are saying,
hold on a second, there's the possibility of a last
minute wrench in their plans. Will certainly talk about this.
Biden has tested positive for COVID again. So I just
want to do a quick review. Here, four vaccine shots,
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four vaccine shots and I don't know how many packs
Loavid pills, and the guy just tested positive again. They
call it rebound positivity. We will certainly discuss this. Remember,
people got fired from their jobs for not getting this vaccine.
This vaccine that is so good that you can get
four shots and not only be positive, but be positive
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the negative then positive again. Amazing, isn't it. That's something
that we will certainly die and do. As you know,
I'm not giving up this fight. I will not give
up until everyone goes buck. You're right, Fauci is awful.
We never should have shut down masks or idiotic. We
were wrong to listen to these libs. Wrong. They were
wrong about everything. I will not give up until that
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is the and so maybe for the rest of my
life I'll be on this, but I don't care. It
is the truth. So we certainly have that discuss some
other stories too, like Wikipedia suspending edits of recession on
its page, because there has been a full scale effort
by the social media and digital giants to in real
time change the definition of recession and to not allow
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people think about this, not allow people to use the
definition that is in commonplace, common understanding for many, many
years now, all in service to the idiotic Biden regime,
all in service to the incompetence of this White House.
It's very Soviet, then, that is not an overstatement that
this is straight out of the Soviet book. You can't
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actually win on the numbers. You can't actually just change
all the numbers, lie about what the numbers mean, lie
about the definitions, the words that we use to describe them,
and that's all come in your way. We've got a
lot today, as I said, But but first off, this
Pelosi visit to Taiwan is apparently happening. We're told this
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is going to go down in the next couple of days.
It's causing a lot of consternation among well, depends on
who you ask. The Chinese Communist Party is making really
aggressive statements about this from Chinese state affiliated media. They
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had one person put this out from a Chinese Communist
Party media platform Global Times. They put out that Pelosi
is in Singapore and will fly to South Korea en
route to Taiwan after visiting Malaysia. The PLA has clearly
been well prepared. If she dares to stop in Taiwan,
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it will be the moment to ignite the powder keg
of the situation in the Taiwan Straits. So there's also
this video of missiles being fired by the Chinese and
a lot of saber rattling. I'm in a lot of
she better not or else, and now everyone's wondering what
that or else actually means. And I've got to tell you,
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I'm of two minds on this thing. On the one hand,
you can't bow down to the Chinese Communist Party more
than we already do as a government. And let's be
honest as a country on a regular basis, need all
that cheap stuff imported into this country. You need to
be able to buy whatever it is on Amazon, have
it right delivered to you. Don't want to make it here,
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haven't made overseas. So we've excused a lot of behavior
until Trump came along. Doesn't get nearly enough credit for this,
and it was great to see the man himself number
forty five on Friday, a nice long chat with him
on air and off air. He was right about how
China has been taking advantage of the United States. He
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was right about the need for the US to stand
up to Chinese policies on trade, and just the way
that they always do what's in their interests and always
do things that harm our interests while our own elites say, well,
this is the way it has to be. No, it doesn't. Actually,
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it doesn't have to be that way. And things now,
I believe are at a different place than they were
before the Trump president presidency. So on the one hand, yeah,
Pelosi can't bend the knee. That looks bad. But on
the other hand, what are we really willing to risk
over Taiwan? Ask yourself this question? You know. I was
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listening over the weekend. There's this great new podcast on
the scene, Sean Ryan, who's a former Navy seal, and
he's had some great guests, DJ Shipley and Eric Prince.
I was listening to some of these podcasts that he's
done long form, and the Eric Prince one is really
interesting because it takes you into just how in so
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many ways incompetent and insidious. The consensus, the machinery, particularly
on foreign policy. But the moment that you're you're talking
about foreign policy mixed in with domestic politics, what is
so often the consent is everybody knows, everybody believes. They say, well,
why is that really true? And we keep in mind
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we have assigned agreement as a country that we would defend,
we would defend the territorial integrity of Ukraine. And then
when Ukraine was invaded by Russia, I think sanity prevailed
because we said, well, hold on not actually going to
go to war with Russia over Ukraine. Now I understand
that for the defense of free people's and our sense
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of democracy and decency and humanitarianism and all the rest
of it. Taiwan is a country that is an ally.
Taiwan matters in that sense of the United States. But
at some point we actually have to look at the question,
would we be willing to risk and even engage in
a war with China over this island. It's not American soil,
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it's not American citizens there. Would would you want to
actually go and send or would you send your own
your own children to go fight? I mean as adults, obviously,
but would you want people from your family to go
and fight in the Taiwan Straits over this? And I
think it's interesting that people get so uncomfortable when you
ask that question. Why isn't that the critical question? Shouldn't
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we all be very clear on this? As I was
saying in that long form with Eric Prince, the founder
of Blackwater, the most fascinating thing to me other than
a lot of the managerial excellence and general concepts that
are applicable to life, but what was really interesting was
just how incompetent and also self dealing and willing to
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cover its own butt the federal government is. And I
experienced some of that even myself. I saw it, and
I wasn't involved at the top levels, but I saw
it happening when I was in the CIA, that the
federal government is always first and foremost concerned about the
bureaucracy and the foreign policy establishment, the State Department, the
think tanks. They put out these papers and it makes
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people feel good to talk about democracy and the defense
of our allies abroad and all of this. We spent
twenty years in Afghanistan for what for what now? The
initial invasion was not only the right idea, it was
a necessary idea. But then the expansion into nation building
just happened. And one of the reasons that happened is
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because anybody who asked the question, what are we doing here?
What are we really trying to accomplish here? Was shouted down.
I think that it is time to have a really
serious discussion over what length are we willing to go to,
because China right now is pushing in a way that
we haven't seen in a long time, making the kind
of statements that could lead to miscalculation, saying things that
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do make us think that there's the possibility here of
a true provocation, perhaps even an active war. Now. I
don't think they're going to do anything against Speaker Pelosi.
I hope they don't do anything against Speaker Pelosi. But
regardless of this specific trip, let's just all assume for
our purposes and certainly hope that it goes along without
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any major incident. But what are we willing to do
in response to a Chinese effort to take Taiwan and
we are actually going to have a military response. Do
we want to go to war with China over this island?
I think there are a lot of people that don't
like that question, and then you ask them, Okay, so
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the answers, yes, full scale war with China over Taiwan.
It's not we don't have we're not treaty bound. We
have a strategic ambiguity policy. Think about that. We're supposed
to all know the answer to this question, but the
basis of the question is in we don't really know
specifically what we're supposed to do or what we would do.
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And that's meant to off balance the Chinese Communist Party.
And perhaps you could argue that's worked for a long time,
but a war with China is that's something we would
really be prepared to do. And I don't pretend to
have an easy answer either, but I've just noticed this
habit of people pretending, especially in the early phases, well,
we all know what the answer is. Really, we all
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knew what the answer was with Iraq, we all knew
what the answer was with Afghanistan, with Libya, with the
Syrian civil War, with the war in Ukraine. It's all
so clear, right, there are these people that are on
the expert. If one thing, if there's one thing you
could take away from the COVID phenomenon. It's that just
because somebody has credentials, just because they're part of the
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managerial elite in some sector of public life, it does
not mean that they are infallible. And in fact, it
doesn't even mean that they are smarter than you or
no more than you on the subject matter that they
are allegedly experts in. They may have a more specific
knowledge in some ways, but their judgment, which when you're
talking about policy, is fundamentally what matters. What big decisions
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do you make when it finally comes down to it,
when you have that phone call, you know, mister President
or mister or Missus secret or Missus Secretary of State,
you know whatever, head of the CIA, head of the
chaino Chamber, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, you're gonna
advise the commander in chief. What do you tell that
person when it really matters? And that's what it all
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comes down to. That's why I'm sure that the Faucis
and the Burkses of the world can cite obscure studies
and data to prove they're bonafidez on the issue, but
when it came to making the big calls, they were wrong.
When it comes to making a big call over Taiwan,
we better get it right. And that's my biggest My
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biggest takeaway for you right now is that you'll notice
that no one really seems to have thought this through
beyond the we will defend democracy. What does that mean?
Somebody asked me, They said, Okay, do you want to
station yourself? You want to? You want to go? Obviously
I need training and all that, but just as an
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intellectual exercise, you want to go station yourself on an
aircraft carrier off off the coast of Taiwan. Ready in
case of I would not want that job, actually, just
in terms of whether I think that that is the
proper policy to pursue in case of open hostilities? What
I feel? What I as an individual good about risking
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my life for the independence of the island nation of Taiwan.
And then I think we could also ask the next question, well,
if I wouldn't feel when I say, feel good about it,
if I wouldn't feel like it is necessary? Right, we're
talking about these questions. Would I want someone else? Would
I push for someone else to do that in my place?
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I think at some level a return to first principles
of our national security would be really helpful here. We've
gotten used to the apparatus just deploying troops and sending
people on one tour after another, and they're carrying the
load and their professionals, and this is what they do,
all right, But are we giving them the right mission set?
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Do we as the American people actually want this? Or
is this just where inertia and the bureaucracy take us.
Afghanistan can be a lesson, I think in many ways
for our future, and as we see what's going on
in Ukraine, where we're effectively now committed to supplying in
a war that seems like it will stretch on for years,
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and to what end? Exactly? What is the end state
we're looking for? You notice the White House doesn't even
talk about it. Do you think that a war with
China would be quick and easy and forgotten thereafter? What
would we really be committing ourselves to? What are the
alternatives here? I don't think these are easy questions, By
the way, I don't pretend that they're easy, But I
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think that the people in charge just want everyone else
to be quiet so they can pretend they are easy.
And that is dangerous and in this moment when the
Speaker of the House is a matter of twenty four
or forty eight hours away from possibly the most tense
moment we've seen with China in many years. I do
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think it's important we think about what we would like
to really do as a country here, what we are
committed to do. We got a lot of problems here
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to make sure that when she travels overseas, she can
do so safely and securely, and we're going to make
sure that there's no reason for the Chinese rhetoric. There's
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no reason for any actions to be taken. It is
not uncommon for congressional leaders to travel to Taiwan. It
is very much in keeping with our policy and consistent
with our support to Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act.
We're not we shouldn't be as a country, we shouldn't
be intimidated by by that rhetoric or those potential actions.
This is an important trip for the speaker to be
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on and we're gonna do whatever we can to support her.
Welcome back to Clay an Buck. This is Buck. I
also just want to take a quick moment to note
that Nancy Pelosi is not some great freedom fighter. I
am well aware of the fact that Pelosi was just
had her husband buying a whole bunch of chip makers
in advance of the chip bill passing Congress billions and
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billions of dollars in subsidies. Taiwan is one of the
most important manufacturers of I think, the most important manufacturer
of semiconductors in the world of chips, and Pelosi's always
playing an angle for Team Pelosi, so well aware of that.
I don't want you to think for it's not like
Nancy Pelosi all of a sudden is channeling George Washington
and it's a country first above all else, no way,
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So why is Pelosi going there? I'm sure she got
herself beyond what she anticipated with this when probably wanted
to talk to some of those chip makers make sure
that those investments are sound, maybe get a little bit
of good information going forward. But she stumbled into it.
And she's our Speaker of the House, no matter what
we think about that. So this is where we are now.
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Forgot any current or former military one a weigh into
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Two'd love to hear from you. What do you think
about this and should I mean honestly, should we go
to the mat to defend Taiwan If it comes to that.
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This is Buck coming from NYC and plays on vacation
this week show. I got some good news for you.
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I like to share good news whenever I can, because
the news cycle is obviously a lot of stuff that
is concerning. To say the least, A grain shipment has
departed Ukraine for the first time since the Russian invasion.
I may be saying, well, why does why does this
really matter to us? Here? Ukraine is one of the
biggest grain exporters in the world and absent that supply
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on the global market. Because grain is a global market,
you were likely to see substantial increases in the price
of food, and in poorer countries you might have even
seen hunger and perhaps even some famines popping up in
different places, depending if it got really bad. Now it
looks like they have a deal to at least export
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the grain. So from the port of Odessa, only six
thousand metric tons of corn headed to Lebanon and from
there I'll be distributed to other other places. But that's
going on right now. That's a good thing. Russia is
also a very big producer of fertilizer, so that was
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another concern here for the global food production market, which
very few people think about. You know, when I say
think about we obviously constantly think about food. I think
about food too much. But where our food comes from
and who has to do what to make sure that
there is bread on the shelf, so to speak, people
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don't spend very much time thinking about it. We live
in this world of incredible abundance now. But as you've seen,
even with the supply chain disruptions, the problem with baby formula,
it doesn't take that much to throw our very complicated
system off a bit, and there can be real suffering
that results from that. So good news from the grain front,
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which matters. I mean, think about it almost like if
we had lost the major oil producer entirely offline. Now.
Of course, Russia is still producing oil despite all the
stuff in the early days of that invasion, and still
selling its soil in the global market. But if we
lost an oil producer, everybody would realize the downstream effects
of that same thing for grain, price of food, and
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already with the rising prices you're seeing in the grocery stores.
This was a real challenge something people were concerned about.
So I don't know, by the way, if it's still
going to hit pretty hard or not. But at least
there's some deal and there is some right think about
this Russian EU crater at war, but they know they've
got to get the grain out. That gives you, I think,
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a sense of the incentives here and the seriousness of
the situation. And then there's the incentives for Joe Mansion
to have done this last minute deal to do essentially
a scale down, a skinny build back better if you will,
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which is the buy didn't plan right, build back brokeus.
Some people call it whatever, but this is a slimmed
down version of that. It was interesting. ABC's John carl
Over the weekend asked him why, you know, because he
had been saying, oh, I won't do anything with climate provisions.
I mean, this was a huge head fake from Mansion,
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and let's just get this out of the way right now.
There are a lot of lies they're telling you about this.
Oh it's not going to reduce taxes. Oh it's not
going to increase inflation. Oh it's not true. Tax and spend.
Democrats have a fever and the only prescription is taxing
and spending. That's it. That's really what this does. It
moves some money around to people that they like or
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causes that they like, and is going to increase costs
in a lot of ways for other people. But don't worry.
They'll point to the you know, everything is going to
be more expensive for you, but there's some money being
thrown or some additional leeway to negotiate prices for prescription
drugs for seniors on Medicare. So that's how they're hoping
politically to distract people from the fact that well, everything
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else is going to get more expensive and job jobs
are going to be hurt by this and spending more
money at a time of serious inflation. Here is ABC's
John Carl asking Mansion, why the secrecy. Why did it
have to be negotiated in secret? As you know, this
has rubbed some of your colleagues the wrong way, Bernie Sanders,
I said, last I heard, Senator Mansion is not the
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majority leader, despite what you may think. Last I heard,
he is not the only member of the Democratic Caucus.
Why did this have to be basically just you and
Chuck Schumer in a room. I understand all the frustration
and the reason for that. I didn't want them to
go through that again. I didn't know if we could
get a deal. I did not know if we could
come to an agreement. So why would I put people
through this, all this drama. I've been through this for
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eight months. I tried. I kept trying. I stayed there
and kept talking. I just couldn't get to where they
wanted to go to in my caucus. And rather than
everybody down and here we go again, I didn't want
to go through that. So I wanted to see if
we could come to that agreement. It is remarkable that
this guy has been elected as many times as he
has in West Virginia, a very red state, a very
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pro Trump state, and you're voting for a Democrat for
anybody in that state, remember that you're not just voting
for Joe Mansion. You're voting for Joe Mansion Democrat. And
up to this point, we were always talking about how
it's seeing that he was holding the line against insanity
and saving his own party, But really it just meant
that he ratcheted down their craziness. But he's still going
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along with it. He's still a part of the machinery
of the Democrats that has led us to this point
where everything is more expensive, where everything in the economy
is heading in the wrong direction. So how much credit
can you give somebody for going along with bad ideas?
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Just a little less than the truly wacko Damns wanted
him to. Now he's claiming that the inflation. First of all,
the fact that they call it the Inflation Reduction Act
really tells you all you need to know. It is
not reducing inflation. But they know that's a huge problem
for them Right now, inflation is at a level where
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the political consequences are being felt for the Libs. So
if they're going to pass a bill that spends a
whole lot of money on climate, the number of dollars
that we should be spending from the federal government, your dollars,
taxpayer dollars to address the climate crisis is zero. It's
not three hundred billion, it's not three billion. It's zero.
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But Mansion knows it seems that the Democrats have turned
this into a religious belief. So he's going along with
the It fights inflation and lowers energy costs. I didn't
change my mind. I've never changed at all. This is
fighting inflation. This is all about that, the absolute horror
position that people were in now because of the inflation
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cost whether it be gasoline, whether it be food pricing,
whether it be energy pricing, and it's around energy mostly
driving these high inflation. This is going to take care
of that because this is aggressively producing more energy to
get more supply to get the prices down. That's what
we're doing. But we didn't raise taxes. That's just not true.
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He is raising taxes. Okay, this would raise taxes when
it's passed and done. And in fact, the latest analysis
of this that you can see suggests that it is
going to fall some of the tax burden will fall
on people making less than four hundred thousand dollars a year,
which that's not a surprise, do you. I mean, this
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is classic Democrat Baden switch. Oh, it's all about just
bringing down the price of prescriptions for seniors. That's just
trying to get that's just Democrat propaganda. So seniors don't
realize that, especially if you're on a fixed income. Democrats
the by administration horrible for your quality of life. Oh no,
that's why we're trying to just we're gonna let Medicare
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do better negotiation over prescription drug prices. Well, what about
the food, the rent or the mortgage, the gas for
your car, all that, where's that price all going It's
going up, it's going up. But on this one, they're
saying they're going to do the right thing. Notice how
even Mansion says it's going to bring the cost of
energy down by producing more energy. They're going to give
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money to windmill farms and you know, solar energy manufacturers
or whatever. They're gonna spread money around the Green New
Deal apparatus. So the most expensive, least efficient energy source
as possible are going to get as much taxpayer cash
as possible. And they're gonna tell you it's bringing down
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the cost of energy. We all know. You want to
bring down the cost of energy. You want to get
out of the way of the fossil fuel producers. You
want to get out of the way of the folks
working in and around the Permian Basin and in North Dakota.
You want to allow American domestic energy production, which is
what Trump did, which is how we got to true
energy independence. And then Biden just gave it gave it
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away or decided he didn't like that. Didn't like it
because of all the fossil fuels and the climate change.
They're all such frauds, friends, they really are. You know,
Igancy Taylor Swift, who does have some catchy tunes, getting
a lot of heat. She has some catchy tunes. I'm
not saying I'm a huge fan. I'm saying I'm like
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a medium fan ish. But she is getting a lot
of heat because she flies everywhere private. But it's a
big climate activist. Pay attention to what people do, not
what they say, folks. A good lesson for life all
the time. Good lesson for looking at Joe mansion right
now too. Oh yeah, holding the line for sanity. Three
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hundred and sixty billion dollars for green energy folks. Yeah,
only three hundred and sixty billion. Sure, great idea. That's
really gonna help a lot. Joe, West Virginia, we got
a lot of West Virginia listeners. If you vote again
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Clay is on vacation this week. And who's up in
the upper Peninsula of Michigan. Mckinaw islet in Fact, which
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sounds like a love sounds like a lovely place I've
never been. So if you see him there, if you
see him, if you see a guy walking around in
flip flops with a Hawaiian shirt on, looking like he's
just you know, loving life, that is probably our friend,
mister Clay Travis. So say hi to him. We've got
Blake Masters, who is right now leading in the polls
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for the Republican primary in Arizona, that Senate race. He
will be joining us in the third hour, by the way,
I wanted to note that, and we will also be
talking a bit more here about Biden's additional COVID positive test.
I mean, I gotta tell you, this is one of
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those moments where you've got to say, how much more
does it take before the Libs relent on this stuff.
We'll get into that. Also, spam in a can now
in a case as well, locking down the spam in
NYC stores because people are stealing canned meat. They're stealing
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the canned meat. Friends, I've I've told you about this.
You can't get anything that is easily resellable. They will
lock down under lock and key. And now they're putting
him in these plexiglass cases that need a key to
open them. We'll talk about this. We got a bunch
of calls up. We've got some former military folks we
want to weigh in. So can we get rob in Tampa, Florida,
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Romp thanks for calling in former military paratrooper Hey Mark,
thanks for having me to the point with China directly
and indirectly threatening us over a Pelosi, Taiwan visit. You know,
being from the military, new in the CIA background and
at a time when everyone was so proud and of
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a strong, healthy, robust military. It's just gotten to a
point with this whole back and forth exchange in the
last week that I could pull the remaining hair out
of my head to think that China now is so embolded,
which I think has a lot to do listening to
you and Clay and other news sources, that has a
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lot to do with a Hunter Joe Biden connection for
the last you know, six years, but so emboldened between
trade demands, military threats, indirect threats. I cannot believe that
this country would even consider softening or delaying or canceling
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a visit by Pelosi to Taiwan because of this nonsense.
And I agree with you about the the situation and
Pelosi possibly if she doesn't go the message that that sends,
I mean it is you can't allow China to be
dictating foreign policy or or or foreign visits by you
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remember to not Chinese soil. Of course they say Taiwan
is Chinese soil of time when he's strenuously disagree. But
I feel like Pelosi's motivations for this, it would be
so fascinating that it's probably related to the Chips and
them the investments in semiconductus et um. But I also
think she's so reckless and selfish that she might not
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have even realized that she was poking a poking the
barrel on this one. Thanks for calling in. Rob Um
also on the on the situation of China. Just understand,
their economy is in really bad shape right now. They're
calling for the lowest growth target in UM, lowest growth
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target in China's I think the last thirty years. So
they they've had runs on banks, They've got huge real
estate default issues. I mean, China hide so much from
the rest of the world when it comes to what's
going on internally, not only politically but economically, and everyone
has believed for a long time, but their growth numbers
are inflated. Uh. They're obviously engaged in all kinds of
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currency manipulation and predatory trade practices, etc. But internally they've
got some real economic instabilities. You have a country with
internal economic mc problems the likes of which it hasn't
seen in decades, and you also have a country with
a surplus of young adult males because of China's one
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child policy. It really threw off the demographics of the country,
and a rising tide of nationalism and perhaps militancy along
with it. These are very concerning factors. We have Chase
in Columbia, South Carolina. How you doing, Chase, I'm doing well.
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I wanted to reach out to you all and thank
you for your shows to start. Thank you for your service.
I know you're a former marine, Yes, sir Marine, very
proud of it. What I can what I can say
about the current situation with Pelosi wanted to take a trip.
I definitely believe we don't need to cower down to
China ever, But I do believe that right now the
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American public, the last thing we need is a conflict,
and I believe if it needs it means that we
need to cut ties with Taiwan. So be it. I
think that the American public could find a way to
produce goods as well as what China produces. So I
think that we need to try to start focusing more
economically on bringing jobs back, especially manufacturing jobs to America
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due to the fact that we're our economy is faced
in such hardship right now. So any type of ties
we have to cut with the East, I say, let's
do it. And Chase, thanks for calling him, man, appreciate you.
We got to come back here in a few minutes
on the Biden positive part two for COVID and also
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If you're in New York City, that's the reality here,
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and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to the Monday edition of
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. This is Buck.
I'm gonna be in solo this week because our buddy
Clay is on a deserved vacation with the family having
a great time, and told him not to worry. He
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will come back and the house that is this radio
show will not have been strewn with kegs and the
refuse of too many parties. We're gonna keep it, keep
it professional. Here're gonna keep it focused on the news,
no big parties while Clay. While the Clay is away,
the Buck will play a little bit, not too much,
I promise. So he's gonna have a great time on vacation.
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He'll be back with us next Monday. I got you
every day this week, and we already have a ton
of news to break down today together. We have the
aftermath of that anti inflation bill that'll make inflation worse
or really do very much, but it will just spend
a whole bunch of money. We'll discuss why did Joe
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Manchion go along with this? Is it totally a done deal.
I think it is, but there are some who are saying,
hold on a second, there's the possibility of a last
minute wrench in their plans. Will certainly talk about this.
Biden has tested positive for COVID again. So I just
want to do a quick review. Here, four vaccine shots,
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four vaccine shots and I don't know how many packs
Loavid pills, and the guy just tested positive again. They
call it rebound positivity. We will certainly discuss this. Remember,
people got fired from their jobs for not getting this vaccine.
This vaccine that is so good that you can get
four shots and not only be positive, but be positive
(01:52):
the negative then positive again. Amazing, isn't it. That's something
that we will certainly die and do. As you know,
I'm not giving up this fight. I will not give
up until everyone goes buck. You're right, Fauci is awful.
We never should have shut down masks or idiotic. We
were wrong to listen to these libs. Wrong. They were
wrong about everything. I will not give up until that
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is the and so maybe for the rest of my
life I'll be on this, but I don't care. It
is the truth. So we certainly have that discuss some
other stories too, like Wikipedia suspending edits of recession on
its page, because there has been a full scale effort
by the social media and digital giants to in real
time change the definition of recession and to not allow
(02:39):
people think about this, not allow people to use the
definition that is in commonplace, common understanding for many, many
years now, all in service to the idiotic Biden regime,
all in service to the incompetence of this White House.
It's very Soviet, then, that is not an overstatement that
this is straight out of the Soviet book. You can't
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actually win on the numbers. You can't actually just change
all the numbers, lie about what the numbers mean, lie
about the definitions, the words that we use to describe them,
and that's all come in your way. We've got a
lot today, as I said, But but first off, this
Pelosi visit to Taiwan is apparently happening. We're told this
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is going to go down in the next couple of days.
It's causing a lot of consternation among well, depends on
who you ask. The Chinese Communist Party is making really
aggressive statements about this from Chinese state affiliated media. They
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had one person put this out from a Chinese Communist
Party media platform Global Times. They put out that Pelosi
is in Singapore and will fly to South Korea en
route to Taiwan after visiting Malaysia. The PLA has clearly
been well prepared. If she dares to stop in Taiwan,
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it will be the moment to ignite the powder keg
of the situation in the Taiwan Straits. So there's also
this video of missiles being fired by the Chinese and
a lot of saber rattling. I'm in a lot of
she better not or else, and now everyone's wondering what
that or else actually means. And I've got to tell you,
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I'm of two minds on this thing. On the one hand,
you can't bow down to the Chinese Communist Party more
than we already do as a government. And let's be
honest as a country on a regular basis, need all
that cheap stuff imported into this country. You need to
be able to buy whatever it is on Amazon, have
it right delivered to you. Don't want to make it here,
(04:54):
haven't made overseas. So we've excused a lot of behavior
until Trump came along. Doesn't get nearly enough credit for this,
and it was great to see the man himself number
forty five on Friday, a nice long chat with him
on air and off air. He was right about how
China has been taking advantage of the United States. He
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was right about the need for the US to stand
up to Chinese policies on trade, and just the way
that they always do what's in their interests and always
do things that harm our interests while our own elites say, well,
this is the way it has to be. No, it doesn't. Actually,
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it doesn't have to be that way. And things now,
I believe are at a different place than they were
before the Trump president presidency. So on the one hand, yeah,
Pelosi can't bend the knee. That looks bad. But on
the other hand, what are we really willing to risk
over Taiwan? Ask yourself this question? You know. I was
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listening over the weekend. There's this great new podcast on
the scene, Sean Ryan, who's a former Navy seal, and
he's had some great guests, DJ Shipley and Eric Prince.
I was listening to some of these podcasts that he's
done long form, and the Eric Prince one is really
interesting because it takes you into just how in so
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many ways incompetent and insidious. The consensus, the machinery, particularly
on foreign policy. But the moment that you're you're talking
about foreign policy mixed in with domestic politics, what is
so often the consent is everybody knows, everybody believes. They say, well,
why is that really true? And we keep in mind
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we have assigned agreement as a country that we would defend,
we would defend the territorial integrity of Ukraine. And then
when Ukraine was invaded by Russia, I think sanity prevailed
because we said, well, hold on not actually going to
go to war with Russia over Ukraine. Now I understand
that for the defense of free people's and our sense
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of democracy and decency and humanitarianism and all the rest
of it. Taiwan is a country that is an ally.
Taiwan matters in that sense of the United States. But
at some point we actually have to look at the question,
would we be willing to risk and even engage in
a war with China over this island. It's not American soil,
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it's not American citizens there. Would would you want to
actually go and send or would you send your own
your own children to go fight? I mean as adults, obviously,
but would you want people from your family to go
and fight in the Taiwan Straits over this? And I
think it's interesting that people get so uncomfortable when you
ask that question. Why isn't that the critical question? Shouldn't
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we all be very clear on this? As I was
saying in that long form with Eric Prince, the founder
of Blackwater, the most fascinating thing to me other than
a lot of the managerial excellence and general concepts that
are applicable to life, but what was really interesting was
just how incompetent and also self dealing and willing to
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cover its own butt the federal government is. And I
experienced some of that even myself. I saw it, and
I wasn't involved at the top levels, but I saw
it happening when I was in the CIA, that the
federal government is always first and foremost concerned about the
bureaucracy and the foreign policy establishment, the State Department, the
think tanks. They put out these papers and it makes
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people feel good to talk about democracy and the defense
of our allies abroad and all of this. We spent
twenty years in Afghanistan for what for what now? The
initial invasion was not only the right idea, it was
a necessary idea. But then the expansion into nation building
just happened. And one of the reasons that happened is
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because anybody who asked the question, what are we doing here?
What are we really trying to accomplish here? Was shouted down.
I think that it is time to have a really
serious discussion over what length are we willing to go to,
because China right now is pushing in a way that
we haven't seen in a long time, making the kind
of statements that could lead to miscalculation, saying things that
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do make us think that there's the possibility here of
a true provocation, perhaps even an active war. Now. I
don't think they're going to do anything against Speaker Pelosi.
I hope they don't do anything against Speaker Pelosi. But
regardless of this specific trip, let's just all assume for
our purposes and certainly hope that it goes along without
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any major incident. But what are we willing to do
in response to a Chinese effort to take Taiwan and
we are actually going to have a military response. Do
we want to go to war with China over this island?
I think there are a lot of people that don't
like that question, and then you ask them, Okay, so
(10:07):
the answers, yes, full scale war with China over Taiwan.
It's not we don't have we're not treaty bound. We
have a strategic ambiguity policy. Think about that. We're supposed
to all know the answer to this question, but the
basis of the question is in we don't really know
specifically what we're supposed to do or what we would do.
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And that's meant to off balance the Chinese Communist Party.
And perhaps you could argue that's worked for a long time,
but a war with China is that's something we would
really be prepared to do. And I don't pretend to
have an easy answer either, but I've just noticed this
habit of people pretending, especially in the early phases, well,
we all know what the answer is. Really, we all
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knew what the answer was with Iraq, we all knew
what the answer was with Afghanistan, with Libya, with the
Syrian civil War, with the war in Ukraine. It's all
so clear, right, there are these people that are on
the expert. If one thing, if there's one thing you
could take away from the COVID phenomenon. It's that just
because somebody has credentials, just because they're part of the
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managerial elite in some sector of public life, it does
not mean that they are infallible. And in fact, it
doesn't even mean that they are smarter than you or
no more than you on the subject matter that they
are allegedly experts in. They may have a more specific
knowledge in some ways, but their judgment, which when you're
talking about policy, is fundamentally what matters. What big decisions
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do you make when it finally comes down to it,
when you have that phone call, you know, mister President
or mister or Missus secret or Missus Secretary of State,
you know whatever, head of the CIA, head of the
chaino Chamber, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, you're gonna
advise the commander in chief. What do you tell that
person when it really matters? And that's what it all
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comes down to. That's why I'm sure that the Faucis
and the Burkses of the world can cite obscure studies
and data to prove they're bonafidez on the issue, but
when it came to making the big calls, they were wrong.
When it comes to making a big call over Taiwan,
we better get it right. And that's my biggest My
(12:19):
biggest takeaway for you right now is that you'll notice
that no one really seems to have thought this through
beyond the we will defend democracy. What does that mean?
Somebody asked me, They said, Okay, do you want to
station yourself? You want to? You want to go? Obviously
I need training and all that, but just as an
(12:39):
intellectual exercise, you want to go station yourself on an
aircraft carrier off off the coast of Taiwan. Ready in
case of I would not want that job, actually, just
in terms of whether I think that that is the
proper policy to pursue in case of open hostilities? What
I feel? What I as an individual good about risking
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my life for the independence of the island nation of Taiwan.
And then I think we could also ask the next question, well,
if I wouldn't feel when I say, feel good about it,
if I wouldn't feel like it is necessary? Right, we're
talking about these questions. Would I want someone else? Would
I push for someone else to do that in my place?
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I think at some level a return to first principles
of our national security would be really helpful here. We've
gotten used to the apparatus just deploying troops and sending
people on one tour after another, and they're carrying the
load and their professionals, and this is what they do,
all right, But are we giving them the right mission set?
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Do we as the American people actually want this? Or
is this just where inertia and the bureaucracy take us.
Afghanistan can be a lesson, I think in many ways
for our future, and as we see what's going on
in Ukraine, where we're effectively now committed to supplying in
a war that seems like it will stretch on for years,
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and to what end? Exactly? What is the end state
we're looking for? You notice the White House doesn't even
talk about it. Do you think that a war with
China would be quick and easy and forgotten thereafter? What
would we really be committing ourselves to? What are the
alternatives here? I don't think these are easy questions, By
the way, I don't pretend that they're easy, But I
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think that the people in charge just want everyone else
to be quiet so they can pretend they are easy.
And that is dangerous and in this moment when the
Speaker of the House is a matter of twenty four
or forty eight hours away from possibly the most tense
moment we've seen with China in many years. I do
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think it's important we think about what we would like
to really do as a country here, what we are
committed to do. We got a lot of problems here
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to make sure that when she travels overseas, she can
do so safely and securely, and we're going to make
sure that there's no reason for the Chinese rhetoric. There's
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no reason for any actions to be taken. It is
not uncommon for congressional leaders to travel to Taiwan. It
is very much in keeping with our policy and consistent
with our support to Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act.
We're not we shouldn't be as a country, we shouldn't
be intimidated by by that rhetoric or those potential actions.
This is an important trip for the speaker to be
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on and we're gonna do whatever we can to support her.
Welcome back to Clay an Buck. This is Buck. I
also just want to take a quick moment to note
that Nancy Pelosi is not some great freedom fighter. I
am well aware of the fact that Pelosi was just
had her husband buying a whole bunch of chip makers
in advance of the chip bill passing Congress billions and
(16:57):
billions of dollars in subsidies. Taiwan is one of the
most important manufacturers of I think, the most important manufacturer
of semiconductors in the world of chips, and Pelosi's always
playing an angle for Team Pelosi, so well aware of that.
I don't want you to think for it's not like
Nancy Pelosi all of a sudden is channeling George Washington
and it's a country first above all else, no way,
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So why is Pelosi going there? I'm sure she got
herself beyond what she anticipated with this when probably wanted
to talk to some of those chip makers make sure
that those investments are sound, maybe get a little bit
of good information going forward. But she stumbled into it.
And she's our Speaker of the House, no matter what
we think about that. So this is where we are now.
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Forgot any current or former military one a weigh into
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Two'd love to hear from you. What do you think
about this and should I mean honestly, should we go
to the mat to defend Taiwan If it comes to that.
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This is Buck coming from NYC and plays on vacation
this week show. I got some good news for you.
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I like to share good news whenever I can, because
the news cycle is obviously a lot of stuff that
is concerning. To say the least, A grain shipment has
departed Ukraine for the first time since the Russian invasion.
I may be saying, well, why does why does this
really matter to us? Here? Ukraine is one of the
biggest grain exporters in the world and absent that supply
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on the global market. Because grain is a global market,
you were likely to see substantial increases in the price
of food, and in poorer countries you might have even
seen hunger and perhaps even some famines popping up in
different places, depending if it got really bad. Now it
looks like they have a deal to at least export
(19:55):
the grain. So from the port of Odessa, only six
thousand metric tons of corn headed to Lebanon and from
there I'll be distributed to other other places. But that's
going on right now. That's a good thing. Russia is
also a very big producer of fertilizer, so that was
(20:15):
another concern here for the global food production market, which
very few people think about. You know, when I say
think about we obviously constantly think about food. I think
about food too much. But where our food comes from
and who has to do what to make sure that
there is bread on the shelf, so to speak, people
(20:36):
don't spend very much time thinking about it. We live
in this world of incredible abundance now. But as you've seen,
even with the supply chain disruptions, the problem with baby formula,
it doesn't take that much to throw our very complicated
system off a bit, and there can be real suffering
that results from that. So good news from the grain front,
(20:57):
which matters. I mean, think about it almost like if
we had lost the major oil producer entirely offline. Now.
Of course, Russia is still producing oil despite all the
stuff in the early days of that invasion, and still
selling its soil in the global market. But if we
lost an oil producer, everybody would realize the downstream effects
of that same thing for grain, price of food, and
(21:18):
already with the rising prices you're seeing in the grocery stores.
This was a real challenge something people were concerned about.
So I don't know, by the way, if it's still
going to hit pretty hard or not. But at least
there's some deal and there is some right think about
this Russian EU crater at war, but they know they've
got to get the grain out. That gives you, I think,
(21:39):
a sense of the incentives here and the seriousness of
the situation. And then there's the incentives for Joe Mansion
to have done this last minute deal to do essentially
a scale down, a skinny build back better if you will,
(21:59):
which is the buy didn't plan right, build back brokeus.
Some people call it whatever, but this is a slimmed
down version of that. It was interesting. ABC's John carl
Over the weekend asked him why, you know, because he
had been saying, oh, I won't do anything with climate provisions.
I mean, this was a huge head fake from Mansion,
(22:21):
and let's just get this out of the way right now.
There are a lot of lies they're telling you about this.
Oh it's not going to reduce taxes. Oh it's not
going to increase inflation. Oh it's not true. Tax and spend.
Democrats have a fever and the only prescription is taxing
and spending. That's it. That's really what this does. It
moves some money around to people that they like or
(22:42):
causes that they like, and is going to increase costs
in a lot of ways for other people. But don't worry.
They'll point to the you know, everything is going to
be more expensive for you, but there's some money being
thrown or some additional leeway to negotiate prices for prescription
drugs for seniors on Medicare. So that's how they're hoping
politically to distract people from the fact that well, everything
(23:04):
else is going to get more expensive and job jobs
are going to be hurt by this and spending more
money at a time of serious inflation. Here is ABC's
John Carl asking Mansion, why the secrecy. Why did it
have to be negotiated in secret? As you know, this
has rubbed some of your colleagues the wrong way, Bernie Sanders,
I said, last I heard, Senator Mansion is not the
(23:25):
majority leader, despite what you may think. Last I heard,
he is not the only member of the Democratic Caucus.
Why did this have to be basically just you and
Chuck Schumer in a room. I understand all the frustration
and the reason for that. I didn't want them to
go through that again. I didn't know if we could
get a deal. I did not know if we could
come to an agreement. So why would I put people
through this, all this drama. I've been through this for
(23:48):
eight months. I tried. I kept trying. I stayed there
and kept talking. I just couldn't get to where they
wanted to go to in my caucus. And rather than
everybody down and here we go again, I didn't want
to go through that. So I wanted to see if
we could come to that agreement. It is remarkable that
this guy has been elected as many times as he
has in West Virginia, a very red state, a very
(24:11):
pro Trump state, and you're voting for a Democrat for
anybody in that state, remember that you're not just voting
for Joe Mansion. You're voting for Joe Mansion Democrat. And
up to this point, we were always talking about how
it's seeing that he was holding the line against insanity
and saving his own party, But really it just meant
that he ratcheted down their craziness. But he's still going
(24:33):
along with it. He's still a part of the machinery
of the Democrats that has led us to this point
where everything is more expensive, where everything in the economy
is heading in the wrong direction. So how much credit
can you give somebody for going along with bad ideas?
(24:55):
Just a little less than the truly wacko Damns wanted
him to. Now he's claiming that the inflation. First of all,
the fact that they call it the Inflation Reduction Act
really tells you all you need to know. It is
not reducing inflation. But they know that's a huge problem
for them Right now, inflation is at a level where
(25:16):
the political consequences are being felt for the Libs. So
if they're going to pass a bill that spends a
whole lot of money on climate, the number of dollars
that we should be spending from the federal government, your dollars,
taxpayer dollars to address the climate crisis is zero. It's
not three hundred billion, it's not three billion. It's zero.
(25:41):
But Mansion knows it seems that the Democrats have turned
this into a religious belief. So he's going along with
the It fights inflation and lowers energy costs. I didn't
change my mind. I've never changed at all. This is
fighting inflation. This is all about that, the absolute horror
position that people were in now because of the inflation
(26:03):
cost whether it be gasoline, whether it be food pricing,
whether it be energy pricing, and it's around energy mostly
driving these high inflation. This is going to take care
of that because this is aggressively producing more energy to
get more supply to get the prices down. That's what
we're doing. But we didn't raise taxes. That's just not true.
(26:24):
He is raising taxes. Okay, this would raise taxes when
it's passed and done. And in fact, the latest analysis
of this that you can see suggests that it is
going to fall some of the tax burden will fall
on people making less than four hundred thousand dollars a year,
which that's not a surprise, do you. I mean, this
(26:45):
is classic Democrat Baden switch. Oh, it's all about just
bringing down the price of prescriptions for seniors. That's just
trying to get that's just Democrat propaganda. So seniors don't
realize that, especially if you're on a fixed income. Democrats
the by administration horrible for your quality of life. Oh no,
that's why we're trying to just we're gonna let Medicare
(27:05):
do better negotiation over prescription drug prices. Well, what about
the food, the rent or the mortgage, the gas for
your car, all that, where's that price all going It's
going up, it's going up. But on this one, they're
saying they're going to do the right thing. Notice how
even Mansion says it's going to bring the cost of
energy down by producing more energy. They're going to give
(27:26):
money to windmill farms and you know, solar energy manufacturers
or whatever. They're gonna spread money around the Green New
Deal apparatus. So the most expensive, least efficient energy source
as possible are going to get as much taxpayer cash
as possible. And they're gonna tell you it's bringing down
(27:47):
the cost of energy. We all know. You want to
bring down the cost of energy. You want to get
out of the way of the fossil fuel producers. You
want to get out of the way of the folks
working in and around the Permian Basin and in North Dakota.
You want to allow American domestic energy production, which is
what Trump did, which is how we got to true
energy independence. And then Biden just gave it gave it
(28:09):
away or decided he didn't like that. Didn't like it
because of all the fossil fuels and the climate change.
They're all such frauds, friends, they really are. You know,
Igancy Taylor Swift, who does have some catchy tunes, getting
a lot of heat. She has some catchy tunes. I'm
not saying I'm a huge fan. I'm saying I'm like
(28:31):
a medium fan ish. But she is getting a lot
of heat because she flies everywhere private. But it's a
big climate activist. Pay attention to what people do, not
what they say, folks. A good lesson for life all
the time. Good lesson for looking at Joe mansion right
now too. Oh yeah, holding the line for sanity. Three
(28:51):
hundred and sixty billion dollars for green energy folks. Yeah,
only three hundred and sixty billion. Sure, great idea. That's
really gonna help a lot. Joe, West Virginia, we got
a lot of West Virginia listeners. If you vote again
for this guy, I don't know what to say. I
don't know, West West Virginia, you're disappointing me. We're halfway
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Clay is on vacation this week. And who's up in
the upper Peninsula of Michigan. Mckinaw islet in Fact, which
(30:42):
sounds like a love sounds like a lovely place I've
never been. So if you see him there, if you
see him, if you see a guy walking around in
flip flops with a Hawaiian shirt on, looking like he's
just you know, loving life, that is probably our friend,
mister Clay Travis. So say hi to him. We've got
Blake Masters, who is right now leading in the polls
(31:06):
for the Republican primary in Arizona, that Senate race. He
will be joining us in the third hour, by the way,
I wanted to note that, and we will also be
talking a bit more here about Biden's additional COVID positive test.
I mean, I gotta tell you, this is one of
(31:26):
those moments where you've got to say, how much more
does it take before the Libs relent on this stuff.
We'll get into that. Also, spam in a can now
in a case as well, locking down the spam in
NYC stores because people are stealing canned meat. They're stealing
(31:48):
the canned meat. Friends, I've I've told you about this.
You can't get anything that is easily resellable. They will
lock down under lock and key. And now they're putting
him in these plexiglass cases that need a key to
open them. We'll talk about this. We got a bunch
of calls up. We've got some former military folks we
want to weigh in. So can we get rob in Tampa, Florida,
(32:13):
Romp thanks for calling in former military paratrooper Hey Mark,
thanks for having me to the point with China directly
and indirectly threatening us over a Pelosi, Taiwan visit. You know,
being from the military, new in the CIA background and
at a time when everyone was so proud and of
(32:36):
a strong, healthy, robust military. It's just gotten to a
point with this whole back and forth exchange in the
last week that I could pull the remaining hair out
of my head to think that China now is so embolded,
which I think has a lot to do listening to
you and Clay and other news sources, that has a
(32:58):
lot to do with a Hunter Joe Biden connection for
the last you know, six years, but so emboldened between
trade demands, military threats, indirect threats. I cannot believe that
this country would even consider softening or delaying or canceling
(33:21):
a visit by Pelosi to Taiwan because of this nonsense.
And I agree with you about the the situation and
Pelosi possibly if she doesn't go the message that that sends,
I mean it is you can't allow China to be
dictating foreign policy or or or foreign visits by you
(33:44):
remember to not Chinese soil. Of course they say Taiwan
is Chinese soil of time when he's strenuously disagree. But
I feel like Pelosi's motivations for this, it would be
so fascinating that it's probably related to the Chips and
them the investments in semiconductus et um. But I also
think she's so reckless and selfish that she might not
(34:05):
have even realized that she was poking a poking the
barrel on this one. Thanks for calling in. Rob Um
also on the on the situation of China. Just understand,
their economy is in really bad shape right now. They're
calling for the lowest growth target in UM, lowest growth
(34:26):
target in China's I think the last thirty years. So
they they've had runs on banks, They've got huge real
estate default issues. I mean, China hide so much from
the rest of the world when it comes to what's
going on internally, not only politically but economically, and everyone
has believed for a long time, but their growth numbers
are inflated. Uh. They're obviously engaged in all kinds of
(34:49):
currency manipulation and predatory trade practices, etc. But internally they've
got some real economic instabilities. You have a country with
internal economic mc problems the likes of which it hasn't
seen in decades, and you also have a country with
a surplus of young adult males because of China's one
(35:12):
child policy. It really threw off the demographics of the country,
and a rising tide of nationalism and perhaps militancy along
with it. These are very concerning factors. We have Chase
in Columbia, South Carolina. How you doing, Chase, I'm doing well.
(35:33):
I wanted to reach out to you all and thank
you for your shows to start. Thank you for your service.
I know you're a former marine, Yes, sir Marine, very
proud of it. What I can what I can say
about the current situation with Pelosi wanted to take a trip.
I definitely believe we don't need to cower down to
China ever, But I do believe that right now the
(35:54):
American public, the last thing we need is a conflict,
and I believe if it needs it means that we
need to cut ties with Taiwan. So be it. I
think that the American public could find a way to
produce goods as well as what China produces. So I
think that we need to try to start focusing more
economically on bringing jobs back, especially manufacturing jobs to America
(36:17):
due to the fact that we're our economy is faced
in such hardship right now. So any type of ties
we have to cut with the East, I say, let's
do it. And Chase, thanks for calling him, man, appreciate you.
We got to come back here in a few minutes
on the Biden positive part two for COVID and also
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