August 3, 2022 • 37 mins
Dishonest ads run by Democrats against Kansas abortion measure. Manchin lies about his vote on the Schumer spending bill. Teacher tells us middle school kids are changing their pronouns all the time like singer Demi Lovato, who just switched back to she/her and they/them from just they/them. Manchin fights with NBC's Andrea Mitchell over endorsing Biden in 2024. Peter Doocy takes it to Kirby on Zawahiri and Afghanistan. The Inflation Reduction Act doesn't.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show Podcast. Second hour of The Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show starts now. Buck solo today and this
week coming to you from New York City. Clay on vacation,
our main man, mister Clay Travis taking some time with
the fam, kicking back, relaxing, doing vacation stuff. He'll be
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with us of course on Monday. And we have Joe
Mansion continuing to take some heat for his signing onto
this bill. I also think Cinema I don't know, and
I one thing I do know is that nobody can
predict the future. So when I say I don't know
what's going to happen, early mean that nobody can predict
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the future. But I doubt that Cinema is going to
stand athwart the one hope the Democrats have of passing
some kind of legislation that will give them something to
point to in this midterm elections. See, we did that,
but I thought this was important, and we just we
had so many callers, all from Kansas because you know,
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CNN just a moment ago was running on their chiron
at the bottom of the screen. Big win for abortion
rights in Kansas. They're really leaning into this, obviously very
excited about the continued expansive ability to and life in
the womb. I mean, to terminate pregnancies, little babies in
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the womb. They think this is something to be very
proud of, very happy about. And what I'm trying to
raise here is everyone's understanding in all the different states
where this is going to play out now that the
left is going to fight really dirty on this issue.
You know, we have a left wing movement that is
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all in on abortion at all points in a pregnancy.
And they went from pretending they agreed it wasn't a
good thing to then saying that it should be celebrated.
As you know, they're abortion activists who will celebrate it.
They wear t shirts sometimes it's saying abortion is the
best thing ever? Did? I mean, it's really heinous and evil.
But how did Kansas end up with this referendum losing right?
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The referendum was to change the state constitution in Kansas.
And I don't want to spend much more time on this,
and we have a lot of other things to get to,
but I wanted you to hear some of the ads
that were run to keep this going place. This confusing
constitutional amendment is a slippery slope for Kansas. It gives
government more power over your privacy and your personal medical decisions.
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Don't let politicians take away your freedom. Send a message.
Vote no. That was a pro abortion at everybody? Did
it sound like a pro abortion ad? Did it seem
like they were saying, Yeah, a baby at five months
is not a baby, so do whatever you want with it.
That is what they're doing. I want you to understand
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what we are up against. That is the kind of
thing that, Oh, they want to take away your freedom
and big government's gonna come after your privacy. Vote no.
I think a lot of people heard that ad. And
by the way, I don't say that I'm not disparaging
anybody that heard the ad and thought this. I'm just
saying people are busy, people are trying to pay their bills,
they're trying to they hear that out of their goal.
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I don't like big government. I like freedom. I like
the Constitution. Look at how disingenuous no mention of abortion?
Vote no on the referendum. No mention of abortion, And
this one bothers me. I mean as much, if not
more They also had a bunch of Christians, a bunch
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of clergymen, priests, deacons that they were running pro abortion
ads with under well, here's an example. There's a pastor
for over fifty years. I counsel and pay with endivid
as you're facing difficult personal decisions. Sometimes those conversations are
about abortion. As Christians, we are instructed to love one another.
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We did said when we respect and trust women as
God does. I'm voting no on the proposed amendment because
it replaces religious freedom with government control. It restricts women's rights,
and it puts their very lives at risk. Join me
in thousands of Christians in voting no. I mean, you
have got to be kidding me. This guy says, Oh,
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I'm a pastor. They got the little piano in the background.
You know, trust women as God does to kill the
babies in their wounds. Pretty sure, that's a big no. No.
This is what they did. They'll put priests out there,
they'll say it's about freedom. What they won't say is, yeah,
you know you're pregnant. You decide you don't like the
guy that you that got you pregnant, You don't want
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to have the baby. It's been a few months, just
you know, terminate the pregnancy. That's they won't say. What
they will say is all this other stuff. So I
want you to understand. I know I spend more time
in it, but it was it was stunning what they
got away with in Kansas here and how just look
at the enemy here on this issue, look at the
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ideology and the way that they are going to fight,
and understand how we can politically oppose them effectively. Effectively
Purity always and at all times may not be the
best path forward. We are in a contest of politics now,
so I'm speaking of a contest of politics now. We
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can get all that issue. Joe Manshin, Gerald Manshin, he's
doing a lot of a lot of dancing around on
TV saying no, it won't raise tasks at Oh, it's
going to do all these great things. You know, it's
just a big evil. Corporations will hold on a second,
are major manufacturers corporations? I'm pretty sure major manufacturers are corporations.
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And I'm also pretty sure that manufacturers do a lot
of hiring. We want more onshore manufacturing. This is key
to American economic prosperity going forward. So when the National
Association of Manufacturers analysis shows that this is going to
cost the Biden bill a lot of jobs. This is
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going to cost GDP growth. What is Joe Mansion saying
about this? Jact found that fifty percent of those companies
would be America's manufacturing companies at a time, we're, Senator Mansion,
we're trying to reshore American manufacturing, aren't we right? Or
they're hiring and investing decisions. Well, let me if you
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thought it was going to hurt, don't you think the
last two years it would have. You have seen record
of capital investments, and you've seen the least amount of
capital investments with record profits. So anything we're saying is
the thing they tell me most is reliability, making sure
this government will let them do their job permitting regulations,
and that's what we're going to basically accelerate and stream
lines to where people can you know, we can do
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things and build things much quicker than we ever have
in the past. That's all part of this package. So
it's going to be wonderful from that endemic. Oh yeah,
it's gonna be wonderful because the senators, the left wing
loons who are pushing this they know a lot about
how to build things faster and how to streamline the
processes of manufacturing and commercial and economic growth. They know
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nothing about that. Oh but all of a sudden they
have a bill that's going to do that that we
hadn't heard about till five minutes ago. This is bare
knuckle pure politics. It is Democrats shoveling cash to what
they want and raising taxes to stick it to those
they don't like, right before a midterm election so they
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can say, see, we wield power in the name of
the left. Ha ha. The Green New Deal is getting
three hundred billion for energy. Do you think that money
is going to coal and oil and natural gas and nuclear?
How about nuclear? Nuclear? We had a whole whole time Bush.
People gave Bush a hard time about that. First of all,
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a lot of people say nuclear. And second of all,
the decider, I think that's that shit. If that is
not a word, now I'm the decider. It should be
a word. That's a great word, you know, makes a
lot of sense. It's one we should add into our lexicon.
So back to the Mansion. Here is here he's saying stuff,
and anyone listening to this is going that doesn't even
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make sense. And this was on I think CNBC, right,
was a CNBC yeah, and good job because looks NBC
is all about business. The Association of Manufacturers is saying
they hate this bill. Joe Mansion sitting up there sin
but no, this is gonna make it better for the manufacturers.
This is classic Democrat They tell you they know what's
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better for you in your area of expertise, that they
don't know a damn thing about. Classic Democrat maneuver. You
know Nancy Pelosi, can't you just see her? And hey,
the chips manufactured through this, we get at the chips
will be so much they'll taste better, they'll be crisper
and not too much salt. She doesn't know what thing
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about chips. She knows how to shovel cash, though, and
she knows how to push information about the cash that's
getting shoveled to people that do very well with that information.
Just saying. Here is the continuation, though, of Joe Mansion
dodging again when he's asked. But hey man, the Manufacturing
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Association is saying this is really bad for them. Here's
what Mansion says. Well, the National Association Manufacturers disagree they
say that the tax, the tax in twenty twenty three
alone will reduce GDP by sixty eight point five billion
dollars cut labor income by seventeen point one billion dollars.
That's problematic. I've heard also that the CDC. You've heard
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about that the Joint Tax I'm signed JCC, the Joint
Committee on Taxation. You heard that they said it was
going to cause the people pay taxes that made two
hundred thousand dollars, which is absolutely totally alive. So now
he's just been reduced to they're lying that everyone else
is wrong and lying about what this will do to taxes.
Everyone else is lying and wrong about what this will
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do to manufacturing in jobs. Apparently Joe Manchin, who barely
by the skin of his teeth, managed to fool just
enough West Virginians into voting from the last time around.
And look, we all make mistakes. I voted for Romney
in twenty twelve. What can you know? So I'm not
casting stones, but again, what was the alternative? But barely
managed to hang on. But I think three percentage points
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in the last election. And here he is telling everybody,
you don't know, you're just a stupid head. I know
I'm better at all the math and the projections and
the economic impact of this. Please right, this is the Democrats.
This is Schumer did a sit down with them and
probably said, look, we all know you're not gonna win reelection.
We all know your toast the next time around. Do
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you want the apparatus? What? What are you looking at me?
What did I do? Oh? The team and here is
giving me a look? Did I do something? Then I
just let like a like a bleep word fly. I'm
so fired up right here they're giving me crazy looks
in New York and I had nothing to do with
me that they just psyched me out. Guys. Yeah, look,
I think that mansion had to sit down. What is
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one of the things I always tell you, and it's
so important? Did Democrats have a whole you know, just
the word apparatus is in much wider usage now. I
don't know. I'm not going to say, you know, but
it is kind of my word. The apparatus of the
Democrats is so effective at making it seem they're so
effective at making the offer to people, kind of like
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Xerxes to the guy who betrays the Persians. You know,
just throws all the money and all the power at
them or whatever. They're so much better at getting you
that book deal. And I don't know if you caught
that reference to three hundred, which is just a great
and timeless film, but they're so much better at throwing
the money and book deals and speak fees and corporate
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board seats and all of that. If you know you
want to go the Schumer way and be invited to
the fancy cocktail parties, and you want to be somebody
who you know, gets that quarter of a million dollar
a year contributorship at CNN to show up once a month,
or you want to be a principled person who does
what's best for his state and keeps his promises like
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a loser. I think we all know the answer from
Joe Mansion. I think we all know what we're seeing here.
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Sexton Show. I want to take this call from Katrina
in Colorado. You've got to hear about this one. Katrina
thanks for giving us a ring. Thank you for listening
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to me. I'm a nineteen year conservative middle school teacher,
and there's more conservative of teachers then I think people realize.
But we need more support from parents still going to
board meetings and than just supporting what their beliefs are. Um,
kids are changing their pronouns in middle school a lot.
(14:16):
And I have two hundred and fifty kids and it's
really hard to keep track of weekly what their pronoun
is or what their name is or non binary name.
So this is this is fascinating to be Contraine. How
many just estimate how many pronoun changes among the children
you teach have happened in the last year roughly? Oh,
(14:39):
it depends on the students. Sometimes it's weekly, sometimes it's
so what does that? How does that happen? Like like,
take me through this process. I mean I obviously haven't
been in a middle school and you know thirty years. Um,
so they does does a student come up to you
you d say this does like little little Bob come
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up to you a little Bobby and say, teacher, I
now want you to call me she? And do they
change the name or they do they have alternative pronouns? Too,
like Z or they they things like that. It really
depends on the student. Sometimes you get an email from
the student because they're kind of shy about it, or
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you get the counselor telling you I've never had a
parent tell me. It's either been a student or a counselor,
or we hear it, you know, is it all he
or she? He switches? Or are there some more creative
pronouns that occasionally you are you are supposed to use?
And also do you have concerns that if you used
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if you miss gender as a teacher, are you going
to get reprimanded? Um, it's usually he she, sometimes it's
today And yes, I actually went to my principle and said,
because of how I believe that I wasn't comfortable calling
a girl a boy and a boy a girl. And
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she gave me a gender discrimination sheet. So I think
that was kind of a subtle, a subtle hint that
I was supposed to play along by some of my
teacher friends and I that feel the same. We just
decided to call them by their last name because it's
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it's hard to keep track of kids nicknames, and then
if there's changing names and then changing pronouns. It's I
had a teacher who refused to call me Buck in
middle school because it was my middle name and not
my first name. So things have changed quite a bit.
I can tell you it goes first names only. That
was quite a quite a difference, Katrina, thanks for calling
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it from Colorado and sharing that one. And look, here's
Demi Levado, as I was saying before, formerly on the
Disney Channel as an actor, has decided that she she
was using they not he pronouns. But you see, this
is this is what once you start to play this
game and that it's not objective reality, it's whatever somebody feels.
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Then you're gonna have to keep changing it with whatever
they feel. And also there's a power dynamic here because
you are expected to comply. If you don't comply, you're
a bigot. This is what they tell you. So now
it's you know, they tell you they tell you to jump,
you got to say how high. Now it's you know,
they tell you to dance, you gotta say to what tune?
And this is true of kids. Now, we just had
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a teacher call it from Colorado, say, your kids change
their pronouns all the time, And she's expected to comply
with this. Somebody should ask Joe Biden about this. Somebody
should ask prominent democrats in office do you think this
is normal? They will evade. They will evade right now,
because no person thinks this is reasonable or normal. Folks.
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a tape sale offer. I'm not talking about the twenty
twenty two elections in twenty twenty four. I have no
control over those elections, and I'm not going to talk
about them. That oskew one of the greatest pieces of legislation,
and I'm very appreciative that the President has seen it,
he's approved it, he supports it. God blessing for that.
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This is great for America. Can't we do something for
our country without having to bring politics into it? But
what's all I don't have to talk about you're a
democatics center about it. I'm just asking you. Let support
your own. The leader of your own are talking about it.
I'm supporting this bill, Andrew. It's the American Bill. It's
the red, white and Blue American Bill. It's the bill
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that we need to fight inflation to have more energy
to do the job that we were sent here to do.
Every time we talk about politics, it gets people fired up.
I'm not going to go down that path. Welcome back
to Clay and Buck. This is Buck and that was
Joe Mansion and that was just amazing. There's She's like,
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it's like, what do you not see here? Some of you,
I'm sure saw the timeless classic of nineties cinema office space.
Remember when when one of the characters actually can't remember
his name, but he has to meet with the two
Bobs who are the consultants who are there to do layoffs,
and he just at some point they're like, so what
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would you say you do here? One of the greatest lines,
and he starts. He realizes this is not going well,
and he looks at the two Bobs and he goes,
I'm good with people. I'm a people person. What the
hell is wrong with you? Two? Joe Mansion is basically
at that point, I'm a legislator. I'm good with people.
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What is wrong with you? This is gonna save America? No, man,
it's really not. But everyone's kind of seeing this from
what it is. Craven capitulation Mansion. That's what's happening. Put
that one on a bumper sticker. That would actually work
pretty well. But I'm a peopul person. I'm good with people.
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I love it too. They go, so you basically take
the sketches from the engineers over to sales. Why can't
the engineers just do that themselves? Because I'm a peopul person,
Joe Mansion, people person. If you have not seen Office Space,
by the way, highly highly recommend. And I am psyched
(21:26):
to see how many people are writing in who agree
with me that Peaky Blinders is just so good. It's
just so good. I cannot go wrong by advising. Oh,
here we go, Bob Slidell says, what would you say
you do here? Tom Smikowski, that's his name. Well, look,
I already told you ideal with the ideal with the
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gosh damn customers, so the engineers don't have to I
have people's skills. Joe Mansion needs to watch Office Space
for sure. Oh man, that's a great scene in a
great movie when they finally take the baseball bats and
they beat the the the printer in the field into smithereens.
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Why does it say paper jam when there is no
paper gem For those For those who have had office jobs,
especially at late nineties, only two thousands, you know, that
really hit home. Man. We've all wanted to take a
baseball bat to a printer or a copy machine or
a combination at some point in time, so that that's
a particularly good one. Anyway, Joe Mansion, you're gonna hear
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im more and more. But that's one of my favorite
Mansion clips in a long time. Why are you asking
me about Joe Biden? Why are you asking me all
these gosh darn questions? What I did is amazing. I
don't think so, buddy. I think people are starting to
see this for what it is, and speaking of seeing
things for what they are, Peter Doocey over at Fox News,
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it's such a great, such a great job to be
the person in the White House Corps who is actually
doing press stuff like asking questions to get answers that
the regime does not necessarily want to give or very
much wants to avoid. And National Security Council spokesman Kirby,
you've been hearing a lot from recently. This is an exchange.
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You've got to hear this because the Biden administration is
increasingly forced to push people to thinking about this in
a way that is not rooted in objective fact, truth
and reality, because if people do think about it in
that way, they will realize what a failure Biden administration
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has been so far, Just what an abject failure. Democrats themselves,
until they got really desperate and they were all suffering
from Trump's arrangement syndrome, knew that Joe Biden was too
old and also not competent for the role. And so
Afghanistan and the withdrawal from Afghanistan, how it was conducted
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was something that people just can't We can't unsee it.
You can't unsee the planes taking off from Kabbel Airport
with people grabbing onto the fuselage. You can unsee those
first reports of what was it over a dozen US
service members killed in a suicide bombing at the airport
as we were rushing for the exits. I believe it
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was thirteen we're killed. And here's Peter Doocy just asking
about the reality of Afghanistan. I know they wanted to
take a victory lap on Zawahiri yesterday after he was
sliced by a Ninja missile on Saturday. And it is
a good thing, just like the bin Laden. Justice delivered
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was a good thing, but it doesn't mean that we
are winning in Afghanistan. And this is a very It
is possible to take a high level enemy combatant off
the battlefield or whatever we're gonna call Afghanist in these
days and not actually be winning on the battlefield overall.
And we are certainly not winning in Afghanistan right now.
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And that's the part of this bid administration. They want
to do that. They want to take the victory lap
and not have everyone take a look at, well, what
are they taking a lap around? Because it looks like
a country that's run by the Taliban with the Hakani
network in charge, and they're designated terrorists and by the way,
have very close ties to al Qaeda. Here's how that
went with us at the Taliban was harboring the world's
(25:30):
most wanted terrorists. You guys gave a whole country to
a bunch of people that are on the FBI most
wanted list. What did you think was going to happen?
Take issue with the premise that we gave a whole
country to terrorist groups. I mean again, I'd encourage you
to ask in the world's number one terrorists, how is
that not giving a country to a terrorist sympathizing group,
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if not giving them permission to have terrorists just sit
on a balcony the question, I mean, Peter, the way
you ask that, it makes it sound like we own Afghanistan.
A year ago, it wasn't our country. It was an independent,
sovereign state and the president made a bold decision to
end a war that had been going on for twenty years. No,
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we bailed, and a lot of you are going to think,
and a lot of you would agree that getting out
was the right move. But how we bail on what timeline,
with what left behind, with what regime in place, with
what elected government? That all matters too. But they're just
not accepting reality. The Biden administration said we're just to
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getting out. They did it on a timeline that Biden
just decided upon pulling everything out, handed it over to
the Taliban. That is what happened. They can try to
say a million different ways about oh it O, it's
a sovereign, independent country. Whatever. The Taliban is in charge
of Afghanistan. It is now a terror sanctuary. We just
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have not seen external plotting come to horrific fruition anywhere
in the world yet from Afghanistan, but it is just
a matter of time. I don't think we're going back
in the way that we've gone in the past. I
don't think that we're going to be launching a massive Remember,
in the initially it wasn't a full scale invasion. CIA
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led special operations into Afghanistan right after nine to eleven,
and that was an effective strategy with the Northern Alliance,
and the Taliban were just heading for the hills as
fast as they could, for the Hindu Kush Mountains, in fact,
getting out of there as fast as they could. And
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then the big military showed up and the Pentagon took
over the decision making and it became a nation building
exercise that lasted twenty years and that failed. The war
in the beginning against the Taliban was one. It was
one with minimal US footprint, loss of life, and expenditure
of treasure, and then it turned into something else. And
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we should all be very honest about what happened there.
This administration will not be honest about it because it
doesn't look good for them. It doesn't look good for them.
That's you're noticing a pattern too. Obama pulls out of Iraq,
in such a way because they say, oh, it's a
status of forces agreement. We couldn't figure it out. They could,
they didn't want to. They just wanted to go. Pull
all the plugs, get out of there, and then the
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Islamic State takes over, has a blitzkrieg through Mosul, and
you have the largest terror sanctuary in the world operating
under the Obama administration. Biden comes in, Just pull out
all the stops, get out of there. Don't worry about
what's happening after we leave. Just go, just go. Now
we have another terrors sanctuary. It's just a question of
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what their next moves will be and what we will
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then use that promo code Clay and Buck. What's happening
is they've got this fifteen percent minimum tax on corporations
and that will be passed along to consumers, and who
pays that the most. It's manufacturers pass along the cost
to consumers who don't make that much money. Everybody is
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going to pay a bit more. And it's supposed to
the Inflation Reduction Act. It will not reduce inflation. It's
supposed to cut the deficit. It does not cut the
deficit until a year twenty twenty seven. So on all
of these metrics where it's supposed to succeed and make
us all better off, it fails on all of them.
So the Inflation Reduction Act doesn't really reduce inflation. Oh okay,
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it's supposed to increase manufacturing and energy production. It won't
do that either. Other than that, great, you know, actually know,
there's even worse stuff that we could talk about. This
is one issue where you see raising taxes on companies
right now. What is likely to happen specifically manufacturers. What
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has been the reality of you going to the grocery store.
Do you say, hey, you're not allowed to raise the
price of eggs fifty percent or whatever it is? Right now?
It's been a huge eggs in particular, which I eat
a lot of eggs. I'm a big eggs fan. Still
bitter about the fact than in the eighties they were like,
it's going to give you too much cholesterol. Lies, lies,
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Eggs are excellent for you. Of fantastic food. It was
the science then. I bet Fauci was like, don't eat eggs.
Have a lot of madarine. Magarine is delicious and so
good for you. Don't worry about the fact that it
is actually chemical crap that is really bad for you,
because I'm telling you to eat it anyway. Yeah, what
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happens when they raise the price of eggs at the market.
Do you get to go up with the manager and say,
excuse me, sir, but you've raised the price of eggs.
Now you could go to another store. But guess what,
do you think the price of eggs is really gone
that much lower? There? These are commodities. These are things
that people want to go and get it. There's some
distinctions about whether you get free range. I actually found
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this out recently. You want, I think it's pasture raised
is the best I know. There are people who raise
their own chickens and ducks and geese and things like
that who probably can, But there's a lot of games
they play with all these different egg designations. That you're
going to eat. I think the best one they say
is you want it to be? Is it free range? Right?
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Is free range the best one? Because there's some version
they'll say where you know they're actually not. It makes
it sound like it's like the chickens are doing well,
but they're not. They're actually in a very enclosed space.
And then there's another one, another designation where they're actually
living like normal chicken lives. Anyway, you gotta look at it.
These It's kind of like people that are like, I
only eat organic fruit. Yeah, but do you know what
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they put on the organic fruit? Because just think about
it this way, Um, there are a lot of things
that are organic that you don't want to eat. You know,
Mercury's organic, arsenic is organic, a lot of organic you
don't want to eat it. Just because something isn't in
organic doesn't mean that it is something you necessarily want
to put on your body. But the price, as you know,
gets passed on to consumers when there are things like this,
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when there are raises in an industry that are going
to affect everybody. Karine Jean Pierre, Economics, PhD. Just kidding,
although you didn't even to you didn't need to explain
that she doesn't have a PhD in economics, not that
would even really matter. Let's be honest, a lot of
PhD Paul Krugman's like, the economy is so good, that's
why the inflation Biden's so amazing. It's just must be
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weird to go through life as a as a professional
econ Court Jester. Now for the Democrat regime, it's kind
of sad in some ways. Here is Karine Jean Pierre
though that was talking about Krugman. Here's Karine Jean Pierre.
I cannot speak as to whether the tax highest will
increase prices. There's a corporate taxes increase to a minimum
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of fifteen percent. How confident is the president that the
companies will not pass that cost on to people in
form of higher prices. Look, the reason why we talk
about we think the global minimum tax of fifteen is,
or the minimum tax, the corporate minimum tax of fifteen
is so important is because you have fifty five companies
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corporate companies right now who pay absolutely nothing, who plays
zero dollars, and by doing this we are fixing the
tax loophole. It is important to do that. It is
important to have a fairer tax system. I cannot speak
to your question that you're asking me. I cannot speak
to that. I can't speak as to this legislation and
why it's so important. Yeah, not a surprise that she
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doesn't know. But the answer is yes, people will end
up what are these companies who's paying? Also, why don't
they name them more often? Let's know, what are the
companies that they're going to out raise taxes on? Because
what's going to happen as a result of that. You're
seeing prices rising all around you. You're seeing this happening.
You're you're feeling this going on right now in your
day to day lives. And Democrats think that somehow they
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have a better handle on where this capital should be allocated.
In fact, here is do you guys remember Senator Michael
Bennett here, Remember this guy. He's a big green new
deal guy. He says that this Inflation Act will put
us on a path to energy independence. It really is
an amazing moment in the United States Senate. We're finally
finally doing the work the American people sent us to do.
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When you think about the Chips Act that we passed
last week, that that's going to bring back the semi
conductor industry in the United States. You think about the
Packed Act we've passed last night on veterans healthcare, and
then the Inflation Reduction Act that's gonna dramatically reduce healthcare
costs for the American people and put us on the
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path to energy independence, strengthen our national green energy folks,
just understand green energy. How long do you think it's
gonna take to get to green energy independence? Because that's
really what the Act does. It's going to subsidize a
whole bunch of green new deal stuff. It is outrageous,
my friends, but this is what they do. This is
who they are. We have joining us in just a
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few minutes. Tutor Dixon. I mean, my name is Buck Sexton.
I gotta say, Tutor Dixon's a pretty cool name. Respect
for the cool names out there. She just want a
big primary up in Michigan. She's facing off against Whitmer.
You want to hear from her congratulator on the run
so far, Fleet Travis and Buck Sexton on the front
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lines of truth
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show Podcast. Second hour of The Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show starts now. Buck solo today and this
week coming to you from New York City. Clay on vacation,
our main man, mister Clay Travis taking some time with
the fam, kicking back, relaxing, doing vacation stuff. He'll be
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with us of course on Monday. And we have Joe
Mansion continuing to take some heat for his signing onto
this bill. I also think Cinema I don't know, and
I one thing I do know is that nobody can
predict the future. So when I say I don't know
what's going to happen, early mean that nobody can predict
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the future. But I doubt that Cinema is going to
stand athwart the one hope the Democrats have of passing
some kind of legislation that will give them something to
point to in this midterm elections. See, we did that,
but I thought this was important, and we just we
had so many callers, all from Kansas because you know,
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CNN just a moment ago was running on their chiron
at the bottom of the screen. Big win for abortion
rights in Kansas. They're really leaning into this, obviously very
excited about the continued expansive ability to and life in
the womb. I mean, to terminate pregnancies, little babies in
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the womb. They think this is something to be very
proud of, very happy about. And what I'm trying to
raise here is everyone's understanding in all the different states
where this is going to play out now that the
left is going to fight really dirty on this issue.
You know, we have a left wing movement that is
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all in on abortion at all points in a pregnancy.
And they went from pretending they agreed it wasn't a
good thing to then saying that it should be celebrated.
As you know, they're abortion activists who will celebrate it.
They wear t shirts sometimes it's saying abortion is the
best thing ever? Did? I mean, it's really heinous and evil.
But how did Kansas end up with this referendum losing right?
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The referendum was to change the state constitution in Kansas.
And I don't want to spend much more time on this,
and we have a lot of other things to get to,
but I wanted you to hear some of the ads
that were run to keep this going place. This confusing
constitutional amendment is a slippery slope for Kansas. It gives
government more power over your privacy and your personal medical decisions.
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Don't let politicians take away your freedom. Send a message.
Vote no. That was a pro abortion at everybody? Did
it sound like a pro abortion ad? Did it seem
like they were saying, Yeah, a baby at five months
is not a baby, so do whatever you want with it.
That is what they're doing. I want you to understand
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what we are up against. That is the kind of
thing that, Oh, they want to take away your freedom
and big government's gonna come after your privacy. Vote no.
I think a lot of people heard that ad. And
by the way, I don't say that I'm not disparaging
anybody that heard the ad and thought this. I'm just
saying people are busy, people are trying to pay their bills,
they're trying to they hear that out of their goal.
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I don't like big government. I like freedom. I like
the Constitution. Look at how disingenuous no mention of abortion?
Vote no on the referendum. No mention of abortion, And
this one bothers me. I mean as much, if not
more They also had a bunch of Christians, a bunch
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of clergymen, priests, deacons that they were running pro abortion
ads with under well, here's an example. There's a pastor
for over fifty years. I counsel and pay with endivid
as you're facing difficult personal decisions. Sometimes those conversations are
about abortion. As Christians, we are instructed to love one another.
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We did said when we respect and trust women as
God does. I'm voting no on the proposed amendment because
it replaces religious freedom with government control. It restricts women's rights,
and it puts their very lives at risk. Join me
in thousands of Christians in voting no. I mean, you
have got to be kidding me. This guy says, Oh,
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I'm a pastor. They got the little piano in the background.
You know, trust women as God does to kill the
babies in their wounds. Pretty sure, that's a big no. No.
This is what they did. They'll put priests out there,
they'll say it's about freedom. What they won't say is, yeah,
you know you're pregnant. You decide you don't like the
guy that you that got you pregnant, You don't want
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to have the baby. It's been a few months, just
you know, terminate the pregnancy. That's they won't say. What
they will say is all this other stuff. So I
want you to understand. I know I spend more time
in it, but it was it was stunning what they
got away with in Kansas here and how just look
at the enemy here on this issue, look at the
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ideology and the way that they are going to fight,
and understand how we can politically oppose them effectively. Effectively
Purity always and at all times may not be the
best path forward. We are in a contest of politics now,
so I'm speaking of a contest of politics now. We
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can get all that issue. Joe Manshin, Gerald Manshin, he's
doing a lot of a lot of dancing around on
TV saying no, it won't raise tasks at Oh, it's
going to do all these great things. You know, it's
just a big evil. Corporations will hold on a second,
are major manufacturers corporations? I'm pretty sure major manufacturers are corporations.
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And I'm also pretty sure that manufacturers do a lot
of hiring. We want more onshore manufacturing. This is key
to American economic prosperity going forward. So when the National
Association of Manufacturers analysis shows that this is going to
cost the Biden bill a lot of jobs. This is
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going to cost GDP growth. What is Joe Mansion saying
about this? Jact found that fifty percent of those companies
would be America's manufacturing companies at a time, we're, Senator Mansion,
we're trying to reshore American manufacturing, aren't we right? Or
they're hiring and investing decisions. Well, let me if you
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thought it was going to hurt, don't you think the
last two years it would have. You have seen record
of capital investments, and you've seen the least amount of
capital investments with record profits. So anything we're saying is
the thing they tell me most is reliability, making sure
this government will let them do their job permitting regulations,
and that's what we're going to basically accelerate and stream
lines to where people can you know, we can do
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things and build things much quicker than we ever have
in the past. That's all part of this package. So
it's going to be wonderful from that endemic. Oh yeah,
it's gonna be wonderful because the senators, the left wing
loons who are pushing this they know a lot about
how to build things faster and how to streamline the
processes of manufacturing and commercial and economic growth. They know
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nothing about that. Oh but all of a sudden they
have a bill that's going to do that that we
hadn't heard about till five minutes ago. This is bare
knuckle pure politics. It is Democrats shoveling cash to what
they want and raising taxes to stick it to those
they don't like, right before a midterm election so they
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can say, see, we wield power in the name of
the left. Ha ha. The Green New Deal is getting
three hundred billion for energy. Do you think that money
is going to coal and oil and natural gas and nuclear?
How about nuclear? Nuclear? We had a whole whole time Bush.
People gave Bush a hard time about that. First of all,
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a lot of people say nuclear. And second of all,
the decider, I think that's that shit. If that is
not a word, now I'm the decider. It should be
a word. That's a great word, you know, makes a
lot of sense. It's one we should add into our lexicon.
So back to the Mansion. Here is here he's saying stuff,
and anyone listening to this is going that doesn't even
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make sense. And this was on I think CNBC, right,
was a CNBC yeah, and good job because looks NBC
is all about business. The Association of Manufacturers is saying
they hate this bill. Joe Mansion sitting up there sin
but no, this is gonna make it better for the manufacturers.
This is classic Democrat They tell you they know what's
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better for you in your area of expertise, that they
don't know a damn thing about. Classic Democrat maneuver. You
know Nancy Pelosi, can't you just see her? And hey,
the chips manufactured through this, we get at the chips
will be so much they'll taste better, they'll be crisper
and not too much salt. She doesn't know what thing
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about chips. She knows how to shovel cash, though, and
she knows how to push information about the cash that's
getting shoveled to people that do very well with that information.
Just saying. Here is the continuation, though, of Joe Mansion
dodging again when he's asked. But hey man, the Manufacturing
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Association is saying this is really bad for them. Here's
what Mansion says. Well, the National Association Manufacturers disagree they
say that the tax, the tax in twenty twenty three
alone will reduce GDP by sixty eight point five billion
dollars cut labor income by seventeen point one billion dollars.
That's problematic. I've heard also that the CDC. You've heard
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about that the Joint Tax I'm signed JCC, the Joint
Committee on Taxation. You heard that they said it was
going to cause the people pay taxes that made two
hundred thousand dollars, which is absolutely totally alive. So now
he's just been reduced to they're lying that everyone else
is wrong and lying about what this will do to taxes.
Everyone else is lying and wrong about what this will
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do to manufacturing in jobs. Apparently Joe Manchin, who barely
by the skin of his teeth, managed to fool just
enough West Virginians into voting from the last time around.
And look, we all make mistakes. I voted for Romney
in twenty twelve. What can you know? So I'm not
casting stones, but again, what was the alternative? But barely
managed to hang on. But I think three percentage points
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in the last election. And here he is telling everybody,
you don't know, you're just a stupid head. I know
I'm better at all the math and the projections and
the economic impact of this. Please right, this is the Democrats.
This is Schumer did a sit down with them and
probably said, look, we all know you're not gonna win reelection.
We all know your toast the next time around. Do
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you want the apparatus? What? What are you looking at me?
What did I do? Oh? The team and here is
giving me a look? Did I do something? Then I
just let like a like a bleep word fly. I'm
so fired up right here they're giving me crazy looks
in New York and I had nothing to do with
me that they just psyched me out. Guys. Yeah, look,
I think that mansion had to sit down. What is
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one of the things I always tell you, and it's
so important? Did Democrats have a whole you know, just
the word apparatus is in much wider usage now. I
don't know. I'm not going to say, you know, but
it is kind of my word. The apparatus of the
Democrats is so effective at making it seem they're so
effective at making the offer to people, kind of like
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Xerxes to the guy who betrays the Persians. You know,
just throws all the money and all the power at
them or whatever. They're so much better at getting you
that book deal. And I don't know if you caught
that reference to three hundred, which is just a great
and timeless film, but they're so much better at throwing
the money and book deals and speak fees and corporate
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board seats and all of that. If you know you
want to go the Schumer way and be invited to
the fancy cocktail parties, and you want to be somebody
who you know, gets that quarter of a million dollar
a year contributorship at CNN to show up once a month,
or you want to be a principled person who does
what's best for his state and keeps his promises like
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a loser. I think we all know the answer from
Joe Mansion. I think we all know what we're seeing here.
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Sexton Show. I want to take this call from Katrina
in Colorado. You've got to hear about this one. Katrina
thanks for giving us a ring. Thank you for listening
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to me. I'm a nineteen year conservative middle school teacher,
and there's more conservative of teachers then I think people realize.
But we need more support from parents still going to
board meetings and than just supporting what their beliefs are. Um,
kids are changing their pronouns in middle school a lot.
(14:16):
And I have two hundred and fifty kids and it's
really hard to keep track of weekly what their pronoun
is or what their name is or non binary name.
So this is this is fascinating to be Contraine. How
many just estimate how many pronoun changes among the children
you teach have happened in the last year roughly? Oh,
(14:39):
it depends on the students. Sometimes it's weekly, sometimes it's
so what does that? How does that happen? Like like,
take me through this process. I mean I obviously haven't
been in a middle school and you know thirty years. Um,
so they does does a student come up to you
you d say this does like little little Bob come
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up to you a little Bobby and say, teacher, I
now want you to call me she? And do they
change the name or they do they have alternative pronouns? Too,
like Z or they they things like that. It really
depends on the student. Sometimes you get an email from
the student because they're kind of shy about it, or
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you get the counselor telling you I've never had a
parent tell me. It's either been a student or a counselor,
or we hear it, you know, is it all he
or she? He switches? Or are there some more creative
pronouns that occasionally you are you are supposed to use?
And also do you have concerns that if you used
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if you miss gender as a teacher, are you going
to get reprimanded? Um, it's usually he she, sometimes it's
today And yes, I actually went to my principle and said,
because of how I believe that I wasn't comfortable calling
a girl a boy and a boy a girl. And
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she gave me a gender discrimination sheet. So I think
that was kind of a subtle, a subtle hint that
I was supposed to play along by some of my
teacher friends and I that feel the same. We just
decided to call them by their last name because it's
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it's hard to keep track of kids nicknames, and then
if there's changing names and then changing pronouns. It's I
had a teacher who refused to call me Buck in
middle school because it was my middle name and not
my first name. So things have changed quite a bit.
I can tell you it goes first names only. That
was quite a quite a difference, Katrina, thanks for calling
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it from Colorado and sharing that one. And look, here's
Demi Levado, as I was saying before, formerly on the
Disney Channel as an actor, has decided that she she
was using they not he pronouns. But you see, this
is this is what once you start to play this
game and that it's not objective reality, it's whatever somebody feels.
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Then you're gonna have to keep changing it with whatever
they feel. And also there's a power dynamic here because
you are expected to comply. If you don't comply, you're
a bigot. This is what they tell you. So now
it's you know, they tell you they tell you to jump,
you got to say how high. Now it's you know,
they tell you to dance, you gotta say to what tune?
And this is true of kids. Now, we just had
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a teacher call it from Colorado, say, your kids change
their pronouns all the time, And she's expected to comply
with this. Somebody should ask Joe Biden about this. Somebody
should ask prominent democrats in office do you think this
is normal? They will evade. They will evade right now,
because no person thinks this is reasonable or normal. Folks.
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a tape sale offer. I'm not talking about the twenty
twenty two elections in twenty twenty four. I have no
control over those elections, and I'm not going to talk
about them. That oskew one of the greatest pieces of legislation,
and I'm very appreciative that the President has seen it,
he's approved it, he supports it. God blessing for that.
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This is great for America. Can't we do something for
our country without having to bring politics into it? But
what's all I don't have to talk about you're a
democatics center about it. I'm just asking you. Let support
your own. The leader of your own are talking about it.
I'm supporting this bill, Andrew. It's the American Bill. It's
the red, white and Blue American Bill. It's the bill
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that we need to fight inflation to have more energy
to do the job that we were sent here to do.
Every time we talk about politics, it gets people fired up.
I'm not going to go down that path. Welcome back
to Clay and Buck. This is Buck and that was
Joe Mansion and that was just amazing. There's She's like,
(20:00):
it's like, what do you not see here? Some of you,
I'm sure saw the timeless classic of nineties cinema office space.
Remember when when one of the characters actually can't remember
his name, but he has to meet with the two
Bobs who are the consultants who are there to do layoffs,
and he just at some point they're like, so what
(20:22):
would you say you do here? One of the greatest lines,
and he starts. He realizes this is not going well,
and he looks at the two Bobs and he goes,
I'm good with people. I'm a people person. What the
hell is wrong with you? Two? Joe Mansion is basically
at that point, I'm a legislator. I'm good with people.
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What is wrong with you? This is gonna save America? No, man,
it's really not. But everyone's kind of seeing this from
what it is. Craven capitulation Mansion. That's what's happening. Put
that one on a bumper sticker. That would actually work
pretty well. But I'm a peopul person. I'm good with people.
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I love it too. They go, so you basically take
the sketches from the engineers over to sales. Why can't
the engineers just do that themselves? Because I'm a peopul person,
Joe Mansion, people person. If you have not seen Office Space,
by the way, highly highly recommend. And I am psyched
(21:26):
to see how many people are writing in who agree
with me that Peaky Blinders is just so good. It's
just so good. I cannot go wrong by advising. Oh,
here we go, Bob Slidell says, what would you say
you do here? Tom Smikowski, that's his name. Well, look,
I already told you ideal with the ideal with the
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gosh damn customers, so the engineers don't have to I
have people's skills. Joe Mansion needs to watch Office Space
for sure. Oh man, that's a great scene in a
great movie when they finally take the baseball bats and
they beat the the the printer in the field into smithereens.
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Why does it say paper jam when there is no
paper gem For those For those who have had office jobs,
especially at late nineties, only two thousands, you know, that
really hit home. Man. We've all wanted to take a
baseball bat to a printer or a copy machine or
a combination at some point in time, so that that's
a particularly good one. Anyway, Joe Mansion, you're gonna hear
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im more and more. But that's one of my favorite
Mansion clips in a long time. Why are you asking
me about Joe Biden? Why are you asking me all
these gosh darn questions? What I did is amazing. I
don't think so, buddy. I think people are starting to
see this for what it is, and speaking of seeing
things for what they are, Peter Doocey over at Fox News,
(22:56):
it's such a great, such a great job to be
the person in the White House Corps who is actually
doing press stuff like asking questions to get answers that
the regime does not necessarily want to give or very
much wants to avoid. And National Security Council spokesman Kirby,
you've been hearing a lot from recently. This is an exchange.
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You've got to hear this because the Biden administration is
increasingly forced to push people to thinking about this in
a way that is not rooted in objective fact, truth
and reality, because if people do think about it in
that way, they will realize what a failure Biden administration
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has been so far, Just what an abject failure. Democrats themselves,
until they got really desperate and they were all suffering
from Trump's arrangement syndrome, knew that Joe Biden was too
old and also not competent for the role. And so
Afghanistan and the withdrawal from Afghanistan, how it was conducted
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was something that people just can't We can't unsee it.
You can't unsee the planes taking off from Kabbel Airport
with people grabbing onto the fuselage. You can unsee those
first reports of what was it over a dozen US
service members killed in a suicide bombing at the airport
as we were rushing for the exits. I believe it
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was thirteen we're killed. And here's Peter Doocy just asking
about the reality of Afghanistan. I know they wanted to
take a victory lap on Zawahiri yesterday after he was
sliced by a Ninja missile on Saturday. And it is
a good thing, just like the bin Laden. Justice delivered
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was a good thing, but it doesn't mean that we
are winning in Afghanistan. And this is a very It
is possible to take a high level enemy combatant off
the battlefield or whatever we're gonna call Afghanist in these
days and not actually be winning on the battlefield overall.
And we are certainly not winning in Afghanistan right now.
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And that's the part of this bid administration. They want
to do that. They want to take the victory lap
and not have everyone take a look at, well, what
are they taking a lap around? Because it looks like
a country that's run by the Taliban with the Hakani
network in charge, and they're designated terrorists and by the way,
have very close ties to al Qaeda. Here's how that
went with us at the Taliban was harboring the world's
(25:30):
most wanted terrorists. You guys gave a whole country to
a bunch of people that are on the FBI most
wanted list. What did you think was going to happen?
Take issue with the premise that we gave a whole
country to terrorist groups. I mean again, I'd encourage you
to ask in the world's number one terrorists, how is
that not giving a country to a terrorist sympathizing group,
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if not giving them permission to have terrorists just sit
on a balcony the question, I mean, Peter, the way
you ask that, it makes it sound like we own Afghanistan.
A year ago, it wasn't our country. It was an independent,
sovereign state and the president made a bold decision to
end a war that had been going on for twenty years. No,
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we bailed, and a lot of you are going to think,
and a lot of you would agree that getting out
was the right move. But how we bail on what timeline,
with what left behind, with what regime in place, with
what elected government? That all matters too. But they're just
not accepting reality. The Biden administration said we're just to
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getting out. They did it on a timeline that Biden
just decided upon pulling everything out, handed it over to
the Taliban. That is what happened. They can try to
say a million different ways about oh it O, it's
a sovereign, independent country. Whatever. The Taliban is in charge
of Afghanistan. It is now a terror sanctuary. We just
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have not seen external plotting come to horrific fruition anywhere
in the world yet from Afghanistan, but it is just
a matter of time. I don't think we're going back
in the way that we've gone in the past. I
don't think that we're going to be launching a massive Remember,
in the initially it wasn't a full scale invasion. CIA
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led special operations into Afghanistan right after nine to eleven,
and that was an effective strategy with the Northern Alliance,
and the Taliban were just heading for the hills as
fast as they could, for the Hindu Kush Mountains, in fact,
getting out of there as fast as they could. And
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then the big military showed up and the Pentagon took
over the decision making and it became a nation building
exercise that lasted twenty years and that failed. The war
in the beginning against the Taliban was one. It was
one with minimal US footprint, loss of life, and expenditure
of treasure, and then it turned into something else. And
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we should all be very honest about what happened there.
This administration will not be honest about it because it
doesn't look good for them. It doesn't look good for them.
That's you're noticing a pattern too. Obama pulls out of Iraq,
in such a way because they say, oh, it's a
status of forces agreement. We couldn't figure it out. They could,
they didn't want to. They just wanted to go. Pull
all the plugs, get out of there, and then the
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Islamic State takes over, has a blitzkrieg through Mosul, and
you have the largest terror sanctuary in the world operating
under the Obama administration. Biden comes in, Just pull out
all the stops, get out of there. Don't worry about
what's happening after we leave. Just go, just go. Now
we have another terrors sanctuary. It's just a question of
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what their next moves will be and what we will
do in response. My friends will talk more about the
economy and inflation coming up here in a second, and
also have a special guest will be joining us at
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is they've got this fifteen percent minimum tax on corporations
and that will be passed along to consumers, and who
pays that the most. It's manufacturers pass along the cost
to consumers who don't make that much money. Everybody is
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going to pay a bit more. And it's supposed to
the Inflation Reduction Act. It will not reduce inflation. It's
supposed to cut the deficit. It does not cut the
deficit until a year twenty twenty seven. So on all
of these metrics where it's supposed to succeed and make
us all better off, it fails on all of them.
So the Inflation Reduction Act doesn't really reduce inflation. Oh okay,
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it's supposed to increase manufacturing and energy production. It won't
do that either. Other than that, great, you know, actually know,
there's even worse stuff that we could talk about. This
is one issue where you see raising taxes on companies
right now. What is likely to happen specifically manufacturers. What
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has been the reality of you going to the grocery store.
Do you say, hey, you're not allowed to raise the
price of eggs fifty percent or whatever it is? Right now?
It's been a huge eggs in particular, which I eat
a lot of eggs. I'm a big eggs fan. Still
bitter about the fact than in the eighties they were like,
it's going to give you too much cholesterol. Lies, lies,
(31:43):
Eggs are excellent for you. Of fantastic food. It was
the science then. I bet Fauci was like, don't eat eggs.
Have a lot of madarine. Magarine is delicious and so
good for you. Don't worry about the fact that it
is actually chemical crap that is really bad for you,
because I'm telling you to eat it anyway. Yeah, what
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happens when they raise the price of eggs at the market.
Do you get to go up with the manager and say,
excuse me, sir, but you've raised the price of eggs.
Now you could go to another store. But guess what,
do you think the price of eggs is really gone
that much lower? There? These are commodities. These are things
that people want to go and get it. There's some
distinctions about whether you get free range. I actually found
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this out recently. You want, I think it's pasture raised
is the best I know. There are people who raise
their own chickens and ducks and geese and things like
that who probably can, But there's a lot of games
they play with all these different egg designations. That you're
going to eat. I think the best one they say
is you want it to be? Is it free range? Right?
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Is free range the best one? Because there's some version
they'll say where you know they're actually not. It makes
it sound like it's like the chickens are doing well,
but they're not. They're actually in a very enclosed space.
And then there's another one, another designation where they're actually
living like normal chicken lives. Anyway, you gotta look at it.
These It's kind of like people that are like, I
only eat organic fruit. Yeah, but do you know what
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they put on the organic fruit? Because just think about
it this way, Um, there are a lot of things
that are organic that you don't want to eat. You know,
Mercury's organic, arsenic is organic, a lot of organic you
don't want to eat it. Just because something isn't in
organic doesn't mean that it is something you necessarily want
to put on your body. But the price, as you know,
gets passed on to consumers when there are things like this,
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when there are raises in an industry that are going
to affect everybody. Karine Jean Pierre, Economics, PhD. Just kidding,
although you didn't even to you didn't need to explain
that she doesn't have a PhD in economics, not that
would even really matter. Let's be honest, a lot of
PhD Paul Krugman's like, the economy is so good, that's
why the inflation Biden's so amazing. It's just must be
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weird to go through life as a as a professional
econ Court Jester. Now for the Democrat regime, it's kind
of sad in some ways. Here is Karine Jean Pierre
though that was talking about Krugman. Here's Karine Jean Pierre.
I cannot speak as to whether the tax highest will
increase prices. There's a corporate taxes increase to a minimum
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of fifteen percent. How confident is the president that the
companies will not pass that cost on to people in
form of higher prices. Look, the reason why we talk
about we think the global minimum tax of fifteen is,
or the minimum tax, the corporate minimum tax of fifteen
is so important is because you have fifty five companies
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corporate companies right now who pay absolutely nothing, who plays
zero dollars, and by doing this we are fixing the
tax loophole. It is important to do that. It is
important to have a fairer tax system. I cannot speak
to your question that you're asking me. I cannot speak
to that. I can't speak as to this legislation and
why it's so important. Yeah, not a surprise that she
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doesn't know. But the answer is yes, people will end
up what are these companies who's paying? Also, why don't
they name them more often? Let's know, what are the
companies that they're going to out raise taxes on? Because
what's going to happen as a result of that. You're
seeing prices rising all around you. You're seeing this happening.
You're you're feeling this going on right now in your
day to day lives. And Democrats think that somehow they
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have a better handle on where this capital should be allocated.
In fact, here is do you guys remember Senator Michael
Bennett here, Remember this guy. He's a big green new
deal guy. He says that this Inflation Act will put
us on a path to energy independence. It really is
an amazing moment in the United States Senate. We're finally
finally doing the work the American people sent us to do.
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When you think about the Chips Act that we passed
last week, that that's going to bring back the semi
conductor industry in the United States. You think about the
Packed Act we've passed last night on veterans healthcare, and
then the Inflation Reduction Act that's gonna dramatically reduce healthcare
costs for the American people and put us on the
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path to energy independence, strengthen our national green energy folks,
just understand green energy. How long do you think it's
gonna take to get to green energy independence? Because that's
really what the Act does. It's going to subsidize a
whole bunch of green new deal stuff. It is outrageous,
my friends, but this is what they do. This is
who they are. We have joining us in just a
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few minutes. Tutor Dixon. I mean, my name is Buck Sexton.
I gotta say, Tutor Dixon's a pretty cool name. Respect
for the cool names out there. She just want a
big primary up in Michigan. She's facing off against Whitmer.
You want to hear from her congratulator on the run
so far, Fleet Travis and Buck Sexton on the front
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