May 10, 2022 • 37 mins
Are you better off than you were the last day Trump was in office? Clay says he doesn't think many people are. Biden gives speech on inflation, has no answers besides more spending, which will only make it worse. Buck, plays Rick Santelli's "prophetic" statement and agrees, "Prices aren't going back down, folks." We need to run out the clock on Biden in 2022, Clay says and then passionately reiterates. And then we ride the red wave in November. Golden State head coach Steve Kerr coaches playoff game in mask, tests positive anyway. Viral clip from pandemic expert Laurie Garrett in 2018: Masks scare people, but don’t work. Dr. Fauci: cult leader of the lockdowners. Rand Paul: Dr. Fauci has normalized untruths. Clay asks: "Have you ever disliked anyone in the public sphere more than you dislike Fauci?"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show
Tuesday edition of the program. Appreciate all of you hanging
out with us as we roll through and discuss all
of the issues of the day. Right off the top
here Joe Biden currently speaking on inflation. We will pull
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any cuts from that that are relevant. There are a
ton of stories out there that are continuing to percolate.
Among them, we'll talk about this inflation. Biden address also
abortion scare tactics that are spreading widely in the wake
of the opinion that has been proposed by Justice Alito.
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I think it's important for Republicans to start to address
some of these scare tactics. We have continued speaking of
scare tactics, marching going on in the front yards and
basically the front lawns, nearly front streets of many Supreme
Court justices. Why is that being allowed to continue, considering
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that there is a federal law to keep it from continuing.
The NBA, Buck and I want to hit on this
a little bit later. But the NBA which pulled its
All Star game out of Charlotte North Carolina because of
a transgender bathroom bill that they did not like. Is
going to be playing actual games in the United Arab Emirates,
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where homosexuality is punishable by death. Seems to be a
bit of hypocrisy there as it pertains to the NBA.
But we begin with the biggest issue that continues to
dominate the American political sphere, and it is inflation. Tomorrow
we will get a reading on the month of April
to see whether or not inflation has accelerated or decelerated
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a bit from a forty year high of eight point
five percent. What will not change, however, is Joe Biden
is going to continue to come up with a shifting
rationale under which he bears no responsibility for the policies
that he has implemented that have helped to ensure that
the United States has one of the highest inflation rates
among Western democracies. And it's worth noting, as Biden speaks
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and we begin this show that it wasn't very long
ago that Joe Biden claimed his infrastructure bill would help
to stop surging inflation. In fact, this was just November
of twenty twenty one. Basically, every single policy idea including
build back better. Joe Biden has tried to argue that
by spending trillions of dollars, inflation will get better. Here
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is Biden. In November of twenty twenty one, the House
of Representative passed my Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. On on other
plans that I'm advancing, this bill is going to reduce
the cost of goods to consumers, businesses, and get people
back to work, helping us build an economy from the
bottom up, in the middle out where everybody's better off.
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You know, I'm tired of this trickle down economy stuff.
If only we had trickled down economy. What does he
think is the only thing trickling down from Biden is incompetence.
It's amazing to watch this in real time, claim I,
and I can see on the screen you've got lowering costs,
tackling inflation. The Democrats really do seem to believe, and
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maybe it's just because their own ideology boxes them into
this and they can't find a way out from it,
that the way to lower costs and tackle inflation is
to have the federal government spend more money. Oh and
of course, to raise a whole lot of taxes. Which
is something that they're not talking about very much now,
but they will be by all means if they if
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they can find themselves in a position to actually pass
legislation to do that, they will and I think that
that's probably going to happen. But they keep saying, now,
Biden's big talking point is, well, there's the Putin price hike,
which he said during the speech, which he's given right
now as we're talking to you, And they've got the
little the actual talking points behind him, lowering costs, tackling inflation.
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And then I listen to him, I go, none of
the things that he's saying will do either of those things.
They will actually make inflation worse and they will make
costs higher. They are this is a little bit like
the paradigm of defund the police. Defund the police is
only going to make crime worse and make everybody less safe.
But they kept saying, oh no, no, just just give
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this defund thing more time, treated more seriously, spending more
money when you're in an inflationary period, as you pointed out,
the worst inflation we've seen in forty years, is only
going to make the problem worse. But they refuse to
accept that they're wrong. I mean, that's really what this
comes down to. It. So it's like the mask issue.
They will not turn around and say, hold on a
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second government. Additional spending will simply make things that are
already getting bad far worse than they would otherwise be.
So that's why I think we're just seeing the beginning
of this. I think that you're going to see a
really rough summer going into the fall, with the markets,
with inflation, with the price of food, the price of gas,
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it's all gonna be a nightmare for the Democrats. Look,
we hit yesterday a low in the SNP five hundred
going back to March of twenty twenty one, and we
are becoming perilously close to going negative for the entire
Joe Biden administration. And we have continued to talk about
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this buck but the incompetence of Biden on every single front.
This is what I would ask everybody out there. It's
a simple question, but it goes to the essence of
very many political elections. How many people out there are
better off now than they were when Donald Trump was president?
How many of our listeners are better off today than
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they were the last day Donald Trump was president? On
January nineteenth, twenty twenty, twenty twenty one. I don't think
there's very many. And it's not just Republicans, it's independence,
it's Democrats. If you took away, to your point, Buck,
the preexisting party alliances that are out there whereby a
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certain percentage of people are just going to refuse that,
to refuse to acknowledge that things could be worse because
they're so died in the wool in supporting the Democrat Party.
Nobody really supports Joe Biden. They support the fact that
a Democrat is in office. If you take away those people,
and even those people, if you gave them truth saram
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and you ask them, hey, really, let's be honest. Were
you better off when Trump was president or you better
off when Biden's in office? I think one hundred percent
of Americans would have to acknowledge that Joe Biden has
failed on every single front. He's failed on the border,
he's failed on international relations, he's failed on inflation, he's
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failed on crime. I just think we have to keep
beating this. He's failed on COVID, certainly, he's failed on
kids being better off because of COVID. I just think
we have to keep beating this drum because there isn't
a story that Republicans can lose on when it comes
to Joe Biden's performance in office, and I think they're
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recognizing it. It's very big brother esque. Buck to your point,
I'm looking at the screen and they have all these
messages that they're trying to get across behind Biden through
just repetition, as if he has an answer in any
way for what's going on with inflation. His answer for
inflation is spend more money, which is truly the worst
thing that could happen for the government right now. There's
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no way the Democrats can hold on to a majority
in the House or the Senate with the I mean,
we know they're going to almost certainly lose the House,
but I don't think they could even hold the Senate
majority if this current trend economically continues. I mean, when
you look at the data, just so everyone knows, this
is not just like Clay and Buck we think. I mean,
you look at Biden right now. I said this to
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clayby force. I'm gonna say this to all you because
we're all part of the same Clay and Buck family here. Okay,
this guy as president is absurd. I'm just gonna he's
not up for this. He was never a very bright guy.
He is way too old for the job. He looks decrepit.
I'm sorry, it's true, and I mean that in terms
of not cognitively physically capable of doing this in a
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meaningful way. And Democrats act like everything's fine. I'm sorry.
The emperor has no clothes and people are realizing this.
There's a CNN poll not you know, right wing crazies
dot com y CNN poll last week, eight and ten
adults said the federal government wasn't doing enough to curb
inflation seven and ten and the Democrat Party seven and
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ten Democrats approve of Biden on the economy. Eighty six
percent of Democrats overall approof of his performance. These the
people whooed for Biden, don't seem to understand the cause
and effect of what they keep saying. The federal government
can't solve this, The federal government isn't doing I'm sorry,
isn't doing enough to solve this. They don't staying the
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federal government is causing the problem, and Joe Biden's management
of the federal government's causing the problems. So Democrats are
in denial and delusion about this. The numbers with Independence
though and Republicans in the tank. You look at overall
approval of the economy nationwide, everyone recognizes these guys don't
know what they're doing. They simply don't have the skill set,
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they don't have the vision, and their ideas are crappy.
You just I mean, I just looked at the Build
Back Better framework, Clay. It's really straightforward. Spending a whole
lot more money, giving universal PreK. Think of it, the
size of that. You're basically going to expand out the
federal school system, right the Department of Education and the
Universal PreK. That's just gonna be a whole new entitlement,
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more money, more spending. It's just gonna get worse and worse. Yeah,
I don't think there's any doubt, and I'm not sure
where they're going to be able to make arguments going forward.
The best thing we can do, and I mean this
for the country, is run out the clock on Joe
Biden in twenty twenty two, essentially, don't allow him to
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pass any more truly substantive bills. Now we can get
into a big debate about what exactly counts as substantive.
I'm not happy that we're spending forty billion dollars plus
to give Ukraine aid when our moms can't find a
baby formula. Baby formula out there on the shelves right now.
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I'm not happy that we're sending Ukraine forty billion dollars
to help protect their borders when we won't protect our
own southern border. I think there are many reasons why
you can be angry about the way money is being
spent and what the significance of the dollars that we
are spending is. But we really have to keep is
any sort of transformative law lasting legislation from being passed,
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whether it's a tax increase, whether it's some form of
build back better that creates government expenditures that ride off
into the sunset of trillions of dollars. We have to
run out the clock because once we get to the summer,
everything pivots towards the campaign, and if Democrats haven't passed
anything buck, they're not going to be able to pass
much in twenty twenty three and in twenty twenty four,
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because I think you're correct that there will be an
overwhelming red wave in November. So long as Republicans continue
to bring home the failures of the Biden imitation so far,
I want to also bring this with This is another
CNN poll just to give everyone to said, the public's
view of the economy overall is the worst that has
been in ten years. Okay, the worst that has been
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in ten years. That was actually the top line of
the pole. So the overall everyone realized it's a bad
economy right now. It's not good. And inflation, I know,
as the primary driver of that. But yeah, how expensive
everything is? Gas, food, rent, new cars, used cars, everything.
How expensive this is? You know, I've got a family
member who's a small business owner. All of his costers
is going up all the time. Yeah, of course. And
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and if you're trying to just get to that point
where you're a profitability, it can eat away at your margins.
It could kill your business. Right. This is and this
is why so much of this, Oh, here we go,
Biden deficits exploded under my predecessor. It's always somebody else's fault.
That's Putin's fault, It's Trump's fault. Joe Biden didn't come
into office saying I'm going to complain a lot about
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what other people are doing and not fix anything. He said,
Clay Steady handed the economy middle class folks will do great,
and that was just all absurd. Also, deficits exploded because
of COVID. Right if you look at the economy and
you freeze frame it in February and March, right before
COVID hit, we were trending towards the greatest economy that
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has ever existed in the United States. In fact, you
can argue we were there. And I think we have
to continue to hammer home that the people who were
employed in February of twenty, when wages were rising for
all races, White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, when unemployment rate was
lower for all races than we've ever seen before, we
still haven't regained the jobs that we had from the
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Trump economy in February of twenty twenty. There's still over
a million people who are not in the workforce that
we're working then. And I gotta tell you, by the way,
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and the American public is not stupid, meaning it's gonna
certainly quit going up as fast as it is. But
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prices are not, and I underscore, are not going back
to where they were. And I still say, if there's
one word about what the future of the world's economy
looks like down the road, and people aren't gonna like this.
It's about the cost of energy. If people want to
keep energy prices high, and the government's want to have
secret meanings about really not being all that enamored with
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fossil fuel at this point in history, that we're all
doomed to much slower economies down the road. Welcome back
to Clay en Buck. I'm Buckhe's Clay. That was Rick Santelli,
the man who called for the tea party from the
floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange back in twenty ten,
just speaking what I think is going to end up
being somewhat prophetic here. Prices aren't going back down, Folks.
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When Biden starts talking about lowering costs, I get really concerned.
If you want to see a case study of government
intervention in the markets by setting price controls. That's what
happened in Venezuela that really started to tag their economy.
So I hope they know that we can't do that.
That would be like full on socialist lunacy. But these
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days when you hear them talking about how they want
to tackle inflation by spending more money, inflation is a
problem of monetary policy, and inflation is a problem of
government spending. This is e con one O one. And
yet Clay, we get Democrats like Biden coming out to
tell us that their policies of spending more money are
actually helping. It's like arguing with crazy people. Joe Biden
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made one of the signature issues of his campaign that
the adults would be in charge again and that he
would take responsibility for everything that occurred on his watch.
Yet what we're seeing Joe Biden do time after time
is find different explanations for why inflation is not his fault.
And if you remember, I believe inflation was one point
nine percent when he took over in January of twenty
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twenty one. I think I'm correct in that we're now
at eight point five percent inflation. So everything that he
is done has accelerated what would have likely been a
larger inflation related issue. And Buck, I don't think we're
talking enough about Shanghai and the lockdowns that are still
going on there and how that's going to continue to
impact and exacerbate all of our supply chain crisis issues.
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We may be far worse. I mean again, you're already
seeing it with things that are important like baby formula.
We may be far worse when it comes to supply
issues in this country in the summer and the fall
than we have been so far. I think that's likely.
I hate to say it, but Bearschalves Biden was mostly
a meme that people are using to poke at the
Biden administration for being incompetent, But it could really be
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have run in the country too. Oh my god, I
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by the way, but on a much broader scale than
even that. And what that scarcity does is create more scarcity.
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis, Buck Sex and Show. Appreciate
all of you hanging out with us. Encourage you to
go subscribe to the podcast, make sure you don't miss
a single moment. To let you know that we're gonna
talk with Douglas Blair at one thirty Eastern time. He
was one of the reporters who followed around those U
protesters who were going to the Supreme Court Justice Holmes,
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so he's seen that firsthand. What was the experience like,
what did it feel like in that crowd? How much
longer might this go on? And what is what is
and should be the consequences there. We will discuss that
in what has continued to become a bigger and bigger story.
And then at two o'clock we're gonna be joined Eastern
time by Marsha Blackburn, Senator from Tennessee, to talk about
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the potential overturning of the rov Away decision and what
that will next bring to bear across the nation. All
that's still to come, but one of the questions that
a lot of us have been asking is how did
we end up in a world where masking? And by
the way, Buck, I texted you this yesterday, but did
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you see that Steve Kerr, who we were making fun
of yesterday on the program for being the only person
essentially wearing a mask in the entire Golden State Warrior
arena out in San Francisco, could not be any more
perfectly emblematic of the absurdity. I'm sure that Steve Kerr
has probably gotten forty six different COVID shots because he
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is a king lib. He was the only person wearing
a mask on Saturday in that arena. He tested positive
for COVID on Monday, was not able to coach last
night in their game, and we talked about he didn't matter,
he didn't mask up hard enough, needed more mask He
kept going down his masks to yell guidance to his team,
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and we made fun of how ridiculous that was. The
minute that this news story came down, my Twitter feed
absolutely exploded. So many of you out there, I'm at Clay,
Travis buck is at Buck Sexton were reacting to that
conversation that we had and how absurd it was and
how perfectly emblematic. It was that he tested positive despite
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being the only person wearing a mask. Masks don't work well.
This is a clip that has started to go viral
on social media. I saw it yesterday, you did too,
author Lorie Garrett. This is from twenty eighteen now, just
to be clear, but she talks about the fact that
a Japanese study has shown masks are more effective in
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scaring people than in keeping the virus out. This clip
has gone viral. I wanted you to listen to it
to understand the psychology of why people like Buck and
I have been so adamantly opposed to the idea of masking,
because it isn't about safety, it's about control. Listen. In
one of their large studies, they basically showed that the masks.
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It seemed like the major efficacy of a mask is
that it causes alarm in the other person, and so
you stay away from each other. And that's what I
think happened with Stars. When I was in the Stars epidemic,
I saw everywhere all over Asia people started wearing these masks.
And it is alarming when you walk down a street
and everybody coming towards you has a mask on you
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definitely do social distancing you, definitely, it's just a gut thing.
But did the mask really help them? Did the mask
keep the virus out? Almost certainly not. If the virus
was around their face, the mask would not have made
the difference. What happened to the science? Remember when Fauci
you said something very similar at the start of the
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actual pandemic in twenty twenty, and then pretended like you
never said it. These people are frauds, these people that
pushed the masking after knowing that there was no benefit
in previous trials and in previous pandemics from masking. It's fraudulent.
It's funny. I actually worked at the Council on Foreign
Relations Clay as an intern, and Laurie Garrett was a
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fellow there right, a public health expert, and her whole
thing was pandemics. That's really her area of study. So
somebody who all she did was sit around all day,
you know, eating cheese it's and read reading on a screed.
You know, seasons are amazing, they are quite tasty. All
she did was study pandemics, And in twenty eighteen, before
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this pandemic, she's saying, I mean, mask don't actually keep
out the virus. That's absurd, right, you and I. I
think I have been vilified more by libs and the
left on the masking issue than almost anything else I
can think of. Quite honestly, people have gone completely insane
on me. I have not gotten a single apology. Some
people on the right have actually reachot to say I
was giving you kind of a hard time in the beginning,
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and you were right. So that's nice. I appreciate that
jump on in the water's warm on team reality. But
here you have yet again, compliance is what this was
all about. Power, as you said, control is what this
is all about. And then the shutting down of economies.
This was Remember we all massed up and then it
was oh my gosh, we have to shut down our economies.
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Why yeah, based on what whose idea was this? This
was the dumbest thing in history. And if you're if
someone wants to argue with me, I would point out
it wasn't shut down. That was not shut down to
stop the spread of the virus. It was two weeks
to give hospitals capacity to deal with the influx of
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the sick. That was it. It was like, okay, everybody,
stay in your house, for a couple of days, and
then we see and they just lied, Clay. And it's
important everyone understands this because why is your house, everything
in your house getting so much more expensive? Household expenses?
Why is food? Why is gas? Why is everything? Those
decisions which the Democrats doubled and tripled down on them
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when crazy on were catastrophically stupid. And I think it's
also to point out to Laurie Garrett's analysis here, masks
are about scaring people. Buck, Do you know what else
has happened since they have removed masks on airplanes. The
number of issues with behavior on airlines has declined by
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seventy percent. So all these flight attendants out there, all
the pilots, and a lot of you listen to us.
I guarantee you if we opened up phone lines and
we just wanted to take their calls, what those masks
did was create a high level of anxiety and travelers
because you are I'll tell you Buck for myself traveling
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with my kids. I'm flying later this afternoon back down
to Florida. I flew to Florida last week with my kids.
I can't tell you, Buck, how much more normal it
feels to be in an airport where no one is
wearing a mask, where you go through TSA and the
TSA agents aren't wearing a mask, where you still have
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to do all the usual clearance process, but it just
feels so much better and so much more normal. And
I really do believe that there's a dehumanizing effect when
you don't see someone's face, and so it increases the
overall antipathy, the overall anger that exist on airlines down
seventy percent should be by the way, a front page
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headline because we heard all this talk about, hey, we've
got to protect our workers, they're under siege, all these things.
We haven't seen a delay in flights. We haven't seen cancelations.
We've actually seen a more efficient process to travel because
mass have been removed, and we haven't seen a surge
in cases on airline flight attendants and pilots. It hasn't happened.
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The mask advocates, I hate to say this, are as
dumb and destructive with the actual results. As defund the
police was, I mean, it's at that level of defund
the police just made everything worse. And that's why the
Democrats had they had to finally run away from it. Oh,
we don't want to do that. That's crazy. Mask advocates
is the same thing. They've been wrong about everything at
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every single step of the way. And look, by the
point about dehumanization, I think that has been I think
that that's separating people into the masked and unmasked was
a Democrat strategy. I think they used it in twenty twenty.
I think they used it for compliance and mobilization in
twenty twenty one on a whole range of issues. It
became a political signifier more than anything else. I tweeted
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out that chart. I know you saw that too. Of
all of a sudden in twenty twenty, Democrats all believe
in the science. Oh before that, they didn't apparently believe
in the science. But twenty twenty hits Fauci's their little
cuddly old Grandpam. He's an evil, tyrant smurf, and they
act like, all of a sudden they know things they
didn't know before. When I'd think about times when I
was in the plane and I was told by I
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was told to change my mask. Two separate time I
had a mask on told to change it too. And
I'm a pretty polite and even keeled fellow. I would
think generally, I wanted to bark profanity at these Yeah,
like I wanted to start shouting curse words in their faces.
The only thing that really prevented me is one, you know,
public figure YouTube not good. Two Two. I felt badly
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for some of them because I know that they were
you know, they were kind of in the just following
orders category. But the ones that upset me were the
ones that clearly took some glee in this. They actually
liked this power that they had. I thought it was pathetic,
and I think there needs to be a reckoning on
this issue, as well as many others. Yeah, and going forward,
there needs to be a significant analysis of this because
you know, the science gets a lot of things wrong.
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If you look historically at treatment. Remember we talked about
this before Buck. The idea that you would, for instance,
sterilize weapons, not weapons, but medical instruments that you're using
in order to treat patients was considered to be laughably
absurd until late in the nineteenth century. I mean, the
idea that you would say, hey, maybe we should clean
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these people would laugh at you. The concept of when
somebody got sick taking their blood, the idea, hey, we've
got we've got to bleed you in order to get
you well. I think this mask wearing is going to
be considered on that level in years ahead, in that
maybe maybe we're going to find out that it even
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worked against places. Because if you look our buddy Ian
Miller at Ian MSc, he's got a good piece up
right now, it's substack pointing out that by far the
places with the highest rates of COVID are the most
vaccinated right now and the most masked up. What's going
on there? I mean, these are questions that real scientist
would be asking because there are many different alarm bells
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going off. And by the way, the biggest alarm bell
of all is the Biden administration saying we might have
a hundred million new cases just in time for the midterms.
That midterm variant of COVID. Oh wow, it's sure is
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Little Fauci says he is the absolute worst has created.
You ever disliked anybody on the public sphere in your
life more than you dislike Fauci. I think he has
harmed more people than any other person I can think
of in my lifetime in America in a policy role. Yeah,
I dislike him more than any politician in my life. Yeah. No,
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I mean I'm putting him firmly in the politician camp
because of his the way, even the way that he's
talking there. It makes me just just furious. But I
think think he's the ultimate wire. I think he's at
the point where he would be having a psychological breakdown
if he actually took a moment to take stock of
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what his pronouncements and his role in all this has been.
But the libs, I mean, this is why I played
that University of Michigan honorary doctorate ceremony. They weren't clapping
for him. I mean, you're like I My own college
graduation was so boring. I was like, what am I
even do? You know? This is usually you're hungover over.
Can neither confirm deny, but yes, it was a little
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hung over, like, oh you know who cares? And they
were they were up uproarious applause for doctor Anthony Fauci
on the left, because he is the one that they
put all their hopes. I mean, he's effectively the leader
of a religious belief. I mean, he's he's like the
post He's he's the he's the cult leader of the
mass down, lockdown, get get shot two, get three, get four,
(32:59):
get five, get ten, and you know you'll notice he
is completely to this day still mum, we'll not say
a word about, you know, maybe drawing the little circles
in the park and making people sit in them outdoors,
maybe padlocking playgrounds and terrifying small children, making the mask
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up outside as they sit on the ground to eat
their lunch. Never has said, you know, guys, we lost
our way with some of that stuff. He is the
absolute worst. If I could get away with dropping some
curses on radio right now, I probably would. I'm just
saying it. You know, what video I saw yesterday was
the video in California of the skate parks being filled
(33:45):
with sand. Somebody was circulating that video to say, hey,
let's not forget what they did to us any politician
that was involved. And they did this in my neighborhood.
Buck They put rhyme scene tape up around the playgrounds
to keep kids from being able to go to the playgrounds.
(34:06):
They took rims off of basketball hoops to keep people
from playing outdoor basketball, and they filled up skate parks
with sand to keep kids from being able to be
on skateboards. Every one of those people should not just
be beaten in terms of an election. They should be
(34:26):
removed from office forever for incompetence. And that's why this
November election is so important. If Fauci is perhaps my
or our nemesis, the good news is that Faucci has
his own nemesis, Senator Ran Paul. Here's the interesting thing.
It's the same argument as a disinformation board, we have
to decide what is true and what is not true. So,
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for example, I think that doctor Fauci has promulgated untruth,
he has normalized untruth. So the biggest pervader I think
of untruth right now in public health is doctor Fauci.
So when someone says we're gonna stop to his information, well,
they can't even agree to what the truth is. That's
why we have a debate, or robust debate. Scientists debate,
journalists debate, politicians debate. We arrive at the truth through disputation.
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Anybody who says we can do it by edict is
somebody completely unaware of the idea and the concept of
freedom of speech. Rand Paul has been on Fauci's case
more effectively, more consistently, and earlier did really anyone else
I can think of with a platform and a political
office in public life. He's seen the truth alogue. So
(35:31):
in the same way that I am, I will never
let go the whole Fauci debacle. I am grateful that
Senator rand Paul has been a voice out there of
truth on this. Not only that, Buck, we need to
allow the Rand Paul's of the world and the Jim
Jordan's of the world in both the House and the
Senate to be able to hold doctor Fauci accountable. Because
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you want to send this loser, lunatic the wire into retirement,
I guarantee you he will retire. We win back the
House and Senate, and it becomes clear that he's going
to have to testify on a regular basis, and that
he's going to be held accountable for all the lies
that he has spread and all of the resulting peril
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that he has put this country in as a result.
So you want to send this guy directly into retirement.
You don't want your tax dollars making him the highest
paid bureaucrat in the history of the United States. We
need that reckoning, We need that red wave. We need
to enable and empower people in the Senate and the
House to hold him accountable. Speaking of peril, the Supreme Court,
(36:37):
crazy mobs running around not just outside the court, but
outside the homes of some justices, And there's been a
bit of a debate that's broken out on the right
among conservatives about why isn't the law not just federal
but state law in the case of Virginia and Maryland
being enforced to break up these protests outside of homes
(36:58):
clearly meant to intimidate justices. Clan are going to dive
into that one, and Moore coming up here in just
a few minutes play Travis and Buck Sexton on the
front lines of truth
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show
Tuesday edition of the program. Appreciate all of you hanging
out with us as we roll through and discuss all
of the issues of the day. Right off the top
here Joe Biden currently speaking on inflation. We will pull
(00:20):
any cuts from that that are relevant. There are a
ton of stories out there that are continuing to percolate.
Among them, we'll talk about this inflation. Biden address also
abortion scare tactics that are spreading widely in the wake
of the opinion that has been proposed by Justice Alito.
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I think it's important for Republicans to start to address
some of these scare tactics. We have continued speaking of
scare tactics, marching going on in the front yards and
basically the front lawns, nearly front streets of many Supreme
Court justices. Why is that being allowed to continue, considering
(01:04):
that there is a federal law to keep it from continuing.
The NBA, Buck and I want to hit on this
a little bit later. But the NBA which pulled its
All Star game out of Charlotte North Carolina because of
a transgender bathroom bill that they did not like. Is
going to be playing actual games in the United Arab Emirates,
(01:30):
where homosexuality is punishable by death. Seems to be a
bit of hypocrisy there as it pertains to the NBA.
But we begin with the biggest issue that continues to
dominate the American political sphere, and it is inflation. Tomorrow
we will get a reading on the month of April
to see whether or not inflation has accelerated or decelerated
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a bit from a forty year high of eight point
five percent. What will not change, however, is Joe Biden
is going to continue to come up with a shifting
rationale under which he bears no responsibility for the policies
that he has implemented that have helped to ensure that
the United States has one of the highest inflation rates
among Western democracies. And it's worth noting, as Biden speaks
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and we begin this show that it wasn't very long
ago that Joe Biden claimed his infrastructure bill would help
to stop surging inflation. In fact, this was just November
of twenty twenty one. Basically, every single policy idea including
build back better. Joe Biden has tried to argue that
by spending trillions of dollars, inflation will get better. Here
(02:41):
is Biden. In November of twenty twenty one, the House
of Representative passed my Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. On on other
plans that I'm advancing, this bill is going to reduce
the cost of goods to consumers, businesses, and get people
back to work, helping us build an economy from the
bottom up, in the middle out where everybody's better off.
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You know, I'm tired of this trickle down economy stuff.
If only we had trickled down economy. What does he
think is the only thing trickling down from Biden is incompetence.
It's amazing to watch this in real time, claim I,
and I can see on the screen you've got lowering costs,
tackling inflation. The Democrats really do seem to believe, and
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maybe it's just because their own ideology boxes them into
this and they can't find a way out from it,
that the way to lower costs and tackle inflation is
to have the federal government spend more money. Oh and
of course, to raise a whole lot of taxes. Which
is something that they're not talking about very much now,
but they will be by all means if they if
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they can find themselves in a position to actually pass
legislation to do that, they will and I think that
that's probably going to happen. But they keep saying, now,
Biden's big talking point is, well, there's the Putin price hike,
which he said during the speech, which he's given right
now as we're talking to you, And they've got the
little the actual talking points behind him, lowering costs, tackling inflation.
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And then I listen to him, I go, none of
the things that he's saying will do either of those things.
They will actually make inflation worse and they will make
costs higher. They are this is a little bit like
the paradigm of defund the police. Defund the police is
only going to make crime worse and make everybody less safe.
But they kept saying, oh no, no, just just give
(04:30):
this defund thing more time, treated more seriously, spending more
money when you're in an inflationary period, as you pointed out,
the worst inflation we've seen in forty years, is only
going to make the problem worse. But they refuse to
accept that they're wrong. I mean, that's really what this
comes down to. It. So it's like the mask issue.
They will not turn around and say, hold on a
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second government. Additional spending will simply make things that are
already getting bad far worse than they would otherwise be.
So that's why I think we're just seeing the beginning
of this. I think that you're going to see a
really rough summer going into the fall, with the markets,
with inflation, with the price of food, the price of gas,
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it's all gonna be a nightmare for the Democrats. Look,
we hit yesterday a low in the SNP five hundred
going back to March of twenty twenty one, and we
are becoming perilously close to going negative for the entire
Joe Biden administration. And we have continued to talk about
(05:32):
this buck but the incompetence of Biden on every single front.
This is what I would ask everybody out there. It's
a simple question, but it goes to the essence of
very many political elections. How many people out there are
better off now than they were when Donald Trump was president?
How many of our listeners are better off today than
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they were the last day Donald Trump was president? On
January nineteenth, twenty twenty, twenty twenty one. I don't think
there's very many. And it's not just Republicans, it's independence,
it's Democrats. If you took away, to your point, Buck,
the preexisting party alliances that are out there whereby a
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certain percentage of people are just going to refuse that,
to refuse to acknowledge that things could be worse because
they're so died in the wool in supporting the Democrat Party.
Nobody really supports Joe Biden. They support the fact that
a Democrat is in office. If you take away those people,
and even those people, if you gave them truth saram
(06:40):
and you ask them, hey, really, let's be honest. Were
you better off when Trump was president or you better
off when Biden's in office? I think one hundred percent
of Americans would have to acknowledge that Joe Biden has
failed on every single front. He's failed on the border,
he's failed on international relations, he's failed on inflation, he's
(07:00):
failed on crime. I just think we have to keep
beating this. He's failed on COVID, certainly, he's failed on
kids being better off because of COVID. I just think
we have to keep beating this drum because there isn't
a story that Republicans can lose on when it comes
to Joe Biden's performance in office, and I think they're
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recognizing it. It's very big brother esque. Buck to your point,
I'm looking at the screen and they have all these
messages that they're trying to get across behind Biden through
just repetition, as if he has an answer in any
way for what's going on with inflation. His answer for
inflation is spend more money, which is truly the worst
thing that could happen for the government right now. There's
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no way the Democrats can hold on to a majority
in the House or the Senate with the I mean,
we know they're going to almost certainly lose the House,
but I don't think they could even hold the Senate
majority if this current trend economically continues. I mean, when
you look at the data, just so everyone knows, this
is not just like Clay and Buck we think. I mean,
you look at Biden right now. I said this to
(08:06):
clayby force. I'm gonna say this to all you because
we're all part of the same Clay and Buck family here. Okay,
this guy as president is absurd. I'm just gonna he's
not up for this. He was never a very bright guy.
He is way too old for the job. He looks decrepit.
I'm sorry, it's true, and I mean that in terms
of not cognitively physically capable of doing this in a
(08:28):
meaningful way. And Democrats act like everything's fine. I'm sorry.
The emperor has no clothes and people are realizing this.
There's a CNN poll not you know, right wing crazies
dot com y CNN poll last week, eight and ten
adults said the federal government wasn't doing enough to curb
inflation seven and ten and the Democrat Party seven and
(08:50):
ten Democrats approve of Biden on the economy. Eighty six
percent of Democrats overall approof of his performance. These the
people whooed for Biden, don't seem to understand the cause
and effect of what they keep saying. The federal government
can't solve this, The federal government isn't doing I'm sorry,
isn't doing enough to solve this. They don't staying the
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federal government is causing the problem, and Joe Biden's management
of the federal government's causing the problems. So Democrats are
in denial and delusion about this. The numbers with Independence
though and Republicans in the tank. You look at overall
approval of the economy nationwide, everyone recognizes these guys don't
know what they're doing. They simply don't have the skill set,
(09:35):
they don't have the vision, and their ideas are crappy.
You just I mean, I just looked at the Build
Back Better framework, Clay. It's really straightforward. Spending a whole
lot more money, giving universal PreK. Think of it, the
size of that. You're basically going to expand out the
federal school system, right the Department of Education and the
Universal PreK. That's just gonna be a whole new entitlement,
(09:57):
more money, more spending. It's just gonna get worse and worse. Yeah,
I don't think there's any doubt, and I'm not sure
where they're going to be able to make arguments going forward.
The best thing we can do, and I mean this
for the country, is run out the clock on Joe
Biden in twenty twenty two, essentially, don't allow him to
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pass any more truly substantive bills. Now we can get
into a big debate about what exactly counts as substantive.
I'm not happy that we're spending forty billion dollars plus
to give Ukraine aid when our moms can't find a
baby formula. Baby formula out there on the shelves right now.
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I'm not happy that we're sending Ukraine forty billion dollars
to help protect their borders when we won't protect our
own southern border. I think there are many reasons why
you can be angry about the way money is being
spent and what the significance of the dollars that we
are spending is. But we really have to keep is
any sort of transformative law lasting legislation from being passed,
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whether it's a tax increase, whether it's some form of
build back better that creates government expenditures that ride off
into the sunset of trillions of dollars. We have to
run out the clock because once we get to the summer,
everything pivots towards the campaign, and if Democrats haven't passed
anything buck, they're not going to be able to pass
much in twenty twenty three and in twenty twenty four,
(11:23):
because I think you're correct that there will be an
overwhelming red wave in November. So long as Republicans continue
to bring home the failures of the Biden imitation so far,
I want to also bring this with This is another
CNN poll just to give everyone to said, the public's
view of the economy overall is the worst that has
been in ten years. Okay, the worst that has been
(11:46):
in ten years. That was actually the top line of
the pole. So the overall everyone realized it's a bad
economy right now. It's not good. And inflation, I know,
as the primary driver of that. But yeah, how expensive
everything is? Gas, food, rent, new cars, used cars, everything.
How expensive this is? You know, I've got a family
member who's a small business owner. All of his costers
is going up all the time. Yeah, of course. And
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and if you're trying to just get to that point
where you're a profitability, it can eat away at your margins.
It could kill your business. Right. This is and this
is why so much of this, Oh, here we go,
Biden deficits exploded under my predecessor. It's always somebody else's fault.
That's Putin's fault, It's Trump's fault. Joe Biden didn't come
into office saying I'm going to complain a lot about
(12:27):
what other people are doing and not fix anything. He said,
Clay Steady handed the economy middle class folks will do great,
and that was just all absurd. Also, deficits exploded because
of COVID. Right if you look at the economy and
you freeze frame it in February and March, right before
COVID hit, we were trending towards the greatest economy that
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has ever existed in the United States. In fact, you
can argue we were there. And I think we have
to continue to hammer home that the people who were
employed in February of twenty, when wages were rising for
all races, White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, when unemployment rate was
lower for all races than we've ever seen before, we
still haven't regained the jobs that we had from the
(13:13):
Trump economy in February of twenty twenty. There's still over
a million people who are not in the workforce that
we're working then. And I gotta tell you, by the way,
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to remain sticky. I think it's the rate of change,
and the American public is not stupid, meaning it's gonna
certainly quit going up as fast as it is. But
(15:00):
prices are not, and I underscore, are not going back
to where they were. And I still say, if there's
one word about what the future of the world's economy
looks like down the road, and people aren't gonna like this.
It's about the cost of energy. If people want to
keep energy prices high, and the government's want to have
secret meanings about really not being all that enamored with
(15:21):
fossil fuel at this point in history, that we're all
doomed to much slower economies down the road. Welcome back
to Clay en Buck. I'm Buckhe's Clay. That was Rick Santelli,
the man who called for the tea party from the
floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange back in twenty ten,
just speaking what I think is going to end up
being somewhat prophetic here. Prices aren't going back down, Folks.
(15:43):
When Biden starts talking about lowering costs, I get really concerned.
If you want to see a case study of government
intervention in the markets by setting price controls. That's what
happened in Venezuela that really started to tag their economy.
So I hope they know that we can't do that.
That would be like full on socialist lunacy. But these
(16:07):
days when you hear them talking about how they want
to tackle inflation by spending more money, inflation is a
problem of monetary policy, and inflation is a problem of
government spending. This is e con one O one. And
yet Clay, we get Democrats like Biden coming out to
tell us that their policies of spending more money are
actually helping. It's like arguing with crazy people. Joe Biden
(16:31):
made one of the signature issues of his campaign that
the adults would be in charge again and that he
would take responsibility for everything that occurred on his watch.
Yet what we're seeing Joe Biden do time after time
is find different explanations for why inflation is not his fault.
And if you remember, I believe inflation was one point
nine percent when he took over in January of twenty
(16:53):
twenty one. I think I'm correct in that we're now
at eight point five percent inflation. So everything that he
is done has accelerated what would have likely been a
larger inflation related issue. And Buck, I don't think we're
talking enough about Shanghai and the lockdowns that are still
going on there and how that's going to continue to
impact and exacerbate all of our supply chain crisis issues.
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We may be far worse. I mean again, you're already
seeing it with things that are important like baby formula.
We may be far worse when it comes to supply
issues in this country in the summer and the fall
than we have been so far. I think that's likely.
I hate to say it, but Bearschalves Biden was mostly
a meme that people are using to poke at the
Biden administration for being incompetent, But it could really be
(17:41):
a thing. I mean, Bearschalves Biden might be something that
goes from look at what a bunch of idiots we
have run in the country too. Oh my god, I
actually can't buy stuff that I really need, like baby formula,
by the way, but on a much broader scale than
even that. And what that scarcity does is create more scarcity.
Because if you're a right now and you see baby
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis, Buck Sex and Show. Appreciate
all of you hanging out with us. Encourage you to
go subscribe to the podcast, make sure you don't miss
a single moment. To let you know that we're gonna
talk with Douglas Blair at one thirty Eastern time. He
was one of the reporters who followed around those U
protesters who were going to the Supreme Court Justice Holmes,
(19:36):
so he's seen that firsthand. What was the experience like,
what did it feel like in that crowd? How much
longer might this go on? And what is what is
and should be the consequences there. We will discuss that
in what has continued to become a bigger and bigger story.
And then at two o'clock we're gonna be joined Eastern
time by Marsha Blackburn, Senator from Tennessee, to talk about
(19:59):
the potential overturning of the rov Away decision and what
that will next bring to bear across the nation. All
that's still to come, but one of the questions that
a lot of us have been asking is how did
we end up in a world where masking? And by
the way, Buck, I texted you this yesterday, but did
(20:20):
you see that Steve Kerr, who we were making fun
of yesterday on the program for being the only person
essentially wearing a mask in the entire Golden State Warrior
arena out in San Francisco, could not be any more
perfectly emblematic of the absurdity. I'm sure that Steve Kerr
has probably gotten forty six different COVID shots because he
(20:42):
is a king lib. He was the only person wearing
a mask on Saturday in that arena. He tested positive
for COVID on Monday, was not able to coach last
night in their game, and we talked about he didn't matter,
he didn't mask up hard enough, needed more mask He
kept going down his masks to yell guidance to his team,
(21:03):
and we made fun of how ridiculous that was. The
minute that this news story came down, my Twitter feed
absolutely exploded. So many of you out there, I'm at Clay,
Travis buck is at Buck Sexton were reacting to that
conversation that we had and how absurd it was and
how perfectly emblematic. It was that he tested positive despite
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being the only person wearing a mask. Masks don't work well.
This is a clip that has started to go viral
on social media. I saw it yesterday, you did too,
author Lorie Garrett. This is from twenty eighteen now, just
to be clear, but she talks about the fact that
a Japanese study has shown masks are more effective in
(21:43):
scaring people than in keeping the virus out. This clip
has gone viral. I wanted you to listen to it
to understand the psychology of why people like Buck and
I have been so adamantly opposed to the idea of masking,
because it isn't about safety, it's about control. Listen. In
one of their large studies, they basically showed that the masks.
(22:05):
It seemed like the major efficacy of a mask is
that it causes alarm in the other person, and so
you stay away from each other. And that's what I
think happened with Stars. When I was in the Stars epidemic,
I saw everywhere all over Asia people started wearing these masks.
And it is alarming when you walk down a street
and everybody coming towards you has a mask on you
(22:28):
definitely do social distancing you, definitely, it's just a gut thing.
But did the mask really help them? Did the mask
keep the virus out? Almost certainly not. If the virus
was around their face, the mask would not have made
the difference. What happened to the science? Remember when Fauci
you said something very similar at the start of the
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actual pandemic in twenty twenty, and then pretended like you
never said it. These people are frauds, these people that
pushed the masking after knowing that there was no benefit
in previous trials and in previous pandemics from masking. It's fraudulent.
It's funny. I actually worked at the Council on Foreign
Relations Clay as an intern, and Laurie Garrett was a
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fellow there right, a public health expert, and her whole
thing was pandemics. That's really her area of study. So
somebody who all she did was sit around all day,
you know, eating cheese it's and read reading on a screed.
You know, seasons are amazing, they are quite tasty. All
she did was study pandemics, And in twenty eighteen, before
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this pandemic, she's saying, I mean, mask don't actually keep
out the virus. That's absurd, right, you and I. I
think I have been vilified more by libs and the
left on the masking issue than almost anything else I
can think of. Quite honestly, people have gone completely insane
on me. I have not gotten a single apology. Some
people on the right have actually reachot to say I
was giving you kind of a hard time in the beginning,
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and you were right. So that's nice. I appreciate that
jump on in the water's warm on team reality. But
here you have yet again, compliance is what this was
all about. Power, as you said, control is what this
is all about. And then the shutting down of economies.
This was Remember we all massed up and then it
was oh my gosh, we have to shut down our economies.
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Why yeah, based on what whose idea was this? This
was the dumbest thing in history. And if you're if
someone wants to argue with me, I would point out
it wasn't shut down. That was not shut down to
stop the spread of the virus. It was two weeks
to give hospitals capacity to deal with the influx of
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the sick. That was it. It was like, okay, everybody,
stay in your house, for a couple of days, and
then we see and they just lied, Clay. And it's
important everyone understands this because why is your house, everything
in your house getting so much more expensive? Household expenses?
Why is food? Why is gas? Why is everything? Those
decisions which the Democrats doubled and tripled down on them
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when crazy on were catastrophically stupid. And I think it's
also to point out to Laurie Garrett's analysis here, masks
are about scaring people. Buck, Do you know what else
has happened since they have removed masks on airplanes. The
number of issues with behavior on airlines has declined by
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seventy percent. So all these flight attendants out there, all
the pilots, and a lot of you listen to us.
I guarantee you if we opened up phone lines and
we just wanted to take their calls, what those masks
did was create a high level of anxiety and travelers
because you are I'll tell you Buck for myself traveling
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with my kids. I'm flying later this afternoon back down
to Florida. I flew to Florida last week with my kids.
I can't tell you, Buck, how much more normal it
feels to be in an airport where no one is
wearing a mask, where you go through TSA and the
TSA agents aren't wearing a mask, where you still have
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to do all the usual clearance process, but it just
feels so much better and so much more normal. And
I really do believe that there's a dehumanizing effect when
you don't see someone's face, and so it increases the
overall antipathy, the overall anger that exist on airlines down
seventy percent should be by the way, a front page
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headline because we heard all this talk about, hey, we've
got to protect our workers, they're under siege, all these things.
We haven't seen a delay in flights. We haven't seen cancelations.
We've actually seen a more efficient process to travel because
mass have been removed, and we haven't seen a surge
in cases on airline flight attendants and pilots. It hasn't happened.
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The mask advocates, I hate to say this, are as
dumb and destructive with the actual results. As defund the
police was, I mean, it's at that level of defund
the police just made everything worse. And that's why the
Democrats had they had to finally run away from it. Oh,
we don't want to do that. That's crazy. Mask advocates
is the same thing. They've been wrong about everything at
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every single step of the way. And look, by the
point about dehumanization, I think that has been I think
that that's separating people into the masked and unmasked was
a Democrat strategy. I think they used it in twenty twenty.
I think they used it for compliance and mobilization in
twenty twenty one on a whole range of issues. It
became a political signifier more than anything else. I tweeted
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out that chart. I know you saw that too. Of
all of a sudden in twenty twenty, Democrats all believe
in the science. Oh before that, they didn't apparently believe
in the science. But twenty twenty hits Fauci's their little
cuddly old Grandpam. He's an evil, tyrant smurf, and they
act like, all of a sudden they know things they
didn't know before. When I'd think about times when I
was in the plane and I was told by I
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was told to change my mask. Two separate time I
had a mask on told to change it too. And
I'm a pretty polite and even keeled fellow. I would
think generally, I wanted to bark profanity at these Yeah,
like I wanted to start shouting curse words in their faces.
The only thing that really prevented me is one, you know,
public figure YouTube not good. Two Two. I felt badly
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for some of them because I know that they were
you know, they were kind of in the just following
orders category. But the ones that upset me were the
ones that clearly took some glee in this. They actually
liked this power that they had. I thought it was pathetic,
and I think there needs to be a reckoning on
this issue, as well as many others. Yeah, and going forward,
there needs to be a significant analysis of this because
you know, the science gets a lot of things wrong.
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If you look historically at treatment. Remember we talked about
this before Buck. The idea that you would, for instance,
sterilize weapons, not weapons, but medical instruments that you're using
in order to treat patients was considered to be laughably
absurd until late in the nineteenth century. I mean, the
idea that you would say, hey, maybe we should clean
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these people would laugh at you. The concept of when
somebody got sick taking their blood, the idea, hey, we've
got we've got to bleed you in order to get
you well. I think this mask wearing is going to
be considered on that level in years ahead, in that
maybe maybe we're going to find out that it even
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worked against places. Because if you look our buddy Ian
Miller at Ian MSc, he's got a good piece up
right now, it's substack pointing out that by far the
places with the highest rates of COVID are the most
vaccinated right now and the most masked up. What's going
on there? I mean, these are questions that real scientist
would be asking because there are many different alarm bells
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going off. And by the way, the biggest alarm bell
of all is the Biden administration saying we might have
a hundred million new cases just in time for the midterms.
That midterm variant of COVID. Oh wow, it's sure is
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Little Fauci says he is the absolute worst has created.
You ever disliked anybody on the public sphere in your
life more than you dislike Fauci. I think he has
harmed more people than any other person I can think
of in my lifetime in America in a policy role. Yeah,
I dislike him more than any politician in my life. Yeah. No,
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I mean I'm putting him firmly in the politician camp
because of his the way, even the way that he's
talking there. It makes me just just furious. But I
think think he's the ultimate wire. I think he's at
the point where he would be having a psychological breakdown
if he actually took a moment to take stock of
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what his pronouncements and his role in all this has been.
But the libs, I mean, this is why I played
that University of Michigan honorary doctorate ceremony. They weren't clapping
for him. I mean, you're like I My own college
graduation was so boring. I was like, what am I
even do? You know? This is usually you're hungover over.
Can neither confirm deny, but yes, it was a little
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hung over, like, oh you know who cares? And they
were they were up uproarious applause for doctor Anthony Fauci
on the left, because he is the one that they
put all their hopes. I mean, he's effectively the leader
of a religious belief. I mean, he's he's like the
post He's he's the he's the cult leader of the
mass down, lockdown, get get shot two, get three, get four,
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get five, get ten, and you know you'll notice he
is completely to this day still mum, we'll not say
a word about, you know, maybe drawing the little circles
in the park and making people sit in them outdoors,
maybe padlocking playgrounds and terrifying small children, making the mask
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up outside as they sit on the ground to eat
their lunch. Never has said, you know, guys, we lost
our way with some of that stuff. He is the
absolute worst. If I could get away with dropping some
curses on radio right now, I probably would. I'm just
saying it. You know, what video I saw yesterday was
the video in California of the skate parks being filled
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with sand. Somebody was circulating that video to say, hey,
let's not forget what they did to us any politician
that was involved. And they did this in my neighborhood.
Buck They put rhyme scene tape up around the playgrounds
to keep kids from being able to go to the playgrounds.
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They took rims off of basketball hoops to keep people
from playing outdoor basketball, and they filled up skate parks
with sand to keep kids from being able to be
on skateboards. Every one of those people should not just
be beaten in terms of an election. They should be
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removed from office forever for incompetence. And that's why this
November election is so important. If Fauci is perhaps my
or our nemesis, the good news is that Faucci has
his own nemesis, Senator Ran Paul. Here's the interesting thing.
It's the same argument as a disinformation board, we have
to decide what is true and what is not true. So,
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for example, I think that doctor Fauci has promulgated untruth,
he has normalized untruth. So the biggest pervader I think
of untruth right now in public health is doctor Fauci.
So when someone says we're gonna stop to his information, well,
they can't even agree to what the truth is. That's
why we have a debate, or robust debate. Scientists debate,
journalists debate, politicians debate. We arrive at the truth through disputation.
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Anybody who says we can do it by edict is
somebody completely unaware of the idea and the concept of
freedom of speech. Rand Paul has been on Fauci's case
more effectively, more consistently, and earlier did really anyone else
I can think of with a platform and a political
office in public life. He's seen the truth alogue. So
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in the same way that I am, I will never
let go the whole Fauci debacle. I am grateful that
Senator rand Paul has been a voice out there of
truth on this. Not only that, Buck, we need to
allow the Rand Paul's of the world and the Jim
Jordan's of the world in both the House and the
Senate to be able to hold doctor Fauci accountable. Because
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you want to send this loser, lunatic the wire into retirement,
I guarantee you he will retire. We win back the
House and Senate, and it becomes clear that he's going
to have to testify on a regular basis, and that
he's going to be held accountable for all the lies
that he has spread and all of the resulting peril
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that he has put this country in as a result.
So you want to send this guy directly into retirement.
You don't want your tax dollars making him the highest
paid bureaucrat in the history of the United States. We
need that reckoning, We need that red wave. We need
to enable and empower people in the Senate and the
House to hold him accountable. Speaking of peril, the Supreme Court,
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crazy mobs running around not just outside the court, but
outside the homes of some justices, And there's been a
bit of a debate that's broken out on the right
among conservatives about why isn't the law not just federal
but state law in the case of Virginia and Maryland
being enforced to break up these protests outside of homes
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clearly meant to intimidate justices. Clan are going to dive
into that one, and Moore coming up here in just
a few minutes play Travis and Buck Sexton on the
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