June 20, 2022 • 36 mins
The Biden-created open southern border also has created a record wave in drug overdoses and crime. Tomi Lahren, host of "Tomi Lahren Is Fearless," OutKick's new show, joins Clay and Buck. CNN host Van Jones leaves panel in shock after slamming the elitism of the Democrat party. Conservatives need to stop the liberals' attempt to redefine words. "Recession Isn’t Inevitable" chants an administration in denial.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Clay and Buck our three underway. Thanks
for rolling with us. You're just joining in now. Make
sure you go back check us out on the podcast
on demand, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, because man,
we got a lot to get to this hour, haven't
had a chance to talk about yet. And our friend
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Tommy Laren joining us here in just a matter of
minutes bottom of the hour around two thirty Eastern time,
so please stick around for that. Got a new show
launched on OutKick, Lays of Sight, which is going to
be fantastic. So you can tell a lot about this
Biden regime by what they focus on obviously and what
they don't, meaning that they're showing you more than they
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intend to. I believe a lot of the time. Don't
spend as much, we shouldn't spend as much just on
what they say, but where are the resources going and
what's being done at the federal level to tackle real problems.
We know they were asleep at the wheel in the
baby formula crisis, and that's still going on at worst
this month then last month in terms of how much
baby formulas on the shelves. So a couple of photos
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of a plane coming in from Germany with baby formula
may have been good optics, but it certainly didn't solve
the problem. But beyond that, you can just look at
the focus that they have put on January sixth and
all these other distractions, the way that they have been
doubling down even on the need to teach children about
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gender identity, all these things, and the White House has
been weighing in on. But then there are genuine crises
that seem to get almost no attention from this White House,
and the drug overdose pandemic, and I do think it
is fair to call it that in this country is
something that deserves a whole lot more attention. And I
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think there are some reasons we should we should explore
as to why the media seems so much less interested
in this. I mean, first of all, if you're curious,
and I think all of us should be. Not only
was last year was the highest year ever for overdose
overdose deaths from drugs in the United States, over one
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hundred thousand people. And unlike Clay and I were just
talking about the COVID numbers, where a lot of people
who are either hospitalized or died and listed as COVID
as the cause. A lot of those instances were not
actually from COVID. When someone dies from a drug overdose,
they died from a drug overdose. So that's over one
hundred thousand people who are also overwhelmingly in the age
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range of you know, eighteen to thirty five, maybe eighteen
to forty five. And so you're losing a lot of
people who are, you know, early in their lives. And
there's a whole series of problems that have all come
together here with a wide open border. For example, So
last year was the worst ever for fentonel and general
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drug overdoses in this country. Over one hundred thousand people
died the first five months of twenty twenty two. According
to the Department of Justice, Clay more fentonyl seized, which
people might say, oh, that means we're doing better law enforcement.
That actually, to anyone who understands the drug trade, means
there's more fentonyl coming, meaning more of it's getting into
the country too. You're not actually stopping the flow, you
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might be catching more of a larger flow, more fentinyl sees.
The first five months of twenty twenty two compared to
I'm sorry, the first five months of twenty twenty two
surpassed all of last year. So we are already in
terms of fentonyl seizures beyond where we were. So you
can think that that's because of really aggressive law enforcement,
or you can think that that's because the drugs are
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flowing in greater numbers. And you look at a city
like Oregon, where we talked about this briefly last week.
The Democrat city of Oregon run by Democrats. Democrat voters
made drug made drugs effectively legal fentanyl, cocaine, heroin for
personal possession, wouldn't arrest people for using this stuff out
in public. People were shooting up in downtown Portland with
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heroin needles, clean needle programs, decriminalization. All all that has
led to is more people dying, more people using, and
more destruction of their downtown. What do you think it
takes for Democrats to realize that permissiveness is not kindness.
It's not the same thing that allowing people to destroy
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themselves is not the same thing as being as being
considerate and sympathetic to your fellow human being. Yeah, and
it's just part and parcel of the rampant lawlessness that
we are seeing. And I like to discuss years of
life lost when we are setting these records. Over one
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hundred thousand people dying of drug overdoses. Fentnol overwhelmingly the
cause of most of those. You're talking about people in
their twenties, in their thirties and their forties, with their
entire lives left to be lived, that are dying. And
the lawlessnesses are Southern border is also contributing to the
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lawlessness that exists all over the country. Buck, I'm looking
right now at a Fox News headline. We've talked a
lot about homicide increases since twenty twenty. You went up
thirty percent in twenty twenty, up again in twenty twenty one.
We got a lot of cities out there where people
are listening to us. LA, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Milwaukee, and
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Atlanta halfway through the year are all setting pace for
record homicide increases. Again, that's a wide scope of the country,
right east coast, all the way to the west coast,
the south, the Midwest. I'm headed to Atlanta here for
Braves Game. As soon as this thing is over. People
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in Atlanta are terrified with what is going on in
their crime rate. We know, Buck, We've talked a lot
about all of the issues in LA including two cops
who got murdered, and I think we have the audio
associated with that from the mom who is furious over
the situations that have been allowed to exist in these
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democrat cities and states and what is going on in
terms of the danger to everybody as a result. And
I mean it's overwhelmingly difficult to listen to what these
people are saying in response to all of that, all
that violence. I mean, it just is brutal on an
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absolutely epic level. This all relates back to bad ideas,
ideas that were pushed very heavily in twenty twenty, I
mean ending and this. I think there's also just a
broader tie in here, Clay, where a lot of the
ideas of the left that end up having catastrophic consequences
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for really everybody in society, just making everything worse, whether
it's defund the police, ending mass incarceration, legalization of the
most hardcore drugs, A lot of it starts with an
appeal to conservatives, decency sympathy, and I would say innate kindness.
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Come on, guys, we don't want to lock people up
forever for drugs, and that then all of a sudden
turns into yeah, so what if we found a gangbanger
has been arrested fifteen times with drugs in a legal firearm,
and maybe he's been threatening to kill a rival or
kill an ex girlfriend. But we want to end mass incarceration,
so you know, we're gonna let him go and we
see what ends up happening. And this is tied in
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of course, to the shooting list, to brave officers, officers
who did answer the call, who did go into the
gunfire and exchange fire with that gang member who had
his gang literally tattooed on his face. Right, I mean,
just so ever understands it's not really a tough call
for Gasco and the district attorneys. This. You know, this
isn't a an honor student who you know, got caught
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up with the wrong crowd one afternoon and did some
graffiti somewhere. This was a hardcore gang member who killed
two police officers. But I just I bring it up
because the Democrat appeal and you hear there's the media
in the beginning. Come on, don't you guys want to
be nice, don't you want to do the nice thing?
And it's actually not nice in Portland to allow people
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to do heroin out in the open and to overdose
and to choke on their own vomit and die. That's
actually not a kindness for those people. We should be
looking at what actually the results of policies are and
we should be trying to promote the yeah, the general welfare,
but also the individual welfare. You're not doing people any
favors by letting them destroy themselves out in public and
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make their communities a nightmare for everybody else. And then
then you even get into clay. These drugs are different
than other drugs in the past. I mean, that's I
think another part of it that people need to understand.
The cartels make fentonel pills to look like pharmaceutical grade percoset,
to look to look like things that are made by
pharmer companies that you've actually heard of, that doctors would
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prescribe people. And so a kid, you know, at sixteen
year old, that eighteen year old will take one dead. Yeah,
that's happening all over the country. And that's happening day
and day out the numbers are vast in every community
large and small. How much time has the Biden administration
put into tackling that problem versus how much time have
the Biden the Democrats put into January sixth, for example,
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But our democracies in peril. They show, Yeah, how much
attention have we even seen at the border period. The
only time we've seen a story at the border that
the Biden administration has commented on or the media has
been willing to press the Biden administration on was the
ridiculous made up story about the border patrol agents who
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were whipping Haitian immigrants, even though that clearly is not true,
and we talked about it last week that there's some
sort of consequences that are trying to be brought to
bear on that issue, But it speaks to the media's
failure to address issues that directly impact massive amounts of
the American public on a day to day basis. Again,
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if you're in your twenties, thirties, and forties, COVID was
virtually zero risk to you, But the fentanyl, massive amounts
of drugs coming across your across the borders, and the
number of people who couldn't go to their AA meetings,
or couldn't go to church, or couldn't have their normal
social encounters that would have helped to keep maybe so
much of this depression and anxiety and drug use down.
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It all got taken away from them. And we're still
not even discussing all of the long term consequences of
the worst American public policy decision in most of our lifetimes,
which was to shut down and allow all of these
drugs to run rampant in our streets. And you see
any of the Democrats now in the city of Portland,
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including a candidate for mayor, are recognizing what has been
done as a result of these were decisions that were made.
This isn't just a thing that happened, and it's true
in many other cities when you look at the crime
the crime in San Francisco, they have similar issues with
the open air drug use clay. They're they're now talking
about putting all of the homeless encampments into these uh,
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these tiny homes essentially these almost like like a shack,
a prefabricated shack. And now that so they're going to
just create these massive open air homeless encampments with little
with little houses and then they're gonna still be dealing
with a lot of the same problems though. I mean,
this is they they have created and an approval of
people doing this. They've said, okay, you want to be
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doing fentthetyl. Remember, anyone who's using fentetel in these places
is going to be often selling it. That's how they
that's how they get the money to buy the fentetel themselves.
They're going to be a part of that chain of transmission.
And they don't arrest them, and they don't say enough
is enough. And communities are being destroyed by this. You know,
these are ideas that the left has pushed that have
been wrong yet again, and I just think there needs
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to be accountability for it. I think that Joe Biden,
I mean, you brought up the border Clay. The border
is wide open is a problem, not just because of
illegal immigration. It means that it's easier than ever to
get fentel across the border, which is which has killed
people that members of this audience are related to know
very well, taught in school all over the country. Yeah,
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I mean, and there's no sense of urgency from this
White House whatsoever to deal with this. Such a great
sense of urgency though on you know, climate, For example,
one hundred thousand people you're dying from fentantel overdoses. Look
at how much more time they spend talking about the
Green New Deal than about the drug epidemic we have
in the country. So, you know, I think it just
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it shows you what they care about and the generally well,
actually it's all I was gonna say. You can't even
generalize about where these overdoses are happening. It's all over
the country everywhere simultaneously. And the failure of the media
to hold the Biden accountable, the Biden administration accountable for
this in any way or even right about it or
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even care about it, especially because if it's aociation with
the border is biased incompetence that's directly costing tens of
thousands of lives. Come back to more in just a
moment here, including our friend Tommy Laren joining talk about
her new show launch and what she sees going on
with this Biden regime. A lot of celebrations this time.
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the first hour. Encourage you to go listen to the podcast.
A lot of discussion there. I put up a poll question.
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can find buck Sexton, who is got pictures of his
dad and man they are unbelievable, spitting images of one
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they make glasses like that now. No, no, but they'll
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come back. They'll come back. I think they probably will.
I said a simple question, if you have kids ages
six months to five years old, will you be getting
them the COVID shot? Twenty thousand votes nearly just shy
of twenty thousand in the first hour ninety six percent
of you said no, you will not be getting the
COVID shot. You might say, well, those are the kind
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the government is saying it looks like only around twenty
percent of people out there who have kids around those
ages are going to be getting those shots for their kids.
So it's just worth paying attention to. By the way,
a lot of people wanting to weigh in on a
variety of topics. Rick from Florida, we were talking about
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some of the continued revelations coming out about the Uvalde,
Texas shooting response, and Rick from Florida was an FBI agent,
he says, for twenty six years. What is your reaction
as more of these details continue to come out, Rick,
true appropriate that you're reserving comments as it relates to
what the officers act the actions of the officers were,
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since we really don't know. But on the larger sense,
there's a couple of things, some questions that won't be answered.
But what was the drug uses of the subject there
in Evalding, What was the drug usage of the fellow
up in Buffalo Um. That's a question that to me
related to marijuana which ties into what you just talked about.
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The second pieces, was that school district and they hide
and locked the door mode or did they train to
have the children in response to a threat respond um?
You know, we have we have trained a whole generation
of people to sit back and you know, hide in
the corner and hope that the bad guy doesn't shoot you.
We have we have treated a young society here that's
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not willing to stand up for itself. I'm not expecting
fourth graders to, you know, go take on a gunman.
But if he's shooting everybody, if everybody takes their books
and desks and throw it at him, there's a response
that can be had. ISRAELI, Yeah, I appreciate the call.
I think I understand you're saying you're not expecting fourth
graders to respond. Look, I think that's all into the purpose.
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Is kind of crazy to expect fourth graders to stand
up to somebody who has an AAR fifteen that he's
trying to mow him down with. What I am concerned
by is fuck the protocols that are put in place.
Everyone that we talk to who has trained in response
to school shootings says, you go until you can't go
anymore in pursuit of this guy. And several of the
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shooting at the kids, at least not intentionally. That certainly
not expect By the way, is not anybody who's armed
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willing to lay down their life to defense where you're defenseless.
That's the expectation. So yes, so we're all clear on
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Clayan Buck Show is well back and also joined by
Tommy Laren. Tommy is launching a new show she's hosting.
Tom larn is Fearless on our kick out there today.
I've known Tommy for many years. She is indeed fearless
and she's with us now. Tommy, thanks so much. Hey,
(19:10):
thank you guys for having me so now Black, we
still got to get you back to Nashville. So I'm
still waiting for that so we can all be in
pershing together again. You guys can office. We need to
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gonna be there a whole week for the election because
we're gonna have a big, big The whole week will
be kind of an ongoing election party. That's our that's
our plan for right now, based on what the polls
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are telling us. And maybe that's a place Tommy or
I can ask you, I mean, what's going on with
the Biden regime. I'm looking at them and I'm saying,
is this really all you guys have got at this point?
The January sixth stuff, you know, pushing the transgender affirmation,
care for prepubescent kids and Green New Deal energy stuff,
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wide open border like this can't be all of it,
but is it? Is it where we're actually going to
be up against? Well, listen, you know Joe bunden sell
off his bike the other day and that I'm just
think it's really symbolic of how things are going in
our country right now. The toemstrompter could have arride that
bike for him. The teleprompter can't run our country. And
of course the democross all they have your identity, politics,
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witness and virtue signaling. They have to focus on any
six They have to focus on LGBTQ. They have to
focus on pro abortion. That is only that they have
in the tumtox in their buntry, so digital and so empty,
that's what they got to focus on. They certainly can't
focus on the economy or the border of any of
the things you just mentioned, because it's going so badly
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for them. They got to focus on the easy stuff. Tommy,
you got a big show that's debuting. I'm excited to
have you at out Kick with us. The first show
comes on tonight at seven o'clock Eastern, six o'clock Central,
five o'clock Mountain, four o'clock Pacific. I think I got
all those time zones right. Should Yeah, I think I
(20:57):
got them right. I might have screwed it up. What
should people expect to see of your new show? You're
originating it here in Nashville. We're gonna be doing more
and more OutKick programming. I think they're gonna love it.
What should people expect to see tonight? Well, I decided
to come out of the gate with two great guests.
Of course we already mentioned we have John Daily. Of
course goals I logend John Daily, who we'll see in
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis buck Sexton Show appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. Closing out the Monday
edition of the program, Buck is down in Miami. I'm
about to hop into a car and head to Atlanta
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watch some Atlanta Braves games with my kids. Should be fun.
Truis Park, the Battery fantastic there. In fact, I believe
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the Atlanta area, So should be quite a bit of fun.
You know, we've been talking buck about CBS, NBC, ABC,
(24:12):
even a little bit of MSNBC, but certainly of late
at CNN, they are starting to react to basic truths
that are coming through time after time with all of
this polling. Joe Biden, I was looking at the real
clear politics. They do the best job out there of
collating all the polls. Biden is below thirty nine percent approval,
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and he's been down there at the lowest levels of
his support for the last half of this month or so,
continuing to go down as opposed to bounce back up
as Democrats need in time for the mid terms. Well,
Van Jones, who we've talked about before on this program,
one of the more i would say rational and intelligent
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analyst who looks at things from a Democrat perspective. He's
on CNN and listen to him slam the elitism of
the Democrat Party. Everyone who's in shock on this panel
at CNN to suddenly hear the truth. We're in danger
of becoming a party of the very high and the
very low. If you pull out the working class. You've
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got people who are very well educated and very well off.
Those people talk funny latin X. I've never met a
latin X. I've never met a bypoc, I've never met
you know, all this weird stuff that is highly educated.
People say it's bizarre. Nobody talks that way at the barbershop,
the nail salon, a grocery store, the community center. But
that's how we talk down So that's weird. And then
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the people who are very low down on the economic
ladder need a bunch of stuff. You wind up overpromising,
but we're gonna give your reparations to people at the
bottom of the economic ladder. Talking weird to appeal to
people at the topic now ladder, and the work class
walks away from you. But this is what I hear
all the time, and this is where I come from.
The sports perspective. Just talk to people like their normal.
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And we've talked about Latin X. We got a huge
number of people of Hispanic backgrounds that have no idea
what that means. BIPOC. I mean, there's a lot of
black and Asian and you know, this people of color reference,
it doesn't work. It's it's an elite level of frankly
incompetence that is characterizing the Democrat Party right now. And
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I think the only way you recognize this is with
a really big ass kicking, which I think they're going
to get in twenty two and in twenty four they
think of just the belief behind using the term Latin X,
which the Hispanic community does not use irrespective of their
political persuasion Democrat Republican, they don't use this. No one
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uses this except people who are a part of the
elite apparatus of the Democrats. And that's what's so interesting
is that those individuals also claimed to be using it
on behalf of what they refer to now as marge
enalized community is a very broad, very vague term intentionally so,
but it's because if you were to say Latino or Latina,
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you are using gendered language. This is fascinating, So does
that mean now that the entire language, say, uh, you know,
anyone who knows some of the Romance languages, European languages
like French, Spanish, there's gender all over the place, right, yeah,
the male and you know, male and feminine prone. Every
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word has a has a gender as every word has
a gender association. So are we now? Are we now?
And by the way, this is again where we say
these things. And it used to be I think the
thinking was, this is the point on and I know
I think we had a caller who said, you don't
even need to have Lebron James go into the w
NBA to prove the point. If you had, you know,
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a six foot eight college you know, men's college basketball player,
that person would probably score, you know, eighty points a
game or something. So the example we use to expose
the absurdity of the left, it's important to think that
everybody understands that the true left these days would actually
embrace the absurdity, meaning the next step. They already even
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at a point their point now where they'll say no, no,
we wouldn't want to do that. It's just a question
what they think is politically achievable. So if they thought
they could get people to entirely change language, meaning the
basic structure of language, like you know French, Italian, you
know German, all these things that have masculine feminine pronoun usage,
but also just nouns are masculine and feminine. You know,
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we have all these different words in our own language.
You know, we can't say you know, mankind anymore, right,
it's person kind. You see this, This is their control
of language is as meant as manipulation. And you always
have to remember that. You know, our friend Chris Rufo
over the over the Weekend play shared the gender vocabulary
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and how incredibly Orwellian it is because Orwell used to
write about about the usage of words to bring about
certain political outcomes. And that was not just in nineteen
eighty four. I wrote many essays on this, gender affirming care,
family friendly drag show, sex assigned at birth, completely reversible treatment.
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These are all phrases. This is from Chris Rufo that
you see everywhere. The mere usage of those phrases is
oftentimes going along with things that are either in dispute
or flatly untrue. And that's why Van Jones is sitting
there saying, hey, guys, they're starting to figure this game
out a little bit. And by the way, this is
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what drives democrats, I think particularly crazy. A lot of
this is across racial lines. We were talking earlier about
the idea of male swimmers, for instance, being able to
identify as female swimmers. Do you know who overwhelmingly rejects that?
Conceit Black sports fans, Asian sports fans, Hispanic sports fans,
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and obviously white sports fans. This is something that crosses
every line that supposedly is being used to identity politics
us in terms of big differences. It's something that brings
people together because it's a fundamental why that is being
overwhelmingly rejected by all people who understand basic sports, and
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that's why I think it's so powerful, and that's why
Democrats can't even figure out how to defend it themselves.
I mean, this swimmer reportedly said, I'm the Jackie Robinson
of swimming. No, no, no, you're a dude who decided
to identify as a chick like Jackie Robinson was a
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black man. He couldn't change that. You just decided I
wasn't that great of a male swimmer. Now I'm going
to be a great female swimmer. And you're going to
refer to yourself as the Jackie Robinson of swimming. It's
insulting to anyone with a functional brain. And you could
also see how immediately the left gets very angry about
the notion of transracialism, which is fascinating on many levels, right,
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meaning the idea that you could change your race. And
we have seen cases of people who have effectively said
or live their lives as though they were a different
race than what they actually were. Right, Yes, so the left,
the left does not super racist. That they say that
is super racist. And it's so interesting because even in
our even in our very are very broad, racial categorizations
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are highly are highly imprecise at best, right. I mean,
you'll you'll notice that there are people who are let's
say they have, um, you know, of their four grandparents,
one is black, or one is Latino or what, and
they'll identify as that when in the reality is you're
actually many different things. Right, That's just who we all
are as human beings. We all have we all have
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access to twenty three and me. We all see there's
a lot of different things that make each and every
one of us, but we have these very clear categorizations
that are laid out and that have political residence for people,
and that have, as the Supreme Court has referred to it,
or at least one Supreme Court justice, the racial entitlement
state that has been built in this country, where certain
skin color gives you certain things. That is the reality
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of the affirmative action programs that exist in so many
places and that the Supreme Court is reviewing. Is that
this term, I think, or is that sets the fact
term that's gonna be the fault. But there's a reason why,
to your point, Buck, someone who's twenty five percent Hispanic, right,
three white parents, one who is Hispanic, identifies as Hispanic
for purposes of applying to colleges. Because even though you're
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one quarter Hispanic, that advantage is substantial or one quarter
is defensible. I mean, this is the other complaint about philis.
This is morally indefensible. People play games with this all
that time, and that's why I do think they've pushed
this all to a point where people who are acting
in good faith and people who just wanted to be
left alone have realized they won't leave you alone. Meaning
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the Democrat apparatus is not going to say, hey, if
you're just accepting of these different you know, of using that.
You know it's not Please use the term latin X
if you feel like doing it. It's just give a time.
Everybody's going to have to use that term or else.
Look what they've done with undocumented You hear that everywhere
it's illegal immigrant folks. People are breaking the law. It's untying.
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This endless. With the number one talking point now of Democrats,
I want you to listen to this montage buck of
the White House's latest catch phrase, which is recession is
not inevitable. Biden said it today at Rohobath Beach. We
played this in the first hour. Everybody is trying to
sell this idea that the recession, which I believe has
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already started. I think you do as well. It's not inevitable, guys.
I don't think a recession is at all inevitable. Inflation
obviously is happening globally. A recession is not inevitable. Not
only is a recession not inevitable, but I think that
a lot of people are underestimating those strengths and the
resilience of the American economy. This is the talking point
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they're going to try to make speak into truth what
is not true, and if you challenge it, like Joe
Biden had earlier today, he snapped at the reporter that
they were not sharing factual truth by suggesting that a
recession seemed like it was going to happen. But not
only do we live in a society now where one
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part of the ideological spectrum, democrats the left get very
aggressive about making everybody affirm what is untrue, right, say
this thing that is untrue or else, we also live
at a time whereas you can see, they never admit
that they were wrong. I mean that clearly spending about
two trillion dollars a year ago or more than a
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year ago now fifteen months ago, was a catastrophically bad
idea for the economy. They call that the American Rescue Plan.
Remember Joe Biden for the whole year was bragging about
how great it was. I would save so many people.
Catastrophically bad for the economy, a lot of pain being felt,
and all these other issues we talk about. I mean,
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COVID is the one that comes the most to mind
for me, because people that were they were so certain
and they were so wrong. No one ever says I'm sorry,
I got it wrong. Yeah, you know, no one ever
says I shouldn't have forced upon you my beliefs via government,
because I was actually way ahead of where the facts
may have been at that time. And now we're all
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suffering as a result, because that's where we are. We
are suffering because of bad Democrat ideas. As a country,
This isn't happenstances, isn't just something that's occurring right now.
People made in powerful positions, bad decisions, and that's what
has led to the current you name it, fill in
the blank with anything that's really troubling you at a
national level right now. And we cannot get fast enough
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to the mid terms. Buck, I don't know about you.
I look at the calendar and I think to myself
all the time. Are we going to be in a
spot where the Democrats are able to ram through another
spending bill, another tax related attempt to change the tax codes.
My concern is the answer is yes. But every single
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day that ticks away without them effectively being able to
accomplish something to me as a win for the American economy,
a win for the American people, a win for sanity.
And I'm hopeful that basically Republicans can win out the clock,
run out the clock because every single Republican needs to
hold up their hand given where we are with inflation,
and say no more. We cannot allow this to continue
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to occur lines
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Clay and Buck our three underway. Thanks
for rolling with us. You're just joining in now. Make
sure you go back check us out on the podcast
on demand, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, because man,
we got a lot to get to this hour, haven't
had a chance to talk about yet. And our friend
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Tommy Laren joining us here in just a matter of
minutes bottom of the hour around two thirty Eastern time,
so please stick around for that. Got a new show
launched on OutKick, Lays of Sight, which is going to
be fantastic. So you can tell a lot about this
Biden regime by what they focus on obviously and what
they don't, meaning that they're showing you more than they
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intend to. I believe a lot of the time. Don't
spend as much, we shouldn't spend as much just on
what they say, but where are the resources going and
what's being done at the federal level to tackle real problems.
We know they were asleep at the wheel in the
baby formula crisis, and that's still going on at worst
this month then last month in terms of how much
baby formulas on the shelves. So a couple of photos
(01:05):
of a plane coming in from Germany with baby formula
may have been good optics, but it certainly didn't solve
the problem. But beyond that, you can just look at
the focus that they have put on January sixth and
all these other distractions, the way that they have been
doubling down even on the need to teach children about
(01:27):
gender identity, all these things, and the White House has
been weighing in on. But then there are genuine crises
that seem to get almost no attention from this White House,
and the drug overdose pandemic, and I do think it
is fair to call it that in this country is
something that deserves a whole lot more attention. And I
(01:47):
think there are some reasons we should we should explore
as to why the media seems so much less interested
in this. I mean, first of all, if you're curious,
and I think all of us should be. Not only
was last year was the highest year ever for overdose
overdose deaths from drugs in the United States, over one
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hundred thousand people. And unlike Clay and I were just
talking about the COVID numbers, where a lot of people
who are either hospitalized or died and listed as COVID
as the cause. A lot of those instances were not
actually from COVID. When someone dies from a drug overdose,
they died from a drug overdose. So that's over one
hundred thousand people who are also overwhelmingly in the age
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range of you know, eighteen to thirty five, maybe eighteen
to forty five. And so you're losing a lot of
people who are, you know, early in their lives. And
there's a whole series of problems that have all come
together here with a wide open border. For example, So
last year was the worst ever for fentonel and general
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drug overdoses in this country. Over one hundred thousand people
died the first five months of twenty twenty two. According
to the Department of Justice, Clay more fentonyl seized, which
people might say, oh, that means we're doing better law enforcement.
That actually, to anyone who understands the drug trade, means
there's more fentonyl coming, meaning more of it's getting into
the country too. You're not actually stopping the flow, you
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might be catching more of a larger flow, more fentinyl sees.
The first five months of twenty twenty two compared to
I'm sorry, the first five months of twenty twenty two
surpassed all of last year. So we are already in
terms of fentonyl seizures beyond where we were. So you
can think that that's because of really aggressive law enforcement,
or you can think that that's because the drugs are
(03:35):
flowing in greater numbers. And you look at a city
like Oregon, where we talked about this briefly last week.
The Democrat city of Oregon run by Democrats. Democrat voters
made drug made drugs effectively legal fentanyl, cocaine, heroin for
personal possession, wouldn't arrest people for using this stuff out
in public. People were shooting up in downtown Portland with
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heroin needles, clean needle programs, decriminalization. All all that has
led to is more people dying, more people using, and
more destruction of their downtown. What do you think it
takes for Democrats to realize that permissiveness is not kindness.
It's not the same thing that allowing people to destroy
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themselves is not the same thing as being as being
considerate and sympathetic to your fellow human being. Yeah, and
it's just part and parcel of the rampant lawlessness that
we are seeing. And I like to discuss years of
life lost when we are setting these records. Over one
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hundred thousand people dying of drug overdoses. Fentnol overwhelmingly the
cause of most of those. You're talking about people in
their twenties, in their thirties and their forties, with their
entire lives left to be lived, that are dying. And
the lawlessnesses are Southern border is also contributing to the
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lawlessness that exists all over the country. Buck, I'm looking
right now at a Fox News headline. We've talked a
lot about homicide increases since twenty twenty. You went up
thirty percent in twenty twenty, up again in twenty twenty one.
We got a lot of cities out there where people
are listening to us. LA, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Milwaukee, and
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Atlanta halfway through the year are all setting pace for
record homicide increases. Again, that's a wide scope of the country,
right east coast, all the way to the west coast,
the south, the Midwest. I'm headed to Atlanta here for
Braves Game. As soon as this thing is over. People
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in Atlanta are terrified with what is going on in
their crime rate. We know, Buck, We've talked a lot
about all of the issues in LA including two cops
who got murdered, and I think we have the audio
associated with that from the mom who is furious over
the situations that have been allowed to exist in these
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democrat cities and states and what is going on in
terms of the danger to everybody as a result. And
I mean it's overwhelmingly difficult to listen to what these
people are saying in response to all of that, all
that violence. I mean, it just is brutal on an
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absolutely epic level. This all relates back to bad ideas,
ideas that were pushed very heavily in twenty twenty, I
mean ending and this. I think there's also just a
broader tie in here, Clay, where a lot of the
ideas of the left that end up having catastrophic consequences
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for really everybody in society, just making everything worse, whether
it's defund the police, ending mass incarceration, legalization of the
most hardcore drugs, A lot of it starts with an
appeal to conservatives, decency sympathy, and I would say innate kindness.
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Come on, guys, we don't want to lock people up
forever for drugs, and that then all of a sudden
turns into yeah, so what if we found a gangbanger
has been arrested fifteen times with drugs in a legal firearm,
and maybe he's been threatening to kill a rival or
kill an ex girlfriend. But we want to end mass incarceration,
so you know, we're gonna let him go and we
see what ends up happening. And this is tied in
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of course, to the shooting list, to brave officers, officers
who did answer the call, who did go into the
gunfire and exchange fire with that gang member who had
his gang literally tattooed on his face. Right, I mean,
just so ever understands it's not really a tough call
for Gasco and the district attorneys. This. You know, this
isn't a an honor student who you know, got caught
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up with the wrong crowd one afternoon and did some
graffiti somewhere. This was a hardcore gang member who killed
two police officers. But I just I bring it up
because the Democrat appeal and you hear there's the media
in the beginning. Come on, don't you guys want to
be nice, don't you want to do the nice thing?
And it's actually not nice in Portland to allow people
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to do heroin out in the open and to overdose
and to choke on their own vomit and die. That's
actually not a kindness for those people. We should be
looking at what actually the results of policies are and
we should be trying to promote the yeah, the general welfare,
but also the individual welfare. You're not doing people any
favors by letting them destroy themselves out in public and
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make their communities a nightmare for everybody else. And then
then you even get into clay. These drugs are different
than other drugs in the past. I mean, that's I
think another part of it that people need to understand.
The cartels make fentonel pills to look like pharmaceutical grade percoset,
to look to look like things that are made by
pharmer companies that you've actually heard of, that doctors would
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prescribe people. And so a kid, you know, at sixteen
year old, that eighteen year old will take one dead. Yeah,
that's happening all over the country. And that's happening day
and day out the numbers are vast in every community
large and small. How much time has the Biden administration
put into tackling that problem versus how much time have
the Biden the Democrats put into January sixth, for example,
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But our democracies in peril. They show, Yeah, how much
attention have we even seen at the border period. The
only time we've seen a story at the border that
the Biden administration has commented on or the media has
been willing to press the Biden administration on was the
ridiculous made up story about the border patrol agents who
(09:40):
were whipping Haitian immigrants, even though that clearly is not true,
and we talked about it last week that there's some
sort of consequences that are trying to be brought to
bear on that issue, But it speaks to the media's
failure to address issues that directly impact massive amounts of
the American public on a day to day basis. Again,
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if you're in your twenties, thirties, and forties, COVID was
virtually zero risk to you, But the fentanyl, massive amounts
of drugs coming across your across the borders, and the
number of people who couldn't go to their AA meetings,
or couldn't go to church, or couldn't have their normal
social encounters that would have helped to keep maybe so
much of this depression and anxiety and drug use down.
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It all got taken away from them. And we're still
not even discussing all of the long term consequences of
the worst American public policy decision in most of our lifetimes,
which was to shut down and allow all of these
drugs to run rampant in our streets. And you see
any of the Democrats now in the city of Portland,
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including a candidate for mayor, are recognizing what has been
done as a result of these were decisions that were made.
This isn't just a thing that happened, and it's true
in many other cities when you look at the crime
the crime in San Francisco, they have similar issues with
the open air drug use clay. They're they're now talking
about putting all of the homeless encampments into these uh,
(11:11):
these tiny homes essentially these almost like like a shack,
a prefabricated shack. And now that so they're going to
just create these massive open air homeless encampments with little
with little houses and then they're gonna still be dealing
with a lot of the same problems though. I mean,
this is they they have created and an approval of
people doing this. They've said, okay, you want to be
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doing fentthetyl. Remember, anyone who's using fentetel in these places
is going to be often selling it. That's how they
that's how they get the money to buy the fentetel themselves.
They're going to be a part of that chain of transmission.
And they don't arrest them, and they don't say enough
is enough. And communities are being destroyed by this. You know,
these are ideas that the left has pushed that have
been wrong yet again, and I just think there needs
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to be accountability for it. I think that Joe Biden,
I mean, you brought up the border Clay. The border
is wide open is a problem, not just because of
illegal immigration. It means that it's easier than ever to
get fentel across the border, which is which has killed
people that members of this audience are related to know
very well, taught in school all over the country. Yeah,
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I mean, and there's no sense of urgency from this
White House whatsoever to deal with this. Such a great
sense of urgency though on you know, climate, For example,
one hundred thousand people you're dying from fentantel overdoses. Look
at how much more time they spend talking about the
Green New Deal than about the drug epidemic we have
in the country. So, you know, I think it just
(12:37):
it shows you what they care about and the generally well,
actually it's all I was gonna say. You can't even
generalize about where these overdoses are happening. It's all over
the country everywhere simultaneously. And the failure of the media
to hold the Biden accountable, the Biden administration accountable for
this in any way or even right about it or
(12:57):
even care about it, especially because if it's aociation with
the border is biased incompetence that's directly costing tens of
thousands of lives. Come back to more in just a
moment here, including our friend Tommy Laren joining talk about
her new show launch and what she sees going on
with this Biden regime. A lot of celebrations this time.
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can now get the COVID shot we talked about in
the first hour. Encourage you to go listen to the podcast.
A lot of discussion there. I put up a poll question.
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You can find me on Twitter at Clay Travis. You
can find buck Sexton, who is got pictures of his
dad and man they are unbelievable, spitting images of one
another around the same age. Although your dad red rimmed
glasses that he had were pretty extraordinary in that nineteen eighties. Look,
they make glasses like that now. No, no, but they'll
(15:09):
come back. They'll come back. I think they probably will.
I said a simple question, if you have kids ages
six months to five years old, will you be getting
them the COVID shot? Twenty thousand votes nearly just shy
of twenty thousand in the first hour ninety six percent
of you said no, you will not be getting the
COVID shot. You might say, well, those are the kind
(15:29):
of people that would follow you anyway, Clay that even
the government is saying it looks like only around twenty
percent of people out there who have kids around those
ages are going to be getting those shots for their kids.
So it's just worth paying attention to. By the way,
a lot of people wanting to weigh in on a
variety of topics. Rick from Florida, we were talking about
(15:51):
some of the continued revelations coming out about the Uvalde,
Texas shooting response, and Rick from Florida was an FBI agent,
he says, for twenty six years. What is your reaction
as more of these details continue to come out, Rick,
true appropriate that you're reserving comments as it relates to
what the officers act the actions of the officers were,
(16:13):
since we really don't know. But on the larger sense,
there's a couple of things, some questions that won't be answered.
But what was the drug uses of the subject there
in Evalding, What was the drug usage of the fellow
up in Buffalo Um. That's a question that to me
related to marijuana which ties into what you just talked about.
(16:34):
The second pieces, was that school district and they hide
and locked the door mode or did they train to
have the children in response to a threat respond um?
You know, we have we have trained a whole generation
of people to sit back and you know, hide in
the corner and hope that the bad guy doesn't shoot you.
We have we have treated a young society here that's
(16:58):
not willing to stand up for itself. I'm not expecting
fourth graders to, you know, go take on a gunman.
But if he's shooting everybody, if everybody takes their books
and desks and throw it at him, there's a response
that can be had. ISRAELI, Yeah, I appreciate the call.
I think I understand you're saying you're not expecting fourth
graders to respond. Look, I think that's all into the purpose.
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Is kind of crazy to expect fourth graders to stand
up to somebody who has an AAR fifteen that he's
trying to mow him down with. What I am concerned
by is fuck the protocols that are put in place.
Everyone that we talk to who has trained in response
to school shootings says, you go until you can't go
anymore in pursuit of this guy. And several of the
(17:41):
callers have said, if he's shooting at you, he's not
shooting at the kids, at least not intentionally. That certainly
not expect By the way, is not anybody who's armed
as a law enforcement officer in that situation would be
willing to lay down their life to defense where you're defenseless.
That's the expectation. So yes, so we're all clear on
that one. And if you're not willing to do that,
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Tom larn is Fearless on our kick out there today.
I've known Tommy for many years. She is indeed fearless
and she's with us now. Tommy, thanks so much. Hey,
(19:10):
thank you guys for having me so now Black, we
still got to get you back to Nashville. So I'm
still waiting for that so we can all be in
pershing together again. You guys can office. We need to
make this happen. I'm looking forward to I think I'm
gonna be there a whole week for the election because
we're gonna have a big, big The whole week will
be kind of an ongoing election party. That's our that's
our plan for right now, based on what the polls
(19:33):
are telling us. And maybe that's a place Tommy or
I can ask you, I mean, what's going on with
the Biden regime. I'm looking at them and I'm saying,
is this really all you guys have got at this point?
The January sixth stuff, you know, pushing the transgender affirmation,
care for prepubescent kids and Green New Deal energy stuff,
(19:54):
wide open border like this can't be all of it,
but is it? Is it where we're actually going to
be up against? Well, listen, you know Joe bunden sell
off his bike the other day and that I'm just
think it's really symbolic of how things are going in
our country right now. The toemstrompter could have arride that
bike for him. The teleprompter can't run our country. And
of course the democross all they have your identity, politics,
(20:17):
witness and virtue signaling. They have to focus on any
six They have to focus on LGBTQ. They have to
focus on pro abortion. That is only that they have
in the tumtox in their buntry, so digital and so empty,
that's what they got to focus on. They certainly can't
focus on the economy or the border of any of
the things you just mentioned, because it's going so badly
(20:37):
for them. They got to focus on the easy stuff. Tommy,
you got a big show that's debuting. I'm excited to
have you at out Kick with us. The first show
comes on tonight at seven o'clock Eastern, six o'clock Central,
five o'clock Mountain, four o'clock Pacific. I think I got
all those time zones right. Should Yeah, I think I
(20:57):
got them right. I might have screwed it up. What
should people expect to see of your new show? You're
originating it here in Nashville. We're gonna be doing more
and more OutKick programming. I think they're gonna love it.
What should people expect to see tonight? Well, I decided
to come out of the gate with two great guests.
Of course we already mentioned we have John Daily. Of
course goals I logend John Daily, who we'll see in
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the episode. He has a lot to say, not only
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and we appreciate you joining us here than Tommy. Also,
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis buck Sexton Show appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. Closing out the Monday
edition of the program, Buck is down in Miami. I'm
about to hop into a car and head to Atlanta
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watch some Atlanta Braves games with my kids. Should be fun.
Truis Park, the Battery fantastic there. In fact, I believe
we've got herschel Walker are going to be in studio
with me in the next couple of days down in
the Atlanta area, So should be quite a bit of fun.
You know, we've been talking buck about CBS, NBC, ABC,
(24:12):
even a little bit of MSNBC, but certainly of late
at CNN, they are starting to react to basic truths
that are coming through time after time with all of
this polling. Joe Biden, I was looking at the real
clear politics. They do the best job out there of
collating all the polls. Biden is below thirty nine percent approval,
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and he's been down there at the lowest levels of
his support for the last half of this month or so,
continuing to go down as opposed to bounce back up
as Democrats need in time for the mid terms. Well,
Van Jones, who we've talked about before on this program,
one of the more i would say rational and intelligent
(24:56):
analyst who looks at things from a Democrat perspective. He's
on CNN and listen to him slam the elitism of
the Democrat Party. Everyone who's in shock on this panel
at CNN to suddenly hear the truth. We're in danger
of becoming a party of the very high and the
very low. If you pull out the working class. You've
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got people who are very well educated and very well off.
Those people talk funny latin X. I've never met a
latin X. I've never met a bypoc, I've never met
you know, all this weird stuff that is highly educated.
People say it's bizarre. Nobody talks that way at the barbershop,
the nail salon, a grocery store, the community center. But
that's how we talk down So that's weird. And then
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the people who are very low down on the economic
ladder need a bunch of stuff. You wind up overpromising,
but we're gonna give your reparations to people at the
bottom of the economic ladder. Talking weird to appeal to
people at the topic now ladder, and the work class
walks away from you. But this is what I hear
all the time, and this is where I come from.
The sports perspective. Just talk to people like their normal.
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And we've talked about Latin X. We got a huge
number of people of Hispanic backgrounds that have no idea
what that means. BIPOC. I mean, there's a lot of
black and Asian and you know, this people of color reference,
it doesn't work. It's it's an elite level of frankly
incompetence that is characterizing the Democrat Party right now. And
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I think the only way you recognize this is with
a really big ass kicking, which I think they're going
to get in twenty two and in twenty four they
think of just the belief behind using the term Latin X,
which the Hispanic community does not use irrespective of their
political persuasion Democrat Republican, they don't use this. No one
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uses this except people who are a part of the
elite apparatus of the Democrats. And that's what's so interesting
is that those individuals also claimed to be using it
on behalf of what they refer to now as marge
enalized community is a very broad, very vague term intentionally so,
but it's because if you were to say Latino or Latina,
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you are using gendered language. This is fascinating, So does
that mean now that the entire language, say, uh, you know,
anyone who knows some of the Romance languages, European languages
like French, Spanish, there's gender all over the place, right, yeah,
the male and you know, male and feminine prone. Every
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word has a has a gender as every word has
a gender association. So are we now? Are we now?
And by the way, this is again where we say
these things. And it used to be I think the
thinking was, this is the point on and I know
I think we had a caller who said, you don't
even need to have Lebron James go into the w
NBA to prove the point. If you had, you know,
(27:51):
a six foot eight college you know, men's college basketball player,
that person would probably score, you know, eighty points a
game or something. So the example we use to expose
the absurdity of the left, it's important to think that
everybody understands that the true left these days would actually
embrace the absurdity, meaning the next step. They already even
(28:12):
at a point their point now where they'll say no, no,
we wouldn't want to do that. It's just a question
what they think is politically achievable. So if they thought
they could get people to entirely change language, meaning the
basic structure of language, like you know French, Italian, you
know German, all these things that have masculine feminine pronoun usage,
but also just nouns are masculine and feminine. You know,
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we have all these different words in our own language.
You know, we can't say you know, mankind anymore, right,
it's person kind. You see this, This is their control
of language is as meant as manipulation. And you always
have to remember that. You know, our friend Chris Rufo
over the over the Weekend play shared the gender vocabulary
(28:55):
and how incredibly Orwellian it is because Orwell used to
write about about the usage of words to bring about
certain political outcomes. And that was not just in nineteen
eighty four. I wrote many essays on this, gender affirming care,
family friendly drag show, sex assigned at birth, completely reversible treatment.
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These are all phrases. This is from Chris Rufo that
you see everywhere. The mere usage of those phrases is
oftentimes going along with things that are either in dispute
or flatly untrue. And that's why Van Jones is sitting
there saying, hey, guys, they're starting to figure this game
out a little bit. And by the way, this is
(29:44):
what drives democrats, I think particularly crazy. A lot of
this is across racial lines. We were talking earlier about
the idea of male swimmers, for instance, being able to
identify as female swimmers. Do you know who overwhelmingly rejects that?
Conceit Black sports fans, Asian sports fans, Hispanic sports fans,
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and obviously white sports fans. This is something that crosses
every line that supposedly is being used to identity politics
us in terms of big differences. It's something that brings
people together because it's a fundamental why that is being
overwhelmingly rejected by all people who understand basic sports, and
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that's why I think it's so powerful, and that's why
Democrats can't even figure out how to defend it themselves.
I mean, this swimmer reportedly said, I'm the Jackie Robinson
of swimming. No, no, no, you're a dude who decided
to identify as a chick like Jackie Robinson was a
(30:54):
black man. He couldn't change that. You just decided I
wasn't that great of a male swimmer. Now I'm going
to be a great female swimmer. And you're going to
refer to yourself as the Jackie Robinson of swimming. It's
insulting to anyone with a functional brain. And you could
also see how immediately the left gets very angry about
the notion of transracialism, which is fascinating on many levels, right,
(31:18):
meaning the idea that you could change your race. And
we have seen cases of people who have effectively said
or live their lives as though they were a different
race than what they actually were. Right, Yes, so the left,
the left does not super racist. That they say that
is super racist. And it's so interesting because even in
our even in our very are very broad, racial categorizations
(31:44):
are highly are highly imprecise at best, right. I mean,
you'll you'll notice that there are people who are let's
say they have, um, you know, of their four grandparents,
one is black, or one is Latino or what, and
they'll identify as that when in the reality is you're
actually many different things. Right, That's just who we all
are as human beings. We all have we all have
(32:06):
access to twenty three and me. We all see there's
a lot of different things that make each and every
one of us, but we have these very clear categorizations
that are laid out and that have political residence for people,
and that have, as the Supreme Court has referred to it,
or at least one Supreme Court justice, the racial entitlement
state that has been built in this country, where certain
skin color gives you certain things. That is the reality
(32:27):
of the affirmative action programs that exist in so many
places and that the Supreme Court is reviewing. Is that
this term, I think, or is that sets the fact
term that's gonna be the fault. But there's a reason why,
to your point, Buck, someone who's twenty five percent Hispanic, right,
three white parents, one who is Hispanic, identifies as Hispanic
for purposes of applying to colleges. Because even though you're
(32:49):
one quarter Hispanic, that advantage is substantial or one quarter
is defensible. I mean, this is the other complaint about philis.
This is morally indefensible. People play games with this all
that time, and that's why I do think they've pushed
this all to a point where people who are acting
in good faith and people who just wanted to be
left alone have realized they won't leave you alone. Meaning
(33:12):
the Democrat apparatus is not going to say, hey, if
you're just accepting of these different you know, of using that.
You know it's not Please use the term latin X
if you feel like doing it. It's just give a time.
Everybody's going to have to use that term or else.
Look what they've done with undocumented You hear that everywhere
it's illegal immigrant folks. People are breaking the law. It's untying.
(33:33):
This endless. With the number one talking point now of Democrats,
I want you to listen to this montage buck of
the White House's latest catch phrase, which is recession is
not inevitable. Biden said it today at Rohobath Beach. We
played this in the first hour. Everybody is trying to
sell this idea that the recession, which I believe has
(33:54):
already started. I think you do as well. It's not inevitable, guys.
I don't think a recession is at all inevitable. Inflation
obviously is happening globally. A recession is not inevitable. Not
only is a recession not inevitable, but I think that
a lot of people are underestimating those strengths and the
resilience of the American economy. This is the talking point
(34:15):
they're going to try to make speak into truth what
is not true, and if you challenge it, like Joe
Biden had earlier today, he snapped at the reporter that
they were not sharing factual truth by suggesting that a
recession seemed like it was going to happen. But not
only do we live in a society now where one
(34:35):
part of the ideological spectrum, democrats the left get very
aggressive about making everybody affirm what is untrue, right, say
this thing that is untrue or else, we also live
at a time whereas you can see, they never admit
that they were wrong. I mean that clearly spending about
two trillion dollars a year ago or more than a
(34:57):
year ago now fifteen months ago, was a catastrophically bad
idea for the economy. They call that the American Rescue Plan.
Remember Joe Biden for the whole year was bragging about
how great it was. I would save so many people.
Catastrophically bad for the economy, a lot of pain being felt,
and all these other issues we talk about. I mean,
(35:18):
COVID is the one that comes the most to mind
for me, because people that were they were so certain
and they were so wrong. No one ever says I'm sorry,
I got it wrong. Yeah, you know, no one ever
says I shouldn't have forced upon you my beliefs via government,
because I was actually way ahead of where the facts
may have been at that time. And now we're all
(35:38):
suffering as a result, because that's where we are. We
are suffering because of bad Democrat ideas. As a country,
This isn't happenstances, isn't just something that's occurring right now.
People made in powerful positions, bad decisions, and that's what
has led to the current you name it, fill in
the blank with anything that's really troubling you at a
national level right now. And we cannot get fast enough
(36:00):
to the mid terms. Buck, I don't know about you.
I look at the calendar and I think to myself
all the time. Are we going to be in a
spot where the Democrats are able to ram through another
spending bill, another tax related attempt to change the tax codes.
My concern is the answer is yes. But every single
(36:21):
day that ticks away without them effectively being able to
accomplish something to me as a win for the American economy,
a win for the American people, a win for sanity.
And I'm hopeful that basically Republicans can win out the clock,
run out the clock because every single Republican needs to
hold up their hand given where we are with inflation,
and say no more. We cannot allow this to continue
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