June 16, 2022 • 46 mins
The Consequences of Soft on Crime: Two More Fallen Police Officers. Sen. Rand Paul Reacts to Dr. Fauci’s Covid Diagnosis, Testimony.Clay’s Alma Mater GW Drops Colonial Mascot and How We Can All Push Back. Pete Hegseth Joins the Show to Talk About Uprooting a Century of Miseducation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Thursday edition of The Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show, but begins now. Everybody, thanks for joining us.
I'm here as per usual in NYC, my hometown, with
my main man, Clay Travis. We were out on the
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town last night. He saw me actually scooter and I
gotta be honest with you. When you hopped on the
scooter and took off, it was hard for me not
to erupt in platform. I mean, to your credit, you
did not how we went to the dinner, Yeah, you
took me into the six hundred square foot apartment we
called the Buck Cave the Buck Cave, and then we
went up on top of your building. Was really nice,
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went out to dinner, had a phenomenal time with people
who work on the show. We got a great event
that's going on after the show today for people to
celebrate the one year anniversary of the show. We thank
all of you for hanging out with us. But when
you took off on the scooter, I don't even know
that you know this. Craig who we were out with,
Craig said, every time I see him on that scooter.
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I think I should take out a key Man insurance
policy on his life. I gotta tell you we have
producer Greg on the show who has joined the scooter Nation.
Oh no, so I don't know. I don't know what
our patch for our leather jackets is gonna be. Like,
you know, we're gonna be. It's kind of like a
biker gang, but for scooters where you have a little
basket in the front, maybe little streamers on the side.
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But I gotta tell you, very fast way to get
around New York City and everyone's all the cool kids
arrived him. That's right, the scooter Nation. We're growing all
the time. Scooter squad. Now, we got some real news
to talk to you all about some big things going
on today. First of all, Biden almost sounds like he's
taken a page from the Maduro playbook in Venezuela of
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shaking down the oil companies. At this point, you know what,
are we gonna start hearing about nationalization? Next? He's saying,
produce more for less money. The oil companies are like, dude,
what are you talking about. We'll get into that in
a little bit. Also, Senator ramp Paul joining us here
to talk about the testimony that Fauci, who's got COVID,
gave this morning, we'll discuss that Kavala's got a new job.
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We're gonna keep you on the edge of your seat.
It's got a new part of the portfolio. I should
say the border thing didn't really go so well, did it.
But well, she's solving all the issues in the country.
She makes all the things not better. But the big
story that I think is getting people fired up, and
it's getting me fired up because mirror images in city
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after city, clay all across the country, progressive prosecutor in
New York, crime violence, all of it gets worse in Houston.
I spoke to our friend Michael Barry about this reasons
and now, what's your prosecutor like down in Houston, progressive prosecutor.
They've had huge spike in murders the last couple of years,
the huge spike in shootings Los Angeles, San Francisco crime
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through the roof. Gascone is the DA. Paul Gascone is
the DA in Los Angeles, and he is a progressive prosecutor.
He wants to end this mass incarceration situations. What they
all say, which just means let more people out of prison,
give them shorter sentences. Overall, here is the story as
we know it right now. Two police officers were killed
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yesterday in eastern Los Angeles. Two Elmonte PD officers were shot.
Gave their lives serving their communities in their country. And
what you need to know about the shooter is that
he's a gang member, a gang member who actually had
the name of his violent gang literally tattooed on his face.
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He was a multiple offender. He had burglary charges, drug charges,
and a weapons charge. Now the weapons charge would have
triggered under California law Clay a third strike. This was
a felon in possession of a firearm. And instead of
actually going with a third strike, which is the law
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in California, you have to serve real time, Gascone gave
him two years of probation, didn't serve any time in
prison for being a felon gang member in possession of
a firearm. Two police officers are now dead, their wives
receiving folded flags, their children now growing up without fathers,
and everyone's looking at Gascone and saying, these brave men
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gave their lives. They shouldn't have been in jeopardy from
this gang member at all. How can anyone think the
Democrats are serious about crime, serious about guns clay when
they will literally violate their own state laws. Prosecutors like
Gascone will violate the laws of their state so that
they can go soft on a hardened gang member. Yeah,
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this is part and parcel of the forty million dollars
that George Soro spent to get left wing prosecutors in
office who were not going to prosecute crimes. And you remember,
back before she dropped out as the White House spokesperson,
Jensaki was mocking Fox News for covering the soft on
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crime concept. You remember that interview where she pointed at
Fox News and was like laughing, would we should pull
that audio? Its what a soft on crime even mean? Well,
this is what it means, Jen, This is when you
have someone who should be behind bars and takes the
life of our police officers. And on this show, even
though most will not mention them, Michael parodies Joseph Santana.
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Are the two police officers who lost their lives because
this gang member killed them, This man who should have
been behind bars. They have these two officers do five
young children between them. So when you start to think
about the consequences of what soft on crime means, it
puts brave police officers in danger. Again. Those guys names
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Michael Parodies and Joseph Santana, two LA Area police officers,
five young children between them. Buck, those kids are going
to grow up without dads and those guys. If you
saw the video they were playing it on Fox News,
this guy was trying to attack his wife, who had
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girlfriend who had checked into a hotel to try to
escape him, and you can see these officers responding and
running into that hotel room, and they were never going
to come out because they got shot. I believe as
soon as they got in there. They did kill him
in the gunfire exchange as well. Whatever silver lining three debts,
but this guy should have never been on the streets
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of Los Angeles and this is being replicated all over
the country where violent criminals are not being put behind bars.
Here's the deal. We know that we could solve issues
with violent crime by doing two things. One put more
police officers on the streets and give them the ability
to do their job. And two, when those police officers
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arrest people for committing acts of violence, put the criminals
behind bars to process that is guaranteed to lower the
overall crime rate everywhere Democrats won't do it, So the
progressive prosecutors have gotten their way and the country has suffered.
And as I've said, even if you live in a
rural area, relatively speaking, there's been a substantial increase nationwide
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in violent crime and lots of different crime categories, even
in rural areas. And this has been a nationwide phenomenon.
Wherever Democrats are in charge of the prosecutor's office or
the police department or the mayor's office, you have seen
things get worse. So now we're at the pushback phase.
Now people have recognized this, and that's why the Recall
George Gascon effort. You can go to Recall George Gascon
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dot com slash petition. They've reached the five hundred and
sixty seven thousand signatures, but the people behind the petition
effort are saying they need to get to more to
like six hundred and fifty to seven hundred thousand because
of signature issues and any problems that may rise. They
want to make sure they've got a clear margin. So
for anyone who lives in Los Angeles and can be
a part of this. We've got a great listen to
sign up today. Yeah, go do it today, because what
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they find is some of these people falsify signatures and
when they go back and they check them, even if
you've reached your target limit, buck you need to be
well over it. Because this has become a major issue
everywhere with these recall petitions, they will try to falsify them.
Go sign up today. This guy needs to be out
of a job. Absolutely. Gascone has got to go. And
I want to be very clear about how this requires.
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This is one of these moments where we're really speaking
to and we've got Democrats who listen to this show.
We're actually we're actually bringing over and I keep saying,
you know, jump into the clay and buck pool, the
water is warm. These are Democrats who ousted Gascone. I'm sorry,
Alskid Boudan in San Francisco. And it will be largely,
not entirely. There's a million Republicans who live in Los
Angeles County. It might even be more than that now,
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but there will have to be Democrats recognizing at some
level this goes this is so reckless and so dangerous
that it goes beyond politics. But also, Clay, how can
we take all the lecturing that we've received about and
they need to do with guns and take guns seriously
in recent weeks. Don't you want to stop violence? Why
don't you have magazine limitations? How about getting violent gang
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bangers found illegally with a firearm and previous felony convictions.
How about locking them up and not worrying about mass incarceration.
That would actually stop violence on a massive scale, no doubt.
And again this is not a very complicated two part plan.
Everybody can steal it from me. It works. Put more
police on the streets and let them do their job,
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and put violent criminals behind bars. Whether you live in
a rural area, whether you live in a city, no
matter what state you live in. Right now, that's what
you should be demanding of everyone who is charged with
trying to eliminate or reduce violence in all of your communities.
More cops on the streets with the ability to do
their jobs, put violent criminals behind bars. This is, unfortunately,
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like going back in time. Those of us who remember
the high crime are and Buck in New York City
right now doing the show you've talked about. You remember
Time Square before Rudy Giuliani, massive issues with all sorts
of crime everywhere, and then he came in and he
cleaned it up. We know what works. We just got
to implement these policies. We're gonna be joined by Senator
Rand Paul next. He just had a heck of a
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confrontation with the said senator with Fauci, who was testifying
of course he's tested positive for COVID despite the fact
that he's had four COVID shots. I think you're going
to enjoy this conversation with Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky.
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seven nine two thirty two sixty nine. There are no
studies and Americans should all know this. There are no
studies on children showing a reduction in hospitalization or death
with taking a booster. The only studies that were permitted,
The only studies that were presented were animbody studies. So
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they say, if we give you a booster, you make anibodies. Now,
a lot of scientists would question whether or not that's
proof of efficacy of a vaccine. If I give you
ten or if I give a patient ten mRNA vaccines
and they make protein each time, or they make anabotti
each time, is that proof that we should give ten boosters,
doctor Fauci. No, I think that is somewhat of an
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absurd exaggeration. So that is the proof that you use,
your committees use that. That's the only proof you have
to tell children to think of boosters that they make annimbodies.
So it's not an absardity. That is Senator Ran Paul
going after our good friend, doctor Fauci. Senator Rand Paul
joins us. Now doctor Fauci had to testify remotely because
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despite four COVID shots, he has tested positive for COVID.
Rand Paul, your, first of all, thanks for joining. A second,
your reaction when you found out that doctor Fauci, who
last year told everyone if they got the COVID shot
they would never get COVID. Obviously that ended up being wrong.
Why should we trust anything this guy says, Well, I
guess if he would have won the COVID goggles or
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maybe the COVID earmuffs and the COVID earmuffs I think
really would have protected him, probably, But he had four
vaccines and four masks. He just didn't get the OVID goggles.
But no, I'm glad he's not sick. I means it
can be a serious disease. But I'm glad he's not sick,
but I wish you were more honest. What we found
is is that the vaccine was approved and is being
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pushed on your kids, the Booster vaccine, and there's no
evidence that it saves any lives of kids. It's no
evidence that keeps him of hospital. The only evidence they
presented to the committee was that your kid will make antibodies. Well,
if I give your kid a hundred boosters, he'll make
antibodies or she'll make antibodies every time. That doesn't prove anything.
And that's the point I was making the Fauci is
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this is not evidence that the vaccine works. This is
evidence that if you give a mRNA vaccine that causes
the body to make a foreign protein that the body
will react to it make antibodies. It says nothing about
whether it saves lives, and you should do the studies.
The reason they don't do the studies is seventy five
percent of kids have already had this. Many kids have
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been vaccinated now, but no kid is dying. No kid
is going to the hospital that's either have been vaccinated
or had the infection or both. And there's no reason
in the world to give them a booster, and there
is evidence that the more you vaccinate kids of them
getting an inflammation of the heart called myocarditis. Senator Paul,
it's back. I want to know where you think Fauci
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and the Democrat sponsored and assisted health Apparatus wants to
take the vaccination campaign going into this fall. I mean,
you're talking today at the Senate Health Committee. They don't
sound at all to me like they feel chastened at
all by the failures and the poor analysis of what
was going to happen up to this point. What do
you think they're going to do. It's part of an
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overall philosophy of elitism. It is about control. Isn't about
this pandemic. It's about control of everything. We've always known
they wanted to control the economic sector, but now we
know they want to control the personal sector too, the
decisions that you make with going to the doctor, the
medicines that you take. And they don't think they need
proof anymore. There were some good, well meaning people on
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these vaccine boards, not many, but there was a handful.
They quit when they quit looking at science and they
just started sort of going back to conjecture and the
seat of their pants and just mandating everything. Some of
the good doctors quit. There was a doctor on there
who said, there's no way we'd give a booster two
his twenty four year old male son. Because the thing is,
there is a risk factor. The CDC's owned data says
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that the risk of getting a heart inflammation after the
second vaccine is about eighty out of a million, So
that's not bad, but the natural state of miocarditis is
not getting a vaccines about two out of a million.
There's a fortyfold increase in miocarditis with a second vaccine.
And the thing is is, yeah, it's not very common
eighty out of a million, But if it's your young
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football player or a choir member, a band member in
high school and they get a vaccine and die from it,
I mean, the thing is it should be the parents
choice and ability to look at the data. And what
Fauci admitted today is there's no data, absolutely zero data
saying that if you give your kid a booster vaccine,
third vaccine, that it keeps them out of the hospital
or keeps them from dying. Why is there no datam
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Because it's not happening. Nobody and post seventy five percent
These kids have already had COVID. No kids that's had
COVID is dying. And that's the information I ask them
for released to the American public. What is the hospitalization
rate and the death rate for kids who've already had
COVID seventy five percent of the kids of ad COVID?
Does it protect them? If it does, why are you
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pushing three vaccines on kids who have already already got
natural immunity. What do you think about some places that
are demanding that people show COVID vaccines four kids right
in order to go to school. There's lots to talk
about this. To me, this is absolute insanity. I think
it's probably going to kick up again as we get
ready for fall and kids come back to school. What
would you tell parents out there about requirements like these,
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don't submit to public health tyranny to take your kids
out of the school. If you can go to a
private school teaching them at home, go to another public school.
There are stories I hear every week because I travel
around the country of the moms and dad's coming up
to me and say, we've moved our kids to Florida
to live with grandparents. We've moved our kids to another
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state to get away from public health tyranny, and so
don't submit to this. And this is why we have
to keep fighting. Did the lockdown saves lives? Absolutely not.
We need to keep fighting because there's going to be
another lockdown. You know, we're still locking down for a
disease that largely found. You would probably not know he
had it except for he's probably undergoing routine testing every
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day now because he's seeing Biden. I'll bet you he
did that test because he goes to the White House.
He hasn't really revealed whether they had any symptoms or not.
You know. All we know is he's had four vaccines
and four masks, you know, but we don't know if
he had any symptoms. Senator Paul, he should have tripled
masked and maybe taking the virus a little more. Seriously,
we appreciate you joining us today, sir. Thanks. Guys, look
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out with us. The January sixth hearings are officially underway
today Liz Cheney is delivering an opening statement, which is
nice for Liz Cheney to do because she's not going
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to be a congresswoman much longer. But in the meantime,
she can continue to fulminate and be disgusted with January
sixth while not paying attention to virtually everything else that
is disgusting that is going on right now in the
Biden administration as we all continue to bear witness to
the disaster that is Joe Biden's economic policies. The TAO.
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they're many things that Joe Biden is getting wrong. And
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sure you don't miss a single moment. And Buck. It's
rare where my own personal biography collides with the absurdity
of what's going on in our modern culture wars. But
I went to college in Washington, DCA. They gave me
a scholarship to go to George Washington University, and some
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of you may have heard about this story, but it's
been percolating for a while. George Washington University is named
after go figure George Washington, and the moniker that is
connected to that is George Washington is the Colonials. The
mascot is George Washington dressed in his colonial army outfit,
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his uniform when he was leading the revolution. They decided
at gw to remove the colonial mascot slash moniker because
idiots at the university decided that it was too closely
connected to the idea of colonialism, even though it's the
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basic exact opposite of that because the colonial army was
standing up against Great Britain, which had created colonies, and
we were all fighting for our independence. Even though the
basic history of this is not in any way similar,
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they decided, if people are upset about it at GW,
they would remove the colonial moniker. And here's what. And
I know this has happened to your school two buck Amhurst,
because we've talked about this before with the or Jeff
Right in his questionable history alleged bioweapon usage. But they
didn't really understand microbiology at that point in time, so
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I don't think that's really fair to say. But he
used to be a very um festive fellow with a
long flowing you know, white uh you know, the wig right,
and and breaches, and you know, he kind of looked
a little bit well, he looked like the bad guy
in all the American colonial movies were in the red coat. Yes,
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and they got rid of them, and they replaced them
with the mammoths. I always say mastodon, but I apparently
the paleontologists out there probably not actually a paleontology whatever,
you get what I'm saying. They know it's the mammoths,
not the mastodons. So we had to change our mascot too.
And they've had this going on all all over the country.
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I mean, this has happened in so many places, and
it's because what's really I I used to say, Hey,
just wait until people find out some of the practices
of the Vikings. Oh yeah, a lot of slavery, a
lot of rape, Luton pillage going on with the Vikings
as a cultural practice they were, that was what they did,
the Viking raids. Interesting, you know, the word slave comes
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from slav Actually, it's related to the word slav which
no one seems to know this, which is Eastern European
because of the Muslim Ottoman slave trade in Eastern Europeans.
That's actually where we get that English word slave from.
People say, oh, what about that slaves? I don't even know.
Subject for another time, but it was massive and lasted
for centuries and no one in this No. You walk
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around Harvard and say talk to me about the Ottoman
slave trade and white Christians from Eastern Europe and they'll say,
I have no idea what you're talking. Well, because slavery
in America only has to do with the time that
there were slaves in America and it's as if it
never existed anywhere else. And I'll give you another example.
Julius Caesar, pretty well known for enslaving people. Right, We've
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got Caesars, which is the huge gambling company with all
the statues to Caesar inside of inside of the Vegas Hotel, which,
by the way, is a fantastic Vegas hotel. And I
thought you'd appreciate this. So a bunch of my friends
who also graduated from GW, A lot of liberals right
who go to GW, think this is beyond absurd. And
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I just want to read you what GW released here
bought because I think you'll like it. And by the way,
this is the exact opposite of education, which is about
curing ignorance. In some sense, this is theoretically why universities exist.
The Special Committee identified a significant difference in connotation for
the term colonials. For supporters, the term refers to those
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who lived in the American colonies, especially those who fought
for independence and democracy. For opponents, colonials means colonizers who
stole land and resources from indigenous groups, killed or exiled
native people's. These are perspectives that cannot be easily harmonized.
The committee concluded, you send popularity of the moniker would
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therefore not be continued. And one of my buddies, who
is I would say pretty left wing at this point,
just sent to me the text respectfully. These perspectives cannot
be harmonized because one is literally incorrect. And what we've reached, Buck,
and this is to me emblematic of the larger issues
at university campuses, is people are so afraid of telling
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college kids you're wrong, You're an imbecile. We're not going
to take into count your perspective because it is historically
in error. Just because you think it doesn't mean that
there is a factual basis to support it. That used
to be, Buck, when you and I were in college,
there were still professors who were willing to stand up
in front of a classroom and say, okay, you can
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have that opinion, but it is factually not rooted in reality.
You are wrong, and therefore you should educate yourself, which
is the purpose of universities. Now they bend over and
genuflect and bend the knee at all these college kids
who believe inaccuracies, factual untruths, and actually change things for
them truth is not a defense against emotions, even emotions
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rooted in ignorance on the modern college campus. And that's
been true for a while. There used to be they
were kind of rogue professors because I had a conservative
professor as my thesis advisor, Hadley Archy's at Amherst College,
pretty well known in Northeastern conservative academic circles. But he
was one of the very very really in some ways
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the only one. But there were you could still do
it these days. I mean I would even what I
was just saying, if you if you talk about the
derivation of the word slave, if I started to talk
to if I walked into Harvard in a history class
and said, hey, who here knows that the first foreign
war ever fought by the United States was actually fought
The first foreign war was fought largely to end slavery,
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And it was actually slavery in that context of the
North African Barbary States enslaving Christians in Europe and in America.
We were fighting obviously because of America. That's where we
get to the shores of Tripoli. That would upset a lot.
What do you mean, you wouldn't even be able to
talk about the history of what really happened, because it's
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been so it's so important to left to create this
perception that the only place that really had slavery was America,
and the only slavery that existed was the enslavement of
Africans as part of the trans Atlantic slave trade. So
even talking about the other historical realities of slavery throughout history.
You mentioned Julius Caesar, you know there were obviously slaves
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in ancient Egypt. We go back thousands of years. Slavery
was a condition of humanity. Unfortunately, it's immoral and evil
at a condition of humanity for as long really as
there have been organized societies. My favorite Julius Caesar story, though,
since you mentioned Caesar, was when he was captured by
the pirates and they ransomed him when he was a
young man, and he got angry at them for not
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demanding a high enough ransom and ordered them around as
though they were his servants. They could have obviously killed
him at any point in time, and while he was
still their captive, he told them this is written about
the histories. This is all fun, guys, but you know
that I'm going to come back and crucify all of
you after you've ransomed me. They ransomed him, got a
huge payment, and then he hired a private effectively a
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private navy and army went back, went after the pirates,
crucified all of them. Julius wasn't messing around. You say
that about him until the IDEs of March. Things are
going pretty well for him. Julius Caesar. Story that I like,
and obviously this is from ancient Roman general is they
would always have somebody when the emperors rode through, and
everyone was, you know, saluting them and praising them, whispering
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in their ear. Basically, this two shall pass with the
idea that your godlikes status as the leader of this
country is not going to exist forever. But yes, you're right,
Buck on the historical front. Was a history major at GW.
So people say, well, what can you do in response
to decisions like this, I'll tell you they are always
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asking me for money, Like every university, they are always
asking me for money. And I emailed yesterday and I said,
I will never give you a dollar for the rest
of my life. And so look, I enjoyed going to GW.
But at some point you have to make a decision.
And I don't mean just me, I mean everybody out
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there listening to make financial decisions when choices like these
are made, to let them know that there are consequences
to those choices, so their chances of ever getting in
my money gone forever. Whether you're talking about how did
the left completely dominate universities or how did the left
come to completely dominate not only Hollywood but also now
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big tech, the social media platforms, the Walt Disney Corporation,
I mean, look look at the politics of corporate America
in the era of BLM and recognize is that radical
left politics became not only fashionable but mandatory in the
boardrooms of most of America's biggest companies. Really, how do
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we get to that point? For decades, the left has
used whatever leverage they have and whatever bullying they can
get away with within these institutions and where their dollars go,
so they either boycott or support with their dollars places
that do their political bidding. And it really is just
in the last you know, five to ten years, I'd
say that conservatives are woken up and saying no, actually,
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you know, Disney Disney fires Gina Krano, who's a great
actress and a conservative cancel your Disney Plus subscription. Yeah.
You know, if you don't take these basic steps, you're
actually not going to ever affect any change. And you're
not even going to be meeting on the economic and
political battlefield the left where they're actually winning day in
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and day out. You're not going to change that. You're
not going to change the game at all. Yeah, and
here's what else I would say, buck all these people
on the board of trustees at George Washington who are
symptomatic of the issues that we're dealing with in this country.
You didn't solve anything, because removing colonials is just going
to enable and encourage the wing that is canceling American
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culture to eventually decide you have to take George Washington's
name off the university because the same argument you can
make about colonials can be made about George Washington himself.
See that this is fascinating because this is where you
start to see these and the left really likes there
was a why or all the top universities still left wing?
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Must because we're brilliant. No, because you're Bolsheviks and you know,
eliminate all other ideologies from your sphere. You know, It's
like it's like if you put the wrong kind of
fish in the aquarium, it eats all the other fish.
That doesn't mean that all the other fish shouldn't be there.
It means they got eaten by the fish. The realities
that they're going to face, though, are Whether you look
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at some of these schools, Yale is obviously the one
that comes to mind because it is named for a
slave trader. Yes, folks, a slave trader. A slave owner
is bad. Slave trader also really bad. But Yale is
a multi billy It's really a multi billion dollar hedge
fund where they also teach classes. And so if they
change the name, I mean, do you think Princeton University
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wants to go back to being called the College of
New Jersey. No, I mean, they've branded themselves. But this
is where it leads. And this is where Trump was right.
Remember when he came out and everybody misquotes him about
his response to Charlottesville, but he was right. He said,
starts with Confederate soldiers. And this is why I've always
objected to pulling down monuments and memorials to anything historically
in America. You contextualize it better, But it is going
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to be the case that now that colonials are gone,
the new target is going to be George Washington himself
at the university. No one ever says on the progressive movement, Okay,
we're good. Now, you know what, you change this for us,
We're great. This is solved forever. This is my issue
with mascots in general. There's never enough you even see
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this with in the medical community. Now they're the World
Health Organization. We didn't talk about this yesterday. I actually
we'll come back. Yes, they're changing the name of yet
another virus, folks because and this is their there's because racism,
they're saying. That's what they're saying. Go figure fed May
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here with our three of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show, and one thing we've been talking to you
about for the whole year that we've been on the
air together is the mom brigades. Parents getting more and
more fired up about what their kids are being taught
in schools. The agenda of the left, increasingly radical, but
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also increasingly exposed by a lot of good work coming
from people on the right. And one of them is
our friend who joins us right now, Pete Hegseth, veteran
of the United States Army co host of Fox and
Friends Weekends. His new book is Battle for the American Mind,
uprooting a century of miseducation. Pete. Great to have you back. Man, Hey, guys,
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thanks for having me tell us about this one. Because
we think that there are a few issues that get
a lot of attention going into the you know, and
they should right, Crime, border, economy, those are probably the
big three for us. But right up there and maybe
right alongside one or two of those would be education.
What's going on in the classrooms, what's going on to
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the universities and the apparatus of the left, what it's
doing to kids. Tell about the book especially now. Yeah,
I mean, we call that realization that's occurred in the
last couple of years, the COVID sixteen nineteen moment. The
parents had their kids at home and laptops and they
saw the curriculum and it wasn't what they thought it was.
And it's because largely in conservative Republican circles. We've been
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asleep at the wheel fighting other fights, and while the
progressives have executed what I would call a full consolidation
of government schools public schools. I salute the parents protesting
at school board meetings. I think it's immensely important. I
think parents need to get involved. But we described it
in the book as it's like charging a fortified machine
gun nest with nerf guts. We salute your efforts, but
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we're all going to die if we think that's going
to change the trajectory of what's happening. The pipeline for
over one hundred years has been what they've focused I'm
burrowed in on, and they've been wildly successful. You know,
Hemingway once wrote about bankruptcy. It happened gradually and then suddenly.
And that's what the book uncovers, is it happened gradually
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over one hundred years, very concernedly. They wrote about it intentionally,
and now we're seeing the quick aspect of it as
they press their advantage, going from bias to indoctrination now
to full on activism for our youngest of kids, who
are always the target and the reason we wrote the
book is the first step to recovery is understanding the
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depth of your problem. And for the parents and grandparents
out there, we just want them to come to grips
with the fact that you know, you know the old adage,
I love my congressman, but I can't stand Congress. It's
that same thing, you know. I know public education is
messed up, but my school's okay, No, it's not not yours,
not mine, not the one I went to. I was
a public school kid. They're pressing the advantage. I want
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parents to know about it, and the book shares what
you can do about it. Pete, appreciate you coming on.
I was also a public school kid. What do you
think the impact will be based on moves, for instance,
that they're making in Florida with Ron de Sciantist, the
battles that are being fought there. If, as we anticipate,
we get a red wave or red tsunami potentially in November,
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does that help to change the trajectory here? It helps
on the political levels, but it only helps on the margins.
Winning elections is not going to change the nature of
the classroom. When you understand what John doing. The progressives
did how they first remove God, replaced it with a
forgery in allegiance to the state, and then consolidated it
through and then the Marxist show up to the critical
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theorists at the Frankfurt School of Columbia University, pushed it
through the teachers colleges. Then the unions consolidated their power.
All of these institutions, by the way, led by socialists
and atheists, eventually Marxists. Then the Supreme Court kicks God out.
The Department of Education is created by the teachers unions
quite literally, and then you get the federal consolidation through
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common Core and what we see today. Winning a school
board election or even a gubertatorial election will help in
preventing the current manifestation of one or two theories, but
they will always try to find a way to slip
it out. Take for example, this book Battle for the
American Mind. It's been number one in the country for
three years. For three days, a book called how to
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Raise an Anti Racist by Ibram x Kendi came out
the same day as my book. No one's going to
read it, However, every teacher's union, every teacher's college, every
publication is going to press it. Down the pipeline as
the curriculum or the pedagogy how teachers teach in the diversity,
equity and inclusion lens in local public schools, middle schools,
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and elementary school That book will have more institutional impact
than this expose, because that's how they think. So I
love win an election, but we can't count on elections.
We've we've got to do it ourselves. Speaking of Pete Hegseth,
now he's Fox and Friends Weekend co host and he's
got this book out. You should check out Battle for
the American Mind, uprooting a century of miseducation. Fete, do
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you think that the left, maybe at some level some
of them, not all of them, right, the true believers,
Reality doesn't exist for them, So what difference does anything
that we see make to them? But do you think
that the current battle that we've seen playing out in
Florida over the transagenda as it pertains to very young children,
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added also to the left's insistence on what feels like
a phenomenon that came on, you know, out of nowhere
and now is everywhere. The drag Queen Story Hour and
drag your kids to pride stuff that we've seen in schools,
in libraries and all over the place. Has the left
gone too far? And do you think that they recognize
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that this is an error for them? Politically? Old school
liberal Democrats know they've gone too far, and they have
electoral power right now saying Congress, and they want to
send up the warning players about how detrimental this will
be to them politically, but culturally, this is a reflection
of the confidence they have that not only won't they
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be held accountable, but they can't be held accountable because
they're so insulated inside their education departments, inside their teachers colleges,
by their teachers unions, by the folks that write the tests,
the folks that make the standards, the accreditation agencies, every
single one of those is controlled by not Democrats but
the hard activists left, So they don't believe they will
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be held accountable for this. You see school districts defending
what's happening or explaining in a way by saying we
do diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is a phrase invented
by critical theorists, later critical race theorists and critical gender
theorists to mask over their Marxist secular agenda. So yes,
they've overreached culturally at this current moment, but they're counting
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on a pipeline of kids being pumped out. And you
might say, oh, this has been happening for decades. Yes
it has, but we're an unchartered territory when we're telling
seven and eight year olds to question their gender and
not teaching any history other than America is at you see.
The progressives knew that it was the youngest kids that
were the most appliable, and that's why they focused school
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and the youngest to begin with. It didn't really happen
to get to the youngest until right about now, but
that's because they believe they have the power to do
it and no one will hold them accountable. There are
politicians doing some of that, and that's good, but it
doesn't change the prerogatives and incentives of the institutions that
feed the classrooms full of teachers and counselors and advisors
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who get paid to push this stuff. You've got kids,
I've got kids. I was having a conversation recently with
my wife about the idea of a five or six
year old kid being able to pick their gender. And
I'm sure you've had conversations like this too. We won't
even let our five or six year olds pick what
they get to eat for a meal, because they would
have ice cream or cake for every single meal if
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they could. Yes, how wildly outlandish has it become that
you're supposed to let a five or six year old
pick their gender? I mean, I just it's inconceivable to
me that we could have ever ended up in a
place where any adult would make that argument. I know,
it's a it is a gradual erosion that then, because
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you've so eroded the idea of an objective truth, of
of standards higher than our own human instincts or human identity,
that now it's gotten to the point where, I mean,
I've got a six year old who legitimately believes he's
got a shot of being Batman. Yeah, he grows up. No,
I mean, that's this is this is the identity and
understanding that they have the maturity level. But that's the point,
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is the left belief. You know, if they if they're
only getting to him in college, you know they're going
to convert plenty of them, you know, but there's also
gonna be plenty of god fearing conservative kids that show
up a college and reject the wope nonsense. If your teacher,
who is an authority figure, even I remember when I
was fifteen sixteen, if the teacher said it, it seemed
like gospel to me. Those are more innocent days in
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that sense. If a six year old or seven year
old hears it, it's absolute gospel. And the parents are
You're told your parents are out of step, they're old,
they're roobs. So I think it is a lot of
teachers don't want to do this. This is the activist
class driving it. But it's always the loudest voices, the
most radical voices, that drag institutions in a particular direction.
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And that's what you see in the pipeline. And that's
how it ends up, maybe not in the curriculum, but
certainly in the pedagogy, which is the philosophy of how
you teach through diversity, equity, and inclusion, which means if
one student feels uncomfortable, you teach to that level to
all the students. And that's how it becomes ubiquitous, not
just in Massachusetts and California, but in Missouri. You know,
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we have the Attorney General on Fox and Friends this
morning pointing out what it's happening. It's happening everywhere. Speaking
to our friend Pete Hegseth, the book is Battle for
the American Mind, uprooting a century of miseducation. Pete, congrats
on the sales so far, a lot more coming your way,
and appreciate you joining us. Appreciate you guys. Thank you.
That's Pete Hegseth. We are Clay and Buck and we
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Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Thursday edition of The Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show, but begins now. Everybody, thanks for joining us.
I'm here as per usual in NYC, my hometown, with
my main man, Clay Travis. We were out on the
(00:20):
town last night. He saw me actually scooter and I
gotta be honest with you. When you hopped on the
scooter and took off, it was hard for me not
to erupt in platform. I mean, to your credit, you
did not how we went to the dinner, Yeah, you
took me into the six hundred square foot apartment we
called the Buck Cave the Buck Cave, and then we
went up on top of your building. Was really nice,
(00:41):
went out to dinner, had a phenomenal time with people
who work on the show. We got a great event
that's going on after the show today for people to
celebrate the one year anniversary of the show. We thank
all of you for hanging out with us. But when
you took off on the scooter, I don't even know
that you know this. Craig who we were out with,
Craig said, every time I see him on that scooter.
(01:03):
I think I should take out a key Man insurance
policy on his life. I gotta tell you we have
producer Greg on the show who has joined the scooter Nation.
Oh no, so I don't know. I don't know what
our patch for our leather jackets is gonna be. Like,
you know, we're gonna be. It's kind of like a
biker gang, but for scooters where you have a little
basket in the front, maybe little streamers on the side.
(01:25):
But I gotta tell you, very fast way to get
around New York City and everyone's all the cool kids
arrived him. That's right, the scooter Nation. We're growing all
the time. Scooter squad. Now, we got some real news
to talk to you all about some big things going
on today. First of all, Biden almost sounds like he's
taken a page from the Maduro playbook in Venezuela of
(01:45):
shaking down the oil companies. At this point, you know what,
are we gonna start hearing about nationalization? Next? He's saying,
produce more for less money. The oil companies are like, dude,
what are you talking about. We'll get into that in
a little bit. Also, Senator ramp Paul joining us here
to talk about the testimony that Fauci, who's got COVID,
gave this morning, we'll discuss that Kavala's got a new job.
(02:09):
We're gonna keep you on the edge of your seat.
It's got a new part of the portfolio. I should
say the border thing didn't really go so well, did it.
But well, she's solving all the issues in the country.
She makes all the things not better. But the big
story that I think is getting people fired up, and
it's getting me fired up because mirror images in city
(02:30):
after city, clay all across the country, progressive prosecutor in
New York, crime violence, all of it gets worse in Houston.
I spoke to our friend Michael Barry about this reasons
and now, what's your prosecutor like down in Houston, progressive prosecutor.
They've had huge spike in murders the last couple of years,
the huge spike in shootings Los Angeles, San Francisco crime
(02:51):
through the roof. Gascone is the DA. Paul Gascone is
the DA in Los Angeles, and he is a progressive prosecutor.
He wants to end this mass incarceration situations. What they
all say, which just means let more people out of prison,
give them shorter sentences. Overall, here is the story as
we know it right now. Two police officers were killed
(03:14):
yesterday in eastern Los Angeles. Two Elmonte PD officers were shot.
Gave their lives serving their communities in their country. And
what you need to know about the shooter is that
he's a gang member, a gang member who actually had
the name of his violent gang literally tattooed on his face.
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He was a multiple offender. He had burglary charges, drug charges,
and a weapons charge. Now the weapons charge would have
triggered under California law Clay a third strike. This was
a felon in possession of a firearm. And instead of
actually going with a third strike, which is the law
(04:00):
in California, you have to serve real time, Gascone gave
him two years of probation, didn't serve any time in
prison for being a felon gang member in possession of
a firearm. Two police officers are now dead, their wives
receiving folded flags, their children now growing up without fathers,
and everyone's looking at Gascone and saying, these brave men
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gave their lives. They shouldn't have been in jeopardy from
this gang member at all. How can anyone think the
Democrats are serious about crime, serious about guns clay when
they will literally violate their own state laws. Prosecutors like
Gascone will violate the laws of their state so that
they can go soft on a hardened gang member. Yeah,
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this is part and parcel of the forty million dollars
that George Soro spent to get left wing prosecutors in
office who were not going to prosecute crimes. And you remember,
back before she dropped out as the White House spokesperson,
Jensaki was mocking Fox News for covering the soft on
(05:05):
crime concept. You remember that interview where she pointed at
Fox News and was like laughing, would we should pull
that audio? Its what a soft on crime even mean? Well,
this is what it means, Jen, This is when you
have someone who should be behind bars and takes the
life of our police officers. And on this show, even
though most will not mention them, Michael parodies Joseph Santana.
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Are the two police officers who lost their lives because
this gang member killed them, This man who should have
been behind bars. They have these two officers do five
young children between them. So when you start to think
about the consequences of what soft on crime means, it
puts brave police officers in danger. Again. Those guys names
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Michael Parodies and Joseph Santana, two LA Area police officers,
five young children between them. Buck, those kids are going
to grow up without dads and those guys. If you
saw the video they were playing it on Fox News,
this guy was trying to attack his wife, who had
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girlfriend who had checked into a hotel to try to
escape him, and you can see these officers responding and
running into that hotel room, and they were never going
to come out because they got shot. I believe as
soon as they got in there. They did kill him
in the gunfire exchange as well. Whatever silver lining three debts,
but this guy should have never been on the streets
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of Los Angeles and this is being replicated all over
the country where violent criminals are not being put behind bars.
Here's the deal. We know that we could solve issues
with violent crime by doing two things. One put more
police officers on the streets and give them the ability
to do their job. And two, when those police officers
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arrest people for committing acts of violence, put the criminals
behind bars to process that is guaranteed to lower the
overall crime rate everywhere Democrats won't do it, So the
progressive prosecutors have gotten their way and the country has suffered.
And as I've said, even if you live in a
rural area, relatively speaking, there's been a substantial increase nationwide
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in violent crime and lots of different crime categories, even
in rural areas. And this has been a nationwide phenomenon.
Wherever Democrats are in charge of the prosecutor's office or
the police department or the mayor's office, you have seen
things get worse. So now we're at the pushback phase.
Now people have recognized this, and that's why the Recall
George Gascon effort. You can go to Recall George Gascon
(07:40):
dot com slash petition. They've reached the five hundred and
sixty seven thousand signatures, but the people behind the petition
effort are saying they need to get to more to
like six hundred and fifty to seven hundred thousand because
of signature issues and any problems that may rise. They
want to make sure they've got a clear margin. So
for anyone who lives in Los Angeles and can be
a part of this. We've got a great listen to
sign up today. Yeah, go do it today, because what
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they find is some of these people falsify signatures and
when they go back and they check them, even if
you've reached your target limit, buck you need to be
well over it. Because this has become a major issue
everywhere with these recall petitions, they will try to falsify them.
Go sign up today. This guy needs to be out
of a job. Absolutely. Gascone has got to go. And
I want to be very clear about how this requires.
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This is one of these moments where we're really speaking
to and we've got Democrats who listen to this show.
We're actually we're actually bringing over and I keep saying,
you know, jump into the clay and buck pool, the
water is warm. These are Democrats who ousted Gascone. I'm sorry,
Alskid Boudan in San Francisco. And it will be largely,
not entirely. There's a million Republicans who live in Los
Angeles County. It might even be more than that now,
(08:47):
but there will have to be Democrats recognizing at some
level this goes this is so reckless and so dangerous
that it goes beyond politics. But also, Clay, how can
we take all the lecturing that we've received about and
they need to do with guns and take guns seriously
in recent weeks. Don't you want to stop violence? Why
don't you have magazine limitations? How about getting violent gang
(09:08):
bangers found illegally with a firearm and previous felony convictions.
How about locking them up and not worrying about mass incarceration.
That would actually stop violence on a massive scale, no doubt.
And again this is not a very complicated two part plan.
Everybody can steal it from me. It works. Put more
police on the streets and let them do their job,
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and put violent criminals behind bars. Whether you live in
a rural area, whether you live in a city, no
matter what state you live in. Right now, that's what
you should be demanding of everyone who is charged with
trying to eliminate or reduce violence in all of your communities.
More cops on the streets with the ability to do
their jobs, put violent criminals behind bars. This is, unfortunately,
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like going back in time. Those of us who remember
the high crime are and Buck in New York City
right now doing the show you've talked about. You remember
Time Square before Rudy Giuliani, massive issues with all sorts
of crime everywhere, and then he came in and he
cleaned it up. We know what works. We just got
to implement these policies. We're gonna be joined by Senator
Rand Paul next. He just had a heck of a
(10:16):
confrontation with the said senator with Fauci, who was testifying
of course he's tested positive for COVID despite the fact
that he's had four COVID shots. I think you're going
to enjoy this conversation with Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky.
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The only studies that were presented were animbody studies. So
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they say, if we give you a booster, you make anibodies. Now,
a lot of scientists would question whether or not that's
proof of efficacy of a vaccine. If I give you
ten or if I give a patient ten mRNA vaccines
and they make protein each time, or they make anabotti
each time, is that proof that we should give ten boosters,
doctor Fauci. No, I think that is somewhat of an
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absurd exaggeration. So that is the proof that you use,
your committees use that. That's the only proof you have
to tell children to think of boosters that they make annimbodies.
So it's not an absardity. That is Senator Ran Paul
going after our good friend, doctor Fauci. Senator Rand Paul
joins us. Now doctor Fauci had to testify remotely because
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despite four COVID shots, he has tested positive for COVID.
Rand Paul, your, first of all, thanks for joining. A second,
your reaction when you found out that doctor Fauci, who
last year told everyone if they got the COVID shot
they would never get COVID. Obviously that ended up being wrong.
Why should we trust anything this guy says, Well, I
guess if he would have won the COVID goggles or
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maybe the COVID earmuffs and the COVID earmuffs I think
really would have protected him, probably, But he had four
vaccines and four masks. He just didn't get the OVID goggles.
But no, I'm glad he's not sick. I means it
can be a serious disease. But I'm glad he's not sick,
but I wish you were more honest. What we found
is is that the vaccine was approved and is being
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pushed on your kids, the Booster vaccine, and there's no
evidence that it saves any lives of kids. It's no
evidence that keeps him of hospital. The only evidence they
presented to the committee was that your kid will make antibodies. Well,
if I give your kid a hundred boosters, he'll make
antibodies or she'll make antibodies every time. That doesn't prove anything.
And that's the point I was making the Fauci is
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this is not evidence that the vaccine works. This is
evidence that if you give a mRNA vaccine that causes
the body to make a foreign protein that the body
will react to it make antibodies. It says nothing about
whether it saves lives, and you should do the studies.
The reason they don't do the studies is seventy five
percent of kids have already had this. Many kids have
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been vaccinated now, but no kid is dying. No kid
is going to the hospital that's either have been vaccinated
or had the infection or both. And there's no reason
in the world to give them a booster, and there
is evidence that the more you vaccinate kids of them
getting an inflammation of the heart called myocarditis. Senator Paul,
it's back. I want to know where you think Fauci
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and the Democrat sponsored and assisted health Apparatus wants to
take the vaccination campaign going into this fall. I mean,
you're talking today at the Senate Health Committee. They don't
sound at all to me like they feel chastened at
all by the failures and the poor analysis of what
was going to happen up to this point. What do
you think they're going to do. It's part of an
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overall philosophy of elitism. It is about control. Isn't about
this pandemic. It's about control of everything. We've always known
they wanted to control the economic sector, but now we
know they want to control the personal sector too, the
decisions that you make with going to the doctor, the
medicines that you take. And they don't think they need
proof anymore. There were some good, well meaning people on
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these vaccine boards, not many, but there was a handful.
They quit when they quit looking at science and they
just started sort of going back to conjecture and the
seat of their pants and just mandating everything. Some of
the good doctors quit. There was a doctor on there
who said, there's no way we'd give a booster two
his twenty four year old male son. Because the thing is,
there is a risk factor. The CDC's owned data says
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that the risk of getting a heart inflammation after the
second vaccine is about eighty out of a million, So
that's not bad, but the natural state of miocarditis is
not getting a vaccines about two out of a million.
There's a fortyfold increase in miocarditis with a second vaccine.
And the thing is is, yeah, it's not very common
eighty out of a million, But if it's your young
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football player or a choir member, a band member in
high school and they get a vaccine and die from it,
I mean, the thing is it should be the parents
choice and ability to look at the data. And what
Fauci admitted today is there's no data, absolutely zero data
saying that if you give your kid a booster vaccine,
third vaccine, that it keeps them out of the hospital
or keeps them from dying. Why is there no datam
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Because it's not happening. Nobody and post seventy five percent
These kids have already had COVID. No kids that's had
COVID is dying. And that's the information I ask them
for released to the American public. What is the hospitalization
rate and the death rate for kids who've already had
COVID seventy five percent of the kids of ad COVID?
Does it protect them? If it does, why are you
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pushing three vaccines on kids who have already already got
natural immunity. What do you think about some places that
are demanding that people show COVID vaccines four kids right
in order to go to school. There's lots to talk
about this. To me, this is absolute insanity. I think
it's probably going to kick up again as we get
ready for fall and kids come back to school. What
would you tell parents out there about requirements like these,
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don't submit to public health tyranny to take your kids
out of the school. If you can go to a
private school teaching them at home, go to another public school.
There are stories I hear every week because I travel
around the country of the moms and dad's coming up
to me and say, we've moved our kids to Florida
to live with grandparents. We've moved our kids to another
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state to get away from public health tyranny, and so
don't submit to this. And this is why we have
to keep fighting. Did the lockdown saves lives? Absolutely not.
We need to keep fighting because there's going to be
another lockdown. You know, we're still locking down for a
disease that largely found. You would probably not know he
had it except for he's probably undergoing routine testing every
(17:28):
day now because he's seeing Biden. I'll bet you he
did that test because he goes to the White House.
He hasn't really revealed whether they had any symptoms or not.
You know. All we know is he's had four vaccines
and four masks, you know, but we don't know if
he had any symptoms. Senator Paul, he should have tripled
masked and maybe taking the virus a little more. Seriously,
we appreciate you joining us today, sir. Thanks. Guys, look
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rare where my own personal biography collides with the absurdity
of what's going on in our modern culture wars. But
I went to college in Washington, DCA. They gave me
a scholarship to go to George Washington University, and some
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of you may have heard about this story, but it's
been percolating for a while. George Washington University is named
after go figure George Washington, and the moniker that is
connected to that is George Washington is the Colonials. The
mascot is George Washington dressed in his colonial army outfit,
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his uniform when he was leading the revolution. They decided
at gw to remove the colonial mascot slash moniker because
idiots at the university decided that it was too closely
connected to the idea of colonialism, even though it's the
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basic exact opposite of that because the colonial army was
standing up against Great Britain, which had created colonies, and
we were all fighting for our independence. Even though the
basic history of this is not in any way similar,
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they decided, if people are upset about it at GW,
they would remove the colonial moniker. And here's what. And
I know this has happened to your school two buck Amhurst,
because we've talked about this before with the or Jeff
Right in his questionable history alleged bioweapon usage. But they
didn't really understand microbiology at that point in time, so
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I don't think that's really fair to say. But he
used to be a very um festive fellow with a
long flowing you know, white uh you know, the wig right,
and and breaches, and you know, he kind of looked
a little bit well, he looked like the bad guy
in all the American colonial movies were in the red coat. Yes,
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and they got rid of them, and they replaced them
with the mammoths. I always say mastodon, but I apparently
the paleontologists out there probably not actually a paleontology whatever,
you get what I'm saying. They know it's the mammoths,
not the mastodons. So we had to change our mascot too.
And they've had this going on all all over the country.
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I mean, this has happened in so many places, and
it's because what's really I I used to say, Hey,
just wait until people find out some of the practices
of the Vikings. Oh yeah, a lot of slavery, a
lot of rape, Luton pillage going on with the Vikings
as a cultural practice they were, that was what they did,
the Viking raids. Interesting, you know, the word slave comes
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from slav Actually, it's related to the word slav which
no one seems to know this, which is Eastern European
because of the Muslim Ottoman slave trade in Eastern Europeans.
That's actually where we get that English word slave from.
People say, oh, what about that slaves? I don't even know.
Subject for another time, but it was massive and lasted
for centuries and no one in this No. You walk
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around Harvard and say talk to me about the Ottoman
slave trade and white Christians from Eastern Europe and they'll say,
I have no idea what you're talking. Well, because slavery
in America only has to do with the time that
there were slaves in America and it's as if it
never existed anywhere else. And I'll give you another example.
Julius Caesar, pretty well known for enslaving people. Right, We've
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got Caesars, which is the huge gambling company with all
the statues to Caesar inside of inside of the Vegas Hotel, which,
by the way, is a fantastic Vegas hotel. And I
thought you'd appreciate this. So a bunch of my friends
who also graduated from GW, A lot of liberals right
who go to GW, think this is beyond absurd. And
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I just want to read you what GW released here
bought because I think you'll like it. And by the way,
this is the exact opposite of education, which is about
curing ignorance. In some sense, this is theoretically why universities exist.
The Special Committee identified a significant difference in connotation for
the term colonials. For supporters, the term refers to those
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who lived in the American colonies, especially those who fought
for independence and democracy. For opponents, colonials means colonizers who
stole land and resources from indigenous groups, killed or exiled
native people's. These are perspectives that cannot be easily harmonized.
The committee concluded, you send popularity of the moniker would
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therefore not be continued. And one of my buddies, who
is I would say pretty left wing at this point,
just sent to me the text respectfully. These perspectives cannot
be harmonized because one is literally incorrect. And what we've reached, Buck,
and this is to me emblematic of the larger issues
at university campuses, is people are so afraid of telling
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college kids you're wrong, You're an imbecile. We're not going
to take into count your perspective because it is historically
in error. Just because you think it doesn't mean that
there is a factual basis to support it. That used
to be, Buck, when you and I were in college,
there were still professors who were willing to stand up
in front of a classroom and say, okay, you can
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have that opinion, but it is factually not rooted in reality.
You are wrong, and therefore you should educate yourself, which
is the purpose of universities. Now they bend over and
genuflect and bend the knee at all these college kids
who believe inaccuracies, factual untruths, and actually change things for
them truth is not a defense against emotions, even emotions
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rooted in ignorance on the modern college campus. And that's
been true for a while. There used to be they
were kind of rogue professors because I had a conservative
professor as my thesis advisor, Hadley Archy's at Amherst College,
pretty well known in Northeastern conservative academic circles. But he
was one of the very very really in some ways
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the only one. But there were you could still do
it these days. I mean I would even what I
was just saying, if you if you talk about the
derivation of the word slave, if I started to talk
to if I walked into Harvard in a history class
and said, hey, who here knows that the first foreign
war ever fought by the United States was actually fought
The first foreign war was fought largely to end slavery,
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And it was actually slavery in that context of the
North African Barbary States enslaving Christians in Europe and in America.
We were fighting obviously because of America. That's where we
get to the shores of Tripoli. That would upset a lot.
What do you mean, you wouldn't even be able to
talk about the history of what really happened, because it's
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been so it's so important to left to create this
perception that the only place that really had slavery was America,
and the only slavery that existed was the enslavement of
Africans as part of the trans Atlantic slave trade. So
even talking about the other historical realities of slavery throughout history.
You mentioned Julius Caesar, you know there were obviously slaves
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in ancient Egypt. We go back thousands of years. Slavery
was a condition of humanity. Unfortunately, it's immoral and evil
at a condition of humanity for as long really as
there have been organized societies. My favorite Julius Caesar story, though,
since you mentioned Caesar, was when he was captured by
the pirates and they ransomed him when he was a
young man, and he got angry at them for not
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demanding a high enough ransom and ordered them around as
though they were his servants. They could have obviously killed
him at any point in time, and while he was
still their captive, he told them this is written about
the histories. This is all fun, guys, but you know
that I'm going to come back and crucify all of
you after you've ransomed me. They ransomed him, got a
huge payment, and then he hired a private effectively a
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private navy and army went back, went after the pirates,
crucified all of them. Julius wasn't messing around. You say
that about him until the IDEs of March. Things are
going pretty well for him. Julius Caesar. Story that I like,
and obviously this is from ancient Roman general is they
would always have somebody when the emperors rode through, and
everyone was, you know, saluting them and praising them, whispering
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in their ear. Basically, this two shall pass with the
idea that your godlikes status as the leader of this
country is not going to exist forever. But yes, you're right,
Buck on the historical front. Was a history major at GW.
So people say, well, what can you do in response
to decisions like this, I'll tell you they are always
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asking me for money, Like every university, they are always
asking me for money. And I emailed yesterday and I said,
I will never give you a dollar for the rest
of my life. And so look, I enjoyed going to GW.
But at some point you have to make a decision.
And I don't mean just me, I mean everybody out
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there listening to make financial decisions when choices like these
are made, to let them know that there are consequences
to those choices, so their chances of ever getting in
my money gone forever. Whether you're talking about how did
the left completely dominate universities or how did the left
come to completely dominate not only Hollywood but also now
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big tech, the social media platforms, the Walt Disney Corporation,
I mean, look look at the politics of corporate America
in the era of BLM and recognize is that radical
left politics became not only fashionable but mandatory in the
boardrooms of most of America's biggest companies. Really, how do
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we get to that point? For decades, the left has
used whatever leverage they have and whatever bullying they can
get away with within these institutions and where their dollars go,
so they either boycott or support with their dollars places
that do their political bidding. And it really is just
in the last you know, five to ten years, I'd
say that conservatives are woken up and saying no, actually,
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you know, Disney Disney fires Gina Krano, who's a great
actress and a conservative cancel your Disney Plus subscription. Yeah.
You know, if you don't take these basic steps, you're
actually not going to ever affect any change. And you're
not even going to be meeting on the economic and
political battlefield the left where they're actually winning day in
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and day out. You're not going to change that. You're
not going to change the game at all. Yeah, and
here's what else I would say, buck all these people
on the board of trustees at George Washington who are
symptomatic of the issues that we're dealing with in this country.
You didn't solve anything, because removing colonials is just going
to enable and encourage the wing that is canceling American
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culture to eventually decide you have to take George Washington's
name off the university because the same argument you can
make about colonials can be made about George Washington himself.
See that this is fascinating because this is where you
start to see these and the left really likes there
was a why or all the top universities still left wing?
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Must because we're brilliant. No, because you're Bolsheviks and you know,
eliminate all other ideologies from your sphere. You know, It's
like it's like if you put the wrong kind of
fish in the aquarium, it eats all the other fish.
That doesn't mean that all the other fish shouldn't be there.
It means they got eaten by the fish. The realities
that they're going to face, though, are Whether you look
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at some of these schools, Yale is obviously the one
that comes to mind because it is named for a
slave trader. Yes, folks, a slave trader. A slave owner
is bad. Slave trader also really bad. But Yale is
a multi billy It's really a multi billion dollar hedge
fund where they also teach classes. And so if they
change the name, I mean, do you think Princeton University
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wants to go back to being called the College of
New Jersey. No, I mean, they've branded themselves. But this
is where it leads. And this is where Trump was right.
Remember when he came out and everybody misquotes him about
his response to Charlottesville, but he was right. He said,
starts with Confederate soldiers. And this is why I've always
objected to pulling down monuments and memorials to anything historically
in America. You contextualize it better, But it is going
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to be the case that now that colonials are gone,
the new target is going to be George Washington himself
at the university. No one ever says on the progressive movement, Okay,
we're good. Now, you know what, you change this for us,
We're great. This is solved forever. This is my issue
with mascots in general. There's never enough you even see
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this with in the medical community. Now they're the World
Health Organization. We didn't talk about this yesterday. I actually
we'll come back. Yes, they're changing the name of yet
another virus, folks because and this is their there's because racism,
they're saying. That's what they're saying. Go figure fed May
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here with our three of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show, and one thing we've been talking to you
about for the whole year that we've been on the
air together is the mom brigades. Parents getting more and
more fired up about what their kids are being taught
in schools. The agenda of the left, increasingly radical, but
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also increasingly exposed by a lot of good work coming
from people on the right. And one of them is
our friend who joins us right now, Pete Hegseth, veteran
of the United States Army co host of Fox and
Friends Weekends. His new book is Battle for the American Mind,
uprooting a century of miseducation. Pete. Great to have you back. Man, Hey, guys,
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thanks for having me tell us about this one. Because
we think that there are a few issues that get
a lot of attention going into the you know, and
they should right, Crime, border, economy, those are probably the
big three for us. But right up there and maybe
right alongside one or two of those would be education.
What's going on in the classrooms, what's going on to
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the universities and the apparatus of the left, what it's
doing to kids. Tell about the book especially now. Yeah,
I mean, we call that realization that's occurred in the
last couple of years, the COVID sixteen nineteen moment. The
parents had their kids at home and laptops and they
saw the curriculum and it wasn't what they thought it was.
And it's because largely in conservative Republican circles. We've been
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asleep at the wheel fighting other fights, and while the
progressives have executed what I would call a full consolidation
of government schools public schools. I salute the parents protesting
at school board meetings. I think it's immensely important. I
think parents need to get involved. But we described it
in the book as it's like charging a fortified machine
gun nest with nerf guts. We salute your efforts, but
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we're all going to die if we think that's going
to change the trajectory of what's happening. The pipeline for
over one hundred years has been what they've focused I'm
burrowed in on, and they've been wildly successful. You know,
Hemingway once wrote about bankruptcy. It happened gradually and then suddenly.
And that's what the book uncovers, is it happened gradually
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over one hundred years, very concernedly. They wrote about it intentionally,
and now we're seeing the quick aspect of it as
they press their advantage, going from bias to indoctrination now
to full on activism for our youngest of kids, who
are always the target and the reason we wrote the
book is the first step to recovery is understanding the
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depth of your problem. And for the parents and grandparents
out there, we just want them to come to grips
with the fact that you know, you know the old adage,
I love my congressman, but I can't stand Congress. It's
that same thing, you know. I know public education is
messed up, but my school's okay, No, it's not not yours,
not mine, not the one I went to. I was
a public school kid. They're pressing the advantage. I want
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parents to know about it, and the book shares what
you can do about it. Pete, appreciate you coming on.
I was also a public school kid. What do you
think the impact will be based on moves, for instance,
that they're making in Florida with Ron de Sciantist, the
battles that are being fought there. If, as we anticipate,
we get a red wave or red tsunami potentially in November,
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does that help to change the trajectory here? It helps
on the political levels, but it only helps on the margins.
Winning elections is not going to change the nature of
the classroom. When you understand what John doing. The progressives
did how they first remove God, replaced it with a
forgery in allegiance to the state, and then consolidated it
through and then the Marxist show up to the critical
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theorists at the Frankfurt School of Columbia University, pushed it
through the teachers colleges. Then the unions consolidated their power.
All of these institutions, by the way, led by socialists
and atheists, eventually Marxists. Then the Supreme Court kicks God out.
The Department of Education is created by the teachers unions
quite literally, and then you get the federal consolidation through
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common Core and what we see today. Winning a school
board election or even a gubertatorial election will help in
preventing the current manifestation of one or two theories, but
they will always try to find a way to slip
it out. Take for example, this book Battle for the
American Mind. It's been number one in the country for
three years. For three days, a book called how to
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Raise an Anti Racist by Ibram x Kendi came out
the same day as my book. No one's going to
read it, However, every teacher's union, every teacher's college, every
publication is going to press it. Down the pipeline as
the curriculum or the pedagogy how teachers teach in the diversity,
equity and inclusion lens in local public schools, middle schools,
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and elementary school That book will have more institutional impact
than this expose, because that's how they think. So I
love win an election, but we can't count on elections.
We've we've got to do it ourselves. Speaking of Pete Hegseth,
now he's Fox and Friends Weekend co host and he's
got this book out. You should check out Battle for
the American Mind, uprooting a century of miseducation. Fete, do
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you think that the left, maybe at some level some
of them, not all of them, right, the true believers,
Reality doesn't exist for them, So what difference does anything
that we see make to them? But do you think
that the current battle that we've seen playing out in
Florida over the transagenda as it pertains to very young children,
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added also to the left's insistence on what feels like
a phenomenon that came on, you know, out of nowhere
and now is everywhere. The drag Queen Story Hour and
drag your kids to pride stuff that we've seen in schools,
in libraries and all over the place. Has the left
gone too far? And do you think that they recognize
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that this is an error for them? Politically? Old school
liberal Democrats know they've gone too far, and they have
electoral power right now saying Congress, and they want to
send up the warning players about how detrimental this will
be to them politically, but culturally, this is a reflection
of the confidence they have that not only won't they
(40:58):
be held accountable, but they can't be held accountable because
they're so insulated inside their education departments, inside their teachers colleges,
by their teachers unions, by the folks that write the tests,
the folks that make the standards, the accreditation agencies, every
single one of those is controlled by not Democrats but
the hard activists left, So they don't believe they will
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be held accountable for this. You see school districts defending
what's happening or explaining in a way by saying we
do diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is a phrase invented
by critical theorists, later critical race theorists and critical gender
theorists to mask over their Marxist secular agenda. So yes,
they've overreached culturally at this current moment, but they're counting
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on a pipeline of kids being pumped out. And you
might say, oh, this has been happening for decades. Yes
it has, but we're an unchartered territory when we're telling
seven and eight year olds to question their gender and
not teaching any history other than America is at you see.
The progressives knew that it was the youngest kids that
were the most appliable, and that's why they focused school
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and the youngest to begin with. It didn't really happen
to get to the youngest until right about now, but
that's because they believe they have the power to do
it and no one will hold them accountable. There are
politicians doing some of that, and that's good, but it
doesn't change the prerogatives and incentives of the institutions that
feed the classrooms full of teachers and counselors and advisors
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who get paid to push this stuff. You've got kids,
I've got kids. I was having a conversation recently with
my wife about the idea of a five or six
year old kid being able to pick their gender. And
I'm sure you've had conversations like this too. We won't
even let our five or six year olds pick what
they get to eat for a meal, because they would
have ice cream or cake for every single meal if
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they could. Yes, how wildly outlandish has it become that
you're supposed to let a five or six year old
pick their gender? I mean, I just it's inconceivable to
me that we could have ever ended up in a
place where any adult would make that argument. I know,
it's a it is a gradual erosion that then, because
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you've so eroded the idea of an objective truth, of
of standards higher than our own human instincts or human identity,
that now it's gotten to the point where, I mean,
I've got a six year old who legitimately believes he's
got a shot of being Batman. Yeah, he grows up. No,
I mean, that's this is this is the identity and
understanding that they have the maturity level. But that's the point,
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is the left belief. You know, if they if they're
only getting to him in college, you know they're going
to convert plenty of them, you know, but there's also
gonna be plenty of god fearing conservative kids that show
up a college and reject the wope nonsense. If your teacher,
who is an authority figure, even I remember when I
was fifteen sixteen, if the teacher said it, it seemed
like gospel to me. Those are more innocent days in
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that sense. If a six year old or seven year
old hears it, it's absolute gospel. And the parents are
You're told your parents are out of step, they're old,
they're roobs. So I think it is a lot of
teachers don't want to do this. This is the activist
class driving it. But it's always the loudest voices, the
most radical voices, that drag institutions in a particular direction.
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And that's what you see in the pipeline. And that's
how it ends up, maybe not in the curriculum, but
certainly in the pedagogy, which is the philosophy of how
you teach through diversity, equity, and inclusion, which means if
one student feels uncomfortable, you teach to that level to
all the students. And that's how it becomes ubiquitous, not
just in Massachusetts and California, but in Missouri. You know,
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we have the Attorney General on Fox and Friends this
morning pointing out what it's happening. It's happening everywhere. Speaking
to our friend Pete Hegseth, the book is Battle for
the American Mind, uprooting a century of miseducation. Pete, congrats
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and appreciate you joining us. Appreciate you guys. Thank you.
That's Pete Hegseth. We are Clay and Buck and we
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