Hour 2 - Buck's Got His Own SF Proposal

San Francisco reparations panel recommends ridiculous proposal. Buck ups it to $50 million per black resident. Governor DeSantis runs up the scoreboard, getting stuff done instead of talking about it. Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan: Good parents let their kids change gender. Study: Living in mountains is good for your health. Throughout history, mountain people have stood up for themselves.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back to Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show. I can't say that I have left my
heart in San Francisco. I've only been there a couple
of times, I think once, twice twice. Maybe it is

(00:20):
a beautiful city. It was physically geographically a beautiful city.
It has some problems though, it has some missions right now,
you've probably seen the videos, and it is a democrat enclave.
It is really the distillation of lifestyle coastal liberalism in

(00:41):
one city, in one place, in some sense, the purest
democrat urban ecosystem you could find of the lifestyle liberal variety.
So Nancy pelosiism reigned supreme supreme in San Francis. Go
and we see what's happened. It's gone from being a

(01:05):
place where we many of us think of Full House,
remember the show Full I grew up watching that show,
really enjoyed it. A watch Full House for many years.
And you know, they had this beautiful house which I
think now well, I don't know what it is now,
but at one point that was like a four million
dollar house that they were living in. You know, Danny
Tanner and John Stamos and Dave Coulier Coolier whatever they

(01:31):
were all living in together. Anyway, San Francisco was a
very safe city, culturally, vibrant, beautiful, a lot of good
things about it, right, a lot of great things about it,
and not anymore. Right, it's unfortunately gone in a direction
where people are leaving as fast as they reasonably can.

(01:51):
The city of San Francisco now faces a budget deficit
of seven hundred and twenty eight million dollars. That's a
big budget. You know, San Francisco is not that big
as a city. That's a big problem. And the bigger problem,
in a sense, isn't just the deficit, is that there's

(02:12):
no sign of this getting better. It relies largely on
property taxes to fund services. You could play this similar
scenario out in a lot of Democrat run cities across
the country. But the downtown offices are at about a
thirty percent vacancy. Twenty nine percent is the actual data

(02:35):
that I have in front of me here, so almost
you know, call it a third of the downtown office
is empty in San Francisco. So they've got a lot
of problems. They've got a lot of issues right now,
and they're still going to keep spending a whole lot
of money, and they don't want to change their redistributive

(02:59):
mechanisms in place. The lifestyle liberalism slash Marxism is that
is the animating ideology of San Francisco. So I give
you all of this background because I think it makes
this even more fascinating and tells you more about the
democrat mindset in the left wing strongholds. I think San

(03:24):
Francisco is, for a city of over a half a
million people, I think it is the most democrat city
in the entire country, with the exception it might be
DC now, which think about that. I mean DC, our
our nation's capital, is as a city entirely democrat dominated,

(03:46):
which is why you see things like the recent crime
bill that the city council passed. They think about this.
They have a increase, a massive increase in carjackings in DC,
which is a form of of armed robbery that threatened
someone's life for their car. They have card not car theft. Carjacking.

(04:06):
You know, get out of the car or I'm gonna
stab you or shoot you. That's what a carjacking is.
The DC city councils, like, we're punishing carjackers too harshly.
That's real. That was in their most recent crime bill
that even Joe Biden had to go along with the
Republicans in blockings. He's like, you guys are out of
your minds okay. In San Francisco, I just told you

(04:27):
they're approaching a billion dollar budget hole for this year
and it's gonna be that's their projection. It's gonna be
worse because why, what business in its right mind, I
don't even care what its politics are is going to
move into downtown San Francisco right now? Can you think
of one. No, they're all breaking their leases and getting
out of there as soon as they possibly can. And

(04:49):
that's not going to change because it wasn't just about
COVID obviously, it was about all these other factors as well.
It is with that backdrop that I tell you that
reparations committee that has been hired by the City of
San Francisco is now advising a five million dollars a

(05:15):
person lump some payment to every eligible black resident of
San Francisco, a guaranteed income of ninety seven thousand dollars
per year for two hundred and fifty years, elimination of

(05:37):
personal debt and tax burdens, and homes for one dollar.
I am reading that to you. Okay, that is the
actual reporting year. I don't know what the best part
of this is. I mean five million dollars in a
lump sum. That's nice. That that helps a lot, obviously,

(05:59):
like I love a five million dollars lump sum. Sign
me up for that. The elimination of any personal debt
and any need to pay any taxes, and a home
for a dollar. This is in a city that is
facing the biggest budget crisis in my lifetime. Certainly they're

(06:21):
spending money to have people tell them that the city
residents need to give five million dollars to every black
resident of the city of San Francisco who I'm trying
to find. There's some there's some specifications here. You have

(06:42):
to be let me see, by the way, only about
six percent of San Francisco's population is black, so it's
less than fifty thousand residents that Okay, they have to
prove that they migrated to San Francisco between nineteen forty
and nineteen ninety six, prove residency for it least thirteen years.
Have claimed to have been black on government documents for

(07:04):
at least ten years, and either be a descendant of
someone enslaved before eighteen sixty five, or this was really
interesting too, a direct descendant of someone jailed in the
failed War on Drugs. So by my understanding here, let's

(07:26):
say your family migrated from Africa in like the nineteen
eighties and somewhat in your you know, and you have
a father who went to prison for I don't know,
drug trafficking of some kind. That means that you would
qualify under this under these provisions. So I'm just I'm

(07:48):
just here to say, and I want to be very
clear on this. I think what San Francisco's reparations committee
is offering up is really racist. It is not nearly
enough money. Five million dollars a person. It should be
five hundred million dollars a person. It should be eleven. No,

(08:13):
So clearly we should go bankrupt, not just San Francisco,
which is going to head toward bankruptcy if it does
anything even approaching this, and it already is heading in
that direction without any of this, we should be willing
to go bankrupt asignation in order to do this right,
I mean, isn't that the mentality I would want to
ask the members of this reparations committee. And this has
been passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. By

(08:35):
the way, they have embraced all of these recommendations, so
it has gone beyond the committee paid to study reparations
to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. And they're the
ones who were saying, you know, we're gonna have to
look at this officially in June in terms of what
they adopt. Look, they're obviously not gonna do all I

(08:56):
mean I shouldn't say obviously, but they're not going to
do all of this. But at some level, I do
think it is a what would be called the Motte
and Bailey argument. It's makeing outrageous, make all these outrageous claims,
so that then when the council gathers together and they say,
you know, we're gonna give We're gonna give two hundred

(09:17):
thousand dollars to every black resident. Okay, how about that,
there might be this moment of oh, well that's I mean,
it's not five million dollars, so that seems reasonable in comparison, right,
I's two hundred thousand dollars a person. City can't afford
that either, but maybe that's somewhat doable. You see how
that You see how that works as a classic um
bad faith argumentation tactic that people use or people people

(09:40):
use it in negotiations to negotiations, you'll generally it's a
little different. Um. There's another tactic called anchoring. Right, So
if I if I'm gonna buy a watch from somebody,
I can say to them and I've I've you know,
bought and sold watches on the on the fly before.
It's an interesting process. In New York. I could say

(10:00):
to them, hey, that's a really nice, you know, three
thousand dollars watch. Well they want you know, they want
six for it, and I just said it's a nice
three thousand dollars watch. I have anchored them, like that's
the purpose of that in negotiating. And those of you
who are in sales, you guys and gals, know all
this backwards and forwards. But modern Bailey argumentation is a
little bit difference when you take this a much more
expansive position in order to actually advance and protect a

(10:26):
by comparison reasonable position. Right, So this is why I say, oh,
we should give five million dollars per black resident in reparations,
and the you know ninety what was it, ninety something
thousand dollars a year for two hundred and fifty years.
I don't even you know, human beings really only lived
to one hundred. So there's a lot of stuff. But
the point being, after all that, then the committee can

(10:49):
maybe say, all right, so we're just gonna do maybe
we'll do a universal basic income for every black resident
of you know, ten thousand dollars a month. Right, Oh
wait a second, that sounds so reasonable and compare, And
so I wouldn't dismiss all of this as just bluster
from the San Francisco Council and and this reparations committee.
I think there's the possibility that they do try something here.

(11:13):
But I'm just I'm just going to keep pointing out
five million dollars a resident. That's those are those are
low numbers. We need to get those We need to
get those numbers up. I'm the fifty million, San Francisco,
Why don't you take this problem seriously? Fifty million dollars
per black resident sounds far more social justice worthy. I

(11:34):
think fifty million it should be the number, right, that's
that's the way we should go. It's just as crazy
as their number, folks. So what difference does it make,
you know what I mean? And and the fact that
in cities where there are real problems, and this is
the honest to God part of the whole thing that
drives me crazy. There are real things that can be
done for all of the residents, the black residents and

(11:56):
all of the residents of San Francisco that would help
clean up those streets, keep them safer, enforce the law,
make it a place people want to live, make it
a place where people can go to good schools. You know,
there's a lot of stuff that could be done that's real.
No Instead, because you know, liberalism for so many in
this country is their religion replacement. You know, there's no

(12:19):
real attachment to God or anything beyond themselves. It's a
religion of narcissism and virtue signaling. Right, Oh, it's all
about me and feeling good about my positions. So for
the San Francisco residents and the area residents who have
so much money, and although I don't know SVB banks,
some of them have probably lost some money. This is
an opportunity to feel good about themselves without actually doing

(12:41):
any good. And this is something you see continuously with
Democrats in places like San Francisco and you know, like
Los Angeles, New York City, DC, Chicago, you name it.
They want to do things that make them feel good
about themselves that do no actual good and in fact,
we'll do harm to other people, and they don't care.

(13:03):
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(14:30):
Buck Sexton. So coming up here in a couple of minutes,
we're gonna be talking a being about the Minnesota, Minnesota,
not to be confused with Montana or a different places.
I know, I know Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, Peggy Flanagan.

(14:52):
She talked about the transgender child issue, and I want
to just continue to be as clear as I can
on this. They are he Democrats, the left of the
ones that are making this an issue. They keep pushing it.
They push, We say, stop being crazy, and they say,
why are you Why are you focusing on this because
you keep making it a thing and you demand that

(15:14):
we go along with lunacy, and you say things that
aren't true, and you try to use the force of
the state to do it. So, no, we're not going
to go along with it. But I also like to
talk about happy things as much as I possibly can. Here,
happy things, not just the fights, not just the important
battles that we face as a country internally and externally.

(15:38):
Governor Ron de Santis looks running up the scoreboard. He
is the scoreboard Governor. Okay, you look at what he's done.
You look at what he's accomplished, and kind of speaks
for itself. He's also got this going now. He has
a super majority in the or. I think it's a supermajority.
It's definitely a full fledged Republican majority top to bottom

(15:58):
in this state legislature. I think it's a supermajority. And
he called for constitutional carry. This was back at the
March seventh State of the State address. Play clip one.
We also understand that part of fighting crime is to
protect Floridian's right to defend themselves a constitutional right to
not require a permission slip from the government. It is

(16:21):
time we joined twenty five other states to enact constitutional
carry in the state of Florida. This is I'm told
by everybody down here, going to happen, meaning that you
will have the ability to concealed carry and without a license,

(16:45):
and you also will have reciprocity with other states that
have concealed carry constitutional carry provisions. This is completely logical,
reasonable policy, and you have to wonder why isn't this
the case any other state that could get this done.
They a lot of them have, but more certainly should. Look,

(17:06):
i'm all of I think firearms safety is absolutely essential
and everybody who is ever going to place hands on
a firearm should have whether it comes from you know,
a dad or a mom, or it comes from someone
at the range, really drills them on firearm safety. And
that's going to be especially important if you're going to
do if you're going to conceal carry your constitutional rights.

(17:28):
But this is just another instance, and it's coming. It's
coming down here in Florida, another instance of getting stuff
done instead of talking about stuff, And I think that's
something that we really need to focus in on with
our Republican politicians. By the way, the numbers on Kevin
McCarthy looking pretty good. A lot of people feel like

(17:49):
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Some states have taken action to end the practice of

(18:56):
transgender surgery for minors, adolescence, teenagers, some cases even preadolescents.
Some states Oklahoma, for example, we had Governor Kevin Stitt
on the show to talk about it. Florida, Tennessee that
they're taking actions to say, you're just not going to

(19:19):
do this under the guise of medicine. It is ideology
masquerading as medicine. Everybody who sits around and thinks about
it and is in brainwash knows that. Or you can
think that all of a sudden there's been a three
thousand percent rise in transgender kids, because that's actually just

(19:39):
been reality for all of human history until now, and
not that adults have decided because of the emptiness of
their own lives and their own susceptibility to brainwashing by
the left wing apparatus in this country, that adults are
pushing this belief on children because it is fashionable. It well,

(20:00):
not just in their minds for the children, but actually
for the adults themselves. Oh look at me, I'm so progressive.
By the way, how many, you know, how many like
right wing dads who go to church every Sunday and
have callouses on their hands from their job or or
you know, their their weekend activities end up having a

(20:23):
you know, a seven year old that they decide is
you know, not actually a boy but a girl. And
then how many. It's such a coincidence, isn't it? Remember coincidences?
The Wohan Institute of Ivirology COVID pops up right next
to it. It's a big world. Oh that's a coincidence. Sure,
it is another coincidence. Blue haired, nose ringed left wing

(20:45):
activist shrieking on TikTok about you know how Trump is
hitler and how climate change is going to destroy the
planet happens to seem to be the profile of parent
of child who is actually transgender? How is that? What
a coincidence? M I wonder, why is it that the

(21:06):
obvious left wing loon tends to be much more likely
to be the parent of a transgender child. That's so
It's so interesting. Isn't it certainly much more likely to
be the parent of a transgender child who is being
pushed toward surgery, puberty blockers, any of the rest of it.

(21:27):
But then this brings me to other states we're seeing
this now states. One thing that COVID showed us was
how important your state government actually is, how tyrannical and
idiotic it can be, or how sane and rational and
of course then prosperous as a result of those decisions

(21:48):
that can be you know, see Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and
some others. But the state of Minnesota, the state of
Minnesota now has become, thanks to its Democrat governor Waltz,
a transgender surgery for youth haven or a sanctuary state

(22:12):
for transgender surgeries and puberty blockers. They keep calling they
keep calling it gender affirming care. Why don't they call
it gender transitioning care? You ever thought about that? That's
what it used to be called. Why do they change it?
Because they want you to use language that concedes the

(22:34):
argument before the argument is even made. They want you
to say, effectively, you're right before you've even gotten into
what they're right about. You're affirming the gender with this care. Wait, no,
you're changing a gender. Where notice even in that simple,
that simple lie, that straightforward reality. You can see what's

(23:01):
really going on here. So Wall signed this executive order.
And even when I read the when I read the
way the media talks about this, it's always you know, oh,
but these things are the gender firming care, which is
generally puberty blockers and hormone therapy, and it's mostly or
partially reversible, and like maybe sometimes they're surgery, but you know,

(23:24):
let's not talk about that. I mean, we want to
make sure that people do that. Kids, little kids. We
want to make sure. The Democrats want to be certain
in Minnesota that a fourteen year old girl when she
enters puberty can have a double misstectomy. They want to
be certain of that, but they also want to downplay

(23:48):
the realities of what happens, you know, of what the
long term implications of this are and if you want
to get into the mindset here. So Minneso as a state,
you know, I used to I used to go camping
in Minnesota with my dad over the summers in the
Boundary waters. So those who are who are Minnesota folks

(24:08):
or maybe some others who've traveled at her you know,
it's beautiful. I always some people in Minnesota were so
nice and I think that that holds up. And I
just don't know how it's been turned into such a
left wing blue Democrat looney bin, but it is. It is.
Here you have the Lieutenant governor of Minnesota, Peggy Flanagan,

(24:34):
who is a who's a Native American, which you'll hear
about a lot because that's you know, identity politics. Super
important is what does she stand for? What are her
leadership capabilities? What does she No, no, no, let's just
first all celebrate. We're told that you have the first
Native American woman at this level of politics in the
state of Minnesota, or maybe it's I think she actually
might be the second, but whatever. But she's a community activist.

(25:00):
He's very left wing in her thoughts and beliefs. And
I want you to hear, especially for the parents out there,
what is now. These are people with a lot of power,
governor's lieutenant governors. They're signing legislation that is going to
by the way, this is going to be turned against
parents who are not crazy at some point because what
you're going to have is a doctor. Just wait, remember

(25:21):
that I've said this to you. You will have a
case at the national level. It will become a big
issue where you have the system activist therapist, some you
know doctor who seems like a loon but has an
MD who's like, yeah, we need to do gender transitions
for the fourteen year olds, and then a parent who
steps in and says, I don't want this for my child,

(25:43):
and the system says if you don't allow this, it's
child abuse. To not allow the general mutilation of your
child as child abuse. Just give it time. This will happen.
If it hasn't, it might have already happened in the state.
I just haven't seen it or can't remember it right now,
but that will happen. Here is Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
Nigan on some parenting advice that I think all the

(26:03):
parents in this audience. Oh boy, here you go. Play
clip three. Let's be clear. This is life affirming and
life saving healthcare. When our children tell us who they are,
it is our job as grown ups to listen and
to believe them. That's what it means to be a

(26:28):
good parent. Oh there you go, That's what it means
to be a good parent. So I remember they talk
about trans babies. The lefts don't let them, don't let
them try to pretend that they talk about trans babies.
Men can get periods, men can get pregnant, there are
transgender babies. I mean, they've gone all out with all
this stuff now, and now the fight is, should we

(26:48):
actually allow these these quack doctors, these these lunatic medical
practitioners to like remove the breasts of a healthy teenage
girl because she's side and she's a man before she's eighteen.
I'm not even talking about adults are not even a
part of this conversation right now, putting that aside entirely.
But for children, Oh, they say it's reversible. Really, Oh yeah,

(27:12):
I'm sure puberty. Puberty blocking drugs block your your your
gender transition for a few years, with the same drugs
in some cases that they actually give to um, you know,
sex offenders to sterilize them. It's sterilizing drug block block
someone's puberty and then tell them they're just going to
turn it back on everything we find in normal. That's crazy,

(27:33):
it's not true the long term effects of this that
they they're lying to you, but the same way they
lying about COVID and everything else, they're lying to you
about what the data really says. But I thought This
was fascinating. So if a child, if you're six year old,
comes up to you and says, on one day, I'm

(27:54):
a stegosaurus, which I'm sure some of you, the parents
out there, would say, yeah, my kids have said some
weird stuff when they're you know, I've six years old,
I'm a Steaga saurd I identify with triceratops. I feel
like I'm a triceratops. You are supposed to say to that, well,
I don't know what would what would Lieutenant Governor Flanagan
want you to say. I assume it would be no, no, no,

(28:16):
you're not actually an extinct dinosaur species. That would be
really hard. But at the same child, at the same age,
were to say, I'm I want to be called a
girl's name and have long hair and dress in princess
costumes and I'm a girl. Oh, it's time to have
all their classmates and the school and everybody treat them
like a girl. And forget about the fact that so
much of this is drawn by kids being one confused,

(28:37):
two impressionable, three wanting attention. Minnesota a state that is
now standing up and saying, come to us if you
want gender transition surgery for kids. It's a shame what
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(31:33):
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this with certainly Afghans, and that stretches all the way
back to in the Hindu kush the invasion of Alexandra
the Great. You have this with the with the Kurds
in northern Iraq. Although a lot of Kurds have now
moved down into the flat planes of of Iraq. You know,
tigers and Euphrates Iraq. And um, you have the multa

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yard in uh in Southeast Asia, which is the French
for mountain people. Um, you have the Scots obviously the
Highland highlander, the Heilander. So you've got you know, we
all know about the Scots. How long do you think
the British You think the English should have been able
to defeat the Scots pretty quickly, Uh, just based on

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advantage in numbers and resources. But it turns out out
the highlands it's pretty useful, pretty useful. The Swiss. We
think of the Swiss now for chocolate, watches and banking. Um,
less so for banking, but still. But for a long
time the Swiss were were those who provided mercenaries too,
and they were the like badass mercenaries too much of

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the rest of Europe. And in fact, this is why
when you go to the Vatican you'll see the Swiss
guards and they're wearing this very very colorful uniform. Uh.
They were mercenaries from Switzerland that at one point the
popes well began to contract with. But also Maronite Christians

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in Lebanon. They are a mountain people who have pushed
back against the encroachment of a centralized authority. Uh, you
know West Virginians, people in Appolai, Appalachia, they're like, you know,
like the government, to leave me alone. Tends to be
pretty common mindset there too. Anyway, I always found that
to be a fascinating historical graphical reality. You just go

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all over the world think of people live in mountains,
and you'll find people that you know, fit into that
category no matter where they are, from Scotland to Southeast Asia.
You get people that are like, hey, leave me alone.
The highlands. I'm getting a little braveheart, a little bit
of a braveheart vibe here. One of the I mean,
I think the greatest movie of all time, even though
there's some real historical problems that come up with it.

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But it is healthy for you to be up at altitude.
Not obviously super altitude, you know, not talking about climbing
Mount Everest where you could die of oxygen deprivation, etc.
But it is healthy to be at altitude, That's all
I'm saying. So for those of you who live up
up high, it's good for you. It always does. Feel
too like the Even when I would get up into
the hills of the Hudson Valley area and spend my

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summers up there, it felt like the Crisp Air was
something that it's just you get up, you get up
a little bit of elevation, and uh, it's pretty nice,
pretty good stuff. So what are we doing in the
next hour, my friends, That's where I want to take you.
First off, let's take a look at what the latest
is with the financial and banking situation. Janet Yellen supposed

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to tell people out there, telling people don't worry, Everything's
gonna be fine. M I don't know about that one.
And then also the Biden administration demanding a sale of TikTok.
So there's that and Faucci. Fauci is running around telling
people while on Mourning Joe, which I think is that

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is the quintessential Faucci eyed audience. It is lifestyle liberals
who mostly inherited their money and live on the coasts
and think that they're really people of the people, but
ask anybody at their country club, that's not really true.
And they think that Fauci is still a genius, and

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he's going over to a mourning Joe to talk about
the vaccines and how great they are. He's still doing it.
And I mentioned in Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his surge
in approval favorability. He is at his sixty three percent
favorability right now against seventeen unfavorable in the Republican Party.

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So turns out that not only did you know Chip
Roy and some of the others who were pushing for
changes to the way Congress does its business, not only
did they get those concessions, but I think it was
also a wake up call for Speaker of the House
Kevin McCarthy, which is certainly a good thing. So, my friends,
we got a lot to get to in that next hour.
Also want to take some of your calls eight hundred

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two two to eight eight two, and you can send
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third hour, let's talk Fauci, let's talk vax, let's talk
the economy. So much coming your way.