September 30, 2024 • 36 mins
The lack of response by the Biden-Harris Administration is turning into their Katrina. Harris could score political points by going to the disaster zone, but she’d rather keep hiding from sight. Caller from North Carolina on how hard it is to travel defends state’s governor, Roy Cooper. Trucker on what he sees on I-40. An infirm president like Biden, who bungles question on strike in Yemen, is what the 25th Amendment is for. Clay and Trump at the Alabama-Georgia game. Hurricane and port strike could damage the economy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Second hour, Clay and Buck kicks off.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
Now, let's drill down into the election and the campaigns.
Election is going to be held what thirty something days
from today? Now, Clay, how far out are we? I
kid keep track.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I think it's thirty six. People want to count differently.
Tomorrow will be thirty five days. So you either count today,
in which case it's thirty six, or you don't count today,
in which case you say thirty five, five weeks from tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Five weeks from tomorrow. Okay, this election is already upon us.
I mean, you've got early ballots mailed out, You've got
people who are soon going to be early voting, and
this whole thing is going to be underway, and it's
going to be quite a night election that's going to
be very interesting. I'm very confident, but I don't want
to get over confident. Here's why I'm seeing though. I
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think with each passing day, Kamala Harris's weakness has become
more apparent to everyone. I think, Clay, that there is
a recognition that one of the few things that it's
tough to overcoming politics these days in our modern media
environment is when you become a subject of real mockery.
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And there's a lot of mockery out there about Kamala Harris,
what she's like in interviews, how she's hiding from real interviews.
This is starting to look more and more like a
joke to people who don't find it very funny. And
I think that's being translated into some of the poll
numbers that you are seeing.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I know there's always competing polls, there's always different The
fact of the matter is Trump is in a better
position now than he was in the Key States in
either of the last two elections. So that's a good thing.
But you also have things like this. Audio quality here
is not great. So I'll tell you what he's saying,
but it did want you to hear it. This cut seventeen.
Technically Biden is still the president, and here he is.
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He's being asked about Israeli airstrikes in Yemen, and this
is what he says, place any comment on.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
The strikes, and President.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Got se strikes.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think you'll sell the strike.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yes, Clay, they will settle the strike at a collective
bargaining agreement in Yemen. Now I understand maybe he just
heard strike. There there's some loud noise there, but it
goes into a broader observation, not even a narrative that
Joe Biden is too old for this. The twenty fifth
Amendment is really something that exists for a case like
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Joe Biden's where somebody has become incapable, medically infirm inable,
unable to do the job of being president. But if
they were to let Kamala Harris take over, it's interesting, Clay.
I had thought initially, and this has been a change
in my perception of this race that's happened. I had thought, well,
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they've got to let Kamala ascend, right, because better to
run is the incumbent. But really what's happened is two things. One,
Joe doesn't want to give it up. There's that he
wants to finish out his term, and that was part
of the deal. I'm sure when they were pushing him out. Fine,
you can finish your term. But also, Kamala can't run
with the Biden record, especially on immigration and the migrants,
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and expect to win. So you have a vice president
who can't take over for the president because the president
has done such a bad job, and the vice president
doesn't want to be attached to it, but she occasionally
wants to take some credit for some things that have
happened over the last four years. She wants to pick
and choose. And I think everyone's just becoming more I
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want to say everyone. People that are observing, who are
not already all in the tank for Kamala Harris, they're
seeing this and it's just too obvious, right. The con
is too blatant that she's running away from her record,
that she's and then that she was part of the
propping up of this whole time as well, which is
something I think hasn't been addressed nearly enough. I know
(04:04):
we have the VP debate tomorrow. You and I will
watch it. I do not think it will matter at all.
I think it'll be somewhat. I'm using to watch JD.
Van's school Tim Walls, but I think Walls has become
also a character who is essentially a laughline now for
a lot of people. He has not taken seriously, not
(04:24):
just by right wing partisans, but by people who can
see reality.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Look, I.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Struggle with the idea that Kamala Harris is capable of
being elected, but buck after the first hour of all
the calls that we're taking Joe Biden's commander in chief.
You just heard on this show, and I bet we'll
continue to have calls throughout. People from North Carolina, Tennessee,
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and Georgia all call in and say their communities are
devastated and they aren't seeing any help anywhere from the
federal government yet. But this was Thursday and Friday when
this happened. It's now Monday. Kamala Harris posted a photo
of herself with a blank page in front of her
and earbuds in that were not connected to her phone,
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saying that she is working hard on the issue. They're panicked.
They put her on a plane because she was raising
money in California. They're now trying to fly her all
the way back across the country. Donald Trump is right
now on the ground in Georgia with supplies for the
people of Georgia and planning to go to North Carolina.
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As I read, he's just concerned and wants to make
sure that he doesn't land and make things more difficult
because of the security apparatus that surrounds him wherever he goes.
How is it possible that Trump, without any of the
resources of the federal government is already on the ground
using his plane to help bring things to people in
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Georgia and trying to go to North Carolina and Tennessee,
and Joe Biden, with the full might of the federal government,
Kamala Harris as well, are unable to acknowledge what's going on.
And I just think this is so important and I
want to hammer it home because you won't hear it
from most of the media. Imagine how the United how
the press would have covered it if Donald Trump had
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spent the weekend on the beach in a lounge chair
while North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, and parts of
Virginia were being destroyed by a devastating storm. And when
he was asked whether the federal government was doing anything
as Joe Biden was, he said, we're doing everything. They
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would savage him. Now, the reality here is, and I
hate to have to say this, but because these are
predominantly Republican areas, and you're right Asheville is in the
mountains of North Carolina, a left wing city, but by
and large, most of these Appalachian communities are very red
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voting areas. I hate to even have to think this,
but Buck do you think the response would be different
if these were deep blue areas from Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I do.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The President and vice president should be responding to all
Americans regardless. Instead, we got Biden bragging about how much
money he's sending the Ukraine, and we got callers saying
they're no federal resources helping them at all. This is
America last, and it infuriates me. And to your point,
I think it's a really good one. There are tons
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of military resources, lots of helicopters. These are areas that
are very populated with federal resources that could be mobilized,
and it's just not happening.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I can't understand how anyone could justify who, you know,
the federal government and the apparatus of the Biden White House,
how could they justify doing anything other than the absolute
maximum right now and mobilizing all the resources. Remember it's Monday.
This happened Friday, right, It didn't just happen last night.
(08:14):
It's not like we're just kind of a fog of war.
Oh my gosh. You know, there's been there's been some
real time that has passed here where you would think
the federal government. I mean, first of all, I think FEMA,
from what from what I gather, is very poorly run
and is a huge waste of resources a lot a
lot of the time.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I mean, I'm sure it does some good things.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Look, if you give somebody enough money and they can
spend enough money on things, there's gonna be something. You know,
even the Clinton Foundation did a little bit of charity, right,
I mean, there's gonna be some benefit that comes from it.
The question is is it efficient? Is it fast? How
well does it work given the dollars and the resources
that you're spending on it. I think FEMA is well.
(08:56):
FEMA very clearly has a record of dramatically underperformed. And
I think that this Biden Harris administration is full of ideologues.
DEI hires people that don't really think that the mission
is what matters, but that the narrative that they see
on MSNBC and the New York Times editorial page is
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what matters. And that stuff is a problem when you
when things really matter, right, when you when you have
a natural disaster like this, when you have a foreign
enemy invading and I'm not talking about like the migrant
invasion necessarily, although that's a whole other thing. But a
military invasion, you need an executive branch that moves quickly
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and has chain of command and has a a honestly
a vision for how to get to the other side
of this. I just don't think that that's there at all.
I don't see any if I had to ask, what
are the pockets of competency in the Biden White House
right now? If you look at Biden's cabinet, you know,
(09:57):
who are the people that you could say, you know
what I think? What Tony Blincoln, the State Department, The
guy is a joke. Secretary of Energy Clay Jennifer Granholme.
I was in the Bill Mahershaw with her. She is
an imbecile.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
There are people who are cabinet level officials in this
Biden administration who are just total clowns, and they do
not have the ability to act quickly and efficiently and
intelligently when it counts. Why would that change in the
moments that you're actually paying attention to measure this, you
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know what I'm saying, Like, of course they're not going
to be good at this. You know, of course Ronda
Santis is going to mobilize air National Guard assets in
Florida to help out neighboring states because Rondasantis moves quickly
and is smart and knows how to operate in a
situation like this, And I'm sure there are going to
be others who step up into their thing. Is there
(10:53):
anything that makes anyone believe that Kamala and Biden and aloys, like,
who's really in charge of.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
The country right now?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Clay, you know who's It's a more powerful figure, Kamala
or Biden. Biden is scrambled eggs and Kamala is out
there campaigning and hiding at the same time.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
It's quite a situation. I just I look at this
and it crystallizes for me. And I asked this question.
I don't think we got a single call. I understand
people who are voting because they don't like Trump. I
don't agree with you, but I understand people voting because
they don't like Trump. What has Kamala done in her
four years nearly in office that you believe is deserving
(11:30):
of a promotion. I haven't heard anybody answer that question.
I mean, it's a pretty simple question. Right wherever you work,
what usually you have to be good at your prior
job to get promoted to a new job.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I mean, I'll say this, and I knew this was
the case, and it was back in the Obama administration.
And I believe some of the Seals who were on
the the you know who are on the black Hawk
heading back after the bin Laden raid. You know, when
when could you point to when Obama was up for
reelection a moment of executing I know, conservatives don't want
to hear this and we get angry. Oh, it was
the seals and he didn't actually do anything. You're the president.
(12:06):
You get credit for it. Okay, we all have our
big boy pants on. When something really impressive happens that
involves the federal government, you're the president. You get the credit.
Same thing with the blame. Obama made that call. He
got reelected and smoked Mitt Romney. What I bring it up,
because what is the decision? I mean, give me anything,
and that was really the only thing I can think
(12:27):
of for Obama.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Put that aside.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But give me anything that Biden has done, or that
he has taken credit for that one of his top
advisors has done, or you go, wow, that was the
powerful move, that was the right move to do.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
That one.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
That was a tough call, and he made the gutsy call,
and he gets the credit for Clay. I don't think
it exists correct. I think Biden has probably the worst
record of judgement. Biden was opposed to the bin Lodden
raided by the way. Biden has the worst record of
judgment of any commander in chief in our lifetime. You
could point to things Bill Clinton, that was a good move,
that was smart. You could point to things that you know,
(13:04):
I mean, obviously we could say Trump. I mean, there's
a whole range of presidents you say, even if I
don't like the policies, when there was a decision to
be made, he got this one right. I don't think
Biden's gotten any big decisions right. And I don't think
he's shown any competency either other than letting the left
run their progressive lunatic playbook and think how hard that is.
There are a lot of fifty to fifty calls when
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you're president, should you do it or should you not?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Biden is out.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
But what has Kamala gotten right? What can you point
to in her entire vice presidency and say, you know what,
she nailed that one? You just gave it an example,
Barack Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
He was one hundred percent right. I believe we got
back with zero casualties. That is the essence of a
(13:53):
commander in chief decision. You analyze all the risk of rewards.
You think you got the guy, and by the way
they dumped his boy at sea, did it, you know,
give him a burial, didn't allow him to be turned
into a martyr.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
He even used which.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I thought was really funny, we don't need to spike
the football, which I thought was a very funny line
to describe why they didn't bring the body back.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And like share photos and every.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
And again, people don't like anything you say it's good
about a Democrat. Some Republicans are going to get annoyed.
If Obama had sent that raid in and both of
those black Hawks had gotten blown out of the sky
and we lost all of those seals, then it came
out that this was supposed to be Obama's big mump.
Probably it might have cost him the presidency. Correct he
would It would have been that Jimmy Carter Vibes would
have been unstoppable. But it went the other way. Point
(14:35):
here with Biden, Kamala is here. We are it's basically
October before the election. Okay, we're twenty four hours from
it being October, and there's an opportunity here for if
we had competent governance, we should be sitting here saying, look,
I don't like them, Clay. I disagree with Kamala's obsession
with abortion, and I disagree with Biden's you know, vaccine mandate,
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lunisy whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I thought.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Man, they they really know how to get it done.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It's like it's like when you go into like an
anarchist coffee shop. You know, you go in there and
they've got like the anarchist reading books, and they've got
all the you know, they've got like ton Hesse coats
on the wall and all these different but they make
good coffee.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Sometimes you sit there you go, look, I don't like
their politics in this anarchist coffee shop, but they make
good coffee. This is where competency Trump's political narrative, and
they can't do it cause there you don't have competency.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
We're gonna take some more of your calls.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We're gonna
take some of your calls. Eight hundred and two A
two two eight A two. Trump is on the ground
in Georgia. As we said, we got some audio from
that uh so that we will play for you in
a little bit. But the lack of response from the
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Biden administration is actually becoming a story as it's becoming
so indefensible. It is their version of Katrina. And you
can only imagine if Trump were in office how this
would be playing out.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
This is when political legacies are built or destroyed moments
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President Trump on the ground in Valde Georgia, and he
(19:03):
is sharing his thoughts on what the response from Kamala
and Biden has been like so far.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
This is twenty six play it.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
The federal government does not being responsive, but they're having
a very hard time getting the getting the president of
the phone, he won't get on. And of course the
Vice president, she's out in someplace campaigning looking for money.
So they got to be they have to.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Be focused over here.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
It's so big, this is a really bad one.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But you know, I've got to say I would think
that for for reasons of politics, there would be an
opportunity here. You know, sometimes the right thing morally and
the right thing to do politically aligned that is the
thing and the right thing to do here would be
for Biden to have already put out a statement saying
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we're aware of the damage, we're on it. You know,
you gotta wear a windbreaker, right because you put it.
When you're a politician, you're wearing a wind break, then
everyone knows that you're serious about the disaster.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Really put on a.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Windbreaker, do the speech, but you know, really keep people
informed about where the relief is coming from, what's going on.
Kamala Harris should do the same thing. She should be saying, guys,
I'm the vice president and I need to be right
there with Joe Biden to make this happen and get
relief to people. And that's not happening. In fact, here
Trump went on a little more. This is cut twenty seven.
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This is what he really thinks.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
You know, I haven't.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Reached out, So now I think he's.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Sleeping right now.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Actually I haven't reached out to him. Yeah, I think
he's sleeping right now. Clay. Yeah, So a.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Couple of things here, Buck One, you hit it sometimes
the moral and the political line. You would like to think,
regardless of who the president is, that when Americans are struggling,
the president is going to be there to try to
extend a hand. So you would like to think that's
the case no matter who the people are who's struggling.
I will just point out that Hurricane Katrin was used
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as a major political attack point on George W. Bush
over his response to Hurricane Katrina and the fact that
he flew over and looked down and he went and
he said, you know, the FEMA is doing an amazing job,
and that wasn't the case. Second thing I would say here,
and I think it's significant. You might ask yourself, how
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is it that Joe Biden could find himself on the
beach as multiple state disasters unspooled. And this is not
a situation where, oh, hey, we couldn't see the hurricane
coming from a long way away. Obviously, it's very predictable
this hurricane's coming. We talked about it for weeks. Everybody
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was aware. I will say this might be a function
of politics in this way, Buck, If it were a
blue area, a lot of the political figures there would
have had connections in the White House, and they would
have been reaching out to people in the White House
their contacts and saying, my goodness, you have no idea
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what a disaster we're dealing with here. Because this is
a red area. I think that they didn't really care
and they were caught unaware. I think also this may
be a function of Joe Biden not running correct me
if I'm wrong, Buck, But many of our listeners, I
think will remember this. Nineteen ninety two, the hurricane hit
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South Florida. I think that was the Homestead Hurricane. Against
A staff can look this up and correct me if
I'm wrong. But the Bush administration's response in the fall
of ninety two. I think that was an October of
ninety two hurricane. Correct me if I'm wrong. I was
only thirteen. Was seen as very flat footed and poorly organized,
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and it hurt Bush immensely because he was seen as
out of touch and not able to respond to a crisis.
And some people would point to that as one of
the reasons. There were several ross peros certainly factored in
that Bill Clinton won in ninety two. He was seen
as younger, more energetic, better able to respond to natural
disasters based on how that was recovered. I remember seeing
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buck pictures of rooftops that had been in devastated homes
begging for federal help and support in South Florida back
in ninety two, and that was Hurricane Andrew. Our team says,
and a lot of you will remember that if Biden
were running for reelection, I think they would have been
way better at responding to this. I think this is
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one of those situations where there is no political consequence
really for Biden, because he's gone on January twenty fifth,
no matter what, and his team is not particularly engaged.
I think Kamala is not a smart, facile, adroit politician
and so she's flat footed too.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
It's kind of a worst of both situations.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Well, Also, if Kamala were to come forward and take
the reins on this, which there's actually an opportunity here, right,
the oldest cliche like in the world is crisis is
an opportunity. There's an opportunity here for Kamala Harris to
come forward and show leadership command. Hey, why doesn't Joe
Biden say, Kamala Harris is going to run the response
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to this. Kama's going to show you what she can do.
That would be so much more powerful, assuming that it
went well than whatever script did. I mean, it's not
even like she's really campaigning, right, So she could put
real points on the.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Board, so to speak. She could help people.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
She could be a real leader right now, but she
doesn't have the skill set, Clay, she couldn't actually do it.
So even if she recognized the opportunity that is there
for someone in a president in a presidential race, but
as a vice president, as anybody in the executive branch,
a senior in the executive branch, there's an opportunity. But
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I'm not sure there's an opportunity for Kamala. Do you
know what I mean for a politician who wants to
show how good they are at the job. It's an
opportunity for a politician like Kamala Harris who's trying to
hide from everybody and have the media just tell everyone
how great she is. You know, she can't get up
there when people haven't had you know, fresh water to
drink in three or four days, and can't you know,
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get out of their homes and we're doing search and
rescue operations and say not come from a middle class family,
you know what I mean, can't do it. That's not
gonna work.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Let me also point something else out that could be calamitous.
And again we have and we have not talked about
it much on this program, but Buck, there is the
possibility of an east coast port strike beginning tomorrow, so
in about twelve hours from now. You also now have
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EYE forty for those of you obviously who have traveled
on I forty. It covers the entire nation from from
west to east. It's shut down in North Carea now
I've seen aerial photographs. I mean, parts of the interstate
just don't exist anymore. I think it's likely to be
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shut down four months it's gonna be hard to get
supplies to these residents in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia.
This could be calamitous though. And again we're talking about
a port shutdown. We're talking about one of the major
interstate routes in America, which I know we have a
(26:31):
ton of truckers listening to us. I would actually be
curious to hear from you, guys eight hundred and two
A two two eight A two, if you had something
that you had picked up on the East coast and
you were taking west or west in your headed east.
I don't think most people have recognized how big of
a deal forty that is. I forty being shut down
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for months is going to be. I think again, you
layer on top of it the potential of this port
strike going on and the movement of goods. And you
heard one of our callers earlier bucks say that a
lot of the train tracks in these areas where typically
there would also be goods being moved, are severely curtailed.
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There's bridges out. This is a multi state disaster region,
and we're layering on top of it the possibility of
a port strike. Now, maybe the port strike doesn't happen,
but you've got an interstate down, you've got bridges down,
you've got major railway transit curtailed. This to me feels
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like not only the crisis pressure point of all these
people in these different communities that are dealing with Hurricane
Helene and it's flooding that it caused, but it also
feels like something that this transportation mess could impact a
lot of you in different parts of the country that
are not particularly close to this area. And we already
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ended up being this storm in conjunction with the supply
issues that could come if the ports shut down again.
They're different, but they almost cascade on top of each other,
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one of them had happened. I think it's just worth
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We're gonna
take some of your calls here. Many of you still
want to weigh in and tell us what you're seeing
on the ground in your communities. As the devastation in
North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, parts of Virginia becomes
more apparent. Right before that, Buck, I want to give
(31:16):
a shout out. My dad broke his hip on Friday.
Had been perfectly healthy. Broke his hip, had surgery on Friday,
thanks to the thanks to the police, thanks to the
first responders. They had to take him away in an ambulance.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
He fell.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
He is doing fabulously well, has gotten great care. I
appreciate the ambulance team here in the Nashville area that
showed up and took care of him. And he likes
to listen to the show, and I imagine there's a
good chance that he is listening right now. Hospital had
a hip replacement. It looked fabulous yesterday. I'm going to
see him later today, but I just wanted to make
(31:56):
sure that I said love you, Dad, and thank you
to everybody that helped out with him with a broken hip.
And now he's got a hip replacement. So thank you
to everybody in the local Nashville community. Got him in
an ambulance, got him treated, got him taking care of
You guys were fantastic. We had a bunch of listeners
in that hospital when I was visiting my dad, So
thank you. I want to go speaking of tough situations
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many of you in so many different parts of the
country along there are so many different states along the
Appalachian region dealing with real challenges right now, Jenny and
Western North Carolina. Jenny, what are you seeing there? What
should people know?
Speaker 8 (32:33):
Well, what I wanted to tell you is this is
an area the west North Carolina where even on a
sunny day, it's hard to get from place to place.
I'm a very strong defender of liberty and Trump. I'm
not giving or excusing the federal government. If you're going
to try to reach the area by land, even on
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a sunny day, you have mountains and things to cross
and bodies of water, so it's very difficult to yet
from place to place. I'm not originally from this area,
but it's been a learning curve. If you live in
the rural area, you have to be prepared for an
emergency like this. The response has been slow, we have
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seen some improvement and one one other thing I wanted
to tell you. I am, by no means a fan
of Cooper, but we have to be fair. He has
handled some of the crisis we've had, including the COVID,
in a rather interesting way, and it's been kind of
effective about it. I have not been happy about some
(33:44):
of it, but I can tell you the state here
is so widely geographically diverse. You have the mountains and
the ocean, the coastal areas. What works in one region
doesn't work in the other. And he's always been able
to kind of leave and let the local authorities make
up the policies as they need to serve their own people,
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and that really has worked out wonderfully, which is not
the case with out the states. That's you know, we
have to be fair where fairness is. I'm not a
fan of his I don't work for him, however, that
is you know a fact.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Thank you for the call. Sorry, we've got a bunch
of other people. Jenny and Western North Carolina eight hundred
and two A two two eight A two Patrick down
in Augusta, Georgia. We've been hearing Augusta, which is where
the Masters is. For many of you out there that
may not know Georgia, Well, what are you seeing Patrick?
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Yeah, Clay Buck a great job, a long time Nashville thoughts.
Some person with them here in Augusta area. Right now,
a better part of Augusta and the outlying areas are
without power thanks to the crews from Florida, Alabama other
peerers to help get power restored. It could be several
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days a week and a half before we get power restored.
Thousands of tree down power line is down all over
the place. Wherever you go, you can't go a quarter
of a mile, eighth of a mile see trays down
power lines down driving berneath them. Kudos to our w
g AC affiliate here we listen to you on currently
listening to you on a m f M radio old
time and one had to put double a's in it.
(35:21):
Listen to you on that currently Governor Kemp currently in
the area today evaluating the situation, trying to get us
in support. Have not heard of any femal response whatsoever.
Basically local communities, businesses helping each other to help us
get through this.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Thank you for the callach great call. And you know
he's just saying it. We all know it.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
When things get really dicey out there and you need
to be able to access information. AM radio, no doubt
radio was there.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
And and by the way, it's not a bad thing
to have planned AM radio with batteries. We're going to
be on. The AM radio is going to be on.
You might lose everything else when the power goes down.
AM radio with batteries you can take it anywhere. Mike
is a trucker on the road in North Carolina. You
wanted to tell us about I forty. What are you seeing, hi.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Guys, Yeah, you were asking about the re route, well
for starters whatever stuff. Something on a much smaller scale
years ago happened west of Ashville, the through what they
call the Gorge that's I forty basically through to the
Tennessee line. They had a major landslide there, Yeah, I remember,
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and they had to close EYE forty over here for months. Basically,
the Reroute I twenty six is going to be wiped
out too. Don't forget about that road. That's when that
runs from Nashville basedly, whatever stuff up eighty one.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Can you hold with us by the way, we're going
to break. I want to get this. I think this
is important. We'll talk about it when we come back.
Second hour, Clay and Buck kicks off.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
Now, let's drill down into the election and the campaigns.
Election is going to be held what thirty something days
from today? Now, Clay, how far out are we? I
kid keep track.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I think it's thirty six. People want to count differently.
Tomorrow will be thirty five days. So you either count today,
in which case it's thirty six, or you don't count today,
in which case you say thirty five, five weeks from tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Five weeks from tomorrow. Okay, this election is already upon us.
I mean, you've got early ballots mailed out, You've got
people who are soon going to be early voting, and
this whole thing is going to be underway, and it's
going to be quite a night election that's going to
be very interesting. I'm very confident, but I don't want
to get over confident. Here's why I'm seeing though. I
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think with each passing day, Kamala Harris's weakness has become
more apparent to everyone. I think, Clay, that there is
a recognition that one of the few things that it's
tough to overcoming politics these days in our modern media
environment is when you become a subject of real mockery.
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And there's a lot of mockery out there about Kamala Harris,
what she's like in interviews, how she's hiding from real interviews.
This is starting to look more and more like a
joke to people who don't find it very funny. And
I think that's being translated into some of the poll
numbers that you are seeing.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I know there's always competing polls, there's always different The
fact of the matter is Trump is in a better
position now than he was in the Key States in
either of the last two elections. So that's a good thing.
But you also have things like this. Audio quality here
is not great. So I'll tell you what he's saying,
but it did want you to hear it. This cut seventeen.
Technically Biden is still the president, and here he is.
(01:56):
He's being asked about Israeli airstrikes in Yemen, and this
is what he says, place any comment on.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
The strikes, and President.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Got se strikes.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think you'll sell the strike.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yes, Clay, they will settle the strike at a collective
bargaining agreement in Yemen. Now I understand maybe he just
heard strike. There there's some loud noise there, but it
goes into a broader observation, not even a narrative that
Joe Biden is too old for this. The twenty fifth
Amendment is really something that exists for a case like
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Joe Biden's where somebody has become incapable, medically infirm inable,
unable to do the job of being president. But if
they were to let Kamala Harris take over, it's interesting, Clay.
I had thought initially, and this has been a change
in my perception of this race that's happened. I had thought, well,
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they've got to let Kamala ascend, right, because better to
run is the incumbent. But really what's happened is two things. One,
Joe doesn't want to give it up. There's that he
wants to finish out his term, and that was part
of the deal. I'm sure when they were pushing him out. Fine,
you can finish your term. But also, Kamala can't run
with the Biden record, especially on immigration and the migrants,
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and expect to win. So you have a vice president
who can't take over for the president because the president
has done such a bad job, and the vice president
doesn't want to be attached to it, but she occasionally
wants to take some credit for some things that have
happened over the last four years. She wants to pick
and choose. And I think everyone's just becoming more I
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want to say everyone. People that are observing, who are
not already all in the tank for Kamala Harris, they're
seeing this and it's just too obvious, right. The con
is too blatant that she's running away from her record,
that she's and then that she was part of the
propping up of this whole time as well, which is
something I think hasn't been addressed nearly enough. I know
(04:04):
we have the VP debate tomorrow. You and I will
watch it. I do not think it will matter at all.
I think it'll be somewhat. I'm using to watch JD.
Van's school Tim Walls, but I think Walls has become
also a character who is essentially a laughline now for
a lot of people. He has not taken seriously, not
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just by right wing partisans, but by people who can
see reality.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Look, I.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Struggle with the idea that Kamala Harris is capable of
being elected, but buck after the first hour of all
the calls that we're taking Joe Biden's commander in chief.
You just heard on this show, and I bet we'll
continue to have calls throughout. People from North Carolina, Tennessee,
(04:55):
and Georgia all call in and say their communities are
devastated and they aren't seeing any help anywhere from the
federal government yet. But this was Thursday and Friday when
this happened. It's now Monday. Kamala Harris posted a photo
of herself with a blank page in front of her
and earbuds in that were not connected to her phone,
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saying that she is working hard on the issue. They're panicked.
They put her on a plane because she was raising
money in California. They're now trying to fly her all
the way back across the country. Donald Trump is right
now on the ground in Georgia with supplies for the
people of Georgia and planning to go to North Carolina.
(05:40):
As I read, he's just concerned and wants to make
sure that he doesn't land and make things more difficult
because of the security apparatus that surrounds him wherever he goes.
How is it possible that Trump, without any of the
resources of the federal government is already on the ground
using his plane to help bring things to people in
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Georgia and trying to go to North Carolina and Tennessee,
and Joe Biden, with the full might of the federal government,
Kamala Harris as well, are unable to acknowledge what's going on.
And I just think this is so important and I
want to hammer it home because you won't hear it
from most of the media. Imagine how the United how
the press would have covered it if Donald Trump had
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spent the weekend on the beach in a lounge chair
while North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, and parts of
Virginia were being destroyed by a devastating storm. And when
he was asked whether the federal government was doing anything
as Joe Biden was, he said, we're doing everything. They
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would savage him. Now, the reality here is, and I
hate to have to say this, but because these are
predominantly Republican areas, and you're right Asheville is in the
mountains of North Carolina, a left wing city, but by
and large, most of these Appalachian communities are very red
(07:09):
voting areas. I hate to even have to think this,
but Buck do you think the response would be different
if these were deep blue areas from Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I do.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The President and vice president should be responding to all
Americans regardless. Instead, we got Biden bragging about how much
money he's sending the Ukraine, and we got callers saying
they're no federal resources helping them at all. This is
America last, and it infuriates me. And to your point,
I think it's a really good one. There are tons
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of military resources, lots of helicopters. These are areas that
are very populated with federal resources that could be mobilized,
and it's just not happening.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I can't understand how anyone could justify who, you know,
the federal government and the apparatus of the Biden White House,
how could they justify doing anything other than the absolute
maximum right now and mobilizing all the resources. Remember it's Monday.
This happened Friday, right, It didn't just happen last night.
(08:14):
It's not like we're just kind of a fog of war.
Oh my gosh. You know, there's been there's been some
real time that has passed here where you would think
the federal government. I mean, first of all, I think FEMA,
from what from what I gather, is very poorly run
and is a huge waste of resources a lot a
lot of the time.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I mean, I'm sure it does some good things.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Look, if you give somebody enough money and they can
spend enough money on things, there's gonna be something. You know,
even the Clinton Foundation did a little bit of charity, right,
I mean, there's gonna be some benefit that comes from it.
The question is is it efficient? Is it fast? How
well does it work given the dollars and the resources
that you're spending on it. I think FEMA is well.
(08:56):
FEMA very clearly has a record of dramatically underperformed. And
I think that this Biden Harris administration is full of ideologues.
DEI hires people that don't really think that the mission
is what matters, but that the narrative that they see
on MSNBC and the New York Times editorial page is
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what matters. And that stuff is a problem when you
when things really matter, right, when you when you have
a natural disaster like this, when you have a foreign
enemy invading and I'm not talking about like the migrant
invasion necessarily, although that's a whole other thing. But a
military invasion, you need an executive branch that moves quickly
(09:37):
and has chain of command and has a a honestly
a vision for how to get to the other side
of this. I just don't think that that's there at all.
I don't see any if I had to ask, what
are the pockets of competency in the Biden White House
right now? If you look at Biden's cabinet, you know,
(09:57):
who are the people that you could say, you know
what I think? What Tony Blincoln, the State Department, The
guy is a joke. Secretary of Energy Clay Jennifer Granholme.
I was in the Bill Mahershaw with her. She is
an imbecile.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
There are people who are cabinet level officials in this
Biden administration who are just total clowns, and they do
not have the ability to act quickly and efficiently and
intelligently when it counts. Why would that change in the
moments that you're actually paying attention to measure this, you
(10:32):
know what I'm saying, Like, of course they're not going
to be good at this. You know, of course Ronda
Santis is going to mobilize air National Guard assets in
Florida to help out neighboring states because Rondasantis moves quickly
and is smart and knows how to operate in a
situation like this, And I'm sure there are going to
be others who step up into their thing. Is there
(10:53):
anything that makes anyone believe that Kamala and Biden and aloys, like,
who's really in charge of.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
The country right now?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Clay, you know who's It's a more powerful figure, Kamala
or Biden. Biden is scrambled eggs and Kamala is out
there campaigning and hiding at the same time.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
It's quite a situation. I just I look at this
and it crystallizes for me. And I asked this question.
I don't think we got a single call. I understand
people who are voting because they don't like Trump. I
don't agree with you, but I understand people voting because
they don't like Trump. What has Kamala done in her
four years nearly in office that you believe is deserving
(11:30):
of a promotion. I haven't heard anybody answer that question.
I mean, it's a pretty simple question. Right wherever you work,
what usually you have to be good at your prior
job to get promoted to a new job.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I mean, I'll say this, and I knew this was
the case, and it was back in the Obama administration.
And I believe some of the Seals who were on
the the you know who are on the black Hawk
heading back after the bin Laden raid. You know, when
when could you point to when Obama was up for
reelection a moment of executing I know, conservatives don't want
to hear this and we get angry. Oh, it was
the seals and he didn't actually do anything. You're the president.
(12:06):
You get credit for it. Okay, we all have our
big boy pants on. When something really impressive happens that
involves the federal government, you're the president. You get the credit.
Same thing with the blame. Obama made that call. He
got reelected and smoked Mitt Romney. What I bring it up,
because what is the decision? I mean, give me anything,
and that was really the only thing I can think
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of for Obama.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Put that aside.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But give me anything that Biden has done, or that
he has taken credit for that one of his top
advisors has done, or you go, wow, that was the
powerful move, that was the right move to do.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
That one.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
That was a tough call, and he made the gutsy call,
and he gets the credit for Clay. I don't think
it exists correct. I think Biden has probably the worst
record of judgement. Biden was opposed to the bin Lodden
raided by the way. Biden has the worst record of
judgment of any commander in chief in our lifetime. You
could point to things Bill Clinton, that was a good move,
that was smart. You could point to things that you know,
(13:04):
I mean, obviously we could say Trump. I mean, there's
a whole range of presidents you say, even if I
don't like the policies, when there was a decision to
be made, he got this one right. I don't think
Biden's gotten any big decisions right. And I don't think
he's shown any competency either other than letting the left
run their progressive lunatic playbook and think how hard that is.
There are a lot of fifty to fifty calls when
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you're president, should you do it or should you not?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Biden is out.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
But what has Kamala gotten right? What can you point
to in her entire vice presidency and say, you know what,
she nailed that one? You just gave it an example,
Barack Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
He was one hundred percent right. I believe we got
back with zero casualties. That is the essence of a
(13:53):
commander in chief decision. You analyze all the risk of rewards.
You think you got the guy, and by the way
they dumped his boy at sea, did it, you know,
give him a burial, didn't allow him to be turned
into a martyr.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
He even used which.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I thought was really funny, we don't need to spike
the football, which I thought was a very funny line
to describe why they didn't bring the body back.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And like share photos and every.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
And again, people don't like anything you say it's good
about a Democrat. Some Republicans are going to get annoyed.
If Obama had sent that raid in and both of
those black Hawks had gotten blown out of the sky
and we lost all of those seals, then it came
out that this was supposed to be Obama's big mump.
Probably it might have cost him the presidency. Correct he
would It would have been that Jimmy Carter Vibes would
have been unstoppable. But it went the other way. Point
(14:35):
here with Biden, Kamala is here. We are it's basically
October before the election. Okay, we're twenty four hours from
it being October, and there's an opportunity here for if
we had competent governance, we should be sitting here saying, look,
I don't like them, Clay. I disagree with Kamala's obsession
with abortion, and I disagree with Biden's you know, vaccine mandate,
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lunisy whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I thought.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Man, they they really know how to get it done.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It's like it's like when you go into like an
anarchist coffee shop. You know, you go in there and
they've got like the anarchist reading books, and they've got
all the you know, they've got like ton Hesse coats
on the wall and all these different but they make
good coffee.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Sometimes you sit there you go, look, I don't like
their politics in this anarchist coffee shop, but they make
good coffee. This is where competency Trump's political narrative, and
they can't do it cause there you don't have competency.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We're gonna
take some of your calls. Eight hundred and two A
two two eight A two. Trump is on the ground
in Georgia. As we said, we got some audio from
that uh so that we will play for you in
a little bit. But the lack of response from the
(17:26):
Biden administration is actually becoming a story as it's becoming
so indefensible. It is their version of Katrina. And you
can only imagine if Trump were in office how this
would be playing out.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
This is when political legacies are built or destroyed moments
like this. You know, you can be Rudy Giuliani after
nine to eleven down at ground zero and working with
the firefighters, or you can get the George Bush post
Katrina a treatment. We all know that this is this
is high stakes because it is for all the people
(17:59):
who are affected. You know, there's a healthy debate going
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President Trump on the ground in Valde Georgia, and he
(19:03):
is sharing his thoughts on what the response from Kamala
and Biden has been like so far.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
This is twenty six play it.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
The federal government does not being responsive, but they're having
a very hard time getting the getting the president of
the phone, he won't get on. And of course the
Vice president, she's out in someplace campaigning looking for money.
So they got to be they have to.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Be focused over here.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
It's so big, this is a really bad one.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But you know, I've got to say I would think
that for for reasons of politics, there would be an
opportunity here. You know, sometimes the right thing morally and
the right thing to do politically aligned that is the
thing and the right thing to do here would be
for Biden to have already put out a statement saying
(19:53):
we're aware of the damage, we're on it. You know,
you gotta wear a windbreaker, right because you put it.
When you're a politician, you're wearing a wind break, then
everyone knows that you're serious about the disaster.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Really put on a.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Windbreaker, do the speech, but you know, really keep people
informed about where the relief is coming from, what's going on.
Kamala Harris should do the same thing. She should be saying, guys,
I'm the vice president and I need to be right
there with Joe Biden to make this happen and get
relief to people. And that's not happening. In fact, here
Trump went on a little more. This is cut twenty seven.
(20:24):
This is what he really thinks.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
You know, I haven't.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Reached out, So now I think he's.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Sleeping right now.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Actually I haven't reached out to him. Yeah, I think
he's sleeping right now. Clay. Yeah, So a.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Couple of things here, Buck One, you hit it sometimes
the moral and the political line. You would like to think,
regardless of who the president is, that when Americans are struggling,
the president is going to be there to try to
extend a hand. So you would like to think that's
the case no matter who the people are who's struggling.
I will just point out that Hurricane Katrin was used
(21:01):
as a major political attack point on George W. Bush
over his response to Hurricane Katrina and the fact that
he flew over and looked down and he went and
he said, you know, the FEMA is doing an amazing job,
and that wasn't the case. Second thing I would say here,
and I think it's significant. You might ask yourself, how
(21:21):
is it that Joe Biden could find himself on the
beach as multiple state disasters unspooled. And this is not
a situation where, oh, hey, we couldn't see the hurricane
coming from a long way away. Obviously, it's very predictable
this hurricane's coming. We talked about it for weeks. Everybody
(21:43):
was aware. I will say this might be a function
of politics in this way, Buck, If it were a
blue area, a lot of the political figures there would
have had connections in the White House, and they would
have been reaching out to people in the White House
their contacts and saying, my goodness, you have no idea
(22:04):
what a disaster we're dealing with here. Because this is
a red area. I think that they didn't really care
and they were caught unaware. I think also this may
be a function of Joe Biden not running correct me
if I'm wrong, Buck, But many of our listeners, I
think will remember this. Nineteen ninety two, the hurricane hit
(22:26):
South Florida. I think that was the Homestead Hurricane. Against
A staff can look this up and correct me if
I'm wrong. But the Bush administration's response in the fall
of ninety two. I think that was an October of
ninety two hurricane. Correct me if I'm wrong. I was
only thirteen. Was seen as very flat footed and poorly organized,
(22:47):
and it hurt Bush immensely because he was seen as
out of touch and not able to respond to a crisis.
And some people would point to that as one of
the reasons. There were several ross peros certainly factored in
that Bill Clinton won in ninety two. He was seen
as younger, more energetic, better able to respond to natural
disasters based on how that was recovered. I remember seeing
(23:10):
buck pictures of rooftops that had been in devastated homes
begging for federal help and support in South Florida back
in ninety two, and that was Hurricane Andrew. Our team says,
and a lot of you will remember that if Biden
were running for reelection, I think they would have been
way better at responding to this. I think this is
(23:32):
one of those situations where there is no political consequence
really for Biden, because he's gone on January twenty fifth,
no matter what, and his team is not particularly engaged.
I think Kamala is not a smart, facile, adroit politician
and so she's flat footed too.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
It's kind of a worst of both situations.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Well, Also, if Kamala were to come forward and take
the reins on this, which there's actually an opportunity here, right,
the oldest cliche like in the world is crisis is
an opportunity. There's an opportunity here for Kamala Harris to
come forward and show leadership command. Hey, why doesn't Joe
Biden say, Kamala Harris is going to run the response
(24:15):
to this. Kama's going to show you what she can do.
That would be so much more powerful, assuming that it
went well than whatever script did. I mean, it's not
even like she's really campaigning, right, So she could put
real points on the.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Board, so to speak. She could help people.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
She could be a real leader right now, but she
doesn't have the skill set, Clay, she couldn't actually do it.
So even if she recognized the opportunity that is there
for someone in a president in a presidential race, but
as a vice president, as anybody in the executive branch,
a senior in the executive branch, there's an opportunity. But
(24:55):
I'm not sure there's an opportunity for Kamala. Do you
know what I mean for a politician who wants to
show how good they are at the job. It's an
opportunity for a politician like Kamala Harris who's trying to
hide from everybody and have the media just tell everyone
how great she is. You know, she can't get up
there when people haven't had you know, fresh water to
drink in three or four days, and can't you know,
(25:17):
get out of their homes and we're doing search and
rescue operations and say not come from a middle class family,
you know what I mean, can't do it. That's not
gonna work.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Let me also point something else out that could be calamitous.
And again we have and we have not talked about
it much on this program, but Buck, there is the
possibility of an east coast port strike beginning tomorrow, so
in about twelve hours from now. You also now have
(25:48):
EYE forty for those of you obviously who have traveled
on I forty. It covers the entire nation from from
west to east. It's shut down in North Carea now
I've seen aerial photographs. I mean, parts of the interstate
just don't exist anymore. I think it's likely to be
(26:09):
shut down four months it's gonna be hard to get
supplies to these residents in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia.
This could be calamitous though. And again we're talking about
a port shutdown. We're talking about one of the major
interstate routes in America, which I know we have a
(26:31):
ton of truckers listening to us. I would actually be
curious to hear from you, guys eight hundred and two
A two two eight A two, if you had something
that you had picked up on the East coast and
you were taking west or west in your headed east.
I don't think most people have recognized how big of
a deal forty that is. I forty being shut down
(26:54):
for months is going to be. I think again, you
layer on top of it the potential of this port
strike going on and the movement of goods. And you
heard one of our callers earlier bucks say that a
lot of the train tracks in these areas where typically
there would also be goods being moved, are severely curtailed.
(27:14):
There's bridges out. This is a multi state disaster region,
and we're layering on top of it the possibility of
a port strike. Now, maybe the port strike doesn't happen,
but you've got an interstate down, you've got bridges down,
you've got major railway transit curtailed. This to me feels
(27:35):
like not only the crisis pressure point of all these
people in these different communities that are dealing with Hurricane
Helene and it's flooding that it caused, but it also
feels like something that this transportation mess could impact a
lot of you in different parts of the country that
are not particularly close to this area. And we already
(27:57):
know you're talking about competence earlier. Buck, Remember when Mayor
Pete was on paternity leave despite the fact that he's
not married to a woman and they had a surrogate
giving birth to a baby. Remember when he was on
paternity leave during the worst supply chain crisis in any
of our lives, and it was costing inordinate amounts to
(28:17):
ship goods anywhere. It's October tomorrow, the October surprise. He
ended up being this storm in conjunction with the supply
issues that could come if the ports shut down again.
They're different, but they almost cascade on top of each other,
(28:37):
creating a larger issue than would otherwise arise if only
one of them had happened. I think it's just worth
keeping in mind. We want to take more of your calls,
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We're gonna
take some of your calls here. Many of you still
want to weigh in and tell us what you're seeing
on the ground in your communities. As the devastation in
North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, parts of Virginia becomes
more apparent. Right before that, Buck, I want to give
(31:16):
a shout out. My dad broke his hip on Friday.
Had been perfectly healthy. Broke his hip, had surgery on Friday,
thanks to the thanks to the police, thanks to the
first responders. They had to take him away in an ambulance.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
He fell.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
He is doing fabulously well, has gotten great care. I
appreciate the ambulance team here in the Nashville area that
showed up and took care of him. And he likes
to listen to the show, and I imagine there's a
good chance that he is listening right now. Hospital had
a hip replacement. It looked fabulous yesterday. I'm going to
see him later today, but I just wanted to make
(31:56):
sure that I said love you, Dad, and thank you
to everybody that helped out with him with a broken hip.
And now he's got a hip replacement. So thank you
to everybody in the local Nashville community. Got him in
an ambulance, got him treated, got him taking care of
You guys were fantastic. We had a bunch of listeners
in that hospital when I was visiting my dad, So
thank you. I want to go speaking of tough situations
(32:18):
many of you in so many different parts of the
country along there are so many different states along the
Appalachian region dealing with real challenges right now, Jenny and
Western North Carolina. Jenny, what are you seeing there? What
should people know?
Speaker 8 (32:33):
Well, what I wanted to tell you is this is
an area the west North Carolina where even on a
sunny day, it's hard to get from place to place.
I'm a very strong defender of liberty and Trump. I'm
not giving or excusing the federal government. If you're going
to try to reach the area by land, even on
(32:56):
a sunny day, you have mountains and things to cross
and bodies of water, so it's very difficult to yet
from place to place. I'm not originally from this area,
but it's been a learning curve. If you live in
the rural area, you have to be prepared for an
emergency like this. The response has been slow, we have
(33:22):
seen some improvement and one one other thing I wanted
to tell you. I am, by no means a fan
of Cooper, but we have to be fair. He has
handled some of the crisis we've had, including the COVID,
in a rather interesting way, and it's been kind of
effective about it. I have not been happy about some
(33:44):
of it, but I can tell you the state here
is so widely geographically diverse. You have the mountains and
the ocean, the coastal areas. What works in one region
doesn't work in the other. And he's always been able
to kind of leave and let the local authorities make
up the policies as they need to serve their own people,
(34:05):
and that really has worked out wonderfully, which is not
the case with out the states. That's you know, we
have to be fair where fairness is. I'm not a
fan of his I don't work for him, however, that
is you know a fact.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Thank you for the call. Sorry, we've got a bunch
of other people. Jenny and Western North Carolina eight hundred
and two A two two eight A two Patrick down
in Augusta, Georgia. We've been hearing Augusta, which is where
the Masters is. For many of you out there that
may not know Georgia, Well, what are you seeing Patrick?
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Yeah, Clay Buck a great job, a long time Nashville thoughts.
Some person with them here in Augusta area. Right now,
a better part of Augusta and the outlying areas are
without power thanks to the crews from Florida, Alabama other
peerers to help get power restored. It could be several
(35:00):
days a week and a half before we get power restored.
Thousands of tree down power line is down all over
the place. Wherever you go, you can't go a quarter
of a mile, eighth of a mile see trays down
power lines down driving berneath them. Kudos to our w
g AC affiliate here we listen to you on currently
listening to you on a m f M radio old
time and one had to put double a's in it.
(35:21):
Listen to you on that currently Governor Kemp currently in
the area today evaluating the situation, trying to get us
in support. Have not heard of any femal response whatsoever.
Basically local communities, businesses helping each other to help us
get through this.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Thank you for the callach great call. And you know
he's just saying it. We all know it.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
When things get really dicey out there and you need
to be able to access information. AM radio, no doubt
radio was there.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
And and by the way, it's not a bad thing
to have planned AM radio with batteries. We're going to
be on. The AM radio is going to be on.
You might lose everything else when the power goes down.
AM radio with batteries you can take it anywhere. Mike
is a trucker on the road in North Carolina. You
wanted to tell us about I forty. What are you seeing, hi.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Guys, Yeah, you were asking about the re route, well
for starters whatever stuff. Something on a much smaller scale
years ago happened west of Ashville, the through what they
call the Gorge that's I forty basically through to the
Tennessee line. They had a major landslide there, Yeah, I remember,
(36:36):
and they had to close EYE forty over here for months. Basically,
the Reroute I twenty six is going to be wiped
out too. Don't forget about that road. That's when that
runs from Nashville basedly, whatever stuff up eighty one.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Can you hold with us by the way, we're going
to break. I want to get this. I think this
is important. We'll talk about it when we come back.
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