December 16, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show delivers a powerful mix of political analysis, cultural critique, and national security insights. Buck Sexton, hosting solo, begins by revisiting the Brown University shooting and the Bondi Beach terror attack, emphasizing the likely jihadist training links in the southern Philippines and the broader resurgence of radical Islamic extremism. He warns against political and media efforts to downplay Islamist violence while obsessing over narratives of Islamophobia.
The hour pivots to the controversy surrounding Donald Trump’s comments about Rob Reiner following Reiner’s tragic death. Buck stresses that while he disagrees with Trump’s tone, the media’s attempt to equate Trump’s rhetoric with actual political violence is dishonest. He dismantles the false moral equivalency pushed by the left, contrasting Trump’s social media posts with real-world violence like the assassination of Charlie Kirk and months of left-wing riots. Buck argues that Democrats remain the party of mobs and weaponized justice, while conservatives are vilified for speech rather than actions.
Listeners hear a striking exchange from a recent forum where Charlie Kirk’s widow was asked to condemn Trump—a moment Buck calls “outrageous” and emblematic of the left’s strategy to evade accountability. He also revisits his CNN debate during the 2016 Nice terror attack, where he clashed with pundits blaming assimilation issues instead of jihadist ideology. Buck underscores that terrorism is driven by radical beliefs, not Western shortcomings, and criticizes elites for prioritizing optics over truth.
In a major cultural segment, Buck highlights a Compact Magazine exposé on DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), arguing that DEI policies have derailed a generation of professionals, lowered standards in elite institutions, and degraded quality in media, publishing, and Hollywood. He explains how diversity hiring became an explicit, racially biased practice that sidelined meritocracy, resulting in declining creativity and institutional prestige.
The hour closes with listener emails and talkbacks on topics like women in law enforcement, physical realities in policing, and corrections on gun laws in Connecticut. Buck ties these discussions back to broader themes of honesty, competence, and resisting ideological delusions—echoing themes from his upcoming book Manufacturing Delusion.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The third hour of play, end Buck kicks off. Now
(00:03):
we're gonna return to some of the main stories of
the day we've talked about the first second hours. For example,
we still don't have the suspect and custody for the
Brown University shooting. It looks like a targeted hit on campus,
an assassination that may well have targeted. There are a
lot of people saying that it did target a young
Republican leader on campus. Woman, beautiful young woman. I think
(00:25):
it's a sort of heartbreaking that he's gone. And when
you think about this sort of situation, and then the
Bondai terrorist attack looks like they were training the father
son Muslim duo. We're training in the Southern Philippines. Likely
training in the Southern Philippines known to be in Islamic radicalism.
(00:47):
Hotped there's actually a Netflix movie. I forget what it's called,
but you can find it pretty easily. And I think
it's Gerard Butler, Who's one of Ali's favorites. Right, Ali
produce a rally Gerard Butler? Maybe, Oh sorry, I I
you know, Butler is great, So you know, I think
(01:09):
I'm personally surprised whenever I see anything on Netflix. That
is good. So this movie was actually pretty decent. I
can't remember the name of it, but anyway, it's like
he's on a flight, he's a plane, they land there,
there's like Jihattis that will lopping heads off with with
machetes or whatever, and you know, the whole the whole thing.
(01:30):
So yeah, anyway, it's it's a pretty it's a pretty
good movie. Like it's a good watch. It's not it's
not gonna be off pretty oscars, but it's a pretty
good movie. Point is, there's Islamic radicalism in the southern
part of the Philippines that has been long, long since
well established. It's likely that that's why they were there
right before this attack, to train to get help, to
get assistance. But I did want to we haven't really
(01:52):
talked about this yet today, and it is something that
is getting a lot of attention right now, which is,
you know, Trump wrote something about Rob Reiner was killed
and it was it was horrible. I want to have
this be a broad discussion. It's not people want me.
(02:13):
I've already been asking, oh, well, you do agree with
what Trump said. That's not what I would have said.
But also I'm very different than Trump. And I'm also
not the leader of the free world. Okay, so it's
a different I got different stresses, different pressures, and I
have quite a different approach from Donald J. Trump. I
think he's fantastic in so many ways. He's a little
more of a brawler than I am with the words
(02:35):
or like, like, likes to throw down, likes to get
into the mud a bit more than I do. And
he's very good at it. That all said, and sometimes
you really need that. That all said. You know, I didn't.
I didn't think that this was right. I didn't I
didn't like I didn't like it. But okay, so you know,
Trump said something that I didn't agree with. He's a
he's a politician, he's a president. You know, he's not
my dad. I mean, I you know, I don't know
(02:56):
why people want oh but now we're all talking about it.
So that's the whole point. People want to attack Trump
on this stuff. I just want to remind everybody out
there of a couple things. First of all, there's there
is this move I see people making to say, well,
what was Rob Reiner like after this or that situation.
(03:19):
I don't think that really should matter very much. Because
there are things that are so terrible and so sad
that just as a human being, I think you would
extend your sympathy to someone or their family, regardless of
the uh political rhetoric that they have used in the past.
I do think that that's now there are obviously limits.
(03:41):
Like Buck, would you be sad when Hitler killed himself? No,
of course not. But Okay, Rob Reiner was was a
make great movies. And I'll let you hear this because
because even I got a little bit of heat just
for saying, Look, he was a father, he was a husband,
he made some great movies. Nobody should ever suffer what
he suffered at the hands of his own son. I mean,
it's it's a it's a horrific tragedy. Obviously deep mental
(04:02):
illness and addiction at the root of this, of this
evil which was perpetrated on him. But here he was
when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. This is Rob Reiner on
Piers Morgan Show. This is cut four back in September
(04:23):
of this year. Play it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And continue to try to reassure the public that they
are safe. But you also just said that something of
this person you believe is armed and dangerous.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So how can both be sure?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, yeah, right, and that's something that's unknown, but they
have stated I'll tell you that. Wait, I thought we
had Rob Reiner cut four. Rob Reiner right. Oh, I'm sorry, guys,
I'm looking at I'm looking at yesterday's sheet. My my fault.
That's that's on me. I was like, that wasn't pull
(04:55):
pull it over now, guys, I'm sorry. I I wanted
to use this, this cut, and so I just had
it in my eyes. We'll get to it in a second.
Point here is that Rob Reiner is somebody who suffered
something that is I wouldn't honestly, I wouldn't wish on
like my worst enemy. It's just a horrible thing that happened.
But I also I wanted you to hear how Rob
(05:16):
Reiner responded to the Charlie Kirksashinason, because he did so
in a in a reasonable fashion. I did. There was
a photo I sent it to the team. I interviewed
Rob Reiner back in twenty nineteen. I think it was
so latter part of the first Trump administration in DC
when I was what I launched what was then Hill
(05:38):
TV and the show Rising, and I obviously didn't agree
with him on and do you think he's a very nice,
very pleasant guy. But the left once to lecture us
all on this right now in the meantime, I cannot
help but remember that somehow this is Can we have
it now? Okay? Sorry, here's the Rob Reiner clip that
(05:58):
I meant to play for you, guys. Play heard about
the murder of Charlie Kirk. What was your immediate gut
reaction to it?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Well, horror, absolute horror, And I unfortunately saw the video
of it, and it's this. It's beyond belief what happened
to him, and that should never happened to anybody. I
don't care what your political beliefs are. That's not acceptable.
(06:28):
That's not a solution to solving problems. And I felt
like what his wife said at the service, that the
memorial they had was exactly right and totally I believe,
you know, I'm Jewish, but I believe in the teachings
of Jesus, and I believe in doing to others, and
(06:49):
I believe in forgiveness. And what she said to me
was beautiful and absolutely you know, she forgave his assassin,
and I think that that is admirable.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So there you have Rob Reiner. I'd say that's how
I felt about Rob Reiner's death. He was talking about
Charlie Kirk's assassination. But I feel like it's something that
should never happen to anybody. And you know, we are
all allowed to just have a human moment for one another.
You can step out of the rama politics for a second.
Because even online I was getting some people yesterday it's like, what,
(07:27):
why would you say that he made good movies or what? Guys?
You know, I know most of you don't feel that way,
but yeah, it's something absolutely horrible happened to somebody. You're
allowed to say, wow, that's really horrible. It doesn't have
to be well, how did he vote in the last election,
and like what did he say about this politician or
whatever it may be. There is something that has gotten
more and more course in our discourse, and it is
(07:49):
it is trumbling. I have to say, do by the way,
do we have sorry because I think I was gonna
pull another clip from yesterday, I'm gonna ask you guys
in advance, do we have the question that Erica Kirk
was asked at that sitting by at that sit down
with Barry Weiss and a bunch of can you pull
it's thirty four? Okay, because I want you guys to
hear this. Meanwhile, the same voices, the same people who are,
(08:13):
oh my gosh, you know what Trump said about Rob Reiner,
They're out there supporting stuff like what this question or
ask play it Erica.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I want to tell you how much I appreciate your
calls for peace and unity, and I'm likewise horrified by
the people in my so called camp who were cheering
about Charlie's murder. I believe that they stoke the flames
of violence. But even worse is when powerful influential people
on either side of the aisle stoke the flames. When
(08:42):
they do it, the flames can become an inferno. And
this leads me to Donald Trump, the most powerful and
influential person on earth, who has more responsibility than anyone
else to put the flames out. Just last month, President
Trump called on six Democratic lawmakers to be tried for sedition,
which he clarified was punishable by death. He then reposted
(09:03):
a simple message, hang them. I think that you've been
making strides to bring peace to our country, and that
turning point has been asking Democrats to decry the individuals
who cheer for violence. I have and will continue to
decry them. But any good faith effort to stop political
violence must hold both parties to the same standard and expectation.
So in that spirit, will you condemn the violent rhetoric
(09:27):
of Donald Trump, the most powerful and influential person on earth.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Oh you see what just happened there? So the widow
of Charlie Kirk, eric A Kerr, who is clearly still
dealing with and processing the unimaginable grief of her husband
being assassinated on live TV in front of thousands of people,
or a live stream in front of thousands of people.
And the situation now is well, since we have to
(09:55):
have standards, can't we do this both sides?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Is thing?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Now? Can't you condemn your side? Think about this? Charlie Kirk,
who is a very close friend and ally of the
of President Trump, is killed. And then we are told
because Trump said a mean thing about some politicians, that
nothing has happened to and Trump knows nothing is going
to happen to and doesn't want anything bad to happen
(10:20):
to Somehow, there's an equivalency here. The false moral equivalency
gets me very fired up because it is a game
that the left plays constantly to you know, I use
this phrase, evade accountability at all costs. Oh, sure our side,
the left did something horrible, but it's really about both
(10:41):
sides acting. Bet are No, it's not. It is not. Actually,
as we sit here, we think about the terror attacks
that have just happened, and who is likely behind them
in the last few days, and what ideological compatriots or
who they go arm in arm with. This is of
four and by the left, and I think that this
(11:02):
pretense that somehow it's about getting both sides to calm down. No,
our side's actually pretty calm, We're good. I'm not saying
we're perfect. But you see, this is Trump having a
maybe slightly intemperate truth social about a murdered director. Is
actually not on the same scale as the entire Democrat
(11:24):
party pretending and constantly screaming and shouting about how we
are descending into fascism and Trump and all of his
supporters are actual Nazis and that this is the destruction
of the republic and anything that can be done to
say it should be done. Those are not the same thing,
and it needs to be said that they're the way
we get through This is not by pretending that these
(11:46):
are equivalent. It's not by saying, oh, this side and
that side are somehow both you know, you know, a
plague on both houses, like we're all making mistakes here. Well,
you know, if everyone's guilty, no one's guilty, If all
sides are doing it, then I guess what's the difference. No,
the Left is still the party of mobs, the party
of violence, the party of do anything it takes, use
(12:09):
the system to destroy and I say, the left of
Democrats to destroy your political opponents, to weaponize the justice
system against them. And we cannot allow ourselves to be
lulled into this false sense of equivalency. And it also
I mean to ask Charlie Kirks widow, will you condemn
Donald Trump like that kid? Give me a break. He's
(12:31):
not a kid, he's a young adult. But give me
a break, dude. Really, Trump's friend gets killed and you're
mad about about some Trump tweet. Isn't he turning up
the heat? What are the results? Where are these results
of the Trump rhetoric that I'm seeing play out time
and time again with violence on the streets of America.
I don't. I don't. And this is also why I
(12:52):
think a lot of people have a particular revulsion to
the way that the events of January sixth were and
put aside, you know, agent provocateur in the crowd and
all this other stuff. I mean, I brought this up
again when I did that Bill Mars show back in October.
We covered a lot of ground, and I was right
(13:13):
about everything. So I like referring back to it because
I got on the record in the Democrats home turf
and the Buckster was kicking ass and taking names over there.
But I said to them, I said, we're supposed to
be so upset. There was one There was one riot
that involved Trump supporters, and the only person who died
was a Trump supporter Acshley Babbage show on the neck
(13:34):
or I should say, was killed by violence that day,
was Ashley Babbitt or Trump's Somebody told me somebody else
was crushed by the way I did get that. I
had not heard that before team checked that. That to
me is more like, you know, mob, that's a sort
of a mob stage. I don't think anyone intended for
that person to be crushed, so that's a a tragic
situation that unfolded because of the riot. But checked that
(13:57):
for me anyway, the left had gone through months and
months of far more destructive, violent rioting, and they celebrated it,
and they cheered and they and they made it something
that we were all supposed to be happy was going on.
We were all supposed to sell we were supposed to
celebrate their riots. And the Democrat Party did BLM two
(14:19):
point zero. It was all all exactly as they laid
it out. We'll get into this and also team, the
team did find my old CNN throw down on the
terrorism stuff. So you can hear this a little fun
flashback from ten years ago. You want to hear it.
It's when I had no facial hair. CNN didn't like
facial hair. It wasn't allowed. Yeah, you couldn't change your appearance.
(14:40):
It's part of my contract. And uh yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It was.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It was a wild time over there at CNN. The
Communists were running were running amok, a word we get,
by the way, from the moral War which we fought
in the early part of the twentieth century in the Philippines.
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All right, welcome back in here. And you know, there's
a piece in Vanity Fair and read it this morning,
and it's really a hit piece on the administration. But
particularly it highlights a bunch of quotes from Chief of
Staff White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and some
of them are meant to raise eyebrows, and I certainly did.
Cesey Wildser's responded. She says, the article published early this
(16:30):
morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and
the finest president, white House and cabinet in history. Context
was disregarded, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Okay, that's
all fine. Why are they doing a sit down with
Vanity Fair. I gotta be honest with you. No sympathy
on this one. Why are you doing a sit down
(16:51):
with Vanity Fair? They hate you, and this is what
they're going to do. Nobody in this White House should
be giving lots of long term, many hours access to
Vanity Fair Writers, which formerly, by the way, was the
employer of Olivia Nowzy, among others. They've parted ways. I
(17:17):
don't I don't get this. I don't know. I. I mean,
it's clearly a mistake. That much is obvious. Why would
they make this mistake? It's not a big deal. Trump knows,
you know, Susie's loyal. I mean, it's going to be
a tempest in a teapot. But it just guys, come on,
you know what is that all about? I don't understand
(17:38):
what they want to reach? The Vanity Fair audience. Many
Fair audience hates their guts, all of them, everybody who
subscribes to Vanity Fair. I would get I would wager
ninety five percent, maybe ninety nine percent. Eight Trump, So
what are they doing alright? There have no good answers
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welcome back in here. A little throwback moment as we're
doing a lot of terrorism analysis. And one of the
reasons I get so passionate about this is that for
years I was a shall we say, swimming upstream because
I was sane and because I knew what I was
(19:06):
talking about, and I would go on places including CNN,
MSNBC had me on to debate. You can probably find
this the archives too. It was actually Glenn Greenwald. They
had me on one time to debate, and that was it.
That was never never invited back we were debating radical Islam.
I think Glenn and I actually would see eye to
I on on a whole range of free speech issues today.
(19:30):
So but on this issue, on the issue of radical Islam,
mister Greenwald and I are in still firm disagreement. But
I don't think I think they thought they looked at
me to like this guy what kinny really? You know
what I mean, Let's let's let's fullay him like a
fish on TV. And this fish had some tricks. He
could flop around a little bit in the boat. He
knew what he was doing. But to that end, also
(19:52):
over at CNN. Over at CNN, this is on the
day of the Nice terror attack, which I anytime someone
says it's about gun control, then ease terror attack involved
a truck. It killed eighty six people, fifteen children, injured
(20:12):
four hundred and fifty people. It was a rented truck. Okay,
this guy rented a truck and killed eighty six people
and wounded hundreds. Didn't need a gun, didn't need a bomb.
And this was an Islamic state attack. And this was
on you know Bestide Day is a big deal in France.
(20:35):
It's not their independence Day. Actually it's different, like the
storming of the Bastid the French Revolution, which you know
didn't go so well. But conversation for another time. But
this is from that day. So I was on this panel,
and I am not kidding what I tell you. This
is twenty sixteen, this is ten years ago. Now I'm
on this panel and they're all blaming the French. There's
(20:56):
like four or five other guests. I mean, I'm going
on memory now. I haven't seeing the video myself. I'm
just I know the team pulled it up, but they
have like four other guests, I think, and they're all like, oh,
this is what happens when you don't assimilate. I'm like,
what we really have to figure out here is why
aren't we making the Muslim minority in France more comfortable?
I'm like, more comfortable. One of them just killed almost
one hundred people with a truck on the national holiday.
(21:20):
The hell is wrong with you people? Anyway, you can
get a little flavor of that. I mean, this was
a whole seven rate minut long segment, but here's a
little bit of the exchange with some third tier academic
who's like, I'm going to explain terrorism to Buck play it.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
The degree of right wing politics Islamophobia. And I do
disagree with mister Sexton because the fact is, and I'll
say this to you Buck directly, the vast majority of
Isis's victims are Muslim, not us.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I'm not aware, fully aware of that. I mean, well, they're.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Coming after us, They're not coming after us.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
More than that, I was referring to the Islamic State,
which very clearly through his external operations arm which has
been at work, by the way, for a number of
years now, along with Alcadi in Arabian Peninsula, which until
recently was considered the most virulent and deadly of the
JIE hottest terrorist organizations, for this kind of external plotting.
They're continuing to do this. Of course, They're killing Muslims,
are killing Muslims in Turkey, in Saudi Arabia, in Iraq.
(22:18):
I'm actually I've actually seen some of the handiwork of
what they've done in places like Iraq and Afghanisa. So
this is to pretend, but the people who are doing it,
they can consider themselves Muslim as well, even though the
victims are Muslim. I'm not getting into a theological discussion.
I'm trying to just focus on the counter terrorists. What
she's saying. She's saying that the people who are it's
being perpetrated against their Muslim but the attackers can be
(22:40):
Muslim as well. But I have to say, I don't
understand why that's being directed at me. By no means
that I say that wasn't the case or it wasn't true.
So I don't understand why that's being directed to me.
I'm merely saying they're coming after us. Yes, are in
fact coming after us. So I need to sit here
talking about after each other, America and Europe and they
and all peaceful Muslims and everywhere around the world. Who
(23:03):
doesn't believe it's trapping the suicide vest on because you're disaffected,
because you have some belief that somehow this will take
you to a place of paradise Invergens, whatever the case
may be. Everybody who isn't on that team is on
my team. This notion you have in your head that
when I say us, I'm referring to what Republican Americans
I was in the con TERRIBI the CIA, I was
working with foreign allies all over the world to try
(23:24):
and stop these kinds of attacks. If there's an implication,
that's preposterous, and I have to be honest with you.
After this sort of an attack happens, there is this
knee jerk reaction that we see from people who are
centered to left of center, constantly trying to sort of
wrap all this around the bad rhetoric of people who
want to speak openly and honestly about terrorism. We're just
trying to empower the moderates from them Muslim societies. We're
(23:46):
trying to empower our allies and countries that we do
work with in the Muslim world and outside of the
Muslim world to stop people from getting mowed down at
a celebration of a national holiday that's.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
It, which include other Muslims.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I've said that four or five times already. Okay, we're
getting off here. We are getting all the nice try lemon, yet, moron,
that guy's are honestly a true dumb ass. And I
would say it to his face right now over and
I don't I could care less. He is a dumbass. Really.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
The fact that CNN gave him his own show as
long as they did is appalling. And he's a baby too.
He's unprofessional, he's a baby's childish, uh and dumb so
and anyway, it's a little thirty Notice those a little
back and forth. He's trying to get it back to
we really just want to talk about his lamophobia. This
was within hours of eighty six people being mowed down
(24:34):
by a truck, and we didn't even placed some of
the other people. All the throat clearing about oh or
this is really about you know, we don't want to
single out there's lom or whatever. It was like that.
That's your takeaway that that the big problem we face is,
you know, this is the the the I mean, he
did some great stuff. Norm McDonald did some great stuff.
I think though maybe his all time great is that
(24:56):
the real threat is that they're going to detonate a
nuclear bomb in American City and just think of all
the Islamophobia that will happen, because that really just gets
to the core of this of this insanity. It's like
a death wish from within our own society. The problem
isn't the terrorists, whether it's in Bandai or it's on
Brown University campus or it's you know, at the Covington School,
(25:20):
or it's in Iraq, or it's the problem or not
the enemies of civilization. The problem is the people who
are trying to stop them, and everything we do to
stop them, somehow either justifies them or makes them worse.
This we saw in Gaza too. Look at Israel with
Gaza October seventh. Everything Israel does is terrible. It's bad
at genocide according to some people, and it's making the
(25:42):
problem worse. You're creating future generations of suicide bombers. Trust me,
they love Gaza. Suicide bombers plenty before October seventh happened
and before the Israeli response Gaza. The Palestinians have been
celebrating that stuff for as long as I have been alive.
They're not celebrating, you know, they're rate math scores on
the testing there. I gotta tell you, they're not celebrating
(26:03):
all the achievements they're making in the sciences. But suicide bombers,
they've got a lot of time to celebrate that. It's
just true. And so why do you think now we
have all all these do you think it's just the
Mayor of Providence. I'm sorry, not the mayor, the police
chief of Providence, who doesn't want to say what has
already been reported by eyewitnesses that this guy was yelling alaha,
walk bar No, it's his boss. The mayor probably got
(26:26):
a call from whatever, you know, democrat. Third rate clown
is the who's the governor of Rhode Island?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I don't even know? I mean, it's like, I mean,
is Rhode Island even really a state? Guys, let's be honest,
it's kind of like Massachusetts. Little brother, whoever the who
Daniel McKee, be honest with you never heard of this guy?
He's a Democrat? Right, Obviously the state's very Democrat. Or
is he one of those like Mitt Romney Republicans? Democrat?
(26:55):
All right, we'll find out. My point is the chief
of police knows that the whole game here is we've
got to make sure we keep a grip on all
the Islamophobia. Got to keep a grip on all the Islamophobia. No, actually,
I think we should be honest about things because you see,
and this is what's happening more and more, and now
that we even have X, at least we have one
(27:15):
place where people can share things more honestly without fear
of being shut down or throttle, at least not in
the same way they were before we all noticed this,
and they're never going to really win a war on noticing. Actually,
this is a perfect place for me to bring into
this conversation something that I think is, can we put
this up team? I haven't even sent this to you yet,
(27:37):
but I wanted to get to it today. I'm not
sure Clay will be as fired up about this one
tomorrow as I am, so I wanted to get to it,
but it's this piece in Compact I'm sorry, Wait, let
me make sure I have the I'm giving this the right, Yes.
Compactmag dot com. Compactmag dot com The Lost Generation by
Matthew Schmidtz. This is we should put it up at
(28:00):
clanb Buck dot com. This is an amazing takedown, piece
by piece of what has really happened in the DEI
apparatus in America in the last ten years. He even says,
he starts us off beginning I'm quoting him here beginning.
In twenty fourteen, prestige industries decided they urgently needed to diversify.
(28:24):
They didn't purge established boomers. Instead, they did everything possible
to avoid hiring white millennial men. This is the story
of a generation derailed by DEI. This is what I
have observed, and it really coincided with my time in
the private sector, at least in the media, this obsession
(28:44):
with you know who ran CNN, an old white guy,
Jeff Zucker. But who are they trying to hire as
many minorities and particularly minority women as possible for all
the roles the lower down rolls right the entry level
and you know, the three to five year kind of positions.
This is true across Wall Street, true, across law true,
and they were open about it. This is what the
(29:07):
diversity hiring and one of the reasons why I think
there's such a frustration to my fellow millennials out there.
We got the we got the worst of this. It
was the generation above. You know, if you really hit
your peak professional years in the nineties, you yeah, there
(29:28):
were some of this, but you escaped it. But if
you started to in the in the early mid two thousands,
twenty ten, you know, if you were trying to hit
your professional peak, you were completely locked out of act
as a white male. So if you were a if
you were around age thirty at this time, thirty to
forty five, let's say as a white male, or even
(29:49):
entry levels. Let's say you know, twenty to twenty to
forty five, you were non hirable, unhirable in Hollywood as
a writer, in ACADEMI, all the colleges, all the this
whole piece, this Matthew Schmid's Guy's a brilliant piece, truly,
and you should read it because you'll understand what's really
happened to my generation. And I was only able to
(30:12):
escape it because of some good luck, some great mentors,
you know, Glenn and Rush and people letting me have
a chance in a business that has a very high
failure rate to begin with, which is you know, media
and commentary. But I saw it all around me, my peers,
my colleagues, you know, not in media, but people that
I knew in other industries, particularly people I knew were
(30:32):
trying to make it in creative industries. No chance, you
weren't going to get that writing in Hollywood. You had
no shot. He goes through all these different details, But also,
you know, you look at a place like Goldman Sachs
and I actually had a friend some years ago who
was an NHR at Goldman Sackson. She talked to me
about this extensively. All the guys who are at the
very top, once they started doing this stuff ten years ago,
(30:55):
the people who were the fat cats, who were making
the big bucks, they got to stay. Diversity did not
mean we were replacing the CEO. That is not would
have meant. Diversity over the last ten years meant, oh,
you're twenty five, you need a job. Sorry, we have
to take somebody who is a person of color. Oh,
(31:15):
you're thirty years old and you're looking for your big
break to get into, Like I said, a university teaching position,
news media, television, television writing. No chance has to be
And you know, this is the part of it. These institutions,
I mentioned this before with Brown University, they became a
lot less impressive because they got rid of standards. They
(31:38):
started making decisions not based upon excellence at the craft
or the ability that one has, but on skin color.
Explicitly racist policies. And this was all throughout our society.
And it was my age cohort going up ten years
and down ten years, give or take. So say, you know,
if you're thirty to fifty right now, man, you got
screwed over professionally if you were trying to work in
(32:01):
any of these fields. And the other part of it
is you're not allowed to notice. You're not allowed to
notice that when they started doing this, and they insisted
on hiring women and minorities for roles that otherwise white
men would have gotten in. Like I said, this piececompactmag
dot com. Uh writes it up. We'll put it up
(32:22):
at claanbuck dot com so you can find it easily.
Will cross post it there. Uh, these plays, All of
a sudden, TV got really bad, movies started to suck.
What happened, Well, you weren't hiring the best writers anymore.
It's pretty straightforward. Also, the publishing industry, I was telling
you about books before. What's happening to conservative books? Publishing
industries in a really rough state. You know why. They
had published too many white male authors, and so there
(32:43):
was all this rush to publish books that are garbage.
But the people were the right color or the right
gender for the purposes of the publishers. Remember, the people
that are going to get their break, not the You know,
if you were established, if you were a boomer, you
and you were at one of these elite institutions. You
already had tenure or the equivalent thereof. It was everybody
(33:05):
else that you it was the It was the millennials
who got fed, you know, into the woodschipper of DEI
madness professionally. And this piece goes into details about it.
And these places are not a leade anymore. And Hollywood
TV writing got really crappy, and we all noticed, We
have all in fact noticed, so they can tell us
(33:27):
you're not allowed to notice these things, whether it's radical
Islam and terrorism or DEI and the quality of the
scripts that you're seeing produced on TV. But we do
in fact notice. So that is where that stands. And
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Speaker 1 (34:44):
Welcome back in here to clay En Buck. We've got
some vip emails. We got lots of stuff here. First
up here, we got an email from brus about women
law enforcements. Buck Love, when you're flying solo, I remember
the times when you filled in for Rush and was
impressed with some and so much younger than Russ who
was so knowledgeable. Buck. A while back, I watched a
video of two female British law officers attempting to apprehend
(35:06):
a suspect. The guy was not some muscle bound, tough dude.
He was skinny. The two women together were totally unable
to detain this guy. He eluded their grasps and escaped,
leaving them helpless. My own daughter is a law officer.
I'm proud to say. However, I don't think women should
be put in such situations. I believe the same thing
about women in combat. A woman, no matter how strong
she may think she is, cannot throw some one hundred
(35:28):
and eighty five pound soldier over her soldier over her
shoulder and escape. It ain't happening. And thank you having
Merry Christmas. Yeah, that's all true, Horace, So thank you
for writing it. That is all accurate. And I just again,
I'm not taking I'm not taking shots at anybody. I'm
(35:48):
just saying what it is. I let's play aa.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Hi, Clarion Buck.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
This is Steve from Toledo. The only musical that men
should proudly love is the Blues Brothers. Blues Brothers period.
That's it. It's a great, great musical and it's only
for men. Women may like it, but they may not.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I did not even know that was a musical. By
the way, I got a talkback. We don't have I
don't think we have time for actually play the guy
from Connecticut. We have time for it. Whichever one that is,
you know, the guy talk about the gun.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Is Steve from Connecticut. Just wanted to correct one that
you did say about the ar fifteens in Connecticut as
resident here. They did not make us turn them back in.
They forced us to especially register them by a certain time.
Or you were a felon, so you had to go
get an official registration and a title to hold on
(36:41):
to the gun if you didn't.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Right there we go. Sorry correction, You are right. I
was wrong, So I'm not always right, but most of
the time
The third hour of play, end Buck kicks off. Now
(00:03):
we're gonna return to some of the main stories of
the day we've talked about the first second hours. For example,
we still don't have the suspect and custody for the
Brown University shooting. It looks like a targeted hit on campus,
an assassination that may well have targeted. There are a
lot of people saying that it did target a young
Republican leader on campus. Woman, beautiful young woman. I think
(00:25):
it's a sort of heartbreaking that he's gone. And when
you think about this sort of situation, and then the
Bondai terrorist attack looks like they were training the father
son Muslim duo. We're training in the Southern Philippines. Likely
training in the Southern Philippines known to be in Islamic radicalism.
(00:47):
Hotped there's actually a Netflix movie. I forget what it's called,
but you can find it pretty easily. And I think
it's Gerard Butler, Who's one of Ali's favorites. Right, Ali
produce a rally Gerard Butler? Maybe, Oh sorry, I I
you know, Butler is great, So you know, I think
(01:09):
I'm personally surprised whenever I see anything on Netflix. That
is good. So this movie was actually pretty decent. I
can't remember the name of it, but anyway, it's like
he's on a flight, he's a plane, they land there,
there's like Jihattis that will lopping heads off with with
machetes or whatever, and you know, the whole the whole thing.
(01:30):
So yeah, anyway, it's it's a pretty it's a pretty
good movie. Like it's a good watch. It's not it's
not gonna be off pretty oscars, but it's a pretty
good movie. Point is, there's Islamic radicalism in the southern
part of the Philippines that has been long, long since
well established. It's likely that that's why they were there
right before this attack, to train to get help, to
get assistance. But I did want to we haven't really
(01:52):
talked about this yet today, and it is something that
is getting a lot of attention right now, which is,
you know, Trump wrote something about Rob Reiner was killed
and it was it was horrible. I want to have
this be a broad discussion. It's not people want me.
(02:13):
I've already been asking, oh, well, you do agree with
what Trump said. That's not what I would have said.
But also I'm very different than Trump. And I'm also
not the leader of the free world. Okay, so it's
a different I got different stresses, different pressures, and I
have quite a different approach from Donald J. Trump. I
think he's fantastic in so many ways. He's a little
more of a brawler than I am with the words
(02:35):
or like, like, likes to throw down, likes to get
into the mud a bit more than I do. And
he's very good at it. That all said, and sometimes
you really need that. That all said. You know, I didn't.
I didn't think that this was right. I didn't I
didn't like I didn't like it. But okay, so you know,
Trump said something that I didn't agree with. He's a
he's a politician, he's a president. You know, he's not
my dad. I mean, I you know, I don't know
(02:56):
why people want oh but now we're all talking about it.
So that's the whole point. People want to attack Trump
on this stuff. I just want to remind everybody out
there of a couple things. First of all, there's there
is this move I see people making to say, well,
what was Rob Reiner like after this or that situation.
(03:19):
I don't think that really should matter very much. Because
there are things that are so terrible and so sad
that just as a human being, I think you would
extend your sympathy to someone or their family, regardless of
the uh political rhetoric that they have used in the past.
I do think that that's now there are obviously limits.
(03:41):
Like Buck, would you be sad when Hitler killed himself? No,
of course not. But Okay, Rob Reiner was was a
make great movies. And I'll let you hear this because
because even I got a little bit of heat just
for saying, Look, he was a father, he was a husband,
he made some great movies. Nobody should ever suffer what
he suffered at the hands of his own son. I mean,
it's it's a it's a horrific tragedy. Obviously deep mental
(04:02):
illness and addiction at the root of this, of this
evil which was perpetrated on him. But here he was
when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. This is Rob Reiner on
Piers Morgan Show. This is cut four back in September
(04:23):
of this year. Play it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And continue to try to reassure the public that they
are safe. But you also just said that something of
this person you believe is armed and dangerous.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So how can both be sure?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, yeah, right, and that's something that's unknown, but they
have stated I'll tell you that. Wait, I thought we
had Rob Reiner cut four. Rob Reiner right. Oh, I'm sorry, guys,
I'm looking at I'm looking at yesterday's sheet. My my fault.
That's that's on me. I was like, that wasn't pull
(04:55):
pull it over now, guys, I'm sorry. I I wanted
to use this, this cut, and so I just had
it in my eyes. We'll get to it in a second.
Point here is that Rob Reiner is somebody who suffered
something that is I wouldn't honestly, I wouldn't wish on
like my worst enemy. It's just a horrible thing that happened.
But I also I wanted you to hear how Rob
(05:16):
Reiner responded to the Charlie Kirksashinason, because he did so
in a in a reasonable fashion. I did. There was
a photo I sent it to the team. I interviewed
Rob Reiner back in twenty nineteen. I think it was
so latter part of the first Trump administration in DC
when I was what I launched what was then Hill
(05:38):
TV and the show Rising, and I obviously didn't agree
with him on and do you think he's a very nice,
very pleasant guy. But the left once to lecture us
all on this right now in the meantime, I cannot
help but remember that somehow this is Can we have
it now? Okay? Sorry, here's the Rob Reiner clip that
(05:58):
I meant to play for you, guys. Play heard about
the murder of Charlie Kirk. What was your immediate gut
reaction to it?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Well, horror, absolute horror, And I unfortunately saw the video
of it, and it's this. It's beyond belief what happened
to him, and that should never happened to anybody. I
don't care what your political beliefs are. That's not acceptable.
(06:28):
That's not a solution to solving problems. And I felt
like what his wife said at the service, that the
memorial they had was exactly right and totally I believe,
you know, I'm Jewish, but I believe in the teachings
of Jesus, and I believe in doing to others, and
(06:49):
I believe in forgiveness. And what she said to me
was beautiful and absolutely you know, she forgave his assassin,
and I think that that is admirable.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So there you have Rob Reiner. I'd say that's how
I felt about Rob Reiner's death. He was talking about
Charlie Kirk's assassination. But I feel like it's something that
should never happen to anybody. And you know, we are
all allowed to just have a human moment for one another.
You can step out of the rama politics for a second.
Because even online I was getting some people yesterday it's like, what,
(07:27):
why would you say that he made good movies or what? Guys?
You know, I know most of you don't feel that way,
but yeah, it's something absolutely horrible happened to somebody. You're
allowed to say, wow, that's really horrible. It doesn't have
to be well, how did he vote in the last election,
and like what did he say about this politician or
whatever it may be. There is something that has gotten
more and more course in our discourse, and it is
(07:49):
it is trumbling. I have to say, do by the way,
do we have sorry because I think I was gonna
pull another clip from yesterday, I'm gonna ask you guys
in advance, do we have the question that Erica Kirk
was asked at that sitting by at that sit down
with Barry Weiss and a bunch of can you pull
it's thirty four? Okay, because I want you guys to
hear this. Meanwhile, the same voices, the same people who are,
(08:13):
oh my gosh, you know what Trump said about Rob Reiner,
They're out there supporting stuff like what this question or
ask play it Erica.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I want to tell you how much I appreciate your
calls for peace and unity, and I'm likewise horrified by
the people in my so called camp who were cheering
about Charlie's murder. I believe that they stoke the flames
of violence. But even worse is when powerful influential people
on either side of the aisle stoke the flames. When
(08:42):
they do it, the flames can become an inferno. And
this leads me to Donald Trump, the most powerful and
influential person on earth, who has more responsibility than anyone
else to put the flames out. Just last month, President
Trump called on six Democratic lawmakers to be tried for sedition,
which he clarified was punishable by death. He then reposted
(09:03):
a simple message, hang them. I think that you've been
making strides to bring peace to our country, and that
turning point has been asking Democrats to decry the individuals
who cheer for violence. I have and will continue to
decry them. But any good faith effort to stop political
violence must hold both parties to the same standard and expectation.
So in that spirit, will you condemn the violent rhetoric
(09:27):
of Donald Trump, the most powerful and influential person on earth.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Oh you see what just happened there? So the widow
of Charlie Kirk, eric A Kerr, who is clearly still
dealing with and processing the unimaginable grief of her husband
being assassinated on live TV in front of thousands of people,
or a live stream in front of thousands of people.
And the situation now is well, since we have to
(09:55):
have standards, can't we do this both sides?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Is thing?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Now? Can't you condemn your side? Think about this? Charlie Kirk,
who is a very close friend and ally of the
of President Trump, is killed. And then we are told
because Trump said a mean thing about some politicians, that
nothing has happened to and Trump knows nothing is going
to happen to and doesn't want anything bad to happen
(10:20):
to Somehow, there's an equivalency here. The false moral equivalency
gets me very fired up because it is a game
that the left plays constantly to you know, I use
this phrase, evade accountability at all costs. Oh, sure our side,
the left did something horrible, but it's really about both
(10:41):
sides acting. Bet are No, it's not. It is not. Actually,
as we sit here, we think about the terror attacks
that have just happened, and who is likely behind them
in the last few days, and what ideological compatriots or
who they go arm in arm with. This is of
four and by the left, and I think that this
(11:02):
pretense that somehow it's about getting both sides to calm down. No,
our side's actually pretty calm, We're good. I'm not saying
we're perfect. But you see, this is Trump having a
maybe slightly intemperate truth social about a murdered director. Is
actually not on the same scale as the entire Democrat
(11:24):
party pretending and constantly screaming and shouting about how we
are descending into fascism and Trump and all of his
supporters are actual Nazis and that this is the destruction
of the republic and anything that can be done to
say it should be done. Those are not the same thing,
and it needs to be said that they're the way
we get through This is not by pretending that these
(11:46):
are equivalent. It's not by saying, oh, this side and
that side are somehow both you know, you know, a
plague on both houses, like we're all making mistakes here. Well,
you know, if everyone's guilty, no one's guilty, If all
sides are doing it, then I guess what's the difference. No,
the Left is still the party of mobs, the party
of violence, the party of do anything it takes, use
(12:09):
the system to destroy and I say, the left of
Democrats to destroy your political opponents, to weaponize the justice
system against them. And we cannot allow ourselves to be
lulled into this false sense of equivalency. And it also
I mean to ask Charlie Kirks widow, will you condemn
Donald Trump like that kid? Give me a break. He's
(12:31):
not a kid, he's a young adult. But give me
a break, dude. Really, Trump's friend gets killed and you're
mad about about some Trump tweet. Isn't he turning up
the heat? What are the results? Where are these results
of the Trump rhetoric that I'm seeing play out time
and time again with violence on the streets of America.
I don't. I don't. And this is also why I
(12:52):
think a lot of people have a particular revulsion to
the way that the events of January sixth were and
put aside, you know, agent provocateur in the crowd and
all this other stuff. I mean, I brought this up
again when I did that Bill Mars show back in October.
We covered a lot of ground, and I was right
(13:13):
about everything. So I like referring back to it because
I got on the record in the Democrats home turf
and the Buckster was kicking ass and taking names over there.
But I said to them, I said, we're supposed to
be so upset. There was one There was one riot
that involved Trump supporters, and the only person who died
was a Trump supporter Acshley Babbage show on the neck
(13:34):
or I should say, was killed by violence that day,
was Ashley Babbitt or Trump's Somebody told me somebody else
was crushed by the way I did get that. I
had not heard that before team checked that. That to
me is more like, you know, mob, that's a sort
of a mob stage. I don't think anyone intended for
that person to be crushed, so that's a a tragic
situation that unfolded because of the riot. But checked that
(13:57):
for me anyway, the left had gone through months and
months of far more destructive, violent rioting, and they celebrated it,
and they cheered and they and they made it something
that we were all supposed to be happy was going on.
We were all supposed to sell we were supposed to
celebrate their riots. And the Democrat Party did BLM two
(14:19):
point zero. It was all all exactly as they laid
it out. We'll get into this and also team, the
team did find my old CNN throw down on the
terrorism stuff. So you can hear this a little fun
flashback from ten years ago. You want to hear it.
It's when I had no facial hair. CNN didn't like
facial hair. It wasn't allowed. Yeah, you couldn't change your appearance.
(14:40):
It's part of my contract. And uh yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It was.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
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Speaker 1 (16:09):
All right, welcome back in here. And you know, there's
a piece in Vanity Fair and read it this morning,
and it's really a hit piece on the administration. But
particularly it highlights a bunch of quotes from Chief of
Staff White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and some
of them are meant to raise eyebrows, and I certainly did.
Cesey Wildser's responded. She says, the article published early this
(16:30):
morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and
the finest president, white House and cabinet in history. Context
was disregarded, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Okay, that's
all fine. Why are they doing a sit down with
Vanity Fair. I gotta be honest with you. No sympathy
on this one. Why are you doing a sit down
(16:51):
with Vanity Fair? They hate you, and this is what
they're going to do. Nobody in this White House should
be giving lots of long term, many hours access to
Vanity Fair Writers, which formerly, by the way, was the
employer of Olivia Nowzy, among others. They've parted ways. I
(17:17):
don't I don't get this. I don't know. I. I mean,
it's clearly a mistake. That much is obvious. Why would
they make this mistake? It's not a big deal. Trump knows,
you know, Susie's loyal. I mean, it's going to be
a tempest in a teapot. But it just guys, come on,
you know what is that all about? I don't understand
(17:38):
what they want to reach? The Vanity Fair audience. Many
Fair audience hates their guts, all of them, everybody who
subscribes to Vanity Fair. I would get I would wager
ninety five percent, maybe ninety nine percent. Eight Trump, So
what are they doing alright? There have no good answers
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welcome back in here. A little throwback moment as we're
doing a lot of terrorism analysis. And one of the
reasons I get so passionate about this is that for
years I was a shall we say, swimming upstream because
I was sane and because I knew what I was
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talking about, and I would go on places including CNN,
MSNBC had me on to debate. You can probably find
this the archives too. It was actually Glenn Greenwald. They
had me on one time to debate, and that was it.
That was never never invited back we were debating radical Islam.
I think Glenn and I actually would see eye to
I on on a whole range of free speech issues today.
(19:30):
So but on this issue, on the issue of radical Islam,
mister Greenwald and I are in still firm disagreement. But
I don't think I think they thought they looked at
me to like this guy what kinny really? You know
what I mean, Let's let's let's fullay him like a
fish on TV. And this fish had some tricks. He
could flop around a little bit in the boat. He
knew what he was doing. But to that end, also
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over at CNN. Over at CNN, this is on the
day of the Nice terror attack, which I anytime someone
says it's about gun control, then ease terror attack involved
a truck. It killed eighty six people, fifteen children, injured
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four hundred and fifty people. It was a rented truck. Okay,
this guy rented a truck and killed eighty six people
and wounded hundreds. Didn't need a gun, didn't need a bomb.
And this was an Islamic state attack. And this was
on you know Bestide Day is a big deal in France.
(20:35):
It's not their independence Day. Actually it's different, like the
storming of the Bastid the French Revolution, which you know
didn't go so well. But conversation for another time. But
this is from that day. So I was on this panel,
and I am not kidding what I tell you. This
is twenty sixteen, this is ten years ago. Now I'm
on this panel and they're all blaming the French. There's
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like four or five other guests. I mean, I'm going
on memory now. I haven't seeing the video myself. I'm
just I know the team pulled it up, but they
have like four other guests, I think, and they're all like, oh,
this is what happens when you don't assimilate. I'm like,
what we really have to figure out here is why
aren't we making the Muslim minority in France more comfortable?
I'm like, more comfortable. One of them just killed almost
one hundred people with a truck on the national holiday.
(21:20):
The hell is wrong with you people? Anyway, you can
get a little flavor of that. I mean, this was
a whole seven rate minut long segment, but here's a
little bit of the exchange with some third tier academic
who's like, I'm going to explain terrorism to Buck play it.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
The degree of right wing politics Islamophobia. And I do
disagree with mister Sexton because the fact is, and I'll
say this to you Buck directly, the vast majority of
Isis's victims are Muslim, not us.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I'm not aware, fully aware of that. I mean, well, they're.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Coming after us, They're not coming after us.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
More than that, I was referring to the Islamic State,
which very clearly through his external operations arm which has
been at work, by the way, for a number of
years now, along with Alcadi in Arabian Peninsula, which until
recently was considered the most virulent and deadly of the
JIE hottest terrorist organizations, for this kind of external plotting.
They're continuing to do this. Of course, They're killing Muslims,
are killing Muslims in Turkey, in Saudi Arabia, in Iraq.
(22:18):
I'm actually I've actually seen some of the handiwork of
what they've done in places like Iraq and Afghanisa. So
this is to pretend, but the people who are doing it,
they can consider themselves Muslim as well, even though the
victims are Muslim. I'm not getting into a theological discussion.
I'm trying to just focus on the counter terrorists. What
she's saying. She's saying that the people who are it's
being perpetrated against their Muslim but the attackers can be
(22:40):
Muslim as well. But I have to say, I don't
understand why that's being directed at me. By no means
that I say that wasn't the case or it wasn't true.
So I don't understand why that's being directed to me.
I'm merely saying they're coming after us. Yes, are in
fact coming after us. So I need to sit here
talking about after each other, America and Europe and they
and all peaceful Muslims and everywhere around the world. Who
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doesn't believe it's trapping the suicide vest on because you're disaffected,
because you have some belief that somehow this will take
you to a place of paradise Invergens, whatever the case
may be. Everybody who isn't on that team is on
my team. This notion you have in your head that
when I say us, I'm referring to what Republican Americans
I was in the con TERRIBI the CIA, I was
working with foreign allies all over the world to try
(23:24):
and stop these kinds of attacks. If there's an implication,
that's preposterous, and I have to be honest with you.
After this sort of an attack happens, there is this
knee jerk reaction that we see from people who are
centered to left of center, constantly trying to sort of
wrap all this around the bad rhetoric of people who
want to speak openly and honestly about terrorism. We're just
trying to empower the moderates from them Muslim societies. We're
(23:46):
trying to empower our allies and countries that we do
work with in the Muslim world and outside of the
Muslim world to stop people from getting mowed down at
a celebration of a national holiday that's.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
It, which include other Muslims.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I've said that four or five times already. Okay, we're
getting off here. We are getting all the nice try lemon, yet, moron,
that guy's are honestly a true dumb ass. And I
would say it to his face right now over and
I don't I could care less. He is a dumbass. Really.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
The fact that CNN gave him his own show as
long as they did is appalling. And he's a baby too.
He's unprofessional, he's a baby's childish, uh and dumb so
and anyway, it's a little thirty Notice those a little
back and forth. He's trying to get it back to
we really just want to talk about his lamophobia. This
was within hours of eighty six people being mowed down
(24:34):
by a truck, and we didn't even placed some of
the other people. All the throat clearing about oh or
this is really about you know, we don't want to
single out there's lom or whatever. It was like that.
That's your takeaway that that the big problem we face is,
you know, this is the the the I mean, he
did some great stuff. Norm McDonald did some great stuff.
I think though maybe his all time great is that
(24:56):
the real threat is that they're going to detonate a
nuclear bomb in American City and just think of all
the Islamophobia that will happen, because that really just gets
to the core of this of this insanity. It's like
a death wish from within our own society. The problem
isn't the terrorists, whether it's in Bandai or it's on
Brown University campus or it's you know, at the Covington School,
(25:20):
or it's in Iraq, or it's the problem or not
the enemies of civilization. The problem is the people who
are trying to stop them, and everything we do to
stop them, somehow either justifies them or makes them worse.
This we saw in Gaza too. Look at Israel with
Gaza October seventh. Everything Israel does is terrible. It's bad
at genocide according to some people, and it's making the
(25:42):
problem worse. You're creating future generations of suicide bombers. Trust me,
they love Gaza. Suicide bombers plenty before October seventh happened
and before the Israeli response Gaza. The Palestinians have been
celebrating that stuff for as long as I have been alive.
They're not celebrating, you know, they're rate math scores on
the testing there. I gotta tell you, they're not celebrating
(26:03):
all the achievements they're making in the sciences. But suicide bombers,
they've got a lot of time to celebrate that. It's
just true. And so why do you think now we
have all all these do you think it's just the
Mayor of Providence. I'm sorry, not the mayor, the police
chief of Providence, who doesn't want to say what has
already been reported by eyewitnesses that this guy was yelling alaha,
walk bar No, it's his boss. The mayor probably got
(26:26):
a call from whatever, you know, democrat. Third rate clown
is the who's the governor of Rhode Island?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I don't even know? I mean, it's like, I mean,
is Rhode Island even really a state? Guys, let's be honest,
it's kind of like Massachusetts. Little brother, whoever the who
Daniel McKee, be honest with you never heard of this guy?
He's a Democrat? Right, Obviously the state's very Democrat. Or
is he one of those like Mitt Romney Republicans? Democrat?
(26:55):
All right, we'll find out. My point is the chief
of police knows that the whole game here is we've
got to make sure we keep a grip on all
the Islamophobia. Got to keep a grip on all the Islamophobia. No, actually,
I think we should be honest about things because you see,
and this is what's happening more and more, and now
that we even have X, at least we have one
(27:15):
place where people can share things more honestly without fear
of being shut down or throttle, at least not in
the same way they were before we all noticed this,
and they're never going to really win a war on noticing. Actually,
this is a perfect place for me to bring into
this conversation something that I think is, can we put
this up team? I haven't even sent this to you yet,
(27:37):
but I wanted to get to it today. I'm not
sure Clay will be as fired up about this one
tomorrow as I am, so I wanted to get to it,
but it's this piece in Compact I'm sorry, Wait, let
me make sure I have the I'm giving this the right, Yes.
Compactmag dot com. Compactmag dot com The Lost Generation by
Matthew Schmidtz. This is we should put it up at
(28:00):
clanb Buck dot com. This is an amazing takedown, piece
by piece of what has really happened in the DEI
apparatus in America in the last ten years. He even says,
he starts us off beginning I'm quoting him here beginning.
In twenty fourteen, prestige industries decided they urgently needed to diversify.
(28:24):
They didn't purge established boomers. Instead, they did everything possible
to avoid hiring white millennial men. This is the story
of a generation derailed by DEI. This is what I
have observed, and it really coincided with my time in
the private sector, at least in the media, this obsession
(28:44):
with you know who ran CNN, an old white guy,
Jeff Zucker. But who are they trying to hire as
many minorities and particularly minority women as possible for all
the roles the lower down rolls right the entry level
and you know, the three to five year kind of positions.
This is true across Wall Street, true, across law true,
and they were open about it. This is what the
(29:07):
diversity hiring and one of the reasons why I think
there's such a frustration to my fellow millennials out there.
We got the we got the worst of this. It
was the generation above. You know, if you really hit
your peak professional years in the nineties, you yeah, there
(29:28):
were some of this, but you escaped it. But if
you started to in the in the early mid two thousands,
twenty ten, you know, if you were trying to hit
your professional peak, you were completely locked out of act
as a white male. So if you were a if
you were around age thirty at this time, thirty to
forty five, let's say as a white male, or even
(29:49):
entry levels. Let's say you know, twenty to twenty to
forty five, you were non hirable, unhirable in Hollywood as
a writer, in ACADEMI, all the colleges, all the this
whole piece, this Matthew Schmid's Guy's a brilliant piece, truly,
and you should read it because you'll understand what's really
happened to my generation. And I was only able to
(30:12):
escape it because of some good luck, some great mentors,
you know, Glenn and Rush and people letting me have
a chance in a business that has a very high
failure rate to begin with, which is you know, media
and commentary. But I saw it all around me, my peers,
my colleagues, you know, not in media, but people that
I knew in other industries, particularly people I knew were
(30:32):
trying to make it in creative industries. No chance, you
weren't going to get that writing in Hollywood. You had
no shot. He goes through all these different details, But also,
you know, you look at a place like Goldman Sachs
and I actually had a friend some years ago who
was an NHR at Goldman Sackson. She talked to me
about this extensively. All the guys who are at the
very top, once they started doing this stuff ten years ago,
(30:55):
the people who were the fat cats, who were making
the big bucks, they got to stay. Diversity did not
mean we were replacing the CEO. That is not would
have meant. Diversity over the last ten years meant, oh,
you're twenty five, you need a job. Sorry, we have
to take somebody who is a person of color. Oh,
(31:15):
you're thirty years old and you're looking for your big
break to get into, Like I said, a university teaching position,
news media, television, television writing. No chance has to be
And you know, this is the part of it. These institutions,
I mentioned this before with Brown University, they became a
lot less impressive because they got rid of standards. They
(31:38):
started making decisions not based upon excellence at the craft
or the ability that one has, but on skin color.
Explicitly racist policies. And this was all throughout our society.
And it was my age cohort going up ten years
and down ten years, give or take. So say, you know,
if you're thirty to fifty right now, man, you got
screwed over professionally if you were trying to work in
(32:01):
any of these fields. And the other part of it
is you're not allowed to notice. You're not allowed to
notice that when they started doing this, and they insisted
on hiring women and minorities for roles that otherwise white
men would have gotten in. Like I said, this piececompactmag
dot com. Uh writes it up. We'll put it up
(32:22):
at claanbuck dot com so you can find it easily.
Will cross post it there. Uh, these plays, All of
a sudden, TV got really bad, movies started to suck.
What happened, Well, you weren't hiring the best writers anymore.
It's pretty straightforward. Also, the publishing industry, I was telling
you about books before. What's happening to conservative books? Publishing
industries in a really rough state. You know why. They
had published too many white male authors, and so there
(32:43):
was all this rush to publish books that are garbage.
But the people were the right color or the right
gender for the purposes of the publishers. Remember, the people
that are going to get their break, not the You know,
if you were established, if you were a boomer, you
and you were at one of these elite institutions. You
already had tenure or the equivalent thereof. It was everybody
(33:05):
else that you it was the It was the millennials
who got fed, you know, into the woodschipper of DEI
madness professionally. And this piece goes into details about it.
And these places are not a leade anymore. And Hollywood
TV writing got really crappy, and we all noticed, We
have all in fact noticed, so they can tell us
(33:27):
you're not allowed to notice these things, whether it's radical
Islam and terrorism or DEI and the quality of the
scripts that you're seeing produced on TV. But we do
in fact notice. So that is where that stands. And
I really I thought that piece was very powerful. No
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Speaker 1 (34:44):
Welcome back in here to clay En Buck. We've got
some vip emails. We got lots of stuff here. First
up here, we got an email from brus about women
law enforcements. Buck Love, when you're flying solo, I remember
the times when you filled in for Rush and was
impressed with some and so much younger than Russ who
was so knowledgeable. Buck. A while back, I watched a
video of two female British law officers attempting to apprehend
(35:06):
a suspect. The guy was not some muscle bound, tough dude.
He was skinny. The two women together were totally unable
to detain this guy. He eluded their grasps and escaped,
leaving them helpless. My own daughter is a law officer.
I'm proud to say. However, I don't think women should
be put in such situations. I believe the same thing
about women in combat. A woman, no matter how strong
she may think she is, cannot throw some one hundred
(35:28):
and eighty five pound soldier over her soldier over her
shoulder and escape. It ain't happening. And thank you having
Merry Christmas. Yeah, that's all true, Horace, So thank you
for writing it. That is all accurate. And I just again,
I'm not taking I'm not taking shots at anybody. I'm
(35:48):
just saying what it is. I let's play aa.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Hi, Clarion Buck.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
This is Steve from Toledo. The only musical that men
should proudly love is the Blues Brothers. Blues Brothers period.
That's it. It's a great, great musical and it's only
for men. Women may like it, but they may not.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I did not even know that was a musical. By
the way, I got a talkback. We don't have I
don't think we have time for actually play the guy
from Connecticut. We have time for it. Whichever one that is,
you know, the guy talk about the gun.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Is Steve from Connecticut. Just wanted to correct one that
you did say about the ar fifteens in Connecticut as
resident here. They did not make us turn them back in.
They forced us to especially register them by a certain time.
Or you were a felon, so you had to go
get an official registration and a title to hold on
(36:41):
to the gun if you didn't.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Right there we go. Sorry correction, You are right. I
was wrong, So I'm not always right, but most of
the time
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