January 8, 2025 • 37 mins
Fetterman lays out a big reason why the Democrats lost. Tone deaf Biden speaks about the fires. Gov. Newsom’s prediction doesn’t come true. CA firefighters taught DEI. LA callers weigh in.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in No.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
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a credit to you guys, and we appreciate everything that
you are doing to help make that possible. We have
been talking a lot, and we'll continue to monitor everything
going on in Los Angeles associated with the wildfires and
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that is a current calamity that is ongoing. Will again
continue to keep you apprized of everything that is going
on there. We'll take some of your calls if you're
in that California region, you want to tell us what
you are seeing right now as it comes to the wildfires.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
But there is a lot going on, not.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Only associated with what's going on in California, but all
the way across the country as we prepare for the
inauguration of Donald Trump. There is action in Congress. We
have a new speaker, as we told you last week,
Mike Johnson officially in and John Thune the Senate majority leader,
and they passed already a bill I believe it's the
first bill that they passed, the Lake and Riley Act
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in the House with some Democrats support and unanimity on
the Republican side, which would say if you're arrested for
a crime that you are immediately deported. Because Lake and
Riley's alleged killer was arrested in New York and was
not deported. And now there is a major discussion surrounding that.
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That has moved to the Senate, where Republicans have fifty
three votes. But John Fetterman says that if they can't
get the Democrats seven votes to get them to sixty
and it passed any sort of filibuster related activity, that
this is the reason why we lost, meaning the Democrat
Party in the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I think there's some truth to it cut ten.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
If you're here illegally and you're committing crimes and those things.
I don't know why anybody thinks that it's controversial that
they all need to go.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Do you think that this was one of, if not
the biggest issue for this election.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Well, I think if we can't. You know, there's forty
seven of us in the Senate, and if we can't
pull up with seven votes, and if we can't get
at least seven out of forty seven, and if we can't,
then that's the reason why we lost. That's one of them.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
That's one of why we lost. In part.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Common sense to me, Buck, I mean John Fetterman maybe
the most making the most sense of any Democrat in
the Senate.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I just wanted to note that I feel this clay
when we talk about Fetterman. And also it came up
when we were discussing Mark Zuckerberg yesterday. You know, when
someone says the right thing and you want to say, well,
that's the right thing, it doesn't mean that you forget
about all the things that they have done before. So
we can't always do the preamble because I don't know
if you got this, I saw a little heat about oh, well,
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Zuckerberg doing the right thing. Now he did all this
terrible damage to free speech. Yeah, and we've been talking
about that for years. But when someone says the right thing,
I'm not gonna say it's the wrong thing. And with Fetterman,
he has had a habit now of being among the
most reasonable in his public pronouncements. Democrats in the Senate. Now,
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is he still going to vote lockstep with Chuck Schumer
on everything?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That's what really matters. So we haven't lost sight of that. Right.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It's one thing to get a good SoundBite on Fox
when you're a Democrat. It's another thing to be willing
to break with your party on common sense issues. Break
with your party's a Democrat and common sense issues go along.
I just wanted to say that because I feel like
every time, you know, we say, look, Fetterman said a
good thing, people say, well, it doesn't mean that he's
you know, it doesn't mean But now we get into
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the immigration piece of this clay, they didn't want.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
To go forward. The Democrats rather aren't wanting to go
forward with this.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I think because the illegal immigrant community in the United
States is a favored constituency.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
It's not even just.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
That they don't want to go as far as Donald
Trump does, obviously with mass deportations. The Democrat Party, the
base and the people that are the most ideologically committed
to the left, they think that all of the illegals
are a victim class, right, and so this is why
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they're even sometimes off when it comes to the politics
of this. I've said this about climate change and some
other things too, where their ideology blinds them to the
political reality. And I think that's what we saw in
this election. They're so ideologically invested in the illegal immigrant
ca unity or you know, the illegal aliens, illegal aliens,
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they call them undocumented, that they can't see clearly what
the political reality of it may be. And it's because
they think of them as a victim class, predominantly non white.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
They've viewed as a race issue.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
They view it as a you know, anti colonial and
a sort of global one world government issue. There's all
kinds of stuff that comes together. But the Democrats would
stand in the way the possibility, I should say, if
Democrats trying to stand in the way here of telling
people of deporting people who are already deportable under the law.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And that's a part of this that's so important.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
It's not like you're not deportable just because you haven't
committed a crime, but now you're committing additional crimes.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Why wouldn't you.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Be detained at that point and be subject to being
sent back to the country that is your actual country
of origin and nationality.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
One hundred and fifty nine, I believe is the number
of Democrats voted against this bill. To think about how
crazy that is, and Fetterman is saying, we need to
get seven out of forty seven, whatever your politics are.
If someone, to Buck's point, is illegally here and then
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they aid further in that act of illegality by committing
a crime in a country that they are legally in,
they are arrested for that crime. So not only have
they committed a crime, they've been arrested. And we all
know the number of times that you commit a crime
and get arrested is actually lower than the number of
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crimes that you're committing. Right, Most people don't get arrested
the first time they stand athwart the law, particularly in
a blue city or a blue state where they have delegitimized.
The arrest of criminals in general, How in the world
could you defend this, like just leave aside Democrat, Republican, independent,
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and if people just think rationally, how could you defend
your community having people.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Who are illegally there and then on.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Top of the illegality of their being there, they then
commit an act of illegality on top of that. It
is absolute bonker banana land that you could have a
political party that doesn't advocate for those people being sent
out of the country. And then we know once you're
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committing crimes, it's not a long stretch to say that
you're likely to commit another crime. And this is what happened.
If you're not familiar or have forgotten, this is called
the Lake and Riley Act because not only was she
killed and attacked by an illegal.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Immigrant, raped and murdered.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yes, she should have never had to deal with this,
because this guy was arrested in New York and should
have been sent right out of the country right then
and there, instead of allowed to go to Georgia and
commit another crime.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
A New York, under policy made by the mayor and
the City Council as makes the affirmative decision that they
will not even they will not work with ice. They
will not they will not listen to any detainer requests
from Immigrations and Customs enforcement. So they actively make it
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harder for federal law enforcement to do their job. This
is what sanctuary jurisdictions are. And think about that. I mean,
think about how many cities there are in the country
where there is a policy in place that law enforcement
authorities make it harder for federal law enforcement to do
their job. And I know they say, oh, we don't
have to do that, so that's it. Yeah, But in
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so many other areas clay of the law. I mean,
I've said this before. If it's a drug case, a
terrorism case, when the FEDS asked the you know, the
state or local law enforcement for help, they work together
all the time. It's only on this issue where you
have this this effort at almost near nullification by the
local law enforcement or you know, the the certainly the
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ignoring if nullification is too strong word, ignore during the
federal law because they think it's politically expedient to do so,
or at least they're the people that are writing the
checks think it's politically expedient to do so. I don't
think this is going to play well for Democrats though,
going forward, I think that they've got a real problem
here because the numbers under Biden got so extreme. They
had to admit that this was a disaster and crime
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is an issue. And when you're allowing criminals that shouldn't
be here to stay here, I don't understand how anyone,
regardless of their politics, can defend this policy. Well, Clay, also,
remember it's when they're talking about something like stealing. It
shouldn't be that hard to be in this country and
not and not steal right, That should be pretty that
should be pretty straightforward. But also on the politics of this,
remember we don't think about, you know, Kamala right now.
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Where she Kamala's going to I think Germany, baff Rain
and where else, Guys, I forget, there's a third one.
It's I didn't even know this, I like Brunei or something.
I mean, she's going to like some real guard of Singapore.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Singapore. I think that's where she is.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Is the last boondoggle, you know, it's a last tax
funded vacation. And we don't think about Kamala very much
these days for you know, many reasons. Thankfully, yeah, thankfully,
But remember when she was talking about building the wall.
I mean, that's the Democrats were in this tough spot
because their internal numbers were showing and obviously the election
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played this out, or the election proved this. Their internal
numbers were showing they were in a terrible position on immigration,
and so they started to have Kamala just test out.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You know, yeah, I'm going to also build a wall.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Do you remember.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I mean, it's it almost feels like it was. It
was surreal, like it couldn't have actually happened. And I
think the Democrats still are in this position where their
base does not want to bend to the reality that
sixty percent of the American people are just not with
them on all the illegals continuing to pile in and
a lot of the illegals being allowed to stay.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
And this is it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
No, I was just gonna say the Lake and Riley Act.
To your point, Buck, Lake and Riley is not going
to be the last victim here. So when Democrats are
not voting for this, the next time, sadly that someone
who is completely innocent, like Laken Riley gets raped and
murdered by an illegal who had previously been arrested, everyone
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is going to say, wait, a minute. You voted to
allow this to occur, and so the residence of this
for Democrats is going to continue going forward. And again
I just say, leave aside politics. Is there a single
person in America that can defend this? I mean, what
is your defense that somebody should be able to illegally
come into the country and commit a crime and there
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should be no consequences for it. That's just, to me
a crazy town argument to make. And I don't even
hear anybody making that argument. They just pretend it isn't
actually on the ballot.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Well, you know, it's not crazy to somebody who takes
the position that we should give the legals free health care,
which if you remember, in the twenty twenty Democrat primary,
all raise their hands on that stage and one of
the debate nights about how they wanted to give Obamacare
which is effectively subsidized you know, Medicare expansion whatever you
want to call it, or a Medicaid expansion.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I mean, they wanted to give free health care to illegals.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
What you start to get very close to here, and
this is where I think a lot of the the
heat and the outrage. Other than there's the crime aspect
what you're talking about, right, the additional crime of the illegality,
which should just seem like something that we could all
be on the exact same page about. But then there's
something beyond that too, Clay. Do Democrats think that there's
really any that that the US government should treat an
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illegal any differently than it treats an American citizen?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And I think the answer is quite clearly no.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I mean, if they had their way, they they would
just wave a wand and say no, now you're an
American too, and you get all the same stuff they
don't view that they don't There's nothing about being an
American to them that is uh, you know, that is
more than just the president of physical being here in
this country, and that's not the way it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Effectively. They believe in a border less world, yes, and
in a border less world, if there were no borders,
everybody wants to live in the United States because we're
the greatest country in the world, which is ironic because
Democrats would argue that we are also simultaneously not the
greatest country in the world, and that we're supremely racist,
which is why the ultimate lie here is if we
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were so racist, why are so many people trying to
die to get here?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
And then also, you know, the one thing that this
government is still really good at is building a massive
and onerous and burdens some tax code for the people
who are here legally that we all have to deal with,
so that then stuff can be given to people who
are here illegally and those laws don't count. I don't
know how anyone can see that as anything other than
a giant's lap in the face.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
To actual Americans.
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Biden was flying around the area of the buyers apparently
though it is gonna be Biden, it has been Biden
photo op time. He is technically still the president for
a few more days. Emphasis on the technically. He's technically
been president the last four years. Again, emphasis on the technically.
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Did you see that meme that Trump put up, by
the way, with where it's like all the presidents and
then it's a bunch of advisors instead of Biden, and
then it's him again.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, it was pretty funny anyway.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Yeah, Biden theoretically or at least officially speaking, the president,
and he spoke today and I'm just gonna let you
hear what he said. The audio is not fantastic, but
I think you'll catch the last part.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Play it. So he's talking about it, I couldn't hear.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, he's bragging about he's in LA and he's bragging
about becoming a great grandfather today, which I hope some
of you out there have become great grandparents. I hope
that Buck and I live long enough to be great
grandparents one day. I don't think that I'd be bragging
about being a great grandfather in Los Angeles while the
city was burning around me. And I think this is
just indicative of not only a crazy level of tone deafness,
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but also a certain level of hubris that is even
for a president, on a level that I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We've seen before.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And I just I mean, wouldn't you think, Buck, if
you were advising Biden, maybe don't talk about the fact
that you are becoming a great grandfather today. There's plenty
of time you could tell people in the next thirteen days.
But you're in Los Angeles while it's burning and you
talk about that. And by the way, that I don't
think most people in Los Angeles feel like the government
is doing a great job of helping them with the
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catastrophe right now. And then you say, oh, the city's
burning down, but here's some good news. I became a
great grandfather today. I just the incongruity of that. It
should even if you're not a particularly smart politician, that's
not something that's going to endear you to the American public.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I think it's fair to say though no one really
expects anything else or more from him anymore. No one
really expects anything from him and hasn't for a while now,
including Democrats. It's just the whole thing is as absurd.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
You know.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I saw something Chuck Schumer was being pressed. I think
it was somewhere on Fox. I saw the clip about
whether you know they were dishonest.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
About buydens actually on me NBC Wisdom.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, and and and he's still and Chuck Schumer still
lies about it.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And it's it's absurd.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
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awfulness of the fires that are taking place in California,
and I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Make sure that we shared this. Gavin Newsome.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
In April of twenty twenty one, Buck bragged that wildfire
preparedness will be better now that Joe Biden is in
office instead of Trump. So he made this political in
April of twenty twenty one. Here's Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Listen.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
That's what's different now is we are committed as a team,
as a partnership with the legislature and other state agencies,
including now the federal government. No longer a sparring partner,
but a working partner federal government, where we're not addressing
headwinds but tailwinds in terms of the support a memoran
of understanding, doubling our respective commitments to vegetation management and
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forest management and prescribed burns, A support the Biden administration
with resources, not just rhetoric to help this collective cause.
It's a different paradigm, it's a different framework.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Well, I would suggest wamp womp. Actually not a lot
of success there from Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
It's amazing how you can go back in time on
so many issues and find some pompous Gavin Newsom's speech
about how he's addressing some great like major problem in
the state of California, and then you can just fast
forward a few years and it will always be worse
whatever it was, whether it's homelessness, or the environment or
you know, you name it, what air crime. Gavin Newsom
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has has a remarkable ability to hold the press conference,
to pat himself on the back for the huge victories
to come, and then you get nothing but defeats. And
I think, Clay, you know, there's this This could be
a moment where a lot of people, even those we're
not directly affected by the fire. I think that the
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you know, this is what something that Adam Carolla was
touching on when he was with us in the last hour.
People can think about what's happened here and there may
be some some real consequences for the state of More
and more people just deciding, look, you're you're not doing
the You're taking the maximum in terms of taxation, which
is clearly the case, and you're really not hitting the minimum,
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which is keep us safe, keep us secure, keep the
public services in a place where they can make sure
my house doesn't get caught one catch on fire Buck.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I mentioned the amount of time that I've spent in
La working because Fox Sports is based there. I remember
the first time in twenty thirteen that I got my paycheck.
I couldn't believe how much state and local taxes they
took out because I live, as you point out, in Tennessee,
where we have no state income tax, and I would travel,
you know, four hour flight cross country get to La,
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go do television out there. And when I got my paycheck,
I got taxed by LA because I was doing the
television shows in LA. And that ties in with cut
twenty one here that I want to play for you,
you're paying fourteen plus percent state income tax. To your point,
you would think with all of the money and resources
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and natural advantages that California has, that they would have
the best possible infrastructure that they would look like some
of these countries, frankly in Europe and Scandinavia that are
high tax, but also everything kind of works flawlessly. Instead,
much of it is broken. And they're now saying, yeah,
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we don't have enough firemen to be able to take
care of the people of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Listen to this.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
No, La County and all twenty nine fire departments in
our county are not prepared for this type of widespread disaster.
There are not enough firefighters in LA County to address
four separate fires of this magnitude. The LA County Fire
department was prepared for one or two major brush fires,
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but not four, especially given these sustained wins and low humidities.
So we're doing the very best we can. But no,
we don't have enough fire personnel in La County between
all of the departments to handle this.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Thank you now, Karen Bass, who is the mayor that
is in Ghana that is not present right now, cut
the amount of funding that the fire department got. And
also Buck you know what she decided. This is not
going to surprise any of you. The thing the fire
department needs to be focused on is diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Here is cut six LA County posting this video on
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how firefighters train in the EI. Maybe they should train
putting out fires. I know it's crazy idea. Listen to
cuts in.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
They're hosting our new employee orientation and our focus is
to teach our new employees for them to understand cultural competency,
can identify implicit and unconscious bias, and be aware of
the importance of us having a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Diversity is important because the different people bring different lenses
to their job and those different ideas, those different lenses
are important to have the best practices for our industry.
The Los Angeles County Fire Departments would be recognized nationally
and possibly even globally as an agency that was very
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serious about diversity, equity and inclusion.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
How about you very serious about putting buyers out buck,
I mean, is that kind of maybe what you'd like
the focus to be.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I can't imagine what else the focus would be or
should be, if you were taking this as seriously as
it should be. I look, they're going to say what
they always say in these situations. You know you can
walk in chew gum at the same time, and that
you know you can have diversity while you have an
excellent fire department, Well, you don't have enough resources. You
don't have enough people, and you're spending time in resources,
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not just getting in the numbers and the you know,
necessarily the kind of expertise that that you would want
because you're focused on something else. And that's that's a
valid point to bring up at this stage. And I
think that you're going to see more and more people
who are just fed up with you know, whether it's
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certainly on the fire department side, think about this different perspectives.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Like what I know, it's infuriating.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Put put out the fire, save to people like, well,
what's the I don't think there's an alternative perspective to
this that we need to hear, right, So what's the
alternative perspective that we need it?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It's all very you.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Know, self indulgence and self aggrandizing, this DEI stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And also it only is a sign of lack of significance.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
The first thing they did when Ukraine got invaded buck
they banned men eighteen to fifty from being able to
leave the country because men actually fight wars on a
day to day basis. They didn't say suddenly like, oh,
what are we going to do about trans inclusivity. The
more serious the struggle that you face, the less all
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this deibs matters in any respect. And yet every time
we're having one of these crisis situations emerge, you're finding
out that your tax dollars have been going not to
subsidize the greatest firefighting training imaginable, such that maybe you
prepare for more than two wildfires simultaneously. Maybe you have
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in exigent circumstances for what's the worst case scenario that
could happen, so you could put in place a policy
to enable you to protect as many people as possible. Instead,
they've been recruiting based on your race and your religion,
and you and your identity, and it has nothing to
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do with putting out a fire, which is the only
thing anybody should care about.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I also think that if they had done, if they
had taken substantial measures. You know, one thing that California
is really good at is spending.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
The public's money, right.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I mean, that's one thing that the Democrat uniparty of
California excels at. And so if they had spent money
on things that now they could point to and say,
see we were ahead of this, Look at the great
job we did on and then you know, fill in
the blank. In terms of preparation for an event like this,
we would be hearing about it. And yet we know
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that Karen bass cutt what's seventeen million? I think it
was close to three million. I was going to raise
twenty three. The La Times editor just tweeted this buck.
Our hearts go out to those who have lost their
home owner, I should say, not the editor. Our hearts
go out to those who have lost their homes and
are seeking shelter. Fires in La Are sadly no surprise
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yet the mayor cut LA Fire Department's budget by twenty
three million, and reports of empty fire high durance raise
serious questions competent competence matters. Follow the LA Times for
live coverage. The live camera view coverage will give our
readers a real time view of the fires and the
stream is open to all people in Los Angeles Stay safe.
But again, this is the owner of the LA Times
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in the last hour, pointing out that the processes in
place to respond to a crisis like this were severely flawed,
and again, further building on the DEI absurdity, the Mayor
of Los Angeles is in Ghana attending an inauguration of
the president of Ghana Ghana. I don't know exactly, Buck,
(28:39):
but I would bet that Ghana is the this is
I don't even know how you could look like the
seventy eighth most important trade partner of Los Angeles. I mean,
we're not talking about some significant impact on the people
of Los Angeles on a day to day basis based
on who the president of Ghana is. Yeah, I mean, look,
it's obviously a very bad look for.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
The Mayor of Los Angeles. To be gone.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And it's one thing, it's not like she was in Vancouver, right,
I mean right, it's not like she was in a
neighbor in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Right, I mean somebody who that actually neighbors California.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
But she yeah, look she's she's coming back now, and
she's already. You see she's tweeting out, you know, congratt,
not congrats, but thanks to all the firefighters for all
their hard work that kind of stuff. But you know,
California's budget's like three hundred and something billion dollars, and
you know, I think of the fire budgets, like two
or three billion for fire prevention. I mean, I'm just
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looking up some of these numbers now, resource management, fire prevention,
it's a few billion.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Dollars a year. I mean, what are the losses going
to be?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Just didn't forget about obviously the most important thing of
all his lives. Put that aside for a moment. What
are the losses going to be just from this one fire?
And when you just think about budget allocation and the
efforts to try to stop this sort of thing, it
just seems like obviously California, as I have come up
short and people are outraged about it, and you know,
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there doesn't seem to be much accountability, you know, doesn't
There wasn't much accountability about the way the Maui fire
was handled either, though. I mean, this is we're noticing
a theme here, a trend. Horrible fire breaks out, response
is insufficient, Lives are lost, tons of property destroyed, and
no one's ever accountable or even comes up with a
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plan for how we're going to make sure this doesn't
happen next time.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
You're right, and this sounds, I hate to say it
similar when our callers are I think as Adam Krola
telling us about the power lines and the lack of
infrastructure support. That's what started the fires in Maui to
a large extent, was it was the sparking, and then
there were winds and everything else, But it initially started
with the electricity, the power lines collapsing and starting a
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small fire that had turned into a large fire. We're
going to try to trace back, obviously where all of
these fires ended up coming, but I think there's going
to be a lot of blame to go around because
the fires have become so significant.
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It's Numbers Game is out this week. To check that out.
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The buckbrief goes in there too. I'll be doing some
Buck briefs this week. Is now that my voice is
a little bit better, it was tough, man, Clay, you know,
you know, with the fever sometimes you just got to
sweat it out, man, and it's.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Not feel better. You feel back to one hundred percent
or what percent?
Speaker 4 (33:09):
No, I'm like, I'm like fifty fifty percent, wow, maybe sixty.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, my voice I really tell with them always Today.
Yesterday you were fading as the show was going on.
I've just got a lot, a lot of fatigue. But
there's something something going around out there everybody. I'm telling you,
a lot of people I know are getting whacked with
all kinds of whatever. It is, a coal, the flu,
or you know, some kind of something. Make sure you hydrate, hydrate,
and rest. Very important stuff for everybody out there. We
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got some calls for the end of the show. Brian
in Los Angeles. Brian, what have you got for us?
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah? Hi, guys. You know, first of all, I'm a
longtime Rush listener from day one, and thank you for
taking over his legacy. Your guys are doing a great job.
Sure to appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Adam, He's he's captured some of it. But I'm a
sixty sixty year old native here to Los Angeles. My
family's been in southern California since the nineteen twenty so
we you know, we've lived through it all. But nobody's
talking about the cause and the cause of all this
and why all of a sudden we're having these meg
(34:14):
up brush and forest fires is just because of just incompetence,
the water shortage is, for example, the Sacramento Delta, where
we were getting about oh a lot of our six
hundred and fifty thousand cubic feet of water brought down
through the California Aqueduct system down to southern California. That
fed seventeen million residents in businesses since the nineteen sixties.
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They cut that off about twenty years ago. Now they're
sending it over to the San Francisco Bay. So they
cut that off, then they're knocked down. I'm not sure
if you're aware of this, but the last thirty years
they've knocked down one hundred dams, Climate Dam, San Clementy Dam.
I'm a water skier, snowscier, surfer, so I know this
stuff pretty well divores during our dry years because they've
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cut off the water from the Delta is now and
the dry seasons at anywhere between thirty to fifty five
percent of capacity, and then they're forcing us into water rationing.
They're only capturing because they knocked down all these dams,
about ten percent of the rainfall they're capturing, and you
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know that has an impact on water supply ordinances. Since
I was a kid, the Forestry Department used to go
in and do the clear cutting, dead brush and tree removal.
They used to do the backburns, they used to burn
the dead brush. They because of ordinances, they won't let
them go out there and pull out all the dead
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brush and tree removal. You've probably heard about Paradise, California,
where my aunt and uncle lived. Where where that's just
entire community got burnt down. Another subject that you guys
are not talking about. You keep saying, well, Californians with
US Conservatives, they're just bailing out. Well, when they passed
vot voter well, h wincident coincidence fifteen twenty years ago.
(36:08):
They've been you know, we've been dealing with election fraud.
There's an estimated three to five million fraudulent or illegal
vote illegal voting in our elections out of fifteen million
votes casted. I mean, how do you go from Reagan,
Magian Wilson, such great governors to the to what we
have now?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Thank you for the call.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Look, it is indisputable that California is a jewel of
the world, and that they have with Democrat rule in
both cities and states, Buck turned it into in many
ways a awful place to live and at some point
they have to make and take responsibility and start to
fix themselves. Slay Travis and Buck Sexton on the front
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on there. We'll take some of your calls if you're
in that California region, you want to tell us what
you are seeing right now as it comes to the wildfires.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
But there is a lot going on, not.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Only associated with what's going on in California, but all
the way across the country as we prepare for the
inauguration of Donald Trump. There is action in Congress. We
have a new speaker, as we told you last week,
Mike Johnson officially in and John Thune the Senate majority leader,
and they passed already a bill I believe it's the
first bill that they passed, the Lake and Riley Act
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in the House with some Democrats support and unanimity on
the Republican side, which would say if you're arrested for
a crime that you are immediately deported. Because Lake and
Riley's alleged killer was arrested in New York and was
not deported. And now there is a major discussion surrounding that.
(01:49):
That has moved to the Senate, where Republicans have fifty
three votes. But John Fetterman says that if they can't
get the Democrats seven votes to get them to sixty
and it passed any sort of filibuster related activity, that
this is the reason why we lost, meaning the Democrat
Party in the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I think there's some truth to it cut ten.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
If you're here illegally and you're committing crimes and those things.
I don't know why anybody thinks that it's controversial that
they all need to go.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Do you think that this was one of, if not
the biggest issue for this election.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Well, I think if we can't. You know, there's forty
seven of us in the Senate, and if we can't
pull up with seven votes, and if we can't get
at least seven out of forty seven, and if we can't,
then that's the reason why we lost. That's one of them.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
That's one of why we lost. In part.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Common sense to me, Buck, I mean John Fetterman maybe
the most making the most sense of any Democrat in
the Senate.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I just wanted to note that I feel this clay
when we talk about Fetterman. And also it came up
when we were discussing Mark Zuckerberg yesterday. You know, when
someone says the right thing and you want to say, well,
that's the right thing, it doesn't mean that you forget
about all the things that they have done before. So
we can't always do the preamble because I don't know
if you got this, I saw a little heat about oh, well,
(03:13):
Zuckerberg doing the right thing. Now he did all this
terrible damage to free speech. Yeah, and we've been talking
about that for years. But when someone says the right thing,
I'm not gonna say it's the wrong thing. And with Fetterman,
he has had a habit now of being among the
most reasonable in his public pronouncements. Democrats in the Senate. Now,
(03:35):
is he still going to vote lockstep with Chuck Schumer
on everything?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That's what really matters. So we haven't lost sight of that. Right.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
It's one thing to get a good SoundBite on Fox
when you're a Democrat. It's another thing to be willing
to break with your party on common sense issues. Break
with your party's a Democrat and common sense issues go along.
I just wanted to say that because I feel like
every time, you know, we say, look, Fetterman said a
good thing, people say, well, it doesn't mean that he's
you know, it doesn't mean But now we get into
(04:02):
the immigration piece of this clay, they didn't want.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
To go forward. The Democrats rather aren't wanting to go
forward with this.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I think because the illegal immigrant community in the United
States is a favored constituency.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
It's not even just.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
That they don't want to go as far as Donald
Trump does, obviously with mass deportations. The Democrat Party, the
base and the people that are the most ideologically committed
to the left, they think that all of the illegals
are a victim class, right, and so this is why
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they're even sometimes off when it comes to the politics
of this. I've said this about climate change and some
other things too, where their ideology blinds them to the
political reality. And I think that's what we saw in
this election. They're so ideologically invested in the illegal immigrant
ca unity or you know, the illegal aliens, illegal aliens,
(05:03):
they call them undocumented, that they can't see clearly what
the political reality of it may be. And it's because
they think of them as a victim class, predominantly non white.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
They've viewed as a race issue.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
They view it as a you know, anti colonial and
a sort of global one world government issue. There's all
kinds of stuff that comes together. But the Democrats would
stand in the way the possibility, I should say, if
Democrats trying to stand in the way here of telling
people of deporting people who are already deportable under the law.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And that's a part of this that's so important.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
It's not like you're not deportable just because you haven't
committed a crime, but now you're committing additional crimes.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Why wouldn't you.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Be detained at that point and be subject to being
sent back to the country that is your actual country
of origin and nationality.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
One hundred and fifty nine, I believe is the number
of Democrats voted against this bill. To think about how
crazy that is, and Fetterman is saying, we need to
get seven out of forty seven, whatever your politics are.
If someone, to Buck's point, is illegally here and then
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they aid further in that act of illegality by committing
a crime in a country that they are legally in,
they are arrested for that crime. So not only have
they committed a crime, they've been arrested. And we all
know the number of times that you commit a crime
and get arrested is actually lower than the number of
(06:28):
crimes that you're committing. Right, Most people don't get arrested
the first time they stand athwart the law, particularly in
a blue city or a blue state where they have delegitimized.
The arrest of criminals in general, How in the world
could you defend this, like just leave aside Democrat, Republican, independent,
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and if people just think rationally, how could you defend
your community having people.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Who are illegally there and then on.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Top of the illegality of their being there, they then
commit an act of illegality on top of that. It
is absolute bonker banana land that you could have a
political party that doesn't advocate for those people being sent
out of the country. And then we know once you're
(07:22):
committing crimes, it's not a long stretch to say that
you're likely to commit another crime. And this is what happened.
If you're not familiar or have forgotten, this is called
the Lake and Riley Act because not only was she
killed and attacked by an illegal.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Immigrant, raped and murdered.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yes, she should have never had to deal with this,
because this guy was arrested in New York and should
have been sent right out of the country right then
and there, instead of allowed to go to Georgia and
commit another crime.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
A New York, under policy made by the mayor and
the City Council as makes the affirmative decision that they
will not even they will not work with ice. They
will not they will not listen to any detainer requests
from Immigrations and Customs enforcement. So they actively make it
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harder for federal law enforcement to do their job. This
is what sanctuary jurisdictions are. And think about that. I mean,
think about how many cities there are in the country
where there is a policy in place that law enforcement
authorities make it harder for federal law enforcement to do
their job. And I know they say, oh, we don't
have to do that, so that's it. Yeah, But in
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so many other areas clay of the law. I mean,
I've said this before. If it's a drug case, a
terrorism case, when the FEDS asked the you know, the
state or local law enforcement for help, they work together
all the time. It's only on this issue where you
have this this effort at almost near nullification by the
local law enforcement or you know, the the certainly the
(08:57):
ignoring if nullification is too strong word, ignore during the
federal law because they think it's politically expedient to do so,
or at least they're the people that are writing the
checks think it's politically expedient to do so. I don't
think this is going to play well for Democrats though,
going forward, I think that they've got a real problem
here because the numbers under Biden got so extreme. They
had to admit that this was a disaster and crime
(09:20):
is an issue. And when you're allowing criminals that shouldn't
be here to stay here, I don't understand how anyone,
regardless of their politics, can defend this policy. Well, Clay, also,
remember it's when they're talking about something like stealing. It
shouldn't be that hard to be in this country and
not and not steal right, That should be pretty that
should be pretty straightforward. But also on the politics of this,
remember we don't think about, you know, Kamala right now.
(09:42):
Where she Kamala's going to I think Germany, baff Rain
and where else, Guys, I forget, there's a third one.
It's I didn't even know this, I like Brunei or something.
I mean, she's going to like some real guard of Singapore.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Singapore. I think that's where she is.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Is the last boondoggle, you know, it's a last tax
funded vacation. And we don't think about Kamala very much
these days for you know, many reasons. Thankfully, yeah, thankfully,
But remember when she was talking about building the wall.
I mean, that's the Democrats were in this tough spot
because their internal numbers were showing and obviously the election
(10:19):
played this out, or the election proved this. Their internal
numbers were showing they were in a terrible position on immigration,
and so they started to have Kamala just test out.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You know, yeah, I'm going to also build a wall.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Do you remember.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I mean, it's it almost feels like it was. It
was surreal, like it couldn't have actually happened. And I
think the Democrats still are in this position where their
base does not want to bend to the reality that
sixty percent of the American people are just not with
them on all the illegals continuing to pile in and
a lot of the illegals being allowed to stay.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
And this is it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
No, I was just gonna say the Lake and Riley Act.
To your point, Buck, Lake and Riley is not going
to be the last victim here. So when Democrats are
not voting for this, the next time, sadly that someone
who is completely innocent, like Laken Riley gets raped and
murdered by an illegal who had previously been arrested, everyone
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is going to say, wait, a minute. You voted to
allow this to occur, and so the residence of this
for Democrats is going to continue going forward. And again
I just say, leave aside politics. Is there a single
person in America that can defend this? I mean, what
is your defense that somebody should be able to illegally
come into the country and commit a crime and there
(11:36):
should be no consequences for it. That's just, to me
a crazy town argument to make. And I don't even
hear anybody making that argument. They just pretend it isn't
actually on the ballot.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Well, you know, it's not crazy to somebody who takes
the position that we should give the legals free health care,
which if you remember, in the twenty twenty Democrat primary,
all raise their hands on that stage and one of
the debate nights about how they wanted to give Obamacare
which is effectively subsidized you know, Medicare expansion whatever you
want to call it, or a Medicaid expansion.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I mean, they wanted to give free health care to illegals.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
What you start to get very close to here, and
this is where I think a lot of the the
heat and the outrage. Other than there's the crime aspect
what you're talking about, right, the additional crime of the illegality,
which should just seem like something that we could all
be on the exact same page about. But then there's
something beyond that too, Clay. Do Democrats think that there's
really any that that the US government should treat an
(12:37):
illegal any differently than it treats an American citizen?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And I think the answer is quite clearly no.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I mean, if they had their way, they they would
just wave a wand and say no, now you're an
American too, and you get all the same stuff they
don't view that they don't There's nothing about being an
American to them that is uh, you know, that is
more than just the president of physical being here in
this country, and that's not the way it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Effectively. They believe in a border less world, yes, and
in a border less world, if there were no borders,
everybody wants to live in the United States because we're
the greatest country in the world, which is ironic because
Democrats would argue that we are also simultaneously not the
greatest country in the world, and that we're supremely racist,
which is why the ultimate lie here is if we
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were so racist, why are so many people trying to
die to get here?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
And then also, you know, the one thing that this
government is still really good at is building a massive
and onerous and burdens some tax code for the people
who are here legally that we all have to deal with,
so that then stuff can be given to people who
are here illegally and those laws don't count. I don't
know how anyone can see that as anything other than
a giant's lap in the face.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
To actual Americans.
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Biden was flying around the area of the buyers apparently
though it is gonna be Biden, it has been Biden
photo op time. He is technically still the president for
a few more days. Emphasis on the technically. He's technically
been president the last four years. Again, emphasis on the technically.
(15:27):
Did you see that meme that Trump put up, by
the way, with where it's like all the presidents and
then it's a bunch of advisors instead of Biden, and
then it's him again.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, it was pretty funny anyway.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Yeah, Biden theoretically or at least officially speaking, the president,
and he spoke today and I'm just gonna let you
hear what he said. The audio is not fantastic, but
I think you'll catch the last part.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Play it. So he's talking about it, I couldn't hear.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, he's bragging about he's in LA and he's bragging
about becoming a great grandfather today, which I hope some
of you out there have become great grandparents. I hope
that Buck and I live long enough to be great
grandparents one day. I don't think that I'd be bragging
about being a great grandfather in Los Angeles while the
city was burning around me. And I think this is
just indicative of not only a crazy level of tone deafness,
(16:30):
but also a certain level of hubris that is even
for a president, on a level that I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We've seen before.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And I just I mean, wouldn't you think, Buck, if
you were advising Biden, maybe don't talk about the fact
that you are becoming a great grandfather today. There's plenty
of time you could tell people in the next thirteen days.
But you're in Los Angeles while it's burning and you
talk about that. And by the way, that I don't
think most people in Los Angeles feel like the government
is doing a great job of helping them with the
(17:03):
catastrophe right now. And then you say, oh, the city's
burning down, but here's some good news. I became a
great grandfather today. I just the incongruity of that. It
should even if you're not a particularly smart politician, that's
not something that's going to endear you to the American public.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I think it's fair to say though no one really
expects anything else or more from him anymore. No one
really expects anything from him and hasn't for a while now,
including Democrats. It's just the whole thing is as absurd.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
You know.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I saw something Chuck Schumer was being pressed. I think
it was somewhere on Fox. I saw the clip about
whether you know they were dishonest.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
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Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, and and and he's still and Chuck Schumer still
lies about it.
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And it's it's absurd.
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awfulness of the fires that are taking place in California,
and I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Make sure that we shared this. Gavin Newsome.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
In April of twenty twenty one, Buck bragged that wildfire
preparedness will be better now that Joe Biden is in
office instead of Trump. So he made this political in
April of twenty twenty one. Here's Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Listen.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
That's what's different now is we are committed as a team,
as a partnership with the legislature and other state agencies,
including now the federal government. No longer a sparring partner,
but a working partner federal government, where we're not addressing
headwinds but tailwinds in terms of the support a memoran
of understanding, doubling our respective commitments to vegetation management and
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forest management and prescribed burns, A support the Biden administration
with resources, not just rhetoric to help this collective cause.
It's a different paradigm, it's a different framework.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Well, I would suggest wamp womp. Actually not a lot
of success there from Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
It's amazing how you can go back in time on
so many issues and find some pompous Gavin Newsom's speech
about how he's addressing some great like major problem in
the state of California, and then you can just fast
forward a few years and it will always be worse
whatever it was, whether it's homelessness, or the environment or
you know, you name it, what air crime. Gavin Newsom
(20:37):
has has a remarkable ability to hold the press conference,
to pat himself on the back for the huge victories
to come, and then you get nothing but defeats. And
I think, Clay, you know, there's this This could be
a moment where a lot of people, even those we're
not directly affected by the fire. I think that the
(20:58):
you know, this is what something that Adam Carolla was
touching on when he was with us in the last hour.
People can think about what's happened here and there may
be some some real consequences for the state of More
and more people just deciding, look, you're you're not doing
the You're taking the maximum in terms of taxation, which
is clearly the case, and you're really not hitting the minimum,
(21:20):
which is keep us safe, keep us secure, keep the
public services in a place where they can make sure
my house doesn't get caught one catch on fire Buck.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I mentioned the amount of time that I've spent in
La working because Fox Sports is based there. I remember
the first time in twenty thirteen that I got my paycheck.
I couldn't believe how much state and local taxes they
took out because I live, as you point out, in Tennessee,
where we have no state income tax, and I would travel,
you know, four hour flight cross country get to La,
(21:51):
go do television out there. And when I got my paycheck,
I got taxed by LA because I was doing the
television shows in LA. And that ties in with cut
twenty one here that I want to play for you,
you're paying fourteen plus percent state income tax. To your point,
you would think with all of the money and resources
(22:12):
and natural advantages that California has, that they would have
the best possible infrastructure that they would look like some
of these countries, frankly in Europe and Scandinavia that are
high tax, but also everything kind of works flawlessly. Instead,
much of it is broken. And they're now saying, yeah,
(22:32):
we don't have enough firemen to be able to take
care of the people of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Listen to this.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
No, La County and all twenty nine fire departments in
our county are not prepared for this type of widespread disaster.
There are not enough firefighters in LA County to address
four separate fires of this magnitude. The LA County Fire
department was prepared for one or two major brush fires,
(23:02):
but not four, especially given these sustained wins and low humidities.
So we're doing the very best we can. But no,
we don't have enough fire personnel in La County between
all of the departments to handle this.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Thank you now, Karen Bass, who is the mayor that
is in Ghana that is not present right now, cut
the amount of funding that the fire department got. And
also Buck you know what she decided. This is not
going to surprise any of you. The thing the fire
department needs to be focused on is diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Here is cut six LA County posting this video on
(23:39):
how firefighters train in the EI. Maybe they should train
putting out fires. I know it's crazy idea. Listen to
cuts in.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
They're hosting our new employee orientation and our focus is
to teach our new employees for them to understand cultural competency,
can identify implicit and unconscious bias, and be aware of
the importance of us having a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Diversity is important because the different people bring different lenses
to their job and those different ideas, those different lenses
are important to have the best practices for our industry.
The Los Angeles County Fire Departments would be recognized nationally
and possibly even globally as an agency that was very
(24:27):
serious about diversity, equity and inclusion.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
How about you very serious about putting buyers out buck,
I mean, is that kind of maybe what you'd like
the focus to be.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I can't imagine what else the focus would be or
should be, if you were taking this as seriously as
it should be. I look, they're going to say what
they always say in these situations. You know you can
walk in chew gum at the same time, and that
you know you can have diversity while you have an
excellent fire department, Well, you don't have enough resources. You
don't have enough people, and you're spending time in resources,
(25:01):
not just getting in the numbers and the you know,
necessarily the kind of expertise that that you would want
because you're focused on something else. And that's that's a
valid point to bring up at this stage. And I
think that you're going to see more and more people
who are just fed up with you know, whether it's
(25:22):
certainly on the fire department side, think about this different perspectives.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Like what I know, it's infuriating.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Put put out the fire, save to people like, well,
what's the I don't think there's an alternative perspective to
this that we need to hear, right, So what's the
alternative perspective that we need it?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It's all very you.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Know, self indulgence and self aggrandizing, this DEI stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And also it only is a sign of lack of significance.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
The first thing they did when Ukraine got invaded buck
they banned men eighteen to fifty from being able to
leave the country because men actually fight wars on a
day to day basis. They didn't say suddenly like, oh,
what are we going to do about trans inclusivity. The
more serious the struggle that you face, the less all
(26:12):
this deibs matters in any respect. And yet every time
we're having one of these crisis situations emerge, you're finding
out that your tax dollars have been going not to
subsidize the greatest firefighting training imaginable, such that maybe you
prepare for more than two wildfires simultaneously. Maybe you have
(26:36):
in exigent circumstances for what's the worst case scenario that
could happen, so you could put in place a policy
to enable you to protect as many people as possible. Instead,
they've been recruiting based on your race and your religion,
and you and your identity, and it has nothing to
(26:58):
do with putting out a fire, which is the only
thing anybody should care about.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I also think that if they had done, if they
had taken substantial measures. You know, one thing that California
is really good at is spending.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
The public's money, right.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I mean, that's one thing that the Democrat uniparty of
California excels at. And so if they had spent money
on things that now they could point to and say,
see we were ahead of this, Look at the great
job we did on and then you know, fill in
the blank. In terms of preparation for an event like this,
we would be hearing about it. And yet we know
(27:34):
that Karen bass cutt what's seventeen million? I think it
was close to three million. I was going to raise
twenty three. The La Times editor just tweeted this buck.
Our hearts go out to those who have lost their
home owner, I should say, not the editor. Our hearts
go out to those who have lost their homes and
are seeking shelter. Fires in La Are sadly no surprise
(27:54):
yet the mayor cut LA Fire Department's budget by twenty
three million, and reports of empty fire high durance raise
serious questions competent competence matters. Follow the LA Times for
live coverage. The live camera view coverage will give our
readers a real time view of the fires and the
stream is open to all people in Los Angeles Stay safe.
But again, this is the owner of the LA Times
(28:16):
in the last hour, pointing out that the processes in
place to respond to a crisis like this were severely flawed,
and again, further building on the DEI absurdity, the Mayor
of Los Angeles is in Ghana attending an inauguration of
the president of Ghana Ghana. I don't know exactly, Buck,
(28:39):
but I would bet that Ghana is the this is
I don't even know how you could look like the
seventy eighth most important trade partner of Los Angeles. I mean,
we're not talking about some significant impact on the people
of Los Angeles on a day to day basis based
on who the president of Ghana is. Yeah, I mean, look,
it's obviously a very bad look for.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
The Mayor of Los Angeles. To be gone.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And it's one thing, it's not like she was in Vancouver, right,
I mean right, it's not like she was in a
neighbor in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Right, I mean somebody who that actually neighbors California.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
But she yeah, look she's she's coming back now, and
she's already. You see she's tweeting out, you know, congratt,
not congrats, but thanks to all the firefighters for all
their hard work that kind of stuff. But you know,
California's budget's like three hundred and something billion dollars, and
you know, I think of the fire budgets, like two
or three billion for fire prevention. I mean, I'm just
(29:35):
looking up some of these numbers now, resource management, fire prevention,
it's a few billion.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Dollars a year. I mean, what are the losses going
to be?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Just didn't forget about obviously the most important thing of
all his lives. Put that aside for a moment. What
are the losses going to be just from this one fire?
And when you just think about budget allocation and the
efforts to try to stop this sort of thing, it
just seems like obviously California, as I have come up
short and people are outraged about it, and you know,
(30:05):
there doesn't seem to be much accountability, you know, doesn't
There wasn't much accountability about the way the Maui fire
was handled either, though. I mean, this is we're noticing
a theme here, a trend. Horrible fire breaks out, response
is insufficient, Lives are lost, tons of property destroyed, and
no one's ever accountable or even comes up with a
(30:26):
plan for how we're going to make sure this doesn't
happen next time.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
You're right, and this sounds, I hate to say it
similar when our callers are I think as Adam Krola
telling us about the power lines and the lack of
infrastructure support. That's what started the fires in Maui to
a large extent, was it was the sparking, and then
there were winds and everything else, But it initially started
with the electricity, the power lines collapsing and starting a
(30:53):
small fire that had turned into a large fire. We're
going to try to trace back, obviously where all of
these fires ended up coming, but I think there's going
to be a lot of blame to go around because
the fires have become so significant.
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Speaker 1 (32:52):
It's Numbers Game is out this week. To check that out.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
The buckbrief goes in there too. I'll be doing some
Buck briefs this week. Is now that my voice is
a little bit better, it was tough, man, Clay, you know,
you know, with the fever sometimes you just got to
sweat it out, man, and it's.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Not feel better. You feel back to one hundred percent
or what percent?
Speaker 4 (33:09):
No, I'm like, I'm like fifty fifty percent, wow, maybe sixty.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, my voice I really tell with them always Today.
Yesterday you were fading as the show was going on.
I've just got a lot, a lot of fatigue. But
there's something something going around out there everybody. I'm telling you,
a lot of people I know are getting whacked with
all kinds of whatever. It is, a coal, the flu,
or you know, some kind of something. Make sure you hydrate, hydrate,
and rest. Very important stuff for everybody out there. We
(33:36):
got some calls for the end of the show. Brian
in Los Angeles. Brian, what have you got for us?
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah? Hi, guys. You know, first of all, I'm a
longtime Rush listener from day one, and thank you for
taking over his legacy. Your guys are doing a great job.
Sure to appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Adam, He's he's captured some of it. But I'm a
sixty sixty year old native here to Los Angeles. My
family's been in southern California since the nineteen twenty so
we you know, we've lived through it all. But nobody's
talking about the cause and the cause of all this
and why all of a sudden we're having these meg
(34:14):
up brush and forest fires is just because of just incompetence,
the water shortage is, for example, the Sacramento Delta, where
we were getting about oh a lot of our six
hundred and fifty thousand cubic feet of water brought down
through the California Aqueduct system down to southern California. That
fed seventeen million residents in businesses since the nineteen sixties.
(34:39):
They cut that off about twenty years ago. Now they're
sending it over to the San Francisco Bay. So they
cut that off, then they're knocked down. I'm not sure
if you're aware of this, but the last thirty years
they've knocked down one hundred dams, Climate Dam, San Clementy Dam.
I'm a water skier, snowscier, surfer, so I know this
stuff pretty well divores during our dry years because they've
(35:02):
cut off the water from the Delta is now and
the dry seasons at anywhere between thirty to fifty five
percent of capacity, and then they're forcing us into water rationing.
They're only capturing because they knocked down all these dams,
about ten percent of the rainfall they're capturing, and you
(35:22):
know that has an impact on water supply ordinances. Since
I was a kid, the Forestry Department used to go
in and do the clear cutting, dead brush and tree removal.
They used to do the backburns, they used to burn
the dead brush. They because of ordinances, they won't let
them go out there and pull out all the dead
(35:44):
brush and tree removal. You've probably heard about Paradise, California,
where my aunt and uncle lived. Where where that's just
entire community got burnt down. Another subject that you guys
are not talking about. You keep saying, well, Californians with
US Conservatives, they're just bailing out. Well, when they passed
vot voter well, h wincident coincidence fifteen twenty years ago.
(36:08):
They've been you know, we've been dealing with election fraud.
There's an estimated three to five million fraudulent or illegal
vote illegal voting in our elections out of fifteen million
votes casted. I mean, how do you go from Reagan,
Magian Wilson, such great governors to the to what we
have now?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Thank you for the call.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Look, it is indisputable that California is a jewel of
the world, and that they have with Democrat rule in
both cities and states, Buck turned it into in many
ways a awful place to live and at some point
they have to make and take responsibility and start to
fix themselves. Slay Travis and Buck Sexton on the front
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lines of truth
Speaker 5 (37:03):
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