October 26, 2025 • 25 mins
The No Kings protesters are clueless losers who have no idea they’re the ones advocating autocratic rule. President Trump is the furthest thing from a King, a fascist or a threat to democracy. The leftwing lunatics just want to be a part of something and most are seniors re-living their glory days of the 60's. President Trump revealed that an anonymous donor contributed $130 million to cover military pay shortfalls during the ongoing government shutdown. Clay and Buck speculate on the donor’s identity and criticize Democrats for prolonging the shutdown, emphasizing its impact on everyday Americans living paycheck to paycheck. They also mention bipartisan efforts in the Senate to reopen the government.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Team forty seven with Clay and Buck starts. Now, everyone
out there who spent their weekend wasting a beautiful fall
Saturday to protest, you have had tremendous success. You have
managed to ensure that President Trump is not in fact
a king, and you have reiterated the fact that we
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won the Revolutionary War in seventeen eighty three and once
and for all kicked the king to the curb. This
is I think we could have some fun with this
right off the jump, Buck, I so.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Let me give you a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Remember I said, I bet that the momentum to get
the government shut down to the extent that people are
worried about the government shut down, that it would drastically
change as soon as the No King's protest was over.
There is now evidently a lot of momentum for the
government shutdown to be ended. They may drag it on
through the elections if they think they get some form
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of benefit in Virginia, New Jersey, or New York City
over the government shutdown, but there now is momentum that
there may be a resolution there and I think this
was to a large extent, just the Chuck Schumers and
Hakeem Jeffreyes of the world, knowing that a no King's
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protest was coming. If they bent the knee to King
Trump before the protest, it would have stripped whatever modicum
of energy might still have existed in these mostly old
white people protests. That looks frankly, quite pathetic and bedraggled.
As we said when we went to the drove through
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the protest in the cold rain in January of twenty
twenty five, as Trump was preparing to be inaugurated. So
all of this feels like a big nothing burger, so
to speak. But they are arguing, Oh my goodness, this
is amazing. What was your takeaway? We did Fox News
together on Saturday morning, right before the no Kings protests
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took off.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
With our friend.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Kaylee mcananey. But the whole thing is just it just
feels desperate, and every time they do one of these
protests they feel less efficient and less effective and just
make me feel sad for the protesters more than anything else.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, this just shows you where the state of things
currently lies. They are really ineffective at coming up with
something that sounds cool.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And has teeth behind it.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So much so that they're doing this thing that you
ask yourself immediately, what is the point of this? If
there was a no Purple Sky protest, you would say
to yourself, right, yeah, big, big success. We're good, Like
we've got that covered. Trump is obviously not a king.
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This sounds very emotionally erratic and unstable, this whole notion
of Donald Trump as a monarch. They have a guy
here who is constantly having to go to corps to
deal with this federal judge or that federal judge. You
got the government shut down because of what Congress is doing.
There is no reason for people to act like this.
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Although I really do believe the only proper response to
the No King's protest would be to have Trump twenty
twenty eight rallies. Not that I actually think Trump is
going to run in twenty eight, but it'll just really
dig in more to these lunatics. This is one of
these times where they can't even find what the primary
issue is, or they can't come up with what they
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are most upset about, so they've just created did this.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You know? It reminds me like the Women's March.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, right, Yeah, the Women's March was really just code
for like abortion and also like a lot of like
feminists who hate Trump because he's clearly not you know,
Trump is not selling the feminists are going to be
particularly fond of. And then there was a hashtag resistance
for a while, but everyone stopped using hashtags. Really, you
don't even really, I don't see them on social media anymore.
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They're too annoying. People don't use them. So hashtag resistance
wasn't really good. Black Lives Matter was a statement of
the obvious and true that was effective in its time
because of the emotional manipulation that they were able to
put behind it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But this just it's just weak. It's sad.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
This is, to me, Clay, the expansion of what we
saw at the anti inauguration protest, which was a bunch
of people that don't even really know why they're there.
They're just upset and they want to be around other
upset people. It was really a loser fest. Yes, and
and I and actually a lot of sad exclamation point
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is what you feel when you see this. Because also,
what's the great purpose of this mobilization, so that maybe
they can take a midterm advantage and they'll be able
to get the House and they'll probably impeach Trump for
the third time.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It be the third third time. That's it.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I mean, Trump's not going to be president all that
much longer. They should maybe come up with why does
the rational part of the country think that the Democrat
Party is insane? And how can they stop being so crazy?
Instead of these very silly and self indulgent protests. It's
all very childish.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, and frankly, I mean, you said what Joe Rogan said,
and I'll play cut nine here in a sec. But
you know what's interesting more than anything else, is I
think and I tweeted something because I just I can't
imagine and I understand that not all of you are
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college football diehards like I am, but I do think
it is a sign of where we are in America,
whatever you're part of the country that you're listening to
us or watching us in right now is mid October
is maybe the greatest time of the year. The weather
tends to be really good almost everywhere. We're getting close
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to Halloween. It's the fall season kind of starting to
kick off. In earnest to give up a beautiful Saturday
to go walk around and protest a democratically elected president
eleven months ago when he won the landslide election. I
just and I watched the videos because I was genuinely
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curious who's going to show up. There is just a segment,
I would say, of people age fifty to seventy five,
primarily who Trump is just broken.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, this is boomers, a lot of boomers who are
trying to relive the night preceding glory of the sixties. Yes,
that's really what this is. And a lot of this
stuff you see with this, The left has a protest culture.
I've been to many of these protests to cover them
or to take photos and video of what they're doing,
and they they really feel the need the same way
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that you're annoying liberal and at Thanksgiving is going to
feel the need to give you her very uninformed opinions
on politics, even when you just want to have some
stuffing and like go home, you don't want to deal
with it. These particular these libs and of the kind
that we're talking about, really think that showing up and
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being a quote part of something like this is some
profound statement of their own worth and importance and it's
actually just sad they should have gone to a college
If I'm not even a big college football guy, Yes,
if I had the choice of go in any college
football game in America or one of these pro tests,
it's one hundred times more fun and enjoyable and worthwhile
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to go to a college football game.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Amen, even though Alabama kicked Tennessee's ass, which is really unfortunate.
I will say, also, you hit on it. In the
nineteen sixties, the energy for protests came from young people,
and those of you who lived through the nineteen sixties
reremind remember that, well, the vast majority of people at
the No King's protests were over the age of sixty five.
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And I do think there's an element of what you're saying, Buck,
which is these people picked their team in the nineteen sixties,
and they don't even realize that they now are the
opposite of the protests that they were having in the
nineteen sixties. They are now protesting in favor of big
government and in favor of all of the things that
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censorship censor. Savor of censorship, Yeah, that's right, and so
that is an irony. Here's Joe Rogan pointing out that
the No Kings protesters ninety nine percent of them are losers.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
All those people that are protesting on the streets, ninety
nine percent of them are losers. The other ones work
for the Fed, FBI agents and losers.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So it is the whole.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Every protest dude is FBI agents and losers.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I talk about this all the time.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I'm like, for me, you want me to join a protest,
you want me to get it on the street first
of all.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
To make a sign out here, and then I still
make the sign.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
There's a guy with a van who's paid by George Soros,
and he's got stats signs that were made at Kinko's. Okay,
they're not homemade at all, and you just just pass
those bad boys out.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
It is very funny. They are complete losers and they
wasteed it fall Saturday, and here's President Trump, who was
asked about it, cut one. I'm not a king. I'm
working my ass off to make our country great. This
was on Air Force One yesterday weekend.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
The New Kings.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I think it's a joke.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
I looked at the people, they're not representative of this country.
And I looked at all the brand new signs I
guess it was paid for by Sarus, another radical left lunatics.
It looks like it was. We're checking it out. The
demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people who
are whacked out when you look at those people, those
are not representative of the people of.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Our counjund.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
And I'm not a king.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I'm not a king.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
I work my ass off to make our country great,
That's all it is.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I'm not a king at all. So Trump is not
a king.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
They were successful if their goal was to stop a
king from being in power. Isn't this also really an
admission though, that Trump politically has defeated them. Yes, if
you're concerned with a president who has been elected twice
despite all of your efforts to stop both of those
from happening, and your concern is this idea that now
he's president for life and therefore more like a king.
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I think they're just they're recognizing that they did everything
they could to stop Donald Trump from being president for
eight years and they fail, so now they create this
It's like don Quixote tilting at windmills, that they create
this fantasy in their minds of well, now our great
cause play is to stop him from being president for life.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yes, he's not going to be president for life, you losers. Okay,
take a calm down moment here, take a chill pill.
As we used to say in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Relax.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well, they can't because that would make them think about
what they're actually doing with their life. I think it
also is embodies the fact that the Trump resistance is
effectively broken everywhere but the judiciary. The judiciary is constantly
making rulings to try to take away President Trump's power.
And that's why much of the discussion that we have
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about what Trump can and cannot do is not about
what the Democrat Party is trying to stop him from doing.
It's what is some unelected federal district court judge doing
when they're trying to say, Hey, the president doesn't have
power to order this or take that action. And it
just kind of feels increasingly pathetic. And Trump, according to
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many different polls that I have seen out there, is
at right now probably his strongest political position in terms
of approval that he has had during the course of
his presidency. We really haven't seen any weakening at all.
As we come up on the one year anniversary of
his election in twenty twenty four, and he's having one
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of the most I think effective presidencies first years that
we've ever seen in the history of the country.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck
just something.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I wanted to close the loopon Clay on the No
Kings protest situation. I think that they're trying so hard,
but I think they're also realizing this just doesn't have punch.
This doesn't have the I don't care how they can
tell me that seven million, they can tell me seventy million.
I it doesn't matter how many individuals with nothing better
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to do. I think your take on this, which I saw,
went viral, and understand why I did. I liked it.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I like it. It was a good take.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
If this is the best thing you have to do
with your weekend, you should really think more about what
you have to do with your weekend. Yes, this is
a This is not a worthwhile usage of anyone's time.
They're trying though, over at MSNBC, Nicole Wallace, This is
Cut twenty two is trying to say that this is member.
Former Republican bush Person Nicole Wallace says that This is
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the new opposition in America, led by the people, Play
twenty two.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
It is the people's right to exercise free speech and
to criticize their elected leaders at the top of their lungs.
And that that very thing is what makes America great.
That is what makes America America, is what makes us
special all around the world until right now. John Trump
showed the world but he thinks of the American people
by literally broadcasting an image of himself pouring feces all
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over America and the American people The note Kings protests
clearly getting deep under Donald Trump's skin over the weekend.
But more importantly, the protests show the contours of a
new opposition in America, one led by the people. According
to the organizers, seven million people came out to protest
Donald Trump on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Play.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Notice how we're not even sure what they're protesting other
than Trump, who's not going to be president a beyond
the next three years, not even running again. And the
notion that they're getting under Trump's skin with is no
actually you want to. We know Trump both in the
from his work but also as a guy, he thinks
that these people are just sad. He actually thinks that
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they're sad and silly.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Even if so, I think.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
There's several things here. One I personally happen to believe,
if you wasted a beautiful fall Saturday protesting Donald Trump,
you are a huge loser. I think most people out
there saw this and saw the protesters and said, you're
all huge losers too. Here is a secondary part of this.
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What is the goal of a protest? To me, the
goal of a protest is to bring attention to an
issue and get people to recognize that you are correct.
I don't think that's the goal of this protest, because
I think in a social media era, protests used to
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be about trying to persuade people to reconsider their position
and join another one. Now, I think protest is just
brand extension for people who already hate Trump to take
photos of themselves and post on Facebook or Instagram or
Twitter or wherever they're active blue sky showing how much
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they hate Trump. Buck around seventy million people voted against
Trump in the twenty twenty four election. Let's say that
that number that they put out there is accurate, and
seven million people nationwide showed up to protest Trump. That
would mean that ninety percent of the people who voted
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against Trump had something better to do than show up
on Saturday and continue to protest Trump. That to me
is what kind of stands out. And did those seven
million people persuade anyone that Trump was a king and
that they should oppose him. No, I think they actually
probably created more Trump supporters, which is why I come
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to the purpose of this protest is about allowing the
protesters to feel better about themselves, not to change any
trajectory of the country.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
You remember when you were a kid and you would
say to somebody maybe or you would hear someone say,
you're not the boss of me? Yes, And I think
that that's generally not a good way to approach things
because by saying it, the implication is that maybe somebody,
including that person, could think they are the boss of you. Yeah,
you know, like you are getting bossed around. The no
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kings thing, we're not. No one's saying that he's a
king except for the people who hate him, which to
me is coming at this from a position of weakness.
It's also coming at it from a position of absurdity.
You know, it would be like if they said Trump's
not like king of the you know, Emperor of the
Universe like or you know Master of the Universe, remember
that from the old he Man days. No he's not,
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but why are you taking it there? It's a strange
place just psychologically to go. And Batia Hungar Sargon, this
is twenty three she is. She's not having any of
this either, because they're saying, the guy's not a king.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He just won.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Massively a free and fair election, so why are we
even talking about him being a king. It's like, the
guy's the fastest one in the race, and you're saying, well,
is he really the fastest?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, he is, play twenty three.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
She is a person who is enacting the exact agenda
he promised he was going to enact while he was campaigning.
And so what they're actually protesting is the absolute perfection
of American democracy, where a person campaigned on an agenda,
won the popular vote, and is now enacting that agenda.
So it was actually a protest of democracy.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
All of which is.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
To say, the only way to break such a preposterous
proposition calling this a no King's rally when it's actually
an anti democracy rally is to crap on it, I'm sorry,
is to basically make fun of it, and I think
that that has been the Trump administration's approach. They didn't
try to stop it, God forbid, because he's not a king.
They allowed them to have their say, they allowed them
to go out there, and then they made fun of them.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I don't agree with the bathroom humor necessarily approached, but
but mocking it absolutely.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I also think this goes to we talked about during
the twenty twenty four election that calling somebody Hitler and
calling somebody a Nazi wasn't working. So they tried to
move and say he's a fascist. And I said, fascist
is not going to work because frankly, it's a complicated word.
People don't even know what it means. It certainly most
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people can't spell fascist, probably in America. And now they've
moved on to no kings. But I don't think king
has a super negative connotation. So even if you were
trying to persuade people, no dictators, okay, I might say, hey,
no dictators, no kings. I just I think their messaging
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is really bad. Does that make sense? Like if you
tell me somebody's Hitler and then you move from their
Hitler to well, maybe not Hitler. But they're Nazis to well,
maybe not Nazis, but fascist. Maybe not fascist, but kings.
Every step down actually the assault, the attack becomes less
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inflammatory and less negative, Right like if I had to say, hey, Hitler,
Nazi fascist king, A king is not that awful, right,
They've been pretty good kings over the years. Some king's
really good. And so I just they're failing at messaging.
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They don't really know, they're just kind of flailing around.
This shutdown is a perfect example because I can't even
really figure out what they want, and I don't think
they know what they want, and so all of this
has just turned into I think, a huge ridiculous mess,
and I think it ultimately benefits Trump, and I don't
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think that they're motivating or influencing anybody. Isn't that kind
of interesting to think about ninety percent of even the
people who voted against Trump had something better to do
on October eighteenth, on a fine Saturday than show up
in protest against Trump. They can't even get the people
who voted against Trump to show up ten months later
and talk about how awful Trump is. So I think
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this is just yet another failure. You're listening to Team
forty seven with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
This was quite a moment.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
President Trump revealing earlier today that for any troops who
are going to be missing a pay check, an anonymous
obviously pro Trump or Trump supporting donor has written a
check to the government for a well, i'll let the
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presidents say it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Play two.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
A friend of mine talking about donors. A friend of mine,
a man that's great. I'm not going to use his
name unless he lets me do it as soon as
he can tell you about this, but he was. He
called us the other day and he said, I'd like
to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrats shutdown.
I'd like to contribute personally, contribute any shortfall you have
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with the military, because I love the military and I
love the country, and any shortfall, if there's a shortfall,
ILL contributed. And today he sent us a check for
one hundred and thirty million dollars. I would love to
tell you he deserves. He doesn't really want the recognition,
if you want to another truth, but he gave us
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a check for one hundred and thirty million dollars and
that's going to go, which was sort of a short fot. Yeah,
and that's going to go to the military.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, Clay, it's quite a check, quite a check to stroke.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
There's not that many people who could stroke that check.
So I think we could probably limit it. What do
you think there? I mean, to actually be able to
cut a check for one hundred and thirty million dollars,
I would think there's probably I don't know a thousand
people in the United States that could actually.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Think it might have been Elon maybe, right, I mean,
clearly has the money.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, no, it would be. It would be a great
move if it were Elon. I think it's a great
move for anybody. And I think what Trump is pointing
out here, I.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Could see Elon doing it, but not wanting the hubbub
around him. That's why I thought maybe. But that's it.
By the way, that's a total guess. I do not know.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I do believe that this is where the Democrats shut
down is again. I think they are only calculus is
they're worried about Virginia and they believe nor Virginia workers
are going to show up because they bought the idea
that this is Trump's fault. They couldn't do anything before
the No Kings protest. I suspect after the election. So
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what are we talking at now, ten days basically until
the twenty twenty five elections are taking place. I suspect
they'll probably get a deal done. But I do at
this point have a great deal of sympathy for the
people out there that are living as much of us are,
and certainly as I have. And you have before paycheck
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to paycheck, and so if your paycheck is being held up,
even if you know you're going to eventually get it
with your back pay, it can be very, very frustrating.
For mortgages, for car payments, for groceries, for general life experiences.
Most people can't go a month without a paycheck, and
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now we're talking about that potentially being an holding pattern,
And I get why that's very frustrating. I think Democrats
are playing politics here and failing when it comes to
being able to do their most basic job. And I
give credit. I don't know, if you saw this buck,
maybe we can grab it and play it. Senator Dave McCormick,
Republican of Pennsylvania and Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania
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did a statement on the steps of the capital saying, hey,
this shouldn't be partisan in nature. Let's go ahead and
open the government back up and continue to spend as
we had agreed that we were going to spend. And frankly,
there need to be other sane Democrats who come out alongside.
I think there are three buck if I'm not mistaken,
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right now, that have been willing to vote to reopen
the government on the side of the Senate. You have
to get to sixty, which means there has to be
seven Democrats that are willing to do it, and I
think three have so far, one from New Hampshire, one
from Michigan, I believe, and one from Sorry, one from Georgia,
one from Pennsylvania I think, And I know there's been
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a lot of votes. It's a little bit confusing, but
we need seven Democrats essentially to be willing to do
this to open back up the government.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
We'll see where it goes.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
It's gone on longer than I anticipated, a lot of
people anticipated, so the pressure is certainly mounting.
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Team forty seven with Clay and Buck starts. Now, everyone
out there who spent their weekend wasting a beautiful fall
Saturday to protest, you have had tremendous success. You have
managed to ensure that President Trump is not in fact
a king, and you have reiterated the fact that we
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won the Revolutionary War in seventeen eighty three and once
and for all kicked the king to the curb. This
is I think we could have some fun with this
right off the jump, Buck, I so.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Let me give you a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Remember I said, I bet that the momentum to get
the government shut down to the extent that people are
worried about the government shut down, that it would drastically
change as soon as the No King's protest was over.
There is now evidently a lot of momentum for the
government shutdown to be ended. They may drag it on
through the elections if they think they get some form
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of benefit in Virginia, New Jersey, or New York City
over the government shutdown, but there now is momentum that
there may be a resolution there and I think this
was to a large extent, just the Chuck Schumers and
Hakeem Jeffreyes of the world, knowing that a no King's
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protest was coming. If they bent the knee to King
Trump before the protest, it would have stripped whatever modicum
of energy might still have existed in these mostly old
white people protests. That looks frankly, quite pathetic and bedraggled.
As we said when we went to the drove through
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the protest in the cold rain in January of twenty
twenty five, as Trump was preparing to be inaugurated. So
all of this feels like a big nothing burger, so
to speak. But they are arguing, Oh my goodness, this
is amazing. What was your takeaway? We did Fox News
together on Saturday morning, right before the no Kings protests
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took off.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
With our friend.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Kaylee mcananey. But the whole thing is just it just
feels desperate, and every time they do one of these
protests they feel less efficient and less effective and just
make me feel sad for the protesters more than anything else.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, this just shows you where the state of things
currently lies. They are really ineffective at coming up with
something that sounds cool.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And has teeth behind it.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So much so that they're doing this thing that you
ask yourself immediately, what is the point of this? If
there was a no Purple Sky protest, you would say
to yourself, right, yeah, big, big success. We're good, Like
we've got that covered. Trump is obviously not a king.
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This sounds very emotionally erratic and unstable, this whole notion
of Donald Trump as a monarch. They have a guy
here who is constantly having to go to corps to
deal with this federal judge or that federal judge. You
got the government shut down because of what Congress is doing.
There is no reason for people to act like this.
(03:34):
Although I really do believe the only proper response to
the No King's protest would be to have Trump twenty
twenty eight rallies. Not that I actually think Trump is
going to run in twenty eight, but it'll just really
dig in more to these lunatics. This is one of
these times where they can't even find what the primary
issue is, or they can't come up with what they
(03:56):
are most upset about, so they've just created did this.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You know? It reminds me like the Women's March.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, right, Yeah, the Women's March was really just code
for like abortion and also like a lot of like
feminists who hate Trump because he's clearly not you know,
Trump is not selling the feminists are going to be
particularly fond of. And then there was a hashtag resistance
for a while, but everyone stopped using hashtags. Really, you
don't even really, I don't see them on social media anymore.
(04:24):
They're too annoying. People don't use them. So hashtag resistance
wasn't really good. Black Lives Matter was a statement of
the obvious and true that was effective in its time
because of the emotional manipulation that they were able to
put behind it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But this just it's just weak. It's sad.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
This is, to me, Clay, the expansion of what we
saw at the anti inauguration protest, which was a bunch
of people that don't even really know why they're there.
They're just upset and they want to be around other
upset people. It was really a loser fest. Yes, and
and I and actually a lot of sad exclamation point
(05:03):
is what you feel when you see this. Because also,
what's the great purpose of this mobilization, so that maybe
they can take a midterm advantage and they'll be able
to get the House and they'll probably impeach Trump for
the third time.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It be the third third time. That's it.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I mean, Trump's not going to be president all that
much longer. They should maybe come up with why does
the rational part of the country think that the Democrat
Party is insane? And how can they stop being so crazy?
Instead of these very silly and self indulgent protests. It's
all very childish.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, and frankly, I mean, you said what Joe Rogan said,
and I'll play cut nine here in a sec. But
you know what's interesting more than anything else, is I
think and I tweeted something because I just I can't
imagine and I understand that not all of you are
(05:57):
college football diehards like I am, but I do think
it is a sign of where we are in America,
whatever you're part of the country that you're listening to
us or watching us in right now is mid October
is maybe the greatest time of the year. The weather
tends to be really good almost everywhere. We're getting close
(06:20):
to Halloween. It's the fall season kind of starting to
kick off. In earnest to give up a beautiful Saturday
to go walk around and protest a democratically elected president
eleven months ago when he won the landslide election. I
just and I watched the videos because I was genuinely
(06:43):
curious who's going to show up. There is just a segment,
I would say, of people age fifty to seventy five,
primarily who Trump is just broken.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, this is boomers, a lot of boomers who are
trying to relive the night preceding glory of the sixties. Yes,
that's really what this is. And a lot of this
stuff you see with this, The left has a protest culture.
I've been to many of these protests to cover them
or to take photos and video of what they're doing,
and they they really feel the need the same way
(07:20):
that you're annoying liberal and at Thanksgiving is going to
feel the need to give you her very uninformed opinions
on politics, even when you just want to have some
stuffing and like go home, you don't want to deal
with it. These particular these libs and of the kind
that we're talking about, really think that showing up and
(07:42):
being a quote part of something like this is some
profound statement of their own worth and importance and it's
actually just sad they should have gone to a college
If I'm not even a big college football guy, Yes,
if I had the choice of go in any college
football game in America or one of these pro tests,
it's one hundred times more fun and enjoyable and worthwhile
(08:03):
to go to a college football game.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Amen, even though Alabama kicked Tennessee's ass, which is really unfortunate.
I will say, also, you hit on it. In the
nineteen sixties, the energy for protests came from young people,
and those of you who lived through the nineteen sixties
reremind remember that, well, the vast majority of people at
the No King's protests were over the age of sixty five.
(08:27):
And I do think there's an element of what you're saying, Buck,
which is these people picked their team in the nineteen sixties,
and they don't even realize that they now are the
opposite of the protests that they were having in the
nineteen sixties. They are now protesting in favor of big
government and in favor of all of the things that
(08:50):
censorship censor. Savor of censorship, Yeah, that's right, and so
that is an irony. Here's Joe Rogan pointing out that
the No Kings protesters ninety nine percent of them are losers.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
All those people that are protesting on the streets, ninety
nine percent of them are losers. The other ones work
for the Fed, FBI agents and losers.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So it is the whole.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Every protest dude is FBI agents and losers.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I talk about this all the time.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I'm like, for me, you want me to join a protest,
you want me to get it on the street first
of all.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
To make a sign out here, and then I still
make the sign.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
There's a guy with a van who's paid by George Soros,
and he's got stats signs that were made at Kinko's. Okay,
they're not homemade at all, and you just just pass
those bad boys out.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
It is very funny. They are complete losers and they
wasteed it fall Saturday, and here's President Trump, who was
asked about it, cut one. I'm not a king. I'm
working my ass off to make our country great. This
was on Air Force One yesterday weekend.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
The New Kings.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I think it's a joke.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
I looked at the people, they're not representative of this country.
And I looked at all the brand new signs I
guess it was paid for by Sarus, another radical left lunatics.
It looks like it was. We're checking it out. The
demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people who
are whacked out when you look at those people, those
are not representative of the people of.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Our counjund.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
And I'm not a king.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I'm not a king.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
I work my ass off to make our country great,
That's all it is.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I'm not a king at all. So Trump is not
a king.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
They were successful if their goal was to stop a
king from being in power. Isn't this also really an
admission though, that Trump politically has defeated them. Yes, if
you're concerned with a president who has been elected twice
despite all of your efforts to stop both of those
from happening, and your concern is this idea that now
he's president for life and therefore more like a king.
(10:52):
I think they're just they're recognizing that they did everything
they could to stop Donald Trump from being president for
eight years and they fail, so now they create this
It's like don Quixote tilting at windmills, that they create
this fantasy in their minds of well, now our great
cause play is to stop him from being president for life.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yes, he's not going to be president for life, you losers. Okay,
take a calm down moment here, take a chill pill.
As we used to say in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Relax.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well, they can't because that would make them think about
what they're actually doing with their life. I think it
also is embodies the fact that the Trump resistance is
effectively broken everywhere but the judiciary. The judiciary is constantly
making rulings to try to take away President Trump's power.
And that's why much of the discussion that we have
(11:44):
about what Trump can and cannot do is not about
what the Democrat Party is trying to stop him from doing.
It's what is some unelected federal district court judge doing
when they're trying to say, Hey, the president doesn't have
power to order this or take that action. And it
just kind of feels increasingly pathetic. And Trump, according to
(12:06):
many different polls that I have seen out there, is
at right now probably his strongest political position in terms
of approval that he has had during the course of
his presidency. We really haven't seen any weakening at all.
As we come up on the one year anniversary of
his election in twenty twenty four, and he's having one
(12:29):
of the most I think effective presidencies first years that
we've ever seen in the history of the country.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck
just something.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I wanted to close the loopon Clay on the No
Kings protest situation. I think that they're trying so hard,
but I think they're also realizing this just doesn't have punch.
This doesn't have the I don't care how they can
tell me that seven million, they can tell me seventy million.
I it doesn't matter how many individuals with nothing better
(13:06):
to do. I think your take on this, which I saw,
went viral, and understand why I did. I liked it.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I like it. It was a good take.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
If this is the best thing you have to do
with your weekend, you should really think more about what
you have to do with your weekend. Yes, this is
a This is not a worthwhile usage of anyone's time.
They're trying though, over at MSNBC, Nicole Wallace, This is
Cut twenty two is trying to say that this is member.
Former Republican bush Person Nicole Wallace says that This is
(13:35):
the new opposition in America, led by the people, Play
twenty two.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
It is the people's right to exercise free speech and
to criticize their elected leaders at the top of their lungs.
And that that very thing is what makes America great.
That is what makes America America, is what makes us
special all around the world until right now. John Trump
showed the world but he thinks of the American people
by literally broadcasting an image of himself pouring feces all
(14:02):
over America and the American people The note Kings protests
clearly getting deep under Donald Trump's skin over the weekend.
But more importantly, the protests show the contours of a
new opposition in America, one led by the people. According
to the organizers, seven million people came out to protest
Donald Trump on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Play.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Notice how we're not even sure what they're protesting other
than Trump, who's not going to be president a beyond
the next three years, not even running again. And the
notion that they're getting under Trump's skin with is no
actually you want to. We know Trump both in the
from his work but also as a guy, he thinks
that these people are just sad. He actually thinks that
(14:42):
they're sad and silly.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Even if so, I think.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
There's several things here. One I personally happen to believe,
if you wasted a beautiful fall Saturday protesting Donald Trump,
you are a huge loser. I think most people out
there saw this and saw the protesters and said, you're
all huge losers too. Here is a secondary part of this.
(15:09):
What is the goal of a protest? To me, the
goal of a protest is to bring attention to an
issue and get people to recognize that you are correct.
I don't think that's the goal of this protest, because
I think in a social media era, protests used to
(15:30):
be about trying to persuade people to reconsider their position
and join another one. Now, I think protest is just
brand extension for people who already hate Trump to take
photos of themselves and post on Facebook or Instagram or
Twitter or wherever they're active blue sky showing how much
(15:52):
they hate Trump. Buck around seventy million people voted against
Trump in the twenty twenty four election. Let's say that
that number that they put out there is accurate, and
seven million people nationwide showed up to protest Trump. That
would mean that ninety percent of the people who voted
(16:12):
against Trump had something better to do than show up
on Saturday and continue to protest Trump. That to me
is what kind of stands out. And did those seven
million people persuade anyone that Trump was a king and
that they should oppose him. No, I think they actually
probably created more Trump supporters, which is why I come
(16:34):
to the purpose of this protest is about allowing the
protesters to feel better about themselves, not to change any
trajectory of the country.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
You remember when you were a kid and you would
say to somebody maybe or you would hear someone say,
you're not the boss of me? Yes, And I think
that that's generally not a good way to approach things
because by saying it, the implication is that maybe somebody,
including that person, could think they are the boss of you. Yeah,
you know, like you are getting bossed around. The no
(17:03):
kings thing, we're not. No one's saying that he's a
king except for the people who hate him, which to
me is coming at this from a position of weakness.
It's also coming at it from a position of absurdity.
You know, it would be like if they said Trump's
not like king of the you know, Emperor of the
Universe like or you know Master of the Universe, remember
that from the old he Man days. No he's not,
(17:23):
but why are you taking it there? It's a strange
place just psychologically to go. And Batia Hungar Sargon, this
is twenty three she is. She's not having any of
this either, because they're saying, the guy's not a king.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He just won.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Massively a free and fair election, so why are we
even talking about him being a king. It's like, the
guy's the fastest one in the race, and you're saying, well,
is he really the fastest?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, he is, play twenty three.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
She is a person who is enacting the exact agenda
he promised he was going to enact while he was campaigning.
And so what they're actually protesting is the absolute perfection
of American democracy, where a person campaigned on an agenda,
won the popular vote, and is now enacting that agenda.
So it was actually a protest of democracy.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
All of which is.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
To say, the only way to break such a preposterous
proposition calling this a no King's rally when it's actually
an anti democracy rally is to crap on it, I'm sorry,
is to basically make fun of it, and I think
that that has been the Trump administration's approach. They didn't
try to stop it, God forbid, because he's not a king.
They allowed them to have their say, they allowed them
to go out there, and then they made fun of them.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I don't agree with the bathroom humor necessarily approached, but
but mocking it absolutely.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I also think this goes to we talked about during
the twenty twenty four election that calling somebody Hitler and
calling somebody a Nazi wasn't working. So they tried to
move and say he's a fascist. And I said, fascist
is not going to work because frankly, it's a complicated word.
People don't even know what it means. It certainly most
(19:00):
people can't spell fascist, probably in America. And now they've
moved on to no kings. But I don't think king
has a super negative connotation. So even if you were
trying to persuade people, no dictators, okay, I might say, hey,
no dictators, no kings. I just I think their messaging
(19:21):
is really bad. Does that make sense? Like if you
tell me somebody's Hitler and then you move from their
Hitler to well, maybe not Hitler. But they're Nazis to well,
maybe not Nazis, but fascist. Maybe not fascist, but kings.
Every step down actually the assault, the attack becomes less
(19:42):
inflammatory and less negative, Right like if I had to say, hey, Hitler,
Nazi fascist king, A king is not that awful, right,
They've been pretty good kings over the years. Some king's
really good. And so I just they're failing at messaging.
(20:02):
They don't really know, they're just kind of flailing around.
This shutdown is a perfect example because I can't even
really figure out what they want, and I don't think
they know what they want, and so all of this
has just turned into I think, a huge ridiculous mess,
and I think it ultimately benefits Trump, and I don't
(20:26):
think that they're motivating or influencing anybody. Isn't that kind
of interesting to think about ninety percent of even the
people who voted against Trump had something better to do
on October eighteenth, on a fine Saturday than show up
in protest against Trump. They can't even get the people
who voted against Trump to show up ten months later
and talk about how awful Trump is. So I think
(20:48):
this is just yet another failure. You're listening to Team
forty seven with Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
This was quite a moment.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
President Trump revealing earlier today that for any troops who
are going to be missing a pay check, an anonymous
obviously pro Trump or Trump supporting donor has written a
check to the government for a well, i'll let the
(21:18):
presidents say it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Play two.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
A friend of mine talking about donors. A friend of mine,
a man that's great. I'm not going to use his
name unless he lets me do it as soon as
he can tell you about this, but he was. He
called us the other day and he said, I'd like
to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrats shutdown.
I'd like to contribute personally, contribute any shortfall you have
(21:40):
with the military, because I love the military and I
love the country, and any shortfall, if there's a shortfall,
ILL contributed. And today he sent us a check for
one hundred and thirty million dollars. I would love to
tell you he deserves. He doesn't really want the recognition,
if you want to another truth, but he gave us
(22:01):
a check for one hundred and thirty million dollars and
that's going to go, which was sort of a short fot. Yeah,
and that's going to go to the military.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, Clay, it's quite a check, quite a check to stroke.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
There's not that many people who could stroke that check.
So I think we could probably limit it. What do
you think there? I mean, to actually be able to
cut a check for one hundred and thirty million dollars,
I would think there's probably I don't know a thousand
people in the United States that could actually.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Think it might have been Elon maybe, right, I mean,
clearly has the money.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, no, it would be. It would be a great
move if it were Elon. I think it's a great
move for anybody. And I think what Trump is pointing
out here, I.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Could see Elon doing it, but not wanting the hubbub
around him. That's why I thought maybe. But that's it.
By the way, that's a total guess. I do not know.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I do believe that this is where the Democrats shut
down is again. I think they are only calculus is
they're worried about Virginia and they believe nor Virginia workers
are going to show up because they bought the idea
that this is Trump's fault. They couldn't do anything before
the No Kings protest. I suspect after the election. So
(23:11):
what are we talking at now, ten days basically until
the twenty twenty five elections are taking place. I suspect
they'll probably get a deal done. But I do at
this point have a great deal of sympathy for the
people out there that are living as much of us are,
and certainly as I have. And you have before paycheck
(23:32):
to paycheck, and so if your paycheck is being held up,
even if you know you're going to eventually get it
with your back pay, it can be very, very frustrating.
For mortgages, for car payments, for groceries, for general life experiences.
Most people can't go a month without a paycheck, and
(23:53):
now we're talking about that potentially being an holding pattern,
And I get why that's very frustrating. I think Democrats
are playing politics here and failing when it comes to
being able to do their most basic job. And I
give credit. I don't know, if you saw this buck,
maybe we can grab it and play it. Senator Dave McCormick,
Republican of Pennsylvania and Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania
(24:16):
did a statement on the steps of the capital saying, hey,
this shouldn't be partisan in nature. Let's go ahead and
open the government back up and continue to spend as
we had agreed that we were going to spend. And frankly,
there need to be other sane Democrats who come out alongside.
I think there are three buck if I'm not mistaken,
(24:37):
right now, that have been willing to vote to reopen
the government on the side of the Senate. You have
to get to sixty, which means there has to be
seven Democrats that are willing to do it, and I
think three have so far, one from New Hampshire, one
from Michigan, I believe, and one from Sorry, one from Georgia,
one from Pennsylvania I think, And I know there's been
(24:59):
a lot of votes. It's a little bit confusing, but
we need seven Democrats essentially to be willing to do
this to open back up the government.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
We'll see where it goes.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
It's gone on longer than I anticipated, a lot of
people anticipated, so the pressure is certainly mounting.
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