September 19, 2022 • 36 mins
Biden's disastrous 60 Minutes interview: Biden declares pandemic over, blue check victims outraged. Clay says, "I think covid's a ploy to try to make it look like Biden's accomplished something as we get ready for the midterms." Buck, who says, "I'm more focused on America," is not interested in the Queen's funeral, but it reminds him of a great book set in WWI, "The Guns of August." Biden blames his approval rating on the pandemic and the "psyche" of people. The president just brushes off highest inflation rate in 40 years. What is "presentism"? Bill Maher gets it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show
Monday edition of the program. We hope all of you
had fantastic weekends wherever you may be across this great country.
We are rolling, i believe today, fifty days until the
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mid term. Buck, we'll get into some of the latest
polling numbers, some of the latest odd shifting where are
things moving? But Joe Biden hadn't done an actual interview
in over two hundred days, I believe was the number.
An unprecedented amount of days to not sit down and
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do a one on one interview sixty minutes. As many
of you out there who watch NFL football knows, makes
a ton of money and viewership off their show coming
on immediately after the NFL ends on CBS many different weekends,
and that was the case with the debut episode of
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their new season, and it featured a long form interview
with President Joe Biden and Buck. As is often the case,
the more Biden talks, the worse it goes for him.
His approval ratings went up when he got COVID and
when he spent a month on vacation during the summer.
Since he's come back and started talking, his numbers haven't
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gone down, and now the left wing of his own
party is angry at him. There were a lot of
news related comments from Biden because he doesn't talk to
the media that much, but let's start with this one.
He said, the COVID pandemic is over. This was last
night on sixty Minutes. I want you to listen this
president first Detroit auto show in three years. Yeah, is
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the pandemic over? The pandemic is over. We still have
a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of
work on it, but the pandemic is over. If you notice,
no one's wearing masks. Everybody's being pretty good shape. He
was wearing masks outside alone two years, two weeks ago, Clay,
for two years, they've been wearing masks. Two weeks ago,
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he was wearing a mask. I saw people this morning
on the street in New York City, and I saw
more than just that. We'll talk about that later, wearing masks.
What changed between now and then, Oh, there's an election come,
They're really gonna do this right now, They're gonna do
the whole We're gonna tell everybody everything's great and hope
that they're just foolish enough to believe the propaganda. Clay.
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They fired eight hundred and fifty teachers last week in
New York City where I am right now. Who could
justify this? They fired them for not getting the vaccine everybody.
They fired almost a thousand employees of the City of
New York last week because they won't get a shot.
And it's up to nearly two thousand I think teachers
in total total, but they just did eight fifty four.
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I mean, it's way a fire people a year ago
was stupid and unfair. Find people now is just monstrous
and vindictive. I mean, this is completely insane. Why isn't
Joe Biden asked about that? Where is Mayor Eric Adams,
who is a total catastrophe, by the way, a buffoon,
an imbecile. Where is he on this issue? It's a
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great question. And what I found most interesting about Biden's
comment there, for anyone who has a functional brain and
looked at the data, COVID was over by the summer
of twenty twenty, and I know a lot of you
out there feel the same way that you knew what
the dangers were that you knew what you might need
to do depending on your individual health concerns. But basically
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the data has continued to reflect if you're under the
age of fifty, you were never in any sort of
danger from COVID at all. You were far more likely,
for instance, under fifty, to die driving to and from
your office than you were to die with COVID. And
certainly if you're a kid, the fact that we required
kids to wear masks at all. But Buck, what I
found most interesting about this was not Joe Biden saying
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it because I agree with you. I think it's a
ploy to try to look like he's accomplished something as
we get ready for the mid terms. Because remember the
premise upon which Biden ran was twofold, I'll solve COVID,
I'll end COVID, and that whatever has not happened, really
And he also said I'll restore normalcy and decency to
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the White House. That certainly hasn't happened either. But on
the COVID front, Buck, there's about thirty percent, twenty five
percent maybe of the American public, and they are wildly
overrepresented on social media and certainly way overrepresented in the
Blue Check brigade on Twitter that are furious at Joe
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Biden for saying the COVID pandemic is over. I mean,
it was just trending last night. Number one trend was
COVID is not over, and they were ripping Joe Biden
for saying this. You know what this has really shown us.
They're so many different aspects of the of the COVID fauciite,
locked down or panic mentality. But one part of this
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that I think now you can see very clearly is
that the same people who are addicted to victimization COVID
is victimizing them. Oh my gosh, COVID. I'm always so scared.
I have long COVID. I need four masks. I'm immunocompromise.
Have you ever, by the way, I actually have an
immune disorder, which is celiac disease. I've never heard so
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many people in my life running around dudo, Oh, I
need everyone to wear a mask because I'm immunocompromise. Like,
you're twenty five years old, and you've never said this
to anybody before, and you're a Blue Check and now
you're a Oh, now you're suspiciously somebody who's what the vulnerable.
The vulnerable people, you know, always vulnerable, people who were old,
people were overweight, people with severe health issues who are
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old and overweight. Everybody else is pretty much fine, okay.
And the fact that we're still walking around listening to
people wide about this, it's what you're really seeing. The
same people who think it's it's a horrible catastrophe if
everyone doesn't announce their pronouns, you know, are the people
who are now saying, oh, the pandemic, I'm so scared
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of it all the time. Perpetual victimhood. They're addicted to it,
and COVID is an opportunity to play the victim for
them forever, by the way, forever. Yeah. I think one
of the primary impacts of social media is it fetishized victimhood. Buck,
I'm old enough to remember, and you're old enough to remember,
even though you're still a very young man. Am I
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old enough to remember? Clay? You gotta be careful. Would
you use that construct? I don't know. When we were kids.
I'm betting you were taught the same thing that I was.
You never wanted to be a victim. If someone bullied you,
you stood up to the bully. And there's that great
scene if you want to sort of use it as
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an epitomization of this Christmas story. You know, when Ralphie
confronts the bully and after getting picked on, picked on,
picked on, finally he just turns on the bully and
beats him up. I mean, that's one of the iconic
scenes in a marriage. I thought you were gonna go
with Marty McFly's dad when he knocks out the bully
at prom. It's like, one of the most inspiring moments
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of my young life was seeing that guy get laid
out on the car. What would happen now is you
would go to your teacher. You would say, oh, somebody's
being really mean to you. You would go home, your
mom would sit you down on the couch. They would
take a TikTok video. They would put the TikTok video
up on social media. It would go viral, and for
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being a victim, you would be fetishized that there would
be a great amount of outpouring of emotional support because
of people being mean to you. And look, I wish
bullying didn't exist. I wish there weren't bad things in
the world, But we have taught an entire generation of kids,
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and they certainly are coming of age on social media
that being a victim is a point of pride. That
if someone is mean to you and give you posial
media and talk about its powerful. This is why they
This is why the COVID lunatics love this. It's oh,
you have to mask, you have to do this because
I said so, because I'm at risk. Yeah, and and
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and buck. I mean, I keep coming back to stories
like Jesse Smallett and the BYU volleyball the duke volleyball
player at BYU, because this is the natural outgrowth of that.
People who aren't even victims now are so in love
with the idea of being a victim that they either
make it up whole cloth like Jesse Smallett did, or
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they maybe best case scenario, if you're being really charitable
to this duke volleyball player, she thought she heard racial
slurs when they weren't actually there because she's so conditioned
to believe that she's a victim. And then she goes
on social media and everybody praises her. And so this
to me, like the COVID, it's a good connection by you,
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This COVID fearmongering, the fear porn as I've caused called
it for a couple of years. These people are not
going to let go. And I really wonder how does
the Biden administration, even if it's just for politics that
he says COVID is over, how do they manage to
convince the thirty percent or forty percent of the Democrat
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base that will not give this up? How do they
convince them to go back to normal? I just know
what how they do. Obviously, today we're going to talk
about the Martha's Vineyard migrant debacle and the following of that,
and inflation and Biden's inflation, and so we got Charlie
Gasparino from Fox joining to talk about that. I mean,
we're going to tackle all these issues, a border, economy,
everything else. But why do we keep hammering COVID. We
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keep telling everybody about this because we have enough people
listening in states that are up for grabs that if
this audience mobilizes on that issue at the polling place
when they're actually voting, there can be some accountability. But
also we can stop this. The Biden administration still wants
to bring back the federal mask mandate as a tool
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they can turn on and turn off for people who
think this is all done to your point about the
thirty or forty percent of hysteric meltdown, Lib Democrat basic
cost a lot to wing out there. By the way,
it's what's amazing to me too, is that they're actually
not seeing your citizens. Senior citizens have a perspective on life.
They understand. They're the ones that I see freaking out
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are aged twenty five to forty five. Particularly, you know,
those are which have zero risk, zero risk. So they
just love this. They love the attention and love the
power if you have to do this because I say so,
they're going to try to downplay this place. Why Biden
just said, oh, the pandemic's over, because first of all,
promises made, promises kept with the pandemic is going to
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be something they try to say. By the way, do
you think this was planned or do you think he
just stepped all over himself and said this. I think
it's I think biden Ology. The analysis of Biden is
made effectively impossible to do with precision because it's tough
to know whether it's mostly he's stupid, which he is,
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mostly nasty, which he is mostly lying, or it's a
function of his age in dementia. It's you can never
really tell which of those is the primary factor. I think.
So to your point about what he's saying in this speech,
I don't know, man. I mean, there's plenty of reasons
why Joe Biden says crazy stuff that's untrue, that goes
off the rails. And I think obviously a lot of
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people listening would say, well, buckets, I agree, it's all
of those things. I'm just saying to put it on one.
You know, is it because he's a little bit out
of it today, is he sundowning? Or is it because
he's in a foul mood because he's a nasty guy.
But Clay, they're going to just bring it back to
why we have to remind everybody about they just fired
eight hundred and fift people from New York last week.
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Some of them not a lot, but some of them
probably listen to this show. Not a lot of teachers
in the New York City public schools system listeners, but some.
You know, they just fired people, and they're gonna bring
some of this stuff back if they can get away
with it. They're gonna dial it up a little bit
in the winter. As soon as the midterms are over,
they will. And we know because we've been telling you
for a couple of years now. The numbers will likely
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go up for COVID like they do for cold and
flu and have for generations in winter. So when everybody
goes inside and it's cold outside and you're not spending
as much time outdoors. Remember where they told everybody to
go indoors and not go outside, which is one of
the most ridiculous I just kind of just jumping one thing.
They actually made COVID worse. I want everyone to be
very clear on this. More people got COVID early who
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were at risk because they made up these stupid ideas
that people thought protected them. Don't go outside, stay six
feet away. Lets every single person go into one house
and every single person don't get sunshine, get fatter, have
your immune system run down, become depressed. Oh but social
distancing and cloth masks will protect you. Not true. Yes,
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and Buck Sexton show on Monday day of the Queen's funeral,
did you watch any Did you watch a single moment
of Queen's funeral coverage? I I I don't. I mean,
I just say, like, I'm I understand it's very important
to a lot of people. I just don't care at all,
so it's just not my thing. I don't know this woman.
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I'm not British, so I don't understand. I've done TV
networks though. See this will bring it up pretty much
wall the wall with it, right, because that's getting ratings,
so Americans are clearly watched. So I just look to
each his own. You know, some people like watching shuffleboard
and the Olympics or is that shuffleboard or no, I'm
what's the what's the thing where they pushed the nut? Shuffleboard?
You know what I'm talking about? Oh but this Winter
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Olympics you're talking about? Yeah, you know the thing where
they eat like curling, Sorry, not shuffleboard curling. Some people
like to watch curling. I don't. That's fine. People can
watch their own things. I'm more focused on America and
what's going on here, and with that in mind, our president, Yes,
it's the facts of the mon is actually at the
funeral to tie it in. Yeah, well, I mean I
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would expect I would expect that. Actually, do you do
you remember? Um? Not to put an ominous undertone of this.
But remember the start of the fantastic World War One
book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuckman is about book.
You haven't read The Guns of August, no, you World
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War One, absolute classic. Um, it's really about just the
beginning and the lead up to it, The Guns of August.
You guys know this one too. But the whole thing
is about a It's about a funeral of a royal
and all the European royals who showed up. And this
is in the months before the breakout of World War One,
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and it's essentially meant to show you, like that whole
world of monarchy and is dissolving effectively, and it dissolves
in the First World War and it changes the modern
world globally as a result. Um, it's a it's a
really compelling because it also explains to you how so
many of these royal families are people forget the Germans
married into the families. That's one of the things with
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the Game of Thrones that's so accurate is the bloodlines
are definitely the Hanoverian dynasty or whatever Mary I think
it's called marries into the what the windsor which is
not even really the anyway, so anyway, but I wasn't
even going to talk about the feudal today, you know,
condolences to the British people, and will be just like
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what it's gonna be like when Dolly Parton dies in America. Oh,
there'll be there'll be long lines for Dolly Parton. God
bless her. She's got many decades left in her though.
Um so I would want to talk about Joe Biden.
I don't even know if I have time for this,
but actually, you know what we do here, mister president.
As you know, less, your approval rating in the country
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is well below fifty and I wonder why you think
that is. I think you'd agree that the impact on
the psyche of the American people as a consequence of
the pandemic is profound. Think of how that has changed everything.
People's attitudes about themselves, their families, about the state of
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the nation, about the state of their communities. And so
there's a lot of uncertainty out there, a great teal
of uncertainty. Yeah, it's the psyche of people. It's not
that the Biden administration tour the country apart with a moronic,
authoritarian and useless vaccine mandate. Not only that his approval
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more in a time of turmoil. By the way, the
guns of August nineteen ten, the funeral of King Edward,
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Clay Travis buck Sexton show. You're rolling through all of
the big stories over the weekend, and one of them,
not surprisingly, is Joe Biden stepping all over himself in
a sixty minutes interview. Even with sixty minutes, which probably
I would say, based on the past sixty minutes reporting
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is quite comfortable with helping to cover up for Joe
Biden's frailties because they still there's a question in there.
They talked about the Hunter Biden laptop and they still
haven't even acknowledged, to my knowledge, Buck, that the Hunter
Biden laptops one hundred percent accurate. Everybody probably remembers the
conversation that Donald Trump had with Leslie Stall where he
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was saying, why aren't you guys investigating the laptop? It's
one hundred percent real, and she said, we can't authenticated.
You remember that where that was behind the scenes that
the Trump administration put out And here we are two
years later, they're now sitting with Joe Biden. They had
a sort of very flaccid level question, which is probably
an ironic choice of words given the videos of Hunter
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Biden's laptop, But buck to me, what really kind of
crystallized was the inability for Biden to seem to grasp
how bad inflation is. The past couple of months, they've
tried to say, well, inflation is not getting any worse.
Well for people out there with thirteen and a half
percent grocery increases, this is pretty significant. Listen to Joe
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Biden try to explain away inflation and actually get called
to account for it, mister president. As you know, last Tuesday,
the annual inflation rate came in at eight point three percent.
The stock market nosedived. People are shocked by their grocery bills.
What can you do better and faster? Well, first of all,
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let's put this in perspective. Inflation rate month to month
was just an inch, hardly at all. You're not arguing
that eight point three is good news, No, it is
good need, but it was a point two or eight
point two before. I mean, it's not. You may act
can make us sound like all of a sudden, my god,
it went to eight point two percent. It's just the
highest inflation rate, mister president, in forty years. I got that.
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But guess what we are. We're in a position where
for the last several months it hasn't spiked. So Clay,
can I just say this is just so tone deaf.
I mean, that's what stands out to me about this.
It is factually accurate for me to say that this
is the highest inflation in my lifetime, right so I
could sit here, Oh you are to say it forty years,
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so I could say it is the highest in my
entire life the inflation number right now. But imagine Biden,
if let's say we had twelve percent unemployment, they always
point to the unemployment number. I would also say to
everyone that you got to get into the into the
weeds a little bit on CPI and unemployment. They have
changed the way this stuff is calculated. There's a lot
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of manipulation that has gone on, yes, and that's why, well,
well they're telling you the inflation rate is the real
inflation that people are actually feeling in how father dollar goes,
what they can purchase, you know, what their household budget
is feeling right now. These are different things. It's worse
than the actual number tells you. But beyond that, imagine
if unemployment were twelve percent, and it was last month
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twelve percent, and then this month we got a number
and is twelve percent, And you know, old man aviators
came on TV. I was like, urs twelves, greats twelve
percent again, man, it's not getting worse. How is that
an argument? Something being really bad and staying bad is
not the same thing as good. But see here we go.
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I don't know is he so dishonest or so dumb
that he thinks this is a sound argument to make
on National TV. I would be persuadable either way. I
think the challenge with inflation is people get used to
it being awful, and so the fact that your grocery
bills are up thirteen point five percent, you can feel it.
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The fact that not only is inflation up, but your
real wage growth is down. So everybody has gotten effectively
attacks increase from Joe Biden because your monthly income has
gone down. And remember Buck, if you look at the numbers,
it's amazing to look at. I believe I'm correct. Our
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staff can tell me if I'm wrong. I believe when
Joe Biden came into office in January of twenty twenty one,
inflation was at one point four percent. I think that's
where it was. And then you watch every single month
since he came into office as it has continued to
tick up, and real wage growth has gone down every
single month as well, meaning you aren't making, on average
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everybody out there more money in your paychecks to make
up for how much these goods are costing. So it's
particularly tone deaf to be arguing, yes, we're at a
forty year high, but it's not getting worse any or
that is not something that makes your average person out
there feel like, oh, you know, the fact that eggs
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are up nearly forty percent, I think is the number
that these things make someone feel better. Biden is tone deaf.
I remember they used to say Bill Clinton memorably said
I feel your pain. Now. Look, given it was Bill Clinton,
there's a lot of territory to work through there. But yeah,
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and that phrase is like such an interesting phrase, but
what it reflected was Clinton had an ability to connect
with an average person out there and understand, at least
in public, what they might be going through. Biden feels
particularly tone deaf when it comes to trying to explain
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away stories like these Buck And maybe it's being in
office for over forty years. Maybe it's to your point
that it's deteriorating mental capacity. Maybe it's also being cloistered
inside the White House. It's hard to know what the
real world is like. And this answer was a really
bad I tell you. His whole political career, though, is
based on here. You know, here I am sitting with
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everybody rolled up sleeves. Man. You know, not a joke.
You know, I'm just one of you. This this, you know,
using the word folks a lot, and you know, blue
collar Joe from scrant is the whole. It's all crap.
I mean, it's all basically a big, a big lie.
The problem though, is that that stuff can always work
when you're a senator. Oh man, things are I'm just
one senator. Oh things are rough right now out there.
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He's the president, so it actually falls on him. So
the I feel your pain thing in this case doesn't
really work for him very well. By the way, I'm
not sure it really worked for Bill Clinton that well either,
But it doesn't really work very well for Joe Biden
because he's been doing things that have been making that
pain worse, and he can't pretend that there's some external. Well,
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he might pretend, but everybody can see that the reality
of this is that his decision may has made everything worse.
One point four percent in January of twenty twenty one,
when he came into office. It ticked up to one
point seven percent in February. Then they spend one point
nine trillion, turn the money spiggot on, and we're sitting
right now at eight point three percent. And we'll talk
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with Charles Gasparino at the top of the third hour
about this, because he's an economics guy. The challenge that
came out of the most recent numbers buck that is,
I think making so many people nervous and certainly led
to one of the biggest sell offs we've seen, the
biggest in the Biden administration so far. On Wall Street.
This is starting to feel very durable. And you know
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this idea that for a few months things would come
back down very quickly. We only have to raise rates.
It looks like we're going to go at least three
quarters of a basis point. Again here mortgage rates are
over six percent. I don't know if you saw the
quotes from FedEx's CEO, but he basically said, hey, we
are in a recession right now. Anybody out there who's
arguing otherwise is basically crazy. And that's the Biden administration.
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I'm telling everybody right now that you're gonna see it.
Mark by words, mark this one down. By late November,
early December, there's going to be an avalanche of Oh
my gosh, consumer spending is way down. We're in a
legit inflict, in a legit recession. Jobs numbers are starting
to look really shaky. And also, slap your masks bask
(27:24):
back on everybody, because we're going into the COVID cycle.
They're gonna wait till after the They're just trying to
delay the obvious recognition of their failures until after the election.
I think that's the whole game here. That's one hundred
percent they play. They don't want to be an inflo.
They don't want to acknowledge that recession is here. Before
the midterms, it didn't. They didn't beat COVID as in
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it's around forever. They were horrible on it. We are
in a recession. Inflation is long term and continuous, and
they're actually making it worse. If that, if that actually
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few minutes. You have these things together, folks, and I
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Clay and Buck rocking out today on Monday, September nineteenth,
we will talk about the Martha's Vineyard migrants the headline
on CNN. They were here for forty eight hours and
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they enriched us because the shamelessness of the oh my
libs of the Vineyard, and it's amazing. They changed our
lives forever in a day. So we made them leave
real fast. Um. Anyway, we'll get to that in just
a moment. But you know this is I On the
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one hand, I'm encouraged when people of the left start
to speak out about reality. On the other hand, I
also remember that they pushed the culture and the media
to the point where now unreality is fashionable and actually
mandatory in so many ways. You see in the Atlantic
they're saying, you know, there's really not clear evidence that
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men are stronger and faster than women. I saw that.
I couldn't believe that. I mean, they folks, they're they're crazy.
I mean, they are zealots of lunacy. And this is
what is mandatory now on the left. But anyway, Bill
maher over on his show, and I think at some
level this is driven by he's frustrated that he's not
allowed to really be a comedian anymore, at least not
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a not really right. I mean, he can make certain
jokes and haha, you know Donald Trump, haha, but you
can't really push boundaries very much. And on the historical
stuff we were just talking, I was talking about the
Guns of August and the funeral of King Edward the
Seventh in nineteen ten. And I'm sure we could go
through all the assembled monarchs of Europe who were there
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and find that a lot of them were insufficiently voted
to LGBTQ plus rights, a lot of them were insufficiently
woken one we're another. But that would be a bizarre exercise, really, Like,
what's the point of it? Presentism is what Bill Moore calls,
this phenomenon of judging everything in history by the standards
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of today. How we teach our kids history has become
a big controversy these days with liberals accusing conservatives of
wanting to whitewash the past, and sometimes that's true. Sometimes
they do, but plenty of liberals also want to abuse
history to control the present, and last month, a scholar
named James Sweet called hell for calling them out for
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doing just that. He criticized the phenomenon known as presentism,
which means judging everyone in the past by the standards
of the present. It's the belief that people who lived
a hundred or five hundred or a thousand years ago
really should have known better. On the one hand, Clay,
we could talk about just the way that this is.
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It's absurd and makes no sense because what are the
outer limits of it? But I think it's really more
to the point for everyone to know this is just
about power, and it's actually about controlling the present. It
is effectively creating narratives meant to destroy so much of
what our society is built on historically and our understandings
of how we got to where we are, and replace
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it with something else. If you can destroy the moral
legitimacy of the men who created the Constitution and the
Declaration of Independence, then you can say that Constitution doesn't
speak for America today. And you can demand that all
of the foundational elements of American democracy are illegitimate. And
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it's wild to me that Mayor Muriel Bowser, who will
talk about in a minute, in Washington, DC, she endorsed
the idea of renaming I believe, Washington, DC, and the
idea of tearing down the Jefferson Memorial as well as
potentially the Washington Monument over the fact that both of
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those Virginians owned slaves in their era. And maybe we
can grab the part of Bill Maher's monologue which I
thought was really good. We have created this world in
America today which is founded through the sixteen nineteen project,
which New York Times has put all their power behind,
as if America was the only place that ever had
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slaves and that slavery didn't exist anywhere else in the
history of the world, when the reality is every single
person listening to us right now, at some point in
time had ancestors who wore slaves. That is one hundred
percent true. Now I'm not saying that they were slaves
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in the United States or in the United States colonies,
but every single person listening to us right now, if
you go far enough back, has ancestors who wore slaves
at some point in world history. Because slavery was everywhere,
every single society practiced it. I mean read the Bible.
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The Bible, as Bill Maher points out, discusses slavery all
the time. It was commonplace that if your tribe defeated
another tribe, you killed most of the men or made
them slaves and took the women and children into your
own tribe. That existed everywhere, that existed in Native American culture,
where everybody wants to pretend was like this Bucolic without
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flaw country here at Landmass before Europeans arrived. The term slave,
we believe comes from Eastern Europe and Slavs because of
the Muslim slave trade, which involved a lot of white
Christian Europeans enslaved over period of centuries, which is often
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not talked about today. The Muslim the Barbary coursers of
North Africa went as far as Ireland and actually Iceland,
believe it or not, on slave raiding missions, and they
took people. They took the women for harems and the
men not to keep them for long periods of time.
It was to have them run or the ships of
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galleys where they would die essentially at the or they'd
put them in minds where the conditions were so horrific
that they would die, and they just kept a steady
stream of people to come in and die in North Africa,
a few million people over a few centuries. No one
talks in even in the sixteen nineteen project, about the
fact that the African slaves were being initially enslaved by
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other Africans who were then taking the people that they
had enslaved and selling them into the Transatlantic slave trade.
But it's as if those people don't exist. Maybe we'll
grab that short period because you're exactly right. But Bill
Maher basically talks about that in his monologue The Legacy
of Slavery. We've descended it to the point where the
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United States, according to left wingers, is the only place
that has ever had slavery, and that that original sin
is such a stain upon this society that there is
no legitimacy in rooted anywhere in our historical past. It's
a lie, but it's a powerful lie, and it's one
that needs to be refuted on the historical record. But
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when we come back, you're going to give us the
latest on Martha's vineyard, all those brilliant left wingers, they
weren't that happy. Although they're happy, they're just lying about
why they're happy. We'll talk about it.
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show
Monday edition of the program. We hope all of you
had fantastic weekends wherever you may be across this great country.
We are rolling, i believe today, fifty days until the
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mid term. Buck, we'll get into some of the latest
polling numbers, some of the latest odd shifting where are
things moving? But Joe Biden hadn't done an actual interview
in over two hundred days, I believe was the number.
An unprecedented amount of days to not sit down and
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do a one on one interview sixty minutes. As many
of you out there who watch NFL football knows, makes
a ton of money and viewership off their show coming
on immediately after the NFL ends on CBS many different weekends,
and that was the case with the debut episode of
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their new season, and it featured a long form interview
with President Joe Biden and Buck. As is often the case,
the more Biden talks, the worse it goes for him.
His approval ratings went up when he got COVID and
when he spent a month on vacation during the summer.
Since he's come back and started talking, his numbers haven't
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gone down, and now the left wing of his own
party is angry at him. There were a lot of
news related comments from Biden because he doesn't talk to
the media that much, but let's start with this one.
He said, the COVID pandemic is over. This was last
night on sixty Minutes. I want you to listen this
president first Detroit auto show in three years. Yeah, is
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the pandemic over? The pandemic is over. We still have
a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of
work on it, but the pandemic is over. If you notice,
no one's wearing masks. Everybody's being pretty good shape. He
was wearing masks outside alone two years, two weeks ago, Clay,
for two years, they've been wearing masks. Two weeks ago,
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he was wearing a mask. I saw people this morning
on the street in New York City, and I saw
more than just that. We'll talk about that later, wearing masks.
What changed between now and then, Oh, there's an election come,
They're really gonna do this right now, They're gonna do
the whole We're gonna tell everybody everything's great and hope
that they're just foolish enough to believe the propaganda. Clay.
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They fired eight hundred and fifty teachers last week in
New York City where I am right now. Who could
justify this? They fired them for not getting the vaccine everybody.
They fired almost a thousand employees of the City of
New York last week because they won't get a shot.
And it's up to nearly two thousand I think teachers
in total total, but they just did eight fifty four.
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I mean, it's way a fire people a year ago
was stupid and unfair. Find people now is just monstrous
and vindictive. I mean, this is completely insane. Why isn't
Joe Biden asked about that? Where is Mayor Eric Adams,
who is a total catastrophe, by the way, a buffoon,
an imbecile. Where is he on this issue? It's a
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great question. And what I found most interesting about Biden's
comment there, for anyone who has a functional brain and
looked at the data, COVID was over by the summer
of twenty twenty, and I know a lot of you
out there feel the same way that you knew what
the dangers were that you knew what you might need
to do depending on your individual health concerns. But basically
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the data has continued to reflect if you're under the
age of fifty, you were never in any sort of
danger from COVID at all. You were far more likely,
for instance, under fifty, to die driving to and from
your office than you were to die with COVID. And
certainly if you're a kid, the fact that we required
kids to wear masks at all. But Buck, what I
found most interesting about this was not Joe Biden saying
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it because I agree with you. I think it's a
ploy to try to look like he's accomplished something as
we get ready for the mid terms. Because remember the
premise upon which Biden ran was twofold, I'll solve COVID,
I'll end COVID, and that whatever has not happened, really
And he also said I'll restore normalcy and decency to
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the White House. That certainly hasn't happened either. But on
the COVID front, Buck, there's about thirty percent, twenty five
percent maybe of the American public, and they are wildly
overrepresented on social media and certainly way overrepresented in the
Blue Check brigade on Twitter that are furious at Joe
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Biden for saying the COVID pandemic is over. I mean,
it was just trending last night. Number one trend was
COVID is not over, and they were ripping Joe Biden
for saying this. You know what this has really shown us.
They're so many different aspects of the of the COVID fauciite,
locked down or panic mentality. But one part of this
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that I think now you can see very clearly is
that the same people who are addicted to victimization COVID
is victimizing them. Oh my gosh, COVID. I'm always so scared.
I have long COVID. I need four masks. I'm immunocompromise.
Have you ever, by the way, I actually have an
immune disorder, which is celiac disease. I've never heard so
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many people in my life running around dudo, Oh, I
need everyone to wear a mask because I'm immunocompromise. Like,
you're twenty five years old, and you've never said this
to anybody before, and you're a Blue Check and now
you're a Oh, now you're suspiciously somebody who's what the vulnerable.
The vulnerable people, you know, always vulnerable, people who were old,
people were overweight, people with severe health issues who are
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old and overweight. Everybody else is pretty much fine, okay.
And the fact that we're still walking around listening to
people wide about this, it's what you're really seeing. The
same people who think it's it's a horrible catastrophe if
everyone doesn't announce their pronouns, you know, are the people
who are now saying, oh, the pandemic, I'm so scared
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of it all the time. Perpetual victimhood. They're addicted to it,
and COVID is an opportunity to play the victim for
them forever, by the way, forever. Yeah. I think one
of the primary impacts of social media is it fetishized victimhood. Buck,
I'm old enough to remember, and you're old enough to remember,
even though you're still a very young man. Am I
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old enough to remember? Clay? You gotta be careful. Would
you use that construct? I don't know. When we were kids.
I'm betting you were taught the same thing that I was.
You never wanted to be a victim. If someone bullied you,
you stood up to the bully. And there's that great
scene if you want to sort of use it as
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an epitomization of this Christmas story. You know, when Ralphie
confronts the bully and after getting picked on, picked on,
picked on, finally he just turns on the bully and
beats him up. I mean, that's one of the iconic
scenes in a marriage. I thought you were gonna go
with Marty McFly's dad when he knocks out the bully
at prom. It's like, one of the most inspiring moments
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of my young life was seeing that guy get laid
out on the car. What would happen now is you
would go to your teacher. You would say, oh, somebody's
being really mean to you. You would go home, your
mom would sit you down on the couch. They would
take a TikTok video. They would put the TikTok video
up on social media. It would go viral, and for
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being a victim, you would be fetishized that there would
be a great amount of outpouring of emotional support because
of people being mean to you. And look, I wish
bullying didn't exist. I wish there weren't bad things in
the world, But we have taught an entire generation of kids,
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and they certainly are coming of age on social media
that being a victim is a point of pride. That
if someone is mean to you and give you posial
media and talk about its powerful. This is why they
This is why the COVID lunatics love this. It's oh,
you have to mask, you have to do this because
I said so, because I'm at risk. Yeah, and and
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and buck. I mean, I keep coming back to stories
like Jesse Smallett and the BYU volleyball the duke volleyball
player at BYU, because this is the natural outgrowth of that.
People who aren't even victims now are so in love
with the idea of being a victim that they either
make it up whole cloth like Jesse Smallett did, or
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they maybe best case scenario, if you're being really charitable
to this duke volleyball player, she thought she heard racial
slurs when they weren't actually there because she's so conditioned
to believe that she's a victim. And then she goes
on social media and everybody praises her. And so this
to me, like the COVID, it's a good connection by you,
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This COVID fearmongering, the fear porn as I've caused called
it for a couple of years. These people are not
going to let go. And I really wonder how does
the Biden administration, even if it's just for politics that
he says COVID is over, how do they manage to
convince the thirty percent or forty percent of the Democrat
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base that will not give this up? How do they
convince them to go back to normal? I just know
what how they do. Obviously, today we're going to talk
about the Martha's Vineyard migrant debacle and the following of that,
and inflation and Biden's inflation, and so we got Charlie
Gasparino from Fox joining to talk about that. I mean,
we're going to tackle all these issues, a border, economy,
everything else. But why do we keep hammering COVID. We
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keep telling everybody about this because we have enough people
listening in states that are up for grabs that if
this audience mobilizes on that issue at the polling place
when they're actually voting, there can be some accountability. But
also we can stop this. The Biden administration still wants
to bring back the federal mask mandate as a tool
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they can turn on and turn off for people who
think this is all done to your point about the
thirty or forty percent of hysteric meltdown, Lib Democrat basic
cost a lot to wing out there. By the way,
it's what's amazing to me too, is that they're actually
not seeing your citizens. Senior citizens have a perspective on life.
They understand. They're the ones that I see freaking out
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are aged twenty five to forty five. Particularly, you know,
those are which have zero risk, zero risk. So they
just love this. They love the attention and love the
power if you have to do this because I say so,
they're going to try to downplay this place. Why Biden
just said, oh, the pandemic's over, because first of all,
promises made, promises kept with the pandemic is going to
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be something they try to say. By the way, do
you think this was planned or do you think he
just stepped all over himself and said this. I think
it's I think biden Ology. The analysis of Biden is
made effectively impossible to do with precision because it's tough
to know whether it's mostly he's stupid, which he is,
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mostly nasty, which he is mostly lying, or it's a
function of his age in dementia. It's you can never
really tell which of those is the primary factor. I think.
So to your point about what he's saying in this speech,
I don't know, man. I mean, there's plenty of reasons
why Joe Biden says crazy stuff that's untrue, that goes
off the rails. And I think obviously a lot of
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people listening would say, well, buckets, I agree, it's all
of those things. I'm just saying to put it on one.
You know, is it because he's a little bit out
of it today, is he sundowning? Or is it because
he's in a foul mood because he's a nasty guy.
But Clay, they're going to just bring it back to
why we have to remind everybody about they just fired
eight hundred and fift people from New York last week.
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Some of them not a lot, but some of them
probably listen to this show. Not a lot of teachers
in the New York City public schools system listeners, but some.
You know, they just fired people, and they're gonna bring
some of this stuff back if they can get away
with it. They're gonna dial it up a little bit
in the winter. As soon as the midterms are over,
they will. And we know because we've been telling you
for a couple of years now. The numbers will likely
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go up for COVID like they do for cold and
flu and have for generations in winter. So when everybody
goes inside and it's cold outside and you're not spending
as much time outdoors. Remember where they told everybody to
go indoors and not go outside, which is one of
the most ridiculous I just kind of just jumping one thing.
They actually made COVID worse. I want everyone to be
very clear on this. More people got COVID early who
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were at risk because they made up these stupid ideas
that people thought protected them. Don't go outside, stay six
feet away. Lets every single person go into one house
and every single person don't get sunshine, get fatter, have
your immune system run down, become depressed. Oh but social
distancing and cloth masks will protect you. Not true. Yes,
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and Buck Sexton show on Monday day of the Queen's funeral,
did you watch any Did you watch a single moment
of Queen's funeral coverage? I I I don't. I mean,
I just say, like, I'm I understand it's very important
to a lot of people. I just don't care at all,
so it's just not my thing. I don't know this woman.
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I'm not British, so I don't understand. I've done TV
networks though. See this will bring it up pretty much
wall the wall with it, right, because that's getting ratings,
so Americans are clearly watched. So I just look to
each his own. You know, some people like watching shuffleboard
and the Olympics or is that shuffleboard or no, I'm
what's the what's the thing where they pushed the nut? Shuffleboard?
You know what I'm talking about? Oh but this Winter
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Olympics you're talking about? Yeah, you know the thing where
they eat like curling, Sorry, not shuffleboard curling. Some people
like to watch curling. I don't. That's fine. People can
watch their own things. I'm more focused on America and
what's going on here, and with that in mind, our president, Yes,
it's the facts of the mon is actually at the
funeral to tie it in. Yeah, well, I mean I
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would expect I would expect that. Actually, do you do
you remember? Um? Not to put an ominous undertone of this.
But remember the start of the fantastic World War One
book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuckman is about book.
You haven't read The Guns of August, no, you World
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War One, absolute classic. Um, it's really about just the
beginning and the lead up to it, The Guns of August.
You guys know this one too. But the whole thing
is about a It's about a funeral of a royal
and all the European royals who showed up. And this
is in the months before the breakout of World War One,
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and it's essentially meant to show you, like that whole
world of monarchy and is dissolving effectively, and it dissolves
in the First World War and it changes the modern
world globally as a result. Um, it's a it's a
really compelling because it also explains to you how so
many of these royal families are people forget the Germans
married into the families. That's one of the things with
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the Game of Thrones that's so accurate is the bloodlines
are definitely the Hanoverian dynasty or whatever Mary I think
it's called marries into the what the windsor which is
not even really the anyway, so anyway, but I wasn't
even going to talk about the feudal today, you know,
condolences to the British people, and will be just like
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what it's gonna be like when Dolly Parton dies in America. Oh,
there'll be there'll be long lines for Dolly Parton. God
bless her. She's got many decades left in her though.
Um so I would want to talk about Joe Biden.
I don't even know if I have time for this,
but actually, you know what we do here, mister president.
As you know, less, your approval rating in the country
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is well below fifty and I wonder why you think
that is. I think you'd agree that the impact on
the psyche of the American people as a consequence of
the pandemic is profound. Think of how that has changed everything.
People's attitudes about themselves, their families, about the state of
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the nation, about the state of their communities. And so
there's a lot of uncertainty out there, a great teal
of uncertainty. Yeah, it's the psyche of people. It's not
that the Biden administration tour the country apart with a moronic,
authoritarian and useless vaccine mandate. Not only that his approval
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ratings have tanked since he started when people were even
more in a time of turmoil. By the way, the
guns of August nineteen ten, the funeral of King Edward,
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Clay Travis buck Sexton show. You're rolling through all of
the big stories over the weekend, and one of them,
not surprisingly, is Joe Biden stepping all over himself in
a sixty minutes interview. Even with sixty minutes, which probably
I would say, based on the past sixty minutes reporting
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is quite comfortable with helping to cover up for Joe
Biden's frailties because they still there's a question in there.
They talked about the Hunter Biden laptop and they still
haven't even acknowledged, to my knowledge, Buck, that the Hunter
Biden laptops one hundred percent accurate. Everybody probably remembers the
conversation that Donald Trump had with Leslie Stall where he
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was saying, why aren't you guys investigating the laptop? It's
one hundred percent real, and she said, we can't authenticated.
You remember that where that was behind the scenes that
the Trump administration put out And here we are two
years later, they're now sitting with Joe Biden. They had
a sort of very flaccid level question, which is probably
an ironic choice of words given the videos of Hunter
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Biden's laptop, But buck to me, what really kind of
crystallized was the inability for Biden to seem to grasp
how bad inflation is. The past couple of months, they've
tried to say, well, inflation is not getting any worse.
Well for people out there with thirteen and a half
percent grocery increases, this is pretty significant. Listen to Joe
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Biden try to explain away inflation and actually get called
to account for it, mister president. As you know, last Tuesday,
the annual inflation rate came in at eight point three percent.
The stock market nosedived. People are shocked by their grocery bills.
What can you do better and faster? Well, first of all,
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let's put this in perspective. Inflation rate month to month
was just an inch, hardly at all. You're not arguing
that eight point three is good news, No, it is
good need, but it was a point two or eight
point two before. I mean, it's not. You may act
can make us sound like all of a sudden, my god,
it went to eight point two percent. It's just the
highest inflation rate, mister president, in forty years. I got that.
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But guess what we are. We're in a position where
for the last several months it hasn't spiked. So Clay,
can I just say this is just so tone deaf.
I mean, that's what stands out to me about this.
It is factually accurate for me to say that this
is the highest inflation in my lifetime, right so I
could sit here, Oh you are to say it forty years,
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so I could say it is the highest in my
entire life the inflation number right now. But imagine Biden,
if let's say we had twelve percent unemployment, they always
point to the unemployment number. I would also say to
everyone that you got to get into the into the
weeds a little bit on CPI and unemployment. They have
changed the way this stuff is calculated. There's a lot
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of manipulation that has gone on, yes, and that's why, well,
well they're telling you the inflation rate is the real
inflation that people are actually feeling in how father dollar goes,
what they can purchase, you know, what their household budget
is feeling right now. These are different things. It's worse
than the actual number tells you. But beyond that, imagine
if unemployment were twelve percent, and it was last month
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twelve percent, and then this month we got a number
and is twelve percent, And you know, old man aviators
came on TV. I was like, urs twelves, greats twelve
percent again, man, it's not getting worse. How is that
an argument? Something being really bad and staying bad is
not the same thing as good. But see here we go.
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I don't know is he so dishonest or so dumb
that he thinks this is a sound argument to make
on National TV. I would be persuadable either way. I
think the challenge with inflation is people get used to
it being awful, and so the fact that your grocery
bills are up thirteen point five percent, you can feel it.
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The fact that not only is inflation up, but your
real wage growth is down. So everybody has gotten effectively
attacks increase from Joe Biden because your monthly income has
gone down. And remember Buck, if you look at the numbers,
it's amazing to look at. I believe I'm correct. Our
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staff can tell me if I'm wrong. I believe when
Joe Biden came into office in January of twenty twenty one,
inflation was at one point four percent. I think that's
where it was. And then you watch every single month
since he came into office as it has continued to
tick up, and real wage growth has gone down every
single month as well, meaning you aren't making, on average
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everybody out there more money in your paychecks to make
up for how much these goods are costing. So it's
particularly tone deaf to be arguing, yes, we're at a
forty year high, but it's not getting worse any or
that is not something that makes your average person out
there feel like, oh, you know, the fact that eggs
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are up nearly forty percent, I think is the number
that these things make someone feel better. Biden is tone deaf.
I remember they used to say Bill Clinton memorably said
I feel your pain. Now. Look, given it was Bill Clinton,
there's a lot of territory to work through there. But yeah,
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and that phrase is like such an interesting phrase, but
what it reflected was Clinton had an ability to connect
with an average person out there and understand, at least
in public, what they might be going through. Biden feels
particularly tone deaf when it comes to trying to explain
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away stories like these Buck And maybe it's being in
office for over forty years. Maybe it's to your point
that it's deteriorating mental capacity. Maybe it's also being cloistered
inside the White House. It's hard to know what the
real world is like. And this answer was a really
bad I tell you. His whole political career, though, is
based on here. You know, here I am sitting with
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everybody rolled up sleeves. Man. You know, not a joke.
You know, I'm just one of you. This this, you know,
using the word folks a lot, and you know, blue
collar Joe from scrant is the whole. It's all crap.
I mean, it's all basically a big, a big lie.
The problem though, is that that stuff can always work
when you're a senator. Oh man, things are I'm just
one senator. Oh things are rough right now out there.
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He's the president, so it actually falls on him. So
the I feel your pain thing in this case doesn't
really work for him very well. By the way, I'm
not sure it really worked for Bill Clinton that well either,
But it doesn't really work very well for Joe Biden
because he's been doing things that have been making that
pain worse, and he can't pretend that there's some external. Well,
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he might pretend, but everybody can see that the reality
of this is that his decision may has made everything worse.
One point four percent in January of twenty twenty one,
when he came into office. It ticked up to one
point seven percent in February. Then they spend one point
nine trillion, turn the money spiggot on, and we're sitting
right now at eight point three percent. And we'll talk
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with Charles Gasparino at the top of the third hour
about this, because he's an economics guy. The challenge that
came out of the most recent numbers buck that is,
I think making so many people nervous and certainly led
to one of the biggest sell offs we've seen, the
biggest in the Biden administration so far. On Wall Street.
This is starting to feel very durable. And you know
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this idea that for a few months things would come
back down very quickly. We only have to raise rates.
It looks like we're going to go at least three
quarters of a basis point. Again here mortgage rates are
over six percent. I don't know if you saw the
quotes from FedEx's CEO, but he basically said, hey, we
are in a recession right now. Anybody out there who's
arguing otherwise is basically crazy. And that's the Biden administration.
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I'm telling everybody right now that you're gonna see it.
Mark by words, mark this one down. By late November,
early December, there's going to be an avalanche of Oh
my gosh, consumer spending is way down. We're in a
legit inflict, in a legit recession. Jobs numbers are starting
to look really shaky. And also, slap your masks bask
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back on everybody, because we're going into the COVID cycle.
They're gonna wait till after the They're just trying to
delay the obvious recognition of their failures until after the election.
I think that's the whole game here. That's one hundred
percent they play. They don't want to be an inflo.
They don't want to acknowledge that recession is here. Before
the midterms, it didn't. They didn't beat COVID as in
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it's around forever. They were horrible on it. We are
in a recession. Inflation is long term and continuous, and
they're actually making it worse. If that, if that actually
and never mind, we're talking about the border in a
few minutes. You have these things together, folks, and I
don't know, voting for Biden it feels like it feels
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we will talk about the Martha's Vineyard migrants the headline
on CNN. They were here for forty eight hours and
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they enriched us because the shamelessness of the oh my
libs of the Vineyard, and it's amazing. They changed our
lives forever in a day. So we made them leave
real fast. Um. Anyway, we'll get to that in just
a moment. But you know this is I On the
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one hand, I'm encouraged when people of the left start
to speak out about reality. On the other hand, I
also remember that they pushed the culture and the media
to the point where now unreality is fashionable and actually
mandatory in so many ways. You see in the Atlantic
they're saying, you know, there's really not clear evidence that
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men are stronger and faster than women. I saw that.
I couldn't believe that. I mean, they folks, they're they're crazy.
I mean, they are zealots of lunacy. And this is
what is mandatory now on the left. But anyway, Bill
maher over on his show, and I think at some
level this is driven by he's frustrated that he's not
allowed to really be a comedian anymore, at least not
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a not really right. I mean, he can make certain
jokes and haha, you know Donald Trump, haha, but you
can't really push boundaries very much. And on the historical
stuff we were just talking, I was talking about the
Guns of August and the funeral of King Edward the
Seventh in nineteen ten. And I'm sure we could go
through all the assembled monarchs of Europe who were there
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and find that a lot of them were insufficiently voted
to LGBTQ plus rights, a lot of them were insufficiently
woken one we're another. But that would be a bizarre exercise, really, Like,
what's the point of it? Presentism is what Bill Moore calls,
this phenomenon of judging everything in history by the standards
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of today. How we teach our kids history has become
a big controversy these days with liberals accusing conservatives of
wanting to whitewash the past, and sometimes that's true. Sometimes
they do, but plenty of liberals also want to abuse
history to control the present, and last month, a scholar
named James Sweet called hell for calling them out for
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doing just that. He criticized the phenomenon known as presentism,
which means judging everyone in the past by the standards
of the present. It's the belief that people who lived
a hundred or five hundred or a thousand years ago
really should have known better. On the one hand, Clay,
we could talk about just the way that this is.
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It's absurd and makes no sense because what are the
outer limits of it? But I think it's really more
to the point for everyone to know this is just
about power, and it's actually about controlling the present. It
is effectively creating narratives meant to destroy so much of
what our society is built on historically and our understandings
of how we got to where we are, and replace
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it with something else. If you can destroy the moral
legitimacy of the men who created the Constitution and the
Declaration of Independence, then you can say that Constitution doesn't
speak for America today. And you can demand that all
of the foundational elements of American democracy are illegitimate. And
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it's wild to me that Mayor Muriel Bowser, who will
talk about in a minute, in Washington, DC, she endorsed
the idea of renaming I believe, Washington, DC, and the
idea of tearing down the Jefferson Memorial as well as
potentially the Washington Monument over the fact that both of
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those Virginians owned slaves in their era. And maybe we
can grab the part of Bill Maher's monologue which I
thought was really good. We have created this world in
America today which is founded through the sixteen nineteen project,
which New York Times has put all their power behind,
as if America was the only place that ever had
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slaves and that slavery didn't exist anywhere else in the
history of the world, when the reality is every single
person listening to us right now, at some point in
time had ancestors who wore slaves. That is one hundred
percent true. Now I'm not saying that they were slaves
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in the United States or in the United States colonies,
but every single person listening to us right now, if
you go far enough back, has ancestors who wore slaves
at some point in world history. Because slavery was everywhere,
every single society practiced it. I mean read the Bible.
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The Bible, as Bill Maher points out, discusses slavery all
the time. It was commonplace that if your tribe defeated
another tribe, you killed most of the men or made
them slaves and took the women and children into your
own tribe. That existed everywhere, that existed in Native American culture,
where everybody wants to pretend was like this Bucolic without
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flaw country here at Landmass before Europeans arrived. The term slave,
we believe comes from Eastern Europe and Slavs because of
the Muslim slave trade, which involved a lot of white
Christian Europeans enslaved over period of centuries, which is often
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not talked about today. The Muslim the Barbary coursers of
North Africa went as far as Ireland and actually Iceland,
believe it or not, on slave raiding missions, and they
took people. They took the women for harems and the
men not to keep them for long periods of time.
It was to have them run or the ships of
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galleys where they would die essentially at the or they'd
put them in minds where the conditions were so horrific
that they would die, and they just kept a steady
stream of people to come in and die in North Africa,
a few million people over a few centuries. No one
talks in even in the sixteen nineteen project, about the
fact that the African slaves were being initially enslaved by
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other Africans who were then taking the people that they
had enslaved and selling them into the Transatlantic slave trade.
But it's as if those people don't exist. Maybe we'll
grab that short period because you're exactly right. But Bill
Maher basically talks about that in his monologue The Legacy
of Slavery. We've descended it to the point where the
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United States, according to left wingers, is the only place
that has ever had slavery, and that that original sin
is such a stain upon this society that there is
no legitimacy in rooted anywhere in our historical past. It's
a lie, but it's a powerful lie, and it's one
that needs to be refuted on the historical record. But
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when we come back, you're going to give us the
latest on Martha's vineyard, all those brilliant left wingers, they
weren't that happy. Although they're happy, they're just lying about
why they're happy. We'll talk about it.
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