November 21, 2022 • 37 mins
To Tweet or not to Tweet? That is Trump's question. The left continues to have a meltdown over new Twitter owner, Elon Musk, and his unprecedented actions. Liberals use mass shooting in LGBTQ club in Colorado to promote gun grabs. The World Cup starts today: Do any of Clay's Twitter followers care? He had told us his own three Travis Boys sure do.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Second hour of Clay and Buck starts. Now, everybody, thanks
for listening all across the country. To tweet or not
to tweet? That is the question for well a lot
of people, former President Trump among them. It was announced
on was it Saturday? I think it was Saturday that
(00:20):
Elon Musk has officially invited former President Trump back to Twitter,
which just brings back great memories for people like Clay
me because I remember waking up. I think at one
point Trump retweeted my account five times in a row,
which was amazing because I saw all these C list
actors that I kind of vaguely remember from the nineties
(00:42):
being like whatever, like you know, Buck sexy Man, Like
you don't know anything, You're an idiot. I was like, wait, why,
why all of a sudden, is you know, Henchman number
three from Blood Sport five telling me that I'm a
bad person? Oh, because Trump retweeted me. So that kind
of stuff would happened. It was always, and it would
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happen very early in the morning. The first thing you'd
be like, who did I upset? Who did I anger about? That?
He was Buck? I said this for a while. I
had early morning sports talk radio six to nine am Eastern,
So I'm up at like five to thirty in the
morning East coast for thirty in Central time here. You know,
when you hit your like Twitter feed people you follow,
and there's like nothing updating, you know, because everybody's gone
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to bed for the most part. It would be like
Trump was the only person that early in the morning
that would be posting new things, and and so we oftentime,
and a lot of times they had sports related connections.
We were reacting to it. He was setting the agenda.
He was up so early in the morning before most
of the media. He made Twitter something that was a
necessity if you were covering news and politics really globally,
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but certainly in America, you had no choice, yes, but
to at least have a familiarity with it because of
former President Trump. It was never the case, you know,
other politicians, you know, Obama was on Twitter, but it
was always very clear that other politicians used Twitter as
essentially a big email list for their public pronouncements, essentially
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their press releases in short form via Twitter. With Trump,
it was like you had attached a little microchip into
his brain, into his phone, and boom, the American people
got to have a direct connection to the candidate in
twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, and then the president for four years,
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which was remarkable. But so there are huge implications to
this and a lot of variables at play. For one thing,
we know that Trump has truth social I'm on Truth
plays on Truth, which is a nascent social media platform,
so it's it's growing. We've had Devin Nunas on before,
who's the CEO. But the whole point of truth really
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seemed one. It's free speech. Yes, that's true. And there
are these others as Well's Parlor and there's get or
there are a number of them. The problem is there's
probably only going to end up being one, and everyone
knows alt when I say only being one. There may
be some need for those others in some capacity, but
there's gonna be one dominant platform and then some other
platforms that are more niche Friday, CBS News. This was hilarious.
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Did you see this, Clay. They did give a sense
of how powerful the Twitter platform already is right now
in this business and in politics in America. They said
they were halting their posting on Twitter out of caution
because Elon Musk runs it now play clip two, in
light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an
abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on
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the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform,
pausing so they can monitor the platform. Good heavens, we've
gotten word that the Trump is back. Who else? A
bunch of people have gotten their platfect project veritass the
Babylon BB is back. A number of them are back now.
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And now this also comes at a really interesting time
for the social media platforms. And understand that these this
has been an area of enormous advantage for Democrats that
I think has very much affected elections. So that's a
part of this as well. So even if we're not
all because I know very few of our people listening
right now are really active on Twitter. I mean by percentages,
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maybe five percent of this audience roughly, I'm guessing, but
something like that. But it affects every every website you read,
every newspaper, every politician, they're all battling and and you know,
tweeting on a regular basis. Facebook is a fraction of
what it used to be in terms of engagement utility,
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and this is why the stop was stocked down eighty
percent or something. Yea, Spacebook's gotten crushed. Yeah, some of
it's for the metaverse stuff, but it's just become unwieldy.
YouTube is a left wing collective that will not allow
for free speech. It's owned by Google, which is owned
by Alphabet TikTok. I just saw Senator Tom Cotton say
over the weekend like it's basically a Chinese spying operation.
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Get everybody you know off of TikTok. I want to
dig into that a little more. That seems I don't know.
I want to know more of the details. But this
may be the only major social media platform it existence
Clay where there is a true, free and fair exchange
of ideas going on, which makes it even more valuable
and more central. What Elon Musk is doing right now
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is showing true gravery, because first of all, he put
up a poll to allow people to vote on whether
Trump should be re allowed back on the platform, and
I don't fifteen million people ish voted in that poll,
if I remember it correctly, and fifty two percent voted yes,
forty eight percent voted no. And what I think is
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significant about that voting buck is remember forty eight percent
of people were not saying, no, I don't want Donald
Trump back on Twitter, or I don't sorry, I don't
want him back as president or something. They were saying
Donald Trump shouldn't be allowed to share his opinions on Twitter.
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And this is just something that I fundamentally reject, and
I think it's so important for Elon Must to be
standing on the principle of free speech here. I'm not
sure that Trump being back on Twitter, if he decides
to reclaim his account, is going to be beneficial to
him at all. In fact, I think it might benefit Democrats,
but he is beneficial. Can I just wait, can we
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put a pause in what is beneficial? Just because they're
actually some of them, some of them are saying, Who's
I don't know who Rachel Bade is? Do you know
Rachel Bade? I don't know that he says Trump back
on Twitter? This is clip three gift for Democrats eighty three.
I mean it keeps changing. A million followers that have
been restored on Twitter, on trus Social, which is his own,
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and he owns the platform. He's got a fraction of that,
I mean, truths or whatever they call it, and nobody
that's exactly why I think a lot of people expect
him back on Twitter. He loves the attention, right, and
talk about a gift to Democrats. I mean, I remember
covering Paul Ryan when Trump would tweet all the time
from the White House and we would chase Paul Ryan
around the halls and US Republicans comment on this controversial
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comment that Trump just made, and they would spend all
their days trying to dodge all these questions. But for
Democrats it's great. They can pull that up to their
voters and say, look at the Republican Party, we are
the adults at the table. So they're saying they want
him on Twitter. Yeah, which is why I think it's
so fascinating. As a general principle, I think as a
as a as a country that decides who our leaders are,
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we should want the leaders to speak as widely as
they can, to share with us both their personality and
the principles on which they would stand. So the idea
that you can take, even when he's the democratically elected
president of the United States and just ban him on
Twitter is something that I reject out of hand. And
I would say the same thing which most Democrats would
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not even if Trump had been a Democrat, or even
if the Democrats somewhere down the line end up with
a candidate who uses Twitter in a manner similar to Trump,
and that would not stun me, by the way, if
that ended up happening at some point in the future,
I just don't know. I kind of agree with that commentator,
buck I think Trump. Here's my big concern about Trump
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in twenty twenty four. The election must be a referendum
on Joe Biden's failures, particularly if Joe Biden is the
candidate himself, but even if he is not, Democrats had
control of the government and they failed on basically all fronts.
I mean, Trump doesn't allow himself to be anything other
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than the story. And so I think if Trump wins, Bucket,
will be just like what we saw in twenty sixteen,
and just like we saw in twenty twenty, all of
us will be up all night long and they'll be
counting ballot's unfortunately in Nevada and Arizona and Georgia and
everywhere else, and we won't know who won this election
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till we find out how one hundred thousand people's decisions.
I think, I think if this turns on Biden's failures.
We lose full stop. If we went through this. They
stink at everything, Clay. The economy stinks, inflation highest and
forty years, gas prices, high, crime, out of control, wide
open border, teaching kids who are ten that they should,
you know, cut off their private parts because of the
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trans agenda agenda, Like, we went through all of this,
and what did people they went in they said, oh,
I don't know, this Republican candidate seems a little extreme
to me, so I'm gonna vote. You know, we went
through this. I think the only way that the failure
of the Democrats thing works if we go into a
brutal recession starting in the middle of next year. Some
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people say, we're already basically in the early phases of
that recession. We go into a brutal recession, then the
party in power gets punished and it doesn't even really matter.
But if it's kind of this status quo, yeah, or
four in case down twenty thirty percent, yeah, inflations, you know,
four or five percent, they wanted to be one or
two per You know, if it's that, it's gotta be
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a vision man, right, Like it's gotta be we're gonna
do a better job on the fire points. But what
I'm saying is you sell they've failed, and here's what
we're gonna do different. I don't think Trump does that,
And I would just point out, even though we're super disappointed,
we went from the tally in twenty twenty showing Biden
winning by seven million votes to the tally on the
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midterms showing that we won by around four million votes.
Is the number that I've seen most recently nationwide. Right,
So that's an eleven million vote swing in the direction
of Republicans. Now, what's frustrating is it didn't translate to
a landslide, red wave tsunami. But I think for most
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people out there, if you had told them the data was, hey,
we're gonna get four million more votes. I think the challenge,
one of the big challenges in twenty twenty four is
going to be COVID made red redder and blue bluer.
So the number of places that are actually willing to shift,
like Florida is in the Camp four Republicans right like,
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and Republicans are gonna win it by maybe six seven
eight points. It's not gonna be remotely close, you know,
Texas is in the Republican camp. Why right, this election
is going to come down to six states we can
already tell you Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia.
Those six states, I think are the only ones that
are actually in play. Maybe you can toss in New
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Hampshire if you have the right candidate, maybe you made
a seventh state in play up there, But by and large,
this is a seventh state election. Who's the candidate that
can win in four out of those seven states? I
think that's a question Republicans have to ask themselves. And
as we all know, I mean, two months feels like
an eternity in a political election cycle. So two years,
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who knows? Who knows what's gonna happen. I mean a
lot that's the other a lot of we're talking about.
You say, for example, my whole premise about about Biden
running again is based on, you know, he's healthy enough,
meaning that you can kind of walk around and shuffle
and do it. If if he can do what he
currently does, he's running and he's going to be formidable
because of the way that Democrats have built a system.
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But of course he's at an age where, you know,
God forbid, but he's an age where real stuff, real
stuff happens. By the way, Trump also is at an
age where his health. You know, look I saw him Friday.
He's robust, he's fired up, he's ready for right, He's
a much better shaped than Biden. But I'm just saying,
you know, look, we're talking about a few years, a
couple of years out here, and and a lot can change.
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And I just think that, you know, one of the
great one of the huge advantages of the Democrats had
is that the economy. Everyone I talked to says, who
knows the economy? Right, I dinner with a dinner with
a friend last night down here in Miami, who knows
macroeconomic cycles and has made a lot of money because
he predicts them correctly. And he's like, next year is
going to be brutal economically. Yes, Now, if that had
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happened in summer fall of twenty twenty two different. So
I just think there's all these you know, external externalities
or these additional factors that will come into it. Twitter, though,
to get us back to the very beginnings of this,
it's tough to know whether Twitter, whether Trump on Twitter
overall helps him, helps the Republicans or helps the Democrats
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more on a net basis, because it's a lot, a
lot of a lot of ups and downs of it, right,
I mean, when when they're gleeful, when Democrats are gleeful
about the prospect of constantly talking about Trump's tweets, that
should be some kind of a sign. But by the
same token, without that, they're able to set the net.
This is the part that I think we forget. Without that,
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they were able to set the narrative a lot more
going into this election because they just have so many
more artillery pieces, so to speak, on the battlefield of
information warfare than we do. So that you know, it's
it's tough to tough to gauge this. I think in
a lot of ways. I think it's it's going to
be interest you see it. Finally, you think he goes
on now, well, since you like predictions, I just think
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it's hard for him not to. I think so too, right,
if I think there's no way he can avoid it.
If you like attention and you knew that eighty five
million people are going to react to every single word
that you put out there, I just I think it's
hard for him. Not the Evon must put up a
couple of funny memes of Trump like trying to resist
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Resist Twitter, and I just think it's so And I
saw even Donald Trump Junior retweeted one of them. I
just think it's so tantalizing to him that ultimately he
won't be able to so as I saw. I saw
Don Junior Friday as well talked him for a while,
not even the least bit phased. I mean, this is once,
once you've been in that in that role, once you've
been a member of the Trump family for the first administration,
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be with us in about what seven or eight minutes. Also,
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who is all in as you well can imagine, on
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were talking in the last segment Buck about Elon Musk
and Twitter. I would give him and I wouldn't give
him an A plus because I don't like the selling
of the blue checks because it's made Twitter a little
bit harder for me personally. And I know we've talked
about this with you. Just to use, like in terms
of being able to see what like if I want
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to see something that you've tweeted that you tagged me in,
sometimes it's hard to keep up. You put up a
picture of you and your fiance and me and my wife.
I didn't see it for like two days, so somebody
else tagged it, so it's not as easy to use.
But I would give him an A on an A
plus scale so far and what he's done, it's amazing
to watch all these journos who majored in communications, gender studies,
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and you know, other entirely irrelevant disciplines lecturing the literal
richest man in the world about how to run a
company to it's gonna shut down. Oh my gosh, I'm
literally shaking right now. No, he's just getting rid of
all the diversity and inclusion czar deadweight from the company.
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Welcome back to play Travis at Buck Sexton Show. You
have a likely seen if you've been following some of
the news from of the weekend, the story of this
horrific shooting in Colorado Springs at a nightclub and LGPTQ nightclub.
I believe five people were killed and immediately and this
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is just what we see now in these incidents, instead
of even allowing for a day of just grieving as
a nation for a horrific, violent event like this, and
a serious look at anything that could be done from
a security perspective, How could the things be likely averted
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or minimized in the future. What is possible to do?
And sometimes those conversations can be very unsatisfying in the
sense that there is evil in this world, then there
will be people who choose to do evil, regardless of
what the laws may be, regardless of what law enforcement
programs are in place. Sometimes there's an idea to address it,
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and sometimes there is. There is not much that comes
from it, but instead it immediately it immediately turns into
a point scoring political exercise for many pundits, for many
people in the news, and it's gross. And the way
that they do this now is something called stochastic terrorism.
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They'll call it so chastick just so you know, you'll
see this popping up and people who want to appear
smarter than they are and the media will throw this
term around. So chastick comes from stochasticity, which is a
term from statistics, and it's effectively random probability distribution. So
if you look at at a Petrie dish with bacteria
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in it, where will they go first and how fast
will they grow? Mathematically you can't really tell, so you'll say, well,
there's a random probability distribution at work. Now, I'm not
a stats guy, but that's a very lay person view
of what stochasticity is. But when they say stochastic terrorism,
what they're talking about is using a form of emotional
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blackmail against people. They'll say, well, this event that happened, Okay,
the Nancy, let's take it away from the horrific event
of Colorado Springs. Let's look at the Nancy Pelosi's husband
attack situation. People were saying that was, you know, whether
it was politicians, people in the media, that was stachastic terrorism,
because they say, well, what exactly was the inciting moment,
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what connection is there to anybody on the mainstream right,
or why did this happen in this way at this time. Well,
there's no actual connection to anybody in the Republican party
or anybody that you incited this specific act. And so
they say, well, it's just an environment. It's just a
general sensibility out there that you are responsible for if
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you're a Republican, if you're a conservative. But that this
environment created this instance of schastic terrorism, it removes any
sense of causality, and it's just a means of saying,
clay your side, I'm going to hold your side responsible
for this, right, I'm going to hold your people responsible
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for this, and we have to see this for what
it is. I mean, when there are incidents. Here's a
perfect example, when a Bernie Sanders supporter named James Hodgkinson
takes a rifle and tries to murder shoot Steve Scalise
tries to murder Senator Rampaul tries to kill as many
Conservative members of Congress as possible. The stochastic terrorism narrative
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would be every Democrat, every Democrat is responsible for creating
that environment encouraging that they should all be asked to
condemn it. If they don't condemn it enough, you have
to ask if they sympathize with it. That's what the
stochastic terrorism narrative is. Of course, that never applies to Democrats.
It only applies to any time it can be set
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at the feet of the right in some way. And
this is yet again over the weekend. You see this
somehow you know, every conservative is responsible, in the eyes
of the left, through stochastic terrorism for this horrific mass
shooting that occurs in Colorado Springs. There's no basis in rationality,
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reality and causality for this, but it's emotionally very effective
for people. Look, I think we need to all do regularly,
and this is what I would hope would happen in
twenty twenty four. Maybe it's too optimistic. We need like
a national probability and statistics expert, because I believe you
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were one of the first people I saw and then
saying this buck And then I went and looked into it,
and I said, this is fascinating. If we eliminated every
mass shooting as it is defined in America today, ninety
nine percent of murders would still be occurring in this country.
So the question that I have for everyone out there,
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and I think it's a really good one, And I
think this is an example of where the media is failing.
The media shows up every time there's a mass shooting
and covers it as if it is the overarching problem
that exists in America today. Everybody out there listening, which
is nobody got murdered, right, Everybody is anti death when
it comes to people dying from violent means, all right,
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What makes more sense to constantly show up when there's
a mass shooting and pretend that it's representative of violence
in America or every weekend in Chicago or Philadelphia or
Atlanta or New York City. Sometimes certainly Houston, many different
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big cities out there that have been seeing skyrocketing rates
of murder that almost entirely get ignored. What would be
a more accurate representation of covering violence in America and
the dangers to Americans? Would it be showing up at
a mass shooting site and arguing, oh, Republicans are responsible
for all of this, or recognizing that the reality is
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mass shootings, mass murders are occurring in all of our
cities every day and the number one way to reduce murders. Remember,
if we did away with every mass shooting in America,
nine of them would still be occurring. This is my issue,
buck with It's so frustrating to me the way that
police misconduct gets covered. As if we eliminated I wish
we could every single issue of police misconduct in America.
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You know what would happened to the actual murder rate?
It would not even be noticeably different, right, because we
focused on these arbitrary and not representative outlier issues and
we miss the larger substance of it. Black Lives Matter
is a great example book. They all rush out in
the streets to protest. Really, Black Lives Matter needs the
parenthetical added to it. Black lives matter when white people
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are involved in any way with a black life ending,
But when a black life is taken by another black life,
which is ninety four percent or ninety three percent of
all black murders, gets almost no attention or coverage at all.
It's a failure of reality, a failure of truth in
favor of narrative. And that's what we see every single
time with these shootings. And there's also something that is
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really ugly, and I would even argue socially destabilizing about
the main streaming of a narrative, which is what is
going on on a regular basis. Now that if you don't,
for example, go Joe Biden, what does he talk about
right away? What is Joe Biden's first thing? As soon
as this attack happens, before we've even gotten into the
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motives or or the investigation, Biden says, while no motive
in this attack is yet clear, we know that the
LGBTQ community has been subjected to horrific hate violence in
recent years, and also goes on to talk about a
banning assault rifles. Right, this is the conversation. But what
the left does and what the Democrat party does is
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convince itself, convince its supporters that the people who don't
want to go along with the politicized prescription in the
aftermath of this, that wouldn't have stopped this, that wouldn't
they're actually part of the evil here too. There's a
demonization of half the country that occurs very regularly in
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the aftermath of incidents like this, and it has to
fit a very specific narrative. A group that the left
identifies as one of its protected groups and that is
generally targeted. So a group that is that is often
victimized and hate crimes or through oppression, whatever the framework
may be for it. And then it's do what we
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say politically after this, or you're part of the problem. Right,
And this is deeply intellectually, and I would also argue
morally disingenuous and wrong, and this is what ends up.
This is what ends up happening, Unfortunately, after every time
there's a an incident like this, Yeah, we have to
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keep calling it out. Unfortunately, because it keeps happening so much.
We're scheduled war schedule talk with Larren Bobert Congress Holman.
We'll see if we get her on Nancy Gray schedule
join us in the third hour we come back. Buck
used to coach high school soccer. I put up a
poll about how many people care about the World Cup,
which actually starts in fifteen minutes, what is going to
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happen over in Qatar, And there's actually a pretty incredible
thing that's already occurred, what Iranians were willing to do
to stand up to their country, the soccer players. We'll
talk about that in a moment, but first you see
this study the other day. Fifty percent of testosterone level
in men has collapsed over the last fifty years. If
you wonder whether the Biden White House the men there
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have the lowest levels of testosterone of any leadership we've
ever seen, I think the answers yes, there is zeroed
out that the Biden White House is the least testosterone
filled white house for the men, for the men in
the history of our country, and that certainly has not
led to them doing a good job at all, which
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is why I'd like to go ahead and send some
testosterone to them. I'd like for chalk to hook them up,
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will start in like ten minutes before you talk with
the World Cup. Can I just I have a correction.
I needed some chalk today to increase my focus and
my energy as I was talking. It is stochastic, not
stochastic stochastic terrorism. But this is one of these moments
where I like to learn about things by reading. So
I've been reading about this all the time. I've actually
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never heard the words said. I've only read it hundreds
and hundreds of times. So this is one of those.
And I be driven insane given how many words I mispronounced.
If you if you mispronounced so many words as me,
you wouldn't be I sleep at night. I hate getting
things wrong and I hate saying things wrong. Sony, I
just want to correct that. Now we can talk it.
So to Stochastic by the way, stochastic terrorist, he might say, well,
(31:44):
I was in the counter Terrorism Center of the CIA.
You know how many times I heard about that zero.
It is a new thing that they've taken from statistics
that they now talk about in the context of terrorism.
But yes, it is a hard, hard see and now Clay, sorry,
thank you for letting me correct that. And also I
be I could use some chalk chalk dot com, choq
dot com today the World Cup, sir, what do we got? So?
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The World Cup starts in about ten minutes. US is
playing Wales and we are small favorite in this game.
Our group for people out there who may not be
paying attention is Iran, it is Wales, it is England
and the United States. So we play England, I believe,
on Friday, and then Wales sorry Iran to finish out
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the group stage. Two of the four teams will advance
from the group. The Iranian team buck. I don't know
if you saw this. They refuse to sing along with
the national anthem of Iran, which is evidently a huge
tradition in their country. Every player refused to sing to
stand up for the people protesting against the Iranian government. Now,
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this is actual, real bravery, unlike what we often refer
to in the United States when somebody takes a knee
for the national anthem and they end up getting a
shoe contract or their own television show. Like this is
potentially a something that could put some of these players
in prison. It could lead to violent acts against them
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or their family. This is a pretty brave act. So
I think this is going to turn into a big
story internationally. But I asked people out there how they
thought the US would do in the World Cup, and
I also said I gave people an option. I don't care.
I hate soccer. This was a Twitter poll. What percentage
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of my audience book In this poll, do you think
said I don't care I hate soccer of your audience, yes,
extremely enthusiastic SEC football fans. Sixty percent of them hate soccer.
Thirty seven percent said they don't care they hate soccer.
It's not about two thirds and they care. What percentage
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of our audience listening right now do you think will
watch a World Cup game involving the United States men's
team of only ten? I think so see, I would
go because Friday, the game is happening on a holiday,
when a lot of people are at home looking for
things to do. I actually think something like half of
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our audience will watch one of these games. I mean,
I would like to watch the US play England just
because the British are better than us at two things,
soccer and making crumpets, and this will upset them if
we are able to beat them, so that makes me
very happy. But we probably won't beat them, which is
the fast. This is the other part of it. I
want to root. I'm always rooting for America, but it's
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hard to root for America and soccer because we tend
to do not well. As the men's team tends to
not do well. We talked about this before the show started.
You are watching with your brothers, and so you are
going to try to avoid completely what the results are
of this game until later in the afternoon. Yeah, but
I mean beating beating whales, Like, isn't that kind of
like beating the principality of Monaco or something. I mean,
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let's be serious, folks, if it's whale is even really
a country? I know it is, don't People are like, yes,
it is, I mean kind of a small favorite. So
I'm gonna have this game on. I'm gonna try not
to react for the first half because the first half
is being played in the final hour of our game.
And I just I can't not watch Sports live. I
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tried the DVR at everything else. My phone blows up.
People are texting me because they assume that I watch
every sporting event, So I basically would just have to
turn my phone off and not allow myself to watch
it at all. So it's starting in about five minutes,
and uh, and I'm curious how that's gonna go to
your point though, on the Iranian on the Iranian team
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not bit taking a stand because of the crackdown on
the protest that's been going on over there, and the
look Iran is a is a totalitarian theocracy. I mean
it's the government there is is evil and depressive, and
that is all very true. But when they do that,
they don't get a bigger Nike contract. They take a
risk they are actually going to suffer the consequences of
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standing up for what they view is moral. In this country,
when we have athletes that are taking a knee or
that are so upset about the cops and they're wearing
the hoodies or whatever they're doing, their marketability goes up.
They get nothing but celebrity saying, look at how brave, stunning,
and brave they are. So it's a very different thing
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being a freedom fighter against the Iranian regime as an
Iranian that takes guts, a lot of guts. I've argued
for a while, because this has been a big topic
associated with sports, that true bravery requires at least one
of two things, the risk of your life and well
being and or the rest of the risk of your liberty.
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In the United States, Colin Kaepernick made far more money
by taking a knee than he would have by simply
continue to be a quarterback in the NFL. So the
reward structure actually is the opposite of bravery. If you
make more money to do something, that's fine. You might
still be speaking truth to power, but not very often.
In Iran, they're risking true life and liberty. That is bravery.
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Pleat Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Second hour of Clay and Buck starts. Now, everybody, thanks
for listening all across the country. To tweet or not
to tweet? That is the question for well a lot
of people, former President Trump among them. It was announced
on was it Saturday? I think it was Saturday that
(00:20):
Elon Musk has officially invited former President Trump back to Twitter,
which just brings back great memories for people like Clay
me because I remember waking up. I think at one
point Trump retweeted my account five times in a row,
which was amazing because I saw all these C list
actors that I kind of vaguely remember from the nineties
(00:42):
being like whatever, like you know, Buck sexy Man, Like
you don't know anything, You're an idiot. I was like, wait, why,
why all of a sudden, is you know, Henchman number
three from Blood Sport five telling me that I'm a
bad person? Oh, because Trump retweeted me. So that kind
of stuff would happened. It was always, and it would
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happen very early in the morning. The first thing you'd
be like, who did I upset? Who did I anger about? That?
He was Buck? I said this for a while. I
had early morning sports talk radio six to nine am Eastern,
So I'm up at like five to thirty in the
morning East coast for thirty in Central time here. You know,
when you hit your like Twitter feed people you follow,
and there's like nothing updating, you know, because everybody's gone
(01:25):
to bed for the most part. It would be like
Trump was the only person that early in the morning
that would be posting new things, and and so we oftentime,
and a lot of times they had sports related connections.
We were reacting to it. He was setting the agenda.
He was up so early in the morning before most
of the media. He made Twitter something that was a
necessity if you were covering news and politics really globally,
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but certainly in America, you had no choice, yes, but
to at least have a familiarity with it because of
former President Trump. It was never the case, you know,
other politicians, you know, Obama was on Twitter, but it
was always very clear that other politicians used Twitter as
essentially a big email list for their public pronouncements, essentially
(02:13):
their press releases in short form via Twitter. With Trump,
it was like you had attached a little microchip into
his brain, into his phone, and boom, the American people
got to have a direct connection to the candidate in
twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, and then the president for four years,
(02:34):
which was remarkable. But so there are huge implications to
this and a lot of variables at play. For one thing,
we know that Trump has truth social I'm on Truth
plays on Truth, which is a nascent social media platform,
so it's it's growing. We've had Devin Nunas on before,
who's the CEO. But the whole point of truth really
(02:56):
seemed one. It's free speech. Yes, that's true. And there
are these others as Well's Parlor and there's get or
there are a number of them. The problem is there's
probably only going to end up being one, and everyone
knows alt when I say only being one. There may
be some need for those others in some capacity, but
there's gonna be one dominant platform and then some other
platforms that are more niche Friday, CBS News. This was hilarious.
(03:20):
Did you see this, Clay. They did give a sense
of how powerful the Twitter platform already is right now
in this business and in politics in America. They said
they were halting their posting on Twitter out of caution
because Elon Musk runs it now play clip two, in
light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an
abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on
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the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform,
pausing so they can monitor the platform. Good heavens, we've
gotten word that the Trump is back. Who else? A
bunch of people have gotten their platfect project veritass the
Babylon BB is back. A number of them are back now.
(04:04):
And now this also comes at a really interesting time
for the social media platforms. And understand that these this
has been an area of enormous advantage for Democrats that
I think has very much affected elections. So that's a
part of this as well. So even if we're not
all because I know very few of our people listening
right now are really active on Twitter. I mean by percentages,
(04:24):
maybe five percent of this audience roughly, I'm guessing, but
something like that. But it affects every every website you read,
every newspaper, every politician, they're all battling and and you know,
tweeting on a regular basis. Facebook is a fraction of
what it used to be in terms of engagement utility,
(04:45):
and this is why the stop was stocked down eighty
percent or something. Yea, Spacebook's gotten crushed. Yeah, some of
it's for the metaverse stuff, but it's just become unwieldy.
YouTube is a left wing collective that will not allow
for free speech. It's owned by Google, which is owned
by Alphabet TikTok. I just saw Senator Tom Cotton say
over the weekend like it's basically a Chinese spying operation.
(05:05):
Get everybody you know off of TikTok. I want to
dig into that a little more. That seems I don't know.
I want to know more of the details. But this
may be the only major social media platform it existence
Clay where there is a true, free and fair exchange
of ideas going on, which makes it even more valuable
and more central. What Elon Musk is doing right now
(05:30):
is showing true gravery, because first of all, he put
up a poll to allow people to vote on whether
Trump should be re allowed back on the platform, and
I don't fifteen million people ish voted in that poll,
if I remember it correctly, and fifty two percent voted yes,
forty eight percent voted no. And what I think is
(05:50):
significant about that voting buck is remember forty eight percent
of people were not saying, no, I don't want Donald
Trump back on Twitter, or I don't sorry, I don't
want him back as president or something. They were saying
Donald Trump shouldn't be allowed to share his opinions on Twitter.
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And this is just something that I fundamentally reject, and
I think it's so important for Elon Must to be
standing on the principle of free speech here. I'm not
sure that Trump being back on Twitter, if he decides
to reclaim his account, is going to be beneficial to
him at all. In fact, I think it might benefit Democrats,
but he is beneficial. Can I just wait, can we
(06:32):
put a pause in what is beneficial? Just because they're
actually some of them, some of them are saying, Who's
I don't know who Rachel Bade is? Do you know
Rachel Bade? I don't know that he says Trump back
on Twitter? This is clip three gift for Democrats eighty three.
I mean it keeps changing. A million followers that have
been restored on Twitter, on trus Social, which is his own,
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and he owns the platform. He's got a fraction of that,
I mean, truths or whatever they call it, and nobody
that's exactly why I think a lot of people expect
him back on Twitter. He loves the attention, right, and
talk about a gift to Democrats. I mean, I remember
covering Paul Ryan when Trump would tweet all the time
from the White House and we would chase Paul Ryan
around the halls and US Republicans comment on this controversial
(07:16):
comment that Trump just made, and they would spend all
their days trying to dodge all these questions. But for
Democrats it's great. They can pull that up to their
voters and say, look at the Republican Party, we are
the adults at the table. So they're saying they want
him on Twitter. Yeah, which is why I think it's
so fascinating. As a general principle, I think as a
as a as a country that decides who our leaders are,
(07:41):
we should want the leaders to speak as widely as
they can, to share with us both their personality and
the principles on which they would stand. So the idea
that you can take, even when he's the democratically elected
president of the United States and just ban him on
Twitter is something that I reject out of hand. And
I would say the same thing which most Democrats would
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not even if Trump had been a Democrat, or even
if the Democrats somewhere down the line end up with
a candidate who uses Twitter in a manner similar to Trump,
and that would not stun me, by the way, if
that ended up happening at some point in the future,
I just don't know. I kind of agree with that commentator,
buck I think Trump. Here's my big concern about Trump
(08:24):
in twenty twenty four. The election must be a referendum
on Joe Biden's failures, particularly if Joe Biden is the
candidate himself, but even if he is not, Democrats had
control of the government and they failed on basically all fronts.
I mean, Trump doesn't allow himself to be anything other
(08:45):
than the story. And so I think if Trump wins, Bucket,
will be just like what we saw in twenty sixteen,
and just like we saw in twenty twenty, all of
us will be up all night long and they'll be
counting ballot's unfortunately in Nevada and Arizona and Georgia and
everywhere else, and we won't know who won this election
(09:06):
till we find out how one hundred thousand people's decisions.
I think, I think if this turns on Biden's failures.
We lose full stop. If we went through this. They
stink at everything, Clay. The economy stinks, inflation highest and
forty years, gas prices, high, crime, out of control, wide
open border, teaching kids who are ten that they should,
you know, cut off their private parts because of the
(09:26):
trans agenda agenda, Like, we went through all of this,
and what did people they went in they said, oh,
I don't know, this Republican candidate seems a little extreme
to me, so I'm gonna vote. You know, we went
through this. I think the only way that the failure
of the Democrats thing works if we go into a
brutal recession starting in the middle of next year. Some
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people say, we're already basically in the early phases of
that recession. We go into a brutal recession, then the
party in power gets punished and it doesn't even really matter.
But if it's kind of this status quo, yeah, or
four in case down twenty thirty percent, yeah, inflations, you know,
four or five percent, they wanted to be one or
two per You know, if it's that, it's gotta be
(10:08):
a vision man, right, Like it's gotta be we're gonna
do a better job on the fire points. But what
I'm saying is you sell they've failed, and here's what
we're gonna do different. I don't think Trump does that,
And I would just point out, even though we're super disappointed,
we went from the tally in twenty twenty showing Biden
winning by seven million votes to the tally on the
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midterms showing that we won by around four million votes.
Is the number that I've seen most recently nationwide. Right,
So that's an eleven million vote swing in the direction
of Republicans. Now, what's frustrating is it didn't translate to
a landslide, red wave tsunami. But I think for most
(10:53):
people out there, if you had told them the data was, hey,
we're gonna get four million more votes. I think the challenge,
one of the big challenges in twenty twenty four is
going to be COVID made red redder and blue bluer.
So the number of places that are actually willing to shift,
like Florida is in the Camp four Republicans right like,
(11:14):
and Republicans are gonna win it by maybe six seven
eight points. It's not gonna be remotely close, you know,
Texas is in the Republican camp. Why right, this election
is going to come down to six states we can
already tell you Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia.
Those six states, I think are the only ones that
are actually in play. Maybe you can toss in New
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Hampshire if you have the right candidate, maybe you made
a seventh state in play up there, But by and large,
this is a seventh state election. Who's the candidate that
can win in four out of those seven states? I
think that's a question Republicans have to ask themselves. And
as we all know, I mean, two months feels like
an eternity in a political election cycle. So two years,
(11:57):
who knows? Who knows what's gonna happen. I mean a
lot that's the other a lot of we're talking about.
You say, for example, my whole premise about about Biden
running again is based on, you know, he's healthy enough,
meaning that you can kind of walk around and shuffle
and do it. If if he can do what he
currently does, he's running and he's going to be formidable
because of the way that Democrats have built a system.
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But of course he's at an age where, you know,
God forbid, but he's an age where real stuff, real
stuff happens. By the way, Trump also is at an
age where his health. You know, look I saw him Friday.
He's robust, he's fired up, he's ready for right, He's
a much better shaped than Biden. But I'm just saying,
you know, look, we're talking about a few years, a
couple of years out here, and and a lot can change.
(12:40):
And I just think that, you know, one of the
great one of the huge advantages of the Democrats had
is that the economy. Everyone I talked to says, who
knows the economy? Right, I dinner with a dinner with
a friend last night down here in Miami, who knows
macroeconomic cycles and has made a lot of money because
he predicts them correctly. And he's like, next year is
going to be brutal economically. Yes, Now, if that had
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happened in summer fall of twenty twenty two different. So
I just think there's all these you know, external externalities
or these additional factors that will come into it. Twitter, though,
to get us back to the very beginnings of this,
it's tough to know whether Twitter, whether Trump on Twitter
overall helps him, helps the Republicans or helps the Democrats
(13:22):
more on a net basis, because it's a lot, a
lot of a lot of ups and downs of it, right,
I mean, when when they're gleeful, when Democrats are gleeful
about the prospect of constantly talking about Trump's tweets, that
should be some kind of a sign. But by the
same token, without that, they're able to set the net.
This is the part that I think we forget. Without that,
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they were able to set the narrative a lot more
going into this election because they just have so many
more artillery pieces, so to speak, on the battlefield of
information warfare than we do. So that you know, it's
it's tough to tough to gauge this. I think in
a lot of ways. I think it's it's going to
be interest you see it. Finally, you think he goes
on now, well, since you like predictions, I just think
(14:05):
it's hard for him not to. I think so too, right,
if I think there's no way he can avoid it.
If you like attention and you knew that eighty five
million people are going to react to every single word
that you put out there, I just I think it's
hard for him. Not the Evon must put up a
couple of funny memes of Trump like trying to resist
(14:26):
Resist Twitter, and I just think it's so And I
saw even Donald Trump Junior retweeted one of them. I
just think it's so tantalizing to him that ultimately he
won't be able to so as I saw. I saw
Don Junior Friday as well talked him for a while,
not even the least bit phased. I mean, this is once,
once you've been in that in that role, once you've
been a member of the Trump family for the first administration,
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we're headed. Lauren Bobert, congresswoman from Colorado, reelected going to
be with us in about what seven or eight minutes. Also,
in the third hour of the program, both Buck and
me are obsessed, obsessed with this Iowa, Idaho murder. Four
(16:40):
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to blame. We will get an update from Nancy Grace,
who is all in as you well can imagine, on
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(17:02):
were talking in the last segment Buck about Elon Musk
and Twitter. I would give him and I wouldn't give
him an A plus because I don't like the selling
of the blue checks because it's made Twitter a little
bit harder for me personally. And I know we've talked
about this with you. Just to use, like in terms
of being able to see what like if I want
(17:23):
to see something that you've tweeted that you tagged me in,
sometimes it's hard to keep up. You put up a
picture of you and your fiance and me and my wife.
I didn't see it for like two days, so somebody
else tagged it, so it's not as easy to use.
But I would give him an A on an A
plus scale so far and what he's done, it's amazing
to watch all these journos who majored in communications, gender studies,
(17:47):
and you know, other entirely irrelevant disciplines lecturing the literal
richest man in the world about how to run a
company to it's gonna shut down. Oh my gosh, I'm
literally shaking right now. No, he's just getting rid of
all the diversity and inclusion czar deadweight from the company.
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Welcome back to play Travis at Buck Sexton Show. You
have a likely seen if you've been following some of
the news from of the weekend, the story of this
horrific shooting in Colorado Springs at a nightclub and LGPTQ nightclub.
I believe five people were killed and immediately and this
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is just what we see now in these incidents, instead
of even allowing for a day of just grieving as
a nation for a horrific, violent event like this, and
a serious look at anything that could be done from
a security perspective, How could the things be likely averted
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or minimized in the future. What is possible to do?
And sometimes those conversations can be very unsatisfying in the
sense that there is evil in this world, then there
will be people who choose to do evil, regardless of
what the laws may be, regardless of what law enforcement
programs are in place. Sometimes there's an idea to address it,
(20:24):
and sometimes there is. There is not much that comes
from it, but instead it immediately it immediately turns into
a point scoring political exercise for many pundits, for many
people in the news, and it's gross. And the way
that they do this now is something called stochastic terrorism.
(20:47):
They'll call it so chastick just so you know, you'll
see this popping up and people who want to appear
smarter than they are and the media will throw this
term around. So chastick comes from stochasticity, which is a
term from statistics, and it's effectively random probability distribution. So
if you look at at a Petrie dish with bacteria
(21:09):
in it, where will they go first and how fast
will they grow? Mathematically you can't really tell, so you'll say, well,
there's a random probability distribution at work. Now, I'm not
a stats guy, but that's a very lay person view
of what stochasticity is. But when they say stochastic terrorism,
what they're talking about is using a form of emotional
(21:30):
blackmail against people. They'll say, well, this event that happened, Okay,
the Nancy, let's take it away from the horrific event
of Colorado Springs. Let's look at the Nancy Pelosi's husband
attack situation. People were saying that was, you know, whether
it was politicians, people in the media, that was stachastic terrorism,
because they say, well, what exactly was the inciting moment,
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what connection is there to anybody on the mainstream right,
or why did this happen in this way at this time. Well,
there's no actual connection to anybody in the Republican party
or anybody that you incited this specific act. And so
they say, well, it's just an environment. It's just a
general sensibility out there that you are responsible for if
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you're a Republican, if you're a conservative. But that this
environment created this instance of schastic terrorism, it removes any
sense of causality, and it's just a means of saying,
clay your side, I'm going to hold your side responsible
for this, right, I'm going to hold your people responsible
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for this, and we have to see this for what
it is. I mean, when there are incidents. Here's a
perfect example, when a Bernie Sanders supporter named James Hodgkinson
takes a rifle and tries to murder shoot Steve Scalise
tries to murder Senator Rampaul tries to kill as many
Conservative members of Congress as possible. The stochastic terrorism narrative
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would be every Democrat, every Democrat is responsible for creating
that environment encouraging that they should all be asked to
condemn it. If they don't condemn it enough, you have
to ask if they sympathize with it. That's what the
stochastic terrorism narrative is. Of course, that never applies to Democrats.
It only applies to any time it can be set
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at the feet of the right in some way. And
this is yet again over the weekend. You see this
somehow you know, every conservative is responsible, in the eyes
of the left, through stochastic terrorism for this horrific mass
shooting that occurs in Colorado Springs. There's no basis in rationality,
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reality and causality for this, but it's emotionally very effective
for people. Look, I think we need to all do regularly,
and this is what I would hope would happen in
twenty twenty four. Maybe it's too optimistic. We need like
a national probability and statistics expert, because I believe you
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were one of the first people I saw and then
saying this buck And then I went and looked into it,
and I said, this is fascinating. If we eliminated every
mass shooting as it is defined in America today, ninety
nine percent of murders would still be occurring in this country.
So the question that I have for everyone out there,
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and I think it's a really good one, And I
think this is an example of where the media is failing.
The media shows up every time there's a mass shooting
and covers it as if it is the overarching problem
that exists in America today. Everybody out there listening, which
is nobody got murdered, right, Everybody is anti death when
it comes to people dying from violent means, all right,
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What makes more sense to constantly show up when there's
a mass shooting and pretend that it's representative of violence
in America or every weekend in Chicago or Philadelphia or
Atlanta or New York City. Sometimes certainly Houston, many different
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big cities out there that have been seeing skyrocketing rates
of murder that almost entirely get ignored. What would be
a more accurate representation of covering violence in America and
the dangers to Americans? Would it be showing up at
a mass shooting site and arguing, oh, Republicans are responsible
for all of this, or recognizing that the reality is
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mass shootings, mass murders are occurring in all of our
cities every day and the number one way to reduce murders. Remember,
if we did away with every mass shooting in America,
nine of them would still be occurring. This is my issue,
buck with It's so frustrating to me the way that
police misconduct gets covered. As if we eliminated I wish
we could every single issue of police misconduct in America.
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You know what would happened to the actual murder rate?
It would not even be noticeably different, right, because we
focused on these arbitrary and not representative outlier issues and
we miss the larger substance of it. Black Lives Matter
is a great example book. They all rush out in
the streets to protest. Really, Black Lives Matter needs the
parenthetical added to it. Black lives matter when white people
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are involved in any way with a black life ending,
But when a black life is taken by another black life,
which is ninety four percent or ninety three percent of
all black murders, gets almost no attention or coverage at all.
It's a failure of reality, a failure of truth in
favor of narrative. And that's what we see every single
time with these shootings. And there's also something that is
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really ugly, and I would even argue socially destabilizing about
the main streaming of a narrative, which is what is
going on on a regular basis. Now that if you don't,
for example, go Joe Biden, what does he talk about
right away? What is Joe Biden's first thing? As soon
as this attack happens, before we've even gotten into the
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motives or or the investigation, Biden says, while no motive
in this attack is yet clear, we know that the
LGBTQ community has been subjected to horrific hate violence in
recent years, and also goes on to talk about a
banning assault rifles. Right, this is the conversation. But what
the left does and what the Democrat party does is
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convince itself, convince its supporters that the people who don't
want to go along with the politicized prescription in the
aftermath of this, that wouldn't have stopped this, that wouldn't
they're actually part of the evil here too. There's a
demonization of half the country that occurs very regularly in
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the aftermath of incidents like this, and it has to
fit a very specific narrative. A group that the left
identifies as one of its protected groups and that is
generally targeted. So a group that is that is often
victimized and hate crimes or through oppression, whatever the framework
may be for it. And then it's do what we
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say politically after this, or you're part of the problem. Right,
And this is deeply intellectually, and I would also argue
morally disingenuous and wrong, and this is what ends up.
This is what ends up happening, Unfortunately, after every time
there's a an incident like this, Yeah, we have to
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keep calling it out. Unfortunately, because it keeps happening so much.
We're scheduled war schedule talk with Larren Bobert Congress Holman.
We'll see if we get her on Nancy Gray schedule
join us in the third hour we come back. Buck
used to coach high school soccer. I put up a
poll about how many people care about the World Cup,
which actually starts in fifteen minutes, what is going to
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happen over in Qatar, And there's actually a pretty incredible
thing that's already occurred, what Iranians were willing to do
to stand up to their country, the soccer players. We'll
talk about that in a moment, but first you see
this study the other day. Fifty percent of testosterone level
in men has collapsed over the last fifty years. If
you wonder whether the Biden White House the men there
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have the lowest levels of testosterone of any leadership we've
ever seen, I think the answers yes, there is zeroed
out that the Biden White House is the least testosterone
filled white house for the men, for the men in
the history of our country, and that certainly has not
led to them doing a good job at all, which
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is why I'd like to go ahead and send some
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big difference. He's Buck Sexton, He's Clay Travis. Together they're
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five percent off for the life. Buck. The World Cup
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will start in like ten minutes before you talk with
the World Cup. Can I just I have a correction.
I needed some chalk today to increase my focus and
my energy as I was talking. It is stochastic, not
stochastic stochastic terrorism. But this is one of these moments
where I like to learn about things by reading. So
I've been reading about this all the time. I've actually
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never heard the words said. I've only read it hundreds
and hundreds of times. So this is one of those.
And I be driven insane given how many words I mispronounced.
If you if you mispronounced so many words as me,
you wouldn't be I sleep at night. I hate getting
things wrong and I hate saying things wrong. Sony, I
just want to correct that. Now we can talk it.
So to Stochastic by the way, stochastic terrorist, he might say, well,
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I was in the counter Terrorism Center of the CIA.
You know how many times I heard about that zero.
It is a new thing that they've taken from statistics
that they now talk about in the context of terrorism.
But yes, it is a hard, hard see and now Clay, sorry,
thank you for letting me correct that. And also I
be I could use some chalk chalk dot com, choq
dot com today the World Cup, sir, what do we got? So?
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The World Cup starts in about ten minutes. US is
playing Wales and we are small favorite in this game.
Our group for people out there who may not be
paying attention is Iran, it is Wales, it is England
and the United States. So we play England, I believe,
on Friday, and then Wales sorry Iran to finish out
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the group stage. Two of the four teams will advance
from the group. The Iranian team buck. I don't know
if you saw this. They refuse to sing along with
the national anthem of Iran, which is evidently a huge
tradition in their country. Every player refused to sing to
stand up for the people protesting against the Iranian government. Now,
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this is actual, real bravery, unlike what we often refer
to in the United States when somebody takes a knee
for the national anthem and they end up getting a
shoe contract or their own television show. Like this is
potentially a something that could put some of these players
in prison. It could lead to violent acts against them
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or their family. This is a pretty brave act. So
I think this is going to turn into a big
story internationally. But I asked people out there how they
thought the US would do in the World Cup, and
I also said I gave people an option. I don't care.
I hate soccer. This was a Twitter poll. What percentage
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of my audience book In this poll, do you think
said I don't care I hate soccer of your audience, yes,
extremely enthusiastic SEC football fans. Sixty percent of them hate soccer.
Thirty seven percent said they don't care they hate soccer.
It's not about two thirds and they care. What percentage
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of our audience listening right now do you think will
watch a World Cup game involving the United States men's
team of only ten? I think so see, I would
go because Friday, the game is happening on a holiday,
when a lot of people are at home looking for
things to do. I actually think something like half of
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our audience will watch one of these games. I mean,
I would like to watch the US play England just
because the British are better than us at two things,
soccer and making crumpets, and this will upset them if
we are able to beat them, so that makes me
very happy. But we probably won't beat them, which is
the fast. This is the other part of it. I
want to root. I'm always rooting for America, but it's
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hard to root for America and soccer because we tend
to do not well. As the men's team tends to
not do well. We talked about this before the show started.
You are watching with your brothers, and so you are
going to try to avoid completely what the results are
of this game until later in the afternoon. Yeah, but
I mean beating beating whales, Like, isn't that kind of
like beating the principality of Monaco or something. I mean,
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let's be serious, folks, if it's whale is even really
a country? I know it is, don't People are like, yes,
it is, I mean kind of a small favorite. So
I'm gonna have this game on. I'm gonna try not
to react for the first half because the first half
is being played in the final hour of our game.
And I just I can't not watch Sports live. I
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tried the DVR at everything else. My phone blows up.
People are texting me because they assume that I watch
every sporting event, So I basically would just have to
turn my phone off and not allow myself to watch
it at all. So it's starting in about five minutes,
and uh, and I'm curious how that's gonna go to
your point though, on the Iranian on the Iranian team
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not bit taking a stand because of the crackdown on
the protest that's been going on over there, and the
look Iran is a is a totalitarian theocracy. I mean
it's the government there is is evil and depressive, and
that is all very true. But when they do that,
they don't get a bigger Nike contract. They take a
risk they are actually going to suffer the consequences of
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standing up for what they view is moral. In this country,
when we have athletes that are taking a knee or
that are so upset about the cops and they're wearing
the hoodies or whatever they're doing, their marketability goes up.
They get nothing but celebrity saying, look at how brave, stunning,
and brave they are. So it's a very different thing
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being a freedom fighter against the Iranian regime as an
Iranian that takes guts, a lot of guts. I've argued
for a while, because this has been a big topic
associated with sports, that true bravery requires at least one
of two things, the risk of your life and well
being and or the rest of the risk of your liberty.
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In the United States, Colin Kaepernick made far more money
by taking a knee than he would have by simply
continue to be a quarterback in the NFL. So the
reward structure actually is the opposite of bravery. If you
make more money to do something, that's fine. You might
still be speaking truth to power, but not very often.
In Iran, they're risking true life and liberty. That is bravery.
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