September 14, 2021 • 36 mins
Defining democrat hypocrisy, AOC wears ‘Tax The Rich’ dress to party with the 1% at $30,000-per-person elitist Met Gala. Dems propose $3 trillion tax hike on working families and small businesses. Biden: a vote for Larry Elder is a vote for Trump. Republicans call on SecState Blinken to resign over the Afghanistan withdrawal.
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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 and Buck Sexton
Show Tuesday edition. We appreciate all of you hanging out
with us. We have got a bevy of different topics
to dive into today. We run across the gamut. The
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recall election is going on today in the state of California.
What will or will not happen? Why does it matter?
We will discuss the ongoing Afghanistan debacle brought to a
head with the Secretary of State Tony Blincoln testifying in
front of Congress. We will discuss what, if anything we
learn there. The House Democrats have released their budget, what
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does it look like, How significant are many of the
decisions that are being made, and what might or might
not actually be passed? And what will occur as it
impacts your family. We will discuss that. We have got
a fantastic guest who has an op ed today in
the Wall Street Journal discussing natural immunity. He is doctor
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McCary from Johns Hopkins University. He has been on with
us before. He will join us at one oh five
Eastern to talk about many of the failures surrounding America's
COVID policy. But we begin, Buck Sexton with rank hypocrisy
in your home city of New York. Let me kind
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of set the scene here, and you can also help
me because you've dealt with events like this your entire life.
So I know I've never been to the Met gala.
It is a massive fundraising event that costs more than
your average, you know, apartment building. It feels like at
times of families will earn in a year two hundred
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and fifty thousand dollars for a table, thirty thousand dollars
for a ticket, and people wear all sorts of outlandish
outfits to this gala as they walk up the stairs
at the Met, which is a high end art establishment
in New York City, and AOC Alexandria Acazio Cortez showed
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up in a white dress red writing it said tax
the rich, and it exploded across the political landscape. Let
me play you the audio of AOC making her continuing
failing attempts at political arguments. Here is AOC explaining why
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she went to the most exclusive and expensive event of
the year just about in all of New York City
City wearing a tax the rich Dress. When Laura and
I were first kind of partnered, we really started having
a conversation about what it means to be working class
women of color at the MET. And we said, you know,
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we can't just play long, but we need to break
the fourth wall and challenge some of the institutions and
two hands. But you know, while the Met is known
for its spectacle, we sho conversation about it. A conversation
about it, Clay, that's what she's sparking with the tax
the rich dress. Okay, let's let's break this thing down
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for a second. First of all, there was also the
issue of none of them Met patrons. And it's the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the most famous museums
in the world. The Met steps are very very well known.
There are in tons of movies and TV shows, and
this is the most exclusive social event generally speaking, some
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I would say, in the world. It raises about ten
million dollars for like the costume. Sorry forget, forget what
the organ of the nonprofit is, but it's really just
like Vogue and Hollywood and all the fanciest people in
the world go to this one party. In Clay, the
staff are all masked. The servers, the ushers, the security,
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they have to be masked. But the patrons, the people
that are going to this ultra fancy party, I mean,
this bacchanal of the most elite people in certainly left
wing Hollywood media, society and politics. You could possibly find
they don't have to wear masks. There's no science behind that,
as we know. So we start with that that they're
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gallivanting around. I have a feeling, and I know you
asked about this before the show. We're not gonna have
Fauci come out with you know, they were really reckless
with it. No, of course not. Somehow Clay Fauci never
says anything to insult his constituency, which is the elite
lib apparatus of control. He never spoke out about Obama's
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birthday party. He has not going to speak out about
the met But yet when you go to a college
football game, oh, Fauci says it's unacceptable. And to your point,
the rank hypocrisy here is on multiple levels. You have
the mostly poor people who are servers. Theoretically you cannot afford. Yeah,
working class who cannot afford to actually ever go to
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these events that are required to wear a mask. And
you also require are all of these kids that have
now started school in New York that are going to
public schools, I think a million of them all over
the city. They're required to wear masks, and now they're
going to have to eat outdoors like all through the winter.
I mean, this is all madness, this is real, Marie Antoinette,
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let them eat cake level stuff. And as you and
I know, as people like history, there's no record that
are actually saying it. But it's one of those stories.
It's a great story. It's a great right. We love it,
even though Marie Antoinette actually never really said that and
has been turned into kind of a distant villain because
of it. Anyway, it is a let them eat cake moment.
We'll just go with the storyline here because in New
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York City, Clay I have friends, just was texting one
Yesterday's got kids in the school system here right, remember
in the city where this ultra fancy party where people
I mean that also people just show up. I mean
they're dressed like clowns. The whole thing is absurd. It's
not actually esthetically elite and people the glamor and all
this stuff. No it's all sort of social justice woke bullcrap,
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and all these people pretending that people who are there
are so impressive and they're really not. But just step
aside for our step back from that for a second.
You have kids in New York City, Clay, who are
back in school. They're still disinfecting surfaces everywhere. Doesn't spread
via surface actually reflects that plexiglass dividers in place. They're
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still social distancing. They're telling kids in New York, which
is the largest public school system, obviously because of population
in the whole country, they're telling them to be prepared
to eat their lunch outside for the rest of the year,
which would take us deep into the winter. You're gonna
have little freezing freezing their butts off outside. So that vaccinated, hysteric,
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neurotic adults who are protected by the teachers unions and
therefore part of the Democrat power apparatus, don't go to
bed worried at night about getting to COVID from the kids,
because the kids are little germ machines. This is what
New York City has been turned into now by the
crazy lives. Where is Fauci on this one? He's a
little coward kind of like how he won't come on
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this show, even though we've now reached out to the
White House. He'll do every show but this show. Yeah, well,
of course I guess some conservatially every show but this one.
But this is This is to me the essence of
here's the other thing that I love and or hate
about this situation in general, Buck, The media is all
there covering these people as if they are heroes, when
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in reality, if you're an honest media person in New
York City, shouldn't you be wondering, Hey, how come all
these super rich people can show up not wear masks,
Galliva ants about for a night of fun, and all
of these kids, and frankly all these other places in
New York too. People can't live their normal lives, right,
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Like this is and and and I always wonder and
I'm curious what you think about this too? Are we
playing into AOC's hands by even talking about this, right,
because the thing that's frustrating about this is AOC's bass
is like, Oh, it's so brave of her to show
up and attacks the rich dress. She looks fabulous. Oh
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she's fantastic, And like those people all think she's amazing. No,
I don't think this was. I mean, to anybody who's
not a moron, she looks like a moron. I mean
that's the reality. Now, you're never going to reach the
idiots on the left who think that I mean, a
AOC whatever it is. I mean, she could walk into
a room, trip and fall and get up and they
would say that it was you know, balletic and amazing,
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and she's a geniese. It doesn't matter, right, But if
we're talking, there are two groups Clay that by pointing
out being at the most elite social gathering, and when
I say elite, it's eliteism. I'm not impressed by these people.
I don't like these people. I don't want to be one.
You know. I went to the White House, which is,
you know, way like many levels of celebrity coolness below.
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I mean, it's you know, they call it nerd prom
but they mean because we're actually social, they're actually just
they're actually just jokes. But I went when I first
started a media decade ago, and I said, I'm never
going back to this thing. It's appalling. And now, of
course a lot of conservators won't go because we've seen
the way that they just rip on Republicans and the
whole thing. But Clay with this with with aoc we're
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speaking to one everyone who listens to this show, everyone
who lives in reality and seats thso what they are
should we do need to remind them that this is
who is lecturing you about how you need to pay
higher taxes and America is so racist, and people who
are at the top of the power structure who are
luxuriating in their trips to the met Gala and the
Hamptons and their private jet travel, flying around with the
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helicopters and getting seven figure book deals for books that
no one's going to read, never mind by and they
want to lecture all the rest of us about how
awful we are. We need to tell the people that
see this for what it is. You're right, you're not
the crazy ones. And then do your point that you
often make. Those who are still hoping to having their
minds persuaded they need because this is a blunder. This
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is what was it, tally Rand. This is worse than
a mistake. It's a blunder. Or it's worse than an error.
It's a blunder. That's what this is. She looks utterly buffoonish.
And I'm sorry, I mean, the most powerful voice in
the Democrat Party right now, certainly not Joe Biden's probably
AOC when you're talking about at least the ability to
direct the media narrative. And she's just not smart, Clay,
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She's just not very smart. And I guess people don't care. Yeah,
I think that's true too. What do you think she
is thinking as she wakes up this morning and today
she's amazing and she's fighting for working class people by
wearing a multi thousand dollar gown. Yeah, I'm just what
do you think she thinks that her tax the Rich
dress was a wild success? See, I don't know. I
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mean at some point, you know, what you see with
her is also this melding of a of a politician
who's really a celebrity. Right. It used to the politicians
become celebrities. She's really like a celebrity who is a politician. Now,
I know she got into politics first and that's how
she made her name. I think it's an interesting it's
an interesting perspective, right, Yeah, I mean, how cognizant is
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she of what people think about her? And is it
in any way does it any way matter because celebrities,
It really doesn't, right, It's just about the reason why
you wear a ridiculous dress to the Met is so
potential talk about you attention. Yeah, but she there is
because of her involvement in actual policy discussions, and she
does wield a vote in Congress and does have actual
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government power at some level and a taxpayer funded staff
and all the rest of it. She's supposed to at
least stay within some bounds of intelligence and normalcy in
what she's doing and what she's saying. But I think
that what she does here is it's a perfect distillation
of the hypocrisy and the sanctimoniousness that are really the
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defining characteristics of the modern elitist democrat. That this is
who they are. The we're social justice warriors in fancy
gowns at the MET gala, who are going to go
hang out afterwards with Clooney and jay Z. This is
who we are as elite democrats. But we care so
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much about the poor, not enough to support police. So
there are fewer shootings, so fewer works to get shot
or to keep schools open open during the pandemic. While
they were sending their kids to private schools. This is
m clay in every socialist society, in every communist society,
this kind of grotesque stratification of those at the top
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pretending they care about those below, not saying we're creating
a meritocracy, not saying that the laws apply equal to everybody. No, no,
we have to be at the very top because we're
the revolutionary arm we're the vanguard of the progressivism here,
and we need some perks, we need some fancy gowns
at the met gala. This is the Democrat Party, right
you're seeing it right now. I absolutely loved it when
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I saw it last night on social media, and I
was just trying to think, what the Nancy Pelosi's and
the people who are trying to appeal to moderate Democrats
because we need to talk about the budget, which is
taxing the rich, that's their plan, and what the impact
of that's going to be. But how much of a
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my man Clay, and I'm talking here about the Democrat hypocrisy.
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But remember, folks, we have to point it out, but
it won't change because it's not a bug, it's a feature.
Of course, they're hypocrites. What are you going to do
about it? Peasant? That's their attitude. They pretend to care
about out the poor while they spend all their time
with the rich and trying to become very rich themselves.
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And it is in fact those who are striving, those
who want the right to rise, who get caught in
the vice script of Democrat tax raises, spending all the
stuff that we're seeing right now. We know there's a
there's a basic certainty Democrats are in charge. They're going
to take more money from people who are working for it.
And that's why you get the latest update here on
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who's going to be paying the taxes. AOC wears her
tax the rich thing. This may come as a shock
to her, although she makes plenty of money, so she's
probably paying a reasonably high tax rate, and she's not
yet at that Pelosi level where the taxes don't care,
don't matter, because remember they don't tax wealth, they tax earnings.
It's people that are trying to build people in their
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peak earning years who after ten or fifteen years are
finally getting into those top income brackets for a period
of time. They're the ones the government it's always piling on.
They don't go after the people who are inherited a
billion dollars and are sitting on it, or Nanti Pelosi
super rich husband, or you know, i'd find me a
prominent Democrat in Congress who talks about tax and Bertie
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Sanders a millionaire. I mean, America is a country where
we're constantly being lectured by socialist millionaires. That's pretty much
all you know. Meanwhile, Democrats want to tax more of
our income. In general, the top individual tax rates supposed
to rise. This is going it's gone to the Ways
and Means Committee. But this is what the bill is
going to look like. Here, thirty nine point six percent,
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up from thirty seven percent. The higher tax rate will
kick in at four hundred thousand for individuals. That's down
from five hundred and twenty three six hundred for individuals.
And then there's just there's more. There's more all over
the place. I mean, they're raising the corporate income tax,
corporate tax. Clay who pays the taxes in this country
because it's actually the people who are the demonized, yes
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so called ridge. By the way, you make four hundred
thousand dollars New York City, you're not even close to rich.
The bottom fifty percent of income earners, the bottom fifty percent,
pay three percent of all the federal income taxes in
the United States. Think about that for a minute. Half
of Americans pay just three percent of the overall and
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then you compare that with the top one percent. The
top one percent in the United States pays forty percent
of all federal income tax So the top one percent
by themselves pay nearly more than the bottom fifty percent
combined right now and the top two earning brackets, the
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top five percent of earners pay sixty percent of all
federal income taxes. So I mean, this is a pretty
significant amount that they are already paying going forward. So
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Pure Talk. Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show.
Big day in the state of California. For a long time,
people said it would never have happened, a recall election
for Gavin Newsom. Well it is happening today. If Gavin
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Newsom were recalled, Larry Elder would likely be the next
governor of the state of California. Now, the polls, to
the extent you can rely on the polls, suggests that
Gavin Newsom is going to win his recall election. But
certainly the way that Democrats have mobilized makes it clear
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that they expect for this to be at least a
somewhat challenging election. They have brought out all the big
guns to campaign with Gavin Newsom all over California, including
well they even got Joe Biden on an airplane to
fly across the country and he was in California yesterday
and Biden was saying, Hey, if you vote for Larry Elder,
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you're basically voting for Donald Trump. Here's Biden yesterday this
year leading Republican running for governor is a closest thing
to a Trump clone I've ever seen in your state.
I really mean it. And he's leading the other team
is the clone of Donald Trump. Can you imagine him
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being governor of this state. You can't let that happen.
There's too much to stay. Isn't this a classic clay
Because California from a governance perspective, and this is I
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have a lot of friends, particularly in La but I
also know a bunch of people in San France. I
mean in San Diego. Actually don't know any in San France.
And even the ones who are Democrats will tell you
that the state government is a total mess. Yes, that
this is unsustainable. One party rule is disaster. It's a
disaster because there's there's no if, there can be no
accountability when you have an entire state that has effectively
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become a Democrat on clave, and so you just choose
one Democrat or another and they're all totally in bed
with the public sector unions and they believe in the
same social justice nonsense. You really have two Californias. You
have the people who live close to the coast, who
are very, very wealthy. I mean, you know, the average
home price in California right now is over eight hundred
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thousand dollars the average Yeah, nice, and a lot of
those homes. By the way, this blew my mind because
I spent a lot of time working in La with
Fox Sports, so I've spent you know, months or years
just about living in California off and on in the
past several years. And buck some of those houses that
cost a million dollars in California, You're like, yeah, I
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wouldn't even want to live there. And for people in
the rest of the country who are hearing that, your
mind explodes because when you hear for most of the country,
oh that's a million dollar house, it has a certain
connotation of excellence. In California, it's like mediocrity. It's wild.
It's like it's like one hundred and twenty thousand dollars
house in Oklahoma City. I mean, that's what you get
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for a million. I mean, look the problems that California
has it and this is it reminds me a lot
of ways Clay of the Biden administration, which is that
there are bad things that happen, and you can draw
a very clear, strange line between the bad outcome and
the bad decision making rooted in the Democrat progressive approach
or the Democrat leftist socialist approach. Right, I mean, we're
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just talking about home prices. Why are home prices in
California so high? It's not because everyone's moving to California
and they love it so much. It's because the environmentalist
lobby is very powerful in that state. I mean, I
remember I was at a military base a long time
ago when I was a CIA and they talked about
how they had to create I'm not kidding tunnels for
turtles to go under the road leading to the military
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base because they were worried about the tortoises that would
get hit by cars going in and out of the base,
and so a huge problem. Spend millions of dollars, and
then they also built these fences because the tortoises, guess what,
don't go into the tunnels. They just go for the
easiest thing. This is real that through a whole the
whole briefing by the general on base about this, and
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then they realized that when they built the little this
is all because the California environmentalist lobby when they built
these little tunnel tunnels for tortoises and the fence along
it so they would go into the tunnels, they realized
that the tortoises would get stuck in the fence and
then they were essentially like an open air barbecue for
the predatory birds that would see though, and they just
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could like disaster after disaster because the environmentalists were saying,
They're gonna kill all the turtles. That's why you have
such high home price at California Clay. That kind of
ideology over reality is why you have rolling brownouts, which
you know are things you usually think of them the
third world. California doesn't have enough power, you have water shortages,
you have the horrible fire problem. California could not have
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been more poorly managed as a state for the last
twenty years. And it's like the Democrats just keep saying, oh,
but you know, I'm cool. They don't care. Well. This
is the problem with one party rule in general, is that,
especially when it's democratic one party rule, it leads to disaster.
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And that's the undergirding story here of why Gavin Newsom
got recalled. It's because every single time they have a
new first of all, the population in California dropped for
the first time ever is a state, right, I mean,
I think that's pretty significant. But I'll tell you here
in Tennessee, Buck, and I've heard the same thing from
realtors in Florida and in Texas and other states that
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are seeing massive influxes of people. Every time they come
out with a new crazy COVID restriction. The phones blow
up in all of these other states because parents and people.
It's like the needle that the straw that broke the
camel's back. It's the final little bit of detail. And
that's ultimately what's going on here. They need someone to
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shake up the existing government. And look, I think we
need to talk about when we come back in this
next segment, what does victory look like. I mean, one
possibility obviously is Larry Elder wins, and that would be
a political earthquake of seismic proportions if that happened. I mean,
you're a betting man, mister Travis. I think what do
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you think the actual odds are on that right now?
I think you'd probably get three to one odds again,
and I'm team Larry all the way as a great guy,
great radio host. I want everybody in California to go vote,
but I would probably need if I were putting down money,
I'd need eight or nine to one to put down
money on it happening. So for people out there, like,
what is eight or nine to one mean ten to
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fifteen percent chance basically of app I think that's probably
based on all the polling where it is. But hey,
you know, remember remember Election Night twenty sixteen, one of
the greatest things of all time? What was the New
York Times Hillary Meter at ninety seven percent She's gonna
win or something that was. I still love that. We
don't know how valid the polling is. We don't know
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who's actually going to vote. We do know that they
have sent as many mail in ballots out as they
possibly can, and that they're ricocheting all over the country,
not just in California. There's been lots of misaddressed ballots,
and we already know we talked about yesterday some of
the challenges of people that are actually going to vote.
But to me, one of the things to look at
is whatever the margin is, right, Because Trump lost not
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surprisingly California in twenty twenty by a substantial margin. But
I think it's fair to say, in whatever it is
now almost the year since November of twenty twenty, as
we come up on ten months plus of that since
that time, overall Democratic support has declined substantially. So what
will the numbers actually reflect in this recall vote in
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terms of the amount of people who can line up
against Gavin Newsom? And what might that reflect about where
the country is one year out? This stuff is always hard, though,
because you'll see that, you'll see that to Congress as
a general proposition in terms of polling, support will be
you know, about as popular as as a as a
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cold sword before you know, going on on a photo
shoot or something. But then you'll find out, oh but
I you know, but all those people like their Congress,
that's right, and oh my congressman's cool. It's just Congress
in general and in California. I think that any drop
attributed in support overall ver Newsom people are going to
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certainly the narrative from Democrats, but I think this may
actually be the political reality is that it's a lack
of support for Newsom, not a repudiation of the of
the fundamental beliefs of the Democrat Party in that state.
There isn't the New York City Rudy Giuliana ru Rudy
Giuliani in the nineteen nineties moment here, Clay, what happened
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in New York City? It got and I was living here,
I was a kid. I remember it got so dirty.
And so, yeah, people of all political persuasions willing to say, enough,
we just need to clean this place up. We just
need You had you had, you know, black Baptist preachers
who were reaching out to the Giuliani administration saying, you know,
let's work, let's let's get the police, you know, more involved.
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We want safe communities. You had you know, Latino community members,
you everybody coming together saying we got to make this
city safe for everybody, right, And so there was a
political will in California. Man, I don't know, I think.
I think, yeah, the ten cities in Venice and the stuff.
Let's going to all the heroin usage out and open
air in Los Angeles down Hollywood Boulevard. We see it.
It's gross, it's depressing, the thefts that are occurring broad daylight.
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But there are a lot of libs men who says
as long as I can put my hashtag BLM square
on Instagram, and I live in a safe neighborhood, I
don't really care, so I will see. I mean, I
just get about him. Come back, because I got an
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You're bizarre abandoning Bodrom Airfield fled directly to thirteen Marines
who murdered in Comble. You should resign. Their blood is
on your hands in this administration, Sir. I'm calling you
to resign. I believe it you, sir, should resign. That
would be leadership. Welcome back to the Clay Travis and
(30:24):
Buck Sexton show. There, you just heard a number of
Republicans on Capitol Hill calling for the Secretary of State
Anthony Lincoln to resign. And guess what he is not going.
I would I would be very comfortable putting it bet
that he will not resign, although you know who know,
You never know, but I think it's very, very unlikely. Uh.
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This is all about holding the Democrats accountable, holding the
Biden administration accountable for the chaotic and to call it
poorly planned as a gross understatement withdrawal plan and from Afghanistan.
But all blink and asked Joe and I remember this,
We remember all that, all the talk all the members
of Congress with Benghazi. And I said at the time,
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as soon as Obama one reelection, Clay, the idea of
accountability for the debacle of Benghazi, in which four Americans
lost their lives, any real accountability was gone. And here,
if you want accountability, you have to go out and
take power from these people in the midterm elections because
they're not going to hold themselves accountable. Thirteen Americans died
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in the midst of a chaotic withdrawal. American service members
in the midst of a chaotic withdrawal plan hit by
a suicide bombing. No one has lost their job over
that to this day except what was it? A lieutenant
colonel who spoke out against the ineptitude of the senior leadership, Clay,
That's what accountability under a Democrat administration looks like speak
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the truth and you get fired. Otherwise you're part of
the team, You keep your job, maybe you get a
nice book deal. Yeah. And this is why I think
sending messages in California can matter, right because how do
you register your disapproval? How do you fire back in
a big way? Right now? That's the question we get,
I bet Buck more than any other from our listeners.
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So I got that question again whenever I'm out and about,
and I got it a ton from people in Arkansas.
I'm gonna be down in Florida this weekend. How do
we get back to normal? I think it's one by
living your life normally. It sounds simple, but by embracing
normalcy in your own life, fighting for normalcy, fighting for
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the things that would have seemed very similar and simple
and not outlandish before March of twenty twenty. And one
of those things is if you're listening to us right
now in California, it's not only removing Gavin Newsom that
counts as a win. It's registering I think a massive
increase in disapproval for his policies. Right well. Trump lost
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in California by around thirty points, buck Man, You know
we got six million votes. Joe Biden allegedly got eleven
million votes. Okay, six thirty point deficit. Imagine if we
got it down as the Republican Party did to ten
or twelve points, if it's a close election. For California's sake,
I think a lot of people are getting really nervous.
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And by the way, Dub who is one of our
producers on the show, texted me that a European offshores.
Where are European books where you can bet on politics?
You can't legally bet on politics in America right now?
Really that it's ten to one basically that Newsom would
lose and be removed from office. That's not what Trump
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was in sixteen. I mean, not a lot of difference
in terms of what odds you could have gotten on
Trump being elected in sixteen. It's so fascinating, isn't it.
Donald Trump is not running for office, is not in office.
I mean as of now he's not running, right, we
don't know, but he is not in American politics. And
yet the go to move just to give you, just
to give her a sense of how indoctrinated and how
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clearly true believers in the leftist orthodoxy, Californians Democrat Californians are.
All they have to do is bring up the specter
of Trump. Somehow tie Larry Elder to Donald Trump, as
if these are guys with similar stories, similar backgrounds. I mean, yeah,
they have some similar ideas, but why is he the
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second coming of Trump or whatever? Well, because it gets
all the Libs scared, they're gonna go out and vote
against this. But notice there's not actually any argument to
be made that Gavin Knewsommer, for that matter, the Democrat
Party of the state of California is good at their jobs.
Is making it a better place to live? Handles anything? Well,
it's Trump is scary. Vote against Trump. I mean, Larry Elder,
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it's pathetic, It's pathetic. But this is what that states
at Apollo, at a political level has been reduced. I mean, Clay,
you and I both know California is as a geographic
land mass basically paradise. I mean you've got in, I
mean the coast and the mountains and the vineyards and
the one of my buddies. I mean, it should debate
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the American dream like you go back to the nineteen nineties,
everyone just want to live in LA. It was like,
oh my gosh, not more. One of my buddies and
I had this debate. Imagine that we settled the country
west to east, no one would live in the northeast, right,
Like if we had started the west, first of all,
people have been like, why do we want to leave here?
You know, like we're basically living in the garden of
Eden if you were in southern California, if we had
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started to settle the country from east, from west to east.
But it is pretty fascinating. By the time we got
to the east coast, Like, I don't think there would
have been any massive people who are like, you know,
where we have to live Boston. You know, we have
to live New York. Now obviously I'm Boston under the
bus from Boston under the bus, Boston compared to LA.
Purely from geography. I mean, it makes sense when you
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think about it, when you want to be close to
get back to Europe. But if you think about it,
from the west to east, California is an identic can
I pronounce that word correctly? Eden like paradise, and they're
ruining it. And it's been ruined by it's being ruined
by libs. We can all see it. We all know
what's going on. Their psycho environmentalism, their social justice, progressive obsession,
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all the just a hypocrisy too right. The elites don't
live they live in dad communities, They live in bel
air while they pretend to care so much about everybody else,
you know, the poor and what we got. Doctor Marty
McCarry joining us here in a few minutes, talk about
his Wallstee journal off ed and why is it the
CDC just doesn't want to actually even have data on
things like I don't know, Clay, natural immunity maybe kind
(36:38):
of important. I would think bigly important to use a
Donald Trump order. There. We'll be back with the doc next.
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Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Show Tuesday edition. We appreciate all of you hanging out
with us. We have got a bevy of different topics
to dive into today. We run across the gamut. The
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recall election is going on today in the state of California.
What will or will not happen? Why does it matter?
We will discuss the ongoing Afghanistan debacle brought to a
head with the Secretary of State Tony Blincoln testifying in
front of Congress. We will discuss what, if anything we
learn there. The House Democrats have released their budget, what
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does it look like, How significant are many of the
decisions that are being made, and what might or might
not actually be passed? And what will occur as it
impacts your family. We will discuss that. We have got
a fantastic guest who has an op ed today in
the Wall Street Journal discussing natural immunity. He is doctor
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McCary from Johns Hopkins University. He has been on with
us before. He will join us at one oh five
Eastern to talk about many of the failures surrounding America's
COVID policy. But we begin, Buck Sexton with rank hypocrisy
in your home city of New York. Let me kind
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of set the scene here, and you can also help
me because you've dealt with events like this your entire life.
So I know I've never been to the Met gala.
It is a massive fundraising event that costs more than
your average, you know, apartment building. It feels like at
times of families will earn in a year two hundred
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and fifty thousand dollars for a table, thirty thousand dollars
for a ticket, and people wear all sorts of outlandish
outfits to this gala as they walk up the stairs
at the Met, which is a high end art establishment
in New York City, and AOC Alexandria Acazio Cortez showed
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up in a white dress red writing it said tax
the rich, and it exploded across the political landscape. Let
me play you the audio of AOC making her continuing
failing attempts at political arguments. Here is AOC explaining why
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she went to the most exclusive and expensive event of
the year just about in all of New York City
City wearing a tax the rich Dress. When Laura and
I were first kind of partnered, we really started having
a conversation about what it means to be working class
women of color at the MET. And we said, you know,
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we can't just play long, but we need to break
the fourth wall and challenge some of the institutions and
two hands. But you know, while the Met is known
for its spectacle, we sho conversation about it. A conversation
about it, Clay, that's what she's sparking with the tax
the rich dress. Okay, let's let's break this thing down
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for a second. First of all, there was also the
issue of none of them Met patrons. And it's the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the most famous museums
in the world. The Met steps are very very well known.
There are in tons of movies and TV shows, and
this is the most exclusive social event generally speaking, some
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I would say, in the world. It raises about ten
million dollars for like the costume. Sorry forget, forget what
the organ of the nonprofit is, but it's really just
like Vogue and Hollywood and all the fanciest people in
the world go to this one party. In Clay, the
staff are all masked. The servers, the ushers, the security,
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they have to be masked. But the patrons, the people
that are going to this ultra fancy party, I mean,
this bacchanal of the most elite people in certainly left
wing Hollywood media, society and politics. You could possibly find
they don't have to wear masks. There's no science behind that,
as we know. So we start with that that they're
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gallivanting around. I have a feeling, and I know you
asked about this before the show. We're not gonna have
Fauci come out with you know, they were really reckless
with it. No, of course not. Somehow Clay Fauci never
says anything to insult his constituency, which is the elite
lib apparatus of control. He never spoke out about Obama's
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birthday party. He has not going to speak out about
the met But yet when you go to a college
football game, oh, Fauci says it's unacceptable. And to your point,
the rank hypocrisy here is on multiple levels. You have
the mostly poor people who are servers. Theoretically you cannot afford. Yeah,
working class who cannot afford to actually ever go to
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these events that are required to wear a mask. And
you also require are all of these kids that have
now started school in New York that are going to
public schools, I think a million of them all over
the city. They're required to wear masks, and now they're
going to have to eat outdoors like all through the winter.
I mean, this is all madness, this is real, Marie Antoinette,
(05:34):
let them eat cake level stuff. And as you and
I know, as people like history, there's no record that
are actually saying it. But it's one of those stories.
It's a great story. It's a great right. We love it,
even though Marie Antoinette actually never really said that and
has been turned into kind of a distant villain because
of it. Anyway, it is a let them eat cake moment.
We'll just go with the storyline here because in New
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York City, Clay I have friends, just was texting one
Yesterday's got kids in the school system here right, remember
in the city where this ultra fancy party where people
I mean that also people just show up. I mean
they're dressed like clowns. The whole thing is absurd. It's
not actually esthetically elite and people the glamor and all
this stuff. No it's all sort of social justice woke bullcrap,
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and all these people pretending that people who are there
are so impressive and they're really not. But just step
aside for our step back from that for a second.
You have kids in New York City, Clay, who are
back in school. They're still disinfecting surfaces everywhere. Doesn't spread
via surface actually reflects that plexiglass dividers in place. They're
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still social distancing. They're telling kids in New York, which
is the largest public school system, obviously because of population
in the whole country, they're telling them to be prepared
to eat their lunch outside for the rest of the year,
which would take us deep into the winter. You're gonna
have little freezing freezing their butts off outside. So that vaccinated, hysteric,
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neurotic adults who are protected by the teachers unions and
therefore part of the Democrat power apparatus, don't go to
bed worried at night about getting to COVID from the kids,
because the kids are little germ machines. This is what
New York City has been turned into now by the
crazy lives. Where is Fauci on this one? He's a
little coward kind of like how he won't come on
(07:26):
this show, even though we've now reached out to the
White House. He'll do every show but this show. Yeah, well,
of course I guess some conservatially every show but this one.
But this is This is to me the essence of
here's the other thing that I love and or hate
about this situation in general, Buck, The media is all
there covering these people as if they are heroes, when
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in reality, if you're an honest media person in New
York City, shouldn't you be wondering, Hey, how come all
these super rich people can show up not wear masks,
Galliva ants about for a night of fun, and all
of these kids, and frankly all these other places in
New York too. People can't live their normal lives, right,
(08:10):
Like this is and and and I always wonder and
I'm curious what you think about this too? Are we
playing into AOC's hands by even talking about this, right,
because the thing that's frustrating about this is AOC's bass
is like, Oh, it's so brave of her to show
up and attacks the rich dress. She looks fabulous. Oh
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she's fantastic, And like those people all think she's amazing. No,
I don't think this was. I mean, to anybody who's
not a moron, she looks like a moron. I mean
that's the reality. Now, you're never going to reach the
idiots on the left who think that I mean, a
AOC whatever it is. I mean, she could walk into
a room, trip and fall and get up and they
would say that it was you know, balletic and amazing,
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and she's a geniese. It doesn't matter, right, But if
we're talking, there are two groups Clay that by pointing
out being at the most elite social gathering, and when
I say elite, it's eliteism. I'm not impressed by these people.
I don't like these people. I don't want to be one.
You know. I went to the White House, which is,
you know, way like many levels of celebrity coolness below.
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I mean, it's you know, they call it nerd prom
but they mean because we're actually social, they're actually just
they're actually just jokes. But I went when I first
started a media decade ago, and I said, I'm never
going back to this thing. It's appalling. And now, of
course a lot of conservators won't go because we've seen
the way that they just rip on Republicans and the
whole thing. But Clay with this with with aoc we're
(09:39):
speaking to one everyone who listens to this show, everyone
who lives in reality and seats thso what they are
should we do need to remind them that this is
who is lecturing you about how you need to pay
higher taxes and America is so racist, and people who
are at the top of the power structure who are
luxuriating in their trips to the met Gala and the
Hamptons and their private jet travel, flying around with the
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helicopters and getting seven figure book deals for books that
no one's going to read, never mind by and they
want to lecture all the rest of us about how
awful we are. We need to tell the people that
see this for what it is. You're right, you're not
the crazy ones. And then do your point that you
often make. Those who are still hoping to having their
minds persuaded they need because this is a blunder. This
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is what was it, tally Rand. This is worse than
a mistake. It's a blunder. Or it's worse than an error.
It's a blunder. That's what this is. She looks utterly buffoonish.
And I'm sorry, I mean, the most powerful voice in
the Democrat Party right now, certainly not Joe Biden's probably
AOC when you're talking about at least the ability to
direct the media narrative. And she's just not smart, Clay,
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She's just not very smart. And I guess people don't care. Yeah,
I think that's true too. What do you think she
is thinking as she wakes up this morning and today
she's amazing and she's fighting for working class people by
wearing a multi thousand dollar gown. Yeah, I'm just what
do you think she thinks that her tax the Rich
dress was a wild success? See, I don't know. I
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mean at some point, you know, what you see with
her is also this melding of a of a politician
who's really a celebrity. Right. It used to the politicians
become celebrities. She's really like a celebrity who is a politician. Now,
I know she got into politics first and that's how
she made her name. I think it's an interesting it's
an interesting perspective, right, Yeah, I mean, how cognizant is
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she of what people think about her? And is it
in any way does it any way matter because celebrities,
It really doesn't, right, It's just about the reason why
you wear a ridiculous dress to the Met is so
potential talk about you attention. Yeah, but she there is
because of her involvement in actual policy discussions, and she
does wield a vote in Congress and does have actual
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government power at some level and a taxpayer funded staff
and all the rest of it. She's supposed to at
least stay within some bounds of intelligence and normalcy in
what she's doing and what she's saying. But I think
that what she does here is it's a perfect distillation
of the hypocrisy and the sanctimoniousness that are really the
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defining characteristics of the modern elitist democrat. That this is
who they are. The we're social justice warriors in fancy
gowns at the MET gala, who are going to go
hang out afterwards with Clooney and jay Z. This is
who we are as elite democrats. But we care so
(12:33):
much about the poor, not enough to support police. So
there are fewer shootings, so fewer works to get shot
or to keep schools open open during the pandemic. While
they were sending their kids to private schools. This is
m clay in every socialist society, in every communist society,
this kind of grotesque stratification of those at the top
(12:55):
pretending they care about those below, not saying we're creating
a meritocracy, not saying that the laws apply equal to everybody. No, no,
we have to be at the very top because we're
the revolutionary arm we're the vanguard of the progressivism here,
and we need some perks, we need some fancy gowns
at the met gala. This is the Democrat Party, right
you're seeing it right now. I absolutely loved it when
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I saw it last night on social media, and I
was just trying to think, what the Nancy Pelosi's and
the people who are trying to appeal to moderate Democrats
because we need to talk about the budget, which is
taxing the rich, that's their plan, and what the impact
of that's going to be. But how much of a
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But remember, folks, we have to point it out, but
it won't change because it's not a bug, it's a feature.
Of course, they're hypocrites. What are you going to do
about it? Peasant? That's their attitude. They pretend to care
about out the poor while they spend all their time
with the rich and trying to become very rich themselves.
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And it is in fact those who are striving, those
who want the right to rise, who get caught in
the vice script of Democrat tax raises, spending all the
stuff that we're seeing right now. We know there's a
there's a basic certainty Democrats are in charge. They're going
to take more money from people who are working for it.
And that's why you get the latest update here on
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who's going to be paying the taxes. AOC wears her
tax the rich thing. This may come as a shock
to her, although she makes plenty of money, so she's
probably paying a reasonably high tax rate, and she's not
yet at that Pelosi level where the taxes don't care,
don't matter, because remember they don't tax wealth, they tax earnings.
It's people that are trying to build people in their
(15:51):
peak earning years who after ten or fifteen years are
finally getting into those top income brackets for a period
of time. They're the ones the government it's always piling on.
They don't go after the people who are inherited a
billion dollars and are sitting on it, or Nanti Pelosi
super rich husband, or you know, i'd find me a
prominent Democrat in Congress who talks about tax and Bertie
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Sanders a millionaire. I mean, America is a country where
we're constantly being lectured by socialist millionaires. That's pretty much
all you know. Meanwhile, Democrats want to tax more of
our income. In general, the top individual tax rates supposed
to rise. This is going it's gone to the Ways
and Means Committee. But this is what the bill is
going to look like. Here, thirty nine point six percent,
(16:32):
up from thirty seven percent. The higher tax rate will
kick in at four hundred thousand for individuals. That's down
from five hundred and twenty three six hundred for individuals.
And then there's just there's more. There's more all over
the place. I mean, they're raising the corporate income tax,
corporate tax. Clay who pays the taxes in this country
because it's actually the people who are the demonized, yes
(16:55):
so called ridge. By the way, you make four hundred
thousand dollars New York City, you're not even close to rich.
The bottom fifty percent of income earners, the bottom fifty percent,
pay three percent of all the federal income taxes in
the United States. Think about that for a minute. Half
of Americans pay just three percent of the overall and
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then you compare that with the top one percent. The
top one percent in the United States pays forty percent
of all federal income tax So the top one percent
by themselves pay nearly more than the bottom fifty percent
combined right now and the top two earning brackets, the
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top five percent of earners pay sixty percent of all
federal income taxes. So I mean, this is a pretty
significant amount that they are already paying going forward. So
tax the rich AOC. You got your wish, It's already happening.
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Big day in the state of California. For a long time,
people said it would never have happened, a recall election
for Gavin Newsom. Well it is happening today. If Gavin
(19:05):
Newsom were recalled, Larry Elder would likely be the next
governor of the state of California. Now, the polls, to
the extent you can rely on the polls, suggests that
Gavin Newsom is going to win his recall election. But
certainly the way that Democrats have mobilized makes it clear
(19:25):
that they expect for this to be at least a
somewhat challenging election. They have brought out all the big
guns to campaign with Gavin Newsom all over California, including
well they even got Joe Biden on an airplane to
fly across the country and he was in California yesterday
and Biden was saying, Hey, if you vote for Larry Elder,
(19:49):
you're basically voting for Donald Trump. Here's Biden yesterday this
year leading Republican running for governor is a closest thing
to a Trump clone I've ever seen in your state.
I really mean it. And he's leading the other team
is the clone of Donald Trump. Can you imagine him
(20:10):
being governor of this state. You can't let that happen.
There's too much to stay. Isn't this a classic clay
Because California from a governance perspective, and this is I
(20:31):
have a lot of friends, particularly in La but I
also know a bunch of people in San France. I
mean in San Diego. Actually don't know any in San France.
And even the ones who are Democrats will tell you
that the state government is a total mess. Yes, that
this is unsustainable. One party rule is disaster. It's a
disaster because there's there's no if, there can be no
accountability when you have an entire state that has effectively
(20:53):
become a Democrat on clave, and so you just choose
one Democrat or another and they're all totally in bed
with the public sector unions and they believe in the
same social justice nonsense. You really have two Californias. You
have the people who live close to the coast, who
are very, very wealthy. I mean, you know, the average
home price in California right now is over eight hundred
(21:16):
thousand dollars the average Yeah, nice, and a lot of
those homes. By the way, this blew my mind because
I spent a lot of time working in La with
Fox Sports, so I've spent you know, months or years
just about living in California off and on in the
past several years. And buck some of those houses that
cost a million dollars in California, You're like, yeah, I
(21:36):
wouldn't even want to live there. And for people in
the rest of the country who are hearing that, your
mind explodes because when you hear for most of the country,
oh that's a million dollar house, it has a certain
connotation of excellence. In California, it's like mediocrity. It's wild.
It's like it's like one hundred and twenty thousand dollars
house in Oklahoma City. I mean, that's what you get
(21:57):
for a million. I mean, look the problems that California
has it and this is it reminds me a lot
of ways Clay of the Biden administration, which is that
there are bad things that happen, and you can draw
a very clear, strange line between the bad outcome and
the bad decision making rooted in the Democrat progressive approach
or the Democrat leftist socialist approach. Right, I mean, we're
(22:20):
just talking about home prices. Why are home prices in
California so high? It's not because everyone's moving to California
and they love it so much. It's because the environmentalist
lobby is very powerful in that state. I mean, I
remember I was at a military base a long time
ago when I was a CIA and they talked about
how they had to create I'm not kidding tunnels for
turtles to go under the road leading to the military
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base because they were worried about the tortoises that would
get hit by cars going in and out of the base,
and so a huge problem. Spend millions of dollars, and
then they also built these fences because the tortoises, guess what,
don't go into the tunnels. They just go for the
easiest thing. This is real that through a whole the
whole briefing by the general on base about this, and
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then they realized that when they built the little this
is all because the California environmentalist lobby when they built
these little tunnel tunnels for tortoises and the fence along
it so they would go into the tunnels, they realized
that the tortoises would get stuck in the fence and
then they were essentially like an open air barbecue for
the predatory birds that would see though, and they just
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could like disaster after disaster because the environmentalists were saying,
They're gonna kill all the turtles. That's why you have
such high home price at California Clay. That kind of
ideology over reality is why you have rolling brownouts, which
you know are things you usually think of them the
third world. California doesn't have enough power, you have water shortages,
you have the horrible fire problem. California could not have
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been more poorly managed as a state for the last
twenty years. And it's like the Democrats just keep saying, oh,
but you know, I'm cool. They don't care. Well. This
is the problem with one party rule in general, is that,
especially when it's democratic one party rule, it leads to disaster.
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And that's the undergirding story here of why Gavin Newsom
got recalled. It's because every single time they have a
new first of all, the population in California dropped for
the first time ever is a state, right, I mean,
I think that's pretty significant. But I'll tell you here
in Tennessee, Buck, and I've heard the same thing from
realtors in Florida and in Texas and other states that
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are seeing massive influxes of people. Every time they come
out with a new crazy COVID restriction. The phones blow
up in all of these other states because parents and people.
It's like the needle that the straw that broke the
camel's back. It's the final little bit of detail. And
that's ultimately what's going on here. They need someone to
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shake up the existing government. And look, I think we
need to talk about when we come back in this
next segment, what does victory look like. I mean, one
possibility obviously is Larry Elder wins, and that would be
a political earthquake of seismic proportions if that happened. I mean,
you're a betting man, mister Travis. I think what do
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you think the actual odds are on that right now?
I think you'd probably get three to one odds again,
and I'm team Larry all the way as a great guy,
great radio host. I want everybody in California to go vote,
but I would probably need if I were putting down money,
I'd need eight or nine to one to put down
money on it happening. So for people out there, like,
what is eight or nine to one mean ten to
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fifteen percent chance basically of app I think that's probably
based on all the polling where it is. But hey,
you know, remember remember Election Night twenty sixteen, one of
the greatest things of all time? What was the New
York Times Hillary Meter at ninety seven percent She's gonna
win or something that was. I still love that. We
don't know how valid the polling is. We don't know
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who's actually going to vote. We do know that they
have sent as many mail in ballots out as they
possibly can, and that they're ricocheting all over the country,
not just in California. There's been lots of misaddressed ballots,
and we already know we talked about yesterday some of
the challenges of people that are actually going to vote.
But to me, one of the things to look at
is whatever the margin is, right, Because Trump lost not
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surprisingly California in twenty twenty by a substantial margin. But
I think it's fair to say, in whatever it is
now almost the year since November of twenty twenty, as
we come up on ten months plus of that since
that time, overall Democratic support has declined substantially. So what
will the numbers actually reflect in this recall vote in
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terms of the amount of people who can line up
against Gavin Newsom? And what might that reflect about where
the country is one year out? This stuff is always hard, though,
because you'll see that, you'll see that to Congress as
a general proposition in terms of polling, support will be
you know, about as popular as as a as a
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cold sword before you know, going on on a photo
shoot or something. But then you'll find out, oh but
I you know, but all those people like their Congress,
that's right, and oh my congressman's cool. It's just Congress
in general and in California. I think that any drop
attributed in support overall ver Newsom people are going to
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certainly the narrative from Democrats, but I think this may
actually be the political reality is that it's a lack
of support for Newsom, not a repudiation of the of
the fundamental beliefs of the Democrat Party in that state.
There isn't the New York City Rudy Giuliana ru Rudy
Giuliani in the nineteen nineties moment here, Clay, what happened
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in New York City? It got and I was living here,
I was a kid. I remember it got so dirty.
And so, yeah, people of all political persuasions willing to say, enough,
we just need to clean this place up. We just
need You had you had, you know, black Baptist preachers
who were reaching out to the Giuliani administration saying, you know,
let's work, let's let's get the police, you know, more involved.
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We want safe communities. You had you know, Latino community members,
you everybody coming together saying we got to make this
city safe for everybody, right, And so there was a
political will in California. Man, I don't know, I think.
I think, yeah, the ten cities in Venice and the stuff.
Let's going to all the heroin usage out and open
air in Los Angeles down Hollywood Boulevard. We see it.
It's gross, it's depressing, the thefts that are occurring broad daylight.
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But there are a lot of libs men who says
as long as I can put my hashtag BLM square
on Instagram, and I live in a safe neighborhood, I
don't really care, so I will see. I mean, I
just get about him. Come back, because I got an
interesting theory here that I'd like for people to pay
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You're bizarre abandoning Bodrom Airfield fled directly to thirteen Marines
who murdered in Comble. You should resign. Their blood is
on your hands in this administration, Sir. I'm calling you
to resign. I believe it you, sir, should resign. That
would be leadership. Welcome back to the Clay Travis and
(30:24):
Buck Sexton show. There, you just heard a number of
Republicans on Capitol Hill calling for the Secretary of State
Anthony Lincoln to resign. And guess what he is not going.
I would I would be very comfortable putting it bet
that he will not resign, although you know who know,
You never know, but I think it's very, very unlikely. Uh.
(30:47):
This is all about holding the Democrats accountable, holding the
Biden administration accountable for the chaotic and to call it
poorly planned as a gross understatement withdrawal plan and from Afghanistan.
But all blink and asked Joe and I remember this,
We remember all that, all the talk all the members
of Congress with Benghazi. And I said at the time,
(31:09):
as soon as Obama one reelection, Clay, the idea of
accountability for the debacle of Benghazi, in which four Americans
lost their lives, any real accountability was gone. And here,
if you want accountability, you have to go out and
take power from these people in the midterm elections because
they're not going to hold themselves accountable. Thirteen Americans died
(31:32):
in the midst of a chaotic withdrawal. American service members
in the midst of a chaotic withdrawal plan hit by
a suicide bombing. No one has lost their job over
that to this day except what was it? A lieutenant
colonel who spoke out against the ineptitude of the senior leadership, Clay,
That's what accountability under a Democrat administration looks like speak
(31:53):
the truth and you get fired. Otherwise you're part of
the team, You keep your job, maybe you get a
nice book deal. Yeah. And this is why I think
sending messages in California can matter, right because how do
you register your disapproval? How do you fire back in
a big way? Right now? That's the question we get,
I bet Buck more than any other from our listeners.
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So I got that question again whenever I'm out and about,
and I got it a ton from people in Arkansas.
I'm gonna be down in Florida this weekend. How do
we get back to normal? I think it's one by
living your life normally. It sounds simple, but by embracing
normalcy in your own life, fighting for normalcy, fighting for
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the things that would have seemed very similar and simple
and not outlandish before March of twenty twenty. And one
of those things is if you're listening to us right
now in California, it's not only removing Gavin Newsom that
counts as a win. It's registering I think a massive
increase in disapproval for his policies. Right well. Trump lost
(33:00):
in California by around thirty points, buck Man, You know
we got six million votes. Joe Biden allegedly got eleven
million votes. Okay, six thirty point deficit. Imagine if we
got it down as the Republican Party did to ten
or twelve points, if it's a close election. For California's sake,
I think a lot of people are getting really nervous.
(33:22):
And by the way, Dub who is one of our
producers on the show, texted me that a European offshores.
Where are European books where you can bet on politics?
You can't legally bet on politics in America right now?
Really that it's ten to one basically that Newsom would
lose and be removed from office. That's not what Trump
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was in sixteen. I mean, not a lot of difference
in terms of what odds you could have gotten on
Trump being elected in sixteen. It's so fascinating, isn't it.
Donald Trump is not running for office, is not in office.
I mean as of now he's not running, right, we
don't know, but he is not in American politics. And
yet the go to move just to give you, just
to give her a sense of how indoctrinated and how
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clearly true believers in the leftist orthodoxy, Californians Democrat Californians are.
All they have to do is bring up the specter
of Trump. Somehow tie Larry Elder to Donald Trump, as
if these are guys with similar stories, similar backgrounds. I mean, yeah,
they have some similar ideas, but why is he the
(34:26):
second coming of Trump or whatever? Well, because it gets
all the Libs scared, they're gonna go out and vote
against this. But notice there's not actually any argument to
be made that Gavin Knewsommer, for that matter, the Democrat
Party of the state of California is good at their jobs.
Is making it a better place to live? Handles anything? Well,
it's Trump is scary. Vote against Trump. I mean, Larry Elder,
(34:49):
it's pathetic, It's pathetic. But this is what that states
at Apollo, at a political level has been reduced. I mean, Clay,
you and I both know California is as a geographic
land mass basically paradise. I mean you've got in, I
mean the coast and the mountains and the vineyards and
the one of my buddies. I mean, it should debate
(35:10):
the American dream like you go back to the nineteen nineties,
everyone just want to live in LA. It was like,
oh my gosh, not more. One of my buddies and
I had this debate. Imagine that we settled the country
west to east, no one would live in the northeast, right,
Like if we had started the west, first of all,
people have been like, why do we want to leave here?
You know, like we're basically living in the garden of
Eden if you were in southern California, if we had
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started to settle the country from east, from west to east.
But it is pretty fascinating. By the time we got
to the east coast, Like, I don't think there would
have been any massive people who are like, you know,
where we have to live Boston. You know, we have
to live New York. Now obviously I'm Boston under the
bus from Boston under the bus, Boston compared to LA.
Purely from geography. I mean, it makes sense when you
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think about it, when you want to be close to
get back to Europe. But if you think about it,
from the west to east, California is an identic can
I pronounce that word correctly? Eden like paradise, and they're
ruining it. And it's been ruined by it's being ruined
by libs. We can all see it. We all know
what's going on. Their psycho environmentalism, their social justice, progressive obsession,
(36:17):
all the just a hypocrisy too right. The elites don't
live they live in dad communities, They live in bel
air while they pretend to care so much about everybody else,
you know, the poor and what we got. Doctor Marty
McCarry joining us here in a few minutes, talk about
his Wallstee journal off ed and why is it the
CDC just doesn't want to actually even have data on
things like I don't know, Clay, natural immunity maybe kind
(36:38):
of important. I would think bigly important to use a
Donald Trump order. There. We'll be back with the doc next.
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