October 13, 2021 • 36 mins
School boards are front lines of an American counterrevolution. Geraldo: GOP Gets "Sexual Pleasure" from Southwest backup over vaccine mandates. Clay's dinner with Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch loves the "Let's Go Brandon" chants breaking out all over. Biden promised to crush covid, not the economy and he's done the opposite.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome to the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show. This is Buck in New York City. I
got my man Clay out in Los Angeles, California, and
we have much to discussed today on the show. Talking
to you about the latest with the Southwest Airlines debacle
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of the weekend. Was it really people calling out sick?
Were they're using up sick time? Was it a combination
of factors? Is it really pushed back against vaccine mandates?
Speaking of vaccine mandates, revisiting yesterday the announcement by Texas
that no vas mandates of any kind, private, public, you
name it allowed in that state by state law or
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by executive order of the governor, and that is now
forcing a showdown with the federal government. We'll have COVID
updates for you where we stand right now in that
fight and the suppression of our freedoms, and then much more,
maybe even some follow up on the Gruden reside Nation
yesterday and other ten bits from the sports world courtesy
of mister Clay. But people are recognizing that the fight
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over school boards and what's going on what's being taught
to your children is a critical front right now in
what could be called an American counter revolution. Just by
way of a quick review, you had the Maoist Cultural
Revolution in China in the sixties, stretching into the seventies.
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For about a decade, there was an effort by the
Communist Party in China to completely remake, to undo the past,
and remake the President of China in a vicious and
thuggish campaign where lots of people were killed, people were persecuted.
It was horrible and just as we should always look
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to those who have fled tyranny and come to America
as reminders of why this place is so great. Here
is a parent and she's gone viral, and this was
up on Fox News. This was the main story on
Foxnews dot com this morning. A parent who has gone
viral because she's saying that the Department of Justice putting
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out an email notification warning from the Attorney General's Office
saying that they're going to start looking at parents who
speak up at meetings. This is a major concern and
should put people on edge because of the very clear
comparisons with some of the rhetoric of the Cultural Revolution.
The attacks on people, the divisiveness. Here's what she said.
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When I was in China, I spent my entire school
years in the Chinese Culture Revolution, so I'm very, very
familiar with the communist tactics of how they divide people,
how they can sold the Chinese traditional culture and destroy
our heritage, and all this is happening here in America.
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Now they are labeling parents and concerned citizen like me
as domestic terrorists. What that can do? You mean, Lucy Freedom?
I do have a question. What's next step? Is the
Kier i'mond square crackdown? The next with the parents one
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day risk their live just to speak up for their children.
That's why I'm here. What is the next step? Play well?
I think the next step needs to be Glen Yunkin
needs to win in Virginia because I think that would
be a major punch back against the idea of critical
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race theory. And for people who missed it, we had
Glenn Junkin on yesterday, and I believe what has become
the most essential detail, the most essential battleground in his
race against Terry mccauliffe for that Virginia governatorial seat, which
will be decided next month it's over schools. It's over
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what kids are being taught. It's over who has the
right to look and debate about what is being taught. Buck.
This this idea that the Department of Justice is looking
into what parents say at school boards. I appreciate what
that woman said in her statement. The people who understand
how scary this is are oftentimes not Americans, Buck. They're
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people who have lived and seen what happens when the
government starts to clamp down on what opinions are allowed
and what opinions are not. And I say this, Buck,
as a parent who went to one of those school
board meetings that the President has referenced many times as
being unacceptable. And I just got to tell you, I
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left that school board meeting and I told you this,
and I told you on the air more happy, more
optimistic about what was going on in the country than
I have been in a very long time. Because what
we need is not the DJ investigating so called domestic
harris at school boards. We need more more people out
there at the absolute grassroots level getting involved and fighting
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back against the idea that America is the evil place,
which is what is being culcated in our kids right
Now it's not to say that America is perfect. It isn't.
Nothing created by man has ever been perfect. But America
is the greatest country to ever be created in the
history of the world. And that used to be a
uniting theory that everybody in America shared. Now we don't.
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And that is a designed attempt to destroy the legitimacy
of this country's backbone. And I think we got to
take up arms against it in an aggressive way. And
the best way to do that is for parents to
show up and speak out and pay attention to who's
on the school boards and who's at these lower level positions.
And I think it's going to be a major point
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of failure for the Democrats, because I think they're going
to lose the Virginia election over this. Speaking of the
school board meetings, Scott Smith was a parent who went
to one of these meetings, and there is an excellent story,
in depth story by the Daily Wires Luke Rosiac on this.
I'm gonna be talking to Luke later on today on
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TV about this. Luke is he's gone deep into this
story and when you read the details of this, it's
honestly enraging. There are some stories you read and you
get angry as you go through it. And this all
centers around a school board meeting. Play on June twenty second,
Scott Smith in Loudon County, which we know is the
front line of this loud County, Virginia. He was at
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a school board meeting which was deemed an unlawful assembly.
As Rosiac writes in the piece here, and what people
didn't realize and as Smith was arrested at this meeting,
he was a concerned parent arrested was that he was
there because one of the topics was about transgender students,
male transgender students using the female bathroom. His ninth grade
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daughter had been sexually assaulted by a transgender student in
a Loudon County public school mere weeks before. Activists said
that he was lying. When he tried to raise this,
police wrestled him to the ground, his pants got pulled down,
his face was bloodied, and he was treated like essentially
a domestic terrorist or somebody who was an insurrectionist or
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whatever the rhetoric is that they want to use. And Smith,
then for the left, was held up. I know who
was on Laura's show last night on Fox News and
people are now finally hearing his story. He was held
up as an example of the scary angry parents at
the school board, completely ignoring the fact that this is
a guy whose teenage daughter was assaulted by a male
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student who likes to wear a skirt sometimes in the
ladies room the girl's bathroom weeks before at the school,
and the school said they were handling it in house.
They tried to cover it up. He went to the
Sheriff's department. Fortunately they did take it seriously. There was
a rape kit given to this girl. They did get
information that can be used in their criminal proceeding. Now
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we're talking about miners here, so everything is sealed. There's
a lot that's not out there but isn't so it's
really truly unsettling. It's kind of frightening that this concerned
father who's angry about his daughter being sexually assaulted in
her high school tries to talk about this at a
school board meeting and the cops plant him on the ground,
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face first, his pants are pulled down. He's mocked and
ridiculed on video, and he's I guess what Merrick Garland,
the Attorney General's talking about, is a insurrectionist, domestic terrorist parent.
It's outrageous. It's also outrageous that if you share a
story like this, it's as if it isn't allowed to
be discussed. This is the fear right when you have
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anybody who wants to use any bathroom that they could
that you could have biological teenage boys. Right, We've been Buck,
biological teenage boys. We oftentimes, I always say, the dumbest
human being on the planet are fourteen and fifteen and
sixteen year old boys. Right. And the other thing I
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always say is there's never very often a girl whose
final two words or watch this, and yet they are
all these stupid teenage boys doing all sorts of stupid things.
And it's eminently foreseeable that if you just allow people
to decide what gender they are, and you're going to
allow them to go into any private place inside of
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a school, that issues like this could arise, and that
should be a big part of the debate when you
try to make decisions such as these. So the idea
that you would not allow a parent to speak out
and share why he is opposing a policy, and that
you would demonize him based on sharing that story is
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evidence Buck of narrative trumping reality, narrative, trumping everything. If
you are willing to you speak out in a way
that challenges the prevailing liberal narrative, you will be attacked
and people will try to end you. They'll try to
cancel you. Even get it gets worse, Clay, I mean,
we'll have to come back and tell people about how
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did the school principle and school officials react to the
father showing up to the school when he found out
that his ninth grade daughter had been sexually assaulted by
a transdude in the bathroom. How did the prosecutor? Remember,
people think loudon County just everybody knows it's a high
per capita income county with a lot of Democrats. This
is not some super red county. So you do have,
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for example, the prosecutor is a progressive, and how the
prosecutor who the prosecutor want to send a prison I
can tell you so far. Not the sexual assault. By
the way, two sexual assaults allegedly committed by the transgender student,
the first one and then a second one that happened
just in October, according to this Roseac piece in the
Daily Wire. So there's more details here. People need to
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know about this, people who know. You can't trust the
school board in some of these places, you can't trust
the principles, administrators, the prosecutors I will see. The only
people who look with some seriousness in this, like they
were doing their jobs. Sheriff's Department Law enforcement took the
allegation seriously. They acted everybody else Clay in the bureaucracy
trying to cover for what they feel like would be
(11:16):
a blow to the trans agenda, essentially because that was
also the topic at this school board, at this school
board meeting. So we got more details for you, and
let's pare that, by the way, buck to the way
that they would have reacted if a trans student had
claimed that they were being assaulted because they were trans,
that would be a national news story that CNN would
run for days and days on the front page of
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cnn dot com, and you know, as a top story,
and there would be panels, there'd be there'd be a
law probably named in order to prevent it. So we'll
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with us as we roll through the Wednesday edition of
the program. One of the big challenges Buck is the
idea of narrative over facts, and I feel in many
ways that we live in a post fact era because
what matters is not what's occurring, it's how the individual
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story plays into the prevailing narrative. And the prevailing narrative
is if you say anything other than transgender people are
the greatest humans who have ever existed. Effectively, if you
raise any issues about transgender athletes competing against in women's
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sports and winning, we had Olympians who used to be
men that became women. We got state high school champions
who are men competing as women. We've got bathrooms where
you're not allowed to say, hey, let's in a high
school require that people go to the bathroom of their
respective gender. Because these are private spaces, and there may
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be impossible cases some danger associated with allowing same sex sorry,
people of opposite genders to be using the same bathrooms
in public high schools. Like this is not a crazy idea,
right anybody who has ever been in a high school
can imagine how a dangerous situation could arise like that. So, Buck,
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what is the latest procedural posture here, because it seems
quite clear to me that what occurred was the fact
pattern didn't fit the narrative. So instead of the fact
pattern being examined in a rigorous way, which is what
the judicial system's job is, instead the dad here became
the target of derision and an attack. Yeah, the father
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was held up here. Scott Smith was held up as
the exemplar, if you will, of the angry parent at
the school board meeting who poses a threat to public safety, industry,
and order. And what you find is that, first of all,
because in part there was an effort within the school
to keep the first sexual assault of Smith's daughter. Remember
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the people involved here, both the assailant and the victim
are are minors, so everything is sealed. Their names are
not in the public domain. But the first sexual assault
was kept quiet. There was a second sexual assault, and
the Daily Wire and Luke Rosiak big hat tip to
him for this story, has confirmed that the same name
has been attached, at least behind closed doors, to both
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of these sexual assaults two different girls or the same
girl doing different I mean different girls, transgen under mail
assaulting two different girls, and the school when Scott oh,
when Scott Smith and he was on when he was
on Laura Ingraham show last night on Fox News, I
know that he talked about this situation. But Scott Smith
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was arrested, and he was arrested, and then later on
he came to the school. Sorry, he's rested school board meeting.
When he came to school, initially they called the police
on him, and then the principle put out a statement
when he was angry about the sexual assault of his daughter.
The principal petitive statement saying there was a disturbance at
the school and Smith was the bad guy. There was
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no talk about the threat to public safety from a
student who had sexually assaulted another student in the bathroom
using this trans policy. Allegedly, that's how this whole thing
got going because he was in the girls' bathroom and
you know this is this is these are the facts,
the cases, we know them. But they went after the parent,
and then the progressive prosecutor wanted to throw a number
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of charges at him and make him serve the father
jail time, real jail time, a couple of weeks in jail.
Because this is a prosecutor Clay who ran on a
end mass incarceration platform, but a threat to the transagenda
in this case of bathroom policy, and he's a bad
guy according to the left. That's what happens. And again,
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this is I think going to become significant because as
you said in Loudon County, this is the flashpoint I
believe that may well decide the Virginia governatorial election, not
just this particular incident as described in the Daily Wire,
but the larger battles over CRT, overmasking students, over the
way that kids are being treated in public schools in Virginia,
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and the fact that Terry mccauliffe, the former governor, came
out and said that parents didn't have a right to
decide what their kids were going to be taught in school.
And so this is the major flash point right now. Look,
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we have been talking about the Southwest Airline situation the
last few days, and it was certainly a big news
item over the weekend because you had a couple of
thousand flights canceled, which affected a whole lot of folks,
and the belief was among many that this was the
result of people calling out, calling out sick, essentially taking
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action in order to push back against the vaccine mandate
that Southwest has. Now Southwest had it. CEO come out
and say he doesn't like vaccine mandates, but what's he
going to do? The federal government has said you have
to have this implemented. And it looks like this is
going to play out now between the state of Texas
and the federal government on who who has supremacy on
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this issue. But HAROLDO over at Fox had quite a
clipwood this one out to be had quite a reaction. Yeah,
he seemed a little bit agitated about this one. Let's
hear what he had to say. And these airline pilots
are screwing the public. And the worst of all, it
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is not the pilots, because they, I say, use whatever
weapons you had. It's Chip Roy, the Carnerson from San
Antonio and Austin. This guy is an ideological lunatic, he
said when he looked at the crowd of people who
could not get on their Southwest flights because they were canceled.
So forth, this makes me happier than I can possibly articulate.
Eat it, Southwest Airlines. This is a guy getting on
(20:44):
a sexual pleasure from the chaos and getting the sexual
pleasure the susuption to make this sexual. You're a sick man,
Congressman Roy, I challenge you, what did you mean when
you say to eat it to Southwest Airlines? Who ridiculous
amazing clip from Heraldo there. First of all, if you
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get sexual pleasure from people standing in line to get
on an airplane flight, you got a lot bigger issues
than whether or not the pilots have a COVID vaccine mandate.
All right, let's start there. But this to me is
a big story. We appreciate the callers we got yesterday
from Southwest Airlines kind of putting this into context for us, Buck,
But this is a big story because what you are seeing,
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and I'm gonna talk about this a little bit at
the start of the second hour, is a lot of
people from a variety of different backgrounds are now standing
up against the idea of COVID vaccine mandates. And they're
being labeled, of course, because narrative over facts, as anti vacts.
But no, no, no, most people out there are not
opposed to vaccinations. It's a tiny minority of the population
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that has that perspective at all. What is going on
is people are anti COVID vaccine mandates in order to
have to keep your job, and there is a desperate
attempt to delegitimize those very legitimate perspectives Buck, in the
name of trying to delegitimize the person. So this is
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the number one playbook of left wing arguments now, and
I want all of you to recognize what goes on.
He didn't criticize Look, even Haraldo there. What happens is
you don't attack the idea. We can debate ideas, you
attack the person, right, and so immediately what happens is
if you raise your hand and say, hey, you know
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what I've looked at all the metrics. I don't think
that five year olds need to get the COVID vaccine.
That's my perspective. People don't argue about the data. Although interestingly, Buck,
did you see The New York Times had a story
up finally yesterday where they said, hey, turns out kids
aren't actually in danger from COVID statistically. It's like, oh, yeah,
nineteen months later, you finally come around. But what happens
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is the person themselves is attacked. You are anti vax. No,
I've looked at the data and I don't believe that
COVID vaccines make sense for five year olds in this
country given the current data. That makes you anti vax
even though it's not true. That's the attack. If you say, hey,
you know, I'm opposed to the idea of critical race theory,
what's the response. It's not a debate over critical race theory.
(23:16):
Usually it's your racist Yeah. Ad hominem attack is something
the left excels in. It's actually central in their toolkit
of trying to silence people, though these days they have
so many levels of power to wield, with social media
platform censorship and the government, the DOJ perhaps putting out
a memo saying, yeah, we're looking at you, parent that
are a little too noisy about critical race theory in schools.
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Same thing, by the way, with anybody who's too noisy
about mask mandates in schools, which you certainly know about
from what you dealt with in Tennessee. This is the
reality that we are all up against right now. Governor
you spoke about the difference between being opposed to vaccines
and being opposed to vaccine mandates. I think at some
level the left really doesn't believe that there is such
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a thing as individual freedom. There's only the elective will
as expressed through endless government authority. And that's really a
central psychological and emotional separation between people who are on
the left and people are on the right. If on
the left you think whatever the state believes is best,
it has the stamp of the people, and therefore you
don't really count. No, there are some of us who
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still think that a government that's able to put a
shot in your arm effectively. And by the way, why
shouldn't they go to the lengths of saying we're going
to arrest you. We're going to do what Australia does.
If the rhetoric of these people, that you're reckless and
you're putting people in danger is to be believed. They should,
by their own admission, be willing to do even more
extreme things than they've done so far, and they've been
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getting more extreme with time. Here's Governor Ron De Santis, though,
who is standing athwart these mandates in Florida, speaking the
truth about it. So I think the coercion is just
totally wrong. I think it's destroying trust in public health
to the extent that there was still trust left over
after all the stuff that's been done. But I think
it's really really negative, and I think you're going to
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end up driving people away. Yeah, that's what's happening. He's right.
I mean, the data reflects what he's saying. Also, the
data reflects that they still don't talk about how the
it's not just red state, you know, rural Trump voting
America that has questions about the vaccine. They're still a
very large percentage, relatively speaking, of African Americans across the
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country who have not gotten the shot, and the media
just always says, oh, well, they're allowed odors, it's red
state idiots, it's ignorant rednecks, anti VAXX. That's that's that.
That's the narrative again, narrative over facts. But they're allowed
to be skeptical of government authority and power according to
the media, whereas other people are not, which I think
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is so interesting. And they always will say, oh, because
of the Tuskegee experiment, this is You'll see this in
the New York Times, You'll see this in other places.
How many of the individuals, the the the young, particularly
young block men, who have decided not to get the shot,
really cite the Tuskegee experiment as the basis for it. No,
it's a great point. And by the way, I just
want to keep hammering this too. Without COVID vaccine mandates,
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without any requirement that there be masking, Florida is almost
the lowest COVID incident state in the entire country right now,
You're not hearing that. Every time the cases would tick
up everywhere, CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, New York Times, they
all covered it with great glee as the numbers rose
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in an attempt to attack Rondo Santis. Now as the
numbers have plummeted to the extent where Florida is nearly
the lowest in the entire nation. Almost nobody at all,
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Rupert and sit next to him and have an interesting
(29:05):
conversation with him yesterday evening. And one of the things
I brought up with him, Buck was he was interested
in the Texas A and m Alabama game and the
student chants and everything else. And I shared with him
the rise of the concept of Let's Go Brandon, and
he loved it. He thought it was so funny. This
idea of f Joe Biden has been spreading like wildfire,
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and now the new adjustment that is not not as
a negative in the context of curse words, has become
Let's go Brandon. And this was at a NASCAR event.
These are kids getting set to announce the start of
this NASCAR event, and I just thought this was absolutely fantastic. Buck,
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Let's play cut seventeen. This happened yesterday. They're gonna help
kick this thing off, all right, guys ready in three
two one, rather start your agent, let's go branded. And
I mentioned this yesterday Buck, that Jesse Kelly was walking
around and the Let's go Brandon T shirt and that
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the Tech Stay and M students overwhelmingly loved it, and
Rupert Murdoch loved it. And I don't know how much
bigger this meme is gonna get, but I honestly think
it's going to continue to grow into twenty twenty two
because what it does is puncture the idea of the
news media in many ways, sharing real facts. And for
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those of you who don't know where this all started,
this Let's Go Brandon sort of meme that's taken over
the internet, it was during an interview in NASCAR. The
crowd is chanting f Joe Biden, and the host there says, oh,
there's chanting Let's go Brandon, and it's taken off like
Wildfire Buck and it's become really pretty funny. I gotta
be honest, I almost Brandon T shirts all over the place.
(30:54):
I'm seeing them pop it up. I know Jesse Kelly
was wearing one. Bid administration has lost so many independents
at this point, and people are seeing the incompetence in
a way that worries those whose job it is to
trying to convince people that Biden's actually competent and knows
what's going on and is running the country well, I
mean that the numbers you're seeing right now, what five percent?
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I think they had the biggest increase for social security,
cost of living in decades. It's been a long time,
because inflation is going up. I mean the things that
what's amazing when the Biden administration at this point, I
think this is why there's such a catharsis. There's such
a feeling of release when you could say, let's go Brandon.
Is that all the things that we were warning we're
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going to happen, all the things that we said, don't
do this Biden administration or else, the following will occur,
whether it's the undermining by the Democrat Party. I know
it's started under Trump at the BLM movement, which is
a Democrat movement, and then continued on now under the
Biden administration. Undermining of police, spending too much money, inflation,
rising American sovereignty, under constant assault at the US Mexico border,
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all of these things. And sure enough, what's the response
they even have on COVID, I mean, the area of
alleged greatest competency for Biden. So yeah, I get why
people are running around yelling let's go brand and I
understand where this frustration comes from. And not only that
we're dealing and I think you mentioned it, and we
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should continue to hammer this. Biden is claiming that everybody's
going to get a tax cut out there, right, That's
what he's trying to sell with this big reconciliation bill
that they are attempting to force through. The problem is
consumer prices are increasing so quickly that that is a
default tax of nearly two hundred dollars a month on
the average American family. So you're talking about thousands of
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dollars in increased costs, particularly for meat and eggs. We
know gasoline is at a seven year price high as
you're driving around trying to fill up your car. And
they've been trying to argue buck, Oh, this inflation is transatory.
It's just a function of the economy getting back up
and running post COVID. What they are not acknowledging is
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they created this inflationary environment by artificially constraining all of
our economy and now and and this idea that we
were never going to have shortages again, I think by
Christmas and certainly by Thanksgiving, and a lot of you
see it already when you go to your grocery stores.
They're empty shelves, something that we had not seen in
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decades in the United They're absolutely going to be shortages
in the Biden administration is already trying to prepare the
spin and the talking points for what people are getting
ready for me. And they're calling it Biden's Holiday nightmare
over the Tilly Mill, the saying the supply chain will
not be fixed by Christmas. They're urging parents to get
gifts to buy toys now, which I would note that
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just means you're accelerating the supply chair issue. That's what
we're doing, saying. Yeah, they're saying, come on, go out
there and grab the stuff that's all on the shelves
while he can. Well, that's what that's gonna mean. That
people are gonna go now, and while there's these snarls
happening where you have ships that are waiting weeks to
offload their cargo. And this is this is a number
of factors, but certainly Bid administration economic policy and COVID
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policy is directly directly relating to and in many ways
responsible for this. So what are people, you know, you
look at this where we are right now versus where
we were a year ago, Clay, and you think to yourself,
you know, obviously we were about to go into the election,
the decision the American people were facing. But they promised
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us a united and you remember it right in last October,
Biden was saying a united country with you know, shared
prosperity and COVID. What was the line of crushed COVID,
not the economy. It turned out he was close, except
more crushed the economy, not COVID. Right, That's what we've
actually seen. And it's a shame because I wish I
(34:55):
could sit here and say that we had other political
fights to have, we didn't have to talk about COVID
at all. But they misled people at so many stages
of this about how effective their plans would be. Remember
one hundred days of masking. It was going to solve everything, Buck,
That's what Joe Biden told us. If we would just
wear masks for one hundred days, COVID would be over.
If we would just get fifty percent of people vaccinated,
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COVID would be over. If you would just get vaccinated yourself,
you would never have to wear a mask again all
of those have been proven to be lies and Joe Biden,
and I think we need to keep emphasizing this. More
people have died now in the Joe Biden twenty twenty
one regime than died when Trump was in charge, when
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everybody out there in the Biden administration was saying that
the number one reason why you needed Joe Biden in
the White House was because he would solve COVID. And
that's despite the fact that they now have a vaccine
that we had already had a lot of people who
had gotten sick and dealt with COVID. They still have
done a worse job. We come back Buck. There's a
story that I think is emblematic of how much cosmetic
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theater is going on New York City, La San Francisco
and their vaccine mandates. It's impacting Kyrie Irving, who is
one of the stars of the NBA. They aren't going
to allow him to play basketball because he's refusing to
get the COVID vaccine. What's going on and how much
trouble does this create when the storylines change from anti
(36:23):
vax Trump supporting red state losers to others living in
metropolitan cities and they're refusing the COVID vaccine. I think
it's a fascinating discussion you're listening to, Clay Travis, said
(36:46):
Buck Sexton on the EIB Network
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome to the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show. This is Buck in New York City. I
got my man Clay out in Los Angeles, California, and
we have much to discussed today on the show. Talking
to you about the latest with the Southwest Airlines debacle
(00:23):
of the weekend. Was it really people calling out sick?
Were they're using up sick time? Was it a combination
of factors? Is it really pushed back against vaccine mandates?
Speaking of vaccine mandates, revisiting yesterday the announcement by Texas
that no vas mandates of any kind, private, public, you
name it allowed in that state by state law or
(00:44):
by executive order of the governor, and that is now
forcing a showdown with the federal government. We'll have COVID
updates for you where we stand right now in that
fight and the suppression of our freedoms, and then much more,
maybe even some follow up on the Gruden reside Nation
yesterday and other ten bits from the sports world courtesy
of mister Clay. But people are recognizing that the fight
(01:07):
over school boards and what's going on what's being taught
to your children is a critical front right now in
what could be called an American counter revolution. Just by
way of a quick review, you had the Maoist Cultural
Revolution in China in the sixties, stretching into the seventies.
(01:29):
For about a decade, there was an effort by the
Communist Party in China to completely remake, to undo the past,
and remake the President of China in a vicious and
thuggish campaign where lots of people were killed, people were persecuted.
It was horrible and just as we should always look
(01:51):
to those who have fled tyranny and come to America
as reminders of why this place is so great. Here
is a parent and she's gone viral, and this was
up on Fox News. This was the main story on
Foxnews dot com this morning. A parent who has gone
viral because she's saying that the Department of Justice putting
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out an email notification warning from the Attorney General's Office
saying that they're going to start looking at parents who
speak up at meetings. This is a major concern and
should put people on edge because of the very clear
comparisons with some of the rhetoric of the Cultural Revolution.
The attacks on people, the divisiveness. Here's what she said.
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When I was in China, I spent my entire school
years in the Chinese Culture Revolution, so I'm very, very
familiar with the communist tactics of how they divide people,
how they can sold the Chinese traditional culture and destroy
our heritage, and all this is happening here in America.
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Now they are labeling parents and concerned citizen like me
as domestic terrorists. What that can do? You mean, Lucy Freedom?
I do have a question. What's next step? Is the
Kier i'mond square crackdown? The next with the parents one
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day risk their live just to speak up for their children.
That's why I'm here. What is the next step? Play well?
I think the next step needs to be Glen Yunkin
needs to win in Virginia because I think that would
be a major punch back against the idea of critical
(03:38):
race theory. And for people who missed it, we had
Glenn Junkin on yesterday, and I believe what has become
the most essential detail, the most essential battleground in his
race against Terry mccauliffe for that Virginia governatorial seat, which
will be decided next month it's over schools. It's over
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what kids are being taught. It's over who has the
right to look and debate about what is being taught. Buck.
This this idea that the Department of Justice is looking
into what parents say at school boards. I appreciate what
that woman said in her statement. The people who understand
how scary this is are oftentimes not Americans, Buck. They're
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people who have lived and seen what happens when the
government starts to clamp down on what opinions are allowed
and what opinions are not. And I say this, Buck,
as a parent who went to one of those school
board meetings that the President has referenced many times as
being unacceptable. And I just got to tell you, I
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left that school board meeting and I told you this,
and I told you on the air more happy, more
optimistic about what was going on in the country than
I have been in a very long time. Because what
we need is not the DJ investigating so called domestic
harris at school boards. We need more more people out
there at the absolute grassroots level getting involved and fighting
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back against the idea that America is the evil place,
which is what is being culcated in our kids right
Now it's not to say that America is perfect. It isn't.
Nothing created by man has ever been perfect. But America
is the greatest country to ever be created in the
history of the world. And that used to be a
uniting theory that everybody in America shared. Now we don't.
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And that is a designed attempt to destroy the legitimacy
of this country's backbone. And I think we got to
take up arms against it in an aggressive way. And
the best way to do that is for parents to
show up and speak out and pay attention to who's
on the school boards and who's at these lower level positions.
And I think it's going to be a major point
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of failure for the Democrats, because I think they're going
to lose the Virginia election over this. Speaking of the
school board meetings, Scott Smith was a parent who went
to one of these meetings, and there is an excellent story,
in depth story by the Daily Wires Luke Rosiac on this.
I'm gonna be talking to Luke later on today on
(06:09):
TV about this. Luke is he's gone deep into this
story and when you read the details of this, it's
honestly enraging. There are some stories you read and you
get angry as you go through it. And this all
centers around a school board meeting. Play on June twenty second,
Scott Smith in Loudon County, which we know is the
front line of this loud County, Virginia. He was at
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a school board meeting which was deemed an unlawful assembly.
As Rosiac writes in the piece here, and what people
didn't realize and as Smith was arrested at this meeting,
he was a concerned parent arrested was that he was
there because one of the topics was about transgender students,
male transgender students using the female bathroom. His ninth grade
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daughter had been sexually assaulted by a transgender student in
a Loudon County public school mere weeks before. Activists said
that he was lying. When he tried to raise this,
police wrestled him to the ground, his pants got pulled down,
his face was bloodied, and he was treated like essentially
a domestic terrorist or somebody who was an insurrectionist or
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whatever the rhetoric is that they want to use. And Smith,
then for the left, was held up. I know who
was on Laura's show last night on Fox News and
people are now finally hearing his story. He was held
up as an example of the scary angry parents at
the school board, completely ignoring the fact that this is
a guy whose teenage daughter was assaulted by a male
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student who likes to wear a skirt sometimes in the
ladies room the girl's bathroom weeks before at the school,
and the school said they were handling it in house.
They tried to cover it up. He went to the
Sheriff's department. Fortunately they did take it seriously. There was
a rape kit given to this girl. They did get
information that can be used in their criminal proceeding. Now
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we're talking about miners here, so everything is sealed. There's
a lot that's not out there but isn't so it's
really truly unsettling. It's kind of frightening that this concerned
father who's angry about his daughter being sexually assaulted in
her high school tries to talk about this at a
school board meeting and the cops plant him on the ground,
(08:22):
face first, his pants are pulled down. He's mocked and
ridiculed on video, and he's I guess what Merrick Garland,
the Attorney General's talking about, is a insurrectionist, domestic terrorist parent.
It's outrageous. It's also outrageous that if you share a
story like this, it's as if it isn't allowed to
be discussed. This is the fear right when you have
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anybody who wants to use any bathroom that they could
that you could have biological teenage boys. Right, We've been Buck,
biological teenage boys. We oftentimes, I always say, the dumbest
human being on the planet are fourteen and fifteen and
sixteen year old boys. Right. And the other thing I
(09:06):
always say is there's never very often a girl whose
final two words or watch this, and yet they are
all these stupid teenage boys doing all sorts of stupid things.
And it's eminently foreseeable that if you just allow people
to decide what gender they are, and you're going to
allow them to go into any private place inside of
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a school, that issues like this could arise, and that
should be a big part of the debate when you
try to make decisions such as these. So the idea
that you would not allow a parent to speak out
and share why he is opposing a policy, and that
you would demonize him based on sharing that story is
(09:51):
evidence Buck of narrative trumping reality, narrative, trumping everything. If
you are willing to you speak out in a way
that challenges the prevailing liberal narrative, you will be attacked
and people will try to end you. They'll try to
cancel you. Even get it gets worse, Clay, I mean,
we'll have to come back and tell people about how
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did the school principle and school officials react to the
father showing up to the school when he found out
that his ninth grade daughter had been sexually assaulted by
a transdude in the bathroom. How did the prosecutor? Remember,
people think loudon County just everybody knows it's a high
per capita income county with a lot of Democrats. This
is not some super red county. So you do have,
(10:34):
for example, the prosecutor is a progressive, and how the
prosecutor who the prosecutor want to send a prison I
can tell you so far. Not the sexual assault. By
the way, two sexual assaults allegedly committed by the transgender student,
the first one and then a second one that happened
just in October, according to this Roseac piece in the
Daily Wire. So there's more details here. People need to
(10:55):
know about this, people who know. You can't trust the
school board in some of these places, you can't trust
the principles, administrators, the prosecutors I will see. The only
people who look with some seriousness in this, like they
were doing their jobs. Sheriff's Department Law enforcement took the
allegation seriously. They acted everybody else Clay in the bureaucracy
trying to cover for what they feel like would be
(11:16):
a blow to the trans agenda, essentially because that was
also the topic at this school board, at this school
board meeting. So we got more details for you, and
let's pare that, by the way, buck to the way
that they would have reacted if a trans student had
claimed that they were being assaulted because they were trans,
that would be a national news story that CNN would
run for days and days on the front page of
(11:36):
cnn dot com, and you know, as a top story,
and there would be panels, there'd be there'd be a
law probably named in order to prevent it. So we'll
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with us as we roll through the Wednesday edition of
the program. One of the big challenges Buck is the
idea of narrative over facts, and I feel in many
ways that we live in a post fact era because
what matters is not what's occurring, it's how the individual
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story plays into the prevailing narrative. And the prevailing narrative
is if you say anything other than transgender people are
the greatest humans who have ever existed. Effectively, if you
raise any issues about transgender athletes competing against in women's
(14:07):
sports and winning, we had Olympians who used to be
men that became women. We got state high school champions
who are men competing as women. We've got bathrooms where
you're not allowed to say, hey, let's in a high
school require that people go to the bathroom of their
respective gender. Because these are private spaces, and there may
(14:29):
be impossible cases some danger associated with allowing same sex sorry,
people of opposite genders to be using the same bathrooms
in public high schools. Like this is not a crazy idea,
right anybody who has ever been in a high school
can imagine how a dangerous situation could arise like that. So, Buck,
(14:50):
what is the latest procedural posture here, because it seems
quite clear to me that what occurred was the fact
pattern didn't fit the narrative. So instead of the fact
pattern being examined in a rigorous way, which is what
the judicial system's job is, instead the dad here became
the target of derision and an attack. Yeah, the father
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was held up here. Scott Smith was held up as
the exemplar, if you will, of the angry parent at
the school board meeting who poses a threat to public safety, industry,
and order. And what you find is that, first of all,
because in part there was an effort within the school
to keep the first sexual assault of Smith's daughter. Remember
(15:33):
the people involved here, both the assailant and the victim
are are minors, so everything is sealed. Their names are
not in the public domain. But the first sexual assault
was kept quiet. There was a second sexual assault, and
the Daily Wire and Luke Rosiak big hat tip to
him for this story, has confirmed that the same name
has been attached, at least behind closed doors, to both
(15:54):
of these sexual assaults two different girls or the same
girl doing different I mean different girls, transgen under mail
assaulting two different girls, and the school when Scott oh,
when Scott Smith and he was on when he was
on Laura Ingraham show last night on Fox News, I
know that he talked about this situation. But Scott Smith
(16:15):
was arrested, and he was arrested, and then later on
he came to the school. Sorry, he's rested school board meeting.
When he came to school, initially they called the police
on him, and then the principle put out a statement
when he was angry about the sexual assault of his daughter.
The principal petitive statement saying there was a disturbance at
the school and Smith was the bad guy. There was
(16:37):
no talk about the threat to public safety from a
student who had sexually assaulted another student in the bathroom
using this trans policy. Allegedly, that's how this whole thing
got going because he was in the girls' bathroom and
you know this is this is these are the facts,
the cases, we know them. But they went after the parent,
and then the progressive prosecutor wanted to throw a number
(16:58):
of charges at him and make him serve the father
jail time, real jail time, a couple of weeks in jail.
Because this is a prosecutor Clay who ran on a
end mass incarceration platform, but a threat to the transagenda
in this case of bathroom policy, and he's a bad
guy according to the left. That's what happens. And again,
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this is I think going to become significant because as
you said in Loudon County, this is the flashpoint I
believe that may well decide the Virginia governatorial election, not
just this particular incident as described in the Daily Wire,
but the larger battles over CRT, overmasking students, over the
way that kids are being treated in public schools in Virginia,
(17:44):
and the fact that Terry mccauliffe, the former governor, came
out and said that parents didn't have a right to
decide what their kids were going to be taught in school.
And so this is the major flash point right now. Look,
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we have been talking about the Southwest Airline situation the
last few days, and it was certainly a big news
item over the weekend because you had a couple of
thousand flights canceled, which affected a whole lot of folks,
and the belief was among many that this was the
result of people calling out, calling out sick, essentially taking
(19:38):
action in order to push back against the vaccine mandate
that Southwest has. Now Southwest had it. CEO come out
and say he doesn't like vaccine mandates, but what's he
going to do? The federal government has said you have
to have this implemented. And it looks like this is
going to play out now between the state of Texas
and the federal government on who who has supremacy on
(20:01):
this issue. But HAROLDO over at Fox had quite a
clipwood this one out to be had quite a reaction. Yeah,
he seemed a little bit agitated about this one. Let's
hear what he had to say. And these airline pilots
are screwing the public. And the worst of all, it
(20:21):
is not the pilots, because they, I say, use whatever
weapons you had. It's Chip Roy, the Carnerson from San
Antonio and Austin. This guy is an ideological lunatic, he
said when he looked at the crowd of people who
could not get on their Southwest flights because they were canceled.
So forth, this makes me happier than I can possibly articulate.
Eat it, Southwest Airlines. This is a guy getting on
(20:44):
a sexual pleasure from the chaos and getting the sexual
pleasure the susuption to make this sexual. You're a sick man,
Congressman Roy, I challenge you, what did you mean when
you say to eat it to Southwest Airlines? Who ridiculous
amazing clip from Heraldo there. First of all, if you
(21:04):
get sexual pleasure from people standing in line to get
on an airplane flight, you got a lot bigger issues
than whether or not the pilots have a COVID vaccine mandate.
All right, let's start there. But this to me is
a big story. We appreciate the callers we got yesterday
from Southwest Airlines kind of putting this into context for us, Buck,
But this is a big story because what you are seeing,
(21:27):
and I'm gonna talk about this a little bit at
the start of the second hour, is a lot of
people from a variety of different backgrounds are now standing
up against the idea of COVID vaccine mandates. And they're
being labeled, of course, because narrative over facts, as anti vacts.
But no, no, no, most people out there are not
opposed to vaccinations. It's a tiny minority of the population
(21:50):
that has that perspective at all. What is going on
is people are anti COVID vaccine mandates in order to
have to keep your job, and there is a desperate
attempt to delegitimize those very legitimate perspectives Buck, in the
name of trying to delegitimize the person. So this is
(22:10):
the number one playbook of left wing arguments now, and
I want all of you to recognize what goes on.
He didn't criticize Look, even Haraldo there. What happens is
you don't attack the idea. We can debate ideas, you
attack the person, right, and so immediately what happens is
if you raise your hand and say, hey, you know
(22:31):
what I've looked at all the metrics. I don't think
that five year olds need to get the COVID vaccine.
That's my perspective. People don't argue about the data. Although interestingly, Buck,
did you see The New York Times had a story
up finally yesterday where they said, hey, turns out kids
aren't actually in danger from COVID statistically. It's like, oh, yeah,
nineteen months later, you finally come around. But what happens
(22:53):
is the person themselves is attacked. You are anti vax. No,
I've looked at the data and I don't believe that
COVID vaccines make sense for five year olds in this
country given the current data. That makes you anti vax
even though it's not true. That's the attack. If you say, hey,
you know, I'm opposed to the idea of critical race theory,
what's the response. It's not a debate over critical race theory.
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Usually it's your racist Yeah. Ad hominem attack is something
the left excels in. It's actually central in their toolkit
of trying to silence people, though these days they have
so many levels of power to wield, with social media
platform censorship and the government, the DOJ perhaps putting out
a memo saying, yeah, we're looking at you, parent that
are a little too noisy about critical race theory in schools.
(23:36):
Same thing, by the way, with anybody who's too noisy
about mask mandates in schools, which you certainly know about
from what you dealt with in Tennessee. This is the
reality that we are all up against right now. Governor
you spoke about the difference between being opposed to vaccines
and being opposed to vaccine mandates. I think at some
level the left really doesn't believe that there is such
(23:57):
a thing as individual freedom. There's only the elective will
as expressed through endless government authority. And that's really a
central psychological and emotional separation between people who are on
the left and people are on the right. If on
the left you think whatever the state believes is best,
it has the stamp of the people, and therefore you
don't really count. No, there are some of us who
(24:18):
still think that a government that's able to put a
shot in your arm effectively. And by the way, why
shouldn't they go to the lengths of saying we're going
to arrest you. We're going to do what Australia does.
If the rhetoric of these people, that you're reckless and
you're putting people in danger is to be believed. They should,
by their own admission, be willing to do even more
extreme things than they've done so far, and they've been
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getting more extreme with time. Here's Governor Ron De Santis, though,
who is standing athwart these mandates in Florida, speaking the
truth about it. So I think the coercion is just
totally wrong. I think it's destroying trust in public health
to the extent that there was still trust left over
after all the stuff that's been done. But I think
it's really really negative, and I think you're going to
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end up driving people away. Yeah, that's what's happening. He's right.
I mean, the data reflects what he's saying. Also, the
data reflects that they still don't talk about how the
it's not just red state, you know, rural Trump voting
America that has questions about the vaccine. They're still a
very large percentage, relatively speaking, of African Americans across the
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country who have not gotten the shot, and the media
just always says, oh, well, they're allowed odors, it's red
state idiots, it's ignorant rednecks, anti VAXX. That's that's that.
That's the narrative again, narrative over facts. But they're allowed
to be skeptical of government authority and power according to
the media, whereas other people are not, which I think
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is so interesting. And they always will say, oh, because
of the Tuskegee experiment, this is You'll see this in
the New York Times, You'll see this in other places.
How many of the individuals, the the the young, particularly
young block men, who have decided not to get the shot,
really cite the Tuskegee experiment as the basis for it. No,
it's a great point. And by the way, I just
want to keep hammering this too. Without COVID vaccine mandates,
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without any requirement that there be masking, Florida is almost
the lowest COVID incident state in the entire country right now,
You're not hearing that. Every time the cases would tick
up everywhere, CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, New York Times, they
all covered it with great glee as the numbers rose
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in an attempt to attack Rondo Santis. Now as the
numbers have plummeted to the extent where Florida is nearly
the lowest in the entire nation. Almost nobody at all,
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had a pretty awesome experience last night the twenty fifth
anniversary of Fox News. For those out there who are aware,
they've been celebrating it on Fox News, and they had
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a dinner in La and I got to sit next
to Rupert Murdoch. I'd never met Rupert Murdoch before. He
was there celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of Fox News. Obviously,
Rupert Murdoch and his family. They own the New York Post,
they own the Wall Street Journal. They now own out Kiss,
the business that I founded. So I got to meet
Rupert and sit next to him and have an interesting
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conversation with him yesterday evening. And one of the things
I brought up with him, Buck was he was interested
in the Texas A and m Alabama game and the
student chants and everything else. And I shared with him
the rise of the concept of Let's Go Brandon, and
he loved it. He thought it was so funny. This
idea of f Joe Biden has been spreading like wildfire,
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and now the new adjustment that is not not as
a negative in the context of curse words, has become
Let's go Brandon. And this was at a NASCAR event.
These are kids getting set to announce the start of
this NASCAR event, and I just thought this was absolutely fantastic. Buck,
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Let's play cut seventeen. This happened yesterday. They're gonna help
kick this thing off, all right, guys ready in three
two one, rather start your agent, let's go branded. And
I mentioned this yesterday Buck, that Jesse Kelly was walking
around and the Let's go Brandon T shirt and that
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the Tech Stay and M students overwhelmingly loved it, and
Rupert Murdoch loved it. And I don't know how much
bigger this meme is gonna get, but I honestly think
it's going to continue to grow into twenty twenty two
because what it does is puncture the idea of the
news media in many ways, sharing real facts. And for
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those of you who don't know where this all started,
this Let's Go Brandon sort of meme that's taken over
the internet, it was during an interview in NASCAR. The
crowd is chanting f Joe Biden, and the host there says, oh,
there's chanting Let's go Brandon, and it's taken off like
Wildfire Buck and it's become really pretty funny. I gotta
be honest, I almost Brandon T shirts all over the place.
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I'm seeing them pop it up. I know Jesse Kelly
was wearing one. Bid administration has lost so many independents
at this point, and people are seeing the incompetence in
a way that worries those whose job it is to
trying to convince people that Biden's actually competent and knows
what's going on and is running the country well, I
mean that the numbers you're seeing right now, what five percent?
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I think they had the biggest increase for social security,
cost of living in decades. It's been a long time,
because inflation is going up. I mean the things that
what's amazing when the Biden administration at this point, I
think this is why there's such a catharsis. There's such
a feeling of release when you could say, let's go Brandon.
Is that all the things that we were warning we're
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going to happen, all the things that we said, don't
do this Biden administration or else, the following will occur,
whether it's the undermining by the Democrat Party. I know
it's started under Trump at the BLM movement, which is
a Democrat movement, and then continued on now under the
Biden administration. Undermining of police, spending too much money, inflation,
rising American sovereignty, under constant assault at the US Mexico border,
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all of these things. And sure enough, what's the response
they even have on COVID, I mean, the area of
alleged greatest competency for Biden. So yeah, I get why
people are running around yelling let's go brand and I
understand where this frustration comes from. And not only that
we're dealing and I think you mentioned it, and we
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should continue to hammer this. Biden is claiming that everybody's
going to get a tax cut out there, right, That's
what he's trying to sell with this big reconciliation bill
that they are attempting to force through. The problem is
consumer prices are increasing so quickly that that is a
default tax of nearly two hundred dollars a month on
the average American family. So you're talking about thousands of
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dollars in increased costs, particularly for meat and eggs. We
know gasoline is at a seven year price high as
you're driving around trying to fill up your car. And
they've been trying to argue buck, Oh, this inflation is transatory.
It's just a function of the economy getting back up
and running post COVID. What they are not acknowledging is
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they created this inflationary environment by artificially constraining all of
our economy and now and and this idea that we
were never going to have shortages again, I think by
Christmas and certainly by Thanksgiving, and a lot of you
see it already when you go to your grocery stores.
They're empty shelves, something that we had not seen in
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decades in the United They're absolutely going to be shortages
in the Biden administration is already trying to prepare the
spin and the talking points for what people are getting
ready for me. And they're calling it Biden's Holiday nightmare
over the Tilly Mill, the saying the supply chain will
not be fixed by Christmas. They're urging parents to get
gifts to buy toys now, which I would note that
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just means you're accelerating the supply chair issue. That's what
we're doing, saying. Yeah, they're saying, come on, go out
there and grab the stuff that's all on the shelves
while he can. Well, that's what that's gonna mean. That
people are gonna go now, and while there's these snarls
happening where you have ships that are waiting weeks to
offload their cargo. And this is this is a number
of factors, but certainly Bid administration economic policy and COVID
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policy is directly directly relating to and in many ways
responsible for this. So what are people, you know, you
look at this where we are right now versus where
we were a year ago, Clay, and you think to yourself,
you know, obviously we were about to go into the election,
the decision the American people were facing. But they promised
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us a united and you remember it right in last October,
Biden was saying a united country with you know, shared
prosperity and COVID. What was the line of crushed COVID,
not the economy. It turned out he was close, except
more crushed the economy, not COVID. Right, That's what we've
actually seen. And it's a shame because I wish I
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could sit here and say that we had other political
fights to have, we didn't have to talk about COVID
at all. But they misled people at so many stages
of this about how effective their plans would be. Remember
one hundred days of masking. It was going to solve everything, Buck,
That's what Joe Biden told us. If we would just
wear masks for one hundred days, COVID would be over.
If we would just get fifty percent of people vaccinated,
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COVID would be over. If you would just get vaccinated yourself,
you would never have to wear a mask again all
of those have been proven to be lies and Joe Biden,
and I think we need to keep emphasizing this. More
people have died now in the Joe Biden twenty twenty
one regime than died when Trump was in charge, when
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everybody out there in the Biden administration was saying that
the number one reason why you needed Joe Biden in
the White House was because he would solve COVID. And
that's despite the fact that they now have a vaccine
that we had already had a lot of people who
had gotten sick and dealt with COVID. They still have
done a worse job. We come back Buck. There's a
story that I think is emblematic of how much cosmetic
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theater is going on New York City, La San Francisco
and their vaccine mandates. It's impacting Kyrie Irving, who is
one of the stars of the NBA. They aren't going
to allow him to play basketball because he's refusing to
get the COVID vaccine. What's going on and how much
trouble does this create when the storylines change from anti
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vax Trump supporting red state losers to others living in
metropolitan cities and they're refusing the COVID vaccine. I think
it's a fascinating discussion you're listening to, Clay Travis, said
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