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June 17, 2022 37 mins
Clay opens the show by saying that the Biden Recession has already begun. Montage of Biden campaigning on ending fossil fuels. Buck says, "Can Biden make it any more clear that he hates the fossil fuel industry -- at least when he wants Democrat votes?" Biden lies about inflation, competency seems lower, Clay says, every time we hear new audio. Moderate Elon Musk drives the Blue Checks mad. Kamala Harris to head task force on "online harassment."

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis and
Buck Sexton Show. We had a awesome night. You got
to meet a lot of our listeners as we celebrated
one year on the program last night in New York City.
Thanks to all who came out, and we are looking

(00:23):
forward to rolling into year two and continuing to be
voices for sanity in an insane world. Hope all of
you are having a good early start to your weekends
and we are certainly prepared to power you right into
that afternoon evening fun of Friday. But there remains, unfortunately,

(00:45):
the ongoing cloud of incompetence surrounding the Biden administration. As
we are speaking to you, the stock market, having one
of its worst weeks ever, is down one hundred and
twenty three points again today. It has been a real
drubbing that the stock market has been taking as our

(01:07):
overall national economy tries to come to grips with the
overall inflation rates. And I would just say this, Buck,
I think we're already in a recession. This is my prediction.
It didn't get a great deal of attention. But if
you looked when we had the three quarter rate interest
interest rate hike, three quarter point interest rate hike that

(01:29):
happened earlier this week, the Fed lowered its second quarter
predictions on GDP to zero zero point zero. The growth
rate had been point nine percent. It wasn't exactly a
sterling growth rate. But if they are now forecasting zero
point zero percent effectively, which is what they are, in
other words, just barely avoiding a negative number, it feels

(01:53):
to me like we are probably already in a recession.
We know that in the first quarter GDP went down
two conceptive quarters of negative GDP is a recession, Buck,
I think we're in a recession. I want to play
you this audio because Joe Biden finally did an interview
and he talked with the AP in the Oval office,
and he said that a recession is not inevitable. I think, unfortunately,

(02:17):
we're already in a recession. Lee play cut seven here
for you, as CNN is even interacting here with what
is going on and saying, it definitely feels like we're
already in a recession. Nobody knows when or if there
will be a recession. At some point, there will be
because we live in an economy that has business cycles. Right,
we don't know if there's one now, If there's one

(02:37):
maybe some time next year. What we do know is
the markets are reacting like it. It's inevitable. And you've
got a majority of global CEOs now, according to the
Wall Street Journal, saying they think that we're either in
one or headed for one. That depends on where you live.
There's much more likely you'll see recessions in Europe than
in the United States. But no one knows for sure.
And the Fed is trying to navigate what it calls
a soft landing, trying to get out of this mess

(03:00):
without too much damage to the US economy. But issue
number one here is inflation. They're trying to get inflation
under control, and the stock market, at least right now,
is adjusting to this new world of higher inflation, higher
interest rates, slower growth, and that's why you're seeing stocks react.
I'm sorry, but the Biden administration Clay doesn't get to
have it both ways. Six months ago, nine months ago,

(03:20):
Biden himself was pointing to the stock market talking about
how it was just a function of build back. Better,
just spend another five or six trillion. We're going to
get ourselves out of the ditch, the duldrums we had
been in. No, it turns out that the decisions they
made have had a dramatically negative impact on the economy,
and now they want to tell us that it was

(03:42):
its cyclical right. So six months ago Biden saying, look
at the stock market, I'm amazing, And now the stock
market has just gotten crushed. You have less money in
your four oh one K and your retirement accounts or
your stock accounts in general than you did when Biden
took office. So that's eighteen months of gains wiped out,
and they want to tell you that this has nothing

(04:03):
to do with Joe Biden. It just reminds me very
much of the explanation they give now for the high
price of gas, which of course is the putin price hike.
Greedy oil suppliers, greedy refiner all this is crap and nonsense.
It's worth reminding people that six months ago Biden was
saying it was a great economy, boasting about the jobs,

(04:23):
boasting about the stock market, and now we see it's
all fallen apart. And eighteen months ago Biden was talking
about how if he could he would ban all fuel,
all gas, all oil. Oh yeah. Would there be any
place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking in a
Biden administration, No, would, We would work it out. We

(04:44):
would make sure it's eliminated. And no more subsidies for
either one of those. No more subsidies for fossil filling industry,
No more drilling non federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore,
no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill period.
I've argued against any more oil drilling or gas drilling

(05:08):
on federal lands that we can and uh and and
and to stop that we are. We argue, if you're
rid of fossil fuels, if you're going to bad practing
all across from Erica right now, I would love to Yeah,
I'd love to too. I'd love to make sure we
don't gas period. I think, I know, I feel I
know a lot more about foreign policy than I knew

(05:29):
about um about the oil industry, Clay, Can he make
it any more clear that he hates the fossil fuel
industry at least when he wants Democrat votes. Can you
imagine how bad that montage is going to play in
many different jurisdictions right now, many different places. As people
are getting ready to go to the polls. We've talked

(05:50):
a lot about what a red wave would look like,
or what a red tsunami would look like. And I
can't imagine when you're paying over five dollars a gas
uh for a gallon of gas, that the reaction to
any voters out there is going to be remotely positive
to Joe Biden trying to now say, oh, we've got
to increase oil and gas exploration, We've got to do

(06:12):
more drilling, we've got to do when he ran on
the idea that he was going to stop that from happening.
So it's not just that Joe Biden has bad ideas,
it's that his ideas are so bad they make everything worse.
And this is why the essence, this is why they're
panicked right now, because we're rapidly coming up on July.

(06:35):
Everybody's on their vacations right now during the summer, so
many people have saved up for the past couple of
years because of COVID related issues. People are out there
more than they have been in a long time. And
when you're driving your family around and you are paying
five dollars for a gallon of gas. It is just
an absolute kick in the teeth to people out there,

(06:55):
and again from a parenting perspective, what it really does
is you don't get take your kids to the movies,
You don't get to take your kids out for dinner
like you ordinarily would. You may not even be able
to take a vacation like you would hope to be
able to do by presents as we come up and
get start to think about birthdays and all of all

(07:15):
the holiday season, which isn't that far away. This is
an unmitigated disaster and it strikes people every single day,
all day long when you're looking at the price of gas.
And I think the Biden White House compounds everything that
you're talking about, which is the pain that people are
feeling economically. That's there. They can talk about eight million
jobs or whatever all day. The fact of the matter

(07:36):
is that people are feeling financially stressed. The markets have turned,
and we are probably already in a recession, it's just
not officially yet. We've been talking about a recession here
for months. But on top of that, there's something so
dishonest about the Biden administration with regard to all of this,
which is why I think playing back clips of what
Joe Biden running for office was saying about the price

(07:58):
about the gas fuel industry and how that affects the
price of gas now is obvious. Right. They did everything
they could to show the environmentalists left that they are
hostile to the fosil fuel industry, and now the price
of gas is high, and they say, oh, we didn't
do anything. When Donald Trump was in office, Democrats and
I know it was mostly about Russia collusion, which was
a lie, but Trump would say I want to do

(08:21):
the following, or here's what we're doing, and Democrats could
and did obviously say that's bad, we hate that. Whatever.
But at least there is a clarity among Republicans with
we're gonna cut taxes, or we want to build the wall,
or we're going to do remain in Mexico, whatever it
may be. With Democrats, it's a game. They get what
they want under a certain promise, and then when it's disastrous,

(08:43):
it's we never wanted that. We didn't think there are
consequences for the choices that we're making. Think about this
getting rid of remain in Mexico. Look at the southern
border now, defund the police. Look at crime in major cities,
open air drug markets in places like Portland, look at
the level of overdoses and cities and nation and wide
last year spending too much money, Look at inflation. They

(09:04):
try to separate cause and effect, and people aren't buying
it because it's so obvious. Right, it's not a question
of I have a policy preference. They have a policy preference,
and we're going to argue out what could happen in
the future. We've seen the results, and that's why it's
going to be I believe, such a devastating red tsunami
because to your point, they made disastrous policy choices, some

(09:27):
of the most disastrous policy choices in American history. I
really do believe that particularly would defund the police, certainly
with as you just said, what's going on in the border,
the money that they spent. What's amazing is everything is
coming home to roost so rapidly because their choices were
so awful that there wasn't to your point, you could

(09:48):
sit around and argue about, hey, what should the corporate
tax rate be? And it might take five six years
to figure out what the exact impact is of a
corporate tax rate increase or decrease, because that's how long
the economy sometimes takes to put all this in motion.
We were just starting to see, for instance, the benefits
of the Trump tax cuts when COVID hit. We had

(10:09):
the best economy in the history of the United States
in February of twenty twenty, as all of those Trump
economic policies were starting to roll into place. Buck, it
only took eighteen months of the Biden administration for all
of the disastrous early day decisions of Joe Biden the
chickens to proverbially come home to roost, and everything to

(10:31):
fall apart. He's the worst president in any of our lives.
I think one of the most illuminating recent historical examples
we can look to or away that we can lay
this all out. We're eighteen months into the Biden presidency
and we're being told that it's not Biden's that the
economy is not Biden's fall. Yes, I remember we were

(10:53):
eighteen months into the Trump presidency and do you remember
what they were saying, It's the Obama economy. Yes, So
when you're eighteen months into a really strong Republican economy,
it's the previous Democrat president who should get the credit.
When you're eighteen months into a Democrat administration and all
of a sudden, everything starts falling apart in all hell
breaks lose, it's Nobody's fault or actually Trump's fault, depending

(11:14):
on which Democrat on which day. Remember they tried to
sell us on the idea of the Biden boom if
you read the New York Times in the first six
months of Joe Biden coming into office. Remember we were
up here in July of last year. It was going
to be a hot vack summer. Look At how incredible
Joe Biden is doing, getting the COVID shot rolled out.
Look At how the economy is booming. Look at the

(11:34):
stock market. As you pointed out, Biden now doesn't want
to talk much about the stock market, but he was
certainly bragging about what had happened in the stock market
in the early days of his administration. And now the
consequences of the disastrous policies they have put in place
have arrived, and suddenly that Biden boom talk has vanished.
And I really do legitimately believe that we are in

(11:56):
a recession right now. I think when we get the
second quarter GDP numbers. I believe they're going to be
negative and that will officially count as a recession. Now,
how long lasting is it going to be? Can we
come out of it in the third and fourth quarter
as we move through twenty twenty two? I don't know.
I do know voters are not going to have any
of that data because we're going to get the second
quarter GDP and people are going to look around and say,

(12:19):
holy crap, things are awful. We're in the middle of
a recession. I almost have more respect in a way
for John Kerry. The climates are than all the other
top White House economic advisors, spokespersons and the rest, because
at least John Kerry is like, look, peasants, gas is expensive,
but we've got a planet to save, you know, at

(12:39):
least he pretty much says it. The rest of them
all run around, Oh what do you mean we love
fossil fuel. It's like, oh, so you want the industry
to expand for the next five to ten years, and really,
would you like what really should be asked? Hey, listen,
Doucy over at Fox, this would be a great way
to throw out there if you could, buddy ask the
Biden regime. Would you like to see two years from

(13:01):
now a fifteen to twenty percent increase in fossil fuel
production to that's a great question. Whether that's even possible
or not is irrelevant, But would you would you theoretically
like to see that? They will, because anybody right now
it's like, oh my gosh, even that would be a
miscal as we can possibly produce. They will not say
it or say, you know, when Biden's running for reelection,
would he feel good about a fifteen percent increase in

(13:22):
domestic fossil fuel production? Wouldn't that be a cool thing
that he want to run on? Will not say it.
They absolutely will not do it because they're frauds and
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(15:12):
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(15:36):
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stack the malarkey that high Welcome back to Clay and Buck.
You're hearing them now say in the same sentence, it's
the reason there was so much Clay are you are you?

(15:58):
Are you taking like notes as we go with what
is wrong there? Because I actually there were so many
and such a short thing. He says that it's global inflation.
Our inflation is worse actually than other developed countries that
you would compare us to that it's prudent's fault and
he's bringing down the price with every lever he has.
A month ago, we were being told there really are
no levers for the president, so which one isn't It's also,

(16:20):
even though his arguments are bad, every time, it feels
like we play audio for Joe Biden, his communication skills
seem to have declined even just listening to that audio,
And I know the left wingers are finally starting to
ask questions about his competence. Even on CNN, you got
the Don Lemons of the world and the Van jones

(16:42):
Is of the world sitting around and saying there's legitimate
questions about his cognitive abilities. But when you hear him talk,
I just feel so much like you're at Thanksgiving and
you have an elderly relative that is no longer in
troll of his faculties. And that's what it sounds like.

(17:03):
And the worst part about this is we've got a
guy who couldn't manage a corner gas station. Couldn't do it.
Joe Biden could not do the job that you and
I are doing buck right now talking to everybody out
there for three hours. He could not do it. And
he's got the most important job in America right now.
So all of the challenges that we face and all

(17:26):
the things that he's already created a disaster with his
bidas touch that has blown everything up. He doesn't have
the ability to fix any of this. And frankly, I'm
not even sure he has the ability cognitively buck to
even understand what's going on in the country right now.
And I think at some level the Democrats are so

(17:48):
invested ideologically against what would be necessary to turn things around.
Yes that maybe it's subconscious, but they would rather the
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Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we
power through the Friday edition of the program. We haven't
talked about this in a little while, but Elon Musk's

(19:15):
pursuit of Twitter continues, and I think it's super important
still because all Elon Musk is doing is advocating for
content neutral policies. That means, basically, as he says in
his meeting that he had yesterday, he wants the far
left and the far right to be equally angry at him.

(19:38):
Sometimes based on the policies that he puts in place.
The far left has never really been angry at Twitter
because all of their policies are so far left, so
far left wing. But in his meeting, I just want
you to listen to this audio. This has been leaked
from inside of Elon Musk's all hands meeting. I want
you to listen to it, and I want you to

(20:00):
think about how rigged big tech is because everything that
Elon Musk says here. And by the way, Elon Musk
made his first ever Republican vote. He voted for the
congresswoman who won in the thirty fourth district down in Texas.
He tweeted about it. Elon Musk's a very moderate guy.
I want you to listen to how moderate all this is,

(20:22):
and yet it makes the Blue check brigade, the far
left wing lose their mind just to have neutral policies
in place. As it pertains to free speech. Listen, I
think it's essential to have free speech, that bible to communicate,
yet communicate freely if there are multi multiple opinions, and
just make sure that we're not sort of driving a
narrative in order for people to have trust in Twitter.

(20:45):
I think it's extremely important that they'll be transparency. I
think Twitter in terms of like serious issues to be
a lot better in a serious issues. How many times
has had the media gotnent Right's almost never, not never,
almost ever. My clip aviews I think are moderate, allowing
people who have relatively extreme views to express those views

(21:08):
within the bounds below. The standard is much more than
not offending people. The standard is should be that they
are very entertained and informed. Buck. None of that is
remotely controversial. What he said now, the way that it
will be covered by the media will be covered as
if he has said things that are controversial. But you know,
the rig job is in full effect. You just listen

(21:30):
to that, everybody out there, just listen to it. That's
leaked audio from his meeting with all of the Twitter employees.
This is how broken Twitter is right now that everything
he just said is considered to be radical by left wingers.
What he is letting everybody see is a few things. Really. One,
you cannot be a person who is willing to think

(21:52):
for yourself and process new information and be a true
leftist democrat. You cannot be a part of the movement,
the vanguard of the Democrat Party today period sound like
Biden out period, but now you sound way too cogent
to be biden by. Well, thank you, sir, appreciate that.
And it's just true though, I mean the way that

(22:16):
you see so many of the arguments of the left
broken down these days. They have no interest in engaging.
And this has been going on for years, but it's
become a thing more apparent. Speech equals violence. Platforming the
opposition means that you're conceding to them on issues of
important public debate. They don't want to engage, they don't
want to discuss. And the social media platforms, really, more

(22:38):
than anywhere else, I think, is where that mentality has
not only been on display, but has unfortunately had a
major impact on the national political conversation. I mean, I'm
sure you saw they leaked so slack for I don't
use slack, but it's big in a lot of companies.
Have you ever used slack before? We use it in
running a lot of our OutKick related editorial processes, but

(22:59):
I don't spend a lot of time in Slack, but
it is very popular. It's it's kind of like the
internal Aol instant messager for people who remember that you've
got mail. You know. It's kind of like that from
way back when where everybody can chat with each other
inside the company. And there there was leaked, uh screenshots
of the internal Twitter employees slack while Elon Musk is saying,

(23:24):
you know, I don't think we should push a narrative,
and I think we should. I think we should probably
just you know, be open to free speech and and
the the thank you, the uh the slack did you
see it? You haven't even seen it. It's just like
it's like, oh, like whatever, like just erasing trends people.
It's like he's not even talk what are you talking about?
Like you look at the internal It's it's almost like

(23:47):
get the closest thing you can get to being in
the minds of Twitter employees is the running real time
Slack channel discussion during Elon's speech where they're just you, oh,
so he's the worst. He's going to destroy everything that
matters in our society. Or he's saying, can we share
ideas and exchange thoughts and maybe try to defend the

(24:09):
First Amendment? I mean, they were in full on He's
not even announcing his pronouns. Meltdown. I don't know. And
this is a big interesting debate question. I would think
in the years ahead, how does the Democrat Party get
back to ever embracing free speech again? Because if you

(24:29):
consider the history of free speech, it's not one party
that owns it. It constantly is kind of shifting and cyclical,
and there's zeroed doubt that if you believe in free speech,
you have to vote Republican. Now, I don't even see
that as a remote argument that you could make in
favor of Democrats. COVID has accelerated it. But Democrats believe

(24:54):
that you have to have certain opinions on a variety
of issues, and if you you shouldn't be allowed to
share that buck. How do they ever get out of
that dogma? How do they return? I mean, it's to
me such because it seems to me that they are
continuing to paint themselves into a more and more remote

(25:16):
corner and restricting speech more every single day. So how
do they ever become they like to claim initially they
were the party of science. No, you're the party that
says you can pick your gender. But mainstream Democrat orthodoxy
now is to believe this is real that when a

(25:36):
baby is born transactivists say that sometimes doctors get it
wrong when they say, oh it's a boy or oh
it's a girl. Biology is real. Mainstream democrat progressive thought
requires you to believe now that biology isn't real. I

(25:58):
don't know how they return turned to sanity because they
have left their faculties so far behind. I mean, do
you have any idea, like, how do they get to
a point where they're not I'm trying to avoid cursing
totally and completely crazy. They have been kicking at the
load bearing walls of our civilization now for many years,

(26:20):
and they've been going after many of the day to
day mechanisms we have to maintain a free society of speech,
obviously being one of them. The mobilization of people behind
things that they don't understand at all and explicitly are
being lied to about im in covid IS and all
the lockdown procedures is I think, another another example of that.

(26:42):
But now the allegiance is to an authoritarian, an absolutist mindset.
The allegiance has to be we tell you, and there's
almost as a leftist, a mechanized expectation of the response
is exactly what is being dictated. There is. There's no
thought process allowed, and that's why you get people. I mean,
we played yest day. People want to ban Air fifteen.

(27:04):
Didn't even know an Air fifteen is. Who cares? They
want to ban it because they were told that they
should ban it to save lives. Right, people should wear
two masks, maybe they should wear three. Should they get
two shots so they get five? No independent thought allowed
because the moment, the way they've set this up, the
moment that you allow for independent thought and the processing
of new information. As we keep I keep saying leftist,

(27:25):
but it's really as a Democrat who wants to be
in the center of the party, or wants to be
at the center of power in the party. If you
break from them on anything, you're conceding to Trump, to MAGA,
to white nationalism. That's the way it's all set up now.
So they've created an absolute binary where if you don't
accept everything that the apparatus tells you too, you are

(27:47):
playing into the hands on the other side, and that
I think has been growing over time. I think social
media has played a large role in creating that mindset,
and I think COVID has supercharged it in some ways.
So this state was finally able to be truly authoritarian.
And it was an experiment that I hope we never
I'm afraid we will at some point repeated, but an

(28:08):
experiment that showed how much people are willing to I
can never think of the mass American psyche the same
way after what we saw just with COVID. And now
what you see is that that extends to other areas.
Do that keeps on? Whatever I'm told I will do
doesn't end with COVID. And I'll point this out. Remember

(28:30):
that Democrats were trying to accuse Trump of being a
dictatorial authoritarian. There was never a better time if you
actually wanted to do that then the early days of COVID.
And remember what Trump did. He deferred almost exclusively. Probably
you can argue too much to local authorities rather than

(28:52):
federalizing anything. And Biden came in and took the complete
control of the government. It's absolutely critical. It's a distinction
that we should continue to hammer as well, because sometimes
people will say, oh, well, you keep pointing out how
bad COVID was, how bad the spending was, and the
shutdowns of the economies. I mean, I met with the
president in twenty twenty May of twenty twenty, really just
to talk about COVID, and he was this was May

(29:12):
of twenty twenty. This is early on. He says, we're
not doing lockdowns. We gotta get open up, we gotta
get going. It was the CDC apparatus and the Democrat
Blue States that kept getting crazier and crazier and locking
down and pushing. And then when Biden came into office,
it added the federal layer on top of that. But

(29:34):
it really you know, Trump only listened to Fauci for
about two months. Yeah, and that's where, honestly, I listened
to Faucci. I think a lot of people did initially
in those early days. And then we started to see
that the Emperor was wearing no clothes. But I just
want all of you to recognize that if Trump had
truly been a dictator, COVID offered him an opportunity to

(29:56):
be a dictator the likes of which we have not
seen in generations in this country. And what did he do.
He deferred to state and local governments rather than do
what Biden did, which is mandate that you get the
COVID shot or you don't get to work. I mean
I'm still furious about the fact that reasonable, intelligent people

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(31:44):
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that will be joining us as well later on the program. Right, So, yes,
indeed got a stack show for you. I mentioned this
yesterday and we didn't really dive into it. But Kamala Harris,
who you would think, given that the current president is

(32:07):
in a situation where even his own partisan one his
numbers are terrible too, his cognition is clearly if he
that might be far too generous. But if this is
where Kamala Harris could really come through and kind of
why you have a vice president, Right, you have a
vice president if the actual president's health is or you know,

(32:28):
mental faculties are in question at a point in time,
you want to have a backup plan for leadership. That's
the whole notion of a vice president, and Kamala could
really be stepping out here and showing everybody just how
much competence and how much skill she brings to bear
in a leadership role. And right now some people are saying, well,

(32:53):
hold on a second, she's going to be running some
kind of a task force to end online bull That
seems pretty vague. She didn't exactly solve the border crisis
in factiviously the most recent border numbers, but I think
it's like the worst that it has ever been, or
close to it. It's the worst certainly we've seen in
about twenty or thirty years. Here is the White House spokesperson,

(33:16):
Court Jean Pierre, when she's asked, how is the Kamala
Task Force different in a sense from the Biden Ministry
of Truth? The Online Policy task Force set the Vice
President's leading that's getting kicked off today. On a background
call last night, we were told that it's going to
be different from the Disinformation Governance SPORT. I mean that
it's going to focus on illegal conduct online. But the

(33:37):
memo creating it was a little bit broader and mentioned
and I'm quoting from the document quote online harassment, abuse
and disinformation campaigns targeting women and LGBTQBI plus individuals who
are public and political figures. Could you clear up the
disinformation charge us? So I would need to talk to
her team. I was not on the background call, so
that specific language that you're providing to me, we just

(34:00):
have to check in with her. I can't say more
because I wasn't on the background call. Of course, the
White House spokesperson has no idea how to answer any question,
and she's not really involved in anything. But the alarming
aspect of this is that, in theory, this is the
White House officially announcing that the Vice President and people
who are working for her are going to be monitoring

(34:22):
what people say online and doing what, demanding that social
media accounts that are being sarcastic or mean too prominent
individuals shouldn't be allowed to do that. This is a
really strange concept for the government to be involved in.
And this is why Alex Berenson's lawsuit to me Buck

(34:43):
is so potentially eye opening. Is he's reached the discovery
stage in his lawsuit against Twitter. And remember it wasn't
very long ago that Jensaki was coming out and saying
we are working with all these big tech compan to
flag information that we don't like and basically demanding that

(35:05):
these social media companies take down this information, which, by
the way, everything Alex Berenson said ended up pretty much
being true. And you would think given the problems that
we talk about day in and day out here on
the show, that everybody is dealing with, really dealing with
day in day out, they would get much greater priority
and focus from a White House that is in battled. Right.

(35:27):
The White House agrees that these are problems because they're
seeing in the polling. They know they can't ignore the
issues of inflation and the price of gas, all the
things we're constantly talking about, and yet they're setting up
the vice president somehow, they take the time to set
up a vice presidential online task force that mentions harassment

(35:49):
and the targeting of the lgbtq I A plus communities
never ending. We basically have all twenty six letters that
are now included. I mean, I make it a non
political statement here. The acronym is too long. Yeah, I
come from an acronym culture at the CIA. The acronym
is too long, folks. We need a better word. Or

(36:10):
a better acronym for it, because it's getting out, it's
getting out of control. But online harassment claim, does anyone
think that Kamala Harris or this White House is going
to be able to deftly handle online harassment without it
being the government effectively censoring people that they don't like,
or what is the recourse? Our censorship certainly is part

(36:30):
of it, But do we really have an effectively people
sitting in the White House all day looking at things
that are being sent to prominent people on their social
media accounts and investigating it. And in what world do
we think this is something that should be focused on.
We can barely protect our Supreme Court justices from assassination attempts,

(36:51):
and we're expected to believe that Kamala incompetent Harris is
going to handle this. Fleet Travis and Buck Sexton on
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