August 1, 2022 • 54 mins
Buck Flies Solo and Ponders War with China. Locking Up Spam -- and Soros Dollars Making America Less Safe . Blake Masters, AZ Senate Candidate, on the Orwellian Biden Admin. No Joke: Biden Tests Positive for Covid -- Again!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to the Monday edition of
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. This is Buck.
I'm gonna be in solo this week because our buddy
Clay is on a deserved vacation with the family having
a great time. I told him not to worry. He
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will come back and the house that is this radio
show will not have been strewn with kegs and the
refuse of too many parties. We're gonna keep it, keep
it professional. Here're gonna keep it focused on the news,
no big parties while Clay. While the Clay is away,
the Buck will play a little bit, not too much,
I promise. So he's gonna have a great time on vacation.
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He'll be back with us next Monday. I got you
every day this week, and we already have a ton
of news to break down today together. We have the
aftermath of that anti inflation bill that'll make inflation worse
or really do very much, but it will just spend
a whole bunch of money. We'll discuss why did Joe
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Manchion go along with this? Is it totally a done deal.
I think it is, but there are some who are saying,
hold on a second, there's the possibility of a last
minute wrench in their plans. Will certainly talk about this.
Biden has tested positive for COVID again. So I just
want to do a quick review. Here, four vaccine shots,
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four vaccine shots and I don't know how many packs
Loavid pills, and the guy just tested positive again. They
call it rebound positivity. We will certainly discuss this. Remember,
people got fired from their jobs for not getting this vaccine.
This vaccine that is so good that you can get
four shots and not only be positive, but be positive
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the negative then positive again. Amazing, isn't it. That's something
that we will certainly die and do. As you know,
I'm not giving up this fight. I will not give
up until everyone goes buck. You're right, Fauci is awful.
We never should have shut down masks or idiotic. We
were wrong to listen to these libs. Wrong. They were
wrong about everything. I will not give up until that
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is the and so maybe for the rest of my
life I'll be on this, but I don't care. It
is the truth. So we certainly have that discuss some
other stories too, like Wikipedia suspending edits of recession on
its page, because there has been a full scale effort
by the social media and digital giants to in real
time change the definition of recession and to not allow
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people think about this, not allow people to use the
definition that is in commonplace, common understanding for many, many
years now, all in service to the idiotic Biden regime,
all in service to the incompetence of this White House.
It's very Soviet, then, that is not an overstatement that
this is straight out of the Soviet book. You can't
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actually win on the numbers. You can't actually just change
all the numbers, lie about what the numbers mean, lie
about the definitions, the words that we use to describe them,
and that's all come in your way. We've got a
lot today, as I said, But but first off, this
Pelosi visit to Taiwan is apparently happening. We're told this
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is going to go down in the next couple of days.
It's causing a lot of consternation among well, depends on
who you ask. The Chinese Communist Party is making really
aggressive statements about this from Chinese state affiliated media. They
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had one person put this out from a Chinese Communist
Party media platform Global Times. They put out that Pelosi
is in Singapore and will fly to South Korea en
route to Taiwan after visiting Malaysia. The PLA has clearly
been well prepared. If she dares to stop in Taiwan,
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it will be the moment to ignite the powder keg
of the situation in the Taiwan Straits. So there's also
this video of missiles being fired by the Chinese and
a lot of saber rattling. I'm in a lot of
she better not or else, and now everyone's wondering what
that or else actually means. And I've got to tell you,
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I'm of two minds on this thing. On the one hand,
you can't bow down to the Chinese Communist Party more
than we already do as a government. And let's be
honest as a country on a regular basis, need all
that cheap stuff imported into this country. You need to
be able to buy whatever it is on Amazon, have
it right delivered to you. Don't want to make it here,
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haven't made overseas. So we've excused a lot of behavior
until Trump came along. Doesn't get nearly enough credit for this,
and it was great to see the man himself number
forty five on Friday, a nice long chat with him
on air and off air. He was right about how
China has been taking advantage of the United States. He
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was right about the need for the US to stand
up to Chinese policies on trade, and just the way
that they always do what's in their interests and always
do things that harm our interests while our own elites say, well,
this is the way it has to be. No, it doesn't. Actually,
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it doesn't have to be that way. And things now,
I believe are at a different place than they were
before the Trump president presidency. So on the one hand, yeah,
Pelosi can't bend the knee. That looks bad. But on
the other hand, what are we really willing to risk
over Taiwan? Ask yourself this question? You know. I was
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listening over the weekend. There's this great new podcast on
the scene, Sean Ryan, who's a former Navy seal, and
he's had some great guests, DJ Shipley and Eric Prince.
I was listening to some of these podcasts that he's
done long form, and the Eric Prince one is really
interesting because it takes you into just how in so
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many ways incompetent and insidious. The consensus, the machinery, particularly
on foreign policy. But the moment that you're you're talking
about foreign policy mixed in with domestic politics, what is
so often the consent is everybody knows, everybody believes. They say, well,
why is that really true? I mean, keep in mind,
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we have assigned agreement as a country that we would defend,
we would defend the territorial integrity of Ukraine. And then
when Ukraine was invaded by Russia, I think sanity prevailed
because we said, well, hold on not actually going to
go to war with Russia over Ukraine. Now I understand
that for the defense of free people's and our sense
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of democracy and decency and humanitarianism and all the rest
of it. Taiwan is a country that is an ally.
Taiwan matters in that sense of the United States. But
at some point we actually have to look at the question,
would we be willing to risk and even engage in
a war with China over this island. It's not American soil,
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it's not American citizens there. Would would you want to
actually go and send or would you send your own
your own children to go fight? I mean as adults, obviously,
but would you want people from your family to go
and fight in the Taiwan Straits over this? And I
think it's interesting that people get so uncomfortable when you
ask that question. Why isn't that the critical question? Shouldn't
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we all be very clear on this? As I was
saying in that long form with Eric Prince, the founder
of Blackwater, the most fascinating thing to me other than
a lot of the managerial excellence and general concepts that
are applicable to life, but what was really interesting was
just how incompetent and also self dealing and willing to
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cover its own butt the federal government is. And I
experienced some of that even myself. I saw it, and
I wasn't involved at the top levels, but I saw
it happening when I was in the CIA, that the
federal government is always first and foremost concerned about the
bureaucracy and the foreign policy establishment, the State Department, the
think tanks. They put out these papers and it makes
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people feel good to talk about democracy and the defense
of our allies abroad and all of this. We spent
twenty years in Afghanistan for what for what now? The
initial invasion was not only the right idea, it was
a necessary idea. But then the expansion into nation building
just happened. And one of the reasons that happened is
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because anybody who asked the question, what are we doing here?
What are we really trying to accomplish here? Was shouted down.
I think that it is time to have a really
serious discussion over what length are we willing to go to,
because China right now is pushing in a way that
we haven't seen in a long time, making the kind
of statements that could lead to miscalculation, saying things that
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do make us think that there's the possibility here of
a true provocation, perhaps even an active war. Now. I
don't think they're going to do anything against Speaker Pelosi.
I hope they don't do anything against Speaker Pelosi. But
regardless of this specific trip, let's just all assume for
our purposes and certainly hope that it goes along without
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any major incident. But what are we willing to do
in response to a Chinese effort to take Taiwan and
we are actually going to have a military response. Do
we want to go to war with China over this island?
I think there are a lot of people that don't
like that question, and then you ask them, Okay, so
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the answers, yes, full scale war with China over Taiwan.
It's not we don't have we're not treaty bound. We
have a strategic ambiguity policy. Think about that. We're supposed
to all know the answer to this question. But the
basis of the question is in we don't really know
specifically what we're supposed to do or what we would do,
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and that's meant to off balance the Chinese Communist Party.
And perhaps you could argue that's worked for a long time,
but a war with China is that's something we would
really be prepared to do. And I don't pretend to
have an easy answer either, but I've just noticed this
habit of people pretending, especially in the early phases, well,
we all know what the answer is. Really, we all
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knew what the answer was with Iraq, we all knew
what the answer was with Afghanistan, with Libya, with the
Syrian civil War, with the war in Ukraine. It's all
so clear, right, there are these people that are I'm
the expert. If one thing, if there's one thing you
could take away from the COVID phenomenon. It's that just
because somebody has credentials, just because they're part of the
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managerial elite in some sector of public life, it does
not mean that they are infallible. And in fact, it
doesn't even mean that they are smarter than you or
no more than you on the subject matter that they
are allegedly experts in. They may have a more specific
knowledge in some ways, but their judgment, which when you're
talking about policy, is fundamentally what matters. What big decisions
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do you make when it finally comes down to it,
when you have that phone call, you know, mister President
or mister or Missus secret or Missus Secretary of State,
you know whatever, head of the CIA, head of the
chaino Chamber, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, you're gonna
advise the commander in chief. What do you tell that
person when it really matters? And that's what it all
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comes down to. That's why I'm sure that the Faucis
and the Burkses of the world can cite obscure studies
and data to prove they're bonafidez on the issue, but
when it came to making the big calls, they were wrong.
When it comes to making a big call over Taiwan,
we better get it right. And that's my biggest My
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biggest takeaway for you right now is that you'll notice
that no one really seems to have thought this through
beyond the we will defend democracy. What does that mean?
Somebody asked me, They said, Okay, do you want to
station yourself? You want to? You want to go? Obviously
I need training and all that, but just as an
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intellectual exercise, you want to go station yourself on an
aircraft carrier off off the coast of Taiwan. Ready in
case of I would not want that job, actually, just
in terms of whether I think that that is the
proper policy to pursue in case of open hostilities? What
I feel? What I as an individual good about risking
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my life for the independence of the island nation of Taiwan.
And then I think we could also ask the next question, well,
if I wouldn't feel when I say, feel good about it,
if I wouldn't feel like it is necessary? Right, we're
talking about these questions. Would I want someone else? Would
I push for someone else to do that in my place?
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I think at some level a return to first principles
of our national security would be really helpful here. We've
gotten used to the apparatus just deploying troops and sending
people on one tour after another, and they're carrying the
load and their professionals, and this is what they do,
all right, But are we giving them the right mission set?
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Do we as the American people actually want this? Or
is this just where inertia and the bureaucracy take us.
Afghanistan can be a lesson, I think in many ways
for our future, and as we see what's going on
in Ukraine, where we're effectively now committed to supplying in
a war that seems like it will stretch on for years,
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and to what end? Exactly? What is the end state
we're looking for? You notice the White House doesn't even
talk about it. Do you think that a war with
China would be quick and easy and forgotten thereafter? What
would we really be committing ourselves to? What are the
alternatives here? I don't think these are easy questions, By
the way, I don't pretend that they're easy, But I
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think that the people in charge just want everyone else
to be quiet so they can pretend they are easy.
And that is dangerous and in this moment when the
Speaker of the House is a matter of twenty four
or forty eight hours away from possibly the most tense
moment we've seen with China in many years. I do
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think it's important we think about what we would like
to really do as a country here, what we are
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Thanks for joining, Thanks for staying with This is Buck
coming to you from New York City. Clay on vacation
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up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, having a great time.
He just texted me he's enjoying life, but missus, all
of you. He'll be back on Monday. And let's talk
about crime, shall we. We've discussed the Taiwan visit of
Pelosi and Biden's second COVID positive test after taking four
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shots plus around of paxslovid the border. We've got Blake
Master joining bottom of this hour, So in about half
an hour, Blake Master, Senate candidate in Arizona, will be
with us. But you may have seen this kind a
lot of attention. Just a couple of days ago, the
New York Post called the nation's crisis in a can
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and it has to do with a can of spam,
which I remember the first time I ever heard of
spam was my grandfather who was in the Navy. He
was an officer in the Navy in World War Two,
served on the USS Batan. When he would tell me
Navy stories, he rarely talked about only when he got
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much older, and you know, before he a few years
before he passed, he rarely talked about the kamikaze's, the combat,
the manning of the any aircraft guns and those things
that he didn't really speak of that, but he would
talk about other stuff of the Navy, you talk about
the food, and talk about playing t ball and things
like that with his fellow service members. And remember he
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told me what this thing called spam. I remember saying, Grandpa,
what is spam? Tell me more about this because he
said that this was in his mind like a delicacy
on He said, they we had spam all the time,
and he liked spam. Believe he was a spam fan.
He liked this meat product. And now everyone is reacting
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to this loss prevention device at the Port Authority Dwayne Reid,
because it was referred to as a Jeff Kuhn's homage.
I believe in reference to the artist, right, isn't Jeff
Kuhn's a famous artist? Am I right about that? I'm
I assuming that's true. We gotta check anyway, But everyone's
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look at this. They're saying, well, hold on, they're locking
down the cans of spam in it. Remember it's a
can with a plastic anti theft case around it. And
to this, I just want to say, to borrow from
John McClane of the NYPD and Nakatomi Tower fame, Welcome
to the party, pal. This has been going on four
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years now. I go into I go into the the
pharmacy on my corner where I live in Midtown Manhattan,
and everything other than like birthday cards and seasonal items
is pretty much under lock and key in behind pleck,
behind lock, plexiglass with theft protection alarms on it. And
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you have to the poor store clerks. I have to
go through this nonsense of you know, if I need
five different things, they got to walk with me to
go to all the different niles. And I've asked them
before just out of curiosity. I'm like, really, they gotta
lock They're gotta lock this down, or razor blades locked
down chocolate, locked down, skincare products, lockdown, whatever you name it.
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You know, when I need my exfoliants, I don't like
to have to just kidd it. I don't use it exfoliant,
but I don't know maybe I should. But the point
is it's all under lock and key because theft just
happens all the time, and theft is not really punished.
In New York, you have people that shoplift. They're not
shoplifting out of desperation. They're shoplifting as a business decision
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for themselves. They're shoplifting because they can make hundreds of
dollars at a time. Obviously, pay no taxes on it
by selling this stuff either on a street corner or
a lot of times, I'll just park it online on eBay.
Depends on the products you can get, and you know,
if it's in its brand new packaging, people will buy
at half price. Here you go, right, razor blades, Right,
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a little package of razors for those cartridges, thirty forty
bucks still ten of those. That's pretty good. Right. You
can make a lot of money, but you're destroying these businesses,
and you're also destroying these communities where the businesses then
leave and people can't get the products they need. And
this is all happening because of a change, because this
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was not the case. I grew up in New York City.
It was true, and then we made it not true,
and now it is true again. So we are having
to relearn the painful lessons of the past when it
comes to the enforcement of the law, including on these
less serious crimes. Now when I say less serious, it's
not that they're un serious, but it's obviously not a murderer.
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We're not talking about violence, although those are up to
And then you have the entire system that has decided
that this is the way we're going to approach this.
The system in New York, the system in Portland, in
San Francisco and Los Angeles, in Atlanta, in Houston, in
Saint Louis, in Phoenix, the system in all these places
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deciding that we're going to have because of criminal justice reform.
Who's pushing that, obviously the Democrat Party, but what is
really being reformed and who is making the decisions about
what that looks like. This brings us through the Progressive
prosecutor movement, which has been one of the most disastrous
things this country has engaged in and certainly from a
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public safety perspective, it is probably the single dumbest thing
that we have done. I mean, defund police wrapped in
with progressive prosecutors has resulted in thousands of more people
dying that are just from the spike in crime nationwide,
has resulted in just uncountable destruction and theft and increased
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anxiety in society from people who have to be worried.
You know, just over the week on the Upper East Side,
there was a which is a very you know, expensive
part of New York City, there was some guy walked
along just just bashed a woman in the face with
a foreign object because he felt like it's all on
video and they're still looking at them. Found the guy.
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She's walking down the street, broad daylight on a beautiful sunday,
just decided, oh, just smash her in the face with
I don't know if it was the end of a
you know, a screwdriver or something. Just just all on video,
didn't you know? Do you think we're gonna find this
guy eventually? And you know, he's a really he's a
pillar of his community. He's he's working three jobs. He
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he just had a bad day. No we're gonna find
that he's been arrested fifteen times or twenty five times
or whatever, and they're gonna say, oh, but you know,
we don't want to punish him too harshly. Now he'll
be out and he'll get a minimal sentence. Why because
of these libs in prosecutors' offices pushed by George Soros.
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Now George Soros realizes we're onto him. Now, this guy,
this billionaire. Do you think he's ever as he experienced
violent crime in America? When was the last time you
think George Soros walked on foot through a high crime,
predominantly minority neighborhood of any major city in America. I'm
going to guess probably never. And if he did, he
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did so with you know, armed security guards, then it
was a photo op. Right. This guy has no idea,
but he's a billionaire who likes to find ways to
I'm just gonna say it. I think he wants to
just destroy Western civilization. I don't know what else you
can say about this guy. I think he wants to
tear it all down because he thinks that we're a
society driven by exploitation, and he's a billionaire, he doesn't exploit.
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Of course, it's the other people, a racist society and
un society. So we pull it all down and we
start something new. He wouldn't be the first that's taken
this approach in history, but it always results in misery, destruction,
and despair that the people pushing for these ideas are
somehow exempt from themselves. He wrote July thirty first, just
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yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, Why I support reform prosecutors,
justice or safety? It's a false choice. They reinforce each other.
Here's what he writes, Americans desperately need a more thoughtful
discussion about our response to crime. People have had enough
of the demagoguery and divisive partisan attacks that dominate the
debate and obscure the issues. Like most of us, I'm
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concerned about crime. Our system is rife with injustices that
make us all less safe. And he goes on to say,
we need to acknowledge that black people in the US
are five times as likely to be sent to jail
as white people. That is an injustice that undermines our democracy.
End quote. Now here's George Soros who is saying this
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in a Wall Street Journal op edge. Just so everyone's
very clear that he is saying the disparity of incarceration
in this country is proof of an unjust system. And
I would want to ask George Soros what I have
posed so many times before on this show. Why is
it that there are so many more men in prison
for murder than women? What is the answer? Is it
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because the system is antimail or is it because there
are more men who commit murders? Why is it that
he says the disproportionate number of African American males in
prison is proof of racism. Are all the people that
are in prison, or even a majority or even a
sizeable number, are they there unjustly as in they didn't
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commit the crime, because that's a huge problem. But that's
not the case. Ask any ask any person working in
the criminal justice system. There is not this belief for
anyone living in reality that our prisons are full of
innocent people. No one really thinks that, right. So what
is he saying then, Well, he says there are too
many minorities in prison, therefore we need to have fewer
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people in prison. Therefore, there are going to be more
people who commit a lot of crimes who are in
society and who are lightly punished, if punished at all.
That is the basis of his ideology. That is why
he has donated millions of dollars to prosecutors in cities
across the country. This is why Politico wrote an article.
Remember a left wing DC Insider website wrote, George Soros
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is quiet overhaul of the US justice system. You know
when that got going twenty sixteen. Why do you think
Soros was pushing so hard in twenty sixteen to overhaul
the justice system. Oh, because the Democrats were fomenting a
racial panic over Donald Trump. Donald Trump, Oh my gosh,
he's so racist. He's a white nationalist and a white
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supremac systant Then all of a sudden you had these
hysterical libs who were more willing than ever to push
for radical changes in the criminal justice system. And they started,
He started George Soros seating these prosecutors offices with people
who just think, you know what, if more people have
to be murdered, robbed, more people have to suffer violent
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crime across America, but it means that we bring down
the overall number of people in prison. So be it.
That is the choice they made. That is the choice
George Soros has pushed with his dollars on the American people.
It's monstrous. Honestly, it's deeply immoral. He should be ashamed,
he should be begging for forgiveness. But all a lot
of people on the Soros payroll, a lot of people
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in the media, a lot of organizations funded by him,
a lot of entities getting Soros dollars. You'll notice they'll
back him up. And you'll also notice that he's very
much a fixture in elite society. Right, he's treated with deference.
Why he has brought nothing but misery, destruction, and pain
to all communities, including the black community in this country.
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He has made it worse for the overwhelming majority, for
the ninety nine out of one hundred Black Americans who
just want to go to work, live their lives, be safe,
be in freedom and prosperity. But because he doesn't like
the aggregate numbers in prison, Sorros decides to make it
less safe for people in high crime neighborhoods, to make
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it less possible for police to do their jobs, to
put lunatic, imbecile prosecutors in positions where they can destroy
some people for political means. Right, oh you better. You better.
Hope you're not. Look look up the case. This was
a remarkable one. Look up the case years ago of
Mark Whitishek and not you guys, look up, I mean
folks at home. Sorry, team, I don't have time for
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this one right now. Mark Whitishek. In Washington, DC, they
wanted to lock this guy up for years for having
a spent shotgun cartridge after a hunting trip that he
brought back to DC in his baggage that he didn't
even know about. Wanted to lock him up, make an
example of him. He works in finance. He's a threat
to society. He had a spent shotgun cartridge. Maybe he
would throw it at somebody. But you look at what's
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going on while they claim it they want more gun control.
What are these progressive prosecutors doing in city after city
letting people offer gun charges. Why because disproportionately the people
that are being caught with legal guns are young black men.
So they don't want who actually enforce the laws more
aggressively about firearms, but they want to pass federal regulations
that tramp on the constitution to take your guns, your
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law abiding as a law abiding person, your firearms out
of your hands. Look, I don't know what to say
on them. I think what George Soros is pushing his
evil folks. I'm sure he thinks he's the good guy,
but a lot of people think they're the good guy
where they're doing awful things. And the record speaks for itself.
This guy is atrocious and the people that he has
supported are a nightmare for our cities, and the Democrat
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Party should be held to account for this. They still
get a lot of those Soros dollars and they're fine
with it. They still want him backing them up. You know,
he's a good billionaire. Notice, any billionaire that's not far
left is somehow a bad guy. But Sorros he's a
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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. As promised, the man
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who is leading the pack right now for the Republican
Senate nomination in the state of Arizona, Blake Masters, is
with us. Blake, good of you to stop. Bye again,
great to chat with you, Box, Thank you. Can we
start with us because we discussed this news earlier on
in the program, The Biden administration in Arizona is admitting
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that they are strengthening, fixing some of the holes in, etc.
The border fence down there. What's going on, Blake? Can
you believe this? Look? The Democrats spent years insisting that
Trump swall was racist, remember when they said this buck
and all of a sudd And they're pretending like they
want to finish the wall. They're pretending to be tough
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on border security. It's because the Democrats in power have failed.
They know they've failed. They know Mark Kelly, the incumbent
Democrat Senator and my opponent this fall, he's failed. He's
got nothing to run on. So I think this is
just political show. They're going to patch a few holes
in the border wall. I'm glad they're going to do that,
but it's too little, it's too late. They don't actually
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care about border security. This is all because they know
I'm coming after them in November. Clearly Senator Kelly is
on board with this mansion last minute mansion deal, the
slimmed down, slightly, build back better agenda item. What are
you thinking about when you read what they're saying that
Bill will do? And what as you with a background
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in venture capital and functioning in the free market. No,
it will actually do. It's so Orwellian, right. They're calling
it the Inflation Reduction Act. Of course, what it is
is a tax increase and a massive spending bill. This
is the Democrats playbook, tax and spends. They don't have
any other ideas, right, the tax and spend policies have
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created this recession. Instead of reversing those policies to get
a SAUTD recession, they just try to redefine what a
recession is and insist we're not in one. And then
their Inflation Reduction Act literally is just a tax increase
and a spending spree, right, spending on the Green New
Deal and all this craft. It's just going to make
inflation worse. And you know, I prepare it doesn't task.
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What do you think about the arguments over whether I mean,
it's not really an argument, but people are pretending right
that we're not in a recession. And also where do
you think the economy is going? Well, we're definitely in
a recession. You know, I know this anecdotally just by
talking two hundreds and thousands of people in Arizona who
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we're trying to make ends meet and things are just
getting worse and worse for them under Joe Biden. But
even with the normal conventional you know, economic death, two
consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth that happened, the numbers
are out. We are technically in a recession. And so
the Biden administration they play out these linguistic games. But
again the Democrats in charge, they're they're the party that
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won't even define what a woman is right, and so
now they're trying to change the definition of recession. I
find it. It's completely Orwellian. Frankly, it's almost scary. I
think this level of censorship and manipulation of language would
make a Soviet sensor blush. Speaking of Blake masters he
is running for Senate in Arizona, and Blake, I don't
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know if you've seen, because it just broke. They're now
sending another I think it's five hundred million to Ukraine
to bring it up to eight billion. And then we
also similed, so we got we got checks going courtesy
of the taxpayer to Ukraine. And then we have the
Pelosi visit to Taiwan on the horizon. Here should happen
(34:56):
in the next twenty four hours If it's going to happen,
and the Pentagon spokesman Kirby. General Kirby is saying, we
do not support Taiwan independence. So what is Pelosi doing there?
I mean, on these two foreign policy issues, what do
you think about how this Biden White House is handling things?
The only thing you can trust the Biden White House
to do is to put America last. It's unfortunately just
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what they're doing. Look, I've condemned, you know, Putin's crazy
invasion of Ukraine. Putin's obviously a bad guy, and that
was a horrible thing to do. It's also, you know,
more Europe's problem than America's problem. Frankly, I think, you know,
sending some humanitarian aid may have made sense back in
the spring, but sending forty billion dollars right, which Congress
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voter to do, sending five hundred million more, it sounds
like Member the Democrats couldn't spare ten billion for border security.
They said the wall was too expensive, and so I
think they just care more about you know, Ukraine than
certainly the people in Arizona, people in the Southwest, people
in America, and I find that shameful. Biden has also
(36:00):
just been soft on China. He's been soft on China
his whole life. I think as late as twenty fourteen,
his vice President Biden was saying, China, come on, man,
they'll never catch us. They're not a competitor. And it's
a it's a shame, you know, Chinese Communist Party. Well,
there was good play, to be fair, there was some
good ship. There was some good cash flow coming on
Hunter Biden from Chinese Communist Party. So Biden didn't want
(36:23):
to trample on things there by the way, Do you
think they do? You think they might actually the the
US Attorney in the state of Delaware may do something
about Hunter Biden now that so much has come out.
And simultaneously, Biden as the Democrat standard bearers looking shaky
to say the least. Well, I hope so, but I'm
(36:43):
not optimistic. No, it's Biden's doj They've weaponized the DJ
They've turned it into this basically harm of the democratic machine.
Hunter Biden. Yeah, he's like on tape committing all sorts
of felonies. Cocaine. You know, he lied on a four
forty four seventy three to buy a firearm. Buck If
you or I did that, they throw us in jail.
For a long long time. But but yeah, Hunter Biden's
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corruption in Ukraine, which you're not really allowed to talk about,
and China. I think we're just kind of scratching the surface. Frankly,
great for his soul. He's messed up, he's committed crimes.
Will he be held accountable? No, because in this country, unfortunately,
we've developed a pure justice system. The Democrats think rules
for thee but not for me. Blake. You know, we
got a big audience in Arizona. We got a lot
(37:27):
of folks listening in the Phoenix area on KFYI and
all across the state. Biggest differences between you and Mark
Kelly when it comes to how your votes will be cast,
would be what Mark Kelly puts America last. You know,
he's voting in lockstep for this radical Chuck Schumer Joe
Biden agenda. Mark Kelly has a left wing extremist record,
(37:50):
but he pretends to be a moderate and I'm actually
kind of the opposite. Buck. I'm running a bold campaign.
I'm speaking from the heart about issues that matter. I
want to apologize for my boldness, but all of it
is in service of a common sensical America First agenda.
Let's have border security, Let's get crime under control, Let's
get inflation under control. I want to make Arizona the
best place to raise a family, and the difference couldn't
(38:11):
be more start. Where should folks go to learn more
about your campaign? Blake, Thank you sir, Very simple, Just
go to blakemasters dot com. Blakemasters dot com. Blake, best
of luck to you and when you win, come back
on for the victory dance. Yeah. Absolutely, thank you, Buck,
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with Clay and Buck dot com. Second hour of the Clay,
Travis and Buck Sexton Show is here. Everybody. I'm Buck
in NYC. But Meyman Clay on vacation for the week,
so he misses you all, but he'll be back with
us on Monday. And in the meantime, Biden, this was
(40:02):
pretty amazing. Biden tested positive for COVID a second time.
Now you kind of say to yourself, if we are
at a point now where shot four plus packs lovid
can result in a rebound, and as I understand that
the rebound case is not some kind of testing error
(40:23):
that means that the virus had a surge again after
being reduced. I don't know, maybe one of the docs
that our audience could explain how this actually works. He's
back in isolation. He gonna have that big mask on,
of course, because that's the mask. Has obviously worked incredibly well,
considering that he got four vaccines and took packslovid and
(40:45):
got COVID again in a two week period. But this
is just another data point that you have to add
to the mountain of data that these policies that were
put in place a year ago. Isn't it remarkable? It
feels like so much has changed one year ago. You
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had the because wow, it's August first, I can't believe
we're already at the end of the summer. Here you
had vaccine passports starting in places like New York City,
and then it was in cities all over the country,
a lot of cities, not all of them, but a
lot of them. Los Angeles had this, and you know
all these places that instituted this, Chicago, I mean, I
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can't even remember every place that decided they're going to
have it, And it was all premised on it's not
about what will protect you. You're a risk to other people.
If you don't get the shot, you're a bad person
who was risking other people. That was what they said.
And Joe Biden was giving these angry speeches, not like
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he was trying to bring everybody together and anything. Who's
going get the shot, get the shot. If you don't
get the shot, I mean, gosh, darn it, get it,
get it. Pandemically unvaccinated. You know, he's doing that thing
where he kind of stares and gets all loud and
he goes, shots work. They work, They work, real good.
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No joke, friends, not a joke. So it's yelling, and
you can why first of all, why are you yelling?
Second all, what are they done to your eyes that
they don't really move for these long periods of time,
they don't blink. Seems a bit strange. And now also
we know he was totally wrong about all of this.
He was wrong about the vaccines as a defense against spread.
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They don't even talk about that anymore. And we could
sit here and play all the clips Rochelle, Lens, get
all the rest of them saying you know you won't
get it, you won't spread it, lies, and they'd say, oh,
but we didn't know that's what the data said then,
not according to doctor Burkes, who says she knew it
wasn't going to stop the spread. And if we had
had this technology available, why were we allowing fifty thousand
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to one hundred thousand people every year to get and
die from the flu from influenza? Apparently all we needed
was a little bit of a kick in the pants
and we could stop aerosolis virus in its tracks. Entirely.
Think about what a miracle they were effectively promising you
and then mandating to you, and then putting the boot
(43:19):
heel on your neck, get the shot or else. I
have not forgotten, and I have not forgiven. There are
tens of thousands of people who have been separated from
the military, lost their military careers for this. Every Republican
running for office should be on board with the full
(43:40):
restoration of anyone in the federal government and specifically and
most importantly, the United States military who lost their job
over their refusal to get a vaccine that they did
not need and that did not defend people from infection.
It lines up with what we would have expected from
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dealing with the flu. As we've said, so many times,
those who are at risk should get the shot, even
if it doesn't last that long. A couple of months
of protection in the winter may be worth it. And
whence they should get it, should be able to choose
to get it right. The doctors have been telling people, look,
I think if you're over sixty five, you got a phizema,
or you got hypertension or whatever, may be good for you.
We don't want you in the hospital with the flu.
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But no one ever was holding you down basically saying
get the shot or else you're a danger. We're also
scared if you don't get the shot for the flu.
And look what they did with COVID. Look what they
mandated all over the country, the federal government, the Biden administration.
The fact that every sane person, in my opinion, isn't
voting straight party line Republican just based on the actions
(44:47):
of the Democrats on COVID is madness. It's madness. They
were wrong about everything, on something that was really important.
They wasted trillions of dollars, They destroyed the mental health
of tens of millions of people. The highest rate of
drug overdose fatal overdose in our history over one hundred
(45:09):
thousand people died of drug overdoses over the period of
the COVID lockdowns that year. And have they been held
accountable for any of this? No? They want to write
books now. The people in charge of this act like
their heroes. There are still individuals walking around New York
City with masks on. It's completely insane. Joe Biden has
(45:29):
gotten a COVID rebound, I believe did Faucci. I think
Faucci had a COVID rebound too? Am I right about that?
I know that that was making the Yeah, that's right,
he had a pack slovid rebound. Okay, what does that mean?
I understand they're going to try to tell you're all,
(45:50):
I got a PhD and an MD and Braha L.
Brawn and all these complicated explanations. If I give you
a pill that it's supposed to defeat a virus that
you have, now you can tell me that maybe it
had some effect, But if you then have a rebound
of that virus, I think that pill is not as
effective as we would like it to be, right, you know,
(46:14):
I think that's a fair thing to say at that phase.
You know, if I told you that I was going
to you know, cure your ear infection. Take these antibiotics,
and then oh, you got an antibiotic rebound. That would
be a matter of real concern. Right, Faucci got a
rebound infection, Biden got a rebound infection. And yet you
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know that as we go into the COVID season, here,
Biden's going to be saying, we know it works, friends,
we know it works. Shots five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
elemental p chipmunks on a branch. You know he's gonna
be yelling at you about we know it works. Mask up,
get the shot. All this stuff it doesn't work, friends,
(46:58):
doesn't work. Then you could say, oh, but in one case,
for one individual, if it stops one COVID case, it's
worth it. Well, that's crazy. We don't have that approach
with anything else. And I do have to point out
you notice I haven't spoken a lot about monkey pox here,
and I think they're trying to start with there's a
new name for it, but everyone's call it a monkeypox.
(47:21):
There's this pushback on what you could call, if I
were Fauci, commonplace monkeypox mitigation measures. There's a there's pushback though,
on the mitigation measures they don't like it when people
start to say publicly that a good way to avoid
(47:43):
monkey pox, thus far, based upon the transmission of the
virus is to avoid group sex settings. Now, based on
the data that has been a primary source of spread
up to this point, if that changes, if everyone's just
getting it from you know, going out to get lunch
and they you know, it's aerosolisers, which it's not, by
(48:06):
the way, but you know, for some reason the data
change is dramatically fine, let's talk about that. But you'll
notice that even in this moment, after they shut down
your church, fired you from your job, made you mask up,
massed up your children, made your children get shots, locked
you in your homes, all of this to stop the
(48:27):
COVID virus. Any effort to actually limit the monkey pox
viruses spread by looking at what's actually going on with it,
we are told, is unacceptable and in fact bigoted. This
is why nobody can trust public health experts because they're politicians.
They're politicians in lab coats. Fauci is the worst of them,
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but there are so many of them now in cities
and states all over the country. You see it every time.
You know, they're supposed to be about keeping people healthy,
giving smart advice, and being right. It doesn't matter the
public health establishment. They were completely wrong about vaccines. Have
you noticed any contrition from them. Have any of the
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people who have spent the last two years lecturing you
about COVID as a public health expert, whether on Twitter
or on TV or wherever, has a single one of
them come forward and say, Wow, we got some stuff
really wrong. Man, we mess this one up. We shouldn't
have made everybody do this. We shouldn't have gone full
tyrant on this one. No, of course not no, They
(49:34):
just say the data changed. Shut up, peasant. Now we
know they said they knew before and they were wrong.
They say they know now, and we question, and they
want to shut it down. They want to shut it down.
This is why there is no bigger fight for our
individual and our societal freedom in this country right now
(49:56):
than against the COVID madness. I know the economies number
one concern of voters. I know that a lot of
people will talk about immigration in just a moment here,
illegal immigration, the border. There's a lot of stuff going
on right now that needs our focus. But I just please,
even if you're in a relatively free state, from the
COVID madness from fauciism. Remember that as long as the
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Biden administration, as long as you have these idiot libs
in charge, they are not done harassing you. You will
have the mask mandate battle for planes again this winter.
I think it's a fifty fifty shot. They reintroduced the
mask on planes. When the cases go up again, they're
out of their minds and they did so much damage
(50:37):
and there was no benefit from the damage they did. See,
here's the part of it they don't tell you. Imagine
think about this, and nowhere else have I heard this argument.
I think it's so important. Instead of using force, instead
of saying do this or else, we will block you
from public life, will fire you from your job. What
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if they had said, hey, guys, we think this vaccine
is gonna be really good for folks, really good for
a number of reasons. But we're really gonna mostly encourage
it for seniors because we've looked at the data and
we know that the people who are at real risk
from COVID are sixty five and up. So we're going
to focus our energy on getting it to those sixty
five and ups. And we really want to encourage them.
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Do you think that there would have been such a
different In fact, I think more seniors would have gotten
the shot had they taken a collaborative, freedom based approach.
Instead of let's mandate it for high school kids, let's
mandate it for five year olds to be able to
go to school. Because reasonable people saw that action, saw
that heavy handed lunacy by the government, whether they were
(51:41):
seventy five or twenty five, reasonable people saw that and said,
I can't trust these lunatics, and that impulse was right.
They can't trust them, so they damage the credibility, They
damage the believability of the people pushing these shots reparable ways. So,
(52:01):
as I've said, they made it all worse and they
just want to get away with it, and I say,
I say no. By the way, there's another area where
the Biden administration's wrong and they're having to admit it.
The wall. Remember that. Remember Trump talking about We're gonna
build the wall, and he was trying to build the wall,
and the Democrats fought him tooth and nail, and other
than defund police, the single dumbest slogan the Democrats embraced
(52:27):
was walls don't work. They said this these smug morons
would go on CNN and MSNBC and New York Times writers,
walls don't work. Give me a twelve foot wall. I'll
give you a thirteen foot ladder. Turns out the Biden
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Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to the Monday edition of
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. This is Buck.
I'm gonna be in solo this week because our buddy
Clay is on a deserved vacation with the family having
a great time. I told him not to worry. He
(00:22):
will come back and the house that is this radio
show will not have been strewn with kegs and the
refuse of too many parties. We're gonna keep it, keep
it professional. Here're gonna keep it focused on the news,
no big parties while Clay. While the Clay is away,
the Buck will play a little bit, not too much,
I promise. So he's gonna have a great time on vacation.
(00:44):
He'll be back with us next Monday. I got you
every day this week, and we already have a ton
of news to break down today together. We have the
aftermath of that anti inflation bill that'll make inflation worse
or really do very much, but it will just spend
a whole bunch of money. We'll discuss why did Joe
(01:06):
Manchion go along with this? Is it totally a done deal.
I think it is, but there are some who are saying,
hold on a second, there's the possibility of a last
minute wrench in their plans. Will certainly talk about this.
Biden has tested positive for COVID again. So I just
want to do a quick review. Here, four vaccine shots,
(01:30):
four vaccine shots and I don't know how many packs
Loavid pills, and the guy just tested positive again. They
call it rebound positivity. We will certainly discuss this. Remember,
people got fired from their jobs for not getting this vaccine.
This vaccine that is so good that you can get
four shots and not only be positive, but be positive
(01:52):
the negative then positive again. Amazing, isn't it. That's something
that we will certainly die and do. As you know,
I'm not giving up this fight. I will not give
up until everyone goes buck. You're right, Fauci is awful.
We never should have shut down masks or idiotic. We
were wrong to listen to these libs. Wrong. They were
wrong about everything. I will not give up until that
(02:15):
is the and so maybe for the rest of my
life I'll be on this, but I don't care. It
is the truth. So we certainly have that discuss some
other stories too, like Wikipedia suspending edits of recession on
its page, because there has been a full scale effort
by the social media and digital giants to in real
time change the definition of recession and to not allow
(02:39):
people think about this, not allow people to use the
definition that is in commonplace, common understanding for many, many
years now, all in service to the idiotic Biden regime,
all in service to the incompetence of this White House.
It's very Soviet, then, that is not an overstatement that
this is straight out of the Soviet book. You can't
(03:01):
actually win on the numbers. You can't actually just change
all the numbers, lie about what the numbers mean, lie
about the definitions, the words that we use to describe them,
and that's all come in your way. We've got a
lot today, as I said, But but first off, this
Pelosi visit to Taiwan is apparently happening. We're told this
(03:22):
is going to go down in the next couple of days.
It's causing a lot of consternation among well, depends on
who you ask. The Chinese Communist Party is making really
aggressive statements about this from Chinese state affiliated media. They
(03:43):
had one person put this out from a Chinese Communist
Party media platform Global Times. They put out that Pelosi
is in Singapore and will fly to South Korea en
route to Taiwan after visiting Malaysia. The PLA has clearly
been well prepared. If she dares to stop in Taiwan,
(04:08):
it will be the moment to ignite the powder keg
of the situation in the Taiwan Straits. So there's also
this video of missiles being fired by the Chinese and
a lot of saber rattling. I'm in a lot of
she better not or else, and now everyone's wondering what
that or else actually means. And I've got to tell you,
(04:33):
I'm of two minds on this thing. On the one hand,
you can't bow down to the Chinese Communist Party more
than we already do as a government. And let's be
honest as a country on a regular basis, need all
that cheap stuff imported into this country. You need to
be able to buy whatever it is on Amazon, have
it right delivered to you. Don't want to make it here,
(04:54):
haven't made overseas. So we've excused a lot of behavior
until Trump came along. Doesn't get nearly enough credit for this,
and it was great to see the man himself number
forty five on Friday, a nice long chat with him
on air and off air. He was right about how
China has been taking advantage of the United States. He
(05:14):
was right about the need for the US to stand
up to Chinese policies on trade, and just the way
that they always do what's in their interests and always
do things that harm our interests while our own elites say, well,
this is the way it has to be. No, it doesn't. Actually,
(05:36):
it doesn't have to be that way. And things now,
I believe are at a different place than they were
before the Trump president presidency. So on the one hand, yeah,
Pelosi can't bend the knee. That looks bad. But on
the other hand, what are we really willing to risk
over Taiwan? Ask yourself this question? You know. I was
(05:56):
listening over the weekend. There's this great new podcast on
the scene, Sean Ryan, who's a former Navy seal, and
he's had some great guests, DJ Shipley and Eric Prince.
I was listening to some of these podcasts that he's
done long form, and the Eric Prince one is really
interesting because it takes you into just how in so
(06:21):
many ways incompetent and insidious. The consensus, the machinery, particularly
on foreign policy. But the moment that you're you're talking
about foreign policy mixed in with domestic politics, what is
so often the consent is everybody knows, everybody believes. They say, well,
why is that really true? I mean, keep in mind,
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we have assigned agreement as a country that we would defend,
we would defend the territorial integrity of Ukraine. And then
when Ukraine was invaded by Russia, I think sanity prevailed
because we said, well, hold on not actually going to
go to war with Russia over Ukraine. Now I understand
that for the defense of free people's and our sense
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of democracy and decency and humanitarianism and all the rest
of it. Taiwan is a country that is an ally.
Taiwan matters in that sense of the United States. But
at some point we actually have to look at the question,
would we be willing to risk and even engage in
a war with China over this island. It's not American soil,
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it's not American citizens there. Would would you want to
actually go and send or would you send your own
your own children to go fight? I mean as adults, obviously,
but would you want people from your family to go
and fight in the Taiwan Straits over this? And I
think it's interesting that people get so uncomfortable when you
ask that question. Why isn't that the critical question? Shouldn't
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we all be very clear on this? As I was
saying in that long form with Eric Prince, the founder
of Blackwater, the most fascinating thing to me other than
a lot of the managerial excellence and general concepts that
are applicable to life, but what was really interesting was
just how incompetent and also self dealing and willing to
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cover its own butt the federal government is. And I
experienced some of that even myself. I saw it, and
I wasn't involved at the top levels, but I saw
it happening when I was in the CIA, that the
federal government is always first and foremost concerned about the
bureaucracy and the foreign policy establishment, the State Department, the
think tanks. They put out these papers and it makes
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people feel good to talk about democracy and the defense
of our allies abroad and all of this. We spent
twenty years in Afghanistan for what for what now? The
initial invasion was not only the right idea, it was
a necessary idea. But then the expansion into nation building
just happened. And one of the reasons that happened is
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because anybody who asked the question, what are we doing here?
What are we really trying to accomplish here? Was shouted down.
I think that it is time to have a really
serious discussion over what length are we willing to go to,
because China right now is pushing in a way that
we haven't seen in a long time, making the kind
of statements that could lead to miscalculation, saying things that
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do make us think that there's the possibility here of
a true provocation, perhaps even an active war. Now. I
don't think they're going to do anything against Speaker Pelosi.
I hope they don't do anything against Speaker Pelosi. But
regardless of this specific trip, let's just all assume for
our purposes and certainly hope that it goes along without
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any major incident. But what are we willing to do
in response to a Chinese effort to take Taiwan and
we are actually going to have a military response. Do
we want to go to war with China over this island?
I think there are a lot of people that don't
like that question, and then you ask them, Okay, so
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the answers, yes, full scale war with China over Taiwan.
It's not we don't have we're not treaty bound. We
have a strategic ambiguity policy. Think about that. We're supposed
to all know the answer to this question. But the
basis of the question is in we don't really know
specifically what we're supposed to do or what we would do,
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and that's meant to off balance the Chinese Communist Party.
And perhaps you could argue that's worked for a long time,
but a war with China is that's something we would
really be prepared to do. And I don't pretend to
have an easy answer either, but I've just noticed this
habit of people pretending, especially in the early phases, well,
we all know what the answer is. Really, we all
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knew what the answer was with Iraq, we all knew
what the answer was with Afghanistan, with Libya, with the
Syrian civil War, with the war in Ukraine. It's all
so clear, right, there are these people that are I'm
the expert. If one thing, if there's one thing you
could take away from the COVID phenomenon. It's that just
because somebody has credentials, just because they're part of the
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managerial elite in some sector of public life, it does
not mean that they are infallible. And in fact, it
doesn't even mean that they are smarter than you or
no more than you on the subject matter that they
are allegedly experts in. They may have a more specific
knowledge in some ways, but their judgment, which when you're
talking about policy, is fundamentally what matters. What big decisions
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do you make when it finally comes down to it,
when you have that phone call, you know, mister President
or mister or Missus secret or Missus Secretary of State,
you know whatever, head of the CIA, head of the
chaino Chamber, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, you're gonna
advise the commander in chief. What do you tell that
person when it really matters? And that's what it all
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comes down to. That's why I'm sure that the Faucis
and the Burkses of the world can cite obscure studies
and data to prove they're bonafidez on the issue, but
when it came to making the big calls, they were wrong.
When it comes to making a big call over Taiwan,
we better get it right. And that's my biggest My
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biggest takeaway for you right now is that you'll notice
that no one really seems to have thought this through
beyond the we will defend democracy. What does that mean?
Somebody asked me, They said, Okay, do you want to
station yourself? You want to? You want to go? Obviously
I need training and all that, but just as an
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intellectual exercise, you want to go station yourself on an
aircraft carrier off off the coast of Taiwan. Ready in
case of I would not want that job, actually, just
in terms of whether I think that that is the
proper policy to pursue in case of open hostilities? What
I feel? What I as an individual good about risking
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my life for the independence of the island nation of Taiwan.
And then I think we could also ask the next question, well,
if I wouldn't feel when I say, feel good about it,
if I wouldn't feel like it is necessary? Right, we're
talking about these questions. Would I want someone else? Would
I push for someone else to do that in my place?
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I think at some level a return to first principles
of our national security would be really helpful here. We've
gotten used to the apparatus just deploying troops and sending
people on one tour after another, and they're carrying the
load and their professionals, and this is what they do,
all right, But are we giving them the right mission set?
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Do we as the American people actually want this? Or
is this just where inertia and the bureaucracy take us.
Afghanistan can be a lesson, I think in many ways
for our future, and as we see what's going on
in Ukraine, where we're effectively now committed to supplying in
a war that seems like it will stretch on for years,
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and to what end? Exactly? What is the end state
we're looking for? You notice the White House doesn't even
talk about it. Do you think that a war with
China would be quick and easy and forgotten thereafter? What
would we really be committing ourselves to? What are the
alternatives here? I don't think these are easy questions, By
the way, I don't pretend that they're easy, But I
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think that the people in charge just want everyone else
to be quiet so they can pretend they are easy.
And that is dangerous and in this moment when the
Speaker of the House is a matter of twenty four
or forty eight hours away from possibly the most tense
moment we've seen with China in many years. I do
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think it's important we think about what we would like
to really do as a country here, what we are
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coming to you from New York City. Clay on vacation
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up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, having a great time.
He just texted me he's enjoying life, but missus, all
of you. He'll be back on Monday. And let's talk
about crime, shall we. We've discussed the Taiwan visit of
Pelosi and Biden's second COVID positive test after taking four
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shots plus around of paxslovid the border. We've got Blake
Master joining bottom of this hour, So in about half
an hour, Blake Master, Senate candidate in Arizona, will be
with us. But you may have seen this kind a
lot of attention. Just a couple of days ago, the
New York Post called the nation's crisis in a can
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and it has to do with a can of spam,
which I remember the first time I ever heard of
spam was my grandfather who was in the Navy. He
was an officer in the Navy in World War Two,
served on the USS Batan. When he would tell me
Navy stories, he rarely talked about only when he got
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much older, and you know, before he a few years
before he passed, he rarely talked about the kamikaze's, the combat,
the manning of the any aircraft guns and those things
that he didn't really speak of that, but he would
talk about other stuff of the Navy, you talk about
the food, and talk about playing t ball and things
like that with his fellow service members. And remember he
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told me what this thing called spam. I remember saying, Grandpa,
what is spam? Tell me more about this because he
said that this was in his mind like a delicacy
on He said, they we had spam all the time,
and he liked spam. Believe he was a spam fan.
He liked this meat product. And now everyone is reacting
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to this loss prevention device at the Port Authority Dwayne Reid,
because it was referred to as a Jeff Kuhn's homage.
I believe in reference to the artist, right, isn't Jeff
Kuhn's a famous artist? Am I right about that? I'm
I assuming that's true. We gotta check anyway, But everyone's
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look at this. They're saying, well, hold on, they're locking
down the cans of spam in it. Remember it's a
can with a plastic anti theft case around it. And
to this, I just want to say, to borrow from
John McClane of the NYPD and Nakatomi Tower fame, Welcome
to the party, pal. This has been going on four
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years now. I go into I go into the the
pharmacy on my corner where I live in Midtown Manhattan,
and everything other than like birthday cards and seasonal items
is pretty much under lock and key in behind pleck,
behind lock, plexiglass with theft protection alarms on it. And
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you have to the poor store clerks. I have to
go through this nonsense of you know, if I need
five different things, they got to walk with me to
go to all the different niles. And I've asked them
before just out of curiosity. I'm like, really, they gotta
lock They're gotta lock this down, or razor blades locked
down chocolate, locked down, skincare products, lockdown, whatever you name it.
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You know, when I need my exfoliants, I don't like
to have to just kidd it. I don't use it exfoliant,
but I don't know maybe I should. But the point
is it's all under lock and key because theft just
happens all the time, and theft is not really punished.
In New York, you have people that shoplift. They're not
shoplifting out of desperation. They're shoplifting as a business decision
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for themselves. They're shoplifting because they can make hundreds of
dollars at a time. Obviously, pay no taxes on it
by selling this stuff either on a street corner or
a lot of times, I'll just park it online on eBay.
Depends on the products you can get, and you know,
if it's in its brand new packaging, people will buy
at half price. Here you go, right, razor blades, Right,
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a little package of razors for those cartridges, thirty forty
bucks still ten of those. That's pretty good. Right. You
can make a lot of money, but you're destroying these businesses,
and you're also destroying these communities where the businesses then
leave and people can't get the products they need. And
this is all happening because of a change, because this
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was not the case. I grew up in New York City.
It was true, and then we made it not true,
and now it is true again. So we are having
to relearn the painful lessons of the past when it
comes to the enforcement of the law, including on these
less serious crimes. Now when I say less serious, it's
not that they're un serious, but it's obviously not a murderer.
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We're not talking about violence, although those are up to
And then you have the entire system that has decided
that this is the way we're going to approach this.
The system in New York, the system in Portland, in
San Francisco and Los Angeles, in Atlanta, in Houston, in
Saint Louis, in Phoenix, the system in all these places
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deciding that we're going to have because of criminal justice reform.
Who's pushing that, obviously the Democrat Party, but what is
really being reformed and who is making the decisions about
what that looks like. This brings us through the Progressive
prosecutor movement, which has been one of the most disastrous
things this country has engaged in and certainly from a
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public safety perspective, it is probably the single dumbest thing
that we have done. I mean, defund police wrapped in
with progressive prosecutors has resulted in thousands of more people
dying that are just from the spike in crime nationwide,
has resulted in just uncountable destruction and theft and increased
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anxiety in society from people who have to be worried.
You know, just over the week on the Upper East Side,
there was a which is a very you know, expensive
part of New York City, there was some guy walked
along just just bashed a woman in the face with
a foreign object because he felt like it's all on
video and they're still looking at them. Found the guy.
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She's walking down the street, broad daylight on a beautiful sunday,
just decided, oh, just smash her in the face with
I don't know if it was the end of a
you know, a screwdriver or something. Just just all on video,
didn't you know? Do you think we're gonna find this
guy eventually? And you know, he's a really he's a
pillar of his community. He's he's working three jobs. He
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he just had a bad day. No we're gonna find
that he's been arrested fifteen times or twenty five times
or whatever, and they're gonna say, oh, but you know,
we don't want to punish him too harshly. Now he'll
be out and he'll get a minimal sentence. Why because
of these libs in prosecutors' offices pushed by George Soros.
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Now George Soros realizes we're onto him. Now, this guy,
this billionaire. Do you think he's ever as he experienced
violent crime in America? When was the last time you
think George Soros walked on foot through a high crime,
predominantly minority neighborhood of any major city in America. I'm
going to guess probably never. And if he did, he
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did so with you know, armed security guards, then it
was a photo op. Right. This guy has no idea,
but he's a billionaire who likes to find ways to
I'm just gonna say it. I think he wants to
just destroy Western civilization. I don't know what else you
can say about this guy. I think he wants to
tear it all down because he thinks that we're a
society driven by exploitation, and he's a billionaire, he doesn't exploit.
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Of course, it's the other people, a racist society and
un society. So we pull it all down and we
start something new. He wouldn't be the first that's taken
this approach in history, but it always results in misery, destruction,
and despair that the people pushing for these ideas are
somehow exempt from themselves. He wrote July thirty first, just
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yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, Why I support reform prosecutors,
justice or safety? It's a false choice. They reinforce each other.
Here's what he writes, Americans desperately need a more thoughtful
discussion about our response to crime. People have had enough
of the demagoguery and divisive partisan attacks that dominate the
debate and obscure the issues. Like most of us, I'm
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concerned about crime. Our system is rife with injustices that
make us all less safe. And he goes on to say,
we need to acknowledge that black people in the US
are five times as likely to be sent to jail
as white people. That is an injustice that undermines our democracy.
End quote. Now here's George Soros who is saying this
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in a Wall Street Journal op edge. Just so everyone's
very clear that he is saying the disparity of incarceration
in this country is proof of an unjust system. And
I would want to ask George Soros what I have
posed so many times before on this show. Why is
it that there are so many more men in prison
for murder than women? What is the answer? Is it
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because the system is antimail or is it because there
are more men who commit murders? Why is it that
he says the disproportionate number of African American males in
prison is proof of racism. Are all the people that
are in prison, or even a majority or even a
sizeable number, are they there unjustly as in they didn't
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commit the crime, because that's a huge problem. But that's
not the case. Ask any ask any person working in
the criminal justice system. There is not this belief for
anyone living in reality that our prisons are full of
innocent people. No one really thinks that, right. So what
is he saying then, Well, he says there are too
many minorities in prison, therefore we need to have fewer
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people in prison. Therefore, there are going to be more
people who commit a lot of crimes who are in
society and who are lightly punished, if punished at all.
That is the basis of his ideology. That is why
he has donated millions of dollars to prosecutors in cities
across the country. This is why Politico wrote an article.
Remember a left wing DC Insider website wrote, George Soros
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is quiet overhaul of the US justice system. You know
when that got going twenty sixteen. Why do you think
Soros was pushing so hard in twenty sixteen to overhaul
the justice system. Oh, because the Democrats were fomenting a
racial panic over Donald Trump. Donald Trump, Oh my gosh,
he's so racist. He's a white nationalist and a white
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supremac systant Then all of a sudden you had these
hysterical libs who were more willing than ever to push
for radical changes in the criminal justice system. And they started,
He started George Soros seating these prosecutors offices with people
who just think, you know what, if more people have
to be murdered, robbed, more people have to suffer violent
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crime across America, but it means that we bring down
the overall number of people in prison. So be it.
That is the choice they made. That is the choice
George Soros has pushed with his dollars on the American people.
It's monstrous. Honestly, it's deeply immoral. He should be ashamed,
he should be begging for forgiveness. But all a lot
of people on the Soros payroll, a lot of people
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in the media, a lot of organizations funded by him,
a lot of entities getting Soros dollars. You'll notice they'll
back him up. And you'll also notice that he's very
much a fixture in elite society. Right, he's treated with deference.
Why he has brought nothing but misery, destruction, and pain
to all communities, including the black community in this country.
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He has made it worse for the overwhelming majority, for
the ninety nine out of one hundred Black Americans who
just want to go to work, live their lives, be safe,
be in freedom and prosperity. But because he doesn't like
the aggregate numbers in prison, Sorros decides to make it
less safe for people in high crime neighborhoods, to make
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it less possible for police to do their jobs, to
put lunatic, imbecile prosecutors in positions where they can destroy
some people for political means. Right, oh you better. You better.
Hope you're not. Look look up the case. This was
a remarkable one. Look up the case years ago of
Mark Whitishek and not you guys, look up, I mean
folks at home. Sorry, team, I don't have time for
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this one right now. Mark Whitishek. In Washington, DC, they
wanted to lock this guy up for years for having
a spent shotgun cartridge after a hunting trip that he
brought back to DC in his baggage that he didn't
even know about. Wanted to lock him up, make an
example of him. He works in finance. He's a threat
to society. He had a spent shotgun cartridge. Maybe he
would throw it at somebody. But you look at what's
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going on while they claim it they want more gun control.
What are these progressive prosecutors doing in city after city
letting people offer gun charges. Why because disproportionately the people
that are being caught with legal guns are young black men.
So they don't want who actually enforce the laws more
aggressively about firearms, but they want to pass federal regulations
that tramp on the constitution to take your guns, your
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law abiding as a law abiding person, your firearms out
of your hands. Look, I don't know what to say
on them. I think what George Soros is pushing his
evil folks. I'm sure he thinks he's the good guy,
but a lot of people think they're the good guy
where they're doing awful things. And the record speaks for itself.
This guy is atrocious and the people that he has
supported are a nightmare for our cities, and the Democrat
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Party should be held to account for this. They still
get a lot of those Soros dollars and they're fine
with it. They still want him backing them up. You know,
he's a good billionaire. Notice, any billionaire that's not far
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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. As promised, the man
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who is leading the pack right now for the Republican
Senate nomination in the state of Arizona, Blake Masters, is
with us. Blake, good of you to stop. Bye again,
great to chat with you, Box, Thank you. Can we
start with us because we discussed this news earlier on
in the program, The Biden administration in Arizona is admitting
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that they are strengthening, fixing some of the holes in, etc.
The border fence down there. What's going on, Blake? Can
you believe this? Look? The Democrats spent years insisting that
Trump swall was racist, remember when they said this buck
and all of a sudd And they're pretending like they
want to finish the wall. They're pretending to be tough
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on border security. It's because the Democrats in power have failed.
They know they've failed. They know Mark Kelly, the incumbent
Democrat Senator and my opponent this fall, he's failed. He's
got nothing to run on. So I think this is
just political show. They're going to patch a few holes
in the border wall. I'm glad they're going to do that,
but it's too little, it's too late. They don't actually
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care about border security. This is all because they know
I'm coming after them in November. Clearly Senator Kelly is
on board with this mansion last minute mansion deal, the
slimmed down, slightly, build back better agenda item. What are
you thinking about when you read what they're saying that
Bill will do? And what as you with a background
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in venture capital and functioning in the free market. No,
it will actually do. It's so Orwellian, right. They're calling
it the Inflation Reduction Act. Of course, what it is
is a tax increase and a massive spending bill. This
is the Democrats playbook, tax and spends. They don't have
any other ideas, right, the tax and spend policies have
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created this recession. Instead of reversing those policies to get
a SAUTD recession, they just try to redefine what a
recession is and insist we're not in one. And then
their Inflation Reduction Act literally is just a tax increase
and a spending spree, right, spending on the Green New
Deal and all this craft. It's just going to make
inflation worse. And you know, I prepare it doesn't task.
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What do you think about the arguments over whether I mean,
it's not really an argument, but people are pretending right
that we're not in a recession. And also where do
you think the economy is going? Well, we're definitely in
a recession. You know, I know this anecdotally just by
talking two hundreds and thousands of people in Arizona who
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we're trying to make ends meet and things are just
getting worse and worse for them under Joe Biden. But
even with the normal conventional you know, economic death, two
consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth that happened, the numbers
are out. We are technically in a recession. And so
the Biden administration they play out these linguistic games. But
again the Democrats in charge, they're they're the party that
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won't even define what a woman is right, and so
now they're trying to change the definition of recession. I
find it. It's completely Orwellian. Frankly, it's almost scary. I
think this level of censorship and manipulation of language would
make a Soviet sensor blush. Speaking of Blake masters he
is running for Senate in Arizona, and Blake, I don't
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know if you've seen, because it just broke. They're now
sending another I think it's five hundred million to Ukraine
to bring it up to eight billion. And then we
also similed, so we got we got checks going courtesy
of the taxpayer to Ukraine. And then we have the
Pelosi visit to Taiwan on the horizon. Here should happen
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in the next twenty four hours If it's going to happen,
and the Pentagon spokesman Kirby. General Kirby is saying, we
do not support Taiwan independence. So what is Pelosi doing there?
I mean, on these two foreign policy issues, what do
you think about how this Biden White House is handling things?
The only thing you can trust the Biden White House
to do is to put America last. It's unfortunately just
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what they're doing. Look, I've condemned, you know, Putin's crazy
invasion of Ukraine. Putin's obviously a bad guy, and that
was a horrible thing to do. It's also, you know,
more Europe's problem than America's problem. Frankly, I think, you know,
sending some humanitarian aid may have made sense back in
the spring, but sending forty billion dollars right, which Congress
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voter to do, sending five hundred million more, it sounds
like Member the Democrats couldn't spare ten billion for border security.
They said the wall was too expensive, and so I
think they just care more about you know, Ukraine than
certainly the people in Arizona, people in the Southwest, people
in America, and I find that shameful. Biden has also
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just been soft on China. He's been soft on China
his whole life. I think as late as twenty fourteen,
his vice President Biden was saying, China, come on, man,
they'll never catch us. They're not a competitor. And it's
a it's a shame, you know, Chinese Communist Party. Well,
there was good play, to be fair, there was some
good ship. There was some good cash flow coming on
Hunter Biden from Chinese Communist Party. So Biden didn't want
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to trample on things there by the way, Do you
think they do? You think they might actually the the
US Attorney in the state of Delaware may do something
about Hunter Biden now that so much has come out.
And simultaneously, Biden as the Democrat standard bearers looking shaky
to say the least. Well, I hope so, but I'm
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not optimistic. No, it's Biden's doj They've weaponized the DJ
They've turned it into this basically harm of the democratic machine.
Hunter Biden. Yeah, he's like on tape committing all sorts
of felonies. Cocaine. You know, he lied on a four
forty four seventy three to buy a firearm. Buck If
you or I did that, they throw us in jail.
For a long long time. But but yeah, Hunter Biden's
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corruption in Ukraine, which you're not really allowed to talk about,
and China. I think we're just kind of scratching the surface. Frankly,
great for his soul. He's messed up, he's committed crimes.
Will he be held accountable? No, because in this country, unfortunately,
we've developed a pure justice system. The Democrats think rules
for thee but not for me. Blake. You know, we
got a big audience in Arizona. We got a lot
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of folks listening in the Phoenix area on KFYI and
all across the state. Biggest differences between you and Mark
Kelly when it comes to how your votes will be cast,
would be what Mark Kelly puts America last. You know,
he's voting in lockstep for this radical Chuck Schumer Joe
Biden agenda. Mark Kelly has a left wing extremist record,
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but he pretends to be a moderate and I'm actually
kind of the opposite. Buck. I'm running a bold campaign.
I'm speaking from the heart about issues that matter. I
want to apologize for my boldness, but all of it
is in service of a common sensical America First agenda.
Let's have border security, Let's get crime under control, Let's
get inflation under control. I want to make Arizona the
best place to raise a family, and the difference couldn't
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of luck to you and when you win, come back
on for the victory dance. Yeah. Absolutely, thank you, Buck,
thanks so much. Many people are predicting serious price increases
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with Clay and Buck dot com. Second hour of the Clay,
Travis and Buck Sexton Show is here. Everybody. I'm Buck
in NYC. But Meyman Clay on vacation for the week,
so he misses you all, but he'll be back with
us on Monday. And in the meantime, Biden, this was
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pretty amazing. Biden tested positive for COVID a second time.
Now you kind of say to yourself, if we are
at a point now where shot four plus packs lovid
can result in a rebound, and as I understand that
the rebound case is not some kind of testing error
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that means that the virus had a surge again after
being reduced. I don't know, maybe one of the docs
that our audience could explain how this actually works. He's
back in isolation. He gonna have that big mask on,
of course, because that's the mask. Has obviously worked incredibly well,
considering that he got four vaccines and took packslovid and
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got COVID again in a two week period. But this
is just another data point that you have to add
to the mountain of data that these policies that were
put in place a year ago. Isn't it remarkable? It
feels like so much has changed one year ago. You
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had the because wow, it's August first, I can't believe
we're already at the end of the summer. Here you
had vaccine passports starting in places like New York City,
and then it was in cities all over the country,
a lot of cities, not all of them, but a
lot of them. Los Angeles had this, and you know
all these places that instituted this, Chicago, I mean, I
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can't even remember every place that decided they're going to
have it, And it was all premised on it's not
about what will protect you. You're a risk to other people.
If you don't get the shot, you're a bad person
who was risking other people. That was what they said.
And Joe Biden was giving these angry speeches, not like
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he was trying to bring everybody together and anything. Who's
going get the shot, get the shot. If you don't
get the shot, I mean, gosh, darn it, get it,
get it. Pandemically unvaccinated. You know, he's doing that thing
where he kind of stares and gets all loud and
he goes, shots work. They work, They work, real good.
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No joke, friends, not a joke. So it's yelling, and
you can why first of all, why are you yelling?
Second all, what are they done to your eyes that
they don't really move for these long periods of time,
they don't blink. Seems a bit strange. And now also
we know he was totally wrong about all of this.
He was wrong about the vaccines as a defense against spread.
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They don't even talk about that anymore. And we could
sit here and play all the clips Rochelle, Lens, get
all the rest of them saying you know you won't
get it, you won't spread it, lies, and they'd say, oh,
but we didn't know that's what the data said then,
not according to doctor Burkes, who says she knew it
wasn't going to stop the spread. And if we had
had this technology available, why were we allowing fifty thousand
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to one hundred thousand people every year to get and
die from the flu from influenza? Apparently all we needed
was a little bit of a kick in the pants
and we could stop aerosolis virus in its tracks. Entirely.
Think about what a miracle they were effectively promising you
and then mandating to you, and then putting the boot
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heel on your neck, get the shot or else. I
have not forgotten, and I have not forgiven. There are
tens of thousands of people who have been separated from
the military, lost their military careers for this. Every Republican
running for office should be on board with the full
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restoration of anyone in the federal government and specifically and
most importantly, the United States military who lost their job
over their refusal to get a vaccine that they did
not need and that did not defend people from infection.
It lines up with what we would have expected from
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dealing with the flu. As we've said, so many times,
those who are at risk should get the shot, even
if it doesn't last that long. A couple of months
of protection in the winter may be worth it. And
whence they should get it, should be able to choose
to get it right. The doctors have been telling people, look,
I think if you're over sixty five, you got a phizema,
or you got hypertension or whatever, may be good for you.
We don't want you in the hospital with the flu.
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But no one ever was holding you down basically saying
get the shot or else you're a danger. We're also
scared if you don't get the shot for the flu.
And look what they did with COVID. Look what they
mandated all over the country, the federal government, the Biden administration.
The fact that every sane person, in my opinion, isn't
voting straight party line Republican just based on the actions
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of the Democrats on COVID is madness. It's madness. They
were wrong about everything, on something that was really important.
They wasted trillions of dollars, They destroyed the mental health
of tens of millions of people. The highest rate of
drug overdose fatal overdose in our history over one hundred
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thousand people died of drug overdoses over the period of
the COVID lockdowns that year. And have they been held
accountable for any of this? No? They want to write
books now. The people in charge of this act like
their heroes. There are still individuals walking around New York
City with masks on. It's completely insane. Joe Biden has
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gotten a COVID rebound, I believe did Faucci. I think
Faucci had a COVID rebound too? Am I right about that?
I know that that was making the Yeah, that's right,
he had a pack slovid rebound. Okay, what does that mean?
I understand they're going to try to tell you're all,
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I got a PhD and an MD and Braha L.
Brawn and all these complicated explanations. If I give you
a pill that it's supposed to defeat a virus that
you have, now you can tell me that maybe it
had some effect, But if you then have a rebound
of that virus, I think that pill is not as
effective as we would like it to be, right, you know,
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I think that's a fair thing to say at that phase.
You know, if I told you that I was going
to you know, cure your ear infection. Take these antibiotics,
and then oh, you got an antibiotic rebound. That would
be a matter of real concern. Right, Faucci got a
rebound infection, Biden got a rebound infection. And yet you
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know that as we go into the COVID season, here,
Biden's going to be saying, we know it works, friends,
we know it works. Shots five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
elemental p chipmunks on a branch. You know he's gonna
be yelling at you about we know it works. Mask up,
get the shot. All this stuff it doesn't work, friends,
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doesn't work. Then you could say, oh, but in one case,
for one individual, if it stops one COVID case, it's
worth it. Well, that's crazy. We don't have that approach
with anything else. And I do have to point out
you notice I haven't spoken a lot about monkey pox here,
and I think they're trying to start with there's a
new name for it, but everyone's call it a monkeypox.
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There's this pushback on what you could call, if I
were Fauci, commonplace monkeypox mitigation measures. There's a there's pushback though,
on the mitigation measures they don't like it when people
start to say publicly that a good way to avoid
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monkey pox, thus far, based upon the transmission of the
virus is to avoid group sex settings. Now, based on
the data that has been a primary source of spread
up to this point, if that changes, if everyone's just
getting it from you know, going out to get lunch
and they you know, it's aerosolisers, which it's not, by
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the way, but you know, for some reason the data
change is dramatically fine, let's talk about that. But you'll
notice that even in this moment, after they shut down
your church, fired you from your job, made you mask up,
massed up your children, made your children get shots, locked
you in your homes, all of this to stop the
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COVID virus. Any effort to actually limit the monkey pox
viruses spread by looking at what's actually going on with it,
we are told, is unacceptable and in fact bigoted. This
is why nobody can trust public health experts because they're politicians.
They're politicians in lab coats. Fauci is the worst of them,
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but there are so many of them now in cities
and states all over the country. You see it every time.
You know, they're supposed to be about keeping people healthy,
giving smart advice, and being right. It doesn't matter the
public health establishment. They were completely wrong about vaccines. Have
you noticed any contrition from them. Have any of the
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people who have spent the last two years lecturing you
about COVID as a public health expert, whether on Twitter
or on TV or wherever, has a single one of
them come forward and say, Wow, we got some stuff
really wrong. Man, we mess this one up. We shouldn't
have made everybody do this. We shouldn't have gone full
tyrant on this one. No, of course not no, They
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just say the data changed. Shut up, peasant. Now we
know they said they knew before and they were wrong.
They say they know now, and we question, and they
want to shut it down. They want to shut it down.
This is why there is no bigger fight for our
individual and our societal freedom in this country right now
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than against the COVID madness. I know the economies number
one concern of voters. I know that a lot of
people will talk about immigration in just a moment here,
illegal immigration, the border. There's a lot of stuff going
on right now that needs our focus. But I just please,
even if you're in a relatively free state, from the
COVID madness from fauciism. Remember that as long as the
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Biden administration, as long as you have these idiot libs
in charge, they are not done harassing you. You will
have the mask mandate battle for planes again this winter.
I think it's a fifty fifty shot. They reintroduced the
mask on planes. When the cases go up again, they're
out of their minds and they did so much damage
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and there was no benefit from the damage they did. See,
here's the part of it they don't tell you. Imagine
think about this, and nowhere else have I heard this argument.
I think it's so important. Instead of using force, instead
of saying do this or else, we will block you
from public life, will fire you from your job. What
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if they had said, hey, guys, we think this vaccine
is gonna be really good for folks, really good for
a number of reasons. But we're really gonna mostly encourage
it for seniors because we've looked at the data and
we know that the people who are at real risk
from COVID are sixty five and up. So we're going
to focus our energy on getting it to those sixty
five and ups. And we really want to encourage them.
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Do you think that there would have been such a
different In fact, I think more seniors would have gotten
the shot had they taken a collaborative, freedom based approach.
Instead of let's mandate it for high school kids, let's
mandate it for five year olds to be able to
go to school. Because reasonable people saw that action, saw
that heavy handed lunacy by the government, whether they were
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seventy five or twenty five, reasonable people saw that and said,
I can't trust these lunatics, and that impulse was right.
They can't trust them, so they damage the credibility, They
damage the believability of the people pushing these shots reparable ways. So,
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as I've said, they made it all worse and they
just want to get away with it, and I say,
I say no. By the way, there's another area where
the Biden administration's wrong and they're having to admit it.
The wall. Remember that. Remember Trump talking about We're gonna
build the wall, and he was trying to build the wall,
and the Democrats fought him tooth and nail, and other
than defund police, the single dumbest slogan the Democrats embraced
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was walls don't work. They said this these smug morons
would go on CNN and MSNBC and New York Times writers,
walls don't work. Give me a twelve foot wall. I'll
give you a thirteen foot ladder. Turns out the Biden
administration is having to deal with some reality down in
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