October 12, 2020 • 50 mins
The Best Of Buck Daily is the top stories of the day from The Buck Sexton Show. Today Buck begins with the senate confirmation hearing of Amy Coney Barrett. It should be a long and contentious week but will she be confirmed in the end? Plus why today is and always will be Columbus Day and how President Trump proved that the lockdowns were stupid.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Freedom Hut. This is the best of
buck Daily podcast, the top stories of the day from
the Buck Sexton Show. From more buck Head to buck
sexton dot com and remember to subscribe to the podcast.
Welcome friends to the buck Sexton Show. We are twenty
two days out from the election, and in some ways
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it really doesn't feel like it does It not nearly
the same kind of frenzy of political activity out on
the streets. We don't have lawns in New York City,
so I can't speak to lawn signs. But everyone's still
locked up inside. Things are getting colder, people are worried
about COVID, and this week we're going to spend really
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on a Supreme Court nomination battle. There's going to be
something of a rest spit from the main effort of
the election for a few days. And we've already seen
what the opposition to Amy Coney Barrett looks like so far,
and the answer is it is unbelievably weak. I mean,
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it's really quite pathetic. You saw this over the weekend.
You had a number of prominent news sites that started
doing one of two things. They either changed the definition
of court packing to include this right which is filling
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a Supreme Court seat. No, that's that's court packing. No,
that's called filling a seat. That's not packing. Or they've
started to use this phrase de politicize the court, depoliticize
Supreme Court dominations. What the heck does that even mean? Well,
it's what you do when you don't have a real argument.
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It's what you do when you're flailing. And clearly the
Democrats are at this point. What are they going to
say the incredibly brilliant, universally beloved mother of seven who
adopted two black children from Haiti and has already been
through a Senate confirmation process to be an Appeals Court
judge and was just pushed through without really any issue
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other than being asked, does the dogma? The dogma lives
loudly within you? Which was great for Conservatives, Catholics and
Republicans that that question was out there. But she's already
been confirmed to that why would she not be confirmed here?
They have no argument, friends, they lost. This is nothing
but sour grapes, sore loserism from Democrats. That's all it is.
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They have no other argument. History is with the Republicans
filling this seat, common sense, basic politics. Elections have consequences
the single truest and most useful phrase that Barack Obama
ever uttered. I think, at least as president, elections do
have consequences, and we are seeing right now what that
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can mean. So far, it has been pretty pathetic watching
Democrats dance around the full on assault on Amyn Barrett's
character that we all kind of know is coming. We
all believe that they'll do something completely disgraceful or disreputable here.
That's their only option. What else are they going to say? ACB?
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And I refer to her that way because it's convenient,
but also because it really triggers the Libs. They hate
that she's no RBG. Correct, she's not. And for the
purposes of a constitutionalist on the court, that's a great thing.
That's a great thing. But they're going after everything around
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this moment. So far, they're trying to set the stage
and set the narrative. You had Democrats senators spend the
day talking about how important the Affordable Care Act is,
Senators talking about how Donald Trump has done a terrible
job on COVID. These things have nothing to do with ACB.
Nothing this is all about. It's supposed to be about
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deciding whether or not this woman, who is eminently qualified
to sit on the Supreme Court is in fact going
to sit on the Supreme Court. That's it. There's nothing else,
which is why all along I've held out that we
should have just had the GOP, should have called for
I vote, have it done and over with, Allow there
to be a vote on this, get it in the books,
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get her put in that seat, Dounzo, move on to
the next challenge. That's it. But no, senators can't help
but want to take every opportunity to give speeches in
front of the American people to a national television audience
about how much they love the Constitution, or about how
much Republicans and Donald Trump hate America, or whatever it
is that they're going to say. You're hearing a variation
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of a political stump speech for most of these senators,
nothing particularly worthwhile or interesting for many of them. Senator
Ben Sass of Nebraska gave a Civics one on one
lesson today. I suppose some people seem to like it.
Other people felt like it was kind of a waste
of everyone's time. Senator Dick Durban also did much of
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the same, going off on some lengthy speech about the
need to protect pre existing conditions and how the Supreme
Court is supposed to be this sacred body, and none
of it really adds up to anything other than they
are upset that they're not getting their way. Now. I
know SASA is a Republican. I didn't mean to throw
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him in there with Durban, but I don't trust him.
It's gonna say, I don't trust the guy as a
Republican at all. I think he's more about SASS than
he is about the GOP, that's for sure. Some of
you can disagree with me, and that's fine, But onto
what they're going to do. Now they've tried so hard,
they've they've they've tested and then thrown out there all
these different narratives. They're still clinging to the weakest of
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all I think, which is it was it was rbg's
last wish. I do not care, neither does any other Republican.
It's not it doesn't matter. Rbg's last wish is not
meaning full for a government proceeding that is representative of
what is best for three hundred and thirty million people. Okay,
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doesn't matter the same way that the Democrats pretend it
does not matter that RBG was on the record and
explicitly against packing the court. So who was it that
tried to pack the court? Just it's worth taking a
moment to look back in time for a second. Who
was it? It was? FDR? Wasn't oh a big Democrat,
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the Democrat who ushered in really the overreaching federal government authority,
the enormous fissures and breaks in the Constitution. So it
was in fact the Democrats who once again part as
part of their will to power, tried to push through
court packing. They don't get their way and they want
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to change things. It's back in nineteen thirty seven. So
it stayed at nine back then. But that was also
because the composition of the court changed enough and the
decisions changed enough to Roosevelt's liking. What was it about
the not the Green New Deal, oh, but new Deal legislation.
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So let's understand this as we have democrats today lecturing
us about precedent and history and making it up as
they go along. That FDR perhaps the big government patron saints.
I don't know if you want to call him a saint,
but you know, the big government exemplar of the twentieth century.
Couldn't get the Supreme Court then to agree that some
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of his new Deal actions were in fact constitutional. So
what did he do change the people making the decisions
about the constitutionality. A very Olynskyite approach. Now that's what
he wanted to do. It was not successful, obviously, and
the judges stayed at nine. But it was that same impulse.
We have power, we want to do things. We are collectivists,
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and we believe in state authority, so we're just going
to go for it. It doesn't matter. There's a founding
document that we're all supposed to adhere to that creates
the basis for all of these government actions, known as
the Constitution. It's not supposed to matter. And then you
have this other, this media. It's really amazing, this media
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effort where it is almost like and I say almost
because it is like, actually, I'd be willing to bet
that if you were able to track down the emails,
you'd find out that there were members of the media
who are getting emails from Democrat list serves and Democrat
email lists and things telling them to start referring to
the deep politicization of the court and also just say
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that it's the Republicans who are court packing. This is
classic gaslighting, and that's exactly what they're doing. Now. They
do something, or try to do something. In this case,
they haven't done it yet, thankfully, but they try to
push through a court packing scheme, and when it doesn't
work out for them, when the public or at least
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the institutions that are watching over this thing, say look,
you guys, they're allowed to do this, you can just
wine and wind, they say, well, yeah, well you're the
ones who are packing the court what. Yeah, you're the
ones who are doing it. You cheated. This is the
logic of an eight year old who stole a piece
of birthday cake, knows he's about to get caught, and
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so he blames his six year old sister. She did it,
Cast dispersions on the other side, undermine them, and hope
that your side is able to get what they what
they want out of the equation. That's what's happening here. Democrats,
in so many ways do act like a spoiled eight
year old. That's really the central id, the central ethos
of the party. I want, therefore I demand, I want,
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therefore I should get. Constitution can't be an impediment to it.
The rule of law can't be an impediment to it.
And even the stellar credentials of ACB and the fact
that here we have a truly obviously decent, kind, ethical,
brilliant person who's going to be in a role where
she will make good decisions and stay in her lane.
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She's not going to be a super legislator. She will
at some point, i'm sure, disappoint conservatives because she won't
do things that are outside of the constitutional scope of
a Supreme Court justice. It's the left, it's the liberals
who want something very different. They want a super legislature
that is not accountable to the people, and that will
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give them at the key moments in the courts decision
making process, will give them the laws and the political
victories that they want. This is for all of us
to see. It's quite obvious. It's quite apparent, And for
all the smarmy lib lawyers out there with their much
heralded credentials because they went to some institution that is
now just churning out erudite leftists as fast as possible
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who have bad judgment, but unfortunately have strong enough legal
credentials that they now largely control the legal profession. I mean,
the left has overtaken not just undergrad programs, but law schools.
Speak to somebody who's gone to law school in the
last ten or fifteen years. There every bid is down
with BLM and social justice and you know, Occupy Wall
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Street and all this stuff, you name it, big corporate
law firms. It'd be shocking if Americans actually really understood
how far this leftist ideological rot has extended throughout the
legal profession. What ACB's gonna withstand all of that? And
here's my prediction for the week. And this is one
of these predictions where I hope I'm wrong. You will
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recall that Brett Kavanaugh was also sailing through stellar credentials,
perfectly situated, gold plated resume for a Supreme Court justice.
Nothing about the guy didn't add up to, yeah, he
should be voted through. And that's the way the beginning
of those hearings went till all of a sudden we
knew that there was this allegation that surfaced, and then
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this woman showed up, and it was all just run
through the Democrat apparatus. You had very powerful figures prepping
and assisting and pushing for Blasi Ford, and then of
course two other women came forward, each one less credible
than the next with their allegations. And there are a
whole bunch of allegations of people that made their way
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to the Senate that didn't actually make their way under
the Senate floor because they were so absurd that even
the shameless and disgraceful Kamala Harris and the rest of
the Senate Democrats on the Judiciary weren't willing to use
because their allegations from women who, it was demonstrable, had
never even been in the same state as Kavanaugh, never
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mind had actually been the victim of some attack by
his hand. Brett Kavanaugh was a manifestly innocent person and
a good man, and perfectly suited to be a Supreme
Court justice. Amy Coney Barrett is a good woman and
all so perfectly suited for the role. We're gonna go
through a few days here where it'll seem like everything
is just fine, and then at the very last moment,
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as we were just a few weeks away from an election,
I think Democrats will spring the trap. I don't know
what it is. It may be a process thing, it
may be blocking access to Capitol Hill, It may be
someone coming forward who claims that they heard Amy Coney
Barrett saying anti LGBT slurs thirty years ago, with no
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proof and no nothing, but it's something along those lines.
But they're gonna try and it's gonna be ugly. That's
my prediction, So just get ready for it. We're gonna
I think we're gonna go through a few days of
pretty smooth sailing Democrats flailing looking weak, looking absurd. But
I know, I know this left wing mentality, I know
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what this Democrat party has become, and they're going to
try something ugly and disgusting in the next forty eight
hours or so. Thanks for listening to the Festive Bus
Daily podcast. Get more from Buck by following him on
social media at buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, on Instagram,
and don't forget to visit buck Sexton dot com. Well,
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I can tell you that we're getting this question. It's
a common question being asked because American people who have
watched the Republicans pack in the court over the last
three and a half years, and they brag about it.
They've taken every vacancy and filled it. Did you know
that they've sent us and we have approved only with
their votes. That might add ten people who have been
judged unanimously unqualified by the American Bar Association. Do you
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know how many judicial nominees came from Obama who were
judged unanimously unqualified. None? So we are dealing with people
on the court packed into the court with little or
no qualification, who are going to be there for a
long time. So it's understandable the Republicans raised the issue
of court packing, changing the definition. That's Dick Durbin on
the Senate Judiciary Committee changing the definition of court packing
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in real time. That is not what court packing is.
You can say don't like their nominations. You can say
a lot of things, but you can't say that that's
court packing, which is what they're doing. They're claiming right
now that the words that we are using to talk
about this nomination process don't actually have a specific meaning,
that they can change the meaning of those words in
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real time. What is that reminiscent of? There's a great
irony in all this? Isn't there? Then? At a time
when we're talking about who should sit on the Supreme Court,
somebody who believes the Constitution is a document that has meaning,
and that the words have implications that are not subject
to whims and interpretations not rooted in the actual text. Right,
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you have textualists and you have living constitution people. Right,
it's just whatever I want it to be, whenever I
want it to be. That. Well, look at what the
Democrats are doing right now with court packing. Court Packing
isn't that thing that we've all agreed it is for
as long as we've been using the term, it's some
other thing, it's some other concept. Let me now, let
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me now shift into that conversation. It's stunning, it's disgusting,
it's unfair. But that's where we are. That's where we are.
Depoliticizing is the other term we're using. The Associated Press
has heard it a talk about This was the quote
from the Weekend. Bullock said that if Coney Barrett was confirmed,
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he would be open to measures to depoliticize the court,
including adding judges to the bench, a practice critics have
dubbed packing. Oh so now we're gonna see. This is
why I always tell you, watch the words the Democrats use,
from a legal alien to a legal immigrant, to undocumented
immigrant to undocumented period, just given documents, then they're just
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American like everybody else, right, the same thing doesn't matter.
Look at that. There are so many instances of this. Oh,
pro choice, women's health, women's health rights, say abortion, guys,
you're talking about abortion. No one has any problem with
any other women's quote health rights. But they can't use
the actual language that we all agree mean something, because
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then they'll lose the debate. So what do they do
to change the terms of the debate when they're not
deep platforming, as you can see, when they're not shutting
you down, silencing you, what do they do? Change the
way that you can use the platform, change the words
that are acceptable, change the definition, at least in the
public mind, so that now they can say whatever they
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want about a thing. Deep politicizing. Oh okay, sure, isn't
that so? Isn't that so quaint? We all know what
they're trying to do here, We all understand what's happening.
But you're seeing the fundamental dishonesty of the Democrat Party
on full display for all right now, whether it's on
changing the terms of our discussion over the Supreme Court
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vacancy that will hopefully soon be filled by Amy Coney
Barrett or saying that Joe Biden know that there is
no right for the people to know, there is no
reason for the people to know if Biden would even
engage in court packing, fundamental dishonesty from all quarters. That's
your Democrat Party in twenty twenty. You're in the freedom Huh.
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This is the best of Buck Daily Podcast, the top
stories of the day from the Buck Sexton Show. It
is Columbus Day. It is not Indigenous People's Day. It
is Columbus Day, named for Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer
who on behalf of the Spanish crown, discovered the New
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World change global history and is somebody who for this accomplishment.
We celebrate him, all right. We don't celebrate him because
he was a nice guy, because he was just a
big old cuddle bear. We celebrate Christopher Columbus because he's
somebody who changed the course of history and brought about
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a change in the historical trajectory that resulted in a system,
the American system, that then spread around the world that
has resulted in more people living longer, healthier, better lives,
more people pulled out of poverty in the twentieth century
into the twenty first century alone, than at any other
time in human history, and probably all of the rest
of human history added together. I know that sounds mind boggling,
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but it's true. Here's a proclamation on Columbus Day from
the White House. More than five hundred years ago, Christopher Columbus,
in trepid voyage to the New World, ushered in a
new era of exploration and discovery. His travels led to
European contact with the Americas, and a century later, the
first settlements on the shores of the modern day United States. Today,
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we celebrate Columbus Day to commemorate the great Italian who
opened a new chapter in world history, and to appreciate
his enduring significance to the Western Hemisphere. When Christopher Columbus
and his crew sailed across the Atlantic Ocean on the
Nina Pinta and Santa Maria, it marked the beginning of
a new era in human history. For Italian Americans, Christopher
Columbus represents one of the first of many immeasurable contributions
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of Italy to American history. As a native of Genoa,
Columbus inspired early immigrants to carry forth their rich Italian
heritage to the New World. Today, the United States benefits
from the warmth and generosity of nearly seventeen million Italian Americans,
whose love of family and country strengthen the fabric of
our nation. For our beautiful Italian American communities and Americans
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of every background, Columbus remains a legendary figure. Sadly, in
recent years, radical activists have sought to undermine Christopher Columbus's legacy.
These extremists seek to replace discussion of his vast contributions
with talk of failings with discoveries of atrocities, and his
achievements with transgressions. Rather learn from our history. Rather than
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learn from our history, this radical ideology and its adherents
seek to revise it, deprive it of any splendor, and
market as inherently sinister. They seek to squash any descent
from their orthodoxy. We must not give into these tactics
or consent to such a bleak view of our history.
We much teach. We must teach future generations about our
storied heritage, starting with the protection of monuments to our
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intrepid heroes like Columbus. This June I signed an executive
order to ensure that any person or group destroying or
vandalizing a federal monument, memorial, or statue is prosecuted to
the fullest extent of the law. I've also taken steps
to ensure that we preserve our nation's history and promote
patriotic education. On this Columbus Day, we embraced the same
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optimism that led Christopher Columbus to discover the new world.
We inherit that optimism, along with the legacy of American
heroes who blaze the trails, settle the continent, tame the wilderness,
and built the single greatest nation the world has ever seen.
In commemoration of Christopher Columbus's historic voyage, the Congress, by
joint Resolution of April thirtieth, nineteen thirty four, requested the
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President proclaimed the second Monday of October each year as
Columbus Day. Now, Therefore, I Donald Trump, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested
in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim October twelfth, twenty twenty as
Columbus Day. I call upon the people of the United
States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
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I direct that the flag of the United States be
displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day, in
honor of our diverse history and all who have contributed
to shaping this nation. In witness hereof I have here
unto set my hand this ninth day of October and
the year of our Lord two twenty now the independence
of the United States of America, the two hundred and
forty fifth Donald Trump. That's just one thing that if
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Joe Biden becomes your president, you can kiss all that
kind of stuff goodbye. Joe Biden will be showing up
talking about Indigenous People's Day. You know, it's fascinating, isn't it.
For BLM Democrats war Kent cloth scarfs, remember that. I
mean it was Nancy Pelosi Kente cloth scarf, right, What
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such a shameless pandering, such demagoguery, and among many others
Chuck Schumer. Yeah, because they're really all about They're really
all about African history. I mean, but Joe Biden, you know,
I might show up on Indigenous People's Day. What I mean,
I don't know was he gonna wear it, wear a
feathered headdress or something? Or is that is that? No,
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that's not allowed. Kent take cloth is allowed, But Native
American garb or anything like that not allowed, seems to
Who knows where the rules are different from the left
than on the right, that's for sure. But all of this,
this talk of American optimism and the brilliance of Columbus
and what he did, that will all be entirely forgotten.
And there's another part of this history that's forgotten as well,
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and that's Columbus as as a as a point of pride.
And one would think if they really look back, and
I think if more people knew this history, particularly if Democrats,
by the way, don't know history. They know little snippets
of history that are useful for the socialist left narrative
of control today, but they don't actually know history as
as just a broad thing. They generally have no idea
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what the heck they're talking about. And I mean the
ones that are making these arguments. I mean, I mean
the sixteen nineteen project, which now people are calling for
it to be stripped of its pulitzer, which will never happen,
even though it's it's changed its mission statement. That's how
that's how fraudulent that whole thing was. They've said it
was about establishing a new day for the American founding.
And now they're saying, no, it's not about that. We've
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we've scrubbed that. Not not true. Oh interesting, But people
forget the struggles. You know, there have been waves of
immigration into this country in the past, and the struggles
that different immigrant groups had, notably Italian Americans who did
face real discrimination. And I know people hear this now
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and they think, come on, Italian we got you know,
Cuomo is the governor of New York and you know
Rudy Giuliani was the America's most famous mayor. You think
of all these Italian Americans who I have big political
names and have become so well known. But if you
go back into history a little bit, there were some
very ugly incidents of bigotry against Italian immigrants in this country.
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And Columbus Columbus Day was was a thing that they
drived tremendous pride in because the Italian Americans were generally
doing menial jobs when they got he or didn't speak
the language, were and especially for those who were more
Sicilian and from you know, further south and more central
in the Mediterranean Sea, they were known to be usually
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a little bit darker and so there was there was
a racial component that would come out to the anti
Italian rhetoric of the time. And I know, and now
it's it's like talking about anti Irish bigotry. Irish were
banned from or barred from jobs, Irish need not apply.
Irish weren't allowed to where Irish were thought of as criminals.
Irish were thought of as as as thugs, thieves, on rustworthy.
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Now then the Irish became you know, they went from
being the quote thieves to then becoming the cops in
pretty much every major American city and then running you know,
the political machinery, and now you know, they're all over
the place, right And I'm basically half Irish by by heritage,
roughly roughly fifty percent Irish, and of that stock, my
ancestors came over on one side during the Potato famine
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in eighteen forty and settled in Brooklyn, New York, just
got right off the dock. And this is where they were,
and that's why I've got I've got very long roots
here in New York City. But the Italians, there's one
incident that comes to mind. I mean, there were eleven
Italian Americans who were lynched. Also another thing. Lynching was
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a terrible crime that was done mostly but not exclusively,
against African Americans from around eighteen called eighteen seventy, getting
into about reconstruction era into the nineteen twenties or so.
You had a few thousand people in the United State
dates who were lynched, and about two out of three
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were African American, But there was about a third of
the lynchings that occurred were not the horrible crimes perpetrated
against African Americans. There were. There were terrible crimes against
against other people, including whites who were trying to push
for black rights in the South. There were a whole
number of them who were lynched, and immigrants, different immigrants
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were lynched in eighteen ninety one. I don't even know
how many of you would would know this this story.
New Orleans one of my favorite cities in America. I
love New Orleans. It's such a fun place and it's
such such a cool mix of different cultures. But it
wasn't always a happy place with regard to how those
cultures interacted with each other. That's and that's putting it mildly.
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I mean, depending on the time in history, you can
obviously point to a whole lot of problems there, but
there were. There was an assassination effectively of I believe
it was the police chief. It might have been the
mayor of New Orleans. I have to check. I think
it was the police chief, and he was killed. And
they believed that it was the Italian American population. This
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was eighteen ninety one in New Orleans. They thought it
was the Italian American population. There already was this sense
of mafia ties and criminal activity with the Italians, and
they and they had already had a number of people
tried and acquitted, and they were still being held in
the jail for some reason, and others were still awaiting trial.
And a mob formed broke in and murdered, murdered, hanged
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and mutilated. So they shot them, and then some of
them they hang and they ripped apart the bodies. They
took body parts as trophies. Eleven Italian Americans killed in
eighteen ninety one in New Orleans for I mean maybe
one person, and I would be willing to bet a
whole lot of money it wasn't one of the eleven.
From what one person did to the to an official
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of the city of New Orleans, eleven lynchings all at once,
so there was a dark, there was a dark. His
rehear of discrimination against against immigrant groups, including Italian Americans
and Christopher Columbus is part of the the pride, and
that's why they'll talk about the pride. The Italian American
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community fields with Hey, you know, we were early contributors
to this American project, right, it was it was an
Italian who even discovered this place. It's an Italian, a
Metago Vespucci, for whom this country is named. And so
that's all part of you know, it's interesting the left
sees this need for other groups to have heroes elevated,
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and and they're right in many cases about the heroes
that they're choosing, right, you know, they're they're right to
want to elevate, you know, people from the Latino and
the African American community who have contributed to this country
throughout its history and ways. Absolutely, and I'm all for that, right,
I mean, I think that you could you could argue that,
you know, Frederick Douglas is one of the true founding
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fathers in many ways in this country. But with Italian
Americans it's considered it's all a sacrifice to wokeness now
and that's why. Not far from where I'm doing the
show is the large statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle,
named for him, where I used to avoid the area
because that's where CNN's headquarters were and I didn't want
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to bump into bump into Zucker and challenge him to
a breakdancing battle that would have been good Instagram content.
But now it's Christopher Columbus statue there has to be
guarded by the police because they know they're going to
it's going to be defaced. It's going to be defaced
because the Left is decided that the history of this
country is really a history of exploitation, rape, genocide, imperialism, murder, theft,
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and exploitation. And what's interesting is that, I mean, depending
upon how they're going to set up their parameters for
how they would judge any country, you could say that
about any great civilization. There's always violence, there's always wars,
there's always you know, internet scene struggle, there's always all
of these things. But is that the majority? Is that
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what most of the history really was, or did it
create a society where people overwhelmingly lived in peace, prosperity,
and some degree of happiness. America is the greatest nation
state that has ever been the greatest force for good
in the world, and it's only possible because of people
who are willing to take risks and willing to be leaders.
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Christopher Columbus certainly played a large role in all of that.
And Columbus is somebody who I think we are right
to honor for the accomplishment and that is it for
the discovery. No one is saying that everything he did
was great, or that he was a perfect or wonderful man,
or just saying this guy made it. It's like he
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won a big race and we are giving him the
trophy for the race. And that's it. Thanks for listening
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to the podcast. But these are nonetheless the consequences of
her stated views on the law prevailed on the Supreme Court.
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And if Republicans are successful until in this vacancy prior
to November tenth, well then we know these viewers will
almost certainly prevail. So that's what's at stake here, that's
what weighs heavily on me as we begin this here.
He's also weighs heavily on the minds of the Vermonters
I represent. I've heard from them off and then loudly
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since Justice Skins breaks past, and they're scared, Judge Barrett.
They're scared that your confirmation would live the very healthcare
protections the millions of Americans that ought to maintain and
which Congress is repeatedly projected eliminate. They're scared that the
clock will be turned back to the time when women
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had no right to control their own bodies and when
it was acceptable to discriminate against women in the workplace.
Showers your cold pasture of glay here, A yeah, maybe
it's time now do some oil painting in the backyard
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with the grandkids. Did these guys ever stop? You know
how we have an age requirement for certain offices, right,
you have to be a certain age to be president.
You have a certain age to be in the United
States Senate, and a certain age for the House. You
know how we have that. I think we also at
a point now where we need to consider an upper
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limit for elected office because people's egos are overtaking their
ability to think fairly and rationally about whether they are
in fact the most energetic, the most mentally acute, and
best representative for the people in their place, because they
just look People want to be important. You see this
in the media all the time. You see people get
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addicted to being important and having other people listen to
them and having power and just being a normal person
is terrifying to folks who have been in that world,
have been a senator or for forty years. Look at
Joe Biden, I look at look at Lahey, and look
at Nancy Pelosi. And you know I'm telling you honestly.
I mean, I think Trump is agewise, at the upper
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limit of what somebody should be to be the president.
And Trump is also somebody who has a tremendous amount
of energy and vitality for his age, and is in
very good health. In vaccines, we're speaking about the president's health.
He said that he's here. We are, folks, it's Monday.
I said, we gotta wait till Monday to know for sure.
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The media is not going to focus on this. I'm
just taking take a little break from the judge stuff
for a second. Here Trump's saying he's great, good to
go back in action. Seventy four year old or maybe three,
but seventy plus year old Donald Trump, with some concern
over some additional aggravating factors, got COVID beat it in
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three four days. He's telling you himself. He say he's fine.
Doesn't even happen anymore. Play fourteen. The note that you
have revealed from your doctor which says you are no
longer considered a transmission risk. Does this suggest you no
longer have COVID? Sir, Yes, And not only that, it
seems like I'm immune, so I can go way out
of abasement, to which I would have done anyway, and
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which I did, because you have to run a country.
You have to get out of the basement. And it
looks like I'm immune for I don't know, maybe a
long time and maybe a short time. It could be
a lifetime. Nobody really knows. But I'm immune. So the
President is in very good shape. Here we are, folks,
a'm moment of celebration that the media will just ignore
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President's fine. It wasn't just a stunt. It wasn't just
oh he wanted that shot outside the White House after
he'd been released from Walter read where he took off
his mask and they were all saying, he's mostly because
they're psychos, because they're crazy. An the president beat this thing.
And now, really you see the two narratives. You can
beat Joe Biden. You can be a h gotta wear
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the mask all the time, and I gotta be you know,
hey man, I'm a mask mania. And you can avoid
people and stay in your basement. And look, I have
never said that anyone shouldn't. You know, that's freedom. You
want to stay in your basement, you want to not
live your life pline. But Trump now shows us that no,
you can. You should be able to make the decision
to live your life knowing that there is some risk
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that you could get COVID nineteen and yes, knowing that
that means you could in fact transmit the disease to
other people as well, not intentionally. But this is the
world we live in. Viruses are in the air, Viruses
are all over us, actually all the time. People don't
ever talk about that, but it's true. It's really just
a question of your immune system. There's a constant, ongoing
battle between your immune system and microbes. But we don't
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think about that very much. But the president beat it.
And there's a study out of Harvard just today that
says that looks like at least four months they think,
according to the study out of Harvard, Harvard Medical School
will give you protection. So that means Trump is fine.
Trump can go out there and he can shake hands
and high five and kiss babies and all. He's good
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based on what we know about epidemiology, based upon what
we know of the virus, no reasonable, no reasonab believe otherwise,
certainly up until the election, and probably deep into twenty
twenty one. So who made the better decision? Really? Remember
they were all jumping on the president and saying, look
at a reckless he is. He got it. Yeah, And
they were saying he deserved it, and they were saying
they hope he had a bad, bad outcome. And the
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President responded with, look, I'm the president. I gotta be
out there, i gotta do things. I've got to represent
my people. And that means that there's going to be
some risk. There is risk to the president every time
he goes to an even that's why he's got the
Secret Service with him. Right. This is not a risk
free job. As a number of US presidents from our
past unfortunately can't attest to. But if you look at
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the history books and as recently as Ronald Reagan, it
was very apparent to presidents that there are risks with
that job. It is not risk free. There are risks
from bad people, there are risks from bad diseases. That's
just the reality. And now we have a president who
has recovered from the virus and is fine and is
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a symboled to so many other folks. If seventy four
year old Donald Trump, now, look, I understand he got
very good care, but they used drugs on him that
they use on other people as well. But Donald Trump, yes,
he got in there early because he was being tested frequently.
But you know, first of all, forty percent of people
they tell us are asymptomatic entirely. So even if you
get this, the chances are that there's a good chance,
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I should say, that you will have no symptoms, and
the chances are very high that you'll have very minimal symptoms.
And oh, who is even paying attention to the fact
that the World Health Organization one of its top officials
over the weekend. Now, look, I know we were bashing
the WHO because it was way too China friendly. With
this Wuhan coronavirus stuff in the beginning, fine, but they
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do look at this issue, and we were told that
we should listen to them, and that it was only
just some kind of a Trump conspiracy to even question
the who WHO officials come out and said, look, we
should we should not have lockdowns as the go to policy.
Just said it, just like, look, we should not do this.
This does not make sense. It's too damaging, it's too
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costly to society. Stop using lockdowns as the primary the
primary move here. But you know, look, there's a reason, friends,
that the long lockdowns we're seeing were never considered the
wise response to a pandemic in all the policy and
academic literature written on this, and there was a lot
of it before twenty twenty, actually until April of this year.
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The media and our expert class have failed us. They're
never going to admit their catastrophic errors. But that's what
has happened here. That's the truth. Our fight against COVID
nineteen lockdowns did not work and exacted a terrible toll
on society, one that we can't even really begin to calculate.
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A tremendous amount of dress and stress put on people
all across the country. And if you look at the
country by country breakdown, you know what one of the
look one of the single biggest differentiators here between countries
with really bad outcomes and countries that were pretty okay
with this has to do with the percentage of the
population that had serious health problems before COVID nineteen. That's
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just the facts. This is just data and numbers. You know,
you look at South Korea, look at Japan. They have
far less diabetes and far less obesity than we do.
And so when you're and also when you add that
to the way that we calculate COVID depths, where there
are now clear examples right bright red line kind of
examples of someone who dies from an accident to our
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self home, but they test in the person has COVID nineteen.
They say it's a COVID death, I mean, Dave. And
there are incentives in the system for doctors because you
get federal money for the hospital. There are there are
incentives for coding it as a COVID death. And no
one's going to challenge you or be upset of you
for saying it's a COVID death. In the sort of
consensus media democrat world. They're going to say, see, this
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is a person who's taking the disease seriously. That's what
they'll say. It's pretty stunning. So we continue to see
this pretty stunning. Indeed, this is the best of Buck
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we are now beginning the fastest economic recovery and history.
We created a record eleven point four million jobs just
in the last four months. That's the fastest ever. The
US has seen the smallest economic contract of any major
nation anywhere in the world. So we've seen the smallest
going down. If you look at it, that's an incredible statement.
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Our opponents will crush to come back with unscientific lockdowns.
They want to lock everything down. Here we go again.
They want to lock it down. Now, we're not gonna
let it happen. We're not gonna let it happen. So
important you get out in vote. You got to get
out of votes. Not going to be a second lockdown.
Music to my ears, at least at the federal level,
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especially as I have to sit here and worry about
what they're going to do in New York, where I
believe we are going to go into an extended lockdown
again in New York City, at least where I'm currently
doing the show. I remember when I spoke to the
President in May and I was in the Oval office
with them. Spent forty five minutes or so close to
an hour, I think, sitting there just talking about everything,
just the two of us, nobody else in the room,
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and the one thing that I really wanted to hammer home,
and he completely agreed with me. To his credit, he
completely agreed with me on this. I just said, Sarah,
we can't do a second lockdown. This is this And
he said, Buck, there's not going to be a second lockdown.
We're going to put out the fires as they come up,
but there's not going to be a second lockdown. It was,
you know, that was a one time thing to get
us prepared because we were caught off guard by this.
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You know, we didn't have the you know, the PPE
and the ventilators and all these things that everyone said
that they were going to need so badly. So so
far the President has has kept his promise on that one.
And I asked him said, promised me, you're not going
to do that. Certain he said, We're not going to
do that. So that's a promise so far that has
been kept. And I'm happy that the President understands why
that would be such a bad idea. But I'm also
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deeply concerned because with Democrats, this is this is now
an article of faith. They're gonna want to have a
lockdown and then have Biden bring us out of it
and in his own good time, federal mask mandate. He's
saying this, and I keep asking people, if we're gonna
have a federal mask mandate, why not have a federal
mask and goggles mandate? I mean, why not really go
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all in right? Why not we could make enough goggles
for everybody. Shouldn't we all have to where goggles and mask?
And then shouldn't we just do a full hooded ventilator
system so that you really are actually getting protect that works,
whether that would protect you from the virus. But why
too expensive? Too much? I thought this was about saving lives.
Notice how the way that they the way that they
argue with people like me who will say masks probably
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have some effect. I don't know how big it is.
I don't. I don't deny that it is helpful in
some circumstances in some ways, but it's minimal, it's insufficient.
It's not enough to stop this thing. Obviously, it wasn't
enough to stop the Spanish influenza pandemic of nineteen eighteen,
when they had mask policies and cities by the way
and people were dying and numbs were Trust me, nobody
was like saying, hey, you know, I'm just going to
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go out there. I shouldn't say nobody. There's always people,
but you know, people were wearing masks, folks, And I'm
sure the people that stopped wearing them in nineteen eighteen
were the ones who said, this isn't saving us, so
what are we even doing? But anyway, I just note
that the Biden campaign has made this a huge, a
huge virtue signal we all know, which is why I
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don't think I've seen a photo of Joe Biden out
without a mask on. I don't even know in how
many months, other than at the debate. Obviously, who knows
that they're even going to be a second debate. But
I'll tell you this. I rode on an Amtrak train
yesterday and I just have to kind of laugh. Here's
what here's the little window into the future of what
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you get if you allow democrat status types to determine
how we're going to respond to this pandemic. For the future,
this is what your life is going to be like,
not just for all of next year, maybe deep into
twenty twenty two. You're going to have policies like I
sat sat there on amtrack dealing with this where you
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have no one's allowed to sit next to you. Now,
I think maybe if you're of the same it's same household,
but who even knows? With that, you'll see these experts
that are right. Hey, when you're having you know, special
fun fun time with the your significant other, well, you
gotta make sure you wear that surgical mask to protect
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the protect them from COVID. That's a real thing. I
know you're some of you are giggling. That's a real thing.
Gotta wear the mask for special fun fun time. Okay,
that's the craziest thing, I think, I mean, how much?
And then take the mask off while you sleep next
to each other in the same room, in the same
bed for the rest of the night. Right, But you
know a husband and wife doesn't matter, gotta protect each other.
It's absurd, it's stupid. We all know it's stupid. But
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I just point out all the stupid policies and people
get mad at me, and I say, well, are we
just supposed to all do dumb things because some people
are scared and so they get to make all the
decisions for all the rest of us. You know, you
could go swimming in the ocean and get eaten by
a shark tomorrow. It can happen. In fact, I think
the most common places in the country for sure. I
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think the most common place in the world for shark
attack might even be on the coast of Florida. I
think it's what's right up there. It's coast of Florida,
east coast of Australia and off South Africa. That's where
you have the most certainly the most shark attacks in total.
I think the most fatal shark attacks too. Now why
am I talking about shark attacks Because if I ran
around telling everybody who's going into the ocean, what are
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you doing? You could be eaten by a shark. Technically true,
but I think people should be allowed to swim. Now
I understand they're far more people getting COVID shark attacks.
But I'm just saying that when it comes to day
to day risk mitigation or our own lives, people should
be allowed to make their own decisions. And for people
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who say things like, oh, well, look what about seatbelt laws, bucket,
I'd say, yeah, plenty of people don't wear their seat belts.
I got news for you. Plenty people still don't do it,
still don't do it. And also the fine for now
wearing a seatbelt isn't fifteen hundred dollars or prison time.
It's like a fifty dollars. Who cares? And you know
that's also just affecting you, that's not affecting anybody else.
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And it's such a minor inconvenience that even I think
some libertarians say, all, I mean, you know whatever, wearing
a mask, it's not a minor inconvenience. It's really annoying.
It's oppressive, it's psychologically deleterious. I really have I believe
that I'm gonna go to the gym today. I'm gonna
be doing deadlifts with a fricking mask on, like an
idiot alone, because no one else will even go to
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the gym because they're so scared where I am alone
in you know, a room that's probably fifteen hundred square
feet with the windows open. But got to wear that
mask while I'm deadlifting. It's it's insane, right. But so
back to the Amtrak. So I'm on the Amtrak where
you know, blue collar Joe takes it. You know how
long the Amtrak Acela is from Delaware to to DC
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to Capitol Hill. It's actually like the greatest commute imaginable
in a lot of ways, at forty five minutes. I
don't know, maybe it's forty five minutes to Baltimore, but anyway,
it's like an hour. It's like an hour. It's quick.
And that's what Joe Biden was doing, you know, once
or twice a week or something. It wasn't even like
that often. It's crazy. But I'm on the ism slup.
They won't let somebody sitting next to you, but you
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have people mandated because it's a sign seating now sit
in front of you and behind you. And I was
sitting across from somebody and I kid you not, she
had she had a little mask on and she pulled
the classic Biden maneuver. Remember when Biden pulled down his
mask to cough into his hand, and then pulled his
mask bask back up again. She had a coughing fit,
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you know, coughing right, you know, right next to me.
Pulled her mask off for the coughing fit. So just like,
you know, based on what we're all told, just like virus,
virus everywhere, right, all kinds of whatever. She's got, just
coughing all over the place, and then pulled her mask
back up. And I'm sitting here like, oh gee, thanks,
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So so I get the coughing, which is actually expelling
the virus you know, fifteen feet or whatever it is.
But but the mask wearing, you know, when you're breathing.
It's so dumb folks. And then I sit around people,
who are you eating a bagel of cream cheese? No
mask on for you know, thirty or forty minutes, but
for the last twenty minutes of the trip, they put
that mask back on because that's going to protect us.
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It's idios, you know, it's idiocy. It makes no sense.
Don't listen to the lockdown libs who judge you and
mask shame you.
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Welcome friends to the buck Sexton Show. We are twenty
two days out from the election, and in some ways
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it really doesn't feel like it does It not nearly
the same kind of frenzy of political activity out on
the streets. We don't have lawns in New York City,
so I can't speak to lawn signs. But everyone's still
locked up inside. Things are getting colder, people are worried
about COVID, and this week we're going to spend really
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on a Supreme Court nomination battle. There's going to be
something of a rest spit from the main effort of
the election for a few days. And we've already seen
what the opposition to Amy Coney Barrett looks like so far,
and the answer is it is unbelievably weak. I mean,
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it's really quite pathetic. You saw this over the weekend.
You had a number of prominent news sites that started
doing one of two things. They either changed the definition
of court packing to include this right which is filling
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a Supreme Court seat. No, that's that's court packing. No,
that's called filling a seat. That's not packing. Or they've
started to use this phrase de politicize the court, depoliticize
Supreme Court dominations. What the heck does that even mean? Well,
it's what you do when you don't have a real argument.
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It's what you do when you're flailing. And clearly the
Democrats are at this point. What are they going to
say the incredibly brilliant, universally beloved mother of seven who
adopted two black children from Haiti and has already been
through a Senate confirmation process to be an Appeals Court
judge and was just pushed through without really any issue
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other than being asked, does the dogma? The dogma lives
loudly within you? Which was great for Conservatives, Catholics and
Republicans that that question was out there. But she's already
been confirmed to that why would she not be confirmed here?
They have no argument, friends, they lost. This is nothing
but sour grapes, sore loserism from Democrats. That's all it is.
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They have no other argument. History is with the Republicans
filling this seat, common sense, basic politics. Elections have consequences
the single truest and most useful phrase that Barack Obama
ever uttered. I think, at least as president, elections do
have consequences, and we are seeing right now what that
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can mean. So far, it has been pretty pathetic watching
Democrats dance around the full on assault on Amyn Barrett's
character that we all kind of know is coming. We
all believe that they'll do something completely disgraceful or disreputable here.
That's their only option. What else are they going to say? ACB?
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And I refer to her that way because it's convenient,
but also because it really triggers the Libs. They hate
that she's no RBG. Correct, she's not. And for the
purposes of a constitutionalist on the court, that's a great thing.
That's a great thing. But they're going after everything around
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this moment. So far, they're trying to set the stage
and set the narrative. You had Democrats senators spend the
day talking about how important the Affordable Care Act is,
Senators talking about how Donald Trump has done a terrible
job on COVID. These things have nothing to do with ACB.
Nothing this is all about. It's supposed to be about
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deciding whether or not this woman, who is eminently qualified
to sit on the Supreme Court is in fact going
to sit on the Supreme Court. That's it. There's nothing else,
which is why all along I've held out that we
should have just had the GOP, should have called for
I vote, have it done and over with, Allow there
to be a vote on this, get it in the books,
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get her put in that seat, Dounzo, move on to
the next challenge. That's it. But no, senators can't help
but want to take every opportunity to give speeches in
front of the American people to a national television audience
about how much they love the Constitution, or about how
much Republicans and Donald Trump hate America, or whatever it
is that they're going to say. You're hearing a variation
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of a political stump speech for most of these senators,
nothing particularly worthwhile or interesting for many of them. Senator
Ben Sass of Nebraska gave a Civics one on one
lesson today. I suppose some people seem to like it.
Other people felt like it was kind of a waste
of everyone's time. Senator Dick Durban also did much of
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the same, going off on some lengthy speech about the
need to protect pre existing conditions and how the Supreme
Court is supposed to be this sacred body, and none
of it really adds up to anything other than they
are upset that they're not getting their way. Now. I
know SASA is a Republican. I didn't mean to throw
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him in there with Durban, but I don't trust him.
It's gonna say, I don't trust the guy as a
Republican at all. I think he's more about SASS than
he is about the GOP, that's for sure. Some of
you can disagree with me, and that's fine, But onto
what they're going to do. Now they've tried so hard,
they've they've they've tested and then thrown out there all
these different narratives. They're still clinging to the weakest of
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all I think, which is it was it was rbg's
last wish. I do not care, neither does any other Republican.
It's not it doesn't matter. Rbg's last wish is not
meaning full for a government proceeding that is representative of
what is best for three hundred and thirty million people. Okay,
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doesn't matter the same way that the Democrats pretend it
does not matter that RBG was on the record and
explicitly against packing the court. So who was it that
tried to pack the court? Just it's worth taking a
moment to look back in time for a second. Who
was it? It was? FDR? Wasn't oh a big Democrat,
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the Democrat who ushered in really the overreaching federal government authority,
the enormous fissures and breaks in the Constitution. So it
was in fact the Democrats who once again part as
part of their will to power, tried to push through
court packing. They don't get their way and they want
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to change things. It's back in nineteen thirty seven. So
it stayed at nine back then. But that was also
because the composition of the court changed enough and the
decisions changed enough to Roosevelt's liking. What was it about
the not the Green New Deal, oh, but new Deal legislation.
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So let's understand this as we have democrats today lecturing
us about precedent and history and making it up as
they go along. That FDR perhaps the big government patron saints.
I don't know if you want to call him a saint,
but you know, the big government exemplar of the twentieth century.
Couldn't get the Supreme Court then to agree that some
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of his new Deal actions were in fact constitutional. So
what did he do change the people making the decisions
about the constitutionality. A very Olynskyite approach. Now that's what
he wanted to do. It was not successful, obviously, and
the judges stayed at nine. But it was that same impulse.
We have power, we want to do things. We are collectivists,
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and we believe in state authority, so we're just going
to go for it. It doesn't matter. There's a founding
document that we're all supposed to adhere to that creates
the basis for all of these government actions, known as
the Constitution. It's not supposed to matter. And then you
have this other, this media. It's really amazing, this media
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effort where it is almost like and I say almost
because it is like, actually, I'd be willing to bet
that if you were able to track down the emails,
you'd find out that there were members of the media
who are getting emails from Democrat list serves and Democrat
email lists and things telling them to start referring to
the deep politicization of the court and also just say
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that it's the Republicans who are court packing. This is
classic gaslighting, and that's exactly what they're doing. Now. They
do something, or try to do something. In this case,
they haven't done it yet, thankfully, but they try to
push through a court packing scheme, and when it doesn't
work out for them, when the public or at least
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the institutions that are watching over this thing, say look,
you guys, they're allowed to do this, you can just
wine and wind, they say, well, yeah, well you're the
ones who are packing the court what. Yeah, you're the
ones who are doing it. You cheated. This is the
logic of an eight year old who stole a piece
of birthday cake, knows he's about to get caught, and
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so he blames his six year old sister. She did it,
Cast dispersions on the other side, undermine them, and hope
that your side is able to get what they what
they want out of the equation. That's what's happening here. Democrats,
in so many ways do act like a spoiled eight
year old. That's really the central id, the central ethos
of the party. I want, therefore I demand, I want,
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therefore I should get. Constitution can't be an impediment to it.
The rule of law can't be an impediment to it.
And even the stellar credentials of ACB and the fact
that here we have a truly obviously decent, kind, ethical,
brilliant person who's going to be in a role where
she will make good decisions and stay in her lane.
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She's not going to be a super legislator. She will
at some point, i'm sure, disappoint conservatives because she won't
do things that are outside of the constitutional scope of
a Supreme Court justice. It's the left, it's the liberals
who want something very different. They want a super legislature
that is not accountable to the people, and that will
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give them at the key moments in the courts decision
making process, will give them the laws and the political
victories that they want. This is for all of us
to see. It's quite obvious. It's quite apparent, And for
all the smarmy lib lawyers out there with their much
heralded credentials because they went to some institution that is
now just churning out erudite leftists as fast as possible
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who have bad judgment, but unfortunately have strong enough legal
credentials that they now largely control the legal profession. I mean,
the left has overtaken not just undergrad programs, but law schools.
Speak to somebody who's gone to law school in the
last ten or fifteen years. There every bid is down
with BLM and social justice and you know, Occupy Wall
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Street and all this stuff, you name it, big corporate
law firms. It'd be shocking if Americans actually really understood
how far this leftist ideological rot has extended throughout the
legal profession. What ACB's gonna withstand all of that? And
here's my prediction for the week. And this is one
of these predictions where I hope I'm wrong. You will
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recall that Brett Kavanaugh was also sailing through stellar credentials,
perfectly situated, gold plated resume for a Supreme Court justice.
Nothing about the guy didn't add up to, yeah, he
should be voted through. And that's the way the beginning
of those hearings went till all of a sudden we
knew that there was this allegation that surfaced, and then
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this woman showed up, and it was all just run
through the Democrat apparatus. You had very powerful figures prepping
and assisting and pushing for Blasi Ford, and then of
course two other women came forward, each one less credible
than the next with their allegations. And there are a
whole bunch of allegations of people that made their way
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to the Senate that didn't actually make their way under
the Senate floor because they were so absurd that even
the shameless and disgraceful Kamala Harris and the rest of
the Senate Democrats on the Judiciary weren't willing to use
because their allegations from women who, it was demonstrable, had
never even been in the same state as Kavanaugh, never
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mind had actually been the victim of some attack by
his hand. Brett Kavanaugh was a manifestly innocent person and
a good man, and perfectly suited to be a Supreme
Court justice. Amy Coney Barrett is a good woman and
all so perfectly suited for the role. We're gonna go
through a few days here where it'll seem like everything
is just fine, and then at the very last moment,
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as we were just a few weeks away from an election,
I think Democrats will spring the trap. I don't know
what it is. It may be a process thing, it
may be blocking access to Capitol Hill, It may be
someone coming forward who claims that they heard Amy Coney
Barrett saying anti LGBT slurs thirty years ago, with no
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proof and no nothing, but it's something along those lines.
But they're gonna try and it's gonna be ugly. That's
my prediction, So just get ready for it. We're gonna
I think we're gonna go through a few days of
pretty smooth sailing Democrats flailing looking weak, looking absurd. But
I know, I know this left wing mentality, I know
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what this Democrat party has become, and they're going to
try something ugly and disgusting in the next forty eight
hours or so. Thanks for listening to the Festive Bus
Daily podcast. Get more from Buck by following him on
social media at buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, on Instagram,
and don't forget to visit buck Sexton dot com. Well,
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I can tell you that we're getting this question. It's
a common question being asked because American people who have
watched the Republicans pack in the court over the last
three and a half years, and they brag about it.
They've taken every vacancy and filled it. Did you know
that they've sent us and we have approved only with
their votes. That might add ten people who have been
judged unanimously unqualified by the American Bar Association. Do you
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know how many judicial nominees came from Obama who were
judged unanimously unqualified. None? So we are dealing with people
on the court packed into the court with little or
no qualification, who are going to be there for a
long time. So it's understandable the Republicans raised the issue
of court packing, changing the definition. That's Dick Durbin on
the Senate Judiciary Committee changing the definition of court packing
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in real time. That is not what court packing is.
You can say don't like their nominations. You can say
a lot of things, but you can't say that that's
court packing, which is what they're doing. They're claiming right
now that the words that we are using to talk
about this nomination process don't actually have a specific meaning,
that they can change the meaning of those words in
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real time. What is that reminiscent of? There's a great
irony in all this? Isn't there? Then? At a time
when we're talking about who should sit on the Supreme Court,
somebody who believes the Constitution is a document that has meaning,
and that the words have implications that are not subject
to whims and interpretations not rooted in the actual text. Right,
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you have textualists and you have living constitution people. Right,
it's just whatever I want it to be, whenever I
want it to be. That. Well, look at what the
Democrats are doing right now with court packing. Court Packing
isn't that thing that we've all agreed it is for
as long as we've been using the term, it's some
other thing, it's some other concept. Let me now, let
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me now shift into that conversation. It's stunning, it's disgusting,
it's unfair. But that's where we are. That's where we are.
Depoliticizing is the other term we're using. The Associated Press
has heard it a talk about This was the quote
from the Weekend. Bullock said that if Coney Barrett was confirmed,
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he would be open to measures to depoliticize the court,
including adding judges to the bench, a practice critics have
dubbed packing. Oh so now we're gonna see. This is
why I always tell you, watch the words the Democrats use,
from a legal alien to a legal immigrant, to undocumented
immigrant to undocumented period, just given documents, then they're just
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American like everybody else, right, the same thing doesn't matter.
Look at that. There are so many instances of this. Oh,
pro choice, women's health, women's health rights, say abortion, guys,
you're talking about abortion. No one has any problem with
any other women's quote health rights. But they can't use
the actual language that we all agree mean something, because
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then they'll lose the debate. So what do they do
to change the terms of the debate when they're not
deep platforming, as you can see, when they're not shutting
you down, silencing you, what do they do? Change the
way that you can use the platform, change the words
that are acceptable, change the definition, at least in the
public mind, so that now they can say whatever they
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want about a thing. Deep politicizing. Oh okay, sure, isn't
that so? Isn't that so quaint? We all know what
they're trying to do here, We all understand what's happening.
But you're seeing the fundamental dishonesty of the Democrat Party
on full display for all right now, whether it's on
changing the terms of our discussion over the Supreme Court
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vacancy that will hopefully soon be filled by Amy Coney
Barrett or saying that Joe Biden know that there is
no right for the people to know, there is no
reason for the people to know if Biden would even
engage in court packing, fundamental dishonesty from all quarters. That's
your Democrat Party in twenty twenty. You're in the freedom Huh.
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This is the best of Buck Daily Podcast, the top
stories of the day from the Buck Sexton Show. It
is Columbus Day. It is not Indigenous People's Day. It
is Columbus Day, named for Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer
who on behalf of the Spanish crown, discovered the New
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World change global history and is somebody who for this accomplishment.
We celebrate him, all right. We don't celebrate him because
he was a nice guy, because he was just a
big old cuddle bear. We celebrate Christopher Columbus because he's
somebody who changed the course of history and brought about
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a change in the historical trajectory that resulted in a system,
the American system, that then spread around the world that
has resulted in more people living longer, healthier, better lives,
more people pulled out of poverty in the twentieth century
into the twenty first century alone, than at any other
time in human history, and probably all of the rest
of human history added together. I know that sounds mind boggling,
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but it's true. Here's a proclamation on Columbus Day from
the White House. More than five hundred years ago, Christopher Columbus,
in trepid voyage to the New World, ushered in a
new era of exploration and discovery. His travels led to
European contact with the Americas, and a century later, the
first settlements on the shores of the modern day United States. Today,
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we celebrate Columbus Day to commemorate the great Italian who
opened a new chapter in world history, and to appreciate
his enduring significance to the Western Hemisphere. When Christopher Columbus
and his crew sailed across the Atlantic Ocean on the
Nina Pinta and Santa Maria, it marked the beginning of
a new era in human history. For Italian Americans, Christopher
Columbus represents one of the first of many immeasurable contributions
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of Italy to American history. As a native of Genoa,
Columbus inspired early immigrants to carry forth their rich Italian
heritage to the New World. Today, the United States benefits
from the warmth and generosity of nearly seventeen million Italian Americans,
whose love of family and country strengthen the fabric of
our nation. For our beautiful Italian American communities and Americans
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of every background, Columbus remains a legendary figure. Sadly, in
recent years, radical activists have sought to undermine Christopher Columbus's legacy.
These extremists seek to replace discussion of his vast contributions
with talk of failings with discoveries of atrocities, and his
achievements with transgressions. Rather learn from our history. Rather than
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learn from our history, this radical ideology and its adherents
seek to revise it, deprive it of any splendor, and
market as inherently sinister. They seek to squash any descent
from their orthodoxy. We must not give into these tactics
or consent to such a bleak view of our history.
We much teach. We must teach future generations about our
storied heritage, starting with the protection of monuments to our
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intrepid heroes like Columbus. This June I signed an executive
order to ensure that any person or group destroying or
vandalizing a federal monument, memorial, or statue is prosecuted to
the fullest extent of the law. I've also taken steps
to ensure that we preserve our nation's history and promote
patriotic education. On this Columbus Day, we embraced the same
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optimism that led Christopher Columbus to discover the new world.
We inherit that optimism, along with the legacy of American
heroes who blaze the trails, settle the continent, tame the wilderness,
and built the single greatest nation the world has ever seen.
In commemoration of Christopher Columbus's historic voyage, the Congress, by
joint Resolution of April thirtieth, nineteen thirty four, requested the
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President proclaimed the second Monday of October each year as
Columbus Day. Now, Therefore, I Donald Trump, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested
in me by the Constitution and the Laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim October twelfth, twenty twenty as
Columbus Day. I call upon the people of the United
States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
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I direct that the flag of the United States be
displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day, in
honor of our diverse history and all who have contributed
to shaping this nation. In witness hereof I have here
unto set my hand this ninth day of October and
the year of our Lord two twenty now the independence
of the United States of America, the two hundred and
forty fifth Donald Trump. That's just one thing that if
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Joe Biden becomes your president, you can kiss all that
kind of stuff goodbye. Joe Biden will be showing up
talking about Indigenous People's Day. You know, it's fascinating, isn't it.
For BLM Democrats war Kent cloth scarfs, remember that. I
mean it was Nancy Pelosi Kente cloth scarf, right, What
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such a shameless pandering, such demagoguery, and among many others
Chuck Schumer. Yeah, because they're really all about They're really
all about African history. I mean, but Joe Biden, you know,
I might show up on Indigenous People's Day. What I mean,
I don't know was he gonna wear it, wear a
feathered headdress or something? Or is that is that? No,
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that's not allowed. Kent take cloth is allowed, But Native
American garb or anything like that not allowed, seems to
Who knows where the rules are different from the left
than on the right, that's for sure. But all of this,
this talk of American optimism and the brilliance of Columbus
and what he did, that will all be entirely forgotten.
And there's another part of this history that's forgotten as well,
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and that's Columbus as as a as a point of pride.
And one would think if they really look back, and
I think if more people knew this history, particularly if Democrats,
by the way, don't know history. They know little snippets
of history that are useful for the socialist left narrative
of control today, but they don't actually know history as
as just a broad thing. They generally have no idea
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what the heck they're talking about. And I mean the
ones that are making these arguments. I mean, I mean
the sixteen nineteen project, which now people are calling for
it to be stripped of its pulitzer, which will never happen,
even though it's it's changed its mission statement. That's how
that's how fraudulent that whole thing was. They've said it
was about establishing a new day for the American founding.
And now they're saying, no, it's not about that. We've
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we've scrubbed that. Not not true. Oh interesting, But people
forget the struggles. You know, there have been waves of
immigration into this country in the past, and the struggles
that different immigrant groups had, notably Italian Americans who did
face real discrimination. And I know people hear this now
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and they think, come on, Italian we got you know,
Cuomo is the governor of New York and you know
Rudy Giuliani was the America's most famous mayor. You think
of all these Italian Americans who I have big political
names and have become so well known. But if you
go back into history a little bit, there were some
very ugly incidents of bigotry against Italian immigrants in this country.
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And Columbus Columbus Day was was a thing that they
drived tremendous pride in because the Italian Americans were generally
doing menial jobs when they got he or didn't speak
the language, were and especially for those who were more
Sicilian and from you know, further south and more central
in the Mediterranean Sea, they were known to be usually
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a little bit darker and so there was there was
a racial component that would come out to the anti
Italian rhetoric of the time. And I know, and now
it's it's like talking about anti Irish bigotry. Irish were
banned from or barred from jobs, Irish need not apply.
Irish weren't allowed to where Irish were thought of as criminals.
Irish were thought of as as as thugs, thieves, on rustworthy.
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Now then the Irish became you know, they went from
being the quote thieves to then becoming the cops in
pretty much every major American city and then running you know,
the political machinery, and now you know, they're all over
the place, right And I'm basically half Irish by by heritage,
roughly roughly fifty percent Irish, and of that stock, my
ancestors came over on one side during the Potato famine
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in eighteen forty and settled in Brooklyn, New York, just
got right off the dock. And this is where they were,
and that's why I've got I've got very long roots
here in New York City. But the Italians, there's one
incident that comes to mind. I mean, there were eleven
Italian Americans who were lynched. Also another thing. Lynching was
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a terrible crime that was done mostly but not exclusively,
against African Americans from around eighteen called eighteen seventy, getting
into about reconstruction era into the nineteen twenties or so.
You had a few thousand people in the United State
dates who were lynched, and about two out of three
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were African American, But there was about a third of
the lynchings that occurred were not the horrible crimes perpetrated
against African Americans. There were. There were terrible crimes against
against other people, including whites who were trying to push
for black rights in the South. There were a whole
number of them who were lynched, and immigrants, different immigrants
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were lynched in eighteen ninety one. I don't even know
how many of you would would know this this story.
New Orleans one of my favorite cities in America. I
love New Orleans. It's such a fun place and it's
such such a cool mix of different cultures. But it
wasn't always a happy place with regard to how those
cultures interacted with each other. That's and that's putting it mildly.
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I mean, depending on the time in history, you can
obviously point to a whole lot of problems there, but
there were. There was an assassination effectively of I believe
it was the police chief. It might have been the
mayor of New Orleans. I have to check. I think
it was the police chief, and he was killed. And
they believed that it was the Italian American population. This
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was eighteen ninety one in New Orleans. They thought it
was the Italian American population. There already was this sense
of mafia ties and criminal activity with the Italians, and
they and they had already had a number of people
tried and acquitted, and they were still being held in
the jail for some reason, and others were still awaiting trial.
And a mob formed broke in and murdered, murdered, hanged
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and mutilated. So they shot them, and then some of
them they hang and they ripped apart the bodies. They
took body parts as trophies. Eleven Italian Americans killed in
eighteen ninety one in New Orleans for I mean maybe
one person, and I would be willing to bet a
whole lot of money it wasn't one of the eleven.
From what one person did to the to an official
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of the city of New Orleans, eleven lynchings all at once,
so there was a dark, there was a dark. His
rehear of discrimination against against immigrant groups, including Italian Americans
and Christopher Columbus is part of the the pride, and
that's why they'll talk about the pride. The Italian American
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community fields with Hey, you know, we were early contributors
to this American project, right, it was it was an
Italian who even discovered this place. It's an Italian, a
Metago Vespucci, for whom this country is named. And so
that's all part of you know, it's interesting the left
sees this need for other groups to have heroes elevated,
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and and they're right in many cases about the heroes
that they're choosing, right, you know, they're they're right to
want to elevate, you know, people from the Latino and
the African American community who have contributed to this country
throughout its history and ways. Absolutely, and I'm all for that, right,
I mean, I think that you could you could argue that,
you know, Frederick Douglas is one of the true founding
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fathers in many ways in this country. But with Italian
Americans it's considered it's all a sacrifice to wokeness now
and that's why. Not far from where I'm doing the
show is the large statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle,
named for him, where I used to avoid the area
because that's where CNN's headquarters were and I didn't want
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to bump into bump into Zucker and challenge him to
a breakdancing battle that would have been good Instagram content.
But now it's Christopher Columbus statue there has to be
guarded by the police because they know they're going to
it's going to be defaced. It's going to be defaced
because the Left is decided that the history of this
country is really a history of exploitation, rape, genocide, imperialism, murder, theft,
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and exploitation. And what's interesting is that, I mean, depending
upon how they're going to set up their parameters for
how they would judge any country, you could say that
about any great civilization. There's always violence, there's always wars,
there's always you know, internet scene struggle, there's always all
of these things. But is that the majority? Is that
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what most of the history really was, or did it
create a society where people overwhelmingly lived in peace, prosperity,
and some degree of happiness. America is the greatest nation
state that has ever been the greatest force for good
in the world, and it's only possible because of people
who are willing to take risks and willing to be leaders.
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Christopher Columbus certainly played a large role in all of that.
And Columbus is somebody who I think we are right
to honor for the accomplishment and that is it for
the discovery. No one is saying that everything he did
was great, or that he was a perfect or wonderful man,
or just saying this guy made it. It's like he
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won a big race and we are giving him the
trophy for the race. And that's it. Thanks for listening
to the Best of Buck Daily podcast. For more Buck,
head to Buck Sexton dot com and remember to subscribe
to the podcast. But these are nonetheless the consequences of
her stated views on the law prevailed on the Supreme Court.
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And if Republicans are successful until in this vacancy prior
to November tenth, well then we know these viewers will
almost certainly prevail. So that's what's at stake here, that's
what weighs heavily on me as we begin this here.
He's also weighs heavily on the minds of the Vermonters
I represent. I've heard from them off and then loudly
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since Justice Skins breaks past, and they're scared, Judge Barrett.
They're scared that your confirmation would live the very healthcare
protections the millions of Americans that ought to maintain and
which Congress is repeatedly projected eliminate. They're scared that the
clock will be turned back to the time when women
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had no right to control their own bodies and when
it was acceptable to discriminate against women in the workplace.
Showers your cold pasture of glay here, A yeah, maybe
it's time now do some oil painting in the backyard
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with the grandkids. Did these guys ever stop? You know
how we have an age requirement for certain offices, right,
you have to be a certain age to be president.
You have a certain age to be in the United
States Senate, and a certain age for the House. You
know how we have that. I think we also at
a point now where we need to consider an upper
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limit for elected office because people's egos are overtaking their
ability to think fairly and rationally about whether they are
in fact the most energetic, the most mentally acute, and
best representative for the people in their place, because they
just look People want to be important. You see this
in the media all the time. You see people get
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addicted to being important and having other people listen to
them and having power and just being a normal person
is terrifying to folks who have been in that world,
have been a senator or for forty years. Look at
Joe Biden, I look at look at Lahey, and look
at Nancy Pelosi. And you know I'm telling you honestly.
I mean, I think Trump is agewise, at the upper
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limit of what somebody should be to be the president.
And Trump is also somebody who has a tremendous amount
of energy and vitality for his age, and is in
very good health. In vaccines, we're speaking about the president's health.
He said that he's here. We are, folks, it's Monday.
I said, we gotta wait till Monday to know for sure.
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The media is not going to focus on this. I'm
just taking take a little break from the judge stuff
for a second. Here Trump's saying he's great, good to
go back in action. Seventy four year old or maybe three,
but seventy plus year old Donald Trump, with some concern
over some additional aggravating factors, got COVID beat it in
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three four days. He's telling you himself. He say he's fine.
Doesn't even happen anymore. Play fourteen. The note that you
have revealed from your doctor which says you are no
longer considered a transmission risk. Does this suggest you no
longer have COVID? Sir, Yes, And not only that, it
seems like I'm immune, so I can go way out
of abasement, to which I would have done anyway, and
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which I did, because you have to run a country.
You have to get out of the basement. And it
looks like I'm immune for I don't know, maybe a
long time and maybe a short time. It could be
a lifetime. Nobody really knows. But I'm immune. So the
President is in very good shape. Here we are, folks,
a'm moment of celebration that the media will just ignore
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President's fine. It wasn't just a stunt. It wasn't just
oh he wanted that shot outside the White House after
he'd been released from Walter read where he took off
his mask and they were all saying, he's mostly because
they're psychos, because they're crazy. An the president beat this thing.
And now, really you see the two narratives. You can
beat Joe Biden. You can be a h gotta wear
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the mask all the time, and I gotta be you know,
hey man, I'm a mask mania. And you can avoid
people and stay in your basement. And look, I have
never said that anyone shouldn't. You know, that's freedom. You
want to stay in your basement, you want to not
live your life pline. But Trump now shows us that no,
you can. You should be able to make the decision
to live your life knowing that there is some risk
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that you could get COVID nineteen and yes, knowing that
that means you could in fact transmit the disease to
other people as well, not intentionally. But this is the
world we live in. Viruses are in the air, Viruses
are all over us, actually all the time. People don't
ever talk about that, but it's true. It's really just
a question of your immune system. There's a constant, ongoing
battle between your immune system and microbes. But we don't
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think about that very much. But the president beat it.
And there's a study out of Harvard just today that
says that looks like at least four months they think,
according to the study out of Harvard, Harvard Medical School
will give you protection. So that means Trump is fine.
Trump can go out there and he can shake hands
and high five and kiss babies and all. He's good
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based on what we know about epidemiology, based upon what
we know of the virus, no reasonable, no reasonab believe otherwise,
certainly up until the election, and probably deep into twenty
twenty one. So who made the better decision? Really? Remember
they were all jumping on the president and saying, look
at a reckless he is. He got it. Yeah, And
they were saying he deserved it, and they were saying
they hope he had a bad, bad outcome. And the
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President responded with, look, I'm the president. I gotta be
out there, i gotta do things. I've got to represent
my people. And that means that there's going to be
some risk. There is risk to the president every time
he goes to an even that's why he's got the
Secret Service with him. Right. This is not a risk
free job. As a number of US presidents from our
past unfortunately can't attest to. But if you look at
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the history books and as recently as Ronald Reagan, it
was very apparent to presidents that there are risks with
that job. It is not risk free. There are risks
from bad people, there are risks from bad diseases. That's
just the reality. And now we have a president who
has recovered from the virus and is fine and is
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a symboled to so many other folks. If seventy four
year old Donald Trump, now, look, I understand he got
very good care, but they used drugs on him that
they use on other people as well. But Donald Trump, yes,
he got in there early because he was being tested frequently.
But you know, first of all, forty percent of people
they tell us are asymptomatic entirely. So even if you
get this, the chances are that there's a good chance,
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I should say, that you will have no symptoms, and
the chances are very high that you'll have very minimal symptoms.
And oh, who is even paying attention to the fact
that the World Health Organization one of its top officials
over the weekend. Now, look, I know we were bashing
the WHO because it was way too China friendly. With
this Wuhan coronavirus stuff in the beginning, fine, but they
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do look at this issue, and we were told that
we should listen to them, and that it was only
just some kind of a Trump conspiracy to even question
the who WHO officials come out and said, look, we
should we should not have lockdowns as the go to policy.
Just said it, just like, look, we should not do this.
This does not make sense. It's too damaging, it's too
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costly to society. Stop using lockdowns as the primary the
primary move here. But you know, look, there's a reason, friends,
that the long lockdowns we're seeing were never considered the
wise response to a pandemic in all the policy and
academic literature written on this, and there was a lot
of it before twenty twenty, actually until April of this year.
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The media and our expert class have failed us. They're
never going to admit their catastrophic errors. But that's what
has happened here. That's the truth. Our fight against COVID
nineteen lockdowns did not work and exacted a terrible toll
on society, one that we can't even really begin to calculate.
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A tremendous amount of dress and stress put on people
all across the country. And if you look at the
country by country breakdown, you know what one of the
look one of the single biggest differentiators here between countries
with really bad outcomes and countries that were pretty okay
with this has to do with the percentage of the
population that had serious health problems before COVID nineteen. That's
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just the facts. This is just data and numbers. You know,
you look at South Korea, look at Japan. They have
far less diabetes and far less obesity than we do.
And so when you're and also when you add that
to the way that we calculate COVID depths, where there
are now clear examples right bright red line kind of
examples of someone who dies from an accident to our
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self home, but they test in the person has COVID nineteen.
They say it's a COVID death, I mean, Dave. And
there are incentives in the system for doctors because you
get federal money for the hospital. There are there are
incentives for coding it as a COVID death. And no
one's going to challenge you or be upset of you
for saying it's a COVID death. In the sort of
consensus media democrat world. They're going to say, see, this
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is a person who's taking the disease seriously. That's what
they'll say. It's pretty stunning. So we continue to see
this pretty stunning. Indeed, this is the best of Buck
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we are now beginning the fastest economic recovery and history.
We created a record eleven point four million jobs just
in the last four months. That's the fastest ever. The
US has seen the smallest economic contract of any major
nation anywhere in the world. So we've seen the smallest
going down. If you look at it, that's an incredible statement.
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Our opponents will crush to come back with unscientific lockdowns.
They want to lock everything down. Here we go again.
They want to lock it down. Now, we're not gonna
let it happen. We're not gonna let it happen. So
important you get out in vote. You got to get
out of votes. Not going to be a second lockdown.
Music to my ears, at least at the federal level,
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especially as I have to sit here and worry about
what they're going to do in New York, where I
believe we are going to go into an extended lockdown
again in New York City, at least where I'm currently
doing the show. I remember when I spoke to the
President in May and I was in the Oval office
with them. Spent forty five minutes or so close to
an hour, I think, sitting there just talking about everything,
just the two of us, nobody else in the room,
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and the one thing that I really wanted to hammer home,
and he completely agreed with me. To his credit, he
completely agreed with me on this. I just said, Sarah,
we can't do a second lockdown. This is this And
he said, Buck, there's not going to be a second lockdown.
We're going to put out the fires as they come up,
but there's not going to be a second lockdown. It was,
you know, that was a one time thing to get
us prepared because we were caught off guard by this.
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You know, we didn't have the you know, the PPE
and the ventilators and all these things that everyone said
that they were going to need so badly. So so
far the President has has kept his promise on that one.
And I asked him said, promised me, you're not going
to do that. Certain he said, We're not going to
do that. So that's a promise so far that has
been kept. And I'm happy that the President understands why
that would be such a bad idea. But I'm also
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deeply concerned because with Democrats, this is this is now
an article of faith. They're gonna want to have a
lockdown and then have Biden bring us out of it
and in his own good time, federal mask mandate. He's
saying this, and I keep asking people, if we're gonna
have a federal mask mandate, why not have a federal
mask and goggles mandate? I mean, why not really go
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all in right? Why not we could make enough goggles
for everybody. Shouldn't we all have to where goggles and mask?
And then shouldn't we just do a full hooded ventilator
system so that you really are actually getting protect that works,
whether that would protect you from the virus. But why
too expensive? Too much? I thought this was about saving lives.
Notice how the way that they the way that they
argue with people like me who will say masks probably
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have some effect. I don't know how big it is.
I don't. I don't deny that it is helpful in
some circumstances in some ways, but it's minimal, it's insufficient.
It's not enough to stop this thing. Obviously, it wasn't
enough to stop the Spanish influenza pandemic of nineteen eighteen,
when they had mask policies and cities by the way
and people were dying and numbs were Trust me, nobody
was like saying, hey, you know, I'm just going to
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go out there. I shouldn't say nobody. There's always people,
but you know, people were wearing masks, folks, And I'm
sure the people that stopped wearing them in nineteen eighteen
were the ones who said, this isn't saving us, so
what are we even doing? But anyway, I just note
that the Biden campaign has made this a huge, a
huge virtue signal we all know, which is why I
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don't think I've seen a photo of Joe Biden out
without a mask on. I don't even know in how
many months, other than at the debate. Obviously, who knows
that they're even going to be a second debate. But
I'll tell you this. I rode on an Amtrak train
yesterday and I just have to kind of laugh. Here's
what here's the little window into the future of what
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you get if you allow democrat status types to determine
how we're going to respond to this pandemic. For the future,
this is what your life is going to be like,
not just for all of next year, maybe deep into
twenty twenty two. You're going to have policies like I
sat sat there on amtrack dealing with this where you
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have no one's allowed to sit next to you. Now,
I think maybe if you're of the same it's same household,
but who even knows? With that, you'll see these experts
that are right. Hey, when you're having you know, special
fun fun time with the your significant other, well, you
gotta make sure you wear that surgical mask to protect
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the protect them from COVID. That's a real thing. I
know you're some of you are giggling. That's a real thing.
Gotta wear the mask for special fun fun time. Okay,
that's the craziest thing, I think, I mean, how much?
And then take the mask off while you sleep next
to each other in the same room, in the same
bed for the rest of the night. Right, But you
know a husband and wife doesn't matter, gotta protect each other.
It's absurd, it's stupid. We all know it's stupid. But
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I just point out all the stupid policies and people
get mad at me, and I say, well, are we
just supposed to all do dumb things because some people
are scared and so they get to make all the
decisions for all the rest of us. You know, you
could go swimming in the ocean and get eaten by
a shark tomorrow. It can happen. In fact, I think
the most common places in the country for sure. I
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think the most common place in the world for shark
attack might even be on the coast of Florida. I
think it's what's right up there. It's coast of Florida,
east coast of Australia and off South Africa. That's where
you have the most certainly the most shark attacks in total.
I think the most fatal shark attacks too. Now why
am I talking about shark attacks Because if I ran
around telling everybody who's going into the ocean, what are
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you doing? You could be eaten by a shark. Technically true,
but I think people should be allowed to swim. Now
I understand they're far more people getting COVID shark attacks.
But I'm just saying that when it comes to day
to day risk mitigation or our own lives, people should
be allowed to make their own decisions. And for people
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who say things like, oh, well, look what about seatbelt laws, bucket,
I'd say, yeah, plenty of people don't wear their seat belts.
I got news for you. Plenty people still don't do it,
still don't do it. And also the fine for now
wearing a seatbelt isn't fifteen hundred dollars or prison time.
It's like a fifty dollars. Who cares? And you know
that's also just affecting you, that's not affecting anybody else.
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And it's such a minor inconvenience that even I think
some libertarians say, all, I mean, you know whatever, wearing
a mask, it's not a minor inconvenience. It's really annoying.
It's oppressive, it's psychologically deleterious. I really have I believe
that I'm gonna go to the gym today. I'm gonna
be doing deadlifts with a fricking mask on, like an
idiot alone, because no one else will even go to
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the gym because they're so scared where I am alone
in you know, a room that's probably fifteen hundred square
feet with the windows open. But got to wear that
mask while I'm deadlifting. It's it's insane, right. But so
back to the Amtrak. So I'm on the Amtrak where
you know, blue collar Joe takes it. You know how
long the Amtrak Acela is from Delaware to to DC
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to Capitol Hill. It's actually like the greatest commute imaginable
in a lot of ways, at forty five minutes. I
don't know, maybe it's forty five minutes to Baltimore, but anyway,
it's like an hour. It's like an hour. It's quick.
And that's what Joe Biden was doing, you know, once
or twice a week or something. It wasn't even like
that often. It's crazy. But I'm on the ism slup.
They won't let somebody sitting next to you, but you
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have people mandated because it's a sign seating now sit
in front of you and behind you. And I was
sitting across from somebody and I kid you not, she
had she had a little mask on and she pulled
the classic Biden maneuver. Remember when Biden pulled down his
mask to cough into his hand, and then pulled his
mask bask back up again. She had a coughing fit,
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you know, coughing right, you know, right next to me.
Pulled her mask off for the coughing fit. So just like,
you know, based on what we're all told, just like virus,
virus everywhere, right, all kinds of whatever. She's got, just
coughing all over the place, and then pulled her mask
back up. And I'm sitting here like, oh gee, thanks,
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So so I get the coughing, which is actually expelling
the virus you know, fifteen feet or whatever it is.
But but the mask wearing, you know, when you're breathing.
It's so dumb folks. And then I sit around people,
who are you eating a bagel of cream cheese? No
mask on for you know, thirty or forty minutes, but
for the last twenty minutes of the trip, they put
that mask back on because that's going to protect us.
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It's idios, you know, it's idiocy. It makes no sense.
Don't listen to the lockdown libs who judge you and
mask shame you.
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