October 21, 2020 • 47 mins
The Best Of Buck Daily is the top stories of the day from The Buck Sexton Show. Today Buck begins with the feds saying that the Hunter Biden emails are completely legit. Plus the libs are finally admitting they will never allow us to get back to normal life and why this is the most consequential election in a long time.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Freedom Hut. This is the best of
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Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show, my friends. Great to
have you here. Less than two weeks getting down to
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the wire. Gonna be gonna be a close one. It's
gonna be tight, it's gonna be tough. Get ready for it.
But today there's such a calm. If you look around
the news cycle, there's really not a whole lot of big,
blaring headlines about much of anything. It's almost like we're
in the middle of August in a non election year.
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For the day. This could change at any moment, even
though you have COVID still rampaging through the country, not
the way that the Libs say it is, but it
is still out there and it's still a challenge. The
lockdowns continuing to be a hold on our economy, and
a presidential election less than two weeks away, Pelosi negotiating
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in bad faith over a stimulus or a rescue I
should say bill for people because of the COVID lockdowns.
And yet today if you take a look around, you'd find, well,
hold on, why isn't there really more noticeable news to
talk about? How could this be? Well, there's a reason
for it. Friends. We are in the Great Suppression campaign
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of twenty twenty, right, you know about the Great Depression economically,
this is the Great suppression. They're doing everything that they
can to hold off on the Hunter Biden, the Hunter
Biden avalanche. They're just trying to just trying to keep
it back a little bit longer, because what else are
they going to do. They've already thrown their October surprises
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at Trump. They've already tried. They had the BS story
in The Atlantic about Trump thinks troops are losers. I mean, no,
no person who has any brains really believed that. But
you know, they're of all these different stories they've tried
and hasn't worked. But the Hunter Biden story is a
big problem for the media because they went all in
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in their efforts to make sure nobody knew anything about it,
that it was fake, that it was US Russian disinformation,
and you can just feel it's it's not working. It's
not working because there's more and now, as of yesterday,
we can tell you that there's at least reporting from
high level sources in the fbhin the DOJ that yes,
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the FBI has the Hunter Biden laptop, and yes it
is in fact the case that the DJ and the
FBI agree with the DNI's statement Ratcliffe statement earlier. Now,
there's no evidence whatsoever for Russian disinformation here doesn't exist.
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So people like Adam, if we're going out there claiming
there's Russian disinformation, they're presenting a completely speculative theory offered
in bad faith and hoping nobody pays attention to the
fact that they have no evidence, no support for it whatsoever, nothing, zero.
It's not working. The story is now out. People are
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seeing what really happened here, and I do think that
there's some portion of the media that's concerned that the
Joe Biden piece of this may solidify. It's one thing
for Hunter Biden to be this really obviously wounded corrupt,
but really also sad ne'er do well, that's one thing.
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It's another thing for Joe Biden to be directly benefiting
from and using his position as part of that corrupt scheme.
And this is exactly what the President is saying about it.
That's the president's claim that actually could really matter to vote.
You know, on the one hand, we just need to
know the truth because we should. We should be a
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society that operates in the realm of facts and honesty
and decency when we talk about our politics or politicians,
and we need to know what's real and what's not.
But that's the first layer of getting the truth out
about Hunter Biden. There's another layer where it's the media
can't be trusted at all, and you know this, They
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have no ethics, they have no decency. I mean, even
people that I know who are on the fence often
about trashing the entire mainstream media, but who are center right,
they will admit, now, we've never seen anything like this.
I mean, this is true Banana Republic, authoritarian, third world
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state media stuff. Fascinatingly enough, it's state media in favor
of the state that they want to bring into being
instead of the regime that already is in power. But
that's what we're facing. That is that is what we
are seeing right now. They don't care that you can
look and understand right away that they're partisans and they've
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been lying through this whole time. They're building up credibility
with their own side. This is now a loyalty test.
You see, if you're a journalist in America, the loyalty
test is, are you willing to sacrifice your dignity, your intelligence,
your professionalism in pursuit of advancing Biden to the Oval office.
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That's the loyalty test that ninety five percent of the
media is going through right now. And they're all succeeding
insofar as they're willing to do all those things as
long as it helps Joe Biden, because they know that
if he wins for four years at least, whoever ends
up being the real president, whether Joe steps down after
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a couple of years and Kamala takes over, or maybe
it's even sooner than a couple of years, whoever it
may be, they will have a Democrat administration that will
give them access that they can all cheer for and
they'll be oh so happy while they feel like their side,
their team, is in charge again. And this is very
important to liberals in particular, who take their politics and
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internalize at the point where they really believe that rooting
for Democrats makes them better, smarter, more empathetic people. So
an administration a Biden administration coming into power at this
point would help them on personal and professional levels, and
that's why they're willing to do the things that you've seen.
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Unprecedented suppression campaign from the mainstream media. I've never seen
anything like this in my life. And big tech also
put itself in a very a very precarious position, because
now we know when it really matters on a critical issue,
if they feel like they can put their thumb on
the scale for the left, for the Democrat, Twitter and
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Facebook will do it, even with no real rationalization or justification.
They will go to the mat for the Democrat. So
that means that now Republicans have to look more seriously
at how are they regulated, Why aren't they treated like
other media companies are treated. Why do they have this
section to thirty protection. They're not just a highway for
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ideas and information. They got a lot of traffic cops
on that highway and they only pull over Republicans. So
I have to tell you, I think what we're seeing
right now is a media that's in a little bit
of a quiet panic because they can't stop as much
as they tried the Hunter Biden story, they can't shut
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all of this down and They don't have anything to
offer in their all out assault on Trump that they
haven't already been trying, not just during this election cycle,
but for years. It's not going to sway anyone at
the last minute. I think they recognize that at some level,
you know, talking about Russia and whatever else they're throwing
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at Trump. Now, remember what was it a month ago?
The obsession was about Trump and not condemning white supremacy.
You know, Trump is a white supremacist because he won't
his words don't come out quickly enough when he says
that he condemns white supremacy or something like that. He
doesn't scream from the top of his lungs. One asked,
you know, he just says, I condemned white supremacy. No,
you must scream it, sir. So they've changed these narratives,
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They've done everything they can, and Trump can still win
this thing and they know it. Just imagine what the
country would be like if we had an evenly matched media,
if we had platforms on the right that were as
well funded and well established as those on the left,
as many of them, and we were able to really
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go toe to toe with them, you know, go cannon
for canon. So to speak with the other side, I
don't think you'd have a Democrat win a national election
for decades. The media gives them at least a five
to ten point boost over what they would have if
there was some parody. I'm not I'm not saying if
the right dominator all media with the left does. I'm
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just saying that there was some parody, but there's not. Instead,
what we have are Republicans that have to go into
debates where they know the moderator, as will be the
case tomorrow, the moderator is effectively a Democrat activist, and
you only have to make some small changes. Think about
it like a referee in a sporting event. If a
referee is biased, you know, all you have to do
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is call that one that give that one bogus pass
interference call right, All you have to do is call
that one time, call out the you know, the off
sides or whatever it may be, to change the change
the final outcome. And in debates it's not hard. If
somebody wants to make sure that one they're sending a
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signal to all their peers and their buddies. Don't worry.
We all know I'm a Biden person and too, if
they want to make sure that the Biden candidacy can
come out and have some credibility of saying that they
did a better job, it's very easy. You just have
to skew it a little bit. You just have to
move move the goalposts just a bit to help out
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your guy, Joe Biden. That's what's going to happen tomorrow night.
And we just accept this. We admit this. And I
got to tell you, you know, it reminds me of
what I've been saying here for months when we talk
about it. And it was great because Rush Limbaugh himself,
you'll recall, read every single word of this Twitter thread
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on this was back in June. He read every single
word of it on his radio show. And as we
sit here and the media is quiet because they don't
have a good enough assault strategy on Trump for the moment,
I wanted to share with you again what my thoughts were.
And remember, Rush himself, a great ever radio host, thought
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that this needed to be read to his entire audience
word for word. If one of the already vilified conservative
billionaires out there has any stomach for saving their country
from the mob, they should buy and flip a major
media platform or fund a new one and make it
an unsingable aircraft carrier of true free speech. We are
completely outgunned in the platform wars, and it's only going
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to get worse. All the major social media and streaming
content companies are part of the lib death star. Stop
sending checks to think tanks that overpay second tier scholars
to churn out policy papers that five people read. It
doesn't even have to be conservative in its mission mission.
It just needs to become dominated by conservatives. Rather, it
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would soon become dominated by conservatives if it adamantly refused
to censor speech for the woke mob. The left can
no longer tolerate debate like saying people but they don't
have to. They just point, scream and canceled. Meanwhile, I
know ultra wealthy conservatives who are terrified if anyone finding
out what their politics are because to be accepted among
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the elites, you have to at least allow those around
you to believe your woke and live. This is a
massive cultural failing of the right, and where are the
older leaders in conservative media building up the next generation.
Folks on our side seem obsessed with their own brands
and protecting their turf, which is a small slice of
the media landscape. We need more voices with serious platforms
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we control. That was in June and it goes on
from there. Doesn't that seem like it's pretty timely considering
what's gone on with the media and social media in
the last month or so. We'll all during the campaign,
but we're outgunned. They've got more platforms, they've got more
ships at sea, and we're just hoping that our superior
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seamanship will defeat them. Maybe maybe, But wouldn't it be
nice that this was the last election where we had
to sit here and say, sure they dominate all of Hollywood,
all of the news media, all of academia. Sure they
have all that, I might say all ninety five percent
of it. But wouldn't it be nice if that was
the last This is the last election we had to
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go through that, Because if there was any fair effort
to tell the American people what's really going on from
those who make a living trafficking and information, President Trump
would be up seven to ten points on Joe Biden
right now everywhere that counts. I really believe that. I
think the difference here is are corrupt, disgusting, disdainful media.
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They are the worst, and we have to find a
way to beat them. We can't keep allowing this dominance
to continue. And that's why I was so appreciative again
when when Rush read that on his show, such an
endorsement of it from the greatest radio host out there,
it just was a reminder for everybody else. This is
what we need to do. This has to be the future.
We have to build the best of daily podcast the
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top stories of the day from the Buck Sexton Show.
For more, buck head to buck Sexton dot com and
remember to subscribe to the podcast. Emergence of these emails,
text and videos that were supposedly left on a laptop
in Delaware a really fishy story whether that was actually
the product of a foreign intelligence operation, and obviously Russia
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would be the chief suspect there. Look, there's so many
questions about the provenance of this material. A lot of
it does look legitimate. There are pictures of Hunter Biden there,
videos or emails, but we have no idea and neither
does the New York Post whether any of it was
doctored or forged or faith And that's why the mainstream
news media has declined to really touch this story because
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it just lacks credibility, and the fact that it appeared
to the New York Post and that they chose to
report on extensively sort of says a lot about where
we are in twenty twenty as opposed to twenty sixteen,
when a lot of news organ zas reported on emails
that have been hacked by the Russians democratic emails and
then leaked and they were newsworthy and people were reported
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on them. We're in a much different situation now because
we now know that Russian disinformation or foreign disinformation or
even you know, campaign disinformation period is as dangerous to
our democracy as anything exposed in these emails. What a jackass.
I know, you probably heard too much from that guy.
That's a Ken Delaneyan at MSNBC who was a huge
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proponent of the entirely fraudulent Russia collusion hoax, as was
Rachel Maddou, who has suffered no consequences. In fact, her
ratings during that just kept going up and up. She's
never apologized for perpetuating a journalistic fraud, for the massive
journalistic malpractice she engaged in and all that, But she's
not a journalist. She's an opinion person. But even opinion
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people need to be factual, you know. That's why if
I get something wrong producer Mark or you know, somebody
will come on the air and tell me hey, or
they'll shoot me an email and say, hey, you got
that one. You got that one wrong. You know, so
it's important you got to have your facts stright. Kendalladian
has none of his facts straight. Doesn't know what the
heck he's talking about. Total nonsense, total nonsense. We need
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to come up with a term for this because this
has become a commonplace tactic of the left. When something
is obvious and obviously true and common sense means that
it all lines up, it's completely credible, there's tons of
evidence for it. But they do this well. There's a
lot of questions out there, so many more questions than answers.
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In fact, really we have no information, We just have questions.
I mean, this is a complete sleight of hand. It's
a trick. It's dishonest, right, It's just a way of
lying about what's really going on to people. But that's
what they do. There are questions about the providence of this.
Let's talk about rush shot well, what are the questions exactly.
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We have a signed receipt in Hunter Biden's handwriting for
the laptop in Delaware. There are intimate photos, not just photos,
not like stuff that they took off of Instagram, photos
that don't exist anywhere else of Hunter Biden. They're not faked.
They're on the laptop. The emails all, you know, if
you're running this kind of a disinformation operation, if you
were really doing that, very difficult to replicate all the
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you know, the kind of emails that you would expect
to be one Hunter Biden laptop from the outside. What
the Russians know all of his contacts, they know his
writing style, they, I mean, the whole thing. It's it's
so crazy. It's like saying that Joe Biden is not
really running for president. There's a space alien who's a
lizard with a Joe Biden suit on top, who's running
for president. That's what the MSNBC security analysts here's guys
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and moron. That's the level of absurdity they've gone to.
But no one has a problem with this on the
left because they're desperate right now. Thanks for listening to
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To me, I think we have to remind people over
and over again of exactly what the consequences are if
you fail to vote. I've been telling people that all
elections are important, so I don't call it one more
important than the other, but I will say there's some
elections are more consequential than others. And I believe that
this is the most consequential election of my lifetime, and
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I've been here for a while. I even think it's
more consequential than anything we've had since maybe eighteen sixty,
because I think we all know what grew from Abraham
Lincoln's election in eighteen sixty, and we know what has
happened since then. And so I'm saying to people today
that the consequences of this day's election or probably as dire,
if not most so then coup Presses of eighteen sixty,
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is just that, that's simple, the biggest election, if not
of all time, since the election of eighteen sixty. Congressman
Clyburn says here, So Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin coming
out on top of that one, I can say, Hannibal
Hamlin's are pretty cool. It's just a pretty interesting name,
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isn't it. Name somebody, Hannibal one of the great generals
of all time, somebody that I think will have to
do a Shield High episode on so producer Mark and
note that one down. I think that would probably once
I get out of And yes, we have Malta already
in the books for those who don't know, which is
why you should subscribe to the Bucks Exton podcast if
you don't already, because these will only be out on podcasts,
not on radio stations, although if any stations over the
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holidays want to play them, we wouldn't be opposed to
that either. But they're they're very specific history battle lessons
that are don't it just comes from a play. I'm
fascinated by it. So we've done in the past this
Mediterranean Christian Muslim Warfare podcasts and then the Dracula podcast,
which I'm hoping to pull together before Halloween this year,
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but I also want to do Hannibal crossing the Alps
and that period of the Punic Wars between Carthage and
Ancient Rome. That would be a really fun one to
do as well. Amazing battles I've read. I have a
whole book on the Battle of There's people say it
several different ways, canny can a some people have been
say Kenna, but one of the most horrific one day
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losses of life pre gunpowder, in all of all of
battle history. Amazing that so many people would be killed
at a time when it was all spears and swords anyway,
but so yes, the most consequential election since eighteen. That
was just my pitch for you all to subscribe the
Buck Sexton Show on the iHeart app or Spotify or wherever,
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so that when those Shields High episodes come out, you'll
already be good to go and you'll be able to
listen to them. I had, I had my sister listen
to one who's about she's about to have a baby,
like and want to say about you. I mean, it
could happen by the time the show is over, is
she's already due, could happen any minute. I am going
to be Uncle Buck. That's a real thing. I want
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to be Uncle Buck soon, and I single handedly plan
to change the the feeling around the name Uncle Buck
producer Mark. You've seen that movie, right, of course, it's
a classic. Why would you want to change anything about it.
I'm not sure that I aspire to be like the
John Candy character in that movie, though he is lovable
in his own way. I mean that's fair. But it's
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still a great movie. Yeah. Oh no, I'm not saying
it's not a good movie. I'm just saying, you know,
I don't think I want to be compared to that guy.
So the most consequential election they're saying since eighteen sixty.
I think that there's some truth to that, and I
think it's because the Democrat and this this is the problem. Right.
I'll walk you through my analysis on this, and then
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I'll tell you that I don't have great answers as
to some of the questions that it raises, because I
do believe the Democrat Party is now emotionally and psychologically
a socialist party. They don't like that label, and they're
still incremental, the same way that the lockdowns have been incremental.
The socialism that we see in America now is incremental.
It's peace by peace, right. It was Obamacare now, it's
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Medicare for all next, it's just socialized medicine full on right,
And you know that separation between Medicare for all is
single payers, so the government pays for everyone's healthcare. Socialized
medicine now, now that is a socialist system, and that
you have to move a lot of money around through
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redistribution to fund that. But straight up socialized medicine from
a just a definitional standpoint would be the government paying
the doctors, owning the hospitals and determining who gets what
care where. How when that's the National Health Service of
the UK, that is socialized medicine. You are a state
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employee as a doctor in the NHS and that's where
we're AND's that's been an enormous drag on the British economy.
And you know, it's a it's a hugely expensive system.
It's not a not a particularly good system for complicated
issues if one comes up. And the problem is that
the demagoguery becomes so easy around this. You know, it's
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like we talked about Obamacare. Now they say, oh my gosh,
people without you know, Obamacare, it's like they won't have
healthcare anymore. We didn't have people just dying in the
streets all over the place in America because of you know,
preventable disease or treatable, treatable medical issues that they were
just denied care for everywhere. I'm not saying that never happens.
Of course, there are going to be shortcomings in the system,
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and that's tragic whenever it happens. But that wasn't our reality,
that wasn't what was going on, and that still happens
sometimes in this country despite Obamacare, as we know, which
is why they've wanted to expa and beyond Obamacare into
this Medicare for All plan, although Biden doesn't want to.
He wants to do Obamacare. Plus you see, all he's
doing is looking at the leap the left and the
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socialists wanted to make, and Biden saying, let me put
a plank in between. We'll hop on that one on
our way to what the socialists want. And that's really
what the Biden presidency is. I think Biden is a
bridge to the next administration of a Democrat that is
a full on socialist like a Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,
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perhaps even a Kamala Harris, which means that it might
not even be after four or eight years that we
face this, but just a matter of a couple of
a couple of years before that comes next. You know, So,
is this the most consequential election since eighteen sixty? Now?
I mean, which is almost like saying the most consequential
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election of all time, I guess saying the second most
of all time. To this, I'd say, I think the
Democrats not only have gone socialist but also how a
plan to permanently transform the country with They first remove
the filibuster, and I do believe I am very worried
they're going to have control of the Senate. So let's
let's just talk about this premona. If they get control
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of the House, the Senate, and the presidency, Okay, they
get all three, what it would be the first thing
that they do, They'll eliminate the filibuster in the Senate entirely.
I do believe that will happen. They will pack the court.
I do believe that will happen, and they will move.
The biggest thing that can go for right away is
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a full on amnesty, and the Biden presidency can do
that knowing that Joe Biden, if it becomes a big
liability for him in the short term, which I think
it would. The American people are not in favor of amnesty.
And when they find out, and they will, what the
real number of people in the country illegally is, it
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is not eleven. And I'm not just surmising that. I'm
not just coming up with that. I've spoken extensively to
members of Border patrol and customs and Border Customs and
Immigration enforcement, and they will tell you there's just no
way based on their monthly numbers, and this whole oh,
there's net zero immigration right now doesn't count because of COVID,
but in general, net zero immigration of the US from
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Mexico and the rest of Latin America south of Mexico
is This is a fantasy that we've all been told
to make people not think that there is a massive,
a seismic shift in the US population that comes not
just from immigrants in general, but really from Mexico and
Central America. It's been an enormous change unlike anything we've
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ever experienced in our history. When you just look at
the aggregate number of people from one place or one
culture and region, and if they found out that it
was twenty or thirty million Americans who are about to
be made permanent residents, and then eventually the Democrats would
want to give them voting rights too. Right, So comes
the permanent residency, and then citizenship is just a step
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beyond that. That's just a legislative fix. At that point,
we're going to see an election here where I think
it's pretty easy to say that less than a half
a million votes will determine spread out over a number
of states, will determine the outcome. What do you think
happens to the future of elections in this country? If
you add let's call a twenty million new new citizens,
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they would say first just permanent residence or green card
or something like that. They'd be made citizens within short order.
So they make twenty million new citizens with an average
Democrat voting advantage of sixty or seventy percent of them. Right, So,
or so, let's say two to three to one would
be what you're looking at, you know, two or two
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to one or three to one. I'm sorry, three to
one or four to one would be the advantage you're
looking at, especially after a Democrat Democrat amnesty among that population.
Do you think we're gonna win any elections after that?
You think that that's really going to happen. But you
have much larger illegal populations than a lot of states
you don't even think of, and the Carolinas, for example.
Think about what that would do to flipping Texas blue.
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So this is a very consequential election because if Democrats
just get that, it would strike me that they can
get the Supreme Court doing their bidding with court packing,
and they can get amnesty across the You know, they
could just get a universal amnesty passed. You know that
that's what they remember. Reagan signed an amnesty bill for
millions of people back in eighty six, and he said
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he was swindled and it was a bad move. If
they get that, what really becomes our opposition. What are
we able to do then to try to win national elections.
I don't have a good answer for you other than
I think I think America becomes, for at least a
few generations, a one party state, and our debt and
the size of government and the intrusiveness of government becomes
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more and more unbearable, and that eventually maybe there's either
a collapse or there's some recognition at the government that
our system has worked so well because it allows people
to make choices to live in freedom and to pursue
their destiny is best for them as individuals. And then
when you eliminate that, you have something else. When you
eliminate that and you give people just the soma of
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government larges. Oh, we're gonna we're gonna take care of you,
We're gonna give your healthcare, we're gonna give you this
and that and everything else. I mean, there's a reason
why other countries that take that approach that really first
of all, if they really take that approach, people always
point to Sweden and you know, the Scandinavian countries, Denmark,
and they don't understand that those are very free market
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friendly countries for business to operate in. They have low
corporate tax rates, they have high individual taxes, and a
large welfare state and a tremendous amount of social buying
and social responsibility. Right, everybody works, everybody gets the perks.
That's their approach. But they're not socialist countries. They don't
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have the government in control of all industries. And if anything,
they've moved away from socialism and become much more free
market of the last twenty or thirty years, Norway is
a bit of an outlier as well. But Norway is
also a country that is very small, politically and ideologically homogeneous,
and has enormous fossil fuel reserves that can fund things
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that you know you wouldn't be able to have otherwise
for the country. But I mean you obviously you look
at Venezuela, which is a country that was promising that
has also enormous oil reserves and largest oil reserves in
the world for what it is, and it's a country
that's falling apart, where there are breadlines, but they don't
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have medicine. And it's because they put in charge of
government that thought it could solve all the problems for
the people, that would set price controls, that use social
justice as a means of determining how to run the economy.
This results in very bad outcomes. So I mean, this
is just my way of of working through with you.
How consequential is this election? If Trump loses, we may
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not have another opportunity to elect a Republican for a
generation or two. I think that's real. I think that's true.
And what would the country be like if it took
ten or twenty years for a Republican to be able
to win office? Again, what would the Republican Party even
be like at that point? So I don't think it's
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an overstatement to say that this is the most consequential election,
not just of my lifetime, but perhaps of the last
one hundred and fifty years, because it'll be a very
different country if we lose this. And I'm right about
what the Democrats try to do. And unfortunately, when it
comes to Democrats being a bunch of scheming, maneuvering, you know,
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absolutely ruthless political hatchetmen, I tend to be right. So
that's what I see happening here. You're in the Freedom Hunt.
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tough stories of the day from the Buck Sexton Show.
I gotta get access to the whatever the the Democrat
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list servis or the email list or whatever where they
all get they're assigned talking points from the d n C,
because I would just love to see exactly how they
managed to convince so many people who are are supposed
to think are supposed to think that mortgaging or selling
out their own intellectual credibility, I mean, looking like total
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bozos all the time is the price you have to
pay now for being a Democrat. But you have to
be so subservient, you have to be such a little toady,
a little quizzling, you have to be a little brad stouter.
That's whatever. Whatever Jeff tells me, I'll say, I hate facts,
that's what you gotta do. So he's one of many.
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He's really an archetype. He's really the quintessential version of
the toadying leftist, the throne shining lib that will say
whatever he has to say, no intellectual honesty, no journalistic integrity, whatsoever.
But there's so many of them, and you have here.
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I've never even heard of this guy before. Florida State
Attorney Dave Ehrenberg. He's getting in on this too. Maybe
maybe he wants to, you know, get a promotion. In
a Biden administration play eight, the President is taking a
page from the desperation chapter of the dictator's playbook. His
other October surprises have not worked. The Durham report still
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hasn't come out. It's not going to come out to
laughter the election. The investigation into the unmasking and spind
of his campaign has been a big nothing burger. Hunter
Biden's laptop, that whole thing has been fizzling. It looks
like it's tied to Ladimir Putin in Moscow. So he's stuck.
And so that's why this all sounds eerily familiar. Barbara's right.
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This is what we saw with the president of Ukraine,
where he's demanding an announcement of an investigation because he
knows the power of that, even though it got him impeached,
he knows that that's how he got elected in twenty sixteen.
I don't even know that guy thinks he thinks he's saying,
but he sounds like a complete moron. But let's understand
this at this stage, with a desperate Biden campaign that
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is running a weak candidate who is too old for
the job, who has been unimpressive as a legislator for decades,
who was a non event VP chosen by Obama because
you know, they just needed somebody from inside the system
who wasn't going to make too much noise or be
too annoying. So in that sense, I guess he sufficed.
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But now it's a question of stupidity as fealty. You
have to go out there if you're a Democrat, if
you're gonna be a good little soldier for the DNC.
You gotta go out there and say things that you
mu snow at some level make you look like a moron.
You have to. And in fact, the dumber you're willing
to sound, the more extreme you're willing to be in
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your denunciations of this as Russian propaganda and tying this
to Vladimir Putin. You know, well, why not just say
that this is an FSB or an SVR operation. Why
not just tell everybody that that's it? You know, why
not go the extra mile? Trump is actually a Russian asset.
Oh well, they've already said that. How could they make
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this more extreme? Oh, Rudy Giuliani's a Russian asset. I
heard that one recently too. These people will defame anyone.
I mean, if you think Rudy Giuliani is an asset
of the Russian government, you're not an intelligent human being.
But remember, there are the people that are too dumb
to understand what the lies are, with a lot of Democrats,
And then there are the people that are willing to
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embrace a stupid lie because it advances their position and
makes getting a position in the Biden administration, a senior
position more likely. I always say this and people get
mad at me. They're like, oh, Buck, don't don't say
anything good about the other side. Don't say anyth good
about the other team. The Left takes care of its fighters,
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you know, the Left takes care of people that even
you know Tubin. I mean, I've avoid because I know
a lot of you have kids who listened to the show,
and I always want you to know you're you know,
you're eight year old, you're ten year old. They'll always
be safe listening to every everything of Buck Sex and show.
You might have to explain a little bit to them afterwards,
but nothing that would be inappropriate or or you know,
you would you'd say, oh, I can't have him listened
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to that. So I've avoided a lot of the Tuban
jokes that I would otherwise like to make. But one
reason why I don't have it. I can tell you this.
If Tuban were a conservative, for whatever reason, they'd be
trying to say that he should have, you know, sex
crime charges I pushed against him. You know that it
was indecent exposure on purpose. You know that's true. No
one's even mentioned that. And by the way, I don't
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think that should happen to anybody but I'm just telling
you the difference in the media approach. You're gonna see
this Jeffrey Tubin, it's you know, it's embarrassing and h
you know, I mean, we don't have to get into it,
but he certainly got into it. Uh sorry, I mean,
come on, IKT. But he's he's already a millionaire, he's
already got these very privileged sinecures at places like The
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New Yorker on CNN. He's gonna come back and it's
gonna be fine. Anderson Cooper, will Bow and genuflect. When
Tuban comes on to talk about his legal analysis, what
are the worst legal analysts on TV? Just says stuff
all the time. That's not true, that's not intelligent. But
it's exactly what the Democrat left wants to hear, right,
It's what the Upper West Side and you know in
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New York City and Calorama and DC and Santa Monica
and Beverly Hills and California. It's what they want to
hear and Tuban provides. And of course all those counties
around DC where all the all the rich people, who
why are they rich again? Oh yeah, that's right. Proximity
to government, that's where they that's where they live. But
Tube will be fine. They take care of them. Do
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you know what Peter Struck is doing right now? A
lot of you say, Buck, he should be in prison,
right Do you know where he is teaching at Georgetown University? Yeah,
there you go, It's exactly what I'm talking about. You
know what James Combe is doing, counting his millions from
his book deal and tour and speaking events, and yeah,
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you know what General Flynn is doing, still trying to
get out of a farcical, unjust, evil, corrupt prosecution. You
see the trend, friends, You see what happens Just wait
until I'm here telling you about Oh it's the Biden administration.
And now Buck Sexton is having his first really thorough
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IRS deep dive into everything I've ever done for the
last seven years. Day that's gonna happen at some point.
I'm ready for it. Good news is, I'm very good
at crossing my teas and donning my eyes. But it
doesn't matter who you are at the I R s
one to make things miserable for you. They can. And
Democrats like Bill Clinton, as we all know, love using
the IRS against their enemies. Oh I'm sorry, like Barack
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Obama two. Lois Learner. Sure she was the only one
who was who was going after groups that said, you know,
Patriot or Tea Party or anything like that that were nonprofits.
It was just Lois Learner's own initiative. Yeah, sure, you know,
this is like when you know the mafia boss. I
never gave the order. Yeah, you never gave the order.
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Because you tell everybody things whispered in your ear in
the back of a restaurant that you sweep for bugs
every day. We all know what's really going on. We
all know who was really giving that order to go
after the Tea Party. Wasn't Lois Learner on her own folks.
But what a what a look if you're just if
you're just judging the other side by the effectiveness of
its ruthless moves, Democrats have a lot to teach us.
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Democrats don't care that they ran this Russia playbook the
last time around. They're doing it again. Doesn't matter that
it's obvious to anybody how fraudulent this whole thing is,
how unfair, how unethical. As far as they're concerned, the
more unethical, the better it shows resolve, It shows zelotry. Dedication,
and if you want to be a good little leftist,
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you better be a part of the revolution friends, or
else you're a counter revolutionary, and counter revolutionaries do not
have good outcomes when the left takes over. That's another
part of this. I do believe if Joe Biden wins
this election, there will be consequences for a lot of us.
I think that there will be an effort to use
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social media platforms to silence even more. I do believe
we're going to reach a point where all of the
tweets worth reading will say sensitive content warning on them.
Those will be the only ones you want to read,
because everything else is just the echo chamber. Propaganda of
the left is all the same stuff. And I think
people naturally we'd like to believe that there's a state
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of balance in our politics, in a state of balance
in our media. It's not true. It's not true. In
a lot of countries. You have one party rule in
a lot of countries around the world that are supposedly
free and open and relatively free and open, you really
have one ideology that completely dominates the public discussion, and
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anybody who descends from it is ridiculed and ostracized. And
shut down. So we are an anomaly in this regard
the fact that we're even really trying, and that our
two party system represents people on both sides of very
different ideas. There are big separations. I'm glad we don't have.
Usually there are people that try to get attention for
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themselves are an lestum saying both parties are the same,
there's no difference, and this is supposed to be really
edgy thinking, no, that's not true. Both parties are not
the same. They suffer from some of the same structural shortcomings,
but those are also just human failings. It's like saying, well,
people are greedy and lie and don't do it right.
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That's always going to be true. But if you're looking
at what the parties represent and what they want to accomplish,
there's some enormous differences. There's the difference for one, and
I found this so fascinating. I pointed this out. What
was it just yesterday that of all the things that
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Trump gets credit for, there's one that I think it's interesting.
You know, he hasn't started a war in four years.
He's the first president in decades for whom that is true,
and the media just doesn't care. You never hear about this.
The anti war left doesn't care, never gets a mention
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from them. Their opposition to war was apparently political, not ethical.
You know. I shared that online on Twitter a day
or two ago, and it went very viral because I
think it is such an overlooked point in all of this.
I'm I'm somebody who has grown up. I mean, my
entire adult life essentially has just been a series of
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American wars and occupations. Trump is the first president to
stop that. And they said he was going to go
to war with the rom They said he was going
to go to war with North Korea. It's not true.
We have results. This is about facts, This is not
about perception. We did not go to war with any
of these countries. He started pushing back on China for
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its illicit trade practices and all of the scheming and
undermining of our economy and the theft of intellectual property
that China does. We were told, oh, well, that might
lead to a ward. No it hasn't. What it's led
to is the Chinese government, finally, the Chinese Communist Party
being put on notice. There's a new sheriff in town. Now.
They don't like that sheriff. But that's because he's defending
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the defenseless farmers i e. The American people who are
left to the rapacious mercantilism of the Chinese Communist Party's
trade policies. Not anymore. That's all changed. In fact, foreign policy,
where the President also has peace deals in the Middle East,
not done by decades of previous attempts by other presidents
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of both parties. The president on foreign policy, it's really
one of his area's the biggest success, the US Mexico
Canada trade deal, for example. I mean they say pulling
out of the Paris climate a corporates a bad ideal,
that whole thing is a joke. It's just all a
big global virtue signaling bacchanal. Oh yeah, they're all going
to hold themselves to account for their carbon emissions. Nobody
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really believes that. No one really takes that seriously. Countries
aren't going to make themselves objectively, Countries are not going
to make themselves poorer. Certainly, large companies that think they
have a big growth in their future because of climate change,
that's not going to happen. But the President hasn't started
new wars and yet that's never talked about, and perhaps
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because I not only come from a generation that's been
fighting wars, but I was in war zones. I remember
what it was like. You feel the first pulse from
a distance of a car bomb going off. I remember
the first sirens blaring to let me know incoming. Run
for your life. There are mortar rounds falling around you.
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I remember visiting a friend of mine, a dear friend,
and Walter Reid because one of those mortar rounds almost
sheered off his leg. He barely lived. And I remember
seeing the body count coming in of rockies of Americans
day in and day out as I was working in
the Iraq desk at the CIA, and then being in
country and hearing those hearing the gun battles and gunfire,
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being in a black Hawk when they started lighting it
up with two forty golf machine guns because they either
thought there was something on the ground or are they
we're doing target practice. I don't even I never even asked.
I just remember being on that black Hawk and thinking, oh, well,
now we're in a war zone and there are machine
guns firing all around me. This is an interesting circumstance
when you've been around that kind of stuff when you've
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seen it, and when you've seen the faces. I remember
another friend of mine who I had just seen. I
was supposed to go to a meeting with them, and
he was SF, he was Special Forces, and I was
going to accompany them to a meeting with a source.
And I couldn't go because helicopter schedule change. I was
taking a helo, so I had because I was hitching
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a ride on a military bird, and so I don't
get to tell them where the birds coming and going.
And I missed that meeting. And the next day he
ended up with his team taking down an HVT on
the way to the meeting and got hit with a
suicide vest and ball bearings. I remember seeing him. He showed,
he showed, He lifted the patches off as he was
hobbling around the military base where we met up later,
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and he had perfectly little cylindrical holes from where the
ball bearings went in. And he was fine, God bless,
he was okay. None of his team were seriously wounded.
They all they got some ball bearings, but they were
far enough that none of them died. And I remember
seeing this and being around this as just a civilian.
CIA analyst in country and then in Afghanistan later on,
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and we're not doing that to our guys again, We're
not doing that. And that's a big deal because a
lot of people came home missing arms and legs, severely burned,
a lot of people came home with PTSD, and that's
something that a commander in chief has to live with forever.
This president has been doing everything he can to make
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sure that we have as few of those situations as possible.
It's an enormous positive because we don't need to be
fighting a war. We don't need to fight a word
of the wrong, we don't need to fight a war
with China. We don't need to do this. We don't
need to topple a government in Libya. And you would
think that people would care more, especially in the media
about this, but no. Their opposition to war was never ethical,
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never moral. It was political. It was a cudgel, a
weapon to attack Republicans.
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Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show, my friends. Great to
have you here. Less than two weeks getting down to
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the wire. Gonna be gonna be a close one. It's
gonna be tight, it's gonna be tough. Get ready for it.
But today there's such a calm. If you look around
the news cycle, there's really not a whole lot of big,
blaring headlines about much of anything. It's almost like we're
in the middle of August in a non election year.
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For the day. This could change at any moment, even
though you have COVID still rampaging through the country, not
the way that the Libs say it is, but it
is still out there and it's still a challenge. The
lockdowns continuing to be a hold on our economy, and
a presidential election less than two weeks away, Pelosi negotiating
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in bad faith over a stimulus or a rescue I
should say bill for people because of the COVID lockdowns.
And yet today if you take a look around, you'd find, well,
hold on, why isn't there really more noticeable news to
talk about? How could this be? Well, there's a reason
for it. Friends. We are in the Great Suppression campaign
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of twenty twenty, right, you know about the Great Depression economically,
this is the Great suppression. They're doing everything that they
can to hold off on the Hunter Biden, the Hunter
Biden avalanche. They're just trying to just trying to keep
it back a little bit longer, because what else are
they going to do. They've already thrown their October surprises
(01:55):
at Trump. They've already tried. They had the BS story
in The Atlantic about Trump thinks troops are losers. I mean, no,
no person who has any brains really believed that. But
you know, they're of all these different stories they've tried
and hasn't worked. But the Hunter Biden story is a
big problem for the media because they went all in
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in their efforts to make sure nobody knew anything about it,
that it was fake, that it was US Russian disinformation,
and you can just feel it's it's not working. It's
not working because there's more and now, as of yesterday,
we can tell you that there's at least reporting from
high level sources in the fbhin the DOJ that yes,
(02:37):
the FBI has the Hunter Biden laptop, and yes it
is in fact the case that the DJ and the
FBI agree with the DNI's statement Ratcliffe statement earlier. Now,
there's no evidence whatsoever for Russian disinformation here doesn't exist.
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So people like Adam, if we're going out there claiming
there's Russian disinformation, they're presenting a completely speculative theory offered
in bad faith and hoping nobody pays attention to the
fact that they have no evidence, no support for it whatsoever, nothing, zero.
It's not working. The story is now out. People are
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seeing what really happened here, and I do think that
there's some portion of the media that's concerned that the
Joe Biden piece of this may solidify. It's one thing
for Hunter Biden to be this really obviously wounded corrupt,
but really also sad ne'er do well, that's one thing.
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It's another thing for Joe Biden to be directly benefiting
from and using his position as part of that corrupt scheme.
And this is exactly what the President is saying about it.
That's the president's claim that actually could really matter to vote.
You know, on the one hand, we just need to
know the truth because we should. We should be a
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society that operates in the realm of facts and honesty
and decency when we talk about our politics or politicians,
and we need to know what's real and what's not.
But that's the first layer of getting the truth out
about Hunter Biden. There's another layer where it's the media
can't be trusted at all, and you know this, They
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have no ethics, they have no decency. I mean, even
people that I know who are on the fence often
about trashing the entire mainstream media, but who are center right,
they will admit, now, we've never seen anything like this.
I mean, this is true Banana Republic, authoritarian, third world
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state media stuff. Fascinatingly enough, it's state media in favor
of the state that they want to bring into being
instead of the regime that already is in power. But
that's what we're facing. That is that is what we
are seeing right now. They don't care that you can
look and understand right away that they're partisans and they've
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been lying through this whole time. They're building up credibility
with their own side. This is now a loyalty test.
You see, if you're a journalist in America, the loyalty
test is, are you willing to sacrifice your dignity, your intelligence,
your professionalism in pursuit of advancing Biden to the Oval office.
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That's the loyalty test that ninety five percent of the
media is going through right now. And they're all succeeding
insofar as they're willing to do all those things as
long as it helps Joe Biden, because they know that
if he wins for four years at least, whoever ends
up being the real president, whether Joe steps down after
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a couple of years and Kamala takes over, or maybe
it's even sooner than a couple of years, whoever it
may be, they will have a Democrat administration that will
give them access that they can all cheer for and
they'll be oh so happy while they feel like their side,
their team, is in charge again. And this is very
important to liberals in particular, who take their politics and
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internalize at the point where they really believe that rooting
for Democrats makes them better, smarter, more empathetic people. So
an administration a Biden administration coming into power at this
point would help them on personal and professional levels, and
that's why they're willing to do the things that you've seen.
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Unprecedented suppression campaign from the mainstream media. I've never seen
anything like this in my life. And big tech also
put itself in a very a very precarious position, because
now we know when it really matters on a critical issue,
if they feel like they can put their thumb on
the scale for the left, for the Democrat, Twitter and
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Facebook will do it, even with no real rationalization or justification.
They will go to the mat for the Democrat. So
that means that now Republicans have to look more seriously
at how are they regulated, Why aren't they treated like
other media companies are treated. Why do they have this
section to thirty protection. They're not just a highway for
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ideas and information. They got a lot of traffic cops
on that highway and they only pull over Republicans. So
I have to tell you, I think what we're seeing
right now is a media that's in a little bit
of a quiet panic because they can't stop as much
as they tried the Hunter Biden story, they can't shut
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all of this down and They don't have anything to
offer in their all out assault on Trump that they
haven't already been trying, not just during this election cycle,
but for years. It's not going to sway anyone at
the last minute. I think they recognize that at some level,
you know, talking about Russia and whatever else they're throwing
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at Trump. Now, remember what was it a month ago?
The obsession was about Trump and not condemning white supremacy.
You know, Trump is a white supremacist because he won't
his words don't come out quickly enough when he says
that he condemns white supremacy or something like that. He
doesn't scream from the top of his lungs. One asked,
you know, he just says, I condemned white supremacy. No,
you must scream it, sir. So they've changed these narratives,
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They've done everything they can, and Trump can still win
this thing and they know it. Just imagine what the
country would be like if we had an evenly matched media,
if we had platforms on the right that were as
well funded and well established as those on the left,
as many of them, and we were able to really
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go toe to toe with them, you know, go cannon
for canon. So to speak with the other side, I
don't think you'd have a Democrat win a national election
for decades. The media gives them at least a five
to ten point boost over what they would have if
there was some parody. I'm not I'm not saying if
the right dominator all media with the left does. I'm
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just saying that there was some parody, but there's not. Instead,
what we have are Republicans that have to go into
debates where they know the moderator, as will be the
case tomorrow, the moderator is effectively a Democrat activist, and
you only have to make some small changes. Think about
it like a referee in a sporting event. If a
referee is biased, you know, all you have to do
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is call that one that give that one bogus pass
interference call right, All you have to do is call
that one time, call out the you know, the off
sides or whatever it may be, to change the change
the final outcome. And in debates it's not hard. If
somebody wants to make sure that one they're sending a
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signal to all their peers and their buddies. Don't worry.
We all know I'm a Biden person and too, if
they want to make sure that the Biden candidacy can
come out and have some credibility of saying that they
did a better job, it's very easy. You just have
to skew it a little bit. You just have to
move move the goalposts just a bit to help out
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your guy, Joe Biden. That's what's going to happen tomorrow night.
And we just accept this. We admit this. And I
got to tell you, you know, it reminds me of
what I've been saying here for months when we talk
about it. And it was great because Rush Limbaugh himself,
you'll recall, read every single word of this Twitter thread
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on this was back in June. He read every single
word of it on his radio show. And as we
sit here and the media is quiet because they don't
have a good enough assault strategy on Trump for the moment,
I wanted to share with you again what my thoughts were.
And remember, Rush himself, a great ever radio host, thought
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that this needed to be read to his entire audience
word for word. If one of the already vilified conservative
billionaires out there has any stomach for saving their country
from the mob, they should buy and flip a major
media platform or fund a new one and make it
an unsingable aircraft carrier of true free speech. We are
completely outgunned in the platform wars, and it's only going
(11:24):
to get worse. All the major social media and streaming
content companies are part of the lib death star. Stop
sending checks to think tanks that overpay second tier scholars
to churn out policy papers that five people read. It
doesn't even have to be conservative in its mission mission.
It just needs to become dominated by conservatives. Rather, it
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would soon become dominated by conservatives if it adamantly refused
to censor speech for the woke mob. The left can
no longer tolerate debate like saying people but they don't
have to. They just point, scream and canceled. Meanwhile, I
know ultra wealthy conservatives who are terrified if anyone finding
out what their politics are because to be accepted among
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the elites, you have to at least allow those around
you to believe your woke and live. This is a
massive cultural failing of the right, and where are the
older leaders in conservative media building up the next generation.
Folks on our side seem obsessed with their own brands
and protecting their turf, which is a small slice of
the media landscape. We need more voices with serious platforms
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we control. That was in June and it goes on
from there. Doesn't that seem like it's pretty timely considering
what's gone on with the media and social media in
the last month or so. We'll all during the campaign,
but we're outgunned. They've got more platforms, they've got more
ships at sea, and we're just hoping that our superior
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seamanship will defeat them. Maybe maybe, But wouldn't it be
nice that this was the last election where we had
to sit here and say, sure they dominate all of Hollywood,
all of the news media, all of academia. Sure they
have all that, I might say all ninety five percent
of it. But wouldn't it be nice if that was
the last This is the last election we had to
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go through that, Because if there was any fair effort
to tell the American people what's really going on from
those who make a living trafficking and information, President Trump
would be up seven to ten points on Joe Biden
right now everywhere that counts. I really believe that. I
think the difference here is are corrupt, disgusting, disdainful media.
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They are the worst, and we have to find a
way to beat them. We can't keep allowing this dominance
to continue. And that's why I was so appreciative again
when when Rush read that on his show, such an
endorsement of it from the greatest radio host out there,
it just was a reminder for everybody else. This is
what we need to do. This has to be the future.
We have to build the best of daily podcast the
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top stories of the day from the Buck Sexton Show.
For more, buck head to buck Sexton dot com and
remember to subscribe to the podcast. Emergence of these emails,
text and videos that were supposedly left on a laptop
in Delaware a really fishy story whether that was actually
the product of a foreign intelligence operation, and obviously Russia
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would be the chief suspect there. Look, there's so many
questions about the provenance of this material. A lot of
it does look legitimate. There are pictures of Hunter Biden there,
videos or emails, but we have no idea and neither
does the New York Post whether any of it was
doctored or forged or faith And that's why the mainstream
news media has declined to really touch this story because
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it just lacks credibility, and the fact that it appeared
to the New York Post and that they chose to
report on extensively sort of says a lot about where
we are in twenty twenty as opposed to twenty sixteen,
when a lot of news organ zas reported on emails
that have been hacked by the Russians democratic emails and
then leaked and they were newsworthy and people were reported
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on them. We're in a much different situation now because
we now know that Russian disinformation or foreign disinformation or
even you know, campaign disinformation period is as dangerous to
our democracy as anything exposed in these emails. What a jackass.
I know, you probably heard too much from that guy.
That's a Ken Delaneyan at MSNBC who was a huge
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proponent of the entirely fraudulent Russia collusion hoax, as was
Rachel Maddou, who has suffered no consequences. In fact, her
ratings during that just kept going up and up. She's
never apologized for perpetuating a journalistic fraud, for the massive
journalistic malpractice she engaged in and all that, But she's
not a journalist. She's an opinion person. But even opinion
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people need to be factual, you know. That's why if
I get something wrong producer Mark or you know, somebody
will come on the air and tell me hey, or
they'll shoot me an email and say, hey, you got
that one. You got that one wrong. You know, so
it's important you got to have your facts stright. Kendalladian
has none of his facts straight. Doesn't know what the
heck he's talking about. Total nonsense, total nonsense. We need
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to come up with a term for this because this
has become a commonplace tactic of the left. When something
is obvious and obviously true and common sense means that
it all lines up, it's completely credible, there's tons of
evidence for it. But they do this well. There's a
lot of questions out there, so many more questions than answers.
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In fact, really we have no information, We just have questions.
I mean, this is a complete sleight of hand. It's
a trick. It's dishonest, right, It's just a way of
lying about what's really going on to people. But that's
what they do. There are questions about the providence of this.
Let's talk about rush shot well, what are the questions exactly.
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We have a signed receipt in Hunter Biden's handwriting for
the laptop in Delaware. There are intimate photos, not just photos,
not like stuff that they took off of Instagram, photos
that don't exist anywhere else of Hunter Biden. They're not faked.
They're on the laptop. The emails all, you know, if
you're running this kind of a disinformation operation, if you
were really doing that, very difficult to replicate all the
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you know, the kind of emails that you would expect
to be one Hunter Biden laptop from the outside. What
the Russians know all of his contacts, they know his
writing style, they, I mean, the whole thing. It's it's
so crazy. It's like saying that Joe Biden is not
really running for president. There's a space alien who's a
lizard with a Joe Biden suit on top, who's running
for president. That's what the MSNBC security analysts here's guys
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and moron. That's the level of absurdity they've gone to.
But no one has a problem with this on the
left because they're desperate right now. Thanks for listening to
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To me, I think we have to remind people over
and over again of exactly what the consequences are if
you fail to vote. I've been telling people that all
elections are important, so I don't call it one more
important than the other, but I will say there's some
elections are more consequential than others. And I believe that
this is the most consequential election of my lifetime, and
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I've been here for a while. I even think it's
more consequential than anything we've had since maybe eighteen sixty,
because I think we all know what grew from Abraham
Lincoln's election in eighteen sixty, and we know what has
happened since then. And so I'm saying to people today
that the consequences of this day's election or probably as dire,
if not most so then coup Presses of eighteen sixty,
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is just that, that's simple, the biggest election, if not
of all time, since the election of eighteen sixty. Congressman
Clyburn says here, So Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin coming
out on top of that one, I can say, Hannibal
Hamlin's are pretty cool. It's just a pretty interesting name,
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isn't it. Name somebody, Hannibal one of the great generals
of all time, somebody that I think will have to
do a Shield High episode on so producer Mark and
note that one down. I think that would probably once
I get out of And yes, we have Malta already
in the books for those who don't know, which is
why you should subscribe to the Bucks Exton podcast if
you don't already, because these will only be out on podcasts,
not on radio stations, although if any stations over the
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holidays want to play them, we wouldn't be opposed to
that either. But they're they're very specific history battle lessons
that are don't it just comes from a play. I'm
fascinated by it. So we've done in the past this
Mediterranean Christian Muslim Warfare podcasts and then the Dracula podcast,
which I'm hoping to pull together before Halloween this year,
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but I also want to do Hannibal crossing the Alps
and that period of the Punic Wars between Carthage and
Ancient Rome. That would be a really fun one to
do as well. Amazing battles I've read. I have a
whole book on the Battle of There's people say it
several different ways, canny can a some people have been
say Kenna, but one of the most horrific one day
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losses of life pre gunpowder, in all of all of
battle history. Amazing that so many people would be killed
at a time when it was all spears and swords anyway,
but so yes, the most consequential election since eighteen. That
was just my pitch for you all to subscribe the
Buck Sexton Show on the iHeart app or Spotify or wherever,
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so that when those Shields High episodes come out, you'll
already be good to go and you'll be able to
listen to them. I had, I had my sister listen
to one who's about she's about to have a baby,
like and want to say about you. I mean, it
could happen by the time the show is over, is
she's already due, could happen any minute. I am going
to be Uncle Buck. That's a real thing. I want
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to be Uncle Buck soon, and I single handedly plan
to change the the feeling around the name Uncle Buck
producer Mark. You've seen that movie, right, of course, it's
a classic. Why would you want to change anything about it.
I'm not sure that I aspire to be like the
John Candy character in that movie, though he is lovable
in his own way. I mean that's fair. But it's
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still a great movie. Yeah. Oh no, I'm not saying
it's not a good movie. I'm just saying, you know,
I don't think I want to be compared to that guy.
So the most consequential election they're saying since eighteen sixty.
I think that there's some truth to that, and I
think it's because the Democrat and this this is the problem. Right.
I'll walk you through my analysis on this, and then
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I'll tell you that I don't have great answers as
to some of the questions that it raises, because I
do believe the Democrat Party is now emotionally and psychologically
a socialist party. They don't like that label, and they're
still incremental, the same way that the lockdowns have been incremental.
The socialism that we see in America now is incremental.
It's peace by peace, right. It was Obamacare now, it's
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Medicare for all next, it's just socialized medicine full on right,
And you know that separation between Medicare for all is
single payers, so the government pays for everyone's healthcare. Socialized
medicine now, now that is a socialist system, and that
you have to move a lot of money around through
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redistribution to fund that. But straight up socialized medicine from
a just a definitional standpoint would be the government paying
the doctors, owning the hospitals and determining who gets what
care where. How when that's the National Health Service of
the UK, that is socialized medicine. You are a state
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employee as a doctor in the NHS and that's where
we're AND's that's been an enormous drag on the British economy.
And you know, it's a it's a hugely expensive system.
It's not a not a particularly good system for complicated
issues if one comes up. And the problem is that
the demagoguery becomes so easy around this. You know, it's
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like we talked about Obamacare. Now they say, oh my gosh,
people without you know, Obamacare, it's like they won't have
healthcare anymore. We didn't have people just dying in the
streets all over the place in America because of you know,
preventable disease or treatable, treatable medical issues that they were
just denied care for everywhere. I'm not saying that never happens.
Of course, there are going to be shortcomings in the system,
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and that's tragic whenever it happens. But that wasn't our reality,
that wasn't what was going on, and that still happens
sometimes in this country despite Obamacare, as we know, which
is why they've wanted to expa and beyond Obamacare into
this Medicare for All plan, although Biden doesn't want to.
He wants to do Obamacare. Plus you see, all he's
doing is looking at the leap the left and the
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socialists wanted to make, and Biden saying, let me put
a plank in between. We'll hop on that one on
our way to what the socialists want. And that's really
what the Biden presidency is. I think Biden is a
bridge to the next administration of a Democrat that is
a full on socialist like a Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren,
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perhaps even a Kamala Harris, which means that it might
not even be after four or eight years that we
face this, but just a matter of a couple of
a couple of years before that comes next. You know, So,
is this the most consequential election since eighteen sixty? Now?
I mean, which is almost like saying the most consequential
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election of all time, I guess saying the second most
of all time. To this, I'd say, I think the
Democrats not only have gone socialist but also how a
plan to permanently transform the country with They first remove
the filibuster, and I do believe I am very worried
they're going to have control of the Senate. So let's
let's just talk about this premona. If they get control
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of the House, the Senate, and the presidency, Okay, they
get all three, what it would be the first thing
that they do, They'll eliminate the filibuster in the Senate entirely.
I do believe that will happen. They will pack the court.
I do believe that will happen, and they will move.
The biggest thing that can go for right away is
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a full on amnesty, and the Biden presidency can do
that knowing that Joe Biden, if it becomes a big
liability for him in the short term, which I think
it would. The American people are not in favor of amnesty.
And when they find out, and they will, what the
real number of people in the country illegally is, it
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is not eleven. And I'm not just surmising that. I'm
not just coming up with that. I've spoken extensively to
members of Border patrol and customs and Border Customs and
Immigration enforcement, and they will tell you there's just no
way based on their monthly numbers, and this whole oh,
there's net zero immigration right now doesn't count because of COVID,
but in general, net zero immigration of the US from
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Mexico and the rest of Latin America south of Mexico
is This is a fantasy that we've all been told
to make people not think that there is a massive,
a seismic shift in the US population that comes not
just from immigrants in general, but really from Mexico and
Central America. It's been an enormous change unlike anything we've
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ever experienced in our history. When you just look at
the aggregate number of people from one place or one
culture and region, and if they found out that it
was twenty or thirty million Americans who are about to
be made permanent residents, and then eventually the Democrats would
want to give them voting rights too. Right, So comes
the permanent residency, and then citizenship is just a step
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beyond that. That's just a legislative fix. At that point,
we're going to see an election here where I think
it's pretty easy to say that less than a half
a million votes will determine spread out over a number
of states, will determine the outcome. What do you think
happens to the future of elections in this country? If
you add let's call a twenty million new new citizens,
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they would say first just permanent residence or green card
or something like that. They'd be made citizens within short order.
So they make twenty million new citizens with an average
Democrat voting advantage of sixty or seventy percent of them. Right, So,
or so, let's say two to three to one would
be what you're looking at, you know, two or two
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to one or three to one. I'm sorry, three to
one or four to one would be the advantage you're
looking at, especially after a Democrat Democrat amnesty among that population.
Do you think we're gonna win any elections after that?
You think that that's really going to happen. But you
have much larger illegal populations than a lot of states
you don't even think of, and the Carolinas, for example.
Think about what that would do to flipping Texas blue.
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So this is a very consequential election because if Democrats
just get that, it would strike me that they can
get the Supreme Court doing their bidding with court packing,
and they can get amnesty across the You know, they
could just get a universal amnesty passed. You know that
that's what they remember. Reagan signed an amnesty bill for
millions of people back in eighty six, and he said
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he was swindled and it was a bad move. If
they get that, what really becomes our opposition. What are
we able to do then to try to win national elections.
I don't have a good answer for you other than
I think I think America becomes, for at least a
few generations, a one party state, and our debt and
the size of government and the intrusiveness of government becomes
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more and more unbearable, and that eventually maybe there's either
a collapse or there's some recognition at the government that
our system has worked so well because it allows people
to make choices to live in freedom and to pursue
their destiny is best for them as individuals. And then
when you eliminate that, you have something else. When you
eliminate that and you give people just the soma of
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government larges. Oh, we're gonna we're gonna take care of you,
We're gonna give your healthcare, we're gonna give you this
and that and everything else. I mean, there's a reason
why other countries that take that approach that really first
of all, if they really take that approach, people always
point to Sweden and you know, the Scandinavian countries, Denmark,
and they don't understand that those are very free market
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friendly countries for business to operate in. They have low
corporate tax rates, they have high individual taxes, and a
large welfare state and a tremendous amount of social buying
and social responsibility. Right, everybody works, everybody gets the perks.
That's their approach. But they're not socialist countries. They don't
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have the government in control of all industries. And if anything,
they've moved away from socialism and become much more free
market of the last twenty or thirty years, Norway is
a bit of an outlier as well. But Norway is
also a country that is very small, politically and ideologically homogeneous,
and has enormous fossil fuel reserves that can fund things
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that you know you wouldn't be able to have otherwise
for the country. But I mean you obviously you look
at Venezuela, which is a country that was promising that
has also enormous oil reserves and largest oil reserves in
the world for what it is, and it's a country
that's falling apart, where there are breadlines, but they don't
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have medicine. And it's because they put in charge of
government that thought it could solve all the problems for
the people, that would set price controls, that use social
justice as a means of determining how to run the economy.
This results in very bad outcomes. So I mean, this
is just my way of of working through with you.
How consequential is this election? If Trump loses, we may
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not have another opportunity to elect a Republican for a
generation or two. I think that's real. I think that's true.
And what would the country be like if it took
ten or twenty years for a Republican to be able
to win office? Again, what would the Republican Party even
be like at that point? So I don't think it's
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an overstatement to say that this is the most consequential election,
not just of my lifetime, but perhaps of the last
one hundred and fifty years, because it'll be a very
different country if we lose this. And I'm right about
what the Democrats try to do. And unfortunately, when it
comes to Democrats being a bunch of scheming, maneuvering, you know,
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absolutely ruthless political hatchetmen, I tend to be right. So
that's what I see happening here. You're in the Freedom Hunt.
This is the best of Buck Daily podcast to the
tough stories of the day from the Buck Sexton Show.
I gotta get access to the whatever the the Democrat
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list servis or the email list or whatever where they
all get they're assigned talking points from the d n C,
because I would just love to see exactly how they
managed to convince so many people who are are supposed
to think are supposed to think that mortgaging or selling
out their own intellectual credibility, I mean, looking like total
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bozos all the time is the price you have to
pay now for being a Democrat. But you have to
be so subservient, you have to be such a little toady,
a little quizzling, you have to be a little brad stouter.
That's whatever. Whatever Jeff tells me, I'll say, I hate facts,
that's what you gotta do. So he's one of many.
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He's really an archetype. He's really the quintessential version of
the toadying leftist, the throne shining lib that will say
whatever he has to say, no intellectual honesty, no journalistic integrity, whatsoever.
But there's so many of them, and you have here.
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I've never even heard of this guy before. Florida State
Attorney Dave Ehrenberg. He's getting in on this too. Maybe
maybe he wants to, you know, get a promotion. In
a Biden administration play eight, the President is taking a
page from the desperation chapter of the dictator's playbook. His
other October surprises have not worked. The Durham report still
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hasn't come out. It's not going to come out to
laughter the election. The investigation into the unmasking and spind
of his campaign has been a big nothing burger. Hunter
Biden's laptop, that whole thing has been fizzling. It looks
like it's tied to Ladimir Putin in Moscow. So he's stuck.
And so that's why this all sounds eerily familiar. Barbara's right.
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This is what we saw with the president of Ukraine,
where he's demanding an announcement of an investigation because he
knows the power of that, even though it got him impeached,
he knows that that's how he got elected in twenty sixteen.
I don't even know that guy thinks he thinks he's saying,
but he sounds like a complete moron. But let's understand
this at this stage, with a desperate Biden campaign that
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is running a weak candidate who is too old for
the job, who has been unimpressive as a legislator for decades,
who was a non event VP chosen by Obama because
you know, they just needed somebody from inside the system
who wasn't going to make too much noise or be
too annoying. So in that sense, I guess he sufficed.
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But now it's a question of stupidity as fealty. You
have to go out there if you're a Democrat, if
you're gonna be a good little soldier for the DNC.
You gotta go out there and say things that you
mu snow at some level make you look like a moron.
You have to. And in fact, the dumber you're willing
to sound, the more extreme you're willing to be in
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your denunciations of this as Russian propaganda and tying this
to Vladimir Putin. You know, well, why not just say
that this is an FSB or an SVR operation. Why
not just tell everybody that that's it? You know, why
not go the extra mile? Trump is actually a Russian asset.
Oh well, they've already said that. How could they make
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this more extreme? Oh, Rudy Giuliani's a Russian asset. I
heard that one recently too. These people will defame anyone.
I mean, if you think Rudy Giuliani is an asset
of the Russian government, you're not an intelligent human being.
But remember, there are the people that are too dumb
to understand what the lies are, with a lot of Democrats,
And then there are the people that are willing to
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embrace a stupid lie because it advances their position and
makes getting a position in the Biden administration, a senior
position more likely. I always say this and people get
mad at me. They're like, oh, Buck, don't don't say
anything good about the other side. Don't say anyth good
about the other team. The Left takes care of its fighters,
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you know, the Left takes care of people that even
you know Tubin. I mean, I've avoid because I know
a lot of you have kids who listened to the show,
and I always want you to know you're you know,
you're eight year old, you're ten year old. They'll always
be safe listening to every everything of Buck Sex and show.
You might have to explain a little bit to them afterwards,
but nothing that would be inappropriate or or you know,
you would you'd say, oh, I can't have him listened
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to that. So I've avoided a lot of the Tuban
jokes that I would otherwise like to make. But one
reason why I don't have it. I can tell you this.
If Tuban were a conservative, for whatever reason, they'd be
trying to say that he should have, you know, sex
crime charges I pushed against him. You know that it
was indecent exposure on purpose. You know that's true. No
one's even mentioned that. And by the way, I don't
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think that should happen to anybody but I'm just telling
you the difference in the media approach. You're gonna see
this Jeffrey Tubin, it's you know, it's embarrassing and h
you know, I mean, we don't have to get into it,
but he certainly got into it. Uh sorry, I mean,
come on, IKT. But he's he's already a millionaire, he's
already got these very privileged sinecures at places like The
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New Yorker on CNN. He's gonna come back and it's
gonna be fine. Anderson Cooper, will Bow and genuflect. When
Tuban comes on to talk about his legal analysis, what
are the worst legal analysts on TV? Just says stuff
all the time. That's not true, that's not intelligent. But
it's exactly what the Democrat left wants to hear, right,
It's what the Upper West Side and you know in
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New York City and Calorama and DC and Santa Monica
and Beverly Hills and California. It's what they want to
hear and Tuban provides. And of course all those counties
around DC where all the all the rich people, who
why are they rich again? Oh yeah, that's right. Proximity
to government, that's where they that's where they live. But
Tube will be fine. They take care of them. Do
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you know what Peter Struck is doing right now? A
lot of you say, Buck, he should be in prison,
right Do you know where he is teaching at Georgetown University? Yeah,
there you go, It's exactly what I'm talking about. You
know what James Combe is doing, counting his millions from
his book deal and tour and speaking events, and yeah,
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you know what General Flynn is doing, still trying to
get out of a farcical, unjust, evil, corrupt prosecution. You
see the trend, friends, You see what happens Just wait
until I'm here telling you about Oh it's the Biden administration.
And now Buck Sexton is having his first really thorough
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IRS deep dive into everything I've ever done for the
last seven years. Day that's gonna happen at some point.
I'm ready for it. Good news is, I'm very good
at crossing my teas and donning my eyes. But it
doesn't matter who you are at the I R s
one to make things miserable for you. They can. And
Democrats like Bill Clinton, as we all know, love using
the IRS against their enemies. Oh I'm sorry, like Barack
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Obama two. Lois Learner. Sure she was the only one
who was who was going after groups that said, you know,
Patriot or Tea Party or anything like that that were nonprofits.
It was just Lois Learner's own initiative. Yeah, sure, you know,
this is like when you know the mafia boss. I
never gave the order. Yeah, you never gave the order.
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Because you tell everybody things whispered in your ear in
the back of a restaurant that you sweep for bugs
every day. We all know what's really going on. We
all know who was really giving that order to go
after the Tea Party. Wasn't Lois Learner on her own folks.
But what a what a look if you're just if
you're just judging the other side by the effectiveness of
its ruthless moves, Democrats have a lot to teach us.
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Democrats don't care that they ran this Russia playbook the
last time around. They're doing it again. Doesn't matter that
it's obvious to anybody how fraudulent this whole thing is,
how unfair, how unethical. As far as they're concerned, the
more unethical, the better it shows resolve, It shows zelotry. Dedication,
and if you want to be a good little leftist,
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you better be a part of the revolution friends, or
else you're a counter revolutionary, and counter revolutionaries do not
have good outcomes when the left takes over. That's another
part of this. I do believe if Joe Biden wins
this election, there will be consequences for a lot of us.
I think that there will be an effort to use
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social media platforms to silence even more. I do believe
we're going to reach a point where all of the
tweets worth reading will say sensitive content warning on them.
Those will be the only ones you want to read,
because everything else is just the echo chamber. Propaganda of
the left is all the same stuff. And I think
people naturally we'd like to believe that there's a state
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of balance in our politics, in a state of balance
in our media. It's not true. It's not true. In
a lot of countries. You have one party rule in
a lot of countries around the world that are supposedly
free and open and relatively free and open, you really
have one ideology that completely dominates the public discussion, and
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anybody who descends from it is ridiculed and ostracized. And
shut down. So we are an anomaly in this regard
the fact that we're even really trying, and that our
two party system represents people on both sides of very
different ideas. There are big separations. I'm glad we don't have.
Usually there are people that try to get attention for
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themselves are an lestum saying both parties are the same,
there's no difference, and this is supposed to be really
edgy thinking, no, that's not true. Both parties are not
the same. They suffer from some of the same structural shortcomings,
but those are also just human failings. It's like saying, well,
people are greedy and lie and don't do it right.
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That's always going to be true. But if you're looking
at what the parties represent and what they want to accomplish,
there's some enormous differences. There's the difference for one, and
I found this so fascinating. I pointed this out. What
was it just yesterday that of all the things that
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Trump gets credit for, there's one that I think it's interesting.
You know, he hasn't started a war in four years.
He's the first president in decades for whom that is true,
and the media just doesn't care. You never hear about this.
The anti war left doesn't care, never gets a mention
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from them. Their opposition to war was apparently political, not ethical.
You know. I shared that online on Twitter a day
or two ago, and it went very viral because I
think it is such an overlooked point in all of this.
I'm I'm somebody who has grown up. I mean, my
entire adult life essentially has just been a series of
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American wars and occupations. Trump is the first president to
stop that. And they said he was going to go
to war with the rom They said he was going
to go to war with North Korea. It's not true.
We have results. This is about facts, This is not
about perception. We did not go to war with any
of these countries. He started pushing back on China for
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its illicit trade practices and all of the scheming and
undermining of our economy and the theft of intellectual property
that China does. We were told, oh, well, that might
lead to a ward. No it hasn't. What it's led
to is the Chinese government, finally, the Chinese Communist Party
being put on notice. There's a new sheriff in town. Now.
They don't like that sheriff. But that's because he's defending
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the defenseless farmers i e. The American people who are
left to the rapacious mercantilism of the Chinese Communist Party's
trade policies. Not anymore. That's all changed. In fact, foreign policy,
where the President also has peace deals in the Middle East,
not done by decades of previous attempts by other presidents
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of both parties. The president on foreign policy, it's really
one of his area's the biggest success, the US Mexico
Canada trade deal, for example. I mean they say pulling
out of the Paris climate a corporates a bad ideal,
that whole thing is a joke. It's just all a
big global virtue signaling bacchanal. Oh yeah, they're all going
to hold themselves to account for their carbon emissions. Nobody
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really believes that. No one really takes that seriously. Countries
aren't going to make themselves objectively, Countries are not going
to make themselves poorer. Certainly, large companies that think they
have a big growth in their future because of climate change,
that's not going to happen. But the President hasn't started
new wars and yet that's never talked about, and perhaps
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because I not only come from a generation that's been
fighting wars, but I was in war zones. I remember
what it was like. You feel the first pulse from
a distance of a car bomb going off. I remember
the first sirens blaring to let me know incoming. Run
for your life. There are mortar rounds falling around you.
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I remember visiting a friend of mine, a dear friend,
and Walter Reid because one of those mortar rounds almost
sheered off his leg. He barely lived. And I remember
seeing the body count coming in of rockies of Americans
day in and day out as I was working in
the Iraq desk at the CIA, and then being in
country and hearing those hearing the gun battles and gunfire,
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being in a black Hawk when they started lighting it
up with two forty golf machine guns because they either
thought there was something on the ground or are they
we're doing target practice. I don't even I never even asked.
I just remember being on that black Hawk and thinking, oh, well,
now we're in a war zone and there are machine
guns firing all around me. This is an interesting circumstance
when you've been around that kind of stuff when you've
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seen it, and when you've seen the faces. I remember
another friend of mine who I had just seen. I
was supposed to go to a meeting with them, and
he was SF, he was Special Forces, and I was
going to accompany them to a meeting with a source.
And I couldn't go because helicopter schedule change. I was
taking a helo, so I had because I was hitching
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a ride on a military bird, and so I don't
get to tell them where the birds coming and going.
And I missed that meeting. And the next day he
ended up with his team taking down an HVT on
the way to the meeting and got hit with a
suicide vest and ball bearings. I remember seeing him. He showed,
he showed, He lifted the patches off as he was
hobbling around the military base where we met up later,
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and he had perfectly little cylindrical holes from where the
ball bearings went in. And he was fine, God bless,
he was okay. None of his team were seriously wounded.
They all they got some ball bearings, but they were
far enough that none of them died. And I remember
seeing this and being around this as just a civilian.
CIA analyst in country and then in Afghanistan later on,
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and we're not doing that to our guys again, We're
not doing that. And that's a big deal because a
lot of people came home missing arms and legs, severely burned,
a lot of people came home with PTSD, and that's
something that a commander in chief has to live with forever.
This president has been doing everything he can to make
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sure that we have as few of those situations as possible.
It's an enormous positive because we don't need to be
fighting a war. We don't need to fight a word
of the wrong, we don't need to fight a war
with China. We don't need to do this. We don't
need to topple a government in Libya. And you would
think that people would care more, especially in the media
about this, but no. Their opposition to war was never ethical,
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never moral. It was political. It was a cudgel, a
weapon to attack Republicans.
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