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January 11, 2025 12 mins
Buck Sexton breaks down the ongoing California wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area, analyzing response efforts, the state’s preparedness, and steps to prevent future disasters. He critiques leadership decisions and challenges the prevailing narrative blaming climate change for the devastation. Buck also shifts focus to the U.S. strategy with Greenland, offering insights into its geopolitical importance, and shares his take on Trump’s lighthearted "trolling" of Canada.

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, let make
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or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Buckbury
first of twenty twenty five, and let's dive right into
these wildfires in California and what we're seeing so far
when it comes to their response and what we can

(00:33):
learn about this going forward. First off, it's a tragedy.
Thoughts and prayers go to everybody who is affected by this.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
I truly mean that I know people.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Who are just a step or two removed from this wildfire.
I've been corresponding with people who have been afraid they
were going to lose their homes, have family members who
did lose their homes to the fire, or at least
were severely damaged by this fire.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
These fires, it's multiple fires breaking.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Out across this area of Greater Los Angeles and mostly
in the Palisades area. And look, I always feel feel
like we should focus on what matters most first and foremost,
and so I will and I have, which is making
sure that everyone gets out who needs to get out.

(01:21):
And that's the primary concern that we all have, and
that our first responders that our frontline personnel are given
the resources that they need, and that's what we're primarily
focused on. There is also a discussion that is happening
about how this could get so out of control so

(01:43):
quickly and do so much damage. And it's not as
though California and specifically the Los Angeles area shouldn't be
in some way prepared for this or hasn't been preparing
for this. They've been upping the budget of the last
twenty years substantially for fire prevention and protection, and that

(02:05):
doesn't seem to have had anywhere near the intended effect.
Because fire of this level of catastrophic damage, you have
to ask, well, what would it look like if they
hadn't deployed the or rather, if you know, if this
is the best they can do, how have they deployed
the resources? You know, what has it gone to. They
don't have enough fire, they don't have enough water, they

(02:28):
don't have enough preparations in place. And it's also a
moment where you look at the leadership of the state
and the leadership of the Democrat Party at some level,
because Biden's turned this into a photo op. You have
Mayor Karen bass As everyone is pointing out on a
trip to Ghana in West Africa as this is all happening,

(02:48):
and she's now made her way back. I believe as
I speak to you, but it's absurd that somebody in
her position would first of all go on a trip
to Ghana on the taxpayer dime.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I'm assuming that's what happened.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
I haven't checked that this isn't paid for by some
third party organization or something, but if the people of
Los Angeles paying for her to go to Ghana, you
should want to know why. And beyond that, there has
been a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion in this
fire department for.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
In recent years.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Not a surprise, everything that is associated with the State
of California, any kind of hiring personnel, there's going to
be that DEI component, but they've really been pushing it
heavily for fire fire fighters, and that's something that I
think everybody also is allowed to look at now and say, really,

(03:46):
that's the focus that people could have in this It's
it's heartbreaking the whole situation, but it also is a
reminder that leadership matters, that decision making for a state matters.
I'm not saying that they can stop all fires. Of
course they can't, but can they be called upon to

(04:08):
try to stop you know, a fire from getting to
this extent and destroying this many homes and causing severe
injuries to a lot of people, killed a couple of
people already. I mean, it's really awful stuff, inferno across
LA stuff, and this just can't be the best that

(04:29):
they can do. That's really what it comes down to.
This cannot be the best response that they can have.
And the fire fire chiefs are already saying that there's
not enough of us. We can't handle all these fires
in all these places. They have to come up with
a better system. They have to come up with provisioning
water in advance so that they can fight these things
more effectively. And that's just the way. That's the way

(04:53):
that this has to go going forward. There have to
be I know, they're not going to be consequences, right,
No one's good. Well, I mean, we might find out
how this fire was started. I've heard people say it
maybe down power lines from the wind, could be fireworks.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
We'll see, But consequences in terms of the response, that's
not going happened.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
But could we at least get the accountability of better
preparation for the next time while we're still focused on this.
I know it's oh, it's still going on, so why
would we think, well, yeah, but everyone's paying attention now,
and California and the liberal media that dominates there and

(05:31):
dominates in so many places across the country, they're going
to say, this is about climate change, and that's absurd.
That's an absurdity. It is not climate change. And even
if it were, that's like saying, well, there's nothing we
can do about it. So no, that's that's that's an unacceptable,
unacceptable viewpoint on this, and it just falls into their usual,

(05:52):
you know, ideological orthodoxy.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
They just want to believe it so badly. So yeah,
there's that, and.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Now we'll move next here to something that's far less serious, well,
at least in the in the assuming that it continues
as it is. I don't think we're going to invade
Greenland or Canada, but there's been a change in the
way that people in the media and just in the
Democrat Party in general, I think, are having to respond
to Trump and some of the stuff he's been saying.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
About Greenland and Canada and elsewhere. We'll talk about that.

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So Trump has been talking a lot about last few days,
some different possibilities for expanding the US map.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
And I know.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
That for a lot of people this is let's just say,
they find this a little bit.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Too much. They don't think it's going to happen.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
And the probability of it is different than whether it's
a worth a discussion. I would say that the probability
of this occurring is something other than what that's We
don't have to focus on that necessarily, because why does
Trump want to accomplish this?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
What is the purpose is?

Speaker 1 (08:00):
What is it that he sees in this possibility. Well,
first let's start with Greenland. It's a lot of land
with a lot of resources. It's obviously covered in ice
mostly but glaciers, but there's strategic value to it because
of the desire for sea lanes through the Arctic as
well as just Arctic competition, particularly with Russia. There's a

(08:22):
lot of resources there to be mined and to be
used for the good of humanity. And it gives us
more strategic depth, it gives us more land, it gives
more access to natural fresh water. And it's so funny, mean,
people just act like maps are are these things that
are written in stone. Maps just look through history. Maps
change all the time of countries. You know, there are

(08:43):
maps that are content. Maps are in flux over the
long haul. They're all in flux. Really, we look at
our own history in this country. We started out pretty small,
and then things grew, and then we bought some things,
and we took some things, and we bought some things,
and we took some things, and then, as we know,
we have some far flung possessions. I mean, that's really
the If there was going to be a roadmap for this,

(09:05):
it would be something along the lines of you know, Guam,
the US Virgin Islands, Puerto rican Go. You could turn
Greenland into a territory. You wouldn't want to make it
a state. I wouldn't want to have fifty five thousand
people getting two Senate votes, right, I mean, so we're
not trying to make it the fifty first state, but
making it a territory. I don't know why that strikes

(09:26):
anyone strange. Why should Denmark have it as a territory.
Think about that. Turn it around for a second. Denmark
is this small European country that has this massive land
mass that has administered for however many years it is now,
so Denmarket's to have it, but we don't. It doesn't
you know, this is all It should be all up

(09:46):
for discussion. It's not like we're going to be uprooting
ten million people from their homes or something by doing this,
and it should be something that could be considered and discussed.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Now Denmark says, oh no, we'd never do this. Why
what is Denmark doing with this thing? Right? They've got
some great attachment to Greenland? Give me a break. Now.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
I think it's going to go through. Probably not, but
it's an interesting idea. Yeah, it's an interesting idea. The
Canada stuff is just pure trolling. I will say, that's
pretty funny. And Trump is just trolling Canada having fun
with it.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I know. I think Pierre Polyev knows that.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Although you're saying, you know, well, yeah, will never be
the fifty first state, but will be a great ally
to America, It's like, yeah, no, I mean that's what
Canada is and that's what we would expect. But yeah,
no one's actually thinking that we're going to take No
one's actually think that we're going to take Canada. That's
that's not happening, right, the Greenland idea is I think

(10:39):
a little bit more, a little bit more serious. I
think looking at the relationship with Canada and trying to
streamline it for the purposes of trade, which Trump barready
did with the US Mexic Canada Agreement. But that certainly
makes a degree of sense to me. But the the
effort to get Greenland, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
I don't. It's not going to go anywhere. But it's
fun to think about.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
It's fun to think about, and it's also Oh and
then of course my favorite thing was actually the Gulf
of America.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Instead of the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, there are there are plenty of places actually that
have multiple place names, and that there is some disagreement
about what they should be called.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
And really, shouldn't we be able to call it what
we want? Right?

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I mean, we're not, you know, we're not saying we're
trying to change sovereignty over it. But the left is
so obsessed with controlling what things are called. And yet
they turn around and then when we say hold on,
we're going to change some names too, or we're going
to change some things back.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Why do you care so much about this? Why does
it matter? To you.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Well, clearly there's something in a name, and that's that's
something they have recognized themselves, I think, in the past,
and pretend not to now for their own reasons. So anyway, sorry,
I've been sick all week, as you might know if
you've listened to the radio show. So still trying to
battle through a little bit here. I've got a lot
of congestion and my voice is not great yet, but

(12:10):
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