Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Aug 13 2025

Clean Up on Aisle Crime

President Trump's press conference on his efforts to clean up crime in Washington, DC. He addressed criticism he received from former Jeb Bush comms director Tim Miller on MSNBC for his comments about wanting to reduce murder rates in American cities. The hosts noted Trump's ability to dominate news cycles with his DC crime initiatives while preparing for the country's upcoming 250th anniversary celebrations. They highlighted how Trump continues to take questions from the press regularly, contrasting this with the lack of "25th Amendment" discussions that surrounded his first term. Clay previews his upcoming September 16th debate with Stephen A. Smith, promising a fiery discussion on sports, politics, and culture.

Lib White Women Are Nuts

The Democratic Party’s identity crisis, questioning its reliance on radical left policies and cultural mandates.  The hosts explore why they can’t find a single Democrat policy they agree with, while analyzing Kamala Harris’s surprising appeal to white women voters in 2024 despite losing ground with nearly every other demographic.

Listeners weigh in with talkbacks, including a humorous defense of beards and a pointed comment on crime in D.C. The show then unpacks a viral rant from Bravo star Jennifer Welch, who suggested Trump supporters should be banned from multicultural restaurants—a moment Clay and Buck use to examine the anger and cultural disconnect among liberal white women. This sparks a broader critique of feminism, pop culture influences like Sex and the City, and how decades of messaging have shaped societal values. The topic inspires a candid discussion on the future of the Democratic Party, the growing shift of young men toward conservatism, and why cultural narratives matter in politics.

Clean Up on Aisle Crime
President Trump's press conference on his efforts to clean up crime in Washington, DC. He addressed criticism he received from former Jeb Bush comms director Tim Miller on MSNBC for his comments about wanting to reduce murder rates in American cities. The hosts noted Trump's ability to dominate news cycles with his DC crime initiatives while preparing for the country's upcoming 250th anniversary celebrations. They highlighted how Trump continues to take questions from the press regularly, contrasting this with the lack of "25th Amendment" discussions that surrounded his first term. Clay previews his upcoming September 16th debate with Stephen A. Smith, promising a fiery discussion on sports, politics, and culture.

Lib White Women Are Nuts

The Democratic Party’s identity crisis, questioning its reliance on radical left policies and cultural mandates.  The hosts explore why they can’t find a single Democrat policy they agree with, while analyzing Kamala Harris’s surprising appeal to white women voters in 2024 despite losing ground with nearly every other demographic.
Listeners weigh in with talkbacks, including a humorous defense of beards and a pointed comment on crime in D.C. The show then unpacks a viral rant from Bravo star Jennifer Welch, who suggested Trump supporters should be banned from multicultural restaurants—a moment Clay and Buck use to examine the anger and cultural disconnect among liberal white women. This sparks a broader critique of feminism, pop culture influences like Sex and the City, and how decades of messaging have shaped societal values. The topic inspires a candid discussion on the future of the Democratic Party, the growing shift of young men toward conservatism, and why cultural narratives matter in politics.
TX Sen. John Cornyn

President Trump’s cultural influence in Washington, D.C., including his recent Kennedy Center honors announcement and efforts to restore law and order in the nation’s capital. Texas Senator John Cornyn joins the show to address crime in D.C., juvenile justice reform, and his support for Jeanine Pirro as the new U.S. Attorney. Cornyn also weighs in on the Texas Democrats’ walkout over redistricting, calling it a potential federal issue, and outlines GOP plans to break the blockade on Trump’s judicial nominees—including possible Senate rule changes using the “nuclear option.”
The conversation then shifts to Cornyn’s competitive Texas primary, his 99.2% pro-Trump voting record, and concerns about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s electability. Cornyn shares insights on Democratic challengers like Beto O’Rourke and Colin Allred, predicting high-stakes Senate battles in Texas, Kentucky, and Georgia.

President Trump’s cultural influence in Washington, D.C., including his rec

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Clay. Have you heard of the Rio Reset? Sounds like
a trendy new workout, Buck, it.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Does, but it's actually a big summit going on in Brazil.
The formal name is BRICKS, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India,
China and South Africa. But they've just added five new members.
Smart move to stick with Bricks. We know what happens
when acronyms don't end. They confuse everyone.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well, that's an understatement.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Bricks is a group of emerging economies hoping to increase
their sway in the global financial order. Now that sounds
like the plot line of a movie. I'm listening. Philip
Patrick is our Bruce Wayne. He's a precious metal specialist
and a spokesman for the Birch Gold Group. He's on
the ground in Rio getting the whole low down on
what's going on there.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Can he give us some inside intel?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Absolutely, he's been there since day one. In fact, a
major theme at the summit is how Bricks Nations aim
to reduce reliance on the US dollar in global trade. Yikes,
that doesn't sound good. We got to get Philip on
the line. Stat already did and he left the Clay
and Buck audience this message.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
The world is moving on from the dollar quietly but steadily.
These nations are making real progress towards reshaping global trade,
and the US dollar is no longer the centerpiece. That
shift doesn't happen overnight. That make no mistake, it's already begun.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Thank you, Philip. Protect the value of your savings account,
your four oh one K, your IRA, all of them
by purchasing gold and placing it into those accounts and
reducing your exposure to a declining dollar value. Text my
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You can rely on Birch Gold Group as I do
to give you the information you need to make an

(01:38):
informed decision. One more time, Text my name Buck to
ninety eight ninety eight ninety eight. Welcome everybody. Wednesday edition
of the Clay Travis nd Buck Sexton Show kicks off
right now. We've got some great stories, big important things
to dive into with all of you. The cleanup of DC,
clean up on I'll crime if you will, I'm a

(02:02):
dad Now it can make these kind of jokes. That
is something that we're going to be discussing because Trump
is running rough shot over the opposition. I think once
again there are arguments increasingly pathetic, the numbers not supporting
what they said they would.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
In terms of DC is safe. DC is safe.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Clay and I both speak from experience here because not
only have we lived there, but we know many people
who still live there and have lived there their whole lives.
No one says DC is safe, Okay, no one who
actually lives there thinks that it is a safe city.
So and I know that's safe as a relative term,
but Boston is a safe city. Like I could go
around the country and talk to you. San Francisco, other

(02:43):
than your property is actually a pretty safe city, believe
it or not for violent crime purposes. You know, you
go around and you can find plenty of places that
are you would be safe. It is not one of them.
It is not one of them. Deep washing DC. So
we're going to discuss that San Diego very safe. Actually
San Diego very nice, very safe city, very expensive. Uh

(03:05):
so you know we could do the whole day Al
Passo very safe. So you can go around. There's a
lot of places not the case in DC. We have
also Trump speaking at the Kennedy Center, some interting cultural
moves there we have. Do we get to make an
announcement today, Clay about a little special something that something
going on?

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Or is this just is this? Is this a teas
of a tease?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Or can I talk about your situation? Oh no, it's public.
Yeah yeah. I was like, oh no, what's the Yeah, yeah,
we're doing a We'll get into that a little bit later.
But we got a fun event coming up in September
that I think a lot of people will enjoy. And
so well, let's let you you can do a big
announcement second hour on that when you could lead everybody

(03:48):
into that. But Clay has and as we say, it
is what you call a teas in the business. Clay
has an announcement for all of you in the second hour,
something cool that's going on. Let's just say I may
become Clay's cornerman. I may be there ready to cut.
You know, they may have to cut if Clay gets
hit me, man gets hit me. Let me get in there,
Get in there, Clay, get in there.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
You know.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
So I'm looking forward to it. That'll be a lot
of fun.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Speaking of athletic endeavors, after the scuirreless accusations made yesterday
about my tennis serve. There might be video that we
will be able to put up on clay and buck
over the course of the next hour or maybe double tripled,
quadrupled down, disbelieving that you could hit a tennis of
one hundred. Like we were picking up our youngest at
school walking back and I said, you know, because I

(04:34):
was on the phone we were talking about Crockett and
I said, no, you know, but can really do this?
And she said, I just don't believe it. She said,
she actually said, she actually said. We went to Wimbledon
probably seven or eight years ago, which was an awesome experience.
And what's cool about Wimbledon is many things, but center
court is huge, but there are a lot of small

(04:56):
courts where you can sit basically on top of the
right arms.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, that's the great thing about majors.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
And you see how they hit it, and it doesn't
come across on television, the absolute power that these guys
just smack the ball with. And so she was just like,
there's no way Bucking hit a ball on hundred miles
an hour. Now, she didn't think I could bench press
one hundred and eighty five ten times. Lara generally believes
neither of us can accomplish anything athletically.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Is the overall over recurring theme on the show.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Lara Yee of Little Faith Travis, Yes, all right, we will,
so I'll post that video and we can put it
up at claynbuck dot com.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
It'stead of the team.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
They don't speed guns for tennis are actually tough to
come by that are reliable.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
So we have video of a serve and you can
do the math on it.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
The distance from a baseline to the opposing service line
is about sixty feet, very similar to a baseball just
inceide believe Clay, is that right?

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Does that sound right? I think that's right. It's about
sixty feet from home plate to so you can.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Sixty six sixty feet six inches I think, or sixty
I don't think it's six sixty six. I think it's
sixty feet six inches from pitcher's mound to home play.
So very similar in the realm of baseball and tennis distance.
So those of you imagine that I am pitching instead
of serving, and you will get a sense as to
the speed because that's the same distance when that ball
hits the ground. Okay, we'll get into that though.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
We'll get into that.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
You know what, Let's talk a big game. We'll see
what happens when the video is unleashed, and we'll do
a poll. Do you think this is faster than one
hundred miles an hour? But we have important things that
you're like saving the country and getting into the news
and looking at what Trump is up to. And Clay,
I didn't know the range was hot. I didn't know
you were taking incoming on this one. But sure enough

(06:36):
this was over on was this MSNBC or CNN? It
was one of the communist pogists.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
And I'm going to point this out before you play it.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Of all the opinions I've ever given, I want there
to be less people murdered in America seem to me
to be one of the least controversial takes in my
twenty year media career. Hey, I hate murders, and I
wish less people got murdered. I thought, man, this is
something that everybody could agree with.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
I was wrong.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
I've been getting lit up over this. It's really one
of the funniest things. I would generally, I would as
his cornerman. I would I would rush to his defense
of this. But this is this is just weak saw
stopped to bottom. But here is a former Jeb exclamation
point Bush Comms director, So one of those Republicans who
now just is a Democrat but refuses to say it

(07:24):
and goes on Democrat channels to attack actual Republicans. Here
is attacking by name Clay Travis on MSNBC for saying
things that all of us are saying. But here we
go play one.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
This is all power play, right. It's all about the
vibes and the look. And that's why you've got guys
like Clay Travis on Fox News. I guess rooting for
living in a military state right now, because it's they're
trying to demonstrate strength and machies. No, and it's mostly
more about that than about the policy.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Clay, you're your testosterone has just overwhelmed the MSNBC table
over there. By the way, I don't even see how
testosterone is involved in wanting one less murders? Are there
people with high levels of estrogen that just want more
people murdered? Excuse me, Clay, The claim was made that
it was your overwhelming machismo that while driving this I

(08:12):
will acknowledge to MSNBC that in comparison to virtually all
of the men that appear on that network, I would
have overwhelming machismo. But this felt like somewhat of a
calculated attack Buck, because yesterday I'm just Media Matters. Media
Matters wrote the headline, this is a real headline out
kicks Clay Travis, federal takeover of DC should be a

(08:34):
test case for whether we can go into other cities,
and then they pulled here's my quote that they said
was so unbelievable. I would like DC to be a
test case for whether we could go into other cities
where far too many people are being murdered and help
to drive down the violent crime rate there as well. Again,
I'm not surprised usually when people come after me or

(08:57):
you for something that we might say, because there are
things that we say that people on the left would
be unhappy about. This, to me, is the least being
in favor of there being fewer murders. Is the least
controversial thing I may have ever said in my media career.
But I think it's it's indicative of their uninability to

(09:17):
pick rational things to fight about because they're just so
reflexively anti Trump. That even things that are not particularly political,
Hey let's have less people die in DC, they automatically
line up against him on It really is derangement that
is not getting better. Well, I'm glad Clay was able
to take a moment to stop smashing beer cans against

(09:40):
his face uh and and belching the alphabet with all
of his machismo talk.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, it was amazing. I saw that.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
I said, Wow, really just just throwing elbows at my
man Clay over this one.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Dude, this is not even you.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
You've say way great, No one even remembers what you
said about Michelle Obama.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
I was like, Oh, they're going to come after a
mo on that one, but nope, apparently not.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
That's like the seven hundred and forty eighth the least
controversial thing that I said yesterday, and somehow that's the
one that they just This is like when I got
attacked on HBO for my hot take on sports for
Simone Biles not being like the bravest for stepping out
of an event. You remember that one. It's always the
ones that you don't expect. It's always the ones, you know,
the takes that you put out there that you don't Okay,

(10:22):
let's dive into now the crime situation and this back
and forth because I think once again Trumpet well, oh
and no.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
This was my favorite. This is my favorite.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Ann Jura, Dajad, jiedd Haradas, juror Haradus. I'm not trying
to get that one right. Jured Haradus was on Morning Joe.
I did not see this live. Unfortunately, my Morning Joe
viewing did not catch this one. But this is the
kind of stuff that is being offered up.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Well.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Meanwhile, Cash Bettel is saying, yeah, FBI just arrested a
whole bunch of very scary, very bad bad dudes, bad
people who have committed very serious crimes who are out
there in DC. So things are already happening. They're already
taking action to take violent criminals off the streets. Over
at MSNBC, this guy, mister Jurora Hardis is saying that

(11:12):
this is what he's worried about.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
Play too, a relatively small crime problem is being used
for specific authoritarian purposes that we know and understand. So
let's be clear about DC does have a really one,
really big crime problem, which was the January sixth insurrection
incited by the current president of the United States, and

(11:33):
his first act in coming back was pardoning all the
people who tried to overturn constitutional republic order in Washington, DC.
When I go to DC, I'm not afraid of losing
my wallet so much as I'm afraid of losing my vote.
I'm not afraid of losing my wallet so much as
I'm afraid that my children's freedom.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
To breathe will be stolen.

Speaker 6 (11:55):
In a world where climate change policy is non existent.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
I'm not scared of crime in DC. I'm scared of
climate change. Might be the most perfect distillation of live
MSNBC delusion I have ever heard post COVID. I mean,
it might be the craziest thing, and I'm sure he's
not alone in believing this. I think that opposing Trump
trying to bring down violent crime in DC maybe the

(12:23):
craziest anti Trump position that Democrats have taken yet. I look,
there are other things Trump I think has exposed them
on men and women's sports, for instance, but that's a
choice they made prior to Trump. This is a direct
response to Trump saying I want to bring down the
overall death rate in the country. In our nation's capital,

(12:43):
I want it to be a beautiful jewel of a
city with low crime, low homelessness, Latin less graffiti, less
waste product everywhere. And this guy comes on and says
that he's worried about climate change than he's worried about
being mugged. First of all, that's a lie. There's no

(13:04):
one who, especially an effeminate man like him. There's no
one out there walking the streets of DC late at
night that is thinking as they breathe the air, Oh
my goodness, I am terrified of climate change. But thank
the Lord, I don't have to worry about getting somebody
knocking me in the back of the head.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
That doesn't exist.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
And this is one of the things that I think
is exposing democrats is that their arguments are so profoundly
inauthentic that even people who might believe in climate change
don't believe that argument. And I'm surprised that guy has kids,
because I frankly, that's not an argument that sounds like
someone with a functional penis would make. So congratulations to

(13:44):
him on that, I guess. But this is you know,
maybe that's machismo coming out of me, but come on, like,
this is not this is not a real argument that
a rational human being would make and he doesn't even
believe it, right, I mean, this is this is the
essence I think of their collapse as a party, why
they keep hitting new lows in support and why they

(14:05):
basically have no men in America that are supporting the
Democrat Party. Now would that have functional brains at all?
I think it's arguments like these spoken like the man
splaining machismo expert himself, Clay Travis, all the machismo just
just you know, oh, I can't handle it all.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, man, crime is bad.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
And anyone who's lived in DC or spend time there
knows that this has been a member at one point
was the murder capital of the United States. I understand
it's gotten a lot better since then, but it also
got a lot worse in twenty twenty three relative to
where it has been in the twenty first century. And
there's also more and more evidence they're cooking the books
and that their prosecutors are downgrading felony crimes to non

(14:48):
felonies to make things look better. Anyone who has seen
the show The Wire remembers this, and anyone who's worked
in a major police department knows this is something that
is a temptation for the brass. Oh yeah, yeah, we're
doing a great job in this precinct because we're actually
not doing the.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Arrests that we were doing before.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Or on the prosecutorial side, same idea, we're just going
to downgrade all these arrests to something that's not a
big deal. Also, Jan sixth as in some way a
you know, the worst day for America since the Civil War,
even trying to continue to make that argument with just
something that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden tried to sell.
There was barely a blip when Trump pardoned everybody who

(15:28):
was involved in Jan. Six Now, partly that's because Biden
pardoned his entire family right beforehand, but I also think
it's an understanding that they played that for every ounce
that they could, and there's just no juice left in
that orange, so to speak. I'm telling you, when I'm
walking down the street, I'm not worried about climate change,
but I am worried about identity theft because that can

(15:49):
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Speaker 2 (16:51):
For fired shots have been returned on the tennis court,
The video is up We're putting it up at claymbuck
dot com. For those of you who aren't on X
put it elsewhere as well. Now I understand where this
is going. You're gonna you're gonna see that serve. I'm
gonna give Lara the opportunity to watch the video. Clay
I just tacked her. I just hacked social media. I'm
gonna let her. I'm just telling is not going to

(17:14):
atack retract. She's gonnatract attack. She's going to demand that
there be radar I'm going I'm I have many police
friends here in Miami, uh and I because I think
what would a would a radar gun.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
For a car work for a serve?

Speaker 4 (17:32):
To?

Speaker 1 (17:32):
I don't know this is I gotta figure this out
like this is.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
I don't know what the what the method by which
they measure the speed of a serve. But anybody who
watches tennis has seen immediately after every serve they flash
it up, it's sponsored by Rolex or somebody I think, right.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Usually IBM shot Spot. They have all these things.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, but that's like very high tech and a multimillion dollar,
you know, enterprise of the technology involved. Somebody in Miami
in the Super high end tennis universe has got the
ability to I bet they have this.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
I'm just gonna say.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
I'm just gonna say, you know, Laura has the opportunity
to retract the scandalous accusation, the scandalous doubting of my
serve after seeing video. Because I'm a gentleman. If she
wants though the radar gun, she's not going to accept.
I'm just telling you, I've been.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
We've got to put a steak we gotta put a
steak wager on this. We're gonna have to.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
She's gonna have to take you know, I don't know
which steakhouse in Nashville, and we'll do we know, we'll
take her to the dancing Steakhouse here in Miami Beach.
If I'm wrong, all right, we'll go to the fun place. So,
because I think I think she sees that video, she
might get a little might feel a little iced on this one.
I could be a little you know, I think she's
gonna be surprised. This has been the story of my life.
People underestimate the strength and speed of the Buckster because

(18:48):
he just looks cuddly, But it turns out that there
can be there could be surprises in store.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
All right, man.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
The comments, by the way, on Twitter after I shared this,
you're getting lit up. People are not. They're actually lying
up behind our alara. Maybe eighty miles an hour maybe,
and let's see here, maybe seventy miles an hour, sixty seven,
about seventy five. People are out of their minds. People

(19:16):
are out of their minds, no idea what they're talking about.
The pros serve routinely now one hundred and twenty five,
one hundred and thirty miles an hour, So if Lauren
said one hundred and twenty I'd be like, that's tough.
One hundred miles an hour played the women's tennis players.
Women's tennis players routinely one hundred and ten miles an

(19:37):
hour now, So this time they are asking Groc to
answer the question on Twitter.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Now, I don't know if I can't think about that,
that's actually.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
AI you would think does potentially have the ability to
actually to actually time this out. So you can go
see the video for yourself from Buck's Twitter account at
Buck Sexton. I just retweeted it. Laura Travis is in
meetings for our house that we are building, so we
will I will let you know when I hear I'm
I'm just telling you the average the average pro tour

(20:07):
women serve. The average women serve is about one hundred
miles an hour. Now, the question is not can I
serve in a match every serve over one hundred miles
an hour? The question is can I juice it over
one hundred miles an hour one time and get it in.
I mean, if any of you can do math, you
get sixty feet look at that.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
You can do slow moo.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
If you want seventy miles seventy miles an hour, that's proprie.
And throw a basketball seventy miles an hour it's insane.
So anyway, all right, all right.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
So so now we get into real things.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
I'm just saying this is uh, you know, when one
is called out on this, one is called out on this.
I mean, we're Did people think that Clay was using
dummy weights when he did his one eighty five ten times?

Speaker 1 (20:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Maybe some people thought that, but it turned out Clay
could bench one eighty five ten times. All Right, I
know you don't come here for all the silliness only,
so let's dive into some of the realities. Here of
what Trump was just saying, you know, I want to
I want to do this interest rates actually, because this,
this has got to happen. It has been far too delayed.
Trump was just speaking. He just he just finished, right, guys,

(21:11):
because he was speaking.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
When we went on air. Who's going off for quite
some time. Cut thirty two. Here Trump talking about where
interest rates need to be. Listen to this one. Play it, and.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Now he's got us in a bad place. So we're
paying three hundred and sixty billion dollars a year for
each point. Now I believe we should be three or
four points lower. So that's over at trillion dollars we
pay every year in interest. And it's really just a
paper calculation. You signed a document and you save almost
a trillion dollars because that number equates very much to

(21:42):
the bonds that we have to buy. But despite that,
we're powering through it, and we have the greatest economy
maybe we've ever had.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
I think this is going to be fantastic for the economy.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Look the number one thing, and I'm just going to
keep hammering this. We were just talking about this off air.
Been in my house for ten years. I have like
a two point eight percent interest rate, because that was
the rates that you could get at some point over
the past decade. If, however, you if you're if you're
fortunate enough to have a rate like that, which many

(22:15):
of you are, you don't want to move. If you
are unfortunate and you bought just a couple of years
after that, right you bought in twenty twenty two, you
bought in twenty twenty three, You've got around a seven
percent interest rate on your house, and you are desperate
to be able to bring that rate down, and it
just hasn't happened. But that disconnect has broken the housing market.

(22:38):
Joe Biden broke the housing market. And Trump understands interest rates.
If he can get them back to five percent on
the mortgage rates, if you can get them to four
and a half, then all of the housing market suddenly
opens up. People are willing to pay a bit more.
You had a kid, maybe you had a kid leave college,
and you leave for college and you don't need the

(22:59):
same size anymore. It is just I think the number
one bottleneck right now that exists in our economy is
the mortgage run up from around two and a half
points to seven overnight basically because Biden let inflation go
to nine percent, and people can always say, well, seven
percent historically is not.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
You know, a crazy awful rate for a mortgage.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
I understand that argument, but in the context of going
from about two and a half to seven plus in
the space of about eighteen months is truly unheard of in
much of modern life for most people out there buying homes.
So this is this is the thing Trump's hundred percent
right on. Now, inflation has not taken off. There is
an expectation that the Fed is going to lower rates

(23:43):
in September, maybe also in October, probably going to get
a half basis point minimum before the end of the year.
So if you were out there and you're looking at
housing markets and you're thinking about making a move, to
the extent that you want to listen to Clay Travis'
interest rate officionado, I would say, if you start to
buy sometime around Thanksgiving, you're probably going to get a

(24:04):
much lower rate going forward, and hopefully those rates will
continue to get cut going into twenty twenty six. So
you can add mortgage rate expert to my list of
things that I've predicted here.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
A lot of you.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Are way better versed in interest rates than me, but
I do spend enough time involved in it. I know
you've got different properties. I've been involved in a variety
of commercial real estate transactions over the years, still have
a bunch, and then personal residents. So this is a
big deal. And Trump knows this better than anyone. And

(24:38):
Jerome Powell's been a disaster. He was too late to
stop inflation, and now I think he's been too late
to bring back down the rates that he was forced
to raise rapidly because he was too late. He's always
too late reacting to the underlying economic data. In my opinion,
I think Trump's right about this. He also goes into

(24:58):
this here he says on the issue of the crime,
this is cut twenty nine. What we want to do
is make wash well, let's let the president say it,
play it.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
What we want to just make Washington, DC the greatest,
most beautiful, safest capital anywhere in the world. And that's
going to happen. I mentioned the word bones before the
bones here the bones. We have the greatest bones. When
you look at that Supreme Court building, I think it's
one of the most beautiful buildings. When you look at
some of the buildings here so magnificent and everything's good,

(25:27):
but it's just dirty and not properly maintained. It's not
taken care of potholes in the roads. All of it's
going to happen very quickly. We're going to seek a
relatively small amount of money to fix up.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
I just I don't understand how this is something that
Democrats have decided they're going to be opposed to. It
just it to me, is one of the most ridiculous arguments,
maybe that they've ever adopted. Yeah, I think that this
is another situation where maybe they just there's that reflexive

(26:01):
anti Trumpism that comes across and they think, well, that's
what I have to do. And now they've created this
position for themselves where why like, why wouldn't you want
the FBI dealing with violent crime on the streets, you know,
why wouldn't you want people to be in a situation
where they're safer. And it reminds me a little bit
of the immigration issue, which is that they started off.

(26:26):
Remember they're used to just being able to say it's
racist and like we are a nation of immigrants and
all this stuff. Well, first of all, on the racist point,
majorities of minorities in this country want to secure border too,
so that's tougher than ever to sell. But Clay, they
started out going after what was that guy's name, the
one who got sent to you know what I mean,
the Brao Garcia, A Brao Garcia. They started out. That

(26:50):
is completely vanished, by the way, because I.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Think thirteen gang members MS thirteen gang members.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
And you know, you sit there, you just say, you're well,
this is something that's not going to go well for them.
But you almost get the sense that there's no adult
in the party who is out there to say, hey, guys,
you know this is this is not helping you, right,
Like there's no voice of reason from the top of
the Democrat Party, not that there ever really is, but

(27:19):
there's usually a savvy you know, there's somebody who can
read the polls and understands. Look, as much as he
was a dementia patient, Biden knew even at the height
of BLM not to go with defund police. Yeah, he
was a savvy enough cat or his advisors were not
to go with defund the police. It's like, right now,
there's no voices in the Democrat Party who are really

(27:41):
or at least that are big because we're playing some Democrats, right,
like Chris Matthews. But there's no big, prominent voices who
were saying, guys, on this crime thing, you gotta at
least say we have a better approach to it. The
DC's really safe. You're lying at such a great city
and no one should worry about this, or we should
worry about climate change.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Just makes you look insane.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Here is a guy, let me give you a name,
that I think could come out of nowhere in twenty
twenty eight in the Democrat primary process, Rama Manual. I
think he is a relatively normal, rational guy who is
in the nineteen nineties era Democrat, which, by the way,
nineteen nineties era Democrats are basically Republicans. Now. In fact,

(28:22):
there are a ton of you out there who maybe
in your younger days, might have voted Democrat in the
nineteen nineties, and you now are voting for Trump because
the whole concept of a centrist Democrat doesn't really exist anymore.
By and large, it's basically become a rational, common sense Republican,
and I think Rama Manual is of that ilk in

(28:45):
the nineteen nineties Democrat now that's where they tried to
run Joe Biden as and Buck. The question that I
think is still floating around out there is are any
of the Democrats that try to take the moderate, rational,
common sense lane Are they actually just going to be
liars like Biden was? And then as soon as they
get into office, bend their need to the progressive wing

(29:07):
of the party and go out there and run the
country not as some form of centrist but as a
far left winger. That's what Biden did, right. Biden was
a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Right.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
They pretended that he was not, that he was Grandpa
Joe and he wasn't really going to do anything that aggressive.
And then they got him in there, and I don't
think he really had any idea what was going on,
and they ran him like he was Bernie Sanders. And
I think that's why his entire political universe collapsed. Not
to mention, he had dementia and so he didn't have
the mental or physical ability to stand up to any

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Speaker 2 (31:23):
I've played this. I think we've rolled this over a
couple of days. I do not think we have played
it yet. But we're talking about crazy Town, and this
is I don't think we played this right reality star
and star is doing a lot of work there someone
named Jennifer Welch team we have not played this yet, right.

(31:44):
She is evidently a Bravo person. And for those of
you out there, my wife watches some of these. I
bet that a large majority of women out there. Certainly,
if I would say I don't know, I would think
this is probably the Bravo Housewife shows are probably ali
Is it fair to say it's like Women under fifty
is like the Wheelhouse, Like Women thirty to fifty would

(32:07):
be like the Bravo Perfect Real Housewives audience end up,
So this is like one of the most popular shows
for women out there. And I imagine some of you
men have walked through and seen the screaming fights in
the crazy town that is involved in these shows on
a regular basis. So this reporter, sorry, this Bravo star,

(32:29):
Jennifer Welch, evidently has a podcast and this has gone
megaviral because she said white Trump voters shouldn't be allowed
to eat at Mexican or Chinese restaurants. They should only
be able to go to Cracker Barrel. This is real
cut twenty four.

Speaker 9 (32:49):
I've had it with white people that triple Trump, that
have the nerve and the audacity to walk into a
Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, go to
perhaps their gay hairdresser. I don't think you should be

(33:09):
able to enjoy anything but Cracker Barrel. And if you
want to triple Trump, and you want to browbeat DEI,
and you want to browbeat gay people, and you want
to browbeat black people as you've been doing for four
hundred years, and you want to browbeat this generation of
immigrants that come over here and open up businesses, earnestly,
pay their taxes. You want to demonize them and call

(33:31):
them rapists and felons and all this when the Felon
is the teeny weeny mushroom piece of cankles mctaco at
the top of the ticket. I have had it from
top to bottom, white people that triple Trump should be banned,
boycotted from enjoying the best thing that America has to offer,
which is multi culturalism. Get your fat asses out of

(33:54):
the Mexican restaurant, Get your fat asses over to cracker Barrel,
because nobody wants to see your smug ass, teeny weeney
pink arm, big gut around. Nobody wants to see that.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
No one, I mean wo yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
So first of all, this is I think maybe the
base of the Democrat Party now and you say, okay,
what do you mean by base of the Democrat Party. Yes,
it's ridiculous, it's outrageous what she said. But liberal white women,
if you go look at the twenty twenty four election results,

(34:33):
Kamala Harris really only improved on Joe Biden with white women.
Think about that for a minute. Every group in America.
Kamala Harris lost ground with black men, Hispanic men, Asian men,
white men, black women, Hispanic women, Asian women. All of

(34:55):
them said I am moving towards Trump. In twenty twenty
four except for white women, and this woman, I know,
Producer Ali is surrounded by women who may not be
necessarily this vulgar, but in New York City this would
be a huge part. Buck, you tried to date some
of some of these chicks when you were a single guy,

(35:16):
unfortunately in New York City. Why are they so angry
at the world? I mean, I think it's a really
big question because they are now the foundation of the
Democrat Party. They are the people that the Democrat Party
bends the knee to responds to. They liked Kamala more

(35:40):
than they liked to Joe Biden, the only group in
America and you could hear from her such venom and
by the way, not rational, because if every triple Trump
voter suddenly said I'm not going to eat in Mexican
restaurants anymore, do you know who would suffer the lot
of the people that are of Mexican descent, of Hispanic descent,

(36:02):
that are working in the restaurants. And so I really
do try to put myself in their world. Why are
they so angry?

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Buck?

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Like, why is that woman in some way representative of
the foundation of the Democrat Party right now?

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Not just disagreeing on policy fronts.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
But legitimately basing almost her entire take on Trump voters
are awful human beings and they shouldn't be a part
of civilized society. Why are they so mad? Why are
they so angry? I really genuinely can't figure it. Oh boy,
you have a deep down into the psychology. I mean,
I'm trying to think that put my head into the

(36:44):
crazy world they live in, and I have difficulty even
understanding why they are so angry. I think that they have,
over a period of time, deeply bought into messaging that
is going to inherently make people very, very miserable over
the long term. I think that they have their the

(37:05):
value system they should have has been largely replaced by
the leftist stuff that we talk about, the virtue signaling,
the race communism, the gender identity nonsense.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Uh and over.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
You know, there are some people whose minds are just
more easily molded by the propaganda that's all around us
all the time. I mean, there's a whole you're asking
about about white women. I mean, I think and people
have gotten mad at me. I've been saying this for
twenty years basically or whatever whenever the show ended. I
forget whenever it ended. But I mean, I think Sex
and the City was terrible for women. I think Sex

(37:41):
and the City was very bad messaging for a whole gender.
And it's really women my age, maybe a little bit older,
for a whole generation of women because they watched that show.
And I understand it's entertainment. I know, it's very cleverly written.
I understand, you know, I like jokes too, but the
underlying message, you know, just to be clear, it's supposed
to fun, the underlying Look, let's understand something, even before

(38:04):
there was radio and there was television, there's a reason
political cartoons were so effective, right, There's a reason that
using artistry for political messaging. And you go back to
propag you know, propaganda during warfare and the existence of
all these different all these different methods of trying to

(38:24):
engage in shaping public perception and anyway, So that's my
roundabout way of saying. With Sex and the City, I
think that there was a value system that was elevated
through that show and other things like it and other
currents in the culture. But I'm just picking on that
one right now, where you know, it's not about something
other than yourself. It's about expensive shoes, it's about uh,

(38:46):
you know, pursuing hedonism and self actualization and all these
that actually don't mean anything. And there is a class
of white women in America who white women who are
Democrats in a America to be clear, left wing democrats,
who have bought into all this stuff and are now
at the point in their lives like this woman, where

(39:08):
there's a derangement that has set in where they have
to keep believing this stuff even though observation of the
world around them would lead them to think that this
is not that they have not made good choices. It's
very think about this, like, how do you grapple with
bad life choices? And I don't just mean that in
terms of family formation or things, you know, whether you

(39:29):
pursued career at the expense of other things. I just
mean the way that you've interacted with people and saw
yourself vis a vis society. How do you go back
and say, wow, I believe in stuff that was like
trash and workless. So that's what I think. So he
ask me why these women are so unhappy? That's why
I think it's so unhappy. They've been worshiping the golden
calf of sex and the city life, and it's not good.

(39:50):
And they turn around they realize, why am I so miserable? Well,
because you didn't put other more important things before your
own very kind of mundane and petty desires.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
I I don't know. I think I think it's no.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
I mean, I think it's important sometimes because I'm always
asking am I and am I missing something? Is there
an argument? I am willing to be persuaded that I
am wrong on anything if you can provide me an
objective data point. I really struggle to understand these women.

(40:27):
And I think that clip is so outrageous that it's
funny to play, But she's not saying something that there
isn't tens of millions of white women in particular out there.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Who believe it.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
And I spent some time because I obviously this new
book that I'm writing is about young men and the
world in which they inhabit and how they've come to
move so aggressively towards the Republican Party. But I don't
hear very many people talk about, Hey, Kamala was an
awful candidate, one of the worst that's ever I think
and run by the Democrat Party, and yet white women

(41:03):
moved towards her. She in some way was able to
galvanize white women who showed up in big numbers for
Joe Biden to move even more aggressively in favor of
in favor of Kamala And that's an important lesson because
we've talked a lot about young men moving and Trump

(41:24):
gaining support with Hispanic and Black and Asian voters, and
that seems rational to me if you're actually looking at
the data. White women seem to have spun off into
a whole world where the choices that they're making and
the arguments that they are even being willing to embrace
is totally nonsensical. And I think it's important to recognize

(41:48):
that these people are out there and think about they
basically are destroying the Democrat Party because they're the foundation
of the Democrat Party. Imagine imagine that you are a
Democrat and that woman is leading the charge for your party.

(42:08):
How do you make her happy? I think your sex
in the city argument is a good one. Buck In
my book, I argue that if you went back to
like nineteen sixty five and you told a single man,
what was the ideal world that you would.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Want to create.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Feminism in the last fifty years has basically created the
ideal world for men, sex with limited to note work,
a disposable culture of relationship where you can constantly just sweep,
swipe right, or whatever it is. And I think these women,
to your point, they made all the choices that they

(42:47):
think empowered them, and actually they've managed to strip away
much of their power. And men are actually more powerful
in their world today than men were in nineteen sixty five.
And I think it's a counterintuitive thing. And to your point,
what happens. I was talking to one of my buddies
the other day, you know him. We went out to
dinner and he's in the middle of a divorce and

(43:10):
he was asking me he got a financial question, and
I was like, boy, this is like not a good situation.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Situation be it and sid he said.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
And I give him credit, he's got a great sense
of humor, he said, totally deadpan. Yeah, I know for
the last twenty years, given a choice between a good
financial decision and a bad financial decision, he's like, I
picked the bad one. And he's like, this is where
you end up when you have good financial decision. Bad
financial decision and you picked the bad one. He's funny

(43:38):
about it, and he's still young enough where he's gonna
be okay. But I do think a lot of these
women can't reconcile the fact that the reason why they're
unhappy is actually because of the world they've created around them.
And so I think you're right. I think it's an
element they have to lash out and believe that all
they have is their moral authority and everyone else is

(43:59):
off but them, And I think in reality, because there's
the deep toxicity to them, and that actually now characterizes
the Democrat Party. So I think the Democrat Party has
to kick these chicks to the curb in order to
ever be relevant again. And I don't think they can
do it because they're the base now. Yes, so there

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Speaker 2 (46:09):
Laura Travis has weighed in, I went downstairs during the break.
She has said that she continues to believe you cannot
hit us serve of one hundred miles an hour, but
she hopes that you can because if you can, she
wants you to get us Wimbledon tickets the next time
that you play.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
In the tournament.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
So the sarcasm is continuing to pour. Welcome to my
Welcome to my world. She has also weighed in in
the comments She's kind of got a free ride here
because on the steak bet front, do you know who
has to cover the steak bet?

Speaker 8 (46:41):
Me?

Speaker 2 (46:41):
So she gets all the benefits of winning a bet
with none of the none of the downside because her hut,
you've been a little more, you've been a little more
fifty to fifty on this one.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
But like you, you didn't.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
You didn't immediately say if Buck Ficker and I just
want to be clear about this.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Everyone has to understand. I'm not saying I'm not saying.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
That I serve over one hundred miles an hour when
I serve, I'm saying I can serve in the box
over one hundred miles an hour. If you look at
Google D three tennis players whom I have played against many,
many times over the years, including when I was in college,
and you will find that they serve seventy five to
one hundred miles an hour the men on average on average,
so one the male tennis players on the tour serve

(47:21):
one hundred and fifteen to one hundred and twenty mile
an hour first serves on average. It's a lot I
can't do. I can't do that. I'm not like I'm
saying over one hundred though. Oh I just two hundred
dollars on a speed gun, all right, that's that's real money.
I got the fanciest speed gun you could get.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Everybody, so many doubters, so many doubters, fanciest speed gun.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
During the commercial break, I here's the two things that
I think you can do it, because I think you're
very confident in it. And it's a weird thing, like
when I said I could do one hundred and eighty five.
This should be a weird thing to claim to do
in something that you do regularly to not be able
to do, right, I think you know your like, for instance,
now he's kind of icing me with this a little bit. No,

(48:03):
now I feel at the tables have turn like if
I can't if I get stuck at ninety, which would
be sad because that would mean that I was close.
But no, cigar, you know, like maybe I just I
top out at ninety miles an hour. To be clear,
I'm not saying I can do one twenty. I'm saying
I could do like one hundred and two maybe. But
I regularly have had these kind of bets my whole life.
So I said I could throw a football fifty yards,

(48:26):
and we when I was in law school and nobody
nobody believed me. Like everybody was like, this is this
is a ridiculous claim. There's no way that you can
actually do this. So we broke into Vanderbilt. At the time,
it wasn't very hard to break in they're like a
outdoor football field and I got forty eight yards.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
So I I think you and I are both a
little similar in this regard.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
I think that while while humble about it, I think
that we are we surprise people with the you know,
for middle aged guys with for the physical capabilities.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Here I was the get about it too.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
In the context of your speed gun thing, like if
you go to a baseball game or minor league baseball,
I think they stop these because guys are just tearing
their rotator cuffs.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
I haven't seen them as frequently, but.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
You know where you could go and you get they
give you a baseball, and without any warm up at all,
you just stand there and try to throw it as
hard as you can. I think your average guy, like
I think I could throw a baseball sixty miles an
hour right now, Like, I don't think that's a crazy
So when I think about you having the propulsion power
of a uh, I mean some of them are trolling

(49:32):
me like, which is fine in the comments, but the
people were saying the service sixty or seventy miles an
hour are insane. The people who are saying it might
be ninety or ninety five I'm like, oh, that's why
I'm getting the speed gun. If you're saying sixty or
seventy you're not good at math, well, I mean, I'm
just thinking about it in the context of the again,
the laser on the just just throwing a ball without
having the ability to smack it with a racket. Anyway,

(49:55):
I'm super proud. I would to be a bayers ball
is heavy, a tennis ball is like air basically, so
it's very So this is the big debate, Now, can
Buck do it or not? Laura Travis on No, I
think I'm gonna gomm down on your side. I'm more
inclined to think that you can than can't. By the way,

(50:16):
speaking of coming down on the side, I want to
play this guy because this guy has gone viral.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
I am.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
So it's one thing for Democrats in response to Trump
saying hey, I'm going to clean up DC, for Democrats
to say, oh, we're just reflexively going to line up
against him. But if you are an objective, honest, even
somewhat rational member of the media who spends any time
at all in DC, you would have to acknowledge that

(50:46):
you or your family or your significant others do worry
about crime. And if you're not worried about crime, it
is Hey, you're so rich, you have a security detail,
people are driving you around in a black car, and
you don't have to worry about it. This is a
New York Times reporter who said this guy, Peter Baker,
he's regularly on the front page of the New York

(51:09):
Times for his reporting on President Trump. He says, Trump
wants to be a dictator. There's no crime crisis in DC.
This has cut fourteen.

Speaker 10 (51:21):
This is something that we don't see in the United States.
We fought crime for two hundred and fifty years in
the United States without turning it over to the military.
And that's something you normally see. You know, military troops
in the streets of a capital, the kind of thing
you see in other countries, and autocratic countries, but autocratic
leaders who are trying to assert control and power. If
you really cared about crime in the district Columbia, where

(51:41):
crime is actually down historically, if he actually care about
crime in America, there are cities with worst crime rates
than Washington, d C. He's not setting troops into there streets.
He's setting the troops in the streets of the nation's capital,
which has a special residence.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Okay, this guy I don't understand. First of all, DC
is a federal protectorate, so it is beyond a shadow
of a doubt that the president has the ability to
do this. There would be disputes, as you saw when
the President brought police and the National Guard basically state
national Guard I think or State Guard into California. There

(52:15):
are disputes over that the president does have the authority
to do that, I believe anywhere. But the argument that
the crime isn't a problem from someone who's supposed to
be an objective journalist is embarrassing. DC has an awful
crime problem, violent crime problem, and the fact that it's

(52:37):
twice as deadly in Washington d C. As Bogata, Colombia,
three times as dangerous in Washington d C. As Mexico City. Yes,
Trump is talking about it, but Democrats want to pretend
that it isn't an issue. And I just I really
for journalists to then line up and say, well, actually
crime is not bad, it boggles my mind that they

(53:00):
could be this dumb. It's one thing again for stupid
Democrats to do it, but for somebody who's supposed to
be an objective journalist. I don't understand how you could
possibly make the argument he just made. It goes to
a combination of things, and one is the the just
reflexive anti Trump isn't as we have discussed of Chris

(53:22):
Matthews tried to warn them about this because he's a
more old school Democrat.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
You knew he wasn't long for MSNBC, didn't They kind
of did he? They forced him out?

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Yeah, right over because he called like he called someone
like a you know, sweetheart or something.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Right, didn't he do something like that?

Speaker 2 (53:36):
There was yeah, And I mean yes, I'm not saying
he did anything bad. I'm just saying that I feel
like they did him a little dirty over there, like
there was some complaints that he was a little uh.
The Democratic Party doesn't really have any place for older
white guys like that is kind of what they have
slowly made a parent to everyone. Is your opinions not

(53:56):
welcome if you are an older white guy in the
Democrat Party. And unfortunately, there's still a lot of older
white guys that vote Democrat because they bought into that
team forty years ago. And I think a lot of
them just don't pay attention because they think of themselves
as historic Democrats and they don't know what the party
stands for anymore.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
That's a really interesting question, though, isn't it. What does
the party stand for? What happens?

Speaker 2 (54:20):
What happens with the Democrat Party that has to face
the reality that perhaps it is facing right now, that race, communism,
and gender identity mandates don't actually win national elections anymore, well,
or maybe never did, but won't win them now for sure.
What do they do? How do you pivot from that?
It's not like you're pivoting on the tax rate, as

(54:41):
we've discussed. You're pivoting on some big stuff. I was
thinking about this so we can mention it now. September sixteenth,
I'm debating Stephen A. Smith in New York City. Steven A.
Smith's probably the most famous ESPN employee.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
We're going to.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Talk sports, politics, cultural issues, everything, And I was, actually,
that's going to be really fun. Maybe we'll have fun
talking about it a little bit more later in the show.
But actually, because of what you're saying, I was, I
don't know what the questions are going to be, you know,
I'm presuming that we're not going to have a Democrat
style debate where the Democrat gets the questions in advance
and then the Republicans just up there not knowing what's

(55:17):
going to be asked, but the question that you just asked.
I was thinking last night as I was attempting to
go to bed, what if I got asked, Hey, what
do you think the Democrats are doing that you agree with?

Speaker 1 (55:31):
What is something?

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Because a lot of people have party views that sometimes
cross over. Historically, you're not one hundred percent in agreement
with one party. You might be ninety five, but there
might be five percent where you would look at the
other side. Can you think buck of anything that you
actually agree with of the arguments that they're making.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
I can't think of a single Democrat policy where I
sit back and I say, Okay, strip away the politics
of it.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
Does this make sense?

Speaker 2 (56:05):
I can't even point to anything where I think to myself, Hey,
you know what, this is a policy that I could
get behind. I was looking at mom Donnie's New York
City mayor race. Basically nothing that he stands, not only
that I disagree with it, I think it's actually very
destructive to the fabric of New York City. I can't
even think of anything. And that's how lost they are

(56:30):
to not be able as a rational person to sit
and think, hey, what policies are they in favor of
as a party that maybe they're not wrong on. It
should be the case. I think if you have two
reasonable political parties that you might be ninety ten, but
there would be something where they would seize a point

(56:52):
and you would say, you know what, I think they
got a good argument there. I think historically that's been
the case. I can't even think of one. Maybe some
of you out there can think of something saying that
you're going to vote for a Democrat. I legitimately cannot
think of a Democrat policy position where I think to myself, hey,
you know what that actually is a rational, reasonable position

(57:14):
of the National Democrat Party. Well, I think that they
also have the problem of the people that are going
to get the attention in the meet because what happened
was the media became seeded with people who believe in
the radical left stuff, and they were elevated certainly during
the Biden years, and I think in the first Trump
administration too. Like I said, Jim Acosta, if you acted

(57:36):
like your job was to try to take the president down.
As a journalist, you were promoted, right, and then that
continued through the years of Biden and COVID and all
of that and BLM all that madness. Well, now when
they look around, it's like these are the people who
have been promoted within the company and their lunatics. So
there has to be a whole new set. You know,

(57:57):
you're hearing people who are Democrats saying sound things like
Chris Matthews on the issue of DC crime. They're not
big names, you know, they're not people that I mean
Chris Matthews. You say he's been in the business a
long time. I don't mean he's not a well known guy.
But I'm saying he's not calling the shots for the
Democrat Party at all. If anything, he's playing a lot
of golf. And I think that that's true in general. Now,

(58:20):
who gets the attention AOC from Democrats AOC Bernie Betto.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
These people are in the looney tune section.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
I mean, Gavin Newsom, you could say, tries to play
it both ways, but he's the governor California and he's
done everything he can to ruin his state as fast
as he can. So you know, he says one thing
and does another. There's no centrist ish moderate Democrat to
bring the crazies in line, and so that's why you
get the stuff that you're getting here with Trump on
the federalization of the crime issue in DC. That's why

(58:55):
I think Rob Emmanuel's going to try to carve that
lane and be a sane man in the Democrat Party
because right now, I just I can't think of any
of them for that just makes sense going forward.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
It just doesn't add up.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
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