November 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 dives deeper into the fallout from the latest election results in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City, analyzing what the outcomes reveal about voter behavior and party strategies. Clay and Buck emphasize that while the night wasn’t catastrophic for Republicans, it exposed a critical weakness: Trump voters don’t turn out when Trump isn’t on the ballot. They cite data showing 600,000 fewer GOP voters in Virginia and New Jersey compared to 2024, underscoring the challenge for Republicans heading into the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential race.
The hosts dissect Democratic messaging, noting how slogans like “No Kings” and anti-Trump rhetoric continue to energize the left, even in off-year elections. They argue that Democrats successfully frame elections as a referendum on Trump rather than policy, mobilizing their base with emotional appeals rather than substantive governance plans. Clay and Buck contrast this with Republican struggles to motivate turnout, stressing the need for a strategy that extends beyond Trump’s personal magnetism.
A major focus of the hour is the Virginia Attorney General race, where Democrat Jay Jones won despite leaked texts revealing he wished death on political opponents’ children and vowed to desecrate their graves. The hosts express outrage that nearly half of voters dismissed these comments as non-disqualifying, calling the result a troubling sign of partisan loyalty overriding basic standards of decency. They warn that this reflects a broader cultural shift where Democrats prioritize party allegiance over character, even for top law enforcement positions.
Clay and Buck also touch on healthcare costs and the broken insurance system, criticizing Obamacare and the Supreme Court decision that enabled taxing inactivity. They highlight skyrocketing premiums and lack of transparency as systemic failures, while briefly mentioning Trump’s ongoing legal battles over tariff authority. The hour closes with listener reactions, including calls from Texas and Florida, and a candid discussion about whether conservatives can continue living in deep-blue states after elections like these.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in second hour of Clay and Buck Kickshaw right now,
and we have been talking about election results. Of course,
look not a great night for Republicans, but not a
terrible night because we expected to lose these races. So
let's all keep it, keep it in context, we keep
our composure here. We are happy warriors. It's all good.
(00:21):
It's all gonna be fine in the long run. We're
all dead, Clay, you know what I mean. You know, so,
don't make me go full Bill Murray in groundhog Day
when he's like thousands of people gathered together to worship
a rat. Remember that, Oh he's just quit. He's just
done with everything because he's living the same day over
and over again. Groundhog Day underrated movie. I might say,
(00:44):
a great movie. It's just a it's funny. You can
watch it over and over again. Look at that the irony.
It's a great movie. But I just always remember Bill
Murray like so just he's just had it right. We're
not there. Everything's gonna be fine. Everything's gonna be fine.
We gotta fight, we gotta win, we gotta stay focused.
That is that is baked in here. That is all
(01:04):
a part of this. And uh, this is the situation
as we see it in New Jersey. It was a
close call, but they ran two female, very establishment candidates
in New for Democrats in New Jersey and in Virginia,
(01:25):
and let's just say it, it was a smart play for them.
Women are the constituency of the Democrat I should say,
particularly young and unmarried women are a primary constituency of
the Democrat Party right now, and they ran against Trump
Clay in these states. Isn't that it's so interesting? You
(01:45):
get to run to be the governor. Here's Mikey Cheryl.
You get to run to be the governor of New Jersey.
But instead of having to explain why Democrats run New
Jersey so poorly, instead of that they have oh we
have no kings here, and that gets their base all
(02:09):
fired up, like this is looney tone stuff. Play seventeen.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We're not going to give in to our darker impulses
here in New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
We know that this station has.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Not ever been, nor will it ever be, ruled by kings.
We take oaths to a constitution, not a king. We've
chosen liberty, the very foundation of democracy, and we've chosen
prosperity necessary to create opportunity for all.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Okay, idea here, theory here, I'm gonna float something out
to you. So, the Trump is a Nazi thing has been.
They have beaten that dead horse so much. I mean,
they have pushed that so much. And yet Trump, as
we know, close ally of Israel. Despite a lot of
the noise on the right these days about Israel and
(03:02):
Jews in America and everything, Trump is the closest friend
that Israel has ever had. I noticed that some of
these voices on the right that are critical of an
APAC and Israel and everything not critical of Trump. Though
very interesting how that happens. But anyway, Trump is a
close friend of Israel, and so they have to drop that.
Is it? Now? If you're an emotionally unstable lib are
(03:25):
you really going with the fighting Trump is fighting monarchy thing?
Is this what the switch is? Now? They've gone from
Nazis to King Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
They just have to convince their base that Trump is
a Nazi to such an extent.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That they will show up.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And I mean, to me, Buck, I looked at the
numbers this morning. That's the first thing that I did.
Trump's base doesn't show up when Trump's not on the ballot. Remember,
Obama's base didn't show up when Obama was not on
the base on the ballot. I think there are some
very popular with the base politicians that have a certain
(04:05):
amount of personal magnetism that doesn't translate beyond them. I
mean again, I look at it. Six hundred thousand fewer
people showed up to vote Republican in New Jersey and
in Virginia. Yes, look, Democrats, their voters showed up. But Buck,
I think to your point, it's because if you hate Trump,
you are way more likely to show up than if
(04:27):
you love Trump when Trump himself is not on the ballot. Democrat,
this is why logically the Democrat go after Trump thing.
It works in midterms. It works when Trump's not on
the ballot. I don't think it works very well when
Trump is on the ballot. And so this is why
I think the produces.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, just for sec the resistance thing. Look, it was
a little over, a little overdrawn, a little overwrought, you know,
the whole thing. But there was like Laarizistons in France,
and you know, there was like some cool history oracle parallel,
and you can think of yourself as some kind of
revolutionary Clay. No, Kings, it just sound like a bunch
of dorks. Honestly, it's not even a it's yes, it's
(05:09):
delusional and absurd, but also it's it's like they're slipping
usually they're Look, Black Lives Matter, say what you will
about what it has done, and we've said a lot. Right,
it's been very bad. The slogan, understanding the activist impulse,
understanding the power of those words. There was some marketing
(05:30):
genius in the Black Lives Matter situation.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Right, No Kings, it's lame. It's just lame. This is
what It's lame and weak. It might work in the midterms.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Ah, you're killing me with this.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
No, I look, yes, it's a blue state. It's New Jersey,
it's Virginia. I am always of the opinion, and this
is the way that I think maybe I'm wrong on this.
If you lose, the first thing I want to do
is go back and look at what you did. This
is I always tell my kids kids when I coach basketball,
when I coached football, when I coached baseball, your opponent
(06:05):
being good is to a large extent beyond your control.
An opponent can play really well or really poorly. Now
you can make it more difficult, like all those things.
What I always want to control is what I can control.
That's the number one rule I think of of life. Honestly,
control what you can control. Six hundred thousand people in
(06:28):
New Jersey and in Virginia who voted for Trump last
year did not show up to vote in this twenty
twenty five election. Who were those? Who are those people?
Like I said, some of y'all are listening to right now.
So if they had, then these races would have either
been very very close or Republicans would have won. So
(06:49):
Republicans didn't lose because Democrats had better arguments. They lost
because the Democrat base was more willing to respond to
their argument than the Republican in base was to respond
to Winssiers and uh, and to Chitarelli, the Mikey Sheryl thing.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That was Uh. It was disappointing because I think that
Chitarelli had a real chance.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But then there's a Spanberger and look, let's hear who
is who is such a a uh? What's an amorphous
phony in so many ways? You know, just talks and
circles doesn't take the She's going to govern like a
radical leftist people who follow politics and know anything about
(07:39):
who she is know that, but not enough to your
point about people not showing up, Virginians thought, oh, well,
you know it's governor not not that. Not all of them,
but obviously a fair number of Republicans in Virginia decided,
or don't just say Trump voters, not even just Republicans,
a fair number of Trump voters enough to deliver a
w for the Republican and said, oh, I'm not going
(08:00):
to show up. Here's what Spanberger says, Play twenty.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
My fellow Virginians, tonight we sent a message. We sent
a message to every corner of the commonwealth, a message
to our neighbors and our fellow Americans across the country.
(08:25):
We sent a message to the whole world that in
twenty twenty five, Virginia chose pragmatism over partisanship. We chose
our commonwealth over chaos.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
What does that even mean, Clay, pragmatism over partisanship. You
ran in a partisan election and you want dudes in
chicks locker rooms pragmatism.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I just again, I think everybody has to prepare themselves
for as moronic as you believe it is to say
no Kings or Hitler or the base of any You're right,
it is like these people are losers, they are morons.
I'm gonna just be honest with you. If you are
showing up at a No King's protest, I think you
(09:13):
are a huge loser who needs to get a life.
I don't think there's any other way to describe it.
But they have decided that their life's purpose Buck is
Trump is a king, Trump is Hitler, and so they're
gonna show up. So I think, for looking forward, what
has to happen in order for the coalition that showed
(09:35):
up for Trump in twenty twenty four to show up
again in twenty six and again in twenty eight. Those
are the questions that I think should be asked as
we get ready for the midterms.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I think that this is something I address in my book,
which will be out in February. By the way, have
you gotten your copy of Balls? I got my copy
of Balls that showed up yesterday, so I don't forget
on that one.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I saw your picture. You're pushing your book. I know
you are today. I appreciate it. The book is out there,
please go buy it. I love all of you who
have bought it. It is everywhere, and it is selling
really really well, according to the people who can monitor
these things, and one of the best selling books in
America as we speak.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You don't want to get caught without balls, you know
what I mean, It's not good. So you end up
voting for Mikey Cheryl or Avdannaberger. Mom, Donnie, if you
don't have balls, you need balls, Yeah, you need them.
I would say, though. The Democrat Party now for the
purposes of mobilization, and this is why I was talking
about the Nazi thing for Trump and now the no
(10:39):
Kings thing and the resistance and anti fascism. They have
to get people on their side to believe in a
fantasy in unreality. Yes, they're not saying show up and
vote for the Democrat because we can get higher taxes
on high earners and we're going to have a more
(11:03):
open borders policy where anybody can claim asylum and they're not.
It's Trump is a king. Yeah. Look, honestly, I think
Trump being a king would be kind of fun for
a little while. But that's a whole other that's a
whole other conversation. That's a whole other conversation. Point is
he's not nowhere near a king. All right, there's nowhere
near a king. We all know this. They are running
(11:23):
against a delusion and it works. And it works. Now
that's the troubling part. It works.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So that's why I look forward. I mean, look, the
reality is most of our lives and if you live
in Virginia or New Jersey, that can be different. Certainly
if you live in New York City, that can be different.
But for the vast majority of people listening right now,
our lives are not going to change substantially based on
what happened last night. But in the midterms, the first
thing they're gonna do if they take back the House
is impeached Donald Trump, and they're just gonna throw themselves
(11:51):
athwart all of a governance and refuse to allow anything
at all to happen if they take back the House.
And obviously in twenty two twenty eight, whomever is elected
as the next republic the president and certainly who the
Republican nominee is going to impact a lot of people
out there. So my point on all this is they're
going to look at these results and they're going to say,
(12:13):
our base still turns out against Trump. And so I
would suspect that will be their entire campaign next year.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Well, the midterms. That is absolutely the case. It is
the midterms is just a stop Trump election for them,
and that may be enough. Now we're going to have
to have people understand if the Democrats even just take
the House, never mind the Senate. The Trump agenda's over correct. Effectively,
it's dead in the water. Legislatively, you may be able
(12:40):
to get some cool executive you might get really creative
with some executive orders. We should mention the Supreme Court
is really hearing whether he has the authority on tariffs.
That happened today too. It kind of got snowed under
in the election results. So there's that That might be
the most destructive Supreme Court decision since they decided that
you could tax inactivity with Obamacare, which now we all see,
(13:00):
I might add, but do you see what the policies
would be without the subsidies for some family of four
policies for healthcare forty fifty grand a year, forty to
fifty thousand dollars a year for insurance, not for health care,
for insurance, for health care. This is what Obamacare half
brought America madness. Thank you Supreme Court. Thank you John Roberts.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, it's totally broken, and the whole concept of paying
for insurance is predicated on I hate the insurance industry
in general. Apologies to all the insurance agents out there.
It's the only thing you're forced to buy that you
hope you never use in all seriousness, like right, the
amount that you spend and I spend on car insurance
(13:47):
and health insurance and home insurance and everything else, and
the vast majority of people will never use it, which
is why the industry exists at all. It drives me insane.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I don't know why. I know it's nowhere near groundhog Day,
but now I'm thinking of ed Ryerson from groundhog Day.
Remember the insurance salesman that he meets on the street.
That guy is a character actor, does a great business.
I don't begrudge the insurance business. How many times can
you get paid for something that that people never use?
I mean, that's the entire foundation of the insurance. But
(14:17):
our medical system is broken because there is no actual
transparency on cost. If I could change one thing and
just wave a magic wand it would be that everybody
knows what insurance costs. I mean health is also an
active We need to think of health as an active
process and not something like where your car breaks down,
you go to get it fixed. You actually have to
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Speaker 3 (16:12):
You don't know what you don't know, right, but you
could on the with playing Buck podcast for David what
you got for us?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Hey guys, faith so listener, Yeah, I know. Well you're
talking about the results, and I had not heard anything
about that ag race where the guy was threatening violence
against his opponent and family.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
And to me, you know, the the other ones, the.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Mayor and the two governor races, those are.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Disappointing but not surprising. But if Democrats elect this.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Guy, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Sorry, we're coming up on a break, I'll answer the question,
Yes they did, and we'll talk about that. So I'm
at the bottom of the hour. Jay Jones, who wished
death on his political opponents h and was proven to
have and so via text messages, one comfortably re elect
or one election because we had Jason miars On who
was the sitting Attorney general and Jay Jones beat him
(17:12):
by six points, so it didn't even end up buck
that close of an election in Virginia despite what that
guy said.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We will get into some of the troubling data there,
and also what it says about the Democrat Party that
we are dealing with, my friends, and what the voters
of the Democrat Party are willing to countenance, maybe even celebrate.
So we shall dive into all of that coming up here.
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with us as we are rolling through the second hour
of the program reacting to the election results in Virginia,
(18:53):
in New Jersey and in New York City. And we
had a caller as we went to break there Buck
talking about the jag Own situation.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
He was the.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Candidate for Attorney general in Virginia who it was revealed,
had said awful things about his political opponents, that he
wanted his kids to die, the political opponents of his kids,
that he would piss on their graves, and he won,
and he won fifty three basically to forty seven. And
(19:26):
I believe we have the data here. I was going
to play it for us. Buck Cut twenty two. Just
forty six percent of Virginia voters thought saying that you
wanted your kid the kids of your political opponents to
be killed and you would piss on their graves if
it happened, was disqualifying. Saunder Smith Fox News twenty two.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
If you look at some of the some of the
questions over the j. Jones texts and that scandal from
text back to twenty twenty two, and how this is
affecting the attorney general's race, there possibility of a split ticket.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
We ask voters what.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Best describes their opinion of those leaked techs. Almost has
found them to be disqualifying. About one in four said
they were concerning, but then another one and four said
they weren't concerned or they hadn't heard enough about it.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
So Buck, to me, this is the worst part of
the election results because I'm not surprised. We talked about
the fact that New Jersey is a blue state, it
occasionally elects Republicans most of the time it does not,
and so the fact that Cheryl won not a huge surprise,
the fact that Virginia flipped back Virginia. Almost always the
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winning party is the opposition to who the president is.
But this thing, I thought that Jason Miarz, who we
had on the program, I thought he would win because
if you're the chief law enforcement officer of a state,
I'm not sure exactly what the standard a behavior should be,
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but wishing that the kids of your political opponents were murdered,
and that if it happened, you would piss on their graves,
and Matt having been written out on being in text,
it would be disqualifying to me. I'd be like, I
don't know that I can trust the judgment of this guy.
Virginia didn't care.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah, I think that. Look, this is disconcerting because you
also would like to think. I mean, I don't want
to get too deep into this, but the country's been
through a lot. The country's been through a lot of
stuff that we would never want to see again, and
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so I would hope that the general electorate. I'm not
talking about lunatics on Blue Sky or Blue Star or whatever,
you know, the left wing twitter. I would hope that
normal Americans would really have a problem with the kind
of stuff that this guy, who is supposed to be
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a senior law enforcement officer, yes, was saying, and the
fact that they don't have a problem with it at
all is important for everyone to understand the mentality and
what we're opposing here and what we're dealing with. That's
where this is. You need to recognize that while they're
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claiming no kings, and while they're saying Trump is so
coarse and Trump is so awful on the other side
of things, on the other side of things, they will
allow someone to become a senior law enforcement officer who
does this right, so they don't actually have any standards.
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Play is the reality. There's not any moral or ethical clarity.
It's we want what we want, We support our team
no matter what, and we're going to say whatever we
want about your team, nomber how absurd, crazy, defamatory, or
destructive it is. And we're only going to talk about
tamping down political violence when our side, the left, actually
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does it, which as we know, the left is the
one that has the problem with political violence. That is reality.
They're only going to say, maybe we should calm both
sides down after their side does something horrible and they
take no ownership for the climate, the temperature, any of
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
And it speaks to the fact that all that mattered
was that Jay Jones was a Democrat. And I mean,
this makes me like kind of want to puke a
little bit. But what do you think j Jones said
after he was elected. This is the guy who wanted
the kids of his political opponents murdered, said he would
piss on their graves. Here's what he said in his
(23:46):
acceptance speech Cut twenty one.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
I will defend the rights of every single Virginian. I
will protect our jobs, our healthcare, and our economy from
Donald Trump's attacks. I will always work to protect a
woman's right to an abortion. And here in Virginia, Donald Trump,
MAGA and those corporate special interests believe that Virginia's government
should be beholden to them. But tonight we send a
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loud message to them into every single person across this country.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Virginia belongs to the people.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Together, we stand firm against the people who would take
us backward. We will use tonight as a springboard to
reject the politics of divisiveness and division.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
You wanted to.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Kill the kids of your opponents.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
How in the world in your acceptance speech are you
saying you're fighting.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Back against the politics of division.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Again, I look at some of this and I just say,
in many respects, this is you know, if I lived
in a state that was regularly electing Democrats, I don't
think I could live in that state anymore. And I
understand because forty percent of people are going to vote
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the other way in any state, right so California sixty forty,
you know, Democrat, and my state is going to be
pretty comfortably sixty forty Republican in Tennessee for the rest
of my life. I don't think I could live in
a state that would elect someone like Jay Jones. I'm
just being honest with you. If you can elect someone
as the chief law enforcement officer of your state that
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said he wants to see the kids of a political
opponent murdered and that if it happened, he would piss
on their graves, how can you feel comfortable living in
that state? And I understand a lot of you in
Southwest Virginia are listening to us right now, very different
vibe than what happens in northern Virginia. But this guy's
the chief law enforcement officer of your state. Now, how
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can you trust any decision that he makes? And how
can you trust any decision that your fellow neighbors in
Virginia have made. Again, I don't think I could live
in a blue state right now.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
And also all the people at these No Kings protests
as we were discussing, who were always whining on about
civility and decency and how Trump is so coarse and
Trump goes too far and all this stuff. We're the
ones who had our president and presidential candidate shot through
the year and almost shot again. We're the ones who
(26:20):
are still processing the horrendous grief of losing our friend
and incredible political force, Charlie Kirk to an assassin's bullet.
We're the ones that are having to always say, Okay,
I know there's a lot of crazies on your side,
but for the betterment of the country, we're going to
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try to move forward and stay calm. And then they
have something like this, yeah, where it would be very clear.
I mean, no one's saying, you know, it's not like
this is a presidential election where you say, well, but
I'll do anything to make sure that abortion stays legal
nationally or whatever it is. This is for the attorney
general of a state, and you're really gonna put forward
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this guy. Look the other thing we haven't even mentioned.
Alvin Bragg in New York City got re elected. Well,
of course.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
That doesn't I mean, that doesn't surprise me at all.
I mean, Letitia James, if she is able, will get
elected for the rest of her life or as long
as people are willing to are able to claim that
Trump is Hitler and everything else. But Virginia, this surprised me.
This was the only result that I saw, and I thought, wow,
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because again New Jersey governor, Virginia governor. Democrats traditionally win,
they're favored. They didn't vote for Trump in those states.
But for the attorney general to have those techs, to
have it come out, and for him to win not
only win buck but win by I think six and
a half points, which means that it really wasn't that close,
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and that not even very many people ticket split, even
if you were a Democrat supporter did and say, Okay,
you know what, I'll vote span Berger for governor. But
I'm gonna draw the line at wanting my kids, wanting
the kids of political opponents murdered. Democrats were just like, Nope,
I'm sticking with Jay Jones. And then for him to
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come out and say in his reelection or his election
speech night victory, we got to work on divisiveness. We're
gonna tamp down divisiveness.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Like what so many of these people that's spinning in
the face of everyone who's paying attention. That's what that is,
that's meant to be. That's like Gavin Newsom saying he
hates politicians who lie. I just yes, that's exactly what
that is. But it also makes me hate politicians. The
more time I spend listening to some of these morons talk,
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the more time I spend thinking we need way better politicians.
We are not being led by the best and brightest
among us candidly. And so look, I can be angry
at voters, and I am because they put Jay Jones
in office. But Jay Jones is a moron, violent, incompetent,
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and he was able to get elected. And you just
said buck, did you listen. I'm like spamburger, Mickey Cheryl.
These are the most bland, uninteresting, not particularly inspiring candidates
that are on the planet. And yet they're out there,
like I just they're just a trojan They're just a
trojan horse for the left wing agenda, which is exactly
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what you and I and so many others said was
going to be true of Biden in twenty twenty. Oh,
good old Joe. You know, he's a moderate, he's a
guy you can trust, he's a union guy. All lies,
all lies. The White House was putting out stuff about
transgender surgery for miners being critical care. The White House
was doing that under Joe Biden. Okay, we need to
have twelve year olds on hormone therapy asap because the
(29:53):
left is insane. You're gonna get the same thing with
these women who you know, Mikey Cheryl apparently her whole
campaign is like I went to the Naval Academy. Okay, yeah,
you know, thirty year that's nice, but that was it
from what I understand. And Alison Spamberger Abigail Allison whatever
and his spam Burger. She was just I'm not Trump,
(30:17):
no Kings, and unfortunately that was enough. With all of
the brainless, brainless automatons that go along with that stuff,
you be.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Thinking if you still lived in New York City, you know,
I was saying earlier, I couldn't live Like, if you
were still living in New York City, would you I
know you made the decision to move to Miami, Yeah,
because you saw this coming. But do you think if
you were waking up in New York City this morning
you would be would it be your tipping point in
some way if you had managed to stay?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
That's interesting. I think if you were willing to put
up with what happened after COVID, you're willing to see
how it goes, willing to roll the dice with this.
I don't expect they'll be a big outflow of people.
I don't expect that. So I just I look at this.
I mean when I see the Jay Jones, when I
see them, Mo'm donnie thing. I don't think I could
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live in a place where people would make decisions like
these because I would just walk around all the time, like,
how can I trust anything here? Because I mean to
vote for someone who wanted to see his political opponent's
kids murdered? Is so far?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
People's like, well Trump said some salacious that. Yeah, he
talked about how to grab chicks. Okay, Like that's so
that's ridiculous, but it's clear like locker room talk ridiculousness.
It's trump right, like this is hey, I'm on a
text man, he's telling what he thinks is a joke,
trying to make somebody laugh. This is on a text message.
(31:57):
And the woman he was texting with Buck was like,
you don't really mean that, like you're kind of getting
carried away, and he's like, no, I really mean it,
and I would miss on their graves like.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
She gave him an off.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Ramp of like, hey, you just got carried away a
little bit on a text she realized you're what you
said is so shameful, like you can't actually, let's give
you the opportunity to not be a total, you know,
demonic freak.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
And he decided to double down on it. And now
he's going to be determining who goes to prison correct
and who's prosecuted in the state of Virginia. Think about
that now.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Arguably it's the most important job in many ways in
the state of Virginia, and certainly it's one where judgment
matters more than most because everything you do is look
at cases and determine what are the cases that should
be brought and Jason Mirs, by the way, was doing
a really good job as the sitting Attorney General. So
it's not only that he got elected, it's that he
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My friends, it's the best. Wade and Corpus Christy wants
to talk. What's up, Wade?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Hey. Earlier y'all said that the Mundomie voters would learn
their lesson as time went on, and I heartily disagree
with you. Uh, that takes ruthless, unbiased self analysis, and
the people aren't able to do that. You know, you've
got to be honest with yourself and be willing to
(35:17):
admit that your ideas are wrong and you made a mistake.
And they won't do that. And so instead of that,
as time goes along, they're going to blame Trump, and
the worst it gets, they're going to blame Trump more
and more and more, and that's all they're going to be.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I thank you for the call. I don't remember specifically saying.
I think the question was will they ever self analyze
on many of these things? I definitely agree with you,
and I know we said on the program. The problem
is they will not put the consequences on their own choices.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
They will say.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Trump, Trump, Trump, and that's all that's gonna matter. Trump,
by the way, speaking on bringing back the American dream
according to Fox News, down in your hometown of Miami
right or now your current hometown of Myami right now. Buck,
we'll monitor that see if he said anything else. Ryan Gerdusky,
our friend data analyst, is going to join us at
the top of the next hour and we will take
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all of your calls right now. We have loaded lines
eight hundred and two two two eight A two. We
will allow you guys to tee off on the results
and your thoughts on the bottom half of the next hour.
But up next our buddy Ryan Gerdusky, we will break
down Buck, the rest of the races and what we've
learned according to him, diving into all that data with Ryan,
(36:32):
we'll be back with you here in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Stay with us, everybody,
Welcome in second hour of Clay and Buck Kickshaw right now,
and we have been talking about election results. Of course,
look not a great night for Republicans, but not a
terrible night because we expected to lose these races. So
let's all keep it, keep it in context, we keep
our composure here. We are happy warriors. It's all good.
(00:21):
It's all gonna be fine in the long run. We're
all dead, Clay, you know what I mean. You know, so,
don't make me go full Bill Murray in groundhog Day
when he's like thousands of people gathered together to worship
a rat. Remember that, Oh he's just quit. He's just
done with everything because he's living the same day over
and over again. Groundhog Day underrated movie. I might say,
(00:44):
a great movie. It's just a it's funny. You can
watch it over and over again. Look at that the irony.
It's a great movie. But I just always remember Bill
Murray like so just he's just had it right. We're
not there. Everything's gonna be fine. Everything's gonna be fine.
We gotta fight, we gotta win, we gotta stay focused.
That is that is baked in here. That is all
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a part of this. And uh, this is the situation
as we see it in New Jersey. It was a
close call, but they ran two female, very establishment candidates
in New for Democrats in New Jersey and in Virginia,
(01:25):
and let's just say it, it was a smart play for them.
Women are the constituency of the Democrat I should say,
particularly young and unmarried women are a primary constituency of
the Democrat Party right now, and they ran against Trump
Clay in these states. Isn't that it's so interesting? You
(01:45):
get to run to be the governor. Here's Mikey Cheryl.
You get to run to be the governor of New Jersey.
But instead of having to explain why Democrats run New
Jersey so poorly, instead of that they have oh we
have no kings here, and that gets their base all
(02:09):
fired up, like this is looney tone stuff. Play seventeen.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We're not going to give in to our darker impulses
here in New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
We know that this station has.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Not ever been, nor will it ever be, ruled by kings.
We take oaths to a constitution, not a king. We've
chosen liberty, the very foundation of democracy, and we've chosen
prosperity necessary to create opportunity for all.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Okay, idea here, theory here, I'm gonna float something out
to you. So, the Trump is a Nazi thing has been.
They have beaten that dead horse so much. I mean,
they have pushed that so much. And yet Trump, as
we know, close ally of Israel. Despite a lot of
the noise on the right these days about Israel and
(03:02):
Jews in America and everything, Trump is the closest friend
that Israel has ever had. I noticed that some of
these voices on the right that are critical of an
APAC and Israel and everything not critical of Trump. Though
very interesting how that happens. But anyway, Trump is a
close friend of Israel, and so they have to drop that.
Is it? Now? If you're an emotionally unstable lib are
(03:25):
you really going with the fighting Trump is fighting monarchy thing?
Is this what the switch is? Now? They've gone from
Nazis to King Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
They just have to convince their base that Trump is
a Nazi to such an extent.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
That they will show up.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And I mean, to me, Buck, I looked at the
numbers this morning. That's the first thing that I did.
Trump's base doesn't show up when Trump's not on the ballot. Remember,
Obama's base didn't show up when Obama was not on
the base on the ballot. I think there are some
very popular with the base politicians that have a certain
(04:05):
amount of personal magnetism that doesn't translate beyond them. I
mean again, I look at it. Six hundred thousand fewer
people showed up to vote Republican in New Jersey and
in Virginia. Yes, look, Democrats, their voters showed up. But Buck,
I think to your point, it's because if you hate Trump,
you are way more likely to show up than if
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you love Trump when Trump himself is not on the ballot. Democrat,
this is why logically the Democrat go after Trump thing.
It works in midterms. It works when Trump's not on
the ballot. I don't think it works very well when
Trump is on the ballot. And so this is why
I think the produces.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, just for sec the resistance thing. Look, it was
a little over, a little overdrawn, a little overwrought, you know,
the whole thing. But there was like Laarizistons in France,
and you know, there was like some cool history oracle parallel,
and you can think of yourself as some kind of
revolutionary Clay. No, Kings, it just sound like a bunch
of dorks. Honestly, it's not even a it's yes, it's
(05:09):
delusional and absurd, but also it's it's like they're slipping
usually they're Look, Black Lives Matter, say what you will
about what it has done, and we've said a lot. Right,
it's been very bad. The slogan, understanding the activist impulse,
understanding the power of those words. There was some marketing
(05:30):
genius in the Black Lives Matter situation.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Right, No Kings, it's lame. It's just lame. This is
what It's lame and weak. It might work in the midterms.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Ah, you're killing me with this.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
No, I look, yes, it's a blue state. It's New Jersey,
it's Virginia. I am always of the opinion, and this
is the way that I think maybe I'm wrong on this.
If you lose, the first thing I want to do
is go back and look at what you did. This
is I always tell my kids kids when I coach basketball,
when I coached football, when I coached baseball, your opponent
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being good is to a large extent beyond your control.
An opponent can play really well or really poorly. Now
you can make it more difficult, like all those things.
What I always want to control is what I can control.
That's the number one rule I think of of life. Honestly,
control what you can control. Six hundred thousand people in
(06:28):
New Jersey and in Virginia who voted for Trump last
year did not show up to vote in this twenty
twenty five election. Who were those? Who are those people?
Like I said, some of y'all are listening to right now.
So if they had, then these races would have either
been very very close or Republicans would have won. So
(06:49):
Republicans didn't lose because Democrats had better arguments. They lost
because the Democrat base was more willing to respond to
their argument than the Republican in base was to respond
to Winssiers and uh, and to Chitarelli, the Mikey Sheryl thing.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That was Uh. It was disappointing because I think that
Chitarelli had a real chance.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But then there's a Spanberger and look, let's hear who
is who is such a a uh? What's an amorphous
phony in so many ways? You know, just talks and
circles doesn't take the She's going to govern like a
radical leftist people who follow politics and know anything about
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who she is know that, but not enough to your
point about people not showing up, Virginians thought, oh, well,
you know it's governor not not that. Not all of them,
but obviously a fair number of Republicans in Virginia decided,
or don't just say Trump voters, not even just Republicans,
a fair number of Trump voters enough to deliver a
w for the Republican and said, oh, I'm not going
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to show up. Here's what Spanberger says, Play twenty.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
My fellow Virginians, tonight we sent a message. We sent
a message to every corner of the commonwealth, a message
to our neighbors and our fellow Americans across the country.
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We sent a message to the whole world that in
twenty twenty five, Virginia chose pragmatism over partisanship. We chose
our commonwealth over chaos.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
What does that even mean, Clay, pragmatism over partisanship. You
ran in a partisan election and you want dudes in
chicks locker rooms pragmatism.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I just again, I think everybody has to prepare themselves
for as moronic as you believe it is to say
no Kings or Hitler or the base of any You're right,
it is like these people are losers, they are morons.
I'm gonna just be honest with you. If you are
showing up at a No King's protest, I think you
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are a huge loser who needs to get a life.
I don't think there's any other way to describe it.
But they have decided that their life's purpose Buck is
Trump is a king, Trump is Hitler, and so they're
gonna show up. So I think, for looking forward, what
has to happen in order for the coalition that showed
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up for Trump in twenty twenty four to show up
again in twenty six and again in twenty eight. Those
are the questions that I think should be asked as
we get ready for the midterms.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I think that this is something I address in my book,
which will be out in February. By the way, have
you gotten your copy of Balls? I got my copy
of Balls that showed up yesterday, so I don't forget
on that one.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I saw your picture. You're pushing your book. I know
you are today. I appreciate it. The book is out there,
please go buy it. I love all of you who
have bought it. It is everywhere, and it is selling
really really well, according to the people who can monitor
these things, and one of the best selling books in
America as we speak.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You don't want to get caught without balls, you know
what I mean, It's not good. So you end up
voting for Mikey Cheryl or Avdannaberger. Mom, Donnie, if you
don't have balls, you need balls, Yeah, you need them.
I would say, though. The Democrat Party now for the
purposes of mobilization, and this is why I was talking
about the Nazi thing for Trump and now the no
(10:39):
Kings thing and the resistance and anti fascism. They have
to get people on their side to believe in a
fantasy in unreality. Yes, they're not saying show up and
vote for the Democrat because we can get higher taxes
on high earners and we're going to have a more
(11:03):
open borders policy where anybody can claim asylum and they're not.
It's Trump is a king. Yeah. Look, honestly, I think
Trump being a king would be kind of fun for
a little while. But that's a whole other that's a
whole other conversation. That's a whole other conversation. Point is
he's not nowhere near a king. All right, there's nowhere
near a king. We all know this. They are running
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against a delusion and it works. And it works. Now
that's the troubling part. It works.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
So that's why I look forward. I mean, look, the
reality is most of our lives and if you live
in Virginia or New Jersey, that can be different. Certainly
if you live in New York City, that can be different.
But for the vast majority of people listening right now,
our lives are not going to change substantially based on
what happened last night. But in the midterms, the first
thing they're gonna do if they take back the House
is impeached Donald Trump, and they're just gonna throw themselves
(11:51):
athwart all of a governance and refuse to allow anything
at all to happen if they take back the House.
And obviously in twenty two twenty eight, whomever is elected
as the next republic the president and certainly who the
Republican nominee is going to impact a lot of people
out there. So my point on all this is they're
going to look at these results and they're going to say,
(12:13):
our base still turns out against Trump. And so I
would suspect that will be their entire campaign next year.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Well, the midterms. That is absolutely the case. It is
the midterms is just a stop Trump election for them,
and that may be enough. Now we're going to have
to have people understand if the Democrats even just take
the House, never mind the Senate. The Trump agenda's over correct. Effectively,
it's dead in the water. Legislatively, you may be able
(12:40):
to get some cool executive you might get really creative
with some executive orders. We should mention the Supreme Court
is really hearing whether he has the authority on tariffs.
That happened today too. It kind of got snowed under
in the election results. So there's that That might be
the most destructive Supreme Court decision since they decided that
you could tax inactivity with Obamacare, which now we all see,
(13:00):
I might add, but do you see what the policies
would be without the subsidies for some family of four
policies for healthcare forty fifty grand a year, forty to
fifty thousand dollars a year for insurance, not for health care,
for insurance, for health care. This is what Obamacare half
brought America madness. Thank you Supreme Court. Thank you John Roberts.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, it's totally broken, and the whole concept of paying
for insurance is predicated on I hate the insurance industry
in general. Apologies to all the insurance agents out there.
It's the only thing you're forced to buy that you
hope you never use in all seriousness, like right, the
amount that you spend and I spend on car insurance
(13:47):
and health insurance and home insurance and everything else, and
the vast majority of people will never use it, which
is why the industry exists at all. It drives me insane.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
I don't know why. I know it's nowhere near groundhog Day,
but now I'm thinking of ed Ryerson from groundhog Day.
Remember the insurance salesman that he meets on the street.
That guy is a character actor, does a great business.
I don't begrudge the insurance business. How many times can
you get paid for something that that people never use?
I mean, that's the entire foundation of the insurance. But
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our medical system is broken because there is no actual
transparency on cost. If I could change one thing and
just wave a magic wand it would be that everybody
knows what insurance costs. I mean health is also an
active We need to think of health as an active
process and not something like where your car breaks down,
you go to get it fixed. You actually have to
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You don't know what you don't know, right, but you
could on the with playing Buck podcast for David what
you got for us?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Hey guys, faith so listener, Yeah, I know. Well you're
talking about the results, and I had not heard anything
about that ag race where the guy was threatening violence
against his opponent and family.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
And to me, you know, the the other ones, the.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Mayor and the two governor races, those are.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Disappointing but not surprising. But if Democrats elect this.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Guy, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Sorry, we're coming up on a break, I'll answer the question,
Yes they did, and we'll talk about that. So I'm
at the bottom of the hour. Jay Jones, who wished
death on his political opponents h and was proven to
have and so via text messages, one comfortably re elect
or one election because we had Jason miars On who
was the sitting Attorney general and Jay Jones beat him
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by six points, so it didn't even end up buck
that close of an election in Virginia despite what that
guy said.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We will get into some of the troubling data there,
and also what it says about the Democrat Party that
we are dealing with, my friends, and what the voters
of the Democrat Party are willing to countenance, maybe even celebrate.
So we shall dive into all of that coming up here.
And then our friend Ryan Gerdusky, our numbers guy, with
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coming up.
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of the program reacting to the election results in Virginia,
(18:53):
in New Jersey and in New York City. And we
had a caller as we went to break there Buck
talking about the jag Own situation.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
He was the.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Candidate for Attorney general in Virginia who it was revealed,
had said awful things about his political opponents, that he
wanted his kids to die, the political opponents of his kids,
that he would piss on their graves, and he won,
and he won fifty three basically to forty seven. And
(19:26):
I believe we have the data here. I was going
to play it for us. Buck Cut twenty two. Just
forty six percent of Virginia voters thought saying that you
wanted your kid the kids of your political opponents to
be killed and you would piss on their graves if
it happened, was disqualifying. Saunder Smith Fox News twenty two.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
If you look at some of the some of the
questions over the j. Jones texts and that scandal from
text back to twenty twenty two, and how this is
affecting the attorney general's race, there possibility of a split ticket.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
We ask voters what.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Best describes their opinion of those leaked techs. Almost has
found them to be disqualifying. About one in four said
they were concerning, but then another one and four said
they weren't concerned or they hadn't heard enough about it.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
So Buck, to me, this is the worst part of
the election results because I'm not surprised. We talked about
the fact that New Jersey is a blue state, it
occasionally elects Republicans most of the time it does not,
and so the fact that Cheryl won not a huge surprise,
the fact that Virginia flipped back Virginia. Almost always the
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winning party is the opposition to who the president is.
But this thing, I thought that Jason Miarz, who we
had on the program, I thought he would win because
if you're the chief law enforcement officer of a state,
I'm not sure exactly what the standard a behavior should be,
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but wishing that the kids of your political opponents were murdered,
and that if it happened, you would piss on their graves,
and Matt having been written out on being in text,
it would be disqualifying to me. I'd be like, I
don't know that I can trust the judgment of this guy.
Virginia didn't care.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah, I think that. Look, this is disconcerting because you
also would like to think. I mean, I don't want
to get too deep into this, but the country's been
through a lot. The country's been through a lot of
stuff that we would never want to see again, and
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so I would hope that the general electorate. I'm not
talking about lunatics on Blue Sky or Blue Star or whatever,
you know, the left wing twitter. I would hope that
normal Americans would really have a problem with the kind
of stuff that this guy, who is supposed to be
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a senior law enforcement officer, yes, was saying, and the
fact that they don't have a problem with it at
all is important for everyone to understand the mentality and
what we're opposing here and what we're dealing with. That's
where this is. You need to recognize that while they're
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claiming no kings, and while they're saying Trump is so
coarse and Trump is so awful on the other side
of things, on the other side of things, they will
allow someone to become a senior law enforcement officer who
does this right, so they don't actually have any standards.
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Play is the reality. There's not any moral or ethical clarity.
It's we want what we want, We support our team
no matter what, and we're going to say whatever we
want about your team, nomber how absurd, crazy, defamatory, or
destructive it is. And we're only going to talk about
tamping down political violence when our side, the left, actually
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does it, which as we know, the left is the
one that has the problem with political violence. That is reality.
They're only going to say, maybe we should calm both
sides down after their side does something horrible and they
take no ownership for the climate, the temperature, any of
that stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
And it speaks to the fact that all that mattered
was that Jay Jones was a Democrat. And I mean,
this makes me like kind of want to puke a
little bit. But what do you think j Jones said
after he was elected. This is the guy who wanted
the kids of his political opponents murdered, said he would
piss on their graves. Here's what he said in his
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acceptance speech Cut twenty one.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
I will defend the rights of every single Virginian. I
will protect our jobs, our healthcare, and our economy from
Donald Trump's attacks. I will always work to protect a
woman's right to an abortion. And here in Virginia, Donald Trump,
MAGA and those corporate special interests believe that Virginia's government
should be beholden to them. But tonight we send a
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loud message to them into every single person across this country.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Virginia belongs to the people.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Together, we stand firm against the people who would take
us backward. We will use tonight as a springboard to
reject the politics of divisiveness and division.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
You wanted to.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Kill the kids of your opponents.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
How in the world in your acceptance speech are you
saying you're fighting.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Back against the politics of division.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Again, I look at some of this and I just say,
in many respects, this is you know, if I lived
in a state that was regularly electing Democrats, I don't
think I could live in that state anymore. And I
understand because forty percent of people are going to vote
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the other way in any state, right so California sixty forty,
you know, Democrat, and my state is going to be
pretty comfortably sixty forty Republican in Tennessee for the rest
of my life. I don't think I could live in
a state that would elect someone like Jay Jones. I'm
just being honest with you. If you can elect someone
as the chief law enforcement officer of your state that
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said he wants to see the kids of a political
opponent murdered and that if it happened, he would piss
on their graves, how can you feel comfortable living in
that state? And I understand a lot of you in
Southwest Virginia are listening to us right now, very different
vibe than what happens in northern Virginia. But this guy's
the chief law enforcement officer of your state. Now, how
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can you trust any decision that he makes? And how
can you trust any decision that your fellow neighbors in
Virginia have made. Again, I don't think I could live
in a blue state right now.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
And also all the people at these No Kings protests
as we were discussing, who were always whining on about
civility and decency and how Trump is so coarse and
Trump goes too far and all this stuff. We're the
ones who had our president and presidential candidate shot through
the year and almost shot again. We're the ones who
(26:20):
are still processing the horrendous grief of losing our friend
and incredible political force, Charlie Kirk to an assassin's bullet.
We're the ones that are having to always say, Okay,
I know there's a lot of crazies on your side,
but for the betterment of the country, we're going to
(26:41):
try to move forward and stay calm. And then they
have something like this, yeah, where it would be very clear.
I mean, no one's saying, you know, it's not like
this is a presidential election where you say, well, but
I'll do anything to make sure that abortion stays legal
nationally or whatever it is. This is for the attorney
general of a state, and you're really gonna put forward
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this guy. Look the other thing we haven't even mentioned.
Alvin Bragg in New York City got re elected. Well,
of course.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
That doesn't I mean, that doesn't surprise me at all.
I mean, Letitia James, if she is able, will get
elected for the rest of her life or as long
as people are willing to are able to claim that
Trump is Hitler and everything else. But Virginia, this surprised me.
This was the only result that I saw, and I thought, wow,
(27:31):
because again New Jersey governor, Virginia governor. Democrats traditionally win,
they're favored. They didn't vote for Trump in those states.
But for the attorney general to have those techs, to
have it come out, and for him to win not
only win buck but win by I think six and
a half points, which means that it really wasn't that close,
(27:54):
and that not even very many people ticket split, even
if you were a Democrat supporter did and say, Okay,
you know what, I'll vote span Berger for governor. But
I'm gonna draw the line at wanting my kids, wanting
the kids of political opponents murdered. Democrats were just like, Nope,
I'm sticking with Jay Jones. And then for him to
(28:15):
come out and say in his reelection or his election
speech night victory, we got to work on divisiveness. We're
gonna tamp down divisiveness.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Like what so many of these people that's spinning in
the face of everyone who's paying attention. That's what that is,
that's meant to be. That's like Gavin Newsom saying he
hates politicians who lie. I just yes, that's exactly what
that is. But it also makes me hate politicians. The
more time I spend listening to some of these morons talk,
(28:49):
the more time I spend thinking we need way better politicians.
We are not being led by the best and brightest
among us candidly. And so look, I can be angry
at voters, and I am because they put Jay Jones
in office. But Jay Jones is a moron, violent, incompetent,
(29:10):
and he was able to get elected. And you just
said buck, did you listen. I'm like spamburger, Mickey Cheryl.
These are the most bland, uninteresting, not particularly inspiring candidates
that are on the planet. And yet they're out there,
like I just they're just a trojan They're just a
trojan horse for the left wing agenda, which is exactly
(29:32):
what you and I and so many others said was
going to be true of Biden in twenty twenty. Oh,
good old Joe. You know, he's a moderate, he's a
guy you can trust, he's a union guy. All lies,
all lies. The White House was putting out stuff about
transgender surgery for miners being critical care. The White House
was doing that under Joe Biden. Okay, we need to
have twelve year olds on hormone therapy asap because the
(29:53):
left is insane. You're gonna get the same thing with
these women who you know, Mikey Cheryl apparently her whole
campaign is like I went to the Naval Academy. Okay, yeah,
you know, thirty year that's nice, but that was it
from what I understand. And Alison Spamberger Abigail Allison whatever
and his spam Burger. She was just I'm not Trump,
(30:17):
no Kings, and unfortunately that was enough. With all of
the brainless, brainless automatons that go along with that stuff,
you be.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Thinking if you still lived in New York City, you know,
I was saying earlier, I couldn't live Like, if you
were still living in New York City, would you I
know you made the decision to move to Miami, Yeah,
because you saw this coming. But do you think if
you were waking up in New York City this morning
you would be would it be your tipping point in
some way if you had managed to stay?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
That's interesting. I think if you were willing to put
up with what happened after COVID, you're willing to see
how it goes, willing to roll the dice with this.
I don't expect they'll be a big outflow of people.
I don't expect that. So I just I look at this.
I mean when I see the Jay Jones, when I
see them, Mo'm donnie thing. I don't think I could
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live in a place where people would make decisions like
these because I would just walk around all the time, like,
how can I trust anything here? Because I mean to
vote for someone who wanted to see his political opponent's
kids murdered? Is so far?
Speaker 3 (31:34):
People's like, well Trump said some salacious that. Yeah, he
talked about how to grab chicks. Okay, Like that's so
that's ridiculous, but it's clear like locker room talk ridiculousness.
It's trump right, like this is hey, I'm on a
text man, he's telling what he thinks is a joke,
trying to make somebody laugh. This is on a text message.
(31:57):
And the woman he was texting with Buck was like,
you don't really mean that, like you're kind of getting
carried away, and he's like, no, I really mean it,
and I would miss on their graves like.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
She gave him an off.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Ramp of like, hey, you just got carried away a
little bit on a text she realized you're what you
said is so shameful, like you can't actually, let's give
you the opportunity to not be a total, you know,
demonic freak.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
And he decided to double down on it. And now
he's going to be determining who goes to prison correct
and who's prosecuted in the state of Virginia. Think about
that now.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Arguably it's the most important job in many ways in
the state of Virginia, and certainly it's one where judgment
matters more than most because everything you do is look
at cases and determine what are the cases that should
be brought and Jason Mirs, by the way, was doing
a really good job as the sitting Attorney General. So
it's not only that he got elected, it's that he
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beat an incumbent that was running for reelection having done
a good job. We'll take some of your calls, Ryan
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My friends, it's the best. Wade and Corpus Christy wants
to talk. What's up, Wade?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Hey. Earlier y'all said that the Mundomie voters would learn
their lesson as time went on, and I heartily disagree
with you. Uh, that takes ruthless, unbiased self analysis, and
the people aren't able to do that. You know, you've
got to be honest with yourself and be willing to
(35:17):
admit that your ideas are wrong and you made a mistake.
And they won't do that. And so instead of that,
as time goes along, they're going to blame Trump, and
the worst it gets, they're going to blame Trump more
and more and more, and that's all they're going to be.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I thank you for the call. I don't remember specifically saying.
I think the question was will they ever self analyze
on many of these things? I definitely agree with you,
and I know we said on the program. The problem
is they will not put the consequences on their own choices.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
They will say.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Trump, Trump, Trump, and that's all that's gonna matter. Trump,
by the way, speaking on bringing back the American dream
according to Fox News, down in your hometown of Miami
right or now your current hometown of Myami right now. Buck,
we'll monitor that see if he said anything else. Ryan Gerdusky,
our friend data analyst, is going to join us at
the top of the next hour and we will take
(36:10):
all of your calls right now. We have loaded lines
eight hundred and two two two eight A two. We
will allow you guys to tee off on the results
and your thoughts on the bottom half of the next hour.
But up next our buddy Ryan Gerdusky, we will break
down Buck, the rest of the races and what we've
learned according to him, diving into all that data with Ryan,
(36:32):
we'll be back with you here in just a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
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