November 6, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show dives into breaking news and sharp political analysis. The hour opens with updates on the FAA’s plan to cut air traffic by 10% at 40 major airports amid the ongoing government shutdown, with reports that the Trump administration may impose an additional 4% reduction in flights. Clay and Buck warn that these disruptions could peak during Thanksgiving travel, historically one of the busiest travel periods, and predict that mounting frustration among travelers may pressure Washington to resolve the shutdown quickly.
The discussion then pivots to cultural commentary, including a nostalgic look at Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, highlighting how its humor and themes would never pass today’s Hollywood standards. From there, the hosts analyze the New York City mayoral election, focusing on Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech, which starkly contrasts Ronald Reagan’s famous warning about government overreach. Mamdani’s pledge that “no problem is too large for government to solve” sparks debate about progressive governance and its impact on New York’s budget, especially given that 1% of residents pay 50% of city taxes. Buck predicts that Mamdani’s policies will accelerate financial strain and potentially drive out high earners.
The hour also examines Mamdani’s framing of his win as a battle against Donald Trump, with rhetoric about “terrifying a despot” and dismantling conditions that enabled Trump’s rise. Clay and Buck argue this narrative is fantasy and note the pattern of progressive mayors failing in major cities like Portland, San Francisco, and Chicago. They also spotlight Chuck Schumer’s evasiveness when asked about his vote and speculate on AOC’s future presidential ambitions, suggesting she represents the Democratic Party’s radical vanguard.
Listeners join the conversation with calls and talkbacks, including sharp critiques of the GOP’s inability to deliver on promises compared to Trump’s record, and a viral thread on repealing the 19th Amendment that continues to stir debate. The hosts stress that these sentiments are listener-driven, not their own, while joking about potential headlines misrepresenting their stance.
Political commentary intensifies with reactions to Sonny Hostin’s remarks on The View, where she advocates for Democrats to “go lower” in redistricting battles, signaling an aggressive strategy for future elections. Clay and Buck dissect the hypocrisy of Democrats condemning GOP tactics while embracing similar moves themselves. Bernie Sanders also weighs in, blaming Republicans for rising healthcare costs, which the hosts counter by pointing to Obamacare’s failures. Senator Ted Cruz calls the election results a “disaster,” labeling Mamdani a “full-on communist,” while Clay and Buck caution against overstating the significance of off-year losses, emphasizing Trump’s historic win in 2024 as the defining political moment.
Hour 2 blends shutdown fallout, progressive policy critiques, election analysis, and cultural flashpoints, making it essential listening for anyone tracking conservative perspectives on current events and the future of American politics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. We are
rolling through the Thursday edition of the program. Big story
right now is that the FAA is looking to reduce
air traffic by ten percent at forty different airports. CNN
(00:21):
says the Trump administration is considering a four percent cut
overall in the number of flights. This is potentially going
to be the thing that gets the government shut down fixed, Buck,
I think is when a lot of so called normal
people trying to go about their day to day existence
show up at the airport and can't manage to go anywhere.
(00:44):
To say nothing of Buck, the fact that Thanksgiving is
typically the busiest travel time of the year. Basically, I
know Christmas travel season is substantial as well, but there
are more days that people travel on for holiday travel
around Christmas. The Thanksgiving holiday is more compact, as makes sense,
(01:06):
and so I would just say, in general, put a
safety pen in this. If you, like me, are going
to be traveling tomorrow, I would say, be hitting refreshed
quite frequently to see what might or might not be
happening with your air travel. And I don't know about you, Buck,
If I didn't have to travel, if I'm out there
and I'm like, hey, I'm thinking about taking this trip,
(01:26):
but maybe it makes sense to go another I would
cancel it. I just there's nothing worse than being stuck
in a place that you don't want to be, waiting
to see whether you're going to be able to get
on an airplane or not. Hotels fill up, you can't
have to consider, especially if you have kids, you have
to consider trying to sleep somewhere that you don't want
(01:48):
to be. Inevitably, for all of you have had this happen.
If you have an evening flight, they try to schedule
you for a flight at five thirty in the morning
or something, so they don't tell you you're flights canceled
till eleven, and then you got to be back in
like three or four hours. Everybody's miserable. I'm already nervous
about being able to get out of here tomorrow. But
this is the lead story right now on Fox News, MSNBC,
(02:13):
and CNN. Everybody is covering the potential airport related issues.
So I want to update you on all of that,
just make you aware of it as it could continue
to be an issue going forward. We are continuing to
break down what happened on Tuesday. We got a bunch
of you who want to weigh in. We'll take some
of your calls. I would like to say thank you
(02:34):
to everybody who has been buying my book. It came
out two days ago. We got a call Bucks saying
we have been flagged to be surveyed by the New
York Times, which has never happened before. So if you
guys will continue, please to go buy the book. I
think we got a good shot to get on the
New York Times bestseller list.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It's really in your best interest to have a copy
of Balls.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And if you know somebody who doesn't have Balls, it's
a great Christmas game. Have to just say, hey, got
you a pair of balls for Christmas. But in all seriousness,
I think you'll enjoy it. I also read it Buck
you were saying part of your Christmas break is now
going to be spent. I looked at my reading of
the book is over six hours. Now, that probably double
(03:18):
the amount of time that it took at least to
make a six hour recording. You got three days scheduled
in the recording studio. Is that what you've got right now?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yes? Indeed, yes, indeed, Oh oh, Bucket's Christmas. Think about
family in Santa and trees and all that good stuff,
and you'll tied cheer and three days in your home
radio studio recording the book that you took two years
to write. The things we do for content, my friends,
the things we do to bring you the.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Best, and you have to be shameless. I was on
Glenn Beck earlier. Thank you for Glenn Beck. I've been
on Fox News all over the place. I'm gonna be
on with Sean Hannity tonight and so anything on his
radio show. I was on Sean Hannity last night. If
you guys would please go by at Amazon Clay Travis
(04:08):
type it in the book comes up. I deeply appreciate it. Okay,
we didn't play Sean. You said he's a sports guy.
Is he a see Yankees are a Mets guy? Or
does he stay out of that because that can get contentious.
That's a great question. I don't know what his actual
sports team affiliations are. I mean he lived there or
has he gone full Florida like now. I guess I'm
(04:29):
supposed to root for the Miami Heat, which still feels
like cheating given the Heat Nicks rivalries of the past.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But here we are.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah, and unfortunately, the Miami Dolphins are not a NFL
franchise that anybody wants to be rooting for right now.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
They're kind of a mess. What a lab were they?
This was the last time they were good with Dan Marino.
I mean, we have to go back to the nineties.
That's rough.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
They have not found a quarterback basically in thirty years
since Dan Marino, and every Miami Dolphins game you go to,
there's a guy in the number thirteen Dan Marino jersey.
Still it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But it's also not really the Miami Dolphin's fault because
the Laces were Out. You know what movie they would
never allow to be made today, and certainly they would
never allow it to be sponsored by the NFL. Ace
Ventura speaking of Laces Out, Oh yeah, that movie I
watched with my kids. They loved it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
But it had Dan Marino in it, It had Don
Shula in it, and the bad guy, which would never
be allowed today spoiler alert, was actually a man pretending
to be a woman. Finkel is Einhorn if you remember
the Einhorn is Finkle if you remember that Memorable.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Discoveries play The soundtrack from the Crying Game When the
Revelation Happened, which is another movie about a lady with
a man surprise, and that would never ever be allowed
to be made these days, that's for sure. I just
loved the idea of if the NFL were involved in
a movie that was considered in any way. By the way,
(05:58):
this was what ninety four ninety something like that. I mean,
it wasn't that long ago, and I'm surprised they still
air it. You know, they have to give trigger warnings
now before all different sorts of Disney movies. I would
imagine their trigger warnings on this thing, probably many different places,
and many of you are triggered in the New York
City era area. I wanted to play this buck because
(06:22):
I flagged it yesterday and we didn't get to it.
We didn't play very much of Mom Donnie's victory speech
because I didn't want to make all of you throw up.
But I did think this was a really kind of
useful contrast. First, let's go back to nineteen eighty six.
President Ronald Reagan said his nine most terrifying words were
(06:44):
as follows cut twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think you all know that I've always felt the
nine most terrifying words in the English language are I'm
from the government and I'm here to help.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, well known Reagan line. Here is what Mamdanni said
last night, which is a direct repudiation of that iconic
Ronald Reagan line, and it is cut nineteen.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
We will prove that there is no problem too large
for government to solve and no concern too small for
it to care about.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
This is just like he distilled in essence my worst nightmare. Buck.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Let's play that one more time so you guys can
hear it. I mean, because it is a director repudiation
of what Reagan said, cut nineteen. This is my concern
about New York City. Do you think the government handles
anything well, Mamdanni says, they want to do everything for you.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
We will prove that there is no problem too large
for government to solve and no concern too small for
it to care about.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
This is awful.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I think that I read a big piece in the
New York Times. They had their biographical sketch of Mamdanni
and his campaign, thousands of words. I read it this morning.
The only thing I can say about mont Donnie is
the hope is that he just is going to abandon
trying to deliver on the vast majority of the things
that he claimed he was going.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
To deliver on. Yeah, I bes scenario.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
That's bad.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I wish I could say something better about how I
think this is likely to go. I also, you're not
going to see the huge outflow from New York uh.
And I think that's largely because if COVID didn't drive
you out of New York City, I don't think Mom
Donny will. And now that may be also because people
are rooted there in ways that even if they wanted
(08:34):
to leave, it's really hard. You know, they got their
kids in school, their job, their family, and I get
that moving is not as easy as I happen to
be at a place in life where not only did
I want to move, but I had my then fiance
who was also like, let's move to Florida, and it
was all it all felt, It all came together a
lot of people. It's more complicated than that. This matters though,
(08:55):
for the budget of New York City because a very
small person it really actually mirrors the national tax reality,
which is that one percent of New Yorkers pay fifty
percent of the taxes, and you can break it down
even further. Point zero one percent of New Yorkers pay
(09:15):
a shockingly large I don't know what the figure is,
but a shockingly large amount of New York City's taxes.
So it's not just the high earners, it's really the
ultra high earners. And so all the complaining about millionaires
and billionaires of Bernie Sanders and others do without their
earnings two tax you can't have the socialism that these
(09:39):
people are advocating for. So there we have it. Man,
they're gonna learn. I think they're gonna learn the hard
way about New York or about Mum Donny rather in
New York. This was also interesting. This has cut seventeen.
He very clearly from his victory speech here made this
about Trump Place.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump
how to defeat him, it is the city that gave
rise to him. And if there is any way to
terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions
that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only
(10:25):
how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one. So,
Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four
words for you turn the volume up.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
This will all look very funny in retrospect when this
guy has made a complete mess of New York and
is a joke, and everyone realizes that he has no
idea what he's doing. Because that's what's happened in every
city that elects some super progressive you end up with
someone like who's the mayor Frey who just won and
again barely he had barely Mineapoli. Yeah, the guy was crying.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
At the casket. He's in tears at the casket of
George Floyd.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Uh, the guy such a such an absolute clown. Portland,
San Francisco, Chicago, all the all these very progressive mayors
are disasters. They can't point to one who's a real
lefty and say, well, look at what a great look
at how awesome that city is going. No, they always
ruin it. So he's going to make a mess of
(11:32):
things as well. But I think it's worth noting that
he's just the mayor of a city, and he somehow
made this for his audience at least about Trump and
the fantasyland stuff too. About a despot.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
You know, you wouldn't have crowds of people cheering for you.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You a little twerp if he was really a despot
and they were all scared of what the evil king
would do to you, like they just live in a
fantasy land. The whole thing is make believe.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
How about Schumer getting asked who he voted for and
not giving an answer.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I love that's classic.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
The juck Schumer is.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I mean, if you just step back and don't overthink it,
but you just take a step back and think about
how desperate he must be every day.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
He's what seventy five or whatever the heck he is.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
He should be just comfortably becoming a grandpa. His time
has passed. He has no resonance at all with his
current party, and he basically just tries to avoid being
noticed all the time, despite the fact that he's sent
it minority leader. And I really think he lives in
constant fear that AOC is going to decide that she's
(12:43):
going to primary him, because he'll get smoked in the
primary and his political career will be over.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
He's going to run for president, I might add, and
she's going to be I think a top contender for
the Democrats. I don't think she will win a nomination,
but you can just see how we've all you and
I I agree here news at the top of the ticket,
AOC as the VP, but she's going to make her
own run, and it's because she represents the real vanguard
(13:13):
of the Democrat Party today.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
The best option that Chuck Schumer has is actually that AOC.
The best option is that she doesn't want his job,
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Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck, and we've
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to also, Katie Miller, Steven Miller's wife, but host of
the Katie Miller Podcast. She's been tearing it up, going
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That's me.
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to call him.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
What's up, Betty?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Hello, Sorry, I'm pumping swim and get back.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
In the car.
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Sorry, thank you for taking my Okay, my husband took over,
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Names all right, said makes the dream. People tell him
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Okay, I called. I called in about the Republican Party.
Is who Trump voters do not vote for when they
stay out of elections. Donald Trump voters vote for him
because he makes promises. He makes clear what his issues
and his policies will be, and he does his very
(17:13):
best to try and keep his promise. The Republican Party
repeatedly doesn't keep their promises. Democrats come in with a majority,
even though a small one. They can bring some Republicans
over to vote and get things done for their issues.
Republicans get in and then they can't bring voter They
cannot bring votes over from the Democrats to do anything.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Okay, I Betty, I think there's a lot of people
out there nodding along. It is and this thank you
for the call Buck. This goes to the essence of
what Trump is saying when he says repeal the filibuster.
Trump is fed up because we have majorities. The problem
is we don't have substantial enough majorities, according to Republican leaders,
to really enact substantial change.
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(19:04):
Katie's at two o'clock. Two o'clock.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
All right, let's make it.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I'm just making sure I'm keeping the team on their toes,
and they are in fact on their toes. So good job, guys.
You pass the stress test. Well done. You knew that
the guest wasn't now the guest was at two eastern,
and I couldn't trick you, So thank you for that.
So all right, let's dive into a little bit more
(19:29):
on Oh boy, let's see the the shutdown situation. Also, Mom, Donnie,
I mean, I got a few things I want to
get into here. I'll actually I'm gonna keep things spicy.
I'm gonna mix things up a bit. Sonny Hostin, I'm
gonna go I'm gonna go for something. I know we're
(19:51):
gonna have fum with Sonny Hostin over at the view,
which I'm just gonna tell you all has not yet
a read to our incredibly generous invitation to have Clay
and Buck. We will even fly to New York at
our own expense.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
We will put ourselves up. They don't even have to.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
They don't have to do anything for us other than
open the doors and leave a spot on the couch
or two. Two spots would be nice, and we will
enlighten the ladies of the View and their audience and
also light up their ratings. But they seem unwilling so far.
They seem like they're not up for it. Sunny Austin
(20:30):
though certainly the most bitter member of the View, and
that is pretty much universally understood by Democrats and Republicans.
Here she is with the takeaway she had from the elections.
This is cut ten play it.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
I don't think enough people are talking about. Is what
happened in California with Prop fifty.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10 (20:51):
That for me was a huge, huge takeaway because that
is the roadmap for how Democrats become the opposition. You
meet energy with energy. When they go low, you go lower.
I am sorry, but that.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Is where we are now.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
We meet that opposition, and I think we saw that last.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Night, she's straight up saying she said it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
You heard her. When they go low, you go lower.
Now understand, this is in the context of redistricting. Okay,
this is not something you generally think of as the
dirtiest part of politics. It's definitely politics, but there's much
(21:35):
nastier stuff going on. I would just add though, that
we're all paying attention to this, and we see that democrats.
Democrats have been more aggressive and more ruthless about jerrymandering
all along, and now they're trying to squeeze out the
very last bits of political advantage they can from it.
(21:57):
And Republicans are not going to have a second thought
where at least they're in charge about doing things the
way they need to notice, though, why is it low?
It's low for us to redistrict, but it's you know,
in what way?
Speaker 6 (22:16):
How is that going?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Well?
Speaker 6 (22:17):
How did we go low? They were doing?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
This is such a common thing with Democrats, Like we
said about the filibuster, about so many things. Oh my gosh,
if you prosecute some of the people who prosecuted Trump,
next time around, they may try to prosecute Trump. They're
they're forgetting chicken an egg here you know, which came first,
cause and effect. They already did this stuff that they're
(22:40):
telling us we should be worried about them doing in
the future. So that's not a very compelling argument.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
You know, you bet.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You know, if you slap someone in the face and
they're about to slap you back, it's tough to say,
you better not do that, or I'll slap you in
the face. Well, that already happened, and with the redistricting,
Democrats have been doing this. But this is one of
This is the cognitive dissonance. This is what is necessary,
the emotional over the rational that is a centerpiece of
(23:11):
the Democrat party experience these days. You have to be
willing to believe things that conflict and that make no
sense together. Have to have to be willing to do that.
You have to think that it is a bad thing
when Republicans redistrict. It is a worthy and necessary thing
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when Democrats do it. And this is this is everything.
Prosecuting your political enemies a good thing, a worthy thing
when Democrats do it. Republicans even think of doing it,
it's the end of the republic. Oh ah, it's all
A Democrat political consultant guys out there.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
So.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
We need to understand this is the way the game
is played, these are the rules and this situation. And
then he got Bernie Sanders out there. Montani, the Kami
is getting a lot of attention. Bernie wants everybody to
know that there's been a commie on the block all along,
and he comes from Brooklyn, Cut eleven. Here Bernie Sanders
(24:27):
weighing in on the Mamdani situation.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
There are many reasons.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Why people win an election and loose election, and what
happens in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City have
been different. But I think there was a common theme
last night and that its people all over this country
are rejecting trump Ism. They understand that it is a
horrific situation when twenty plus million people are going to
see a doubling or in some cases are tripling in
(24:50):
the healthcare premiums when they can't afford it, When fifteen
million people are going to be thrown off of their
healthcare because of massive cuts to medicate.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Notice how he says they can't afford their healthcare. This
is the healthcare system that Democrats shoved down all of
our throats. You cannot keep your doctor remember from the
Obamacare era. Your plan is going to be more expensive,
the network is going to be more narrow, your wait
times are going to be longer.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Everything is going to get worse.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
And they turn around and they say it is your fault,
or rather as Republican's fault. All the things that they
have done have resulted in exactly what the right has
said would happen. And the response from them is not, Wow,
we've learned a lesson. I guess we should know. It's
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it's your fault. It's your fault.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
And this is why I've said all along.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I think unfortunately, and I should wait maybe when Clay's
back with me here in a second, to get into this,
but I think I think the Democrats are gonna learn
a harsh or people are gonna learn a harsh lesson
about New York and it's gonna help the Republicans so
much in the midterms. Mam, Donnie's just gonna blame Trump.
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He's just gonna blame Trump. And as absurd and childish
and irrational as that is, it's gonna be effective for
a lot of people, and even people who maybe aren't
that much into the left wing orthodoxy. But there will
be people who just they are absorbing casually the narrative
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out there, the media, what they're seeing on TikTok or
whatever it may be, and it'll be oh if if mom,
Donnie fails spectacularly. And I want to be clear, it's
really hard to feel spectacularly as mayor in the first
year of doing the job. And some of you, I
know are gonna You're gonna challenge me on that, and
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that's fine. But this was the argument I saw this playoff.
This was the argument all along with the Blasio. People
said de Blasio is an idiot. Communists. The Blasio works
like thirty minutes a day, by the way, that's really
what his own staff I think they said, you get
like an hour or less with him of actual work
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on any given day. The Blasio made the guy in
office space who starts showing up in sandals and saying
he doesn't want to do anything. He made that guy
look like the people who are making iPhones at Fox
con over in China. I mean, you know, the Blasio
had no work ethic whatsoever. But he was a left
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wing radical who believed that he should pursue policies. And
this is applicable to not just cities and mayor do
we say mayoralties mostly or mayorships mayoral ties right, mayor's
offices across the country. Because he had the ideology of
the left that the Democrat that is, ascended the Democrat
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Party right now. He did run for president, that was laughable.
He also was known to, let's just say, smoke some
of that wacky Tobacci people used to say pretty frequently.
He was a guy who spent some time thinking deep thoughts,
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not about work, that's for sure. Deblasio was a terrible mayor,
but it took a few years for that to really
be a parent and because what he inherited was the safest, wealthiest,
best run version of New York in my lifetime. Remember,
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Giuliani cleaned it up, but it still had a ways
to go. Giuliani essentially pushed the boulder to the top
of the hill and then it was able to start
rolling down, going faster and faster in the right direction.
So he gets all the credit for that transformation. But
the city, if you look at homicides, investment, all those things,
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was getting better. Obviously, nine to eleven was a separate
historical moment for America or for a New York City
period for New York City. But New York actually rebounded
economically and otherwise from nine eleven very quickly. Other than that, though,
New York City was really just on an upward trajectory
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from about nineteen ninety six nineteen ninety seven on. And
I bring all this up because Mamdani is probably going
to be less effective in all respects in this year
than anticipated, and so that means it won't be as
bad as we think. And whatever is bad, or hopefully
it won't be as bad as we think. And no
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matter what they'll say, it's someone else's fault, and enough
people will believe that that they'll least get away with
it at some level. Here you, Senator Cruz weighed in
on the election. Uh, here's what he had to say.
Play twelve last.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Night was a disaster. It was an electoral blowout.
Speaker 11 (30:09):
The results in New Jersey were disastrous, the results in
Virginia were terrible, the results in New York. Comrade Mondami
is the face of the Democrat Party. We have an
actual communist Jihadis. And it's important to note Mondami is
not a socialist. He is a full on communist. He
has called for seizing the means of production in our economy.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
He is a Marxist. That is profoundly dangerous.
Speaker 11 (30:35):
And look, I know there's some Republicans who are saying, well, gosh,
this will be good politically because they'll be the face
of the Democrat party.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
I think it's terrible for America.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Interesting, I really agree with the end partner from Senator
Cruz about yeah, Mamdani's a comedy, and I also think
it's bad for America. It's a bad look that we've
got this guy in charge of our largest city. The
lessons learned part of it is a pretty thin silver lining.
I think we'll see, we'll see. I don't really agree
with his initial it was a disaster. It was you
disappointing but expected. I don't think it's a disaster because
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I also don't believe that anybody should start to buy
into this narrative that this is somehow a rejection of
trump Ism. Trump's not on the ballot and it's an
off yr election, and he just crushed the Democrats in
an election year where they tried to take him out
well by a whole bunch of different means. So we
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just had the biggest, the biggest political win. I think
the Trump win is the biggest political win of our lifetime.
This last one. I think it is bigger than twenty sixteen,
even in significance for a variety of reasons. So I
think this is the biggest win that I can remember.
And so of course there's gonna be a little bit
of a sense of letdown. And this look, even if
we had won New Jersey with Chitdarelli, you know it,
(31:54):
it's not gonna blow your socks off if you live
in California or Illinois or Tech or wherever you know, Oklahoma,
you name it.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Oh my gosh, Gittarelli's the new Jersey governor. Now we
know we're good. So let's all just keep things in context.
And as Frank the Tank says, an old school, we've
got to keep our composure. We got to keep our composure.
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck, and we've got so
much to discuss with you. Like I said, Katie Miller
will be joining us. She's doing great stuff. Some people
are saying podcast fabulous, Katie fabu, husband fabulous, Katie fabulous,
great things. We're gonna look at this, We're gonna talk
to her, and we got that coming up and Play'll
(34:00):
be back here with us at studio momentarily to step
outside for a second, probably signing some books, signing some books.
So go get a copy of Balls. That is the
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The book is called Balls and it is about the
(34:21):
round spherical objects that the book is about, So you know,
check it out. We have calls coming in, we have
talkbacks coming in.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Let's do.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Paula Kka from Sacramento, let's hear it.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
Hi playing Buck.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
This is Paula.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
I agree with Alison. I don't think women should be voting.
We put too much of our hearts into it and
it's just not a good idea. Thank god Nancy Pelosi's
not reseeking election. What a smart woman. She's finally figured
it out.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Thank god, thirty years.
Speaker 9 (35:00):
I copy my husband's ballot each time we vote, and
I'm a proud Republican. God bless you all.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Clay, you see this we we've got now, this has
become like the command center for women who want women to.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
No longer have suffrage. You know what?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
You know how this is gonna go by the way.
You and I are going to end up the headline
on this. We haven't even step, We have not said
anything controversial, and it's gonna be the headline somewhere is
gonna be Klay Travis and Buck Sexton call for women's
right to vote to be taken away.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
This is what's gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
The Nineteenth Amendment. You know, it's a thing.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
It's there, and some people are saying some things about it.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
We're just we're just the you.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Know, the processing center for these sentiments.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
I'm not sitting you.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
You know what's funny Sometimes as I look out of
the studio to see is like, is my wife walking by?
Because I don't want to get in trouble, And then
I realized she could also just listen to the show.
I well, yeah, I I about that regularly do you
ever do you ever have that though like, like, oh,
Laura is not there, the coast is clear.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
I could say something that would get me in trouble.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Then you realize you're saying it to a couple million people,
so I could probably figure it out.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Will sometimes say something and then think, boy, I probably
could have phrased that better.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
In fact, it might be the story of my marriage.
But look, we're having fun. We got a ton of
calls lined up, a lot of people by the Katie
Miller's coming.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
That's right, Katie Miller is gonna be with us. We'll
see what she thinks about women having the right to vote.
I bet she has strong thoughts, and maybe we'll continue
to make some more love love connections, as well as
many people from Virginia and New Jersey who wade in
from hour one. If you voted Trump, why did you not?
Plus Trump continuing to take questions in the Oval Office,
no telling what he will say their final hour Thursday
(36:47):
edition up next.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
We appreciate all of you, thanks for hanging with us.
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. We are
rolling through the Thursday edition of the program. Big story
right now is that the FAA is looking to reduce
air traffic by ten percent at forty different airports. CNN
(00:21):
says the Trump administration is considering a four percent cut
overall in the number of flights. This is potentially going
to be the thing that gets the government shut down fixed, Buck,
I think is when a lot of so called normal
people trying to go about their day to day existence
show up at the airport and can't manage to go anywhere.
(00:44):
To say nothing of Buck, the fact that Thanksgiving is
typically the busiest travel time of the year. Basically, I
know Christmas travel season is substantial as well, but there
are more days that people travel on for holiday travel
around Christmas. The Thanksgiving holiday is more compact, as makes sense,
(01:06):
and so I would just say, in general, put a
safety pen in this. If you, like me, are going
to be traveling tomorrow, I would say, be hitting refreshed
quite frequently to see what might or might not be
happening with your air travel. And I don't know about you, Buck,
If I didn't have to travel, if I'm out there
and I'm like, hey, I'm thinking about taking this trip,
(01:26):
but maybe it makes sense to go another I would
cancel it. I just there's nothing worse than being stuck
in a place that you don't want to be, waiting
to see whether you're going to be able to get
on an airplane or not. Hotels fill up, you can't
have to consider, especially if you have kids, you have
to consider trying to sleep somewhere that you don't want
(01:48):
to be. Inevitably, for all of you have had this happen.
If you have an evening flight, they try to schedule
you for a flight at five thirty in the morning
or something, so they don't tell you you're flights canceled
till eleven, and then you got to be back in
like three or four hours. Everybody's miserable. I'm already nervous
about being able to get out of here tomorrow. But
this is the lead story right now on Fox News, MSNBC,
(02:13):
and CNN. Everybody is covering the potential airport related issues.
So I want to update you on all of that,
just make you aware of it as it could continue
to be an issue going forward. We are continuing to
break down what happened on Tuesday. We got a bunch
of you who want to weigh in. We'll take some
of your calls. I would like to say thank you
(02:34):
to everybody who has been buying my book. It came
out two days ago. We got a call Bucks saying
we have been flagged to be surveyed by the New
York Times, which has never happened before. So if you
guys will continue, please to go buy the book. I
think we got a good shot to get on the
New York Times bestseller list.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It's really in your best interest to have a copy
of Balls.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
And if you know somebody who doesn't have Balls, it's
a great Christmas game. Have to just say, hey, got
you a pair of balls for Christmas. But in all seriousness,
I think you'll enjoy it. I also read it Buck
you were saying part of your Christmas break is now
going to be spent. I looked at my reading of
the book is over six hours. Now, that probably double
(03:18):
the amount of time that it took at least to
make a six hour recording. You got three days scheduled
in the recording studio. Is that what you've got right now?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yes? Indeed, yes, indeed, Oh oh, Bucket's Christmas. Think about
family in Santa and trees and all that good stuff,
and you'll tied cheer and three days in your home
radio studio recording the book that you took two years
to write. The things we do for content, my friends,
the things we do to bring you the.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Best, and you have to be shameless. I was on
Glenn Beck earlier. Thank you for Glenn Beck. I've been
on Fox News all over the place. I'm gonna be
on with Sean Hannity tonight and so anything on his
radio show. I was on Sean Hannity last night. If
you guys would please go by at Amazon Clay Travis
(04:08):
type it in the book comes up. I deeply appreciate it. Okay,
we didn't play Sean. You said he's a sports guy.
Is he a see Yankees are a Mets guy? Or
does he stay out of that because that can get contentious.
That's a great question. I don't know what his actual
sports team affiliations are. I mean he lived there or
has he gone full Florida like now. I guess I'm
(04:29):
supposed to root for the Miami Heat, which still feels
like cheating given the Heat Nicks rivalries of the past.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But here we are.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah, and unfortunately, the Miami Dolphins are not a NFL
franchise that anybody wants to be rooting for right now.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
They're kind of a mess. What a lab were they?
This was the last time they were good with Dan Marino.
I mean, we have to go back to the nineties.
That's rough.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
They have not found a quarterback basically in thirty years
since Dan Marino, and every Miami Dolphins game you go to,
there's a guy in the number thirteen Dan Marino jersey.
Still it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But it's also not really the Miami Dolphin's fault because
the Laces were Out. You know what movie they would
never allow to be made today, and certainly they would
never allow it to be sponsored by the NFL. Ace
Ventura speaking of Laces Out, Oh yeah, that movie I
watched with my kids. They loved it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
But it had Dan Marino in it, It had Don
Shula in it, and the bad guy, which would never
be allowed today spoiler alert, was actually a man pretending
to be a woman. Finkel is Einhorn if you remember
the Einhorn is Finkle if you remember that Memorable.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Discoveries play The soundtrack from the Crying Game When the
Revelation Happened, which is another movie about a lady with
a man surprise, and that would never ever be allowed
to be made these days, that's for sure. I just
loved the idea of if the NFL were involved in
a movie that was considered in any way. By the way,
(05:58):
this was what ninety four ninety something like that. I mean,
it wasn't that long ago, and I'm surprised they still
air it. You know, they have to give trigger warnings
now before all different sorts of Disney movies. I would
imagine their trigger warnings on this thing, probably many different places,
and many of you are triggered in the New York
City era area. I wanted to play this buck because
(06:22):
I flagged it yesterday and we didn't get to it.
We didn't play very much of Mom Donnie's victory speech
because I didn't want to make all of you throw up.
But I did think this was a really kind of
useful contrast. First, let's go back to nineteen eighty six.
President Ronald Reagan said his nine most terrifying words were
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as follows cut twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think you all know that I've always felt the
nine most terrifying words in the English language are I'm
from the government and I'm here to help.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, well known Reagan line. Here is what Mamdanni said
last night, which is a direct repudiation of that iconic
Ronald Reagan line, and it is cut nineteen.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
We will prove that there is no problem too large
for government to solve and no concern too small for
it to care about.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
This is just like he distilled in essence my worst nightmare. Buck.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Let's play that one more time so you guys can
hear it. I mean, because it is a director repudiation
of what Reagan said, cut nineteen. This is my concern
about New York City. Do you think the government handles
anything well, Mamdanni says, they want to do everything for you.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
We will prove that there is no problem too large
for government to solve and no concern too small for
it to care about.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
This is awful.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I think that I read a big piece in the
New York Times. They had their biographical sketch of Mamdanni
and his campaign, thousands of words. I read it this morning.
The only thing I can say about mont Donnie is
the hope is that he just is going to abandon
trying to deliver on the vast majority of the things
that he claimed he was going.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
To deliver on. Yeah, I bes scenario.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
That's bad.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I wish I could say something better about how I
think this is likely to go. I also, you're not
going to see the huge outflow from New York uh.
And I think that's largely because if COVID didn't drive
you out of New York City, I don't think Mom
Donny will. And now that may be also because people
are rooted there in ways that even if they wanted
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to leave, it's really hard. You know, they got their
kids in school, their job, their family, and I get
that moving is not as easy as I happen to
be at a place in life where not only did
I want to move, but I had my then fiance
who was also like, let's move to Florida, and it
was all it all felt, It all came together a
lot of people. It's more complicated than that. This matters though,
(08:55):
for the budget of New York City because a very
small person it really actually mirrors the national tax reality,
which is that one percent of New Yorkers pay fifty
percent of the taxes, and you can break it down
even further. Point zero one percent of New Yorkers pay
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a shockingly large I don't know what the figure is,
but a shockingly large amount of New York City's taxes.
So it's not just the high earners, it's really the
ultra high earners. And so all the complaining about millionaires
and billionaires of Bernie Sanders and others do without their
earnings two tax you can't have the socialism that these
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people are advocating for. So there we have it. Man,
they're gonna learn. I think they're gonna learn the hard
way about New York or about Mum Donny rather in
New York. This was also interesting. This has cut seventeen.
He very clearly from his victory speech here made this
about Trump Place.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump
how to defeat him, it is the city that gave
rise to him. And if there is any way to
terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions
that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only
(10:25):
how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one. So,
Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four
words for you turn the volume up.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
This will all look very funny in retrospect when this
guy has made a complete mess of New York and
is a joke, and everyone realizes that he has no
idea what he's doing. Because that's what's happened in every
city that elects some super progressive you end up with
someone like who's the mayor Frey who just won and
again barely he had barely Mineapoli. Yeah, the guy was crying.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
At the casket. He's in tears at the casket of
George Floyd.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Uh, the guy such a such an absolute clown. Portland,
San Francisco, Chicago, all the all these very progressive mayors
are disasters. They can't point to one who's a real
lefty and say, well, look at what a great look
at how awesome that city is going. No, they always
ruin it. So he's going to make a mess of
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things as well. But I think it's worth noting that
he's just the mayor of a city, and he somehow
made this for his audience at least about Trump and
the fantasyland stuff too. About a despot.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
You know, you wouldn't have crowds of people cheering for you.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You a little twerp if he was really a despot
and they were all scared of what the evil king
would do to you, like they just live in a
fantasy land. The whole thing is make believe.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
How about Schumer getting asked who he voted for and
not giving an answer.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I love that's classic.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
The juck Schumer is.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I mean, if you just step back and don't overthink it,
but you just take a step back and think about
how desperate he must be every day.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
He's what seventy five or whatever the heck he is.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
He should be just comfortably becoming a grandpa. His time
has passed. He has no resonance at all with his
current party, and he basically just tries to avoid being
noticed all the time, despite the fact that he's sent
it minority leader. And I really think he lives in
constant fear that AOC is going to decide that she's
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going to primary him, because he'll get smoked in the
primary and his political career will be over.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
He's going to run for president, I might add, and
she's going to be I think a top contender for
the Democrats. I don't think she will win a nomination,
but you can just see how we've all you and
I I agree here news at the top of the ticket,
AOC as the VP, but she's going to make her
own run, and it's because she represents the real vanguard
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of the Democrat Party today.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
The best option that Chuck Schumer has is actually that AOC.
The best option is that she doesn't want his job,
that she thinks his job is not significant enough, so
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Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck, and we've
got some great calls and talkbacks we wanted to get
to also, Katie Miller, Steven Miller's wife, but host of
the Katie Miller Podcast. She's been tearing it up, going
after the commies left and right, great stuff on the
Peers Borgan Show. She'll be with us here in a
little bit. I want to talk to her about what
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it's like out there and representing a maga mom out
on the media scene. You know, we'll talk to her shortly.
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because he makes promises. He makes clear what his issues
and his policies will be, and he does his very
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best to try and keep his promise. The Republican Party
repeatedly doesn't keep their promises. Democrats come in with a majority,
even though a small one. They can bring some Republicans
over to vote and get things done for their issues.
Republicans get in and then they can't bring voter They
cannot bring votes over from the Democrats to do anything.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Okay, I Betty, I think there's a lot of people
out there nodding along. It is and this thank you
for the call Buck. This goes to the essence of
what Trump is saying when he says repeal the filibuster.
Trump is fed up because we have majorities. The problem
is we don't have substantial enough majorities, according to Republican leaders,
to really enact substantial change.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
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and Buck. Do we have Katie on the line, folks, No,
(19:04):
Katie's at two o'clock. Two o'clock.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
All right, let's make it.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I'm just making sure I'm keeping the team on their toes,
and they are in fact on their toes. So good job, guys.
You pass the stress test. Well done. You knew that
the guest wasn't now the guest was at two eastern,
and I couldn't trick you, So thank you for that.
So all right, let's dive into a little bit more
(19:29):
on Oh boy, let's see the the shutdown situation. Also, Mom, Donnie,
I mean, I got a few things I want to
get into here. I'll actually I'm gonna keep things spicy.
I'm gonna mix things up a bit. Sonny Hostin, I'm
gonna go I'm gonna go for something. I know we're
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gonna have fum with Sonny Hostin over at the view,
which I'm just gonna tell you all has not yet
a read to our incredibly generous invitation to have Clay
and Buck. We will even fly to New York at
our own expense.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
We will put ourselves up. They don't even have to.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
They don't have to do anything for us other than
open the doors and leave a spot on the couch
or two. Two spots would be nice, and we will
enlighten the ladies of the View and their audience and
also light up their ratings. But they seem unwilling so far.
They seem like they're not up for it. Sunny Austin
(20:30):
though certainly the most bitter member of the View, and
that is pretty much universally understood by Democrats and Republicans.
Here she is with the takeaway she had from the elections.
This is cut ten play it.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
I don't think enough people are talking about. Is what
happened in California with Prop fifty.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10 (20:51):
That for me was a huge, huge takeaway because that
is the roadmap for how Democrats become the opposition. You
meet energy with energy. When they go low, you go lower.
I am sorry, but that.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Is where we are now.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
We meet that opposition, and I think we saw that last.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Night, she's straight up saying she said it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
You heard her. When they go low, you go lower.
Now understand, this is in the context of redistricting. Okay,
this is not something you generally think of as the
dirtiest part of politics. It's definitely politics, but there's much
(21:35):
nastier stuff going on. I would just add though, that
we're all paying attention to this, and we see that democrats.
Democrats have been more aggressive and more ruthless about jerrymandering
all along, and now they're trying to squeeze out the
very last bits of political advantage they can from it.
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And Republicans are not going to have a second thought
where at least they're in charge about doing things the
way they need to notice, though, why is it low?
It's low for us to redistrict, but it's you know,
in what way?
Speaker 6 (22:16):
How is that going?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Well?
Speaker 6 (22:17):
How did we go low? They were doing?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
This is such a common thing with Democrats, Like we
said about the filibuster, about so many things. Oh my gosh,
if you prosecute some of the people who prosecuted Trump,
next time around, they may try to prosecute Trump. They're
they're forgetting chicken an egg here you know, which came first,
cause and effect. They already did this stuff that they're
(22:40):
telling us we should be worried about them doing in
the future. So that's not a very compelling argument.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
You know, you bet.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You know, if you slap someone in the face and
they're about to slap you back, it's tough to say,
you better not do that, or I'll slap you in
the face. Well, that already happened, and with the redistricting,
Democrats have been doing this. But this is one of
This is the cognitive dissonance. This is what is necessary,
the emotional over the rational that is a centerpiece of
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the Democrat party experience these days. You have to be
willing to believe things that conflict and that make no
sense together. Have to have to be willing to do that.
You have to think that it is a bad thing
when Republicans redistrict. It is a worthy and necessary thing
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when Democrats do it. And this is this is everything.
Prosecuting your political enemies a good thing, a worthy thing
when Democrats do it. Republicans even think of doing it,
it's the end of the republic. Oh ah, it's all
A Democrat political consultant guys out there.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
So.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
We need to understand this is the way the game
is played, these are the rules and this situation. And
then he got Bernie Sanders out there. Montani, the Kami
is getting a lot of attention. Bernie wants everybody to
know that there's been a commie on the block all along,
and he comes from Brooklyn, Cut eleven. Here Bernie Sanders
(24:27):
weighing in on the Mamdani situation.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
There are many reasons.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Why people win an election and loose election, and what
happens in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City have
been different. But I think there was a common theme
last night and that its people all over this country
are rejecting trump Ism. They understand that it is a
horrific situation when twenty plus million people are going to
see a doubling or in some cases are tripling in
(24:50):
the healthcare premiums when they can't afford it, When fifteen
million people are going to be thrown off of their
healthcare because of massive cuts to medicate.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Notice how he says they can't afford their healthcare. This
is the healthcare system that Democrats shoved down all of
our throats. You cannot keep your doctor remember from the
Obamacare era. Your plan is going to be more expensive,
the network is going to be more narrow, your wait
times are going to be longer.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Everything is going to get worse.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
And they turn around and they say it is your fault,
or rather as Republican's fault. All the things that they
have done have resulted in exactly what the right has
said would happen. And the response from them is not, Wow,
we've learned a lesson. I guess we should know. It's
(25:45):
it's your fault. It's your fault.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
And this is why I've said all along.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I think unfortunately, and I should wait maybe when Clay's
back with me here in a second, to get into this,
but I think I think the Democrats are gonna learn
a harsh or people are gonna learn a harsh lesson
about New York and it's gonna help the Republicans so
much in the midterms. Mam, Donnie's just gonna blame Trump.
(26:10):
He's just gonna blame Trump. And as absurd and childish
and irrational as that is, it's gonna be effective for
a lot of people, and even people who maybe aren't
that much into the left wing orthodoxy. But there will
be people who just they are absorbing casually the narrative
(26:34):
out there, the media, what they're seeing on TikTok or
whatever it may be, and it'll be oh if if mom,
Donnie fails spectacularly. And I want to be clear, it's
really hard to feel spectacularly as mayor in the first
year of doing the job. And some of you, I
know are gonna You're gonna challenge me on that, and
(26:55):
that's fine. But this was the argument I saw this playoff.
This was the argument all along with the Blasio. People
said de Blasio is an idiot. Communists. The Blasio works
like thirty minutes a day, by the way, that's really
what his own staff I think they said, you get
like an hour or less with him of actual work
(27:17):
on any given day. The Blasio made the guy in
office space who starts showing up in sandals and saying
he doesn't want to do anything. He made that guy
look like the people who are making iPhones at Fox
con over in China. I mean, you know, the Blasio
had no work ethic whatsoever. But he was a left
(27:39):
wing radical who believed that he should pursue policies. And
this is applicable to not just cities and mayor do
we say mayoralties mostly or mayorships mayoral ties right, mayor's
offices across the country. Because he had the ideology of
the left that the Democrat that is, ascended the Democrat
(28:00):
Party right now. He did run for president, that was laughable.
He also was known to, let's just say, smoke some
of that wacky Tobacci people used to say pretty frequently.
He was a guy who spent some time thinking deep thoughts,
(28:22):
not about work, that's for sure. Deblasio was a terrible mayor,
but it took a few years for that to really
be a parent and because what he inherited was the safest, wealthiest,
best run version of New York in my lifetime. Remember,
(28:46):
Giuliani cleaned it up, but it still had a ways
to go. Giuliani essentially pushed the boulder to the top
of the hill and then it was able to start
rolling down, going faster and faster in the right direction.
So he gets all the credit for that transformation. But
the city, if you look at homicides, investment, all those things,
(29:07):
was getting better. Obviously, nine to eleven was a separate
historical moment for America or for a New York City
period for New York City. But New York actually rebounded
economically and otherwise from nine eleven very quickly. Other than that, though,
New York City was really just on an upward trajectory
(29:29):
from about nineteen ninety six nineteen ninety seven on. And
I bring all this up because Mamdani is probably going
to be less effective in all respects in this year
than anticipated, and so that means it won't be as
bad as we think. And whatever is bad, or hopefully
it won't be as bad as we think. And no
(29:51):
matter what they'll say, it's someone else's fault, and enough
people will believe that that they'll least get away with
it at some level. Here you, Senator Cruz weighed in
on the election. Uh, here's what he had to say.
Play twelve last.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Night was a disaster. It was an electoral blowout.
Speaker 11 (30:09):
The results in New Jersey were disastrous, the results in
Virginia were terrible, the results in New York. Comrade Mondami
is the face of the Democrat Party. We have an
actual communist Jihadis. And it's important to note Mondami is
not a socialist. He is a full on communist. He
has called for seizing the means of production in our economy.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
He is a Marxist. That is profoundly dangerous.
Speaker 11 (30:35):
And look, I know there's some Republicans who are saying, well, gosh,
this will be good politically because they'll be the face
of the Democrat party.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
I think it's terrible for America.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Interesting, I really agree with the end partner from Senator
Cruz about yeah, Mamdani's a comedy, and I also think
it's bad for America. It's a bad look that we've
got this guy in charge of our largest city. The
lessons learned part of it is a pretty thin silver lining.
I think we'll see, we'll see. I don't really agree
with his initial it was a disaster. It was you
disappointing but expected. I don't think it's a disaster because
(31:08):
I also don't believe that anybody should start to buy
into this narrative that this is somehow a rejection of
trump Ism. Trump's not on the ballot and it's an
off yr election, and he just crushed the Democrats in
an election year where they tried to take him out
well by a whole bunch of different means. So we
(31:30):
just had the biggest, the biggest political win. I think
the Trump win is the biggest political win of our lifetime.
This last one. I think it is bigger than twenty sixteen,
even in significance for a variety of reasons. So I
think this is the biggest win that I can remember.
And so of course there's gonna be a little bit
of a sense of letdown. And this look, even if
we had won New Jersey with Chitdarelli, you know it,
(31:54):
it's not gonna blow your socks off if you live
in California or Illinois or Tech or wherever you know, Oklahoma,
you name it.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Oh my gosh, Gittarelli's the new Jersey governor. Now we
know we're good. So let's all just keep things in context.
And as Frank the Tank says, an old school, we've
got to keep our composure. We got to keep our composure.
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Speaker 2 (33:38):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck, and we've got so
much to discuss with you. Like I said, Katie Miller
will be joining us. She's doing great stuff. Some people
are saying podcast fabulous, Katie fabu, husband fabulous, Katie fabulous,
great things. We're gonna look at this, We're gonna talk
to her, and we got that coming up and Play'll
(34:00):
be back here with us at studio momentarily to step
outside for a second, probably signing some books, signing some books.
So go get a copy of Balls. That is the
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The book is called Balls and it is about the
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round spherical objects that the book is about, So you know,
check it out. We have calls coming in, we have
talkbacks coming in.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Let's do.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Paula Kka from Sacramento, let's hear it.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
Hi playing Buck.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
This is Paula.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
I agree with Alison. I don't think women should be voting.
We put too much of our hearts into it and
it's just not a good idea. Thank god Nancy Pelosi's
not reseeking election. What a smart woman. She's finally figured
it out.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Thank god, thirty years.
Speaker 9 (35:00):
I copy my husband's ballot each time we vote, and
I'm a proud Republican. God bless you all.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Clay, you see this we we've got now, this has
become like the command center for women who want women to.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
No longer have suffrage. You know what?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
You know how this is gonna go by the way.
You and I are going to end up the headline
on this. We haven't even step, We have not said
anything controversial, and it's gonna be the headline somewhere is
gonna be Klay Travis and Buck Sexton call for women's
right to vote to be taken away.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
This is what's gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
The Nineteenth Amendment. You know, it's a thing.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
It's there, and some people are saying some things about it.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
We're just we're just the you.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Know, the processing center for these sentiments.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
I'm not sitting you.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
You know what's funny Sometimes as I look out of
the studio to see is like, is my wife walking by?
Because I don't want to get in trouble, And then
I realized she could also just listen to the show.
I well, yeah, I I about that regularly do you
ever do you ever have that though like, like, oh,
Laura is not there, the coast is clear.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
I could say something that would get me in trouble.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Then you realize you're saying it to a couple million people,
so I could probably figure it out.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Will sometimes say something and then think, boy, I probably
could have phrased that better.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
In fact, it might be the story of my marriage.
But look, we're having fun. We got a ton of
calls lined up, a lot of people by the Katie
Miller's coming.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
That's right, Katie Miller is gonna be with us. We'll
see what she thinks about women having the right to vote.
I bet she has strong thoughts, and maybe we'll continue
to make some more love love connections, as well as
many people from Virginia and New Jersey who wade in
from hour one. If you voted Trump, why did you not?
Plus Trump continuing to take questions in the Oval Office,
no telling what he will say their final hour Thursday
(36:47):
edition up next.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
We appreciate all of you, thanks for hanging with us.
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