Big Trouble In Lib Chicago

This is the Buck Sexton Show. Thomas CIA analysts can speak to three hours without a phone call. Try doing that sometimes. No, we won't be defunding our police. We won't be dismantling our police. We won't be disbanding our police. We won't be ending our police force in a city. I guess you might have some cities and want to try. But it's going to be very very sad situation if they did, because people aren't going to be protected. People do a tremendous job of protecting citizens of our country

and that's what that's what they're paid for. But whether they were paid or not, that's what they do. And you know, somebody put it very beautifully before where they said they protect people, risk their own lives for people they've never seen before. People in many cases they don't know. You're protecting the lives of people you don't know. And it's an incredible thing. That's a great honor to be with you all. Welcome to the buck Sex and Show everybody.

President Trump making it clear that at least as far as he is concerned, there will know there will not be a defunding of police. We are not going to go down that road of insanity, not without a fight. At least, it's good to hear that the leader of the free world, the commander in chief, understands exactly what we are up against. Now that this narrative of defunding the police, they'll keep shifting it depending on what the

needs are at any given moment. One day it will be no, no, I mean actually cut the police budgets entirely. The next day it'll be, well, just move some of the funding around to some social justice causes. I've seen other people are picking up now on what I had said, whatever it was now two days ago, Law and order, social service workers. That's not going to be the best show you've ever seen. It's not gonna work out. It's not gonna work out very well for those social workers.

That's not going to happen, not going to be good. And all of this claim, all these claims that we should have police disarmed, as if that would make things inherently better. In fact, if you disarm police, anyone who knows anything about police tactics will understand that the likelihood of having to use exactly some of these in order to subdue some Remember, if you're the first, if you're

the cop on the street, you're the first on the scene. Yeah, you can call for backup, but you're gonna have to handle the situation that arises. And if you try to arrest somebody for drunken disorderly and you don't have a gun, guess what can end up happening. You may be in a position where they come at you with what you think is is a threat to your life and you

one don't have the ability to respond appropriately. Two you also in using you know, not having some of these additional force escalation procedures in place, the ability to escalate force. You know, maybe you're gonna go for that chokehold or something because you're really scared, because it's you or this person who is coming after you. And I know now in New York that they've passed a law to make chokeholds illegal, just now passing more and more restrictions on cops.

Cops are the first ones to get called out. I saw the thing the President tweeted about Buffalo. You know, this President, it's so hard for me because I feel like he's doing so much and get so little help all that all you see from the press is insanely negative stuff about him, and they're completely unfair, and everything he says about them being fake news is true. But

was this, you know, was this necessary right now? Because now we get a whole news cycle focused on what Trump said about a protester in Buffalo who got pushed by cops who have now been suspended and charged and criminally charged. Another cop I think here in New York has been charged. So now they're they're charging cops with

criminal assault. And you've got to remember that that now is going to factor through it in the thinking of law enforcement across the country when they're trying to determine how much force they can use in different circumstances. And people will say, well, that's a good thing, isn't it Buck? Yeah, but this is a it's an imperfect world. When someone is coming at you, you know what, what are you supposed to do? When someone's throwing a rock at you?

You're supposed to sit there and take it. Are you supposed to be able to tackle the person? How do you tackle them? I mean there was all this police training that goes into it, but at some level, this is one human being trying to physically subdue another. And really a part of this should be don't do things that make cops have to rescue through the ground and fight you that that is a conversation worth having as a society, right, whether you're a protester or just somebody else.

A lot of people go through life without ever having to be wrestled to the ground by police. And most people who are arrested, no, while the cops says you're under arrest, all right, you put your hands behind your back, you go to the station, and that's it. You know, Resisting arrest leads to so much of this. But we can't even talk about resisting arrest right now. I can't even have that discussion. People say, oh, you're justifying police violence. No,

No one likes bad cops. No one likes police brutality because everybody understands what that means for them in their day to day lives. It means that there's the possibility that they themselves could be And people say this doesn't happen to white people are lying or just ignorant, don't know anything. It does. Police brutality happens to white people.

It happens to people have alread happens Latinos. You know, you don't hear a lot about that either, are you just go for in this movement the slogans and the claims that have the maximum psychological and emotional impact to divide us and to mobilize the left. They claim they want to fix things. They don't want to fix things. They want to use this. They want to exacerbate the situation and then mobilize against their perceived political enemies, they

being the left and the Democratic Party. Whether you know, we've seen this, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, all these different political entities that have come up in the last decade or so, and it's just it always becomes the same thing. A vessel, you know, the tip of the spear for the broader left to push its agenda. That's what's happening. Now, we see this, let me see this, and I know they claim to be so in favor of the powerless. Meanwhile, and I'll get to some of

these stories over the course of the show today. Meanwhile, you have members of Congress taking a knee, Democrat members of Congress taking a knee in subservience or perhaps solidarity with this group. You have all of corporate America just falling over itself to show that they support the movement. What does the movement even really stand for? But it's very similar to climate change. Do you believe in climate change? Yes, well, then you have to accept all these other policies and

ideas that I put forward. Do you do you accept the Green New Deal? Well? No, Well, I thought you said you believed in climate change. The same idea is present here with the Black Lives Matter movement. Do you support black lives Of course, everyone supports black lives to do anything, but that would be deeply immoral and disgraceful. Well, then you must also support defunding cops, disarming cops, federalizing law enforcement. Which how is that going to make things better?

Look at what we've seen from the FBI recently. But you better support all that stuff too, right, No, I don't support all of those other policy decisions. I thought you said you support black lives. This is how they do it. And so, on the one hand, you're not really able. It's not really possible for you to oppose the movement without subjecting yourself to the worst kinds of

attacks and smears and the politics of personal destruction. And so you have to go along with it, and you have to go along with all of it, and you have the people that are a part of the movement feel incredibly self righteous about it all because the moment that they're challenged on a policy issue, Hey, defunding cops is really stupid. It's well, I'm here because I support

black lives. Therefore I always have the moral high ground no matter what I want, no matter what I tell you, you you have to do kneel bow, wash my feet, do whatever I say as a leftist, as a lib no matter what I claim. If you push back, I can always retreat to I'm just here to support black lives. Why do you have a problem with that? And you say, well, but that's it. Your whole argument here is highly dishonest,

but it's the left, of course, the argument's dishonest. It's all meant to force you to do things that you don't want to do, and to do things that you think are bad for society, to force you to not only be silent, but to support them. That's the big part about bending the knee. It's not enough to stand by and allow people to have their free speech rights. It's not to standby and be neutral to this whole debate.

You must comply. You must comply. You have no choice but to agree with them, or else you are bad. That's the way this is all constructed. That's the purpose of the rhetoric of the approach, and it's very powerful. There's a reason that all the all the major corporations. I mean, you know, you look at America. Where is the opposition to this movement coming from. It's it's not from the major institutions, and even members of the Republican Party.

Don't even get me started on Mitt Romney. I'm look. I know that I think I could still say he was a better choice than Barack Obama at the time, but it doesn't matter. I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed that I voted for Mitt Romney. I'm embarrassed this guy's walking around. Oh yeah, Mit Romney cares so much about the minority community that he feels compelled to march and solidarity with Black Lives Matter. Has nothing to do with Mitt Romney feeling like he's just the greatest guy in the world.

The virtue signaling you could choke on it. Oh Mit, such a such a disappointment. Mid is a disappointment. Marker Rubio is a disappointment. Now. I only understand why there was such outrage among GOP, among the goop circles, because when Trump came in, these people were exposed and all of a sudden you realize that it was really about them.

And this is true of a lot of right wing conservative media, and it's true of a lot of politicians, and some of them have fallen in line a bit, but for a lot of them, it was really all about ego and all about them. But back to the Black Lives Matter movement. There is a transcript and audio you can hear the audio of it of a phone call in Chicago, which just had its most violent twenty

four hour period ever. There is a transcript of this phone call, that is, and if you want to know how many, how many people are killed, I mean dozens

of people are shot, people are killed. And the transcript does this phone call shows you that you're not being told how devastating these riots, how devastating this movement has been, not just to cities in general, but specifically to minority neighborhoods, specifically to areas of cities where there are people working, trying to get ahead, who are trying to do the right thing, Black and Hispanic owned businesses, and they're being

burned down, destroyed. People have nowhere to shop, people have nowhere to go. They don't feel safe. And these are African Americans in cities like Chicago who are in a terrible situation because some small percentage of the American population has decided to take it upon themselves to riot and loot and destroy. And where's the Democratic Party on this? Pushing the narrative, They push the narrative while good people,

black people, white people, all people. They push the narrative of black lives matter, while people suffer, while actual human beings are suffering from what has been done in weeks now of riots and protests. I'll take you through this conversation that happened in Chicago. It's stunning. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast.

My ward is a blank show. I can't actually say what this alderman in the city of Chicago said on this tape from wtt W News, but this was eye opening and people are looking at it, hearing it, and they can read the transcript. You can hear the audio online too, of this phone call and saying why isn't this a bigger Why isn't every news network in the country covering what is happening to the third or wait, no, I think it's the fourth large. It's Houston, larger than Chicago,

producer Mark. I think it's close, but one of the largest cities Top five Chicago, the windy City. Chicago named for Chicaqua, which means stinky onion because in fact, there was a stinky form of plant found by the river where the city of Chicago currently is true story actually, and I believe it comes from a it's algonquin. I think if my Native American history is correct, it does not mean the good Land. That's Milwaukee. As we learned from Wayne's World. Okay, back to Chicago and back to

this news story. Did I'm producer Mark. I was trying to give you time to find out. Yea, Chicago is third behind a New York and el thank you, Chicago is third. I like to get the facts correct here. Okay, Chicago's third largest city in the country, and Alderman is effectively it's just a fancy way of saying a city council person. I mean, you know Alderman, City council, same thing.

Fifty men, fifty Alderman. Fifty members of Chicago City Council are on this call with Mayor Lori Lightfoot and they talk about how and this was on Sunday, May thirty first, so this was right after some of the worst protests that happened that day alone. According to CBS CBS Chicago here there were six hundred and ninety nine arrests, almost all of them looters, one hundred and thirty two officers injured, forty eight shootings, and seventeen homicides. Seventeen murders one day.

That's a lot. You don't need me to tell you that. I mean, you just extrapolate that, what if you had seventeen murders in the city of Chicago size every day for a year. It would be, I mean, would be the most violent place on earth by far, would be worse than really even some of the worst times in Siedaduarez, some of you may have seen in depictions in film and Warez. For a while on the US Mexico border, because of the drug cartels, there was, on a capita basis,

the highest homicide rate in the world. It was a terrifying place. But and Jone Grillo, who has covered the cartels for many years decades down in Mexico, wrote a book in which he said that when you crunched the math on it and an assassination in Warez about a decade or so ago, when things were really really bad, you're looking at two thousand, well, two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight. An assassination costs less than one

hundred dollars. That's that's what a hitman would be paid. Anyway, Warez a horribly scary place back then. I'm sure it's still not particularly safe now, but I haven't checked on it recently. Chicago sounds pretty darn terrifying too. Lightfoot, the mayor, said that this was a massive said that what happened was a massive, massive problem, and she described writers as just f word in lawless right now. Quote, I don't know about you, but I haven't seen blank like this before,

not in Chicago. Mayor Lightfoot said, you go through this transcript and it is it is truly jaw dropping. I mean the right up on WTTW news of it is is um it's you read this, you say, how is this? How is this not filtered out? It's with fifty city council member. You know why, because they're all Democrats. Because

they're all Democrats. And if you speak out and say that these riots were horrific and damaging and destroyed businesses and destroyed quality of life in minority in predominantly black communities in the city of Chicago, that interferes with Nettie and knee. So I'm so woke. It interferes with the narrative, so he can't do that. But finally, some actual reporting, you know, occasionally local news and this is what you see happening. So why local news is still sometimes journalism.

Sometimes we'll put journalism before politics just because not because they are so ethical, but because they'll have a story that's so big and they know. I mean, I've never even heard of WTTW News before, and I'm in the news business, right. It's a local Chicago station, but they got such a big story that they have to run with it because there's dollars and cents attached to this one. I mean, this is getting their name out there all across the country. Why haven't we heard about this? This

was what almost a week and a half ago. Why haven't we heard about this before? Oh, I'll tell you why. Thanks for listening to the bus show past. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, So we have the audio for you of this call. Among the aldermen. They're fifty wards, which are like districts in the city of Chicago. I know a little bit about this. It was a good show years ago called Boss with Kelsey Grammar that did

a lot of Chicago politics stuff. And I will tell you I actually producer Mark. I've never I've never really been to the city of Chicago. I went once for a day and didn't get to see anything and was just there to give a speech. So I got to spend more time in the Windy City. But this is this audio. You got to hear it. So Lori Lightfoot is the mayor, and she's speaking to members of the city council. And this is right after the looting and

the riots and things that happened. And I would note that, you know, New York got a lot of attention because things here with the looting was really bad last week last Monday, you know, eight days ago, the looting was terrible, and the riots that have happened here in New York were appalling. And there's some been some bad stuff in DC. But I'm going to tell you right, and Minneapolis clearly had hold areas, you know, buildings burned down, the police

station burned down. Chicago didn't get much attention in this, and I think we're starting to see why tough to make the case that this is all about justice, especially justice for Black Americans, when they're burning down businesses, are destroying and looting businesses that are staples of black neighborhoods. Where people get their food, where people get their medication. Where do they go? Now, that's a question that these aldermen are asking. Let me, there's a lot of finger

pointing here. They're all Democrats too. This is and you see the problem that we're seeing out in the open now that we have before, is that Democrats ruined cities, ruined them. They've ruined Baltimore, They've ruined Detroit, they have ruined city after city. You know, Newark is in terrible shape. Democrats. I mean, find me Saint louis mostly Democrat, I think, terrible shape. I mean, find me a place where there have been these riots, there's been this looting, I'll find you.

Democrats in charge. Because they think that if only they tax they tax the productive class a bit more, and if only they cut back on police, if only they tell police to stop doing so much aggressive policing, things will get better. We ran the experiment in New York in the nineties. Aggressive effective, targeted policing brings investment into a city, raises real estate prices, and most importantly of all,

and you won't hear this from the media. Those cops, whether it's here at the NYPD or cops in cities across the country, when they're doing their jobs well and they're bringing murder and rape rates down, they are literally saving lives. They are preventing enormous amounts of pain and misery and despair, which overwhelmingly and predominantly is concentrated in black neighborhoods of major cities where is most of the

I know the stats for New York very well. I don't need to keep focusing on this place, but this is where I am, and I can tell you that a vast majority, upwards of ninety percent of the homicides occur in neighborhoods that are almost entirely black and Hispanic. So when the cops bring the murder right down, they are saving the lives of black and in the case

of New York Latino Americans. I mean, looking at this example, they're saving the lives of the people who are trying to provide for their kids, who are trying to show up to work and do their part and be productive. They're trying to take care of our fellow Americans. That's

what cops are doing by doing their jobs. This idea that in cities where there are tens of thousands of robberies and hundreds of murders, and thousands of sexual assaults and rapes, everything's going to get better if we just cut the cops in half, cut their salaries way down, cut the numbers way down, less policing, and then people will respond, though the bad guys are still going to be the bad guys even with fewer cops. We learned this lesson in the seventies and in the eighties we

learned it. We've run the experiment. But liberals want to go back, and I want to go back. But it's not really surprising. They still think that communism is a good idea, right. They still want to get us back to socialism. They look around the world and they take all the wrong lessons from history. This is why I think liberalism really is a form of mental illness or a delusion or something. I don't know what we should call it. Trump's arrangement syndrome is certainly should be classified

as a mental illness because it definitely exists. So I bring you now the actual audio from this and I'm going to play it and sort of stop and jump in at some points. But this is the elite. WTTW local news station got this audio a phone call with Lorie Lightfoot and all I remember she's most famous from the lockdown, perhaps for saying that, you know, she needed to get a haircut because she's public facing for the

city of Chicago, but other people can't get haircuts. Classic classic liberal moment there, right, of course, a left hypocrisy. But just listen to some of this and there may be some language on here so that you will hear some bleeps. But listen, now this goes. We can't expect our police, and I don't fault them at all, to

be able to control this. But I know that we asked our faith based yesterday to stand at the front line between police and looters and rioters, and I am simply not comfortable telling my churches those people to be the intermediary in the middle of a riot the citywide. We need something better because right now we only have three hundred and seventy whatever National Guards on standby half

our neighborhood. They're already obliterated. It's too late. We have to come up with a better plan because my fear is once what they're done looting and rioting and whatever's going to happen tonight, God help us, what happens when if they're going after going into the neighborhood. Once they started trying to break down people's doors, so they think they got something there are you know, we know that people are here to antagonize them in sight. And you've

got a wall pump today. Today, they're not going to go to bed at eight o'clock. They're gonna turn their focus in the neighborhoods. I got gangbangers with AK forty seven's walking around right now. I've got gang bangers with AK forty seven's walking around right now in the Democrats stronghold of Chicago that has banned guns effectively. But the gangbangers can get aks. Now, is it really an ak?

Does he know the difference? Probably not, But you know, long guns of some kind, and they're not carrying around you know, double barrel, twenty gages to go clay pigeon shooting. I can assure you of that. But this guy is freaked out. He is scared about what's happening. This is an older man. This is like the city council member. Oh I checked. Also, do you know how many Republicans

there are on the fifty seats Chicago City Council? Zero, not one, not one Republican in the in the Chicago City Council there are six Democratic Socialists of America seats that were won in twenty I think it was in twenty nineteen. This is the Aldermanic elections they call it. So you have socialists and Democrats entirely in charge. There was one loan Republican, but he has switched to being an independent. Now this is unified and total Democrat control.

And it is in the aftermath of these riots. It felt like a Mad Max styled dystopia, just like so many other Democrats strongholds do. And this man says, this is what's going on here. Here's the mayor is going to respond at some point, let's hear it, waiting to set some scores. What are we going to do and what do we tell our residents other than good faith people stand up? It's that going to be enough. Thank the question, No, I want an answer. I beg you.

It was real quick. Just see called it. The mayor jumped in there and say thanks. Next, that's what the mayor did. Okay. The mayor of Chicago is being told by somebody who represents a district. You know all I keep saying Alderman, but it's two can I don't know why Chicago. It's some historic thing where they have the Alderman system. But anyway, why why they represent as a city district of Chicago. This guy represents city district and he's saying he's a Democrat, might even be a socialist.

And he's saying, hey, look, this is crazy. What's going on my area. What are we gonna do? We can't at cops can't control this. And the mayor goes next question, that's it, pybody, I want an answer. It's not something you ignore. This is a question that I have. I think we want you everywhere already, and we used to lie and let the neigh There's nothing intelligent that I am saying. Maybe you should come up and going up stupid thing I have ever. I understand you want to play.

I understand that you need to check your bags, you need right now. No, I'm just wondering, did you get any sense in the media that there was this kind of descent among Democrats where you've got a member of the city council and the third largest city in this country dropping f bombs at the you know, I mean, really getting really getting into with the mayor. I mean, I kind of wish some people in the city council

here would do that to de Blasio. But because people are outraged, because their neighborhoods are destroyed and there's no help coming from city Hall. There's no Lorie Lightfoot wasn't getting it done. Meanwhile, the Chicago City Council's Black Caucus, according to WTTW, was criticizing Lightfoot for using three and seventy five members of the Illinois National Guard to block

off the Central Business District. So they then said that the South and West sides, which have large African American populations and generally have a lot more crime, were a quote easy target for looters in criminals. So essentially they were calling out Lorie Lightfoot, who's an African American female. They're calling her out and saying, you use the National Guard to protect like the Fancy Business District and our

black majority neighborhoods in many cases, we're just destroyed. And she says, of course that that's not true and that's really bad. I mean, this whole conversation, she said, we've been working our ass off. I think I can say that on radio all over the city. And she's basically saying, what do you want me to do about this? I mean, it goes on. The conference call goes on for quite

a while. Lightfoot here said. A crowd of thirty to forty people gather outside a clothing store and on Michigan Avenue as a quote dude with a sledgehammer end quote broke into the store to allow it to be looted. I don't know about you, Lightfoot said, but I haven't seen blank like this before, not in Chicago. It's absolutely incredible that no one talked about this. Sadlowski Garza said, My ward is a blank show. They're shooting at the police.

I've never seen the likes of this. I'm scared. These are the politicians elected to protect the city of Chicago. They're basically having a mental breakdown together while the mayor is like cursing and freaking out at people. This is a massive, massive problem, Mayor Lightfoot said. People are just blanking lawless right now. Sadlowski ursa wept as she told Lightfoot new businesses had been destroyed while other shops were

being protected by owners with guns. Oh wow, you mean people with Second Amendment rights can actually defend themselves effectively against riots and looting. I wonder why that didn't make the top of the CNN News ticker. Lightfoot told Lopez he was one full of blank, well blank you, Lopez responded, may Or you need to check your blanking attitude. I mean, this is it's amazing. They're worried. They talk here about

being worried about about people becoming vigilantes. They're also saying, oh, this is another part of this that they don't really they don't really make any effort to tell us about in the in the news media overall, and that is that there are huge concerns about what happened to these neighborhoods. Here's one. I remember, they're all Democrats, not a single Republican on this whole city council. So this is all Democrats talking to each other. One said quote, I feel

like I'm at ground zero. My major business district is shattered. Why would Walmart and Walmart or CBS come back to our communities. It's like the wild wild West out there. Who yeah, no, no, no, no shock there, folks. Why would Walmart or CBS come back in after their stores have been looted and burned out? Why would they? They're making business decisions, but you know, you know who relies

on those stores, people, particularly elderly people. You know, they're elderly black Americans and some of these and all Americans, but all we're focused on what this means for the minority community, at least in the media narrative. Right, That's what this is. Black Lives Matter, That's what this is all about. You have elderly Black Americans who have no way of getting food because their stores are gone, can't get medication, and this is what the city council members

are saying. And the businesses aren't coming back. Why should they come back? But you didn't hear about You didn't hear about any of this, did you? No? No, it was all, oh, what did Trump tweet this morning? Can we make that into a big news story? Not the complete disarray and ineptitude and the absurd incompetence of the entirely Democrat controlled city of Chicago and the infighting that did not lead to anyone speaking out to the press, of course, because gott got to protect the Left, got

to protect the party. The infighting over the clear inability to protect their neighborhoods and to do what they were supposed to do for their constituents. Protecting people's lives and property is step one of governance. Right, didn't happen here? It's a scandal, and it's one that you almost didn't hear about. You're in the Freedom Hud. This is the

Buck Sexton Show podcast. Anytime you hear a slogan being articulated by activists who are seeking an end that could probably inspire a lot of common folks, you can be sure that Donald Trump is a going to try to

weaponize that stroke slogan. He tried to weaponize Black Lives Matter, he tried to weaponize a Green New Deal, and he's trying to weaponize these But again, listen to the activists, the spirit of what they're calling to a society that invests in human well being, therefore not necessitating as much of an investment in police departments. Don't listen to their words, Listen to their spirit. Yes this is former Democrat presidential candidate Corey Booker. Don't listen to the things they say

all their energy, because otherwise you're weaponizing. Weaponizing words in this case means listening to what the activists say and believing that that's what they are saying. This is amazing. It's like this this old joke about Republicans pounce. You know, anytime Democrats do anything, anything that's terrible. You know, oh, major major scandal with the Democrat member of the you know, House representatives. Republicans pounce is the headline. It's always Republicans pounce.

This is that's like this weaponizing no defund police is stupid. And other Democratic parties like, how do we how do we maneuver with this one? Now, you let the activists run your party. You let the crazy people make the decisions. Guess what you gotta defend crazy. Thanks for listening to the bus seton Show podcast. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah,

I mean, I don't support defunding the police. And I had a big meeting with you know, eighty plus leaders from around my district this past weekend, and you know a lot of the African American leaders were saying, listen, it's not about a straight defunding the police. It's about having a conversation about how resources are spent, how people are held or not held accountable, how we have oversight over that process. That's what I think people are asking for.

That's what I think this bill actually speaks to. It doesn't defund the police. It doesn't yank money away from anybody, but it does say, like we have to grapple with what is more than just isolated incidents. And I think you know, I'm a CIA analyst. If you've got three data points, that makes a trend. And we've got way way beyond three data points on this conversation. So let's have it. Let's have some uncomfortable moments. It's not defunding,

but it is questioning how resources are spent. Well, i'm a CI analyst too. Let's say that's a whole bunch of bull crap. What a joke? Oh yeah, three three data points makes a trend? That depends is it three in ten million data points? Because what we're talking about right now is aberrant behavior involving lethal force from law enforcement in the tens of millions of arrest that happened every single year. But I love, oh my gosh, the sophistry.

It's amazing, isn't it. You almost want to respect it. I mean, it's disreputable and disgraceful, but you almost want to respect it because it's so brazen. Defund the police doesn't mean defund the police like abolish ice, immigrations and customs enforcement doesn't mean abolish ice. Believe all women doesn't mean believe all women. Stop Libs. I got news for you. Dems.

Listen up. Stop saying things that you do not mean because you get caught up in emotions and want to mobilize your base, and then normal people that you do need to vote for you, who are not brainwashed, say, hold on a second, that's crazy. That that's really the problem is not Republicans parents I love that Corey book, or think Donald Trump is gonna weaponize this. He's gonna weaponize this. What does that even mean. He's just talking

about what you're saying you want to do. But this is the Democrat Party that it's all we have the answer. We are the good people, we are the righteous ones. This is what you do. That's what we should do. Defund the police, that's insane. You can't. That's gonna destroy society, literally destroy society. It'll be gone. What we think of

as a miracle will no longer exist if we do. Oh, we're not saying to fund police, We're just saying, rethink about the priorities of the funding that goes into policing. I had an idea, how about call it budget cuts. Now, you might say, hold on a seconduck wouldn't have the same effect. Oh no, no no, no, no, hold on a second.

Why why won't they call it budget cuts? Because if you're willing to cut the police budget and say that that's bloated, if you're willing to look at the public sector union that represents cops and say that that's too powerful and unaccountable, what does that mean for municipal employees? What does that mean for teachers unions? What does that mean for all these other rock solid, necessary Democrat constituencies and important centers of power and voter turnout for the

Democrat Party. Is the argument they're going to make, especially given the possibility of austerity that a lot of these cities face because the tax revenue is way down because of the unnecessary and psychotically ill thought out shut down. Right, But because of that, there's going to be all these big budget shortfalls. So how do you make up for it? Oh, the only municipal service, the only place where there can

be budget cut is the cops. No, they have to do with budget cutting, That's what That's what Republicans want, isn't it. Maybe they want to cut everything other than the cops, but they do want to cut back on services. You know why is why is New York state? So and true, it's true of Illinois as well. We was just talking about Chicago in the last hour. It wasn't that amazing stuff. By the way, talking about Chicago last hour?

Why is New York? Why Chicago? Well, Illinois the state of the state that Chicago is in in such terrible shape from a budgetary perspective, running, you know, billions and billions of dollars into debt with each passing year. Oh, it's because of two things, medicaid and public sector unions and pension benefits. That's what That's what drives the debt, those two things. So, okay, where are we going to cut ah, budget cuts? Huh. They're not gonna like that

very much, are they. That's why it's deep fund the police. And it also gets the activists all fired up. So, yeah, we're gonna get rid of the cops. And we all know that's we all know that's crazy, right, Well, not everyone knows that's crazy. There are some people out there who really think it's a good idea. Minneapolis's city council has voted to defund police here is what you have the the Minneapolis Police department. This was posed to a

city city council leaders. What happens if you if you really dismantle, if you go forward with this and get rid of the Minneapolis police department that Ilhan Omar just yesterday was saying is rotten to the core. That's a quote, rotten to the core, all right, So I guess you gotta get rid of this right if it's a cancer. As as other Democrats are calling police forces too. I mean, the things are saying are so horrifying, and I just

as a quick aside here. I know there's a lot of law enforcement folks out there, including family members of law enforcement, a lot of law enforce I just I'm gonna keep saying it. Thank you. I know you're not hearing this from a lot of places. There are some other cone it was out there who will say this as well, but you need to hear it. Thank you

for doing what you do. You know, I was on the street last night walking my you know, second trimester pregnant sister home to make sure that she was safe, and I gotta tell you, it was sketchy on the streets of New York city right now, and there are a lot of I mean, there was a guy who was basically rolling around on the ground, almost entirely naked, on a street in midtown Manhattan. I mean, I don't even want to tell you what I think he was doing as I walked past. I mean, that's what's going

on here in the city. And it's because of what has been done to our cops in this city. It's because of Deblasio and the Democrats and they're pandering and their stupidity and their childishness. That I'm walking home and I'm thinking, you know, I my safety and security and the safety and security of my little sister that's in my hands, and it angers me that I'm not allowed to escially I'm walking the streets at night, or you know,

they've got all these curfews and things happening. You've got roving mobs going through the streets, looting and riding and attacking people. Why aren't I allowed to open carry a firearm? No? No, if the NYPD saw me, somebody who was trained at the CIA, trained at the farm, which you probably know what that is, to use weapons in defense of myself and the furtherance of my mission for this country. If I try to open carry a firearm, I would get sent to prison for years. Do not PASCO, do not

collect one hundred dollars, go into prison. I'm spending at least two, maybe three, maybe four years in Riker's Island prison because I'm a bad guy. You see. But anybody that ever talks to the cops, I'll tell you on the West Indian Day Parade here in New York that happens every year, one of the big problems they have is not just gunfire up in the air and people forget that what goes up must come down, but automatic weapons fire, particularly located in Brooklyn, New York. Automatic weapons.

So the bad guys, the criminals, the people that are going to carry, you know, a machine gun around on a rooftop and fire it off in the air, not worrying about where those bullets are gonna land. I might add, they can get guns, and you know, hey, you know, what can you say? But I can't defend myself? Not allowed?

Not just not allowed, I mean I will go to prison if I had an illegal firearm in New York City, and they would think that's justice to BLASI would say, hey, you know, we're keeping people faith by making sure that this guy that served his country at two war zones and work for the NYPD trying to stop terrorists from blowing up our subways and buildings. You know, him carrying a weapon to defend himself. Is that's that makes everybody

less safe? Only a moron could believe this. But in New York, in Chicago, and in so many other cities across the country, the morons are in charge. They really are, and they have been for a long time. And Democrats aren't figuring this stuff out. It's just so much more important to them to vote for people that are's like, oh, we care so much about the poor. Do they make

poverty better? If democrats were curing poverty, if democrats were helping people do better in life, better health outcomes, better educational outcomes, more intact families. Oh, don't talk about families.

Oh not allowed, not allowed to talk about intact families as a means of dealing with poverty, even though every social scientist who has to look at data and has real data to work with will say intact family is a huge indicator in favor of someone's future, meaning the kids that grow up in intact families are going to have better outcomes, you know, nine times out of ten compared to everything, all other things being equal with somebody that's in a broken family. So but they can't talk

about that. No, No, we have to just pretend that Democrats because they say they care, and because they want to take from you the rich. Oh, you know, you and your husband or you and your wife combined household income of you know, one hundred thousand dollars in a in a major US city, who we're gonna have. We're gonna have to tax you. That seems like a lot of money. I mean in most US cities, most major US cities, that's for a two person household. That's not

a lot of money. But you'll get taxed pretty heavily on it, that's for sure. And then we have the morons in charge and what they're saying in the Minneapolis City Council about this when they're asked the question what happens when you get rid of the police force. In just a second, I will play for you their answer, which you really need to hear. You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. If you didn't be somewhere to respond with a guard. This isn't a

question that you keep hearing. Who would be responsible if you didn't be somewhere to respond with a guard, if there was an individual or group of people simply going out there and killing other citizens for no reason at all, who wouldn't be responsible to go out there and try to sell well mind well stands right now today, he's still has a minis Police department, and that will be their responsibility to address foes up. So at LASA, you agree, absolutely, yes,

they're defunding the Minneapolis Police Department. It's rotten to the court, ilhan Omar says, But they also are gonna make sure that it's there in case there's a need for it. Which one is it someone's down the street with a gun shooting people. Mass shootings happen, as we know, much more often than that, criminal shootings, you know, meaning drug criminal related shootings happen. That's the most that's the most likely cause of gun violence in the country. And if

you have to call the cops, what do you do? Oh, well, we'll call the cops. Well, hold on a second, I thought the calling the cops could make things work. So you have that other city council member from Minnesota from Minneapolis saying, if you call the cops, it could actually make things more dangerous. So which is it, Do you need the cops or the cops bad? Gotta get rid of them? Oh, the Democrats can't really come up with

an answer, can they Not really sure? But then when you push them and you say, well, what are you really trying to achieve? Because defund cops is a clear goal that we can talk about. It's dumb, it's crazy, but it's a clear goal that we can discuss. It shows you the Democratic Party is completely out of its mind and does not live in reality, and it's just really a collection of a lot of emotions from people that are not particularly stable, don't know history, and don't

really live in the real world. But okay, that's the Democratic Party. But when you when you push on the one thing that they've brought up that is a a clear goal and they they're talking about, oh, end and qualified immunity. Okay, is that going to stop a guy from you know, putting too much force on the neck of an individual and strangling him as a cop? No, and ending qualified immunity also means the lawsuits that cops. Who's gonna want to be a cop? It sounds great

to say this all qualified immunity. Okay, so cops can all be sued personally for what they do on the job by anybody. You really think they didn't really think that. No one even thinks these things through. They just say them up, up, up. We get the libertarians showing up. Libertarians who are, you know, just hoping they still get invited to the hipster parties in Brooklyn. Those are the libertarians that I know. They look I'm not really, I'm

not I'm that right wing man. I'm a libertarian. Thanks. Pott's already basically legal. Guys, you'll won that one. I don't really know what else you're adding the conversation. For the most part, I'm just gonna say it. But these things that they bring up as oh, this would make everything so much better. You look at this and you say, um, no, I don't know that that would make thinks so much better. Actually, and getting rid of mandatory minimums, Oh that sounds good.

Get rid of mandatory minimums. Do you know why they have mandatory minimums? Because left wing judges we're saying, yeah, you know, so what you know you were found with a whole bunch of drugs and a loaded firearm, and you're part of a drug gang that has executed other people, other rivals. But you know you had a really rough childhood, so no jail time for you. That's why we have

mandatory minimums. Because judges were abusing their discretion. And this goes back to when crime was really bad in America. They're abusing their discretion the seventies, the eighties, into the nineties, because we were told because the academy and the intelligency in the media was, oh, crime is a social construct, and it's because of all of us. No. Now, we all have bad days, we all get angry, we all wish things were easier, we all wish we had more,

but we don't. We don't commit crimes. Right. First step of not having a bad incident with law enforcement, this is this is a fact, is don't violate the law. Now, that doesn't mean that just by not violating the law, you won't be in a situation where you have to interact with law enforcement and that they won't be overly aggressive, threatening, step out of line. I know that happens too, But if we're really trying to prevent these things from happening.

We have to discuss this from all angles and take common sense. Common sense is in short supply these days. But so you challenge the left on defund police. Now, now we're weaponizing it because we take them at their word, we believe what they say. Now we're weaponizing defund police. Okay, isn't that interesting? And then you have beyond that, the return to the vague demand like this, for example, Representative

Stacy Plasket play clip three. I think when you know members of Congress and have conversations with them, you can begin to have those conversations that would cause them to be in to move towards supporting legislation that they know,

many of them know is necessary. Unfortunately, Eugene, one of the things that we have to your member is that we as members of Congress are not physically there during this pandemic, and so the kinds of discussion, the kinds of negotiation that would take place between members and members is going to be more difficult. And for that where once again also calling on the American people in your

protests remembering to go. This is a call of action to all people to go and talk to your members of Congress to demand that they co sponsor this bill, to demand that they vote yes on it, and as well going to the senators in your states to press them to be a part of this movement to dismantle racism in this country. Dismantle racism? How do we achieve that? Exactly? How would we get there? Oh, it's by passing a

Democrat bill. Notice how this very quickly? It's been what about a week in change, and it's gone from police violence is this horrible thing. And if you don't agree with us, you're a terrible person, and you all have to a thousand times a day say what happened to George Floyd was terrible? And even though we already agree that it was terrible, so why don't have to say

it a thousand times a day? We went from that to, well, if you oppose racism, you have to agree with Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer the Democrat Party and pass this huge bill and give them all these things that they want. Oh, you mean that this is really about political mobilization. I thought this was about ending police violence. Oh, by giving Democrats agenda items that they want, even though it is remember Democrats in control of the cities of the police forces.

It is Democrat mayors, it is Democrat police commissioners, it is Democrat city councils. They're making all the calls that affect law enforcement in these places that we're told is so bad. But we need a federal bill now, more government control, more government action. That's going to pick from the people that messed it up in the first place. That's going to fix it. No, it's not. Thanks for

listening to the Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Are here today with common sense solutions to hold at least at the federal level, the whole police accountable. But we know this is an issue that is not just at the federal level. It is at the state

and local level as well. But we are here today to say, in our position as leaders in our federal government, that reform and change must happen, and it must happen now. And let's be clear, reforming policing isn't the best interest of all Americans. It is literally in the best interest of all Americans, because this is a basic matter of fairness, and as so many have said, justice. Okay, that sounds good, right kind of? I mean, at least it sounds good. Well,

I'm about to dig into the details. He reforming policing good for all Americans. Yeah? Sure, How how what have we learned? What has changed between now and two weeks ago that there is an urgency now in the reforming of policing. I would just want to know the House Judiciary Committee has this out. The Justice and Policing Act of twenty twenty prohibits federal, state, and local law enforcement from racial, religious, and discriminary discriminatory profiling and mandates training

on racial, religious, and discriminatory profiling for law enforcement. Oh okay, we're going to have more you know, diversity and inclusion and don't discriminate training. That's going to somehow prevent one in a million cops from strangling somebody when they should be using a different tackic That that's going to be the game changer if we have antidiscrimination training that already exists in law enforcement. It's amazing to watch this play out.

It bands chokeholds karate or this is the Justice in Policing Act of twenty twenty. Bands chokeholds Karate holds, a no knock warrants at the federal level. Okay, well, let's let's go into this for a second. Shall we. Let's really dig into the details for a moment, because I'll tell you what's really going on here here. Pelosi said

this too. Play play clip twelve. Please, we cannot settle for anything less than transformative structural change, which is why the Justice in Policing Act will remove barriers of prosecuting police misconduct and covering damages by addressing the quality immunity doctrine. It will end will demilitarize the police by limiting the transfer of military weapon rita state and local police departments.

It will combat police put brutality by requiring body and dashboard cameras, banning chokeholds, no knock warrants, and drug cases and racial profiling. We'll start, We'll finally make lunching to a federal hate crime. Okay, let's let's go into this for a moment. Shall we the details here? Because you hear this, you say, oh wow, the Democrats, the Democrats

in Congress have this plan right. The Black Lives Matter movement got everything going here, and now the Democrats they kind of you know, they take they take the ball here, they take the baton away, and they say, okay, well, now we're gonna be the ones, the Democrats in Congress, the elected officials, We're going to be the ones to make the call here. Okay, Well, let's let's look at this for a moment. Shall we prohibits local law enforcement

from discrimination that's already illegal. So we're gonna let's pass another law to make another make something illegal that's already illegal. Okay, fine bands, chokeholds, herrottid holds, and no knock warrants. Okay, no knock warrants. This is one you'll get a lot of attention on. People have been focused on this because occasionally a no knock warrant, they go into the wrong house, there's a scuffle, and law enforcement officer discharges his weapon

and kills the wrong person. That does rarely, but that does happen. But here's the problem with getting rid of no knock warrants. The probably the most dangerous group of people that law enforcement has to deal with on a regular basis are drug dealers that drug and you see this a lot where they talk about non violent drug crimes because they'll say Oh, well, this person pleaded guilty

to possession with intent to distribute and they are non violent. Yeah, well were they part of a drug gang that was maintaining their territory, their turf by threats of violence, by shooting at rivals by you know, But the easiest provable charge was this federal statute for possession with intent to distribute you know, methamphetamine or And when you look at opioids, they're killing people. That's not that's not recreational drug use. Opioids are killing people to the tune of about sixty

to seventy thousand deaths a year. Look at how much more focused there is from the media. There there were nine unarmed African Americans killed by cops last year. There were seventy thousand people of all colored creeds, races, and origins who died from opioid overdoses last year. Now, I understand these are not the same issue. I get all that, But if you just look at the media focus and coverage on these things, when was the last time you

heard them talking about opioid overdoses. Drug gangs that are selling those they're selling heroine, they're selling opioids to people, are putting them at lethal risk. The fentanel that is often marked to look like prescription pills when it is not, and it's made in drug labs by cartels in Mexico and sold here by street gangs. That's killing people. You take one pill, you could one pill, you can die from it. So to call this non violent is to effectively wipe away the risk to the lives of the

people taking this unregulated and often possibly lethal drug. But no knock, well, let's go back to no knock warrants. You have. Now the most dangerous people that law enforcement usually has to interact with are going to be drug dealers because they are armed, they are facing long prison sentences, and they are engaged in consistent criminality. So now when you're going to go to a drug stash house, now you get to be the cop who's there. You know, knock, knock, knock,

open up. We're coming in person who might have several fully automatic weapons on hand to protect their large drug stash. Do you want to be that cop? Okay, hold on, we're gonna keep knocking, can you please? I It sounds like you might be loading a magazine into a weapon. But but that's illegal. Knock, knock knock. Hey, you better not be doing that knock knock knock. Do you want to be that? You want your loved one of yours

to be that cop who's going through that door? Now? Now, should there be an adjustment to the threshold for what gets a no knock warrant? Should they be? Should they have greater scrutiny? But to just federally say no such thing as a no knock warrant? Oh okay, let's let's give you know, a cartel hitman a little extra time to reach for their weapons, or to run out the back door, or to get rid of their stash. Right. So it's so easy to say, oh, just get rid

of this. But the people that are coming up with this, they're not They're not law enforcement experts. They just don't like law enforcement. What else do we have here? Mandates the use of dashboard cameras and body cameras for federal offices and requires state and local law enforcement, So body cameras for everybody. A problem with this except the bodycam situation is a question of funding. But look, I'm not just gonna say everything I see. I'm not a Democrat.

I don't see everything they want to do. Okay, I actually think bodycams are good for cops. Body cameras show that when you know, when someone claims. There have been incidents where someone has claimed I think there was a woman it was in Texas, claimed that she was raped. She was sexually assaulted by a cop. Thank god he had a bodycam on and they had surveillance cams the

whole time there. It was it was actually impossible for her to have been in any way sexually assault that she lied about a cop try to ruin his life. A body camp saved them. So there, I'm not opposed to bodycams, you know, fine, Okay, Um, it's a it's a funding issue for local law enforcement, so maybe we have to increase the funding on that one. What else

do we have here? Requires state and local law enforcement agencies to report use of force data disaggregated by race, sex, disability, religion, age. So does that mean they're not allowed to to have use of force data based on sex, race, disability, religion agent.

I'd be curious to dig into the details of that a little bit, but that's not How is that going to stop if you don't know anything about the people that they're using force against Why are you less likely to use force or how is that going to solve the problem? Not clear to me at all. Establishes a Department of Justice Task Force to coordinate the investigation, prosecution, and enforcement of federal, state, and local government in cases

related to law enforcement misconduct. I mean establishing a DOJ task force. The DJ already does this, Civil Rights Division can do this other parts. So this is this is bureaucratically shuffling. It doesn't really doesn't really do anything a nothing fatally important. But again, they need more bullet points. They need action so they're not just screaming. You know,

whose streets are streets. Establishes Public Safety Innovation Grants for community based organizations to create local commissions and task forces to help communities reimagine, develop concrete, just and equitable public safety approaches. You know, this is funding community organizers in advance of national elections. That's what this is. They all know it. Well, they're going to come up with some

great way to keep community safe. There's something, there's some idea they have out there that no one thought of yet. But if you just give money, give some federal block grants to community organizers, that's that's going to make things better. That's a joke. But again, this is just doling money out now to favored constituencies of the Democrats. That's what they're going to do. Amend's federal criminal Statute from a

willfulness to a recklessness standard to identify and prosecute police misconduct. Okay, you know, I think recklessness. I think that's fair. I think recklessness could be could be the standard for police misconduct. But we better be very clear and what we establish as recklessness. And remember, the Democrats are never going to give the tide to law enforcement here, so you know the devil also, the devil is very much in the

details with a lot of this stuff. But I look at all this and I tell you this is not going to eliminate the less than a dozen people a year who are African American who are killed by law enforces. This is not going to change a thing. So you can look at this and say, oh, well this is why. Okay, these are these are minor shifts. This doesn't address the over seventy five hundred Black Americans who were killed last year.

This doesn't make law enforcement more effective, This doesn't This does not really address a problem in a way that we should all be sitting around patting ourselves in the back if anything this is just this is this is

really just minor window dressing or counterproductive. And that's what we're having all this, you know, all the riots, and you know, if we did this, you think Democrats would say, yeah, I meaning if the Trump administration the Republicans went along with it, you think Democrats would say, yeah, we have a pardner in this now. No, then there'd be another

series it demands, and then another series it demands. Meanwhile, cities aren't getting safer, people aren't feeling like law enforcement is better position to protect them and protect their property and protect their rights. So what are we really? What is this really? It's you know, it's essentially the Democrat version, the Democrat congressional version of a lot of noise and virtue signaling. But that's what they're offering up now. So

see I actually read the details of it. That's where we are not going to make people say for not going to save communities just all for show. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. This is a great story of the hypocrisy that we

see from Democrats all the time. I really like you're gonna like this one you had in the LA in the LA area recently, you know, the LA City Council President Nuri Martinez filed a motion last week, as according to the Spectrum News affiliate in Los Angeles, follow motion last week to cut one hundred and fifty million dollars

from the LAPD budget. While she was filing that motion to cut a lot of the LAPD's budget, you know who was outside her home in Los Angeles two police officers who are being paid as part of a security detail to guard her home. So a member of the city council now needs round the clock security detail. While she is telling the residence of Los Angeles, oh, guess what, you have a whole lot less police presence coming your way.

People have called this out and yeah, indeed, the director of Los Angeles Police Protective League, which is the LAPD union, said it's kind of ironic he or she is demanding one hundred and fifty million be reallocated from the police budget, but she has security at her house provided by the Los Angeles Police Department. I mean, my friends, what else do you really have to know here? Oh? You know, what the tab has been. She's had security at her

home since April around the clock. It has called the taxpayer one hundred thousand dollars in a few months. That's what it's cost in overtime. And to assign these officers one hundred grand of special security protection for this member of the city council. She's a She's a member of a city council in a district entirely just controlled by and run by Democrats. She's a Democrat. What she had some like mean right wing Twitter trolls come after her.

That's that's what the justification is for this man. Apparently the MYPD should give me twenty four to seven protection too, because I got crazy libs and all kinds of psycho stuff to me constantly. But this is what it is.

This is the expectation that we should all have. They will try to defund you, I'm sorry, defund the police and leave leave you to your own your own devices, your own security precautions, while not allowing you to take the real precaution of arming yourself, which is the first thing I would do if I lived in a place that wasn't a Second Amendment free zone. And they themselves will make sure. And this is true of all the big multi millionaire news anchors, you see, they themselves will

make that clear. They themselves will make sure that they have security. They will have security. They will be fine. Kaylee mckin any, by the way, is doing a great job. My old friend over at the White House. We go back to our days being two of the only conservative commentators at CNN who were not complete whimps. But here she is speaking a very basic truth that set the media just into a flurry of outrage. Oh my gosh,

play clip thirteen mark. Our police are described as the blue line in American society between peace and chaos, between order and anarchy, and that thin blue line has done quite a bit. Just looking at twenty eighteen numbers. Murder around eleven thousand, nine hundred and seventy, robbery arrests eighty eight thousand, one hundred thirty, aggravated assault three hundred ninety five thousand, eight hundred, violent crime arrests one hundred ninety

five nine hundred. That's police officers who are doing the arresting. You eliminate police officers, you will have chaos, crime, and anarchy in the streets and that's something that's unacceptable to the president. Does anyone disagree with that? No, But now they're changing their stands. Now they're saying, oh no, no, we're Democrats. Were We're not going to be that insane. We won't do that. That's too much for us. It's amazing to see this happen, but it's not surprising at all.

It's not surprising at all that it took a couple of days here for people to come forward and say, hold on a minute, if you defund cops, you're going to have anarchy in the streets. You're going to have more violence the minority communities that the Democrats claim to want to support and protect, those communities will be the

worst affected by the reduction in police presence. They'll be the ones that have the greatest difficulties as a result of all of this, because that's where you have a concentration, a disproportion of concentration of crime in urban centers. So how is this helping it And it's not helping. It helps the Democrats, helps their lust for power, which always explains really ultimately what the Democrats are up to. Thanks

for listening to The Busson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Sports in the news again, you got cancel culture, you got wokeness, and you've got the return of some professional athletics, all things that I wanted to get to today. And because as you all know, I am not exactly mister professional sports, we're bringing somebody who is Boston radio legend and host of his own podcast. Now Jerry Callahan

from the Boston area joins us once again. Jerry, good to have you back. Good to be with you, my friend. So you know, I've been given Drew Brees a hard time who and I feel that Drew Brees seems like a great American. What he said was patriotic. Producer Mark tells me he's one of the best qbs, perhaps of all time, and he seems like a really good dude. And he's now apologized. I don't know if we're up to fifteen or twenty apologies or what it is today,

but his wife is apologizing and the groveling. Now, is this just because the guy, if he wants to continue to be in the NFL, he's gotten no choice. And what do you make of this? Well, it was very disappointing because he didn't, let mean, let's start with this buck. He didn't say anything offensive. He didn't say anything for which he should have to apologize somebody. I've just said he kind of gave his stock answer to the question

about players kneeling. You know, he doesn't kneel. He loves his country, he respects his grandfather's his fun in World War Two. So they didn't say anything wrong. I mean, it just wasn't woke up in this day and age. So they came after him, and you're right, man, he's been above reproacheck. The number that the money's given to a charity in New Orleans is like thirty thirty five million. He's got an impeccable record, just one of the best stand up guys, family guy, you know, good Christian man.

And they came after him hard. The reason he started apologizing, I think is the teammates. You know, he's got some really important teammates that he could lose. Alvin Kamara, the running back, Michael Thomas, Malcolm Jenkins, these guys were upset. I think he could have survived if you know, other guys or media people were mad. Adam He could have lived with that, but he had to reconcile with the

teammates and he did. And as you know, once you apologize, they you know, it's not like they stopped coming at you. They kept coming. And I think you might not get this, maybe producer Mark Will he reached a new low. He actually had to make a personal phone call through Shanna Sharp was one of the biggest clowns on TV, and I edd to call him and apologised him personally because Sam and Ruff. But Drew Brees should have been picked

out of the league for what he said. So you know, yeah, it's it's tough tough with Drew Brees, you know, I mean, he has an immaculate record. Some guys don't trust an immaculate record. I do, though, Jerry, because I have an immaculate record. So there's that. And and I want to also just get your take on Roger Goodell and the fact that now he seems to be endorsing you know, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I mentioned the top of the show, the far left Supreme Court justice icon to the left

has said no kneeling during the anthem is disrespectful. Actually she said this. I was actually pretty surprised, but I guess she figures, you know, what are they really gonna do to her? Right? So they need they need her more than any They need her more than any NFL player. They need her more than any any sports league. And they know that. So they're not gonna do anything. But you know, you got Goodell now coming forward and saying that effectively. You know, kneeling is great, go ahead and

nil during the anthem. I think if people do this year in the NFL could be in trouble. I mean, look, I'm not gonna watch after they kneel. I'm not gonna do it. Well. The NFL can survive anything. I mean, the NFL is the only sport, the only league that really matters. I mean, let's be honest. The NBA guys are gonna do it. Lebron's gonna wears I can't breathe T shirts. They're gonna be kneeling, and the protest and baseball, you know who cares someone will kneel. I'm sure football.

All eyes will be on football. It'll start September and there'll be guys kneeling. I mean on every team, you know, every week. It's gonna be a big deal. Trump will go at them, Goodell will have to defend them. I think it's gotten kind of scary for Goodell because if you saw that video in audio, I think he played it where he is groveling. He's not on his knees, but he's close, and he's apologizing for the way he handling the past and apologizing for the rat past sins

for the league. And I'm telling you, but he's thinking about taking a knee himself. He feels that they are threatened, intimidated by the you know, the Kaepernick movement that I'm I wouldn't be surprised that one week he got on the field, held hands with some players and took a knee. Then you will see, you know, a real division among fans. And you know, it'll be Trump on one side, it'll be you know, Kaepernick on the other. It'll be like it was three years ago times you know, one hundred.

It's going to get wild. We're speaking of Jerry Callahan of Boston radio fame and also now host of the Jerry Callahan Podcast, which you should also listen to, highly

endorsed by producer Mark. I might add producer Mark a big fan Jerry, so I wanted to, Oh, no, for real, I wanted to also get your take here on just sports journalism, and generally right now in the New York Times has gone on this this wokeness purge, and they got rid of their op ed editor and and we look at this, and I've been saying for a while that journalism people need to just understand that these are warring aganda factions, really, and it's almost all dominated by

the left, and it's very little that's allowed to give an alternative point of view. But then I have some friends, I know some people I keep it quiet that I know in the in the ESPN and Fox Sports worlds, and it sounds like they're also, like I wokeness. If you can't be Drew Breese and speak honestly about patriotism and respect for the flag, I got to assume a sports journalist who wants to keep his job at ESPN or her job is gonna have to say, that's right,

we're all kneeling now. Yes, you couldn't be more right. It's I mean, ESPN's is the most woke places. It's worse than you know, MSNBC, ESPN they know they had Keepernick's back three years ago and they have doubled down. Now they will be uh. I mean they were criticizing Breeze. Any player. I mean, you're not gonna hear any player speak honestly on this subject or any subject going forward after they saw what they did to Breeze. I mean, nobody's safe. You will not hear any guys talk about,

you know, loving their country or right. Yeah, if Drew Bridges can't do it, I'm assuming that the third string tight end or whatever is probably not going to be. He's not gonna be making a big thing of it. No, And I'm telling you this is a message to them, and you're right there. I mean, if we know journalisms that I've heard you and I've said it too, this is I think is as clear as signed as anything.

When they get rid of the editorial page editor at the New York Times for running a column by a sitting US senator, Harvard grad and war hero, you can't have any of that, so they get rid of him, and that's again sending the message to everybody. But you're gonna see ESPN has a bunch of shows, a bunch of hosts who think, you know that all the players should kneel that you know, all cups are are bad and uh, you know, and and they hate the evil Orange Man as much as anybody. So yeah, that is

absolutely for sure. Speaking to Jerry Callahan, check out his podcast Guys and Jerry Callahan Show, where he talks about a whole range of issues, politics, sports, culture, you name it. Um, just just give me some updates here, Jerry, you know, because I do want We don't have time to get into the lockdowns really right now. I've been a big critic of the across the board lockdown approach and just

the lack of transparency and honesty. And now what we see with the protests can end social distancing, but you know, for funerals, couldn't for loved ones and everything else. So we've seen all the hypocrisy and all the craziness. But I do want sports to come back, one for entertainment value for myself, but also just in general. It feels like that's a big sign of normalcy for the country. Where are we right now with NBA and NHL and the NFL, Where where are they in terms of coming

back when? And that's a good question. They're all still negotiating baseball looks like the one that's in trouble. They have not agreed, you know, the pro rated salaries, and the Union has dug in their heels, and I think it's it's Baseball is gonna take the biggest hit. It was already struggling, it was already losing, losing eyeballs, and and kids weren't really interested. I think it's going to take the biggest hit. The NBA. I don't know what

they're doing. They're talking about playing now until October and then stopping and starting again and I don't know January or something. It's all I don't know. It's all being negotiated as we speak. But as I said before, I feel like football if football starts one time, buck like college and pro. You're right that it's such a sign of we're back to you know, this is America, and we're back to doing what we do, you know, watching football.

And I think they'll do it with I mean, I've been saying it for a couple of months, doing it with crowds of I don't know, twenty thousand, maybe twenty five and a seventy five seat state, seventy five thousand seat stated something like that just as you know, it just show that they that they care about social distancing,

but they but they really don't. I think the Trump rally is going to be the first sign that the you know, countries roaring back whenever that is later this month, and then you know, when football camp begins at the end of July being in August will be another good sign. I just before I let you go, Jerry, I I used to watch a lot of the NBA, and I used to go to a lot of Knicks games here here in New York. But it was back in the nineties.

And I've watched this show that I've been recommending to everybody. It's actually an ESPNUM documentary on the It's called The Last Dance about the about the Bulls and the nineties and that team was basketball just was Was the NBA just a better league then with better stories? Or you know,

is is that just nostalgia talking for mine? Because I feel like today the NBA it's like a three point shooting contest where everyone six foot ten and nobody cares what team they play for, and it just feels like it's it's just not a good product to me. But I mean, you know, how how do you how do you gauge now versus then back in the nineties with the Bulls and Knicks, the Pistons, et cetera, and the Celtics don't want to leave Larry Bird out. The Celtics Lakers.

You know. The eighties, yea was that was the Hey, dude, that was the greatest you know, bird magic rivalry. You know, that was when the NBA was at its best. And then along came the Pistons and then the Bulls in Jordan and I was sitting right there. I saw myself in the Last Dance when George scored sixty three and the second year in the playoffs, in the first round playoffs game against the Celtics, it was the most amazing performance I've ever seen by anybody. But you know, they

get swept, you know, birden Selfic swept them. So those with the glory days, I'm with you. Not only does it feel like a three point shooting contest where you know, everyone makes the playoffs and that kind of thing, But I'm telling you back to the you know, the story of the day, back to the you know, the woke culture.

The NBA is the wokeust league, and you got guys like you know Lebron and Steve Kerr and Popovich who just hate Trump, and you know these are guys that will you know, Lebron said that the police were hunting him, hunting black men when they leave their houses. Deeply irresponsible thing to say, reckless, just idiotic thing, and that you know, that doesn't help. I think there are a lot of people that say screw him, especially when they know Lebron

is afraid to criticize China at the same time. It was the same day, I believe, but the same day that he ripped the Drew Brees, same day Rippdrew Brees and anyone that criticized Kepernick that the day that China outlawed any criticism of their anthem. And another word from Lebron not a word. Yeah, all right, everybody. Jerry Callahan the man himself, he heard him, check him out his podcast and Jerry Callahan show. And Jerry, great to have some Boston flavor in the show. My friend, thanks so

much for showing up. We appreciate it. Good to be with you. Buck, thanks for heaving me. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. CrossFit looks like it is now canceled. I saw this one popping on social media, which is where so much of this now happens. You will recall that there was a big backlash against against the one of the primary stakeholders in soul Cycle, which is a very expensive stationary bike class that I will admit to having done one time

in my life. And it was sheer misery and I hated every second of it. But that was for just supporting Trump. Somebody was in fact, yeah, they were just upset that there was a Trump supporter that was a large owner. And now you have a whole bunch of problems with CrossFit Reebok. This was today. Reebok has ended. Reebok has ended partnership with CrossFit. And remember CrossFit we think of as a style of workout, but it also

is a company and a brand. Here we go, after CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman made an insensitive remark about George Floyd on Twitter yesterday, Reebok has ended its partnership and there's other people that are pulling out. Everyone's all really upset. And here's what I think it is so interesting about this.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation that was the outfit of Washington University that put out the numbers that we were all supposed to believe on how bad things we're gonna get with COVID nineteen, and how if you didn't listen to them, huge numbers of people were going to die and all this stuff, right, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which was completely wrong and really catastrophically wrong in its predictions about how many people are

going to die and everything else from COVID nineteen is clearly politicized, folks, because they've come out with a statement. Remember they were pushing, oh my gosh, we're all going to die from COVID nineteen, Hide under your bed. That was the IHME modeling that was used, and that's what happened. And then we have these massive protests all over. We're told that social distancing is so necessary because others, A, You're going to spread the disease everywhere. That's what they

tell us, even outside, even outdoors. And the HIM put out a tweet on June fourth, racism and discrimination are critical public health issues that demand an urgent response wherever they occur. Racism is a public health issue. Oh I'm sorry, I have a hundred have one hundred thousand people died from racism in the last ninety days. If so, please explain how, and please explain what we're supposed to do

about this. Once you've explained how, which is I think the first major hurdle that no one can do, then explain how we're supposed to fix that. Oh no, that's rights. These people are so brainwashed. The left is so insane that even their health experts are saying, well, I mean there's a pandemic, that's we told you, killing so many people that we have to take away all of your rights, unlock you in your homes. But if people want to

fight against racism, that's okay. Then you can go out mix in the public sphere, you know, call on each other. Everything else fine, more important, more important. I will never trust these public health frauds again, and I haven't trusted them in weeks anyway. But this is spitting in the face.

Is of every person who has lost a job because of the lockdown, who could not go to a funeral because of the lockdown, Spitting in their faces, of all the kids that haven't been able to go to school, aren't going to school, can't go to camp, all summer because of social distancing. But fighting racism is so important, that's what they say, well, important enough that people should die.

They are telling you that that anti racism protests that are really just about mobilization of the left against Trump, as we know, but anti quote quote anti racism protests are important enough that huge numbers of people should be risking their lives based on what they were telling us even weeks ago about the lethality and virality of COVID nineteen. Now, Greg Glassman, the CEO of a cross Fit, responded to the IHM here it's it's Floyd nineteen, and they're all

and they're oh, so okay. Now you can say that that's insensitive, certainly to the George Floyd family. And this

guy died, is killed by a cop. But the point that I think he was trying to get at here is not really about George Floyd or about It's just about how the IHM, which put out a hashtag black Lives Matter tweet and is being used for the numbers to justify all the COVID policy, thinks we're all morons and that we should forget about what we've been told for months and the pain and the suffering that the entire country has suffered through because of their numbers, they

were the primary source for metrics funded by Bill Gates. Folks, I'm sorry, this is unacceptable. I'm not going to let this go. They have been so dishonest. This whole thing was such a scam. They are such frauds. Oh yeah, Now social distancing doesn't matter because of the protests. Are you kidding me? Remember protests to go to your job, or to keep your livelihood up in running, or to have basic day to day rights of movement and speech

and member protests weren't allowed before. That's not allowed. You can't protest in favor of that, but protesting and favor of ending racism. We've already we've already had a Black Lives Matter movement. What did it make better? How did it improve minority communities? We've already been We've been through this. They burned down neighborhood, there were riots. They did this in Saint Louis, they did this in Baltimore, they did this in other places. There were huge Black Lives Matter

protests through New York City. What was better afterwards? What changed? What improved? Nothing? But nothing? If you're a leftist, if you're a Democrat, is worth now risking lives and risking your professional credibility and reputation in order to support the agenda of Pelosi and Schumer. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's

almost roll call time. But for so I just want to say, hold your wild stallions, everybody, because we got some news for you. And I had no idea when I brought this up yesterday on the show that this I swear this is just it's something. There was some

synchronicity here. There was. It was fate because while I'm while I'm given producer mark or hard time for being a young whipper snapper millennial, unlike a gray bearded, gravitas full millennial like myself, because we are technically both millennials, which I like to remind him of. But I'm the old man millennial, the grout well who he's grabbed you. But I'm the old man millennial with the gray beard,

and he's a young millennial. He has not seen some of the true classics of really the what's the generation below? Jen and why right the gen hy classics, and that included Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. And now, in case he needed any more reason to see it, they are coming out with a third Bill and Ted movie. Here is some of excellent here's some of the trailer. Twenty five years ago, you played a concert in front of the entire cul One month ago, you played in Barstow, California,

for forty people. Most of them were there for two dollars Taco night. They're on, Ted, What have you got to say for yourselves? Be excellent to each other? Party on, dude, there we go. Producer Mark, come on now, you've got a third Bill and Ted's movie waiting for you. Now. But can I go to a movie theater and watch it? How is that gonna work? I don't know. It might be like a direct I think all movie theaters are going to be out of business after this. It's a

fair point. I think this might be a direct to you know, direct to your home kind of situation. But I'm pretty sure you could watch Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. I'm sure they have it on demand or something, you know, And it's been twenty five years, so it's amazing how old that movie is. I don't even realize it's really the I think it is the second movie Keyanu Reeves made. Have you seen see now I'm in a Kiano's own.

I'm assuming you've seen all the Matrix movies because you're a civilized person, even though the third Matrix movie was total trash. But I'm assuming you've also seen the series with Keanu Reeves known. I'm forgetting what it is called on air? What is it called? Where he plays like the gun Slinger? Come on, you know I'm talking about. Is this twenty four? No? No, no, my gosh, good heavens man, that's a great series. Though, good heavens, I can't.

I'm blanking on the on the Keyanu Reeves right now. I'm you know, I'm My brothers make fun of me because I've always been partial to Keyanu um and you know he's he's a good actor, and I think he does a good job. And what he does, I mean, point break is clearly one of the great, the great classics of John Wick. There we go, you've seen John Wick? Right? No, interesting, Well,

let's let's add that to your list. And let's also get your roll call because I'm gonna stop making demands of producer Marks time with movies hit It, Liberty, truth and great hair. Feel those funky beats. It's time for roll call. Alrighty, it is time for roll call, Producer Mark. Are we're getting some good voicemails coming in for Friday? By the way, I want every to get excited about that one. Yeah, of course they're coming in. I hadn't

listened to them yet, but they're coming in. Hey, all right, all right, I'll take it. Facebook dot com, slash buck sexon, speaking of my name, bucksexon dot com, you're one stop shop for all things freedom hunt and we should actually set up a shop on there. I'll talk to the folks about that. We got to do that too, but yes, indeed, things to talk about, things to discuss, and oh, team Bucket. iHeartMedia dot com if you want to send us an email. Um, for some reason, the crazy libs are coming at me

on Instagram. All that's where I get a lot of the a lot of the mean messages. Less of it on Facebook, a lot more. I don't know where it is, but the really mean psychos out there seem to come at you on Instagram now I'll enlighten you a little bit. Instagram tends to sew a bit younger than Facebook's. That's probably why then. Although Team buck Youth is awesome, but unfortunately they're not every They're not all the youth, that's for sure. Not everybody, not everybody agrees with the Buckster

tells them, Um, let's get to at Len first. Up here, Buck love to have you guys moved to Florida. It's a state of freedom and liberty. Forget Austin far left yuppies, social justice idiots and environmentalists. Ouch. I don't know, KLBJ. Austin, Florida's calling you out right now, Florida's calling out my Austin peeps. I think Austin might have to make some jokes about order. Man. Now, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna say, all right, so you better write in from

kalbj world. Anyway, I'd love to see everyone get together and start marching to protest that continued wearing of masks and closed venues of all types. Since there is no law that says you have to wear the mask everywhere, and restaurant and bar owners can open and just post a sign no masks required, patronize at your own risk. The cops can't arrest arrest everyone, and in New York they'll let you out anyway. In New York they're saying

it is an executive order. I don't know if that would really stand up in court, but I do know that right now we are told that you must you must comply with the mask face covering stuff. You do not have an option if you're a business, And yeah, that's where that's where it is. So yes, I would like to see, man, I'd like to see mask non compliance for certainly outdoor face mask wearing. And I think if you're unless you're in a high risk category indoors too,

it's gonna say it. And I understand that were how many cases of this virus or even out there right now that people are so worried about. There's three hundred and twenty million of us alrighty ah, where are we now? Michael hey Buck, Remember Europe was mostly peaceful in the nineteen forties and the US was mostly peaceful in the first half of the eighteen sixties. Shields hie and no

bended knees. Well, Michael, that's a pretty intense, pretty intense political series of political comparisons you're making there, my friend, I don't think we're heading for really really, really really bad stuff. I'll say that I think we'll be all right. I don't know. I like to be an optimist. I like to be an optimist. Dennis, Oh my gosh, Buck don't know if I should laugh or cry over this crazy defund the police narrative. Your description of it being destructive, stupid,

and maniacles absolutely spot on. So how bizarre or maybe just playing scary? Is it that people actually believe that it's somehow a solution is something. If they believe that it's such a good and workable idea, then here's a crazy thought for them. Why don't they just promote the idea of outlawing criminals? Makes sense that if we don't have criminals, then by all means we don't need law enforce And thanks as always for the great show. Yeah, Dennis,

this is what I say. It's like having marches to outlaw cruelty or meanness. Cruelty is bad, Racism is bad, but if you have a march to outlaw it, rather too of it to just oppose it. Okay, how though, the how matters a whole lot. There is universal agreement on immoral things being on things that are clearly immoral being bad. But if you want to take policy action, you have to describe what it is. And I'm telling you I'm seeing this with a lot of the stuff

with cops right now. You know, all major police departments are just waiting for an opportunity. Any cop that's a little a little too rough. And I don't mean anyone dying or anything terrible like that. I just mean anyone's a little too rough with the protester, they're going to take your badge, to take your job and maybe prosecute

you for that. Now, okay, So people are then give the impunity with which the more violent protesters the rioters, are able to act against law enforcement of that circumstance, just saying it's a bad, bad situation, bad situation. Let's see here, Jay, hey, Buck and Mark love the show. You guys were asking for a KLBJ listener. Here we go to chime in on relocation to Austin. Don't do it. I swear I didn't even know this was coming up. It's pretty funny. Austin is the bluest, most liberal city.

In our state, we have self proclaimed socialists on our city council. I wear a uniform for a public safety entity and I'm employed by the city, so unfortunately these bozos make decisions regarding my job. Wow, Jay from KLBJ, Austin, Land, that is not a ringing endorsement. Oh there's more. Also, the crime has increased as well as homelessness. We're just

another Seattle. Essentially. Texas is awesome. However, I would recommend College Station as a better city to move to, just a couple hours south of Austin, home to Texas A and M University, land of god fearing gun toting conservatives, thanks guys and shields high m. How many people live in How many people live in College Station? I mean, I don't I've heard of College Station producer Mark, do you know what I mean about it? You know about

you know about sports? I mean, if I had to take a guess and be a college town, so there's more people, good analysis, fuser, Mark. Well, No, I'm just saying this. Probably it's probably a lull during the summer around Christmas time when of those students go home. Yeah, about one hundred thousand in population and Austin population wise. Let me see what it says here. Austin, Texas population is almost a million. It's a lot bigger. What's the

population of Delray Beach, Florida. That's a good quest. Let's do this. Ruser market Buck are thinking about where they're going to relocate Delray Beach. By the way, if you, dude, if you want to move the Freedom up down there, we're gonna have that conversation. Seventy thousand. I got no problems is I love del Rabid, No problems with that. I'm trying to think of where else we have maybe what is is San Antonio a great city? What about San Antonio? They have an NBA team almost one point

five million. You can root for the Spurs. The Admiral David Robinson, I remember some things. That's who you remember, Yeah, Duncan, Yeah, managing Oble, Tony Parker, Yeah, all those guys. All those guys are Spurs. Greg Popovich, who's busy this week crying Greg Papa's like, I'm so sorry for my whiteness. That's what Greg Papach is out there saying, Oh boy, sad, very sad. Um. Okay, well, we'll have to think about Austin. That's uh, that was I was not expecting that one.

You're in. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast, all right. Next up here is Greg Hey. Buck. Wanted to just make a couple quick points. First, here in Denver they are keeping public pools closed, most likely for the rest of the summer because they can't abide by social distancing rules while at the same time allowing mass close quarter

gatherings for the protests. And second, the people in England vandalizing the Churchill statue must not realize though there probably wouldn't be a UK today without him, the insanity of all this is pushing me to the brink. Conservatives absolutely need to rally and put a stop to this nonsense. Shields high Well, Greg, thanks for the update on ninety three seven ninety seven FM in Denver. That's right, the Freedom Hut, Freedom ninety three seven FM. It's a match

made in heaven. And as for keeping the pools close, that's just nuts man. They're doing it here in New York too. They're doing it in New York so you can you can mix with you know, three or four thousand people shoulders shoulder in the streets for six hours at a time, breathing on each other, touch, you know, bumping into each other and everything else. But she can't go for a swimming open air in a public pool.

They're not going to allow that because of COVID. These people are completely insane, but it's very tough to get them to admit that. Michael Bug, your doctor Fauci impression cracks me up. But I missed your Warren Wilhelm, as Angela Merkel, can we get a little more Vaughn Wilhelm shields high from Austin. Michael shaw Kusen tag yah, but we would just hold that Austin is like a left wing socialist naughty place. So why where are we going to movies? To Texas? Angela Merkel wants to know. She

does not have a good answer for you go. I'm not sure yet, but do some Mark likes Delray Beach. Cartel Beach has very delicious drinks as well as a peached where you can lie out in the song No Nine, why not? It sounds like fun to me? I think I think Delory Beaches maybe maybe the spot you're close to Palm Beach. If you want to be fancy, you can always go there. And I hear good things about West Palm. I think Bongino is he's in Florida somewhere.

I don't know where he's He's somewhere down and think him and Russia down there, Yeah, I think, well, yeah, rushes down Palm Beach. I think Bongino's Palm Beach area too. So you know, I'm just saying, those guys know what's up? Edgar? Hey, Buck love your show. We love you, Edgar. Where can I find accurate statistics about death rates related to police actions? I would like to be able to talk intelligently about the subject using actual data, Edgar death rates using about

police actions? You can find The Washington Post is keeping a running running tally. I haven't looked, and I haven't really spent much time diving into whether there is any question about how they use those or how they pull those numbers together or anything else. But it's pretty detailed

from what I understand. So the Washington Post is actually keeping a running number of people who are killed by long for it's I think it's a little under a thousand people a year killed by law enforcement of this country. But that includes people who pull a gun and start shooting at cops. Right. So that's why when you look at the number of people that are killed who weren't doing anything at all, or who are I shouldn't even say at all, necessarily depends on the case a specific case.

But people who were not actively attacking cops with a lethal weapon, you get down under one hundred very quickly. So yep, let's see here. That's my best answer for you on that one. And Michael, it is only fitting that you bring up the Baltimore Police. But the Baltimore but the oh sorry, the BS whoops had another effect

that people need to be reminded of. They could any police officer that could walked, leaving those behind with such a depleted force, it was ineffectual for quite a while and still not functioning well today, though they do the best job they can. Yeah, I am, I'm not surprised to hear this. I'm not surprised at all that well, No, I'm and I actually knew this about Baltimore, but to be reminded of it, I appreciate. Yeah, Baltimore was in

very very bad shape for and still isn't. You go to Baltimore and it's it's pretty astounding how how people just accept a degree of criminality on the streets. So that's that's what just what just happens. Um So anyway, it's uh, yeah, that's that's what's going on there. Trying to put something else out of your Here we go, Ryan, right, Buck, My wife and I returned from France. Uh last year, we had our baby soon thereafter, had a variety of

three hours in pockets of me time. I suppose they find the care anyway, The Buck Secon Show has been the most edifying and entertaining piece of political perspective and necessity that has graced my early season of fatherhood. Now I'm fully dialed in as someone that has spent extensive time overseas. Your dedication to research and conviction to administering truth has been easily connecting and trustworthy. Thank you, and I look forward to the rest shields. Hi, Ryan, thank

you so much. Welcome to Team Buck. And Ryan actually wrote in on Instagram, so I will occasionally be able to pull Instagram. But then we got Fernando who says, Buck that Beard is in between. Is in the in between phase. It needs to be a bit longer patience, my friend. But the swoop always looks good. Best hair on TV Baby Fernando again, thanks for writing it. If you all want to follow me on Instagram, I do

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be it for today's team. Thank you as always for being here. Please pass the buck to somebody about the show. Back with you tomorrow, same time and place. She'll tie