Buck’s First Thoughts - 1/11/21

like the following. Everything is now political. Your enemies do not seek to convert you, but to destroy you. Your basic freedoms are under assault, and we're losing winning matters a lot. This is an ideological street fight, and you

should act with honor, but expect none in return. Those are principles that I've put out that you will need to remember in the days and weeks ahead, because the Left is now unleashed, and they're using their most powerful companies, They're most influential and wealthy corporations to do it at a time when you've already seen a Democrat consolidation of government power. What are the issues that we've had here

for a while. I think is that in the media, we talk a lot about social media, and people who are just trying to go about their lives think that there's some exaggeration. Oh how powerful can Facebook and Google really be? Well, we're seeing now they are more powerful than really any government. They have more influence, certainly than any media corporation. They're among the wealthiest companies in the world,

and they are oligopolists. There are a handful of companies that, for all intents and purposes, control the Internet, and they have decided openly. I mean, it's been going on for a while, but now they're just saying that this is what's gonna this is what's happening. They're not hiding it anymore. They're not pretending, Oh, it's just the algorithm, it was

a mistake. No, they're saying, we are purging you. If you're a Trump supporter who is too vocal about your concerns about the election, or if you're somebody who wants to battle against lockdowns and mask mania, we will get rid of you. We will erase you from the Internet, destroy your business, and also silence you in the process. This is a level of censorship, my friends. This is a level of control over the flow of information that

until recently, would have been unthinkable. How could anyone do this? How could they be so effective in deciding what the boundaries of acceptable political debate and conversation are. That's what's happening here. We have been talking about creating, as I've said, unsinkable aircraft carriers or free speech. And before any of you pointed out, I'll just admit it, I didn't realize how easily they'd they'd be sunk, or at least they

would try to do it. Parlor Rumble and other sites out there that have tried to take a free speech perspective, they're not right wing sites by mission. That's not true. You keep hearing this in the media, their places where people on the right, where conservatives have been growing in number because we're not allowed to disagree with the Democrat left consensus. On the other big social media sites. I mean, they may very well have delivered the election to Joe

Biden just by suppressing the Hunter Biden story. The way that they did will never know. But then when you add on top of that the way that they adjust the algorithms, you add on top that the way that they try to tilt the playing field in the favor of Democrats all the time. We can't really account for this because people believe, because we've been led to believe by these companies that they are free and fair and that they are just trying to to provide services to people.

They're not pursuing an agenda beyond profit and growing their user base. And profit is fine, growing users is great, But no, they're evangelists for the left. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon evangelists for the left, and those companies put together are such a huge portion of what is even possible on the Internet. If you don't have a single social

media account, you understand how much this affects you. Google can cut off if it wants to, all adds to any website that it chooses to do so, it can make your website go bankrupt in a matter of weeks. So if you're saying, well, block, I don't, I don't use social media, I don't really care as long as I can still get my favorite authors and writers and commentators and support their content, what I'm telling you is no that they won't be able to either. They won't

be able to do there. I mean, thankfully I'm on terrestrial radio as well as having a podcast and a website. You know, you can go to bucksexen dot com and please do so because my ability to tell you all I've been saying for all please bookmark it be you know, make bucksex and dot com a site that you're checking in to see. You can always listen to the show there too, on demand. It's very easy. There's a pop up, just click the play button. You can do it from

your smartphone. I'm telling you this because it's really a matter of time right now. Before my what was almost five hundred and I was getting getting close to five fifty. I think fouls in Twitter, and anyone tells you they don't pay attention to their Twitter following, who's on Twitter and as a blue check is a liar? A liar? Okay, that's that's ridiculous. I've seen some people who even cares, please let's see and then that's all they care about.

It's all just one big vanity project for them anyway. But I've I've been losing I think at this point I'll be close to one hundred thousand Twitter followers down

in a week. In a week, it's a lot of people to no longer be able to reach in any capacity, And I know some of them are bots, and there's all these theories out there, But if they weren't doing a purge of conservatives, explaining me why it's only happening to conservatives at that, I would like to know if it were just Russian bots they were they were taking off the off the Internet, and the way that Amazon can go after people now is even in some ways

more frightening. You need servers. There's an actual technological infrastructure that has to be in place for you to have any kind of website, for you to do any of these uh, any of this conservative content that I'm talking to you about. If you don't if you don't have the servers, you can't do anything. They are now denying people access to servers, right, And that's what's happened to Parlor,

for example. It wasn't just Amazon and Google and UH and Twitter all effectively saying you know, they're they're going to be target This is a competitor. I mean, there are rules. There are laws about collusion and about monopoly for a reason because ultimately the consolidation can be anti competitive, so it can produce an outcome that is the opposite of what you want. A free and competitive market. They

all came together. But it's even worse than that, because not only did you have these tech bands come together against against Parlor in the way that they did, but they also the secondary order effects are that your lawyers, your accountants, you know, other people that work for your company. Once you're targeted and targeted by Amazon and Google and Facebook,

you're radioactive. Nobody wants to go near you. And that's also why you've seen all these other corporations like Marriott is suspending donations to Republican senators who voted against certifying President, like Joe Biden for example. I mean, you know, Marriott Hotels, City Group, the huge financial services company, right, City Group, the huge bank. They've decided they're going to cut off donations from City Group, also to a number these senators.

And this is this is all out purge. That's what we're going through right now, and it's the beginning of it. How is this going to make things better in the country? Ask yourself that question, how will this bring us together? Where is the spirit of unity that we were told was going to come about? When Joe Biden whens you know, the the eighty to ninety percent, and that's what the polls are showing of Republicans who condemn who just outright condemning,

and you should know that's what the number is. It's eighty to ninety percent of Republicans condemn the the Capitol Hill riot, separate from the protest, but the riot on Capitol Hill. That's not going to save them though, meaning there's still going to be consequences. They're still going to be targeting of anybody on the right as part of this.

This is why I've been warning for years about how the left has expanded the term white supremacy, for example, to be if you oppose a firm of action, I mean, that's a white supremacist position. If you oppose racial preferences in hiring or in admissions for schools or whatever, that's white supremacists. They expand this. It used to be for neo Nazis. Now it's for anybody that has a position touching on a whole range of issues that the left

that the Democrats don't share. They smear everybody. And what's really concerning are these early stage move I mean, there's so much here, these early stage moves to make a big push on domestic terrorism, and by that you know, they're going to be going after people on the right who aren't really engaged in a terroristic activity, but they'll abuse this. They'll be a tremendous mission. Cree. There's already laws against all terrorism, there's no there's no legal terrorist.

But what they want to do is increase the surveillance state and make harsher penalties for people that don't even do anything illegal, let's say, but who are running their mouths about something, and they want to increase surveillance. They want to have a chilling effect on the opposition to the Biden administration. That's really what this is. They will abuse this tool. And I was somebody who was working in the War on Terror, and yeah, there were abuses.

So this happened under the Bush administration, but it wasn't abuses against Democrats. It was abuses around the world and the international arena. Right, That's what we've all seen Democrats, you know, we were so upset and we learned all these stories about about black sites and waterboarding and the mass surveillance state, which did affect all Americans. Democrats now are planning to do to use that same overreach playbook. But they're planning to do it for domestic political purposes

against their fellow Americans. That's really the plan here. This is going down a very dark and dangerous path. And I think it's really necessary if you to understand. We complain about this, We appeal the principle. We say, hold on a second, guys, this is reckless, this is bad, this is unfair. You're penalizing a lot of people under false pretenses. And you know what their response is good, you deserve it. They don't care. They think your ideas.

The Democrats, the left have convinced themselves that your ideas that they want to suppress are not just wrong, they are a danger and they need to be destroyed and you need to be punished for them. That's the prevailing mentality, that's the overwhelming sentiment of the left. Falls into that category. It's not I don't like what you say, but I understand that you have a right to say it, and you should not face concerted consequences to ruin your business,

your life, your reputation around it. No, they've moved into the destruction of anybody who stands in their way, and they feel good about it. And if there are people that get caught up in this, that are ruined or that go bankrupt, to have their reputations destroyed. That's collateral damage. They're absolutely willing willing to pay. Because if you're on the right, there is no such thing as collateral damage. You're on the wrong team, you should suffer. I'm telling you,

this is the attitude. That is how they feel. I also want to talk about what can we do about this? What is the path forward? People keep saying to me, we'll buck you. You're telling us about the problems, What

about the solutions? First me who don't understand the full scope of the problem, Because the mobilization that is required on our side to tackle these issues is massive, and we are now out of power, and it is only fair to point out that Republicans didn't do a damn thing about this for four years, and now we are exactly where some of us were warning we'd be. Where you have political power and private sector tech power colluding

and consolidating to eradicate right wing views. That is what is happening right now, and we are finally seeing it at a time when we're in the worst position we've been in four years to do something about it. So I want to be clear on that there are people in positions of power who are supposed to be on our team who let us down. Here this is the truth. I told you all, speak the truth. The Trump administration did not do a damn thing about this, and here

we are. How many times did we talk about it? Section two thirty What's going to happen next? Nothing was done? And now we the people have to figure out a plan of action to return this country to some sense of political equilibrium because this this can deteriorate very rapidly. And I do not get worried easily about the future of this country. If this trend continues of really punishing political enemies in the way that they're already doing and gone,

it's gonna get much worse if this trend continues. I don't know what happens this country, but I am worried. Thanks for listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest news and information from Buck by heading to Bucksexton dot com. What do I think is coming next? I want to talk to you about what we should do, but I want you to also understand where this is all heading. You're going to see an escalation until we submit.

It used to be build your own app. And it took us too long on the right to do it, but we did. We we have an app that's just it's free speech. It's not actually even conservative or right wing. But build a place, you know, it's the private businesses. Build a place that you know, you can have the free speech you want. So we did, and then they

shut they shut that down. And if we say, okay, well we're going to have our own you know, we're going to create our own ad sales company, they're gonna go after not only they're going to try to boycott companies that that partake in conservative ad sales to support media and voices out there like mine. They're also going to then say, well, we're going to cut off your servers, which has already happened. I mean is essentially we're heading toward.

The left has so much dominance of the Internet that the answer is going to be too bad, build your own Internet. That's unacceptable in society. All of a sudden, you'll notice the left or a bunch of free market absolutists, right, Oh, there's no no need for regulation, no need for government intervention. Isn't that so convenient? The people that tell you bake that cake. Christian put you know, a satanic phallic symbol on on some cupcakes or something, because because we say so,

you have to, right. I mean, they made the guy at Masterpiece Cake Shop actually write satanic messages. I mean you've been told that he denied service to a gay couple. That's actually not true, that's a lie. He didn't want to write messages like there is no God, or you know, to do something that's contrary to his faith. And they want to make you submit. You know, it's not baked

that cake. It's baked that cake, and write what we say as part of your business, or else the government comes down on you, right, or else the government attacks you. And then beyond that you have the left telling us, oh, but now we want free market absolutism. Now, now we want there to be the destruction, the destruction of conservatism through the principle that we've established power, we have an effective monopoly, and that's what's gonna end up happening. That's

where they want to take this. So I would just say to you all, this is they're going to escalate. They don't they don't care that this attacks very fundamental free speech principles in this country. There's free speech as an issue of law, and then there's free speech as a cultural issue. There's free speech as something that we have in in society. And sure enough, what they're doing is the eradication of that culture. And they're they're open about that. They're going for it. They are not held

back at all by shared principle on this. So just understand that their plan is to make this much much worse. Understand that their next steps and all of this are going to be to punish anyone who does not come to heal, and that's going to be a lot of us that could be that could be me among them. And that's why you need to get ready for this and find ways to support the content and the voices out there that you like directly, and not to rely on social media to find what people are saying and

what they're up to. You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast from More Bucked. Head to Bucksexton dot com and remember to subscribe to the podcast. What can we do about it? I understand that's that's a question that we should all be asking right now, and I've been getting it a lot recently because asking what can we do about this? The answer is, for one, I think we have to take stock of the fact that one one of our big problems with the Trump

administration on the right. And people may not really enjoy hearing this, but everyone listening to this knows it's true. There was no internal criticism allowed of Trump from within the team. I don't mean never Trumper, Oh, I hate Trump stuff. I mean, hey, I really want the MAGA agenda to succeed. I want Trump to be a very effective president while in the Oval office, to follow through

on the promises that he made to his voters. It would be better to that end if he did more of this, or if he focused on this, or if he stopped listening to and fill in a couple of very obvious blanks there. That was shut down. People who were the run of the mill Trump supporter generally did not want to hear that stuff. And if you did that, and I can tell you from personal experience, you got people saying, why, why don't you really support our president?

So what do you mean, of course I support our president. If a coach tells you you're throwing into double coverage too much, hate your tight end, you know, running across the middle. Is he playing for the other team or your team? You know, if he sees a couple of interceptions that happened and he tells the team we got to go to the time, is he playing for the

other team or your team? We forgot this. There was it was a lack of willingness to push Trump in the right And I'm gonna tell you I got I got tired of trying a few times, and I probably should have kept pushing, but a lot of people would have just tuned it out, would have been mad at me, And I figured, okay, well, I'll focus on what I think is going well about the administration and try to try to hammer home those gains instead of looking at what's not going well and say that we need more

of a focus on this. But now here we are in a place where we've got nobody, nobody who is really in much of a position of authority in the political sense to do much about this at the federal level and the Biden administration. Remember, you're just seeing the private sector action right now, which is which is very powerful. But soon we'll be in a place where the actual

political apparatus is taking this same approach. Soon we'll be in a place where the Biden administration is leveraging openly the big tech oligopolists and federal law to shut you down. What do we do about this? Well, going back to what I mentioned before about bake that cake or else, and remember it's not It wasn't bake the cake. It wasn't about not selling to people. It was about the message on a cake that is contrary to one's religious beliefs.

That was That was really the heart of the issue. And the left, Oh, and the same people, and I don't have to keep going with that analogy, the same people that want to make nuns pay for birth control. Right, sorry, nuns, you gotta pay for birth control. That's not free market. So under what? Under what auspice is? Well, what is the justification for making nuns by birth controls? Public good? That's what democrats say, it's it's public good, public health. Sorry,

so you have to do it. Well, isn't it for the public good to be able to have free and open political debate? He's in it for the public good to have the internet like the phone lines, And imagine if the phone company was privately owned in such a way that the Democrat owners in the weeks before an election could just shut off all shut off all phone service to every GOP outreach effort, every GOP campaign all across the country. That would theoretically be private sector action, right,

But no, we've established that there are utilities. It's necessary for society to have phone lines as a source of free, open communication for people to use. Right the same way that you know, we've done that, We're going to have to approach more aspects of the Internet this way. And the only answer friends is regulation. If you think the answer is free market, we'll get ready for the Democrats. And when I say free market, a kind of free market absolutism, you'll see the Left use they're built in

advantage right now to destroy the Republican Party. But we're not even gonna be able to get our pants on and get out the door before they'll have complete online dominance that has been used to destroy the voices of opposition to the Biden administration. It's going to be all over. We're not gonna be able to build their own internet in the next you know, the next two years. So there needs to be for one, just the kind of public outrage and at least put the Democrats on notice.

We see what they're doing and it's disgusting. Beyond that, though, if you're looking for for action, you need to have at the state level. You need to have state governments that start to add in state legislatures, have to add Republicans as a protected status under law for things like you know, doing doing transactions for and with banks and

you know, online servers. And this is what what Democrats have done, and they've created this whole extra this whole all these extra layers of law that say that because for the good of society, you can't discriminate on the basis of race in public accommodations, for the good of society, you can discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and public accommodations. So what I'm saying is the only legal

pathway that I can see here. And I'm not a lawyer, but I am somebody who reads all this stuff constantly and tries to understand what the options are in layman's terms.

But the only the only pathway that I can see would be to start to add Republicans as at the state level, because I know we can't do we're not going to be able to do this the federal level because we didn't take action on this for four years under Trump, would be to add so in the state of Texas, for example, in the state of Florida, you could have you are not allowed to and then and then that would lead to lawsuits, right, it would lead to lawsuits and more. But this is it. This is

our only this is our only shot. As I see it. We're gonna have to force people to think twice at least, because right now they don't think twice at all. They don't care what we think. That there's no sense whatsoever that we have to be that they have to be careful about what doing. They can go around YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and just Google, which is of course the owner of YouTube, an Amazon, which has a tremendous amount of cloud computing services that they do and servers.

They can crush you without consequence because they don't like what you say. All this stuff about terms of service violations and Trump and violence at the Capitol, that's why we're shutting people down. That's not true. Okay, They're not shutting parlor down because it was a place where violence was planned anymore. So than violence has been planned by Antifa and BLM and many others on Twitter, on Facebook. These are communication platforms. Parlor doesn't advocate for the violent

overthrow of the government. Parlor is not doing anything other than refusing to play the game the way the left wants it to, which means suppressing conservative speech at every opportunity. You know, I mean, I've been dealing with this. These companies are a nightmare and they don't care what you think. Facebook, YouTube, they suspend you, Instagram suspends you. Good luck, good luck

getting your account back. If you do, it'll be after you know, dozens of hours of time filling out forms and on the phone and trying to reach a rap and all this other stuff. And meanwhile, the left they got no problems. They're run any ads they want, do anything they want, say whatever they want. They're not getting suspended, they're not getting they're not getting booted off. These places you can have right now, you go, you can go and check it out for yourself. Yeah, there are Iranian

pro genocide against the Jewish state. People in the Iranian government who they have their Twitter know the Aetola, I mean they or you know, the the Guardian Council. They have their Twitter account. The Iranian Revolutionary regime they have their Twitter account. So that's okay, you know poot, I mean the Russians. There are the Chinese with there with putting wagers in concentration camps in in uh, you know, Shenjang Province in western China. They they have their Twitter accounts.

So this isn't about stopping human rights violations or violence. This is about suppressing conservatives and this is in a huge problem. And then there's the blacklists. You're already starting to see it. Uh, you know, the Lincoln Project, which is really a bunch of sociopaths who are doing unbelievable damage to the country with the nonsense that they put forward.

But they're they're now circulating lists. What they want to do is put out a very easy to read public shaming lists of anybody who work for the Trump administration so that they will not get jobs in corporate America. They will not be they will effectively be unhireable. I mean, this is the most vicious kind of political retribution you can fine sort of advocating for violence. It's they're not necessarily targeting you for violence, yet if you work for Trump,

although that has also happened, as we know. But they're going to make sure that you can't pay your bills, feed your family, have a career, pay your mortgage. You know, that's that's what you deserve if you work for Trump. That's what they really believe, and this is increasing widespread. There are these lists that are circulating. My friends. They don't care. They really believe that if you support Trump, you've been a part of a coup attempt, and that

you must be supportive of white supremacist ideology. And the fact that seventy five million Americans, including a lot of as we know, an unprecedentedly high number of Latino and black voters compared to GOP norms, voted for Trump, none of that matters. Not to the left. It's white supremacist support. It's a coup, it's fascism. It's the worst kinds of the worst kinds of political mouthfeeas, and whatever they have to do to stop it, they feel entirely justified in doing.

And if you and your livelihood and your freedom is a casualty of that, great they don't to say they don't care is even correct. They celebrate it. They're happy when conservatives get booted off the internet. They're happy when their opposition is You know, this would be like if we were playing in a sports league and we think that they would want to they would want to meet us,

let's say on the actual playing field. No, what they want is to slash the tires of the bus for the opposing team so they can't even get to the match. That's how they're playing this. That's what they're doing now. They're slashing our tires. They're you know, setting up actual roadblocks and saying, sorry, we win by forfeit. We're in charge. Now. What this does to America if it continues, I I can't say. I don't know. I just know that it's terrible. And at the left is that this is a psychosis.

It's disgusting and there is no good faith. They're operating with no good faith whatsoever. They have decided that the worst elements of Trump support, which are a tiny, tiny fraction of those who actually voted for trumpet support President Trump, the absolute worst for ingelements, you know, the q Anon behind Trump, that's representative of all of us. Therefore, we all have to be we all have to be purged. And this is the mentality, So be aware of it,

understand it, and get ready for it. We're in this together, but it is going to be rough. You're in the freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get more from Buck by following him on social media at Buck Sexton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Articles of impeachment have been introduced in the House by Pelosi and the Democrats. They're charging Trump with incitement of insurrection. Now based on the Senate schedule, this is this is all unlikely to

result in the President's removal from office. But understand that what this is, what this is doing is trying to get on the record, and that's it is getting it on the record that President Trump tried to incite a mob to overturn the election results. Now the people who are comparing that capitol he'll write. And I just wonder also if anyone out there who when I immediately condemned this thing, which I think was an obvious move. I don't think there was any question that that was the

right move. And I don't care if any anyone's welcome to disagree with me. I think they're wrong. I do not. I will not be swayed on this. I wonder if anybody, though, who disagree with me that this was going to result in a terrible backlash and that it was entirely counterproductive, they'll admit that I was right about that too, which

was also I think obvious. Now you have Pelosi and the Democrats getting on the record that they're they're alleging there and tried to steal an election using a mob and inciting a mob to violence at the US Capitol. And if you see the video, and I'm not going to pretend like it's not there because people don't want to hear it, if you see the video at the Capitol of what was done to some of these police officers.

Every bit is grotesque and awful. Is what you've seen from the worst of Antifa, you know, every bit as awful as what you've seen from many of these BLM mobs. Now, there weren't assassins on behalf of BLM killing cops, which we've seen in other cases, but that's usually loan. That's usually a lone wolf actor separate from the actual BLM mob. That tends to have been the case. Anyway, point here is that you see the video of the way the mob was treating these cops, and it's a disgrace. There

was nothing. Those cops were doing their jobs. They weren't posing, they weren't posing some illegal threat to law abiding citizens. Shouldn't have happened. And now Pelosi and the Democrats are going to leverage this whole thing to the hilt. They want a totally open pathway to Democrat to the Democrat agenda in twenty twenty one, and they want to make it to the Republican Party is a party that is wounded beyond repair. And this is their biggest opening for this.

If Trump, if this had not happened, if we had not had the Capitol Hill riot, they still would have been doing Don't don't make don't misunderstand me, They're not. It's not like the Democrats were going to be good and fair minded. And but we would have been a much stronger position. I mean, Trump would have been out of office and been able to mobilize people from you know, from private life essentially in order to be an opposition of Biden, and we would have had a mid term

in two years. Would have been here before you know it. There was a lot that could have happened. This makes all of that much more difficult. And that's what Pelosi understands, which is why she's going forward these articles of impeachment. How could anyone think that this would help the country, as if the way we are at a particularly tense moment, a truly concerning moment, and we're we're to believe, we're to believe that the Democrats think this will make things

better somehow, That's that's just nonsensical. Removing President Trump through this kind of mechanism will only result in in further exacerbation of tensions, will only result in even more sense of outrage that the that the votes of Trump supporters don't count, and they really want to do this to erase the twenty sixteen election. The whole thing was a mistake. None of it matter, It didn't count. That's why Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats want this so badly.

Gave you this as a way to completely repudiate all things Trump, and I'm I'm honest with you, a lot of other people aren't. The Trump brand is greatly damaged right now that that it's just a fact. The the the political power that it would have had as opposition to bide in right now is substantially less than it would have been because of what we have seen, but because of what has happened. But this would just tear the country apart. Trump is going to be gone in

what is it nine days or so? Yeah, nine days. Trump is going to be gone pretty soon from office. You're gonna try to kick you know, if he's already walking out the door, why kick him in the behind? You know? Why? Why do that? Because it's spiteful and it's vindictive, and that's what Pelosi and the Democrats want. Thanks for listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest news and information from Buck by heading to Buck Sexton dot com. Where do we go from here?

What do we do next to fight back against the purge? And what is also the next step for MAGA in all of this? Is that even a phrase we're going to be hearing the months ahead. We got our friend John Cardillo back with us, formerly of the NYPD, now a conservative commentator, radio host, and a TV guy. John. Great to have you back. Always good to be with you. Buck, crazy week though, so so John. I've been saying that we were facing a purge, and I knew that they

would eventually come after these conservative platforms. I didn't know that it would happen. I'll say this, they've They've exceeded my expectations. The Democrats have for concerted vindictiveness. What do you see going on here? Oh? Oh, this is they want us eradicate it. I mean, they're not going to accept anything less than than total subservience, and they're vocal about it. All you gotta do is read their their

social media postings. They want us to either surrender and in some cases they are using words like a cleansing. Others are being extreme. They're calling for death to conservatives. And then, so I don't I don't see this getting better anytime soon. And I just wish Donald Trump would have used some of his presidential power and prosecuted some of these people over the last four years or installed an attorney general that would have These are dark days

ahead for the right. What do you think we can do about this? I mean people are asking me that question, and I come up with state level adding conservatives as a protected category the same way you'd have people with people with disabilities and gender discrimination and things like that.

Don't I don't see another way because I know the mentality, as do you of the left, and especially at these Silicon Valley companies where they know how much power they have, and the people when you talk to them on the inside, they'll tell you. You know, some of them will sort of whisper to you because they're terrified too. They'll say,

we can do whatever we want. Right. They've got armies of the of the best lawyers, endless capital and funds to do what they want, and anyone who stands against them they can crush before they even get any momentum. So do you think do you think that state level action and when I say it's the answer, is that a necessary step? What are the steps that we have? Yeah, it absolutely is. I remember, they've also got government affairs

people everywhere, a federal, state, local. But here's the one thing that everybody's missing in the discourse on shows social media. Rather when they're saying, oh my god, what's food? As conservatives, they took our social media platform away. Local elections and state legislative elections haven't worked around the electoral process for years, going back as a teenager knocking on doors still tend to be grassroots. They're not as dependent on social media.

We need strong America first, candidates running for district attorney, running for Supervisor of Elections, running for Secretary of State, running for state legislature, because they have so much power, and most of those are grassroots campaigns. They're not dependent on social media. Yeah, Facebook to a point, but Facebook's

really not going to crack down. It's too hard on what they perceive right now to be insignificant state legislative races, which if we put the right candidates in, we run them correctly, we win, and we weaponize those offices like Democrats do well. When Facebook finally catches on and the other platforms, it'll be too late because we'll at least have some bills, some laws in these states with teeth.

So right now we should not be focusing on twenty two federally, and then we should be focusing on it, But our real effort needs to be at the state and local level to call these people a task and also to secure that federal vote in twenty two. We can do all these things culturally, and we can shift ideologies, and we can drive people to the polls, but if you can't protect the vote because you have the secretary of State, the DA or the Supervisor of elections, what

good is it all? So that's where we need to focus find the right candidates. John, What do you think is going to happen here? Over the next week and a couple of days, Pelosi has introduced articles of impeachment against the president. There are's a lot of stories, and I'll tell you they're they're not making up the twenty fifth a mint stuff, because I've heard it from other people that at least there are that has been discussed by different people at high levels in DC, whether they're

forward or against it, it it is. I know it is being talked about by some people. What do you think happens here? And what would what would it mean if they were able to remove this president before he left? Well, it's very real because of verified political account. I forget who it was. I just retweeted how insane it was

said they're giving Mike Pence until Wednesday. They've given my thing about this Congress has breached separation of powers and is now threatening the vice president of the United States. They're giving him an ultimatum that if he doesn't invoke the twenty fifth Amendment by Wednesday, they're moving forward with articles and impeachment. This is disgraceable. So that talk is

very real. Now your congressional far left blue check Twitter accounts are tweeting, yup, we are giving the ultimatum, Speaker Pelos, he's doing it. I think they removed Donald Trump before. And I was very critical of the President this morning for not fighting, very frustrated with him. So I'm not being from cheerleader today. Did you remove Donald Trump before his term? Because let's face it, the twenty fifth Amendment you and I have spoken about, the president can't discharge

his duties. There's no indication that Trump's unable to discharge the duties in the office. There's no grounds for the twenty fifth. So Pelosi's throwing a tantrum, saying, well, Mike Pence, if you don't want to violate the Constitution and do this, I'm going to violate the Constitution with a shaman teachment and do that and getting a complete pass on it from the media. I think if they do that, it's going to make what happen at the Capitol Wednesday looked

like child's play. I heard a lot of upset people in this country, and the Democrats are just pushing him harder. This is what really we're speaking of John Cardillo, former NYPD and he's a conservative commentator. You'll know him from this show as well as others. John. You know, I people are starting to I see some pretty bleak stuff circulating on the internet these days about what you know. I'm hoping that it's just it's just bluster. I really do.

I hope that it's people that are just venting and saying. But if the president is removed at this stage, it does seem it does seem like that crosses an additional line. He's going there's no one that I know and think and has has any credibility is saying other anything other than in nine days, Donald Trump will not be the president of the United States anymore. To get rid of him now for a lot of people would seem like a crossing of a line that shows what's coming beyond right.

So I think people may almost view whatever they do next as preemptive action, because look, the Democrats have been talking about treason and sedition and a stolen election for four years and help create this climate of quite honestly, a climate of political hysteria that I'm I'm worried about right now, and I'm not somebody who are You know, when when Trump initially lost the election, I was saying, all right, we got we gotta find out I mean, the silks, fishy, we gotta find out about if there's

any voter for aud or whatever. And now I know we've lost the Senate. So it's even worse than it was at that time. But I was thinking, Okay, we rally, we come together, we do what we can. If they pulled Trump out of office with nine days left to go, I just feel like I don't know what happens. I

just know that it's really bad. Yeah, I mean, look all of these crazy conspiracy theories, but that there is some you know, Intel nuke dropping, and there's these mass arrests, and the cracking is popping out of the Potomac, the rescue, it's all crazy. Donald Trump is going to be leaving the White House on the twentieth of January. Joe Biden's going to be entering after his inauguration. So it is mind blowingly dumb, petty, and vindictive that the Democrats are

even going down this road. Meanwhile, meanwhile, they don't even mention that additional fourteen hundred bucks and stimulus money to struggling Americans that was so important before the Georgia runoff. They're not even talking about that fourteen hundred bucks. They are now solely focused on the final nails in Trump's political content. It just shows you where the Democrats priorities lie. It's not with the American people. John, I want to

switch gears to the vaccine rollout. I know you're you're a New York guy, but you've made the very bright move of going down to Sunny Florida years and years ago, and now that looks certainly very prescient that I a matter of time, I may be joining you down there. But the mean just because the flight New York and San Francisco. Right now, I keep saying this to everybody as cities to live in, the value proposition is not good. It's just not good. And and that's it's getting worse

the more people see the leadership failures here. I mean, Governor Cuomo, it has taken. The vaccine rollout has been abominable, and people want to blame the federal government. This was a state and local issue that it was handed to state and local. They are given vaccine and told get this to your people. That's the way this has happened, state and local should be you know, the tip of the spear on this. They have not been able to get it done. Interestingly enough, West Virginia has done a

really good job. Maryland, by contrast, has been has been awful at this. I mean, like twenty five percent of their vaccine was actually distributed until recently. And in New York they threw out vaccine in cases this has been established instead of giving it to people because of the Cuomo rule, which rules which he's now adjusting. But how is it possible to be so dumb, John, and being such a such a prominent position in a large and serious state like New York. I'm almost running out of

ways to describe this guy's buffoonery. No, I think I think he loves power. I think he's a guy who loves power, and he gets off on more rules on top of more rules, on top of more bureaucracy on top of more layers, the most inefficient way to run anything. Fuck, you've got people that are conspiratorial. I'm not saying this is all planned right there, They're going to start releasing this vaccine and mass the second after Biden's inaugurated and

credit him with it. So I think that's the case. No, And I'll tell you why, having worked for the New York City Police Department, having lived in New York, having seen how New York politics and government operates. It really is that inefficient, that staff with civil servant bureaucrats who can't lose their jobs, who are completely incompetent and ignorant. And I think we're just seeing a byproduct of that. Cuomo grew that incompetent, ignorant, inefficient government even larger, and

this is the end result. John. I also am seeing that the people are finally recognizing the same government officials, the same government health experts and everything else. Who are the ones determining the duration of lockdowns are the ones who have been unable to figure out how to distribute this vaccine. And it's interesting to me because you know, Cuomo tweeted out, because you know he still has his Twitter account, tweeted out this morning. We simply cannot stay

closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left to open. People like you and me have been saying this four months, and we were always shouted down with you just want grandma to die so you can get a haircut. You're putting profit over lives. And now we're looking around saying, okay, jackasses, we've done the lockdowns, the mask maniacs and the lockdowners

have gotten their way. It's clearly not working in California, in New York and a number of states, even the most extreme lockdowns we've gone to. And so now all of a sudden, it's yeah, maybe destroying millions of people's livelihoods for an untested and reckless plan of lockdown wasn't such a good idea, John. Now even the Democrats are started, but they'll never admit that that's how they came to this, Right, they're gonna say, oh, no, the data has changed now, No,

it actually hasn't. We just know they were wrong. Yeah. Yeah. My favorite was when I put up a picture of me having dinner with a Martini and Florida saying how it was open that you responded, your martini killed my grandmother. The later found out the guy's grandparents are alive, and well, God bless them. But anyway, look look up in New York in California, did bug they locked down? Their cases skyrocketed, commerce and industry was devastated. They locked down more, They

destroyed more businesses, more lives both from locking down. But in terms of COVID and businesses that went out of business, we haven't even tallied. We haven't even tallied yet the true cost in terms of opioid addiction, other drug addiction, suicide, and people who lost everything. We haven't even looked at those numbers yet. They're gonna make the COVID numbers I

believe pale in comparison. But you nailed it. This was all about hatred of conservatives, hatred of Trump, hatred of public figures like you and I who all contradicted their narrative. They couldn't bring themselves to say, hey, we're wrong, let's do what's best for everybody. Nope, they had to be proven right at the expends. I mean, is it is so infuriating what they did. I hear from the business owners.

All you got to do is watch the Barstool Sports videos when he gives these people those grants, and how these people were so desperate they were losing everything. The politicians who watched that and aren't moved to act, especially on the left, they're disgraceful. Every last one of them needs to be primaried and voted out of office. John Cardilla, everybody follow him on social media while you still ken, John, we got to start talking about creating lifeboats, my man.

So this audience is good. Unfortunately, we got we got radio, we got podcasts still for now, but we got to make sure that there's a lot of ways to reach this audience. So follow John Cardillo folks if you're not already, Facebook and Twitter and John. Thanks thanks as always. You got it my man. Thanks Buck