Buck’s First Thoughts - 1/6/21

ready to hold the line. Democrats unfortunately, have managed and I don't even want to spend too much of our time today getting into the Oh but the fraud, Oh but they changed the rules. Yeah, we know, but we have to deal with where we are in this battle. There's only so much that we can do when it comes to pointing out the tricks, the cheating, the fraud of the other side. We still have to fight within

the system. We still have to beat them on the playing field, somehow, some way, and it's not going to be easy. Right now, you're looking at a Senate now to be in the hands most likely unless something happens, and you're looking at a Senate that's going to be in the hands of the Democrats, a house in the hands of Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

will be the president and vice president respectively. This is a moment when we have to think about what do we do next, and we also have to know what we didn't do or what wasn't done in our name the right way this time around, so we don't repeat that error. Why did Mitch McConnell block two thousand dollars checks going to Americans under a certain income threshold to help them during this pandemic? What was the idea behind them?

It wasn't servative enough. Well, it's not conservative for the United States Senate to sit around and do nothing while government authorities across the country violate the constitution, institute unconstitutional lockdowns, take tyrannical and dictatorial power in their hands, shut down businesses and tell people that they're not allowed to make a living anymore, tell them they can't see loved ones, tell them they have to wear a mask. All this stuff,

And what did the Senate do? Well, as we know, the United States Congress holds the purse strings that is there, that is their prerogative, that is their power, and they could have done a lot to help, and they were doing something to help. We had the PPP, We had those six hundred dollar checks that went out to people, But why not with the Senate in the balance, be the ones to say, you know what, we'll figure this

out later. We're going to get the checks the American people. Now, we'll figure out how to pay for this down the line. But putting Democrats in charge, you know what we've managed to do here lose the battle as well as the war over the United States Senate. And that means that you're going to have two thousand dollars checks going to Americans, but guess what, Democrats are going to be the ones

taking credit for it. So this principle stand was the equivalent of charging the machine gun ness without a plan, and we got wasted. That's what Mitch McConnell came up with. He has had his moments, friends, He is good about the judicial machinery. We've gotten a lot of judges through. He has held the line on those issues. But on political strategy, this was disastrous, disastrous, and there is plenty

of blame to go around. I don't want to focus too much of our time and attention on that because I know that and become just a circular firing squad for Republicans, and but we do need to understand what happened here. Kelly Leffler has no political skill or talent to anyone who's being an honest observer, but she's rich and connected and good at fundraising, and that was what got her into the position to get appointed as a United States Senator. And Perdue is an entirely replaceable GOP

machine politician as well. At least he had a little bit more, a little bit more juice in his own state, in the Peach State, as it were, But not enough, not enough. President Trump campaigned for these candidates, He did two rallies for these candidates. He did what he could to push them over the finish line. Wasn't enough, wasn't enough. As I've talked to you now, there's still the chance, you know, they're they're looking at additional votes, and there's

recount territory we're talking about here with Purdue. But Warnock looks like he's got this thing. Kelly Leffler likely defeated unless something crazy happens. And we also need to take into account what's been going on in recent weeks where we keep getting told just wait, it's coming, just wait, it's going to turn around, and a dozen't and it doesn't.

This is real talk, friends. We are heading into a two year period where now the pendulum has swung and it's not going to a good place for those of us who believe in constitutional governance, in individual liberty, in personal freedom. In America first love of this country, a feeling of unity and bombed with the American people. No, we're going back to a government is globalist, internationalist, collectivist, authoritarian, woke, Yes, socialist.

But what we're seeing increasingly is that Americans aren't scared of socialism, at least not enough of us right now. We're in that phase because we're a very rich country. Or we think socialism is just you get free stuff. You're just gonna keep getting free stuff. There's an endless amount of that free stuff. And while that's not true, it works for people who want to be in power.

When you and I say socialism, there are a lot of Americans and states like Georgia who say, well, does that just mean I get free healthcare and my kids go to college for free? That sounds pretty good to me because they get the benefits up front and the pain comes later. And so much of life, so much of our existence is really the battle between short term and long term gratification. We want to have a happy life, want to get what you want in life and achieve

your dreams. One mantra, one thing that you can do more than almost anything else that will put you in the place to get what you want personally, professionally, everything else. Think long term, Think strategically, long term gratification. Don't eat the first stale, crumbly donut that's put in front of you. Wait for the two fresh ones to come out of the oven that are going to be glistening with that

frosting and perfectly cooked. Right, That's one of the biggest challenges we all have in life, and in socialism you get you get nothing but endless, free, but crumbly donuts that have been sitting there for who knows how long because you're not thinking about what else will come out of the oven. You don't care. That's the way this has been set up for the American people. We are not winning this battle. Now. You would send me but but buck Bernie Sanders didn't didn't win. The primarian is

not the president. Now. Isn't that a rejection of socialism? Now? This is all just about the messaging. They're going to pursue many of the same policies, just at a slightly slower pace that Bernie Sanders would have. But it just they call themselves democrats. You see, they don't tell you openly and honestly what they're really planning to do. And by the time everyone figures it out, it's too late.

They've already done it. What are you going to do then, now, Mitch McConnell's decision to block two thousand dollar checks for Americans has only done one thing, and hasn't even stopped Americans from getting those checks. And if you're so concerned about the debt and the deficit, and let's remember we haven't heard about that for four years, we're gonna start

talking about it now. But until people feel the pain of that, until they understand what it means to the currency, to the value of the dollar, to your purchasing power in the global marketplace, until people really understand that, and who knows when that will happen, it just seems like it's all free funny money. Mitch McConnell picked a very strange time to take a stand for this. Then his leadership is over and I don't know if he'll ever be sent a majority leader again. I don't think he

should be. This was an unbelievable blunder, the focus on the cheating in Georgia. And I'm going to say this, I'm going to speak to you always honestly from the heart. The focus on the cheating from the Trump campaign in the last few weeks I think was too much, because are we actually gonna are we working to get the message out there to drive up votes, or are we gonna get are we gonna get bogged down in the

continued oh but they cheated in the election rhetoric. And I'm just speaking purely about what work, don't I don't need to hear about Oh but it's, you know, the principle of the thing. Yeah, We've been talking about the principle of the cheating in Georgia for now two months. And I told you that we had to get ready for January fifth, and that this was going to come

up on us. And I was worried. Are those of you who listening to the show, Yes, I've been worried that we're gonna lose these Senate seats from the beginning. I mean, ever since the November election, I thought, hold on a second, we got a problem in Georgia as well, beyond what just happened at the presidential presidential level, and you know this Raffensburger feud with Trump and all this stuff. We needed a united and competent GOP in Georgia and we did not have it. So I'm not here to

tell you to despair. I'm not here to tell you that, oh all is lost, because it's not. It's not. Just remember in two thousand and eight they were writing the GOP's obituary, and then in two thousand and ten we got what six Senate seats I can't even remember how many, a huge red wave of House seats the Tea Party, and that's what we need to go to. Now. I'm not sitting here oh boo hoo, woe is Whoe is America? No, we're learning, we're learning a tough lesson here. The other

side is ruthless. They're unscrupulous, and they want power, and they will wield power, and they'll do it in such a way they hope we can never get it back. It is our job, as our duty to this country, to fight and to stop them from achieving those goals. It's our duty to make sure that we hold the line for what is most precious in this country and use what we can within the system, everything that we can to slow them down. That's right, they gave us

a lesson for four years. In the extremes they will go to to thwart the Trump agenda, and unfortunately they were successful in some key areas well. Let's learn. One of my favorite things to do is to learn from an enemy, learn from an opponent, take their moves, and

use them against them. That's what we need to do now, all out, stimy, stumble, hobble, slow it down, sabotage whatever we have to do to stop them from turning this country into a one party state where you exist effectively at the whim and will of government bureaucrats, where nothing is sacred anymore. You have no right that they can't infringe on. And we see all this with COVID. That's what's really pulled, pulled off the mask, if you will.

What their real long term plan is is to tell you that they can make you do anything they want. They don't have to pass legislation to do it. We must come up with a way to unify and fight back against them. And I hope this show is a part of this. That will be my mission every day.

This is where we are friends. So watch Braveheart, watch three hundred, watch a movie, whatever it is for you that gets you fired up, Think about the journeys of the past, and understand that you, if you want to be a part of this fight now, are going to have to get ready to play some serious defense. It's only going to be two years. I am very confident about these mid terms, but this is where we are dig in. Shields up, shields high. Thanks for listening to

The Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest news and information from Buck by heading to Bucksexton dot com. It's the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women. And this recent rule change at the House just actually voted and passed on today that you were talking about removing references to mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters from congressional rules and administration.

It's mind blowing because it shows just how out of touch with reality and the struggles of everyday Americans. People in Congress are But also it shows that, you know, their first act as this new Congress could have been to make sure that elderly Americans are able to get the COVID vaccine now alongside frontline healthcare workers elderly Americans

who have the highest mortality rates from this virus. But instead of doing something that could actually help save people's lives, they're choosing instead to say, well, you can't say mother or father in any of this congressional language. It's it's astounding. That's a very important point that a Democrat tel Telsea Gabbard, who is wrong on politics but clearly a good person, clearly a person of some decency in character, wrong about

a lot, hates Trump. I get it, but still a good still a reasonable you know, a reasonable person on some things, and I think at her core someone that you can at least have a real conversation with. Then she's not you know why the left has always hated her because she doesn't disparage Republican she doesn't despise them. She disagrees with them, but she doesn't think if you voted for Donald Trump in the past, you're beneath contempt.

Maybe it's in part because She served her country in the military and has greater ideals and aspirations beyond just the partisan fight. As I've said, I think she's wrong on some things, but on this she's making a key point. People are dying in large numbers from COVID nineteen. There's a need for urgent government action. The vaccine rollout at

many different levels is too slow and is preposterous. All right, what they're doing here throwing vaccine out in the trash sometimes because they can't give it to people who aren't the people they're supposed to give it to. But they've already thought out some of it, and so for bureaucratic reasons that they can't get it to, you know, the exact right group, so they give it to no one. They throw it out. Think about that that's actually happening.

And while that's going on, instead of taking urgent action to get this to people, and don't look, I'm talking about seniors should get the vaccine. The vaccine is less dangerous for seniors than the virus is. Okay, that's clear. If you're a senior listening this, please, I mean, it's it's up to you, but I would implore you even the people that have been like me, that have been talking about the craziness of the COVID mask shaming, lockdown lunatics.

All of us are saying, well, well, if you're you know, if you're over sixty, over sixty five, and you can get this vaccine, you know, that may be the difference between you getting hospitalized with this and you're living another you know, twenty twenty five, thirty years happily, healthily. So please give it, give it some real consideration. But what Tolsi is saying here is that they're talking about eliminating mother and father from all congressional doctor you can't say

mother and father. You gotta have more gender inclusive language. Now, I know, on the one hand this is idiotic and just worthy of mockery, but it's also part of a mindset while we sit here and talk about and Republicans through this all the time. Legislation, what can we do, what should the tax code be? All these things? You

know what they do. They change the rules of society, They change the culture, that change the way we're allowed to speak, because that submission feeds into all the other policies, all the other things they're trying to do. They know that if they can get us to talk about issues a certain way, they can also get enough of us to agree with them on those issues. This degendering of language is insane, but there's a reason they're doing it.

This is all part of a plan, and we're about to see this on steroids for the next two years. You're in the Freedom Hut. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. For more buck head to Bucksexton dot com

and remember to subscribe to the podcast. If you're Mike Pence, who has a long history in Washington and as a governor, if you're gonna enable the disease of Trump, the lies, the attempt to steal an election, to undermine democracy, then history is going to judge you very harshly, and you don't deserve any future and electoral politics, There's no two ways about it. He's vice president of the United States. He has a responsibility to the integrity of that office,

to the integrity of himself. What he's been engaged in is a hedge, is a way to tack back and forth to stay in Donald Trump's a good favor. That's a decision he's made as an individual, and so he'll he'll have to be judged for that, but it's certainly not in keeping with everything that he claims to stand for as a human being and as a politician, because there's simply no excuse for trying to thwart the will

of voters. It is undemocratic. Give me a break, all right, We can we stop with all the oh my gosh, the tyrant the Constitution. These people have neither read nor care about the Constitution, and they had no problem using the media and the federal government, the dj the FBI, the intelligence community as a weapon against Trump for four years with the Russia collusion line that they were all active participants in and the initial creatures of. But I also need to tell you this, and this is just

very clear. Vice President Pence is not going to give the election to try He's already told them he doesn't have the authority to do this, and he's not going to do this. That's not going to happen. So, and I understand there's there's probably some people today and that

you're gonna hear. You know, I would ask that you, I would ask that you pay attention to who who respects you enough to speak honestly to you about all of us who respects you enough to speak honestly and who panders because we're all we're all bothered right now. We're all very disappointed, very I'm disappointed for the country.

I'm disappointed for the Democrats because I know they think that this circumstance that this government will be better, and in some ways, for their interests, they would think it is. But overall we're going to be less free, less prosperous, and less optimistic because of the decisions that have been made in the last three months by voters. And now I know, fraud, cheating, changing the rules, I understand that.

But you know, at some point, if you've you know, if you've lost a football game because they paid off the refs, you can only talk about it for so long before you got to say, Okay, well, how do we stop that from happening in the next football game, and how do we win that game? And we're getting very close to that point. Do it, Mike. This is a time for extreme courage. Trump says in a tweet. He's saying as he's saying that he wants Mike Pence

to effectively overturn this whole thing. It's it's not gonna I keep telling you it's just not gonna happen, the same way that I've been saying that you're going to deal with a presidency of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I'm here to tell you the truth, and the truth on this situation is that Mike Pence will not do this. He cannot and will not. Now I understand Trump, I think is trying to mobilize everybody for what's coming, and he wants to show that he will fight with everything

he has. He wants to show that even if he knows that this is a this is a match, this is a boxing match where we're about to we're about to lose on points. He is going to go down, throw and every punch he's got, and he's going to stay in this until the bell rings. I respect that, and I could appreciate that, But they've out they've out pointed us so to speak up this up to this phase, and we don't have enough time to make it up

in this election. We just don't. We just don't. If you think I'm missing something, if you think that there's some aspect of this I'm not seeing, please let me know. I have one thing I love about this about this audience is I have learned so much now going on almost ten years, I've learned so much from the people who listened to this show. I still remember when some of you in twenty people are still listening today and many of you now have been listening to my radio

show for eight years, nine years. But I remember when some of you were telling me, hey, Trump early in the primary, he's got something, you know, He's he's coming with something that people haven't seen before. And you were right. So if I'm if I'm in some way not seeing the may tricks clearly here by all means let me know, because I exist. I do this show every day to serve you, to inform and entertain all of you listening all across the country, hundreds of thousands of you, and

it means a lot. But it also means that I have to share with you my honest feelings every day. I owe that to you. And you know, today is one of these days where we have to just rally. I know we have taken a punch and it stinks, and there are better words for it, but I can't say them on radio. That is where the situation is. So I appreciate that are all these patriots rallying today in DC, and this is what I would say, And you know there include friends of my many friends of

minor down there. What I would say about this is that there is a need right now for unity in opposition to what's happening. We need to come together. We need to be in a place, we need to be in a position where we understand what we're trying to

achieve and what we're trying to thwart. And a part of this is going to be I want good faith Republicans from all across the spectrum, even people that were a little not never Trumpers who are just their Democrats, but people that were a little iffy on Trump or whatever. We all need to be in the same foxhol now. We all need to come together on this one and see what we're up against. Because the Democrats, they are

gonna they're gonna spend two years trying to steamrollers. You know what I think their first move is going to be, and you can mark this one down. They're going to eliminate the filibuster. You know what they're gonna do. They're going to eliminate the filibuster to pass two thousand dollars stimulus checks or to pass a national fifteen dollar minimum wage.

That's what they're gonna do. Something that is generally popular but that Republicans haven't been willing to go along with, or that Republicans have objections too, and they're gonna say, see, we got rid of the filibuster. We did this for you, America. How do you like those two thousand dollars checks? How do you like that fifteen dollars minimum rate? Minimum wage increase? And then as Republicans are all but there's a thing tank that wrote a study about the robot minimum wage.

We're gonna do what we always do. Then they're gonna roll out, Oh yeah, now that filibuster thing's gone, how about we do an amnesty vote. And we're not gonna do full scale amnesty. Let's do it incrementally. Let's let's do let's do DACA. Come on, we'll get to fifty

fifty on DACA. Kamala gets to be the tiebreaker. You don't think that that's think of the of the political boost that Kamala Harris gets if she is the tie breaking vote in the Senate for the passage of a limited amnesty that will grant permanent status, legal status two million of so called dreamers, illegal aliens who allegedly came here at a certain age depending on you know, what the statutes say. Think about that. That's going to be part of the whole narrative, isn't it. Kamala Harris, so

it's Biden gets to sign it. Kamala Harris gets to be the tie breaking vote. We need to We need to get this going. Friends. There is no Krack in coming to attack our enemies. And a fact, I remember the Kracking getting unleashed, you know, didn't work out. Remember that that's one thing about it, or at least to the kracking. The problem with it is that, yeah, the

Krack had lost. We don't even have one. So one thing that I will tell you is that you're also going to see who really has ideas and knowledge and understanding of these issues, and who was just hanging on Trump's coattails for the last four years, had nothing to add, had nothing to contribute really to the national conversation, but saw it all as just a case of individual opportunism. There are a lot of them in conservative media. I

want you to understand this. There are other people that have always stood for things that matter to the country and can articulate them at will be worthwhile in opposition, because just trying to repeat whatever they think is going to be the most pleasing to Trump. That's not going to work anymore. When we are out of power and an opposition, we need more than that. We need to win on the battlefield of ideas, and that means also winning the culture, and it means finding common ground on

these issues with independence where we can. It means mobilizing a populist conservative coalition to take back power from these lunatic libs. That's where we have to go. Now we have to build it. We have to construct it. I wish I could say it was already there. I wish I could point to the house on the hill and say there we are, We're all set. No, now we have to go out into the woods and hack down

the trees and build it from scratch. That's the feeling, at least of where we are at this moment in time. But embrace it. It's a fight worth having. 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. Do you think you'd get fair treatment from CNN if your brother had a primetime show on that channel. Well, ifs and butts were candy and nuts, every day would be Christmas.

But you know, I think it's pretty clear some of these networks obviously they have agendas. They're doing narratives. They're not trying to report facts anymore. It's all about spinning whatever narrative they think can get ratings. And that's just the reality of the situation. So it doesn't impact me. We're going to continue keeping our eye on the ball and working as hard as we can and deliver results. And results have been delivered. Let's focus on some positives here,

the lockdown Libs, the Democrat left. They have been wrong on this on how to handle COVID. And I know you'd say, well, but Buck, look at how the elections are going. Yeah, but it's really just Trump and Georgia that we have to to mourn at this point. As elections go, it's really just those And I don't know that's a lot. I'm not saying it's it's it's minor. But the House Republicans actually picked up seats and state legislatures did well. You know, there is some there's some

reason for limited optimism about that. I know if we had if we had held the Senate, everything would have felt like it was okay. But I wouldn't say okay, but it would have felt better, Folks. I'm trying to find silver linings, you know what I'm saying. But still, but Florida is one big silver lining because you have a governor who has defied the consensus. You have a governor who has refused to go and bend the knee to the Fauciites. That guy Fauci is a complete jackass,

and it's disgusting what he's done in the country. He should be ashamed of himself. He's not. He never will be. And that's important for everybody to know it. It doesn't matter. There will never come a time when the people who advocated for all of this sit back and say, you know what, we were wrong. You know what, we didn't have to lock down the country. After all, that didn't really give us any benefit and it caused a lot of drawbacks for us, So we're sorry. Unfortunately, I could

sit here and tell you that's never gonna happen. It doesn't matter what the data shows doesn't matter what the eventual epidemiological advances are, where we have a better understanding of how really the virus spreads, meaning how quickly, how easily. We have some general numbers about all that. But all right, you know, how well how well do notice? You can't even ask this question. If I say how well do masks work? People start screaming masks work? Okay? How well?

I can tell you how well a vaccine works based on large controlled trials, you know, different acts ninety five ninety four percent effective for COVID nineteen though that's real data. How well do masks work? Anyone want to try? And oh, we've got a model that says if eighty percent of people were a masked ninety percent of the time in forty percent of places, then it would be ninety five percent. This is all just make believe. They don't know, that's

not real data. That's like when they're telling you what the climate's going to be in a hundred years. They don't and they're wrong. Of course, every ten years they have to keep adjusting these things they don't know, but they're never going to change. They're never going to admit that this was all disastrous and in fact, I'm of the belief that the Democrats' ability to dominate the narrative because of the media panic that was induced and or

the media inducing panic in the public. The Democrat narrative about COVID and how Trump was so inapt and so ineffective and handling it. I think that played a very large role in the election, because you know, that's not something people would necessarily tell to a polster, or it's not something that the data would all that clearly indicate. But I think that it affected to overall perception is

Trump doing a good job. A lot of people would look at what happened in twenty twenty with COVID, and that'd say, well, look at how terrible things are in the country. Is that fair? No? Did the media exploit this, Yes, but it worked. It works. And what we're going to see now is there are going to be these red state or redder states placed like Florida Haven's set up and where you have these mass migrations occurring from the

blue strongholds California, New York. They're gonna have enormous problems now. They're going to try to make up that shortfall in tax revenue and at the federal level. Now, that's right, The federal bailouts are coming for these cities. So understand there, that's the socialism that we don't spend much time talking about the redistribution of wealth to prefer Democrat enclaves at

the federal level. Now, they would say, oh, but they you know, they pay more in taxes and the red states have you know, they get getting more benefits per per resident. What I'm saying is that, yeah, but they're about to turn this whole thing around because they're gonna start shooting the money gun at all these blue states that are hemorrhaging residents. They can try to shore up the public sector unions. They can try to make it seem like the holes in the budgets are not so catastrophic.

So they're gonna try to stop that mass migration from happening because it's bad for the for the Democrat brand. Florida, I saw dissent to say that they're up twenty percent in housing sales, twenty percent during a pandemic. People are fleeing, they're going there. They're saying enough, I can't do this anymore. I talk to friends in New York, I gotta say, we're under you know, a strict lockdown here, and people are just they're they're cracking up. I mean, they're losing it.

For what what's the benefit. What would happen if you opened up restaurants in New York City but you had these mitigation measures in place, you know, limitations of people, the answers, It would basically be what it is right now. So why not open up the restaurants? It would based on their data, it would be ninety nine percent the same.

It's that's not worth it. It's not worth it. It's worth putting tens of thousands of people out of work, immiserrated, sick, homeless, perhaps all it's worth that to have one a possible one percent reduction in cases. Wow, I guess you know, if it saves just one life, we better shut down every year for the flu. If that's going to be our approach every year, gotta shut down the flu's coming. What those tens of thousands of lives don't matter? You know what happened? If we also, I have to wonder

the flu is basically eradicated. How is that possible? Oh? Because social distancing and mask wearing. Now we're led to believe is almost one hundred percent effective against the influenza virus, but like not effective if really well, you can't prove it any data effectiveness whatsoever based on what's happening right now with COVID. Notice they don't even have an explanation for this other than yeah, it works against the flu super well. That's quite strange considering there are tens of

millions of flucases every year. It's pretty contagious, folks. But DeSantis is a shining light from the Sunshine state we got. We gotta take our victories where we can. 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. No charges for the police

officer who shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Now you may recall this was over the summer when BLM was engaged in riots across the country, when BLM was looting stores and attacking innocent people's businesses and homes and throwing rocks at police officers. Antifa was trying to blind cops with lasers fired in their eyes. You remember when all

that was going on, all about what was happening. The media was also looking for any opportunity to take a story of a police involved shooting and turn it into some kind of evil racist look another cop doing what cops do, being terrible, shooting an unarmed black man, and then get the cycle going all over again. I will say, just as an aside, it is deeply disappointing to me as an American that the Democrats did not pay a bigger price for their their reckless demagoguery on this issue.

And they're really wholesale embrace of not just the BLM movement, but also they're either turning a blind eye to or just open support of Antifa. And remember Antifa took up the Black Lives Matter banner at different points in order to give them a kind of moral legitimacy they would not have otherwise had. So that's what That's what was happening of the summer. And I will tell you I think I may have heard of Kenosha, Wisconsin before this summer, but I might not have not a place that I

could say I know very well. It's a city of about fifty thousand. I think it just barely qualifies as a city. It's really kind of a big town. But there was a shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and we have video of the shooting, what occurred, what happened that led to riots. Remember, Kenosha was the scene of riots, and those riots were so so extreme that then people like Kyle Rittenhouse showed up to protect some of the businesses and some of the government buildings that were being mobbed

and assaulted. And then Rittenhouse was mobbed and assaulted, and then he shot, shot and killed someone. He says in self defense, and certainly seems from the video and the evidence presented so far that it was self defense. But we'll see what the courts say, right, We'll see where this goes. Now we have Kenosha a a final determination about the officer involved shooting that led to the riots that led to the Rittenhouse incident. And here's what happened.

The Democrat district attorney, the Democrat district attorney found that the police officer here should not be charged, right, that the police officer involved in this shooting didn't actually break the law. And this is a this is at a pretty straightforward case if you actually look at the facts. It's not surprising to me that the Democrat oh. The Washington Post deleted the They deleted the tweet I've responded to. It's not surprising to me the Democrat prosecutor didn't bring

the initial they didn't bring criminal charges. And here's why. They have video of Jacob Blake refusing police commands. Obviously and repeatedly and clearly. The police are saying stop, stop, don't move, don't move, show me your hands, show me your hands. They're yelling at this guy, and he's moving around to the driver's side of a car, reaching into the car to grab something. Okay, that's what's happened. He's reaching into the car to seize something, and he grabbed

a knife. The officer who shot him had his hand on Blake's back, holding his shirt, yelling at him to show him his hands, show him his hands. He he did everything he could do. The next level of this would have been that officer sitting waiting to see if Blake was going to stab him in the face or the throat or the chest with the knife. Why are you going for a knife when police have guns drawn on you in broad daylight and are saying stop, stop, stop.

If police cannot fire under those circumstances, what we're saying is police are not allowed to defend themselves against lethal force. That's all. That's very straightforward. Is not a close call situation, all right? If someone if police say show me your hands, show me your hands, and you have a gun in your waistband and it's on video, and you reach for and grab your gun, they're going to shoot you. They're not going to wait to see if you draw that

weapon and fire at them first. That act of refusing commands and reaching for a weapon is enough under the under the rules of force use you know, the rules of application of force for people in the law enforcement community. Okay, that is a that is a legitimate use of force situation. And the way the way the Washington Post reported on this was appalling. There's no surprise. What do they do they they initially said the headline and then now they deleted it. I was gonna read it to you, but

it was on Twitter. They deleted it. The headline was no choice, something like no charges in the shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed black man who was shot by police seven times in the back. Long headline. Why was that the head Why wasn't the headline just no charges? I mean, if you were just doing a news story, wouldn't it be no charges against police officer and Jacob

Blake shooting. Why did the garbage heat publication and known as the Washington Post, why they make the decision three people on the byeline, by the way, on a breaking news story that was clearly going to get a lot of attention like this, to say that Jacob Blake was unarmed and that he was shot seven times in the back? Are those now? Those are those are details that you put in a news story? Or why is that of

the headline? Because what the Washington Post was trying to do was say that this was a racist murder by police and it's going unpunished. And what Lebron do we have the Lebron audio mark? Yes, well this Lebron James one of the most wealthy, famous, influential people on the planet. This is how he reacts to the story publicly on his social media accounts with tens of millions of followers. Played.

I'm smart enough to know that even though we're playing a game of basketball, that there's so much more thats going on in the world, so much more of us, even more important than us playing the game um and uh to hear what happened in Kenosha today was am

was a blow to the heart and to the gut. Um, you know, not only to that community, um, you know, but to us and to every um you know, I guess you know black person that that that just has been a part of this process and seeing these outcomes for so long, and not only just in the black community,

but also in the white community as well. Who whoo who will see uh, you know, moments like this happened to us, um, and to happen to his family, and to happen to the kid himself, to see that verdict, It was just, Um, it was a blow to the gut, Like I said, the blow to the heart. But we got to continue to we got to continue to stay strong, um, continue to to to believe in each other and continue to push for the for the for the greater of change,

and for the greater of good. So here here you have one of the most powerful, most influential, wealthiest people in the world. Really, Lebron James has tens of millions of followers on social media. I mean, he's he's known pretty much everywhere where they have you know, internet access and a TV they're gonna do. Lebron James is for all intensive purposes. It's probably worth a billion dollars or close to it already, Okay, for playing basketball, and this

guy is an international superstar. And what I want to know is, yes, there is absolutely a need, there's absolutely a role for sympathy for Jacob Blake's family. That's that's true. That's always the case. You know, even if someone is in a drunk driving accident that they cause and they die, you feel bad for the family They've lost someone. Jacob Blake, as we know, was shot. He was paralyzed, so he did live, but he was paralyzed after being shot by

my police. And that has a that's obviously a lifelong burden. It's a it's a it's a loss for that family as well. That's something that is a tragedy for them. But what's interesting to me about this is that Lebron James clearly wants an attempt an attempted murder charge here, right, I mean this this man was paralyzed. He he was shot at seven times, and so Lebron wants this cop to be treated like a racist would be killer. This cop out of out of racism, tried to kill and

paralyzed Jacob Blake. Does that Does that sound like justice to anyone? Does that sound like something that should happen here? I mean, in what world is that a fair outcome? You know? The Washington Post in their headlines said unarmed. You know what the problem with that is, he wasn't unarmed, So they had to delete the headline, They had to walk that all thing back. So they're still at this stage lying about this incident because they're playing to a narrative,

and that narrative is deeply destructive. And Lebron James is playing to that narrative too, although I think, you know, I think he believes it, and that is that police are racist murderers of black men, and that the police and the policing in America is deeply rooted in systemic and vicious racism. And that's a really dangerous charge to put out there, especially because it's not true. It's just

not true. You know, they keep finding these incidents like this and they tell us that it's racism, and then we see it and we learn more about it. Whether it's what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, I'm not saying there's no racism. Of course, I'm not saying there are no cops who are murderers. Of course there are. But you know, to treat all cops as are they're the bad guys, and then to hold up these incidents where the comps aren't even doing anything wrong. It's a tragedy, but it's

not a crime. That's irresponsible, it's reckless, it's destructive. And the Washington Post, of course, the Democrats are all a part of this. Why would the Washington Post get that's such a key detail. He wasn't unarmed. The guy had a knife. It's on video and the district attorney in Kenosha saw it. It's all very clear. He went for a knife. You can't do that. You can't do it,

or what are we gonna do? Tell cops that they have to get you know, stabbed in the neck before they can use their service weapon and defense of themselves. At what phase are cops allowed to actually take action so that they get to go home to their families and there you know, we're talking to all human beings here. They people will love them, people will care about them. But we have police to protect all of us, to

protect you. And me. And there are very important laws and rules and regulations and use of force escalation that is taught and that is necessary for law enforcement. And what happened here was all within the scope of this office lawful duties. But that that. But see, they lie about it because they're so desperate. The Washington Post lies. But they deleted the tweet. They've admitted they said, oh,

we have a correction. The family says he was unarmed, they said on their correction, But the DA and the video says that he actually was grabbing a knife. Oh, I'm sorry. So the family lawyer, Now that's that's how they do reporting. Well, this person's family lawyer says, you know that that they were innocent of the charge. So we're our headline is going to say innocent of a charge. That's not how it works, although it is for Democrats

and for leftists. But here's the other here's the other issue. Here's the bigger part of this. Democrats are going to do a lot more of this going ahead. Now they

feel emboldened to do this. They're going to build upon and try to hammer home this narrative of cops are racist, law enforcement is racist, and therefore we have to do things to hurt law enforcement, and we have to offer up sacrifices of law enforcement officers who will be ruined, who will be sent to prison, who of their lives won't be able to see their families, and be treated like murderers, be treated like racists, in order to assuage the anger of the Democrat base, and in order to

play into this narrative of our police officers as evil, bad, racist people, which is a lie. I don't care how often Lebron James says it. I don't care how many celebrities say it. I don't care how much the Democrats pander on this issue. It's just not true. The rare and occasional criminal and or racist police officer in America out of hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers across the country is not It is not in any way a fair basis form aligning all law enforcement as racist,

and that is what the Democrats do. It is reckless