Buck’s First Thoughts - CDC Declares Racism A Pandemic

news media has been for a long time. It's also now very apparent when you look at the major bureaucracies out there, you look at what's going on with institutions like the CDC right, So it's gone beyond just the private sector wokeness. It's gone beyond college campuses and universities that have Marxist running all over the place. Now what should be nonpartisan government federal government institutions are provinces of the left effectively and are working for progressive and woke

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that it's had. This is an institution. This is an organization of the federal government that has been largely resigned to putting out flu advisory notices. You know, once in a while, they'll they'll be an ebola scare, or they'll be a haunt of virus outbreak somewhere, and they'll they'll call someone of the CDC for comment on the news.

But generally speaking, the CDC was something that you mostly knew about because in zombie apocalypse movies or in some you know, some some sci fi thriller, the CDC would make an appearance, right. I like the show The Rain, for example, and the hero as a CDC scientist. It's actually a good show. I think it holds up pretty

well for what it is. But now we see that, just like all the other federal bureaucracies, the CDC is involved in not just partisan politics, but in progressive politics, in Marxist identity politics, and it doesn't want to step away. As the COVID pandemic slowly fades, it's going to be a long, painful extrication from the overlords that we have now at the CDC telling us what we can do, where we can shop, whether we can go and breathe

fresh air outside without some smelly rag across our face. Right, That's not going to be an easy process in and of itself, But the CDC wants to be involved in the national conversation. That's why they have Rachelle will Lenski as the director. Now, this is somebody who is a progressive and a leftist. I mean she is, I assure you, entirely in line with all of the political positions of

a primetime MSNBC host. And if you were to sit down, Robin will Lenski of the CDC, I'm sorry, Rochelle Wilenski of the CDC is somebody who would believe and of course a woman's right to choose, meaning terminate a pregnancy for all nine months. She believes, I'm sure in all of the whole panoply of transgender rights, even the ones that are being created as I'm still sitting here speaking to you, I'm sure she believes in giving puberty blocking drugs to ten year olds who think that they're a

different gender than they are. Whatever it may be, find a left wing issue, and the head of the CDC, and I'm sure all the people around her too, because these are science bureaucrats. Who do you think goes to work for the CDC, people that are really going to cure cancer, or people who want to be working in

the government. You went to med school for four years into your residency, or you have a PhD in microbiology and you want to go work at this at the CDC so you can do what exactly if you're really good, generally speaking, aren't you going to go to big pharma? Aren't you gonna actually work at a place where they're coming up with new drugs that save people's lives, sup pointing the South folks as we all sit around worshiping

Saint fauci As that this guy knows anything. But here they are weighing in today, we're still in the midst of this COVID pandemic. It's fading out, but there are a lot of cases still and people are dying every day, and you've had a real spike in cases in places like New York in Michigan, which we'll talk about more later. Yet they're immediately shifting focus because they don't want to lose the ability to be front and center in the

public conversation. They're shifting focus here to racism. As an urgent public health threat. Now, there a lot of ways that we could tackle this conversation. You can get into this, but let me just give you a sense of This is the statement from Rachelle Wilenski, MDMPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here's what she writes. The COVID nineteen pandemic has resulted in the depth of over five hundred thousand Americans. Tens of millions have been infected,

and across the country people are suffering. Importantly, these painful, etc. Etc. Okay, the disparities seen over the past year were not a result of COVID nineteen. Instead, the pandemic illuminated inequities that have existed for generations and revealed for all of America, unknown but often unaddressed epidemic affecting impacting public health Racism. Wow, the real public health epidemic, I guess is in COVID, the one that we're gonna have to struggle with for generations.

The real public health epidemic is racism. Think about this, How is racism a public health epidemic? Where can we can we isolate racism in a petri dish? Can we actually do a test for you know, antibiotic resistance when it comes to racism, and what are we really talking about here. No, this is the transference of a supposed institution of science which is really just a massive government bureaucracy that's a tremendous amount of sloth, waste, and abuse,

and it's been catastrophically inept during the COVID pandemic. Let's remind ourselves of that. Remember when in the early days messed up all the testing, the CDC messed up the testing. And also, who is telling you at the beginning, guys, testing for this disease is just one of a hundred steps to try to deal with this. But there was such a focus on it because it was it turned into it was Trump's fault that the tests in the early days weren't coming out and the numbers that they

needed them to, meaning they weren't producing enough of these tests. Anyway, the CDC has been an abject failure. They were they didn't have the backbone, the institutional backbone to say, sorry, lazy teachers, unions, the schools should be open, all of them always, there's no reason to shut down K through twelve education. Ever, in this country. The data never supported it,

It was never reasonable. CDC too cowardly to do that, because do do you think that if you took a poll of CDC employees, what ninety five percent of them voted for Joe Biden. That's what I would guess about ninety five percent. And if you wonder where I get these statistics from, if you look at the federal government and federal government bureaucrat donations in the Hillary Trump campaign,

guess what, over ninety percent went to Hillary Clinton. So you've got a whole bunch of CNN watching leftists working at the CDC, and now they want to get in on the next big challenge, racism as a public health threat. And you know they cite for they cite in this health data about life expectancy, they cite that white Americans live longer than black, black, and Hispanic Americans on average,

And so this is racism. It has to be racism, they say, Right, what's so fascinating is do you think that white Americans have the longest life expectancy because you know, white supremacy. When they talk about racism, the only races and they're fighting against, it's not black on Asian racism. It's not hispanic on black racism or or anything else. It's white supremacy. We all know that that's the only

racism that concerns the left in this country. There is no other racism as far as they're concerned, even racism among other races. They will tell you, and you know this is true, is the result of white supremacy. So white people are the are the reason for all racism all over the world in fact, which is insane, but that's what the left believes. Somehow, Asian Americans have a a considerably higher life expectancy, I believe it's over eighty

than white Americans do. Which is interesting, isn't it? Because Asian Americans also have higher average household income than white Americans do. But but the system of white supremacy cannot be We can't say that this is an exaggerated construct of the left. No, no, we all have to bow before the terrors of the white supremacist system that exists all over our country. Look, there's a tremendous amount uh, there's a there's there's a tremendous amount of misinformation out

there about all of this. Right, there's a tremendous amount of people who are sitting around saying, hold on a second, maybe the CDC has actually got this right, and they and they and then, as I said, they have to they have to bow down to this notion that white supremacy is influencing all of our institutions. It's it's in everything,

it's everywhere, it's all over the place. Maybe can we can we have a conversation as to whether that's actually exaggerated and that's harmful and that separates us and that that pulls us apart? Right? Can can we have a conversation about that? Or we're not allowed to. No, we're just supposed to accept their premise. We're supposed to accept their premise that even the health disparities from COVID are a function of white supremacy and racism. Structure, structural racism,

white supremacy. These are the same things. They're used interchangeably now they didn't used to be white supremacy. Used to be guys with you know, neo Nazi tattoos and shaved heads who were you know, really bad people. Now white supremacy as well. There's disparate representation in the you know, MIT electrical engineering program among different ethnic groups. So that looks like white supremacy to me. I mean, it's it's abused all the time. It's abused all the time as

a as just a concept now to silence people. And then that brings me to the CDC. I've been worried all along that the left has seen something here. The left has seen that if you can terrify people based upon their health, or if you can go for something what's really perhaps the most personal thing for all of us, our health, our ability to enjoy our day to day lives and to stay alive. And this is a really

effective means of control. This is a really effective means of getting people to do whatever you want them to do. We've seen this during the pandemic. I've said they're going to go from the public health emergency to the climate change emergency. They're going to go from the They're going to go from the public health emergency to the gun

violence emergency, which they've already done. And in fact, as you know, the CDC always wants to study gun violence as that the CDC has a role in this, but it's using a large federal bureaucracy under the guise of health to control you and they say that this is now all about racism, because then all these equity challenges all across the country, it turns into listen to the science.

That's what they'll say, listen to the science. And as we all know, that hasn't been true about their approach to COVID, it's definitely not going to be true about their approach to what they call now white supremacy, which is it's almost hard, it's hard to define. It's whatever the left decides it is, and now it's whatever the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control decides it is. Perhaps we

should call it the Centers for Racism Control. Now you got in this CDC statement put out by the director Wilenski, very political. Obviously, if she's going to get that job in the Bide administration, we will continue. Oh sorry, here you go. As the nation's leading public health agency, CDC has a critical role to play to address the impact of racism on public health. To say that there's racism in public health that they never will say who's committing

the public health racism. That's what I want to know. I want to know who's actually doing the racism in public health. Now, if they want to argue that there is an economic disparity for health outcomes. That's absolutely true, and we should look at how that happens, why that happens, where that is. But if they're going to say that the racism requires action by individuals, that is immoral. That's what racism has to be premised on. That's what racism has to be based on. So who's doing it? Are

doctors not treating minority patients because they're racist? Whose fault is it? If one community drinks more sugary soda, for example, and more foods that are likely to contribute to type two diabetes than another, do all ethnic groups in this country actually have the same risks from different diseases? It actually turns out, if you look at the numbers, there are some diseases that all of the world disparately affect certain populations based on ethnicity. That's just a genetic reality.

Some people, some groups, ethnic groups, national groups are more susceptible to certain diseases. I mean, one that comes to mind is sickle cell anemia, for example. So there actually are some health disparities that are just there that aren't the result of racism. It's worth noting that. But how do they expect. How's the CDC going to say that we should tackle as well. You see an example of it in Vermont. This is from Scientific American Vermont to

give minority residents priority for COVID vaccines. This was just just recently. States have tribe with limited success to get vaccines to people of color who have been disproportionately killed hospitalized by the virus. Starting Thursday, Vermont explicitly gave black adults and people from other minority communities priority status for vaccinations.

It follows Montana, which in January announced that Native Americans other people of color, because they're at higher risk of complications from COVID nineteen, would be allowed to receive the vaccine. All Black, Indigenous residents and other people of color who are permanent Vermont residence and sixteen or older are eligible

for the vaccine. Okay, so we're actually now prioritizing people for life saving for what we all understand as a life saving vaccine based upon skin color that is happening in America today. You think that this is the beginning of this, or you think that this is just a one off, You think that they're going to do more of this, or they're going to do less of this

going forward. Right this. When I say this, I mean using race as a means of making distinctions about health that really matter, distinctions about public health authorities and state resources and ways that really matter. You know, what, would it have been fair? I mean I had to help my family members. I had to help my parents get vaccinated. They're both seniors or my mom's close to being a senior. I had to help them get appointments and figure out

and it was not easy for them at all. Would I resent the idea that people who are younger than my parents but are of a of a preferred by the CDC racial category would go ahead of them, even though the risk, as we know, is first and foremost determined by age. Yeah, I think that that's a problem. I think that's racism. But that's not the way that the left sees us at all. They are pulling us apart.

They are Marxist identity politics obsessed. That's what's happening now across the country, and that's what's happening with the CDC's involvement in all of this. And you know they're they're they're doing things at CDC like here's here's how they're tackling this. Right, let's ask about they really doing. We're expanding our internal agency efforts to foster greater diversity and create an inclusive and affirming environment that's going to save a lot of lives. Yeah, I'm sure the CDC is

going to be really successful in that. We're launching a new web portal, Racism and Health as part of our ongoing commitment to serve as a catalyst for public and scientific discourse around racism and health and to be accountable for our progress. Oh, I'm sure they're going to be really accountable. Here's how they finish off this statement. Confronting the impact of racism will not be easy. I know

we can meet this challenge. I know we can create an America where all people have the opportunity to live a healthy lifestyle when we each take responsibility and work together. I am committed to this work. I certainly hope you will lean in and join me. This is all just this is all just the same stuff that you see, the kind of you know, Marxist equity babble that you see from college and university admissions offices. I mean, they're

they're really pushing very hard. This notion that America is this really evil racist country and that there is no in fact equal protection under the law. The law has to be making constant distinctions between people based upon race. This is an enormous moral regression. This is absolutely wrong. This is absolutely going in the wrong direction. And it started with smaller things like, oh, a little bit of affirmative action in school is a little bit of firmative

action and hiring. Now you've got states that are saying, oh, you're a black or Latino, you get priority access to a vaccine over other people, including other people who are at high risk because of their age and comorbidities. Because equity. It's actually happening in this country right now in America. The Biden administrations, of course pushing all this stuff as much as they possibly can. That's right, rich old white guy Joe Biden is trying to convince America he's so

concerned with equity. Sure he is. It's a fraud, friends, but unfortunately it's when we're going to have to fight back against because this is just the beginning. The CDC as a woke agency is a reality. You really got to fight to get to the truth. These days, the media is lying to you all the time, more than ever, but it is worse. I just want to say that it's worse than it's ever been. And also, people are more politically locked into their beliefs and they've ever been before.

People are more certain that whatever they're whatever they're saying is the only proper way of and I'm talking about even the words they use, but just their positions as well. We are in a polarized and ossified political environment unlike anything that's ever been before in my lifetime. It's existed in the past, but it's gotten worse. It keeps getting worse.

And you see this even over the gun control issue, in the way that Joe Biden is talking about gun control and you say, hold on a second, why is

he coming up with this stuff? And he's had so much time with all these different advisers and people that are actually writing these speeches and the legislation in Congress, and he lies about stuff, and we're supposed to think that that's not a big problem, like it's not an issue that when it comes to a constitutionally protected right, you have the President of the United States saying things that are just not true. And then if you bring that up, people yell at you like you're a bad person.

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Does anybody care anymore when things are not true when Joe Biden says them, or when a Democrat says them, or oh, I know, we can apply the Don Lemon standard, which is well Trump lied so much that no lies matter anymore. Now I don't I don't agree with that. I don't agree with any of that, but that's the standard they're trying to apply now to cover up for Amtrak. Joe Yo here, I am them. I'm just gonna you know,

I'm just gonna say the stuff. And you know, I'm no joke, friends, you know, just kind a little breathy, a little a little bit of stop and start listen to me. I'm so earnest, such a such a straight shooter, not like a gun shooter, like a different kind of shooter. It's not true that you can go to a gun show and buy a gun without a background check. As a matter of policy, that's not the case. If you're a federally licensed firearms dealer at a gun show, you

will run a background check. So when Joe Biden says that you can just go to a gun show and buy one, that's not true. There are some wiggle room in the law for hobbyists and enthusiasts who aren't engaged in selling guns as a as their business who are at a gun show, but the overwhelming majority turns out of people that go to gun shows and buy a

gun will actually have to pass a background check. There's a whole other part of this argument too that I think is worth noting, and that's a lot of really bad people can pass background checks. If somebody has a criminal background, they're going to know that and they're very likely to ignore whatever the gun laws are if they

want to get a gun. But a lot of other people, including people that have severe mental illness or are going to go on some kind of a shooting spree, they when you look at it, they would pass They do pass background checks. A lot of the time. So I understand that there are a lot of security measures. I'm not one of these people that's going to pretend that there's no need for things that aren't one hundred percent effective, right,

I mean, this is what the left does with vaccines. Now, well it's not one hundred percent, so you still have to mask up what that's crazy? Sorry, not one hundred percent? All right, they're playing games here. Yes, vaccines are incredibly effective at preventing the virus from being spread as well as individuals from getting it. It's not perfect. I understand that you can make a case that background checks are are going to work sometimes, and they do work sometimes

in stopping people from getting farms. But let's also not overstate the fact that a lot of mass shooters pass background checks. So you know, you're you're throwing a bunch of things at this in the hopes that it's going to reduce violence in a meaningful way. And what you really get with the background check stuff, for the most part, is going to be the if it saves just one

life mentality, which is not how we make policy. If it saves one life is the base is for a truly tyrannical government, because think of all the ways anyone who's going to argue with me on this one. The speed limits should be ten miles an hour. We would save tens of thousands of lives a year. It's true, ten mile an hour. What you have to go so fast? What your business wouldn't function anymore? Too bad? It'll save lives.

We don't do that, do we? Although I worry these days that the mentality in the era of COVID has changed so much that people would say, yeah, actually, you know, we probably should have a ten mile a ten mile per hour speed limit. You know, I think we actually should have that. So the gun show thing is not true. But more importantly, you get to the underlying philosophy of

Joe Biden and his underlying philosophy of the Constitution. Here's what he says, play too their phony arguments suggesting that these are Second Amendment rights at stake for what we're talking about. But no amendment, no amendment to the Constitution

is absolute. Isn't that so interesting? Because the only amendment to the Constitution, and this is just obvious, the only amendment to the Constitution that Democrats believe is absolute is the right to an abortion, which is not in an amendment, nor is it in the Constitution, but there can be no restrictions on it whatsoever, no limitations whatsoever. They will fight any number of things that have come forward, that including making abortion centers have doctors with admitting privileges at

a hospital. Democrats, they left, will fight against that like crazy, including saying that you need to have a surgical grade medical center to be performing abortions. Democrats will fight against that. So even what we would call safety measures for abortions, never mind stopping of abortions, they will do everything they can to stop. They'll do everything they can to shut that down, and unfortunately they're very successful in it. They

are abortion absolutists. That is true of Democrats, that is true of the left. So that's one thing they do believe in. And it's just ironic that the only amendment that they believe is absolute is the one that doesn't exist, or the only constitutional right, which is the right to an abortion, which does not exist. And they can continue with this lie as long as they want, but it's absurd. And then you have something else that I thought about where Biden pulled the fire in a crowded theater line.

It's remarkable. Democrats keep doing this. I mean a lot

of politicians and Republicans will do this too. Sometimes fire in a crowded theater comes from a Supreme Court decision Shank v. United States, where the Supreme Court wrongly held that a person passing out flyers, a socialist pacifist who was opposed to the First World War, passing out flyers against the draft and against Woodrow Wilson, who was a tyrant by the way, against Woodrow Wilson's desire to enter the US in the First World War, clearly protected political

speech that that was quote, the equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater. So Democrats think this is clever. Biden thinks this is clever to say, well, there are limitations on rights like yelling fire in a crowded theater, and he actually cites a a pseudo intellectual justification for the tyrannical shutdown of speech, because that's what that actually

refers to. But you just never you never expect democrats when they speak, when they speak about the Constitution, I will just say this, it's a little bit like when Democrat politicians speak about the Bible. You can they're always they're always a little uncomfortable. There's always a little bit, you know, you know, a little blue collar Joe here.

I'm just you know, doing my thing, and you know, I get kind of folks see and uh, you know what, Gil little breath here and I know something, you know, four score and on the seventh day, and the thing, you know, they just kind of mutter off into nonsense because ultimately Democrats believe that the Constitution is a question

of utility. They actually don't think that they're you know, they don't think that there are universal truths that the Founding fathers saw in those documents and in the document the Constitution, and in the Bill of Rights that are more important than whatever the Democrat agenda of the moment may be. Shared principle doesn't matter. Look at how we've switched from a country that wants equality to a country that now wants equity, which is just this is just

a pathway to Marxism. If this means the same ends, you get what the state says, you can have as much as possible. Make that true. Not the state will treat you and another person equally under the law. You have the same recourse to the law. You will have the same protections under law, and then it's let the best man win. We have a great society because we are willing to have an unequal society. We are not

equal in terms of talents. We are not equal in terms of hard work, of intelligence, of beauty, of health, of all kinds of things. It's not fair. Life is never going to be fair. But a government that tries to create a utopian society by having absolute control, we see what this does, and it results in misery. It results in the shared shared misery. As a Churchill and it is always a Churchill quote, there's always a Churchill

quote when you need one. Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings, and socialism is the unequal sharing of misery, or rather the equal sharing of misery. You can't mess up your Churchill quoth. That's not good. But here we have one of these times where you see very clearly the Democrat agenda laid before you, and on guns, on health, on all of these things. It doesn't matter what argument

we make. They've decided they want these things. They have an emotional impulse to get it, to get it done, and that's why you just you see that it all all the facts and figures that you can put forward. It falls on deaf ears, doesn't matter, it's already decided

in their minds. So it's very, very challenging to see this as anything other than a power grab when you actually get into the facts and figures with Democrats on gun control, and it's not going to save us, meaning it's not going to save a lot of lives, it's not going to deal with the enormous gun violence surge

last year. The gun violence surge was the result of undermining law enforcement and emboldening criminals, which was all part of a left wing narrative that America is a racist place and the cops are racist, and that there's a justification for the destruction of businesses and rioting in neighborhoods because of that, that's what led to the worst murder rates we've seen in this country in over twenty years. But no, instead, we're going to talk about ghost guns.

We're going to talk about how we can have some change made to to guns at gun shows. I mean all this stuff. Oh, we've got a new ATF director who doesn't like the Second Amendment. Okay, that's really going to help, right, This is garbage thinking. But the Biden administrations you've seen there there's a lot of not just bad policy approaches, but bad faith in the way they talk about this and the way they view the other side.

This all again with the disdainful narrative of everyone who voted for Donald Trump was somehow a part of the January sixth insurrection, which wasn't an insurrection. And the more we found out about it, the more we realized it was.

You know, it was a mob that got out of control, didn't actually kill any cops, and is being treated like it was some kind of militia effort to overthrow the United States government when it was really a bunch of misled losers who did something very very stupid and very foolish. But that was the beginning narrative, you see, because the Democrats now they view you and me through that lens. So they're not going to listen to us on guns, they're not gonna listen to us on COVID, not listen

to us on anything. We just get pushed aside, swept away one of those January six insurrection supporters. Even though we've been condemning that thing the whole time, it doesn't matter, they don't care. President said ago quote, you go to it, you could buy whatever you want, no background check. Is there a special exemption in federal law that he was referring to? Or just do FLA dealers not have to do background checks when our kind a gun show? All?

Are you asking me if he was referring it's okay? Were you asking me if he was referring to like a specific circumstance or I'm sorry to tell me a little bit more about your question. I mean, is it the president's belief that you do not have to undergo a background check when you are a gay gun show? No, it's not his belief. He believes that gun that background

checks should be universal, right, he says, no background check. Well, we know what his position is, right, so let me reiterate that, which is that gut background checks or something that should be universal. They're supported by more than eighty percent of the public. He's supported legislation, advocated for that, and advocated against loopholes as well. So that's his position, and I appreciate you asking for the clarification. Yeah, Well

that's really interesting. Jen Saki. Another sake bomb dropped here because he said very clearly, we all heard Joe Biden before he said that you can go to a back you can go to a gun show no background check. That was no background check, that was the quote. Not pretty much always a background check, but maybe under some circumstances you might be able to get a FIM without

a background check. That's not what he said. So when she says, we know his position, okay, but what he said isn't true, and it should matter what the President of the United States says on a policy issue like this, where the facts are really what we are talking about. The facts are really what's at issue here. Vice President Harris is also out there on the push for gun control. Here she is played nine. Over the course of my career, I have seen gun violence up close. I've looked at

autopsy photographs. I've seen with my own two eyes what a bullet can do to the human body. I've held hands with the hands of parents who have lost a child. I have seen children who are traumatized by the loss of a parent or sibling. And I have fought my entire career to end this violence and to pass reasonable gun safety laws. Time and again, as progress has stalled, we've all asked, what are we waiting for? Because we aren't waiting for a tragedy. I know that we've had

more tragedy than we can bear. We aren't waiting for solutions either, because the solutions exist, They already exist. People on both sides of the aisle want action. Real people on both sides of the aisle want action. Okay, what action do we supposedly want? The panning of ghost guns? Is the banning of ghost guns? I'm just wondering if we went down this list, Let's let's take a look at a city like oh Chicago, which had a massive increase in shootings last year, and it's already far too

violent as a city. With the banning of ghost guns, or the background check provision changes that they want, or anything that Biden's talking about, classifying modifications to a pistol, so that'll be a short barrel rifle and you'll have to register it under the National Firearms Act. Would any of that stop a single one of the shootings in Chicago last year? Let's just take that as a as as one point here. Would any of them do that?

I don't have the answer. I bet the answer is less than one percent of those shootings would have been affected by those things. But this is the action we have to take. This is what we have to do. It's about so much more than that. There's a fundamental philosophical difference between the left and the right on the issue of guns. They think that guns are a little private rebellion in the hands of individual American citizens and

they cannot abide it. And we think that that little private rebellion that each one of us has by essentially having the opportunity to tell the state there is a line that you shall not cross. There is a break against tyranny. There's a bulwark against tyranny that as an individual hands, which is the right to bear arms. That's very important to this country. You know, advanced sophisticated democracies in the past, with a high standard of living and

have gone fully tyrannical. They did not have an armed population. We have an armed population, and we wanted to stay that way. Democrats want to create registries and harass lawful gun owners and every way they can change the culture, change everything about the gun ownership reality in this country so that they put it on a glide path to eradication.

That's what's really separating the two sides. Sarsani time, Our friend David Harsani from National Review dot com is joining us right now to talk about guns and maybe even some Hunter Biden stuff if we've got the time, David, great to have you. Let's jump right to this man. This seems to me like it is absolutely as predictable as anything could be the Biden administration. We're a few months in and we're having it's the same gun control

debate we had under the Obama administration. Time and again. They never give up. I'll give them credit for that. Yeah, I was thinking about that about that the other day, about how I'm constantly I feel like I'm writing the same thing over and over again. But it's really not my fault because they keep coming back with the same exact arguments, the same exact policy proposals. Actually they're getting a little worse. Like Biden said a lot of ridiculous

things the other day that are completely false. I mean, their lies about gun shows, you know, not having to have a background check when you buy guns at gun shows, about are fifteens about everything. So I'm not sure exactly why they're doing this, because it seems unlikely the legislation will pass, but it definitely will rile up gun owners. Will probably see another huge spiking gun owner you know, people buying guns. If if the manufacturers can keep up

with it, I'm not sure. And what do you think they really hope to accomplish by this? I mean, if we were we were able to sit in in a meeting in the Oval, let's say, with Kamala and Joe

and you know the ron Klain. Is this to drive up the Democrat bases enthusiasm for this administration and just to drive up donations or do you think that they really believe that they're gonna because I mean my thing is, even if they got these things, no one who understands the numbers and the statistics thinks that a change in ghost guns is going to bring down the violence rate or you'd be able to show how this is actually saving lives. So what do they think they accomplish with this? Well?

I think it's two things. First of all, I think there's a lot of pressure from left wing groups to do something, so they decide to, you know, pretend they're doing something ghost guns. You know, when you're when you're going the executive order route, there's only so much you can do. It's unconstitutional to limit people, you know, AAR fifteens or whatever. So they're trying to sort of nibble at the edges to allow people to get excited about

them doing something. The second part is if they do something, if they somehow get something through the point. You know, AAR fifteens are used in only a small fraction of murders in the United States. But if they get something through, it's incrementalism, and then they want to take your guns. I have zero doubt about that. And they're just trying to figure out ways in which they can move forward, constantly,

move forward. I am. You know, I'm against any like it doesn't matter what I'm forward, but I'm against any legislation that moves forward more gun control. We have forty thousand gun laws on the books. We don't need anymore. We need enforcement of gun laws we have. We need someone to investigate Hunter Biden, see why he had a weapon and why he led on his background check form and a gun was stored out in a garbage near

a school, for instance. Well, can you, David, we dive into that, because I actually haven't covered that yet on the show, and so I want this audience to know exactly what you're and we're going to talk about Hunter Biden in general and all the stuff that's come out, But tell everybody what happened with a Hunter Biden gun situation. Well, you know, when you buy a gun, you signed a

background check. A lot of people don't know that because Democrats always lie about it, but you know, eight ninety nine percent of people buy guns have to go through a background check. Every gun has gone through a background check, and Hunter Biden has a I believe it was just some kind of semi automatic gun that he bought at

a gun shop. But he lied on his background check form because he said that he wasn't I don't know how it's phrased, but it's diding drugs, right, Yeah, using drugs that he wasn't doing crack so um and he was, which is fine, I mean not fine. But maybe he's getting over it, maybe he's in rehab. I don't know what he is. But he lied on his form, which is I believe it might I think it's a felony. So he's lying to the FBI. So a lot of people lie on those forms, and there are very few

prosecutions let's go after people lying on those forums. Let's go after let's tighten up the system. Like in Charleston, the local police hadn't informed the FBI that there was criminality, you know, but that shooter had done drugs as well. So anyway, so I think, you know, there are plenty of laws in the books. We need to tighten those up. I'm all for, you know, going after people who lying on background checks, but we don't need any more laws. And what was the disposing of the gun hunter Biden

near a school or something? What's that? I don't know the particulars exactly, but something like I think it feels like this is just how it feels like after reading

it to me. Or what seems like is that his girlfriend, I guess it is, felt that he was a danger to himself or a danger to others and took the gun and just threw it out in a nearby garbage which happened to be across the street from a school, which is and you can it's it's I'm not sure in Delaware what the laws are, but you're not supposed to throw out guns in in that way. Yeah, that's that's not a safe I mean, if you're not supposed to dispose of your any biotics in the trash, you know,

or or any prescripture. I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to throw a glock in the trash and just hope that nobody finds it. But um, I'm speaking of David Harsani of National View here and David on the Hunter Biden stuff. So so here's my thing, and I think you will you alluded to this, this feeling, or just just a couple of moments ago. Yeah, addiction is a very very serious crippling thing, and it ruins families, and

it is quite sad. I think it's perfectly fine. I think it's actually just being fair minded to say that, Yeah, Hunter Biden is an addict, and that's something that we can sympathize with. Hunter Biden is also a really narcissistic, spoiled, destructive scumbag. And and if if he were Donald Trump's son, or even any Republican son for that matter, he wouldn't be going on a book tour right now where Jimmy Kimmel is basically giving him a BackRub on TV. Yeah.

I mean I never, or very rarely were write about stories that have to do with like infidelity or drug use of politicians, like I just don't do it because we don't really know what the situation is all usually, but here's the thing. This is the This is now the president's son, the vice president son who only made a you know, who made fifty k for a Ukrainian energy firm because of his last name. And we're not allowed to talk about this sort of thing because it

makes the president look bad and it's just insane. I mean, if, like you said, if this was Don Junior or any of Trump's kids, it would be all over the front pages of every newspaper. He's a bad guy. I'm sorry. You know, the things he's done are immoral. It's not just the drug use that I know addicts and I know that people make mistakes and etc. But that's not the case here. He doesn't seem to have any much remorse about him. But moreover, he is benefiting from it still.

Now he is a book um and he's and he's playing himself as the victim where you know, a major media institutions aren't investigating what he was up to in China, in Ukraine and et cetera. They would just not be the same for any other president's son. I mean, any at least any Republicans. It's remarkable as well, David, to see Chris Hayes, for example, over at MSNBC. Who's he's I guess if you're like a Brooklyn Liberal, you know, he's your, He is your your, your great champion of

progressive causes. I don't know. I've never understood how this guy is someone that people listen to about anything, but that's me. Uh. He had some tweet about you know, maybe maybe is it possible that Hunter Biden's laptop was actually real? And I look at that and I honestly can't come to a conclusion. I can't analyze with certainty in my own head. Is he just really not smart and so he he doesn't believe that the laptop was it's clearly real. There's more information that's come out about it.

It's obviously Hunter Biden's laptop. If it wasn't, they would have been able to bunk it right away. Or is this now kind of a game? I mean, is gas lighting on something like this for people who have large platforms and the media on the left part of the fun I don't know. I think that many times people convinced themselves of things like the Russians are you know, the Russians planted Hunters laptop with the New York Post. I sty'll see people say stuff like that, it's just

in saying that story. Those stories had far more journalistic integrity, and the people who did them at far more journalistic integrity the most stories you see on MSNBC about Russia or whatever else. So I don't I don't know what the answer to that is, but it's it's increasingly clear now we you and I knew this, and we talked about it at the time, that those stories were censored on purpose to help one, you know, one candidate when

the presidency it's corrupt, the media erupt. I refuse to say things as a matter of course, even if it will benefit my my you know, I'm a registered Republican, even from will benefit the Republican Party, it'll I refuse to say things that make me feel like I'm a moron. And I don't see that among very prominent people on

the left. I mean, I went on on Ontario recently because on Joe Scarborough show on MSNBC in the morning, he went on this whole thing about how you know, vaccine denialism is for moron Trump supporters, and like they're a bunch of you know, toothless rubes who are drinking their you know, Budweiser at Nascar. I mean it is just he clearly makes us about anybody who was a question about or vaccine hesitancy is some idiot Trump supporter, when I mean, in reality, the biggest vaccine hesitancy bulge

in the demographics is among minorities. But you know, it's like he's not embarrassed to say something that's just so very stupid because it serves the purpose in the moment. Yeah, I mean, it depends. So I think that a lot of people on the left who are smart, you know, as far as our IQ goes, or will do anything because they feel like Republicans are evil and anything is fine to say as long as it, you know, helps

them achieve the goals that they want. I think there are other people like Joe Scarborough who's just not very bright to begin with, but also it will say anything for ratings and will say anything that people want to hear wherever he is. I mean, when he was running in Florida, you know, he pretended to be this one type of person, and now he's up in wherever what is it in New Jersey or wherever ms MSNBC films.

He pretends to be whatever is good there. When Trump, when Trump was bringing him ratings, he said whatever Trump wanted to hear. And now that you know, Trump was unpopularly said, so he'll say whatever he wants. But so it depends where you're talking about. But I think there's a lot of ends justify the means stuff there, and people sort of are in bubbles and they repeat things and they start to believe them, or if they don't, if they just want you know, it's propaganda. It's basically

a propaganda work. So they just keep repeating it. And you know, I can't bore into the souls of some of these people to know if they actually believe what they're saying. I'm embarrassed for them. Quite often, Like Jennifer Rubins of the World, I just think it's a sort of emotionally driven hatred of certain kind of people. Or Tom Nichols at The Atlantic, I think he just hates the aesthetic of people who wear America shirts or too flag wavy, you know what I mean, Or people who

live in places that he doesn't visit. So I think that's a problem too. So I think it's a bunch of different sorts of sort of you know, they're different sorts of trends going on. Is this Biden administration at this stage more left wing even than what we saw in the first year of the Obama administration in two thousand and nine. First, Buck, I just want to say, I love that you let you team me up to go after my least favorite people in the media. So

I just wanted to quickly say I appreciate that. But moving forward, let to displace my anger on this show. So the second thing is yes, I mean, obviously I think the party the policy wise, they're far left. I mean they're they're far left of Obama. And this is just accelerated in ways that are incredible. So today I saw Joe Biden is going to have a study group to look into packing the courts. I mean, you know, why would he do that. It's not popular among the

normal people. It's not probably even popular among most Democrats. It's popular on the far left. Because the far left is the loudest, the most activist, the most you know, the people who raise the money the people are out there marching and he has to placate them. So I think that. I think Joe Biden's not left or right. I think Joe Biden is wherever he thinks the Democratic Party is. It's been that way his whole life, from nineteen seventy three when he was posing up to segregation

as to now. But I think that yeah, I mean, policy wise, it's it's it's incredible the language they use, the racial identitarian sort of things that he says, the anti gun rhetoric. You know, it's just all far, far to the left. So I don't know how that's going to work out for them in the elections. But I mean, like this gun thing, what was the point of that, just to rile up right wingers and make yourself look even farther to the left. I don't know. I don't

know what they're doing. David Arsani, everybody Nashreview dot com go check out his peace there and David always a pleasure. Thank you. Buck