Buck’s First Thoughts - Double Mask Madness Is Here

You may not have seen it or read that posted anywhere, but it's true because Governor Ronda Santis of Florida is under assault from all across the country now from the Libs, from the Democrats who insist that what he is doing is reckless, who insists that the state of Florida is some god forsaken hell hole, when in reality, everybody who

goes there says, how do I move here? If you live in a blue state that has been under lockdowns for months and months and months, if you live in one of these Democrat run tyrannies and you go down for a visit to Florida, you say, oh, so life is just better down here right now? Why don't I get a piece of this? And they hate him for it. They hate him also because now they're just making incoherent arguments. Incoherent arguments. New York Times writing about how Americans must

ensure that their masks are doubled up or tightened up. Now, those of you who listen to this show every day, now that I have been on this for many months now, I've been telling you, they're going to tell you double mask. They're going to suddenly discover, oh, n ninety five masks are in fact, considerably more effective than the little cloth mask you have on. They're going to figure out that

bandanas do very little. And they're going to tell you that this is now the grounds for new mandates, new restrictions, more power for them, less freedom for you. And now here we are. Let's just go over this argument for a second. I want to get back into the Florida situation because I think that that now is going to be the primary struggle for liberty in this country is going to play out in many ways with Florida versus

the federal government. The Biden administration cannot allow the success of the Sunshine State in the face of COVID to continue. They have to create a different narrative. And if they have to cheat somehow, if they have to create a travel ban for people from Florida or to Florida, oh, that's already being reported. They're thinking about it. That's right, the place where everyone's going to escape the idiot tyranny of the Fauciites. That's the place that has to be punished.

But let's start with their argument on masks. And this is why I have been once again throttled on Twitter. So people can't see what I say on Twitter. They show it to maybe three end or two percent of my Twitter audience. Thank god I have this show, I have this radio program, I have my podcast. Thank God I can actually still reach people and make these arguments in this way, because if I try to rely on the social media platforms, they shut me down. They shut

the guy down. To be clear, who is documented as saying in October of last year, the double mask mandate is coming. It is now the middle of February. And guess what CDC guidances double mask or wear a more tightly fitted mask. That's the way they're going to try to get around this. So it's enough of a CDC mandate to harass you. So now people can say, excuse me, sir, can you put two masks on before you come into my store? And if you don't, someone's gonna say why

don't you take the virus seriously. But when you see politicians and people who are telling you to be terrified, and they're clearly not terrified of the virus, they'll say, WHOA, my mask was very snugly fitted. Remember this, do not forget it. It will be essential to understand what is happening in the months ahead. The worst tyranny is not the absolute enforcement of strict rules. The worst tiery tyranny is the capricious enforcement of arbitrary rules. Some people get punished,

some people don't. Some people have to live with these extreme measures. Other people always get a pass. Because how do you even operate it in a a society like that. It's actually just all about power. It's not even based on shared belief and shared principle at all. There's no shared goal in a society like that. It's just people wanting to control you. So now, the guy who tells you me that this is what's going to happen, how did I know what was going to happen? How did

I know that we would get to a double mask mandate? Well, I looked at what was happening in countries all over the world where they were relying primarily on their mask policy to bring down COVID nineteen cases. And you couldn't see a clear correlation. And if you can't see a clear correlation, how effective can it possibly be? And you sit here and you look around, you say, also, if this is so straightforward, I mean, this is the primary

argument that I've been making for a long time. If this is so straightforward, how is it that the height of the medical profession, that the top of the national the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease doctor Fauci, who you know, I think is really he's like the evil little you know, Rasputin in a lab coat of our time. I mean, I think this guy is a nightmare for civil liberties. I think he's a nightmare for the politicization of medicine. I think he's awful. I want

to be very clear about this. And he's been wrong and he never admits it, and he won't stand up in favor of freedom. This guy's the worst. How is it that exactly, give or take a few weeks a year ago, he's laughing at the idea we have a pandemic coming that we believe has a four to five percent fatality rate. That was a year ago. As we know, it's considerably less than one percent, but we thought it

was four or five percent. That was what the early reports were, and it was spreading all over the place, and Fauci basically waved his hand. It might make people feel better to wear masks, but it really doesn't do anything. That's a year ago, and they can't erase that. They can. They can shout at you, they can yell at you. They can do if it's that effective. I mean, can you imagine do you think that, you know, do you think that a doctor would go on TV and say, hey,

you know, turns out, you know, the polio vaccination. We really don't think it's that effective. So like, you know, no one needs to get it, don't worry about it, and then a year later go, actually, the only way we're going to defeat polios with the vaccination. No, they wouldn't, they wouldn't change their tune that dramatically on something so essential with so many lives at stake. And they say it's obvious. Remember they didn't do some brand new study,

they didn't have some new scientific discovery. It's oh, what do you mean? Of course we all have to wear masks Of course a year ago you were saying it was dumb, it was silly. Why do they have people go what about doctors. Doctors wear a mask in a limited clinical setting, properly fitted, they change them, they wear fresh ones, and even then they can still get sick. But they're directly exposing themselves. We could all walk around with helmets on because of falling debris from buildings, but

construction workers more important, they wear helmets. Right. How many construction workers do you know have actually been hit with debris on their head? Probably zero, But in that one situation, in that one case, it you know, in that limited circumstance, it's fine. What we're doing now is we're all construction workers and we have to sleep with our helmets on all the time because you never know when falling the

breeze gonna happen. Right, I mean they've expanded our risk parameters into silly territory, meaning that we actually we can't allow for any risk in society. This is how I saw this coming because the places that are the most I mean, they were smoked. I mean, there was an arrogance in California. You remember this with Gavin Newsom in the middle of the summer, the weather was a little bit warmer. Yeah, we masked up. We know what we're doing. I had people that were telling me friends of mine

who are lives because I do have lib friends. Yeah, so what if there's all these BLM protests, they're all masked up, it's not a problem. And it's say, is that really the Is that really the standard? Now, it's not a problem to mass together in close quarters when you're when you're masked up. That's interesting. Let's see how that. Let's see how that turns out. And then the explosion of cases in California, explosion of cases in New York and New Jersey, all across the country, and you know

what they're saying, now, mask up even more. This is from the New York Times piece. Doctor Brooks emphasized that masking as Americans currently practice it is not insufficient, but the new advice offers an opportunity to take it to the next level. Oh okay. Quote. Now, we're worried about forms of the virus that may transmit more efficiently or undercut the utility of existing diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines. We need to up our game to slow the spread of

the virus the real problem, folks. They won't say it this way because then the public might realize what a bunch of clowns who don't understand life trade offs and policy we're listening to here. And you know, the Great Baranting Declaration has essentially been scrubbed from the Internet. The thousands and thousand of doctors and scientists who are saying we're doing this wrong, scrubbed, took it down off a Facebook. It's like it never happened. This is Soviet Union level

cleansing of history and debate and thought. It's going on in America right now. It's either real problem. The reason that we have all these issues with COVID nineteen, it's not that this is a virus that spreads easily among human beings and there's no way the government is going to be able to protect you from this that. It's not any of that. It's we didn't do a good enough job listening to them, which is what I told you would be their excuse all along, all the mask mandates,

all the lockdowns. You cannot look at what happened in this country over this winter and say, yeah, we stopped the virus. Remember at the beginning, it was flattened the curve, which is just a slowing of cases. We got sold into this with the understanding that, oh, this virus was gonna spread. We just didn't want it to all hit at once, so we were trying to extend the caseload over a longer period of time to make sure that we didn't overwhelmed hospital capacity. Let me ask you this,

how many hospitals were overwhelmed in this country? Unable and when I say hospital, if someone had to go from one hospital to another where they had that, that's not an overwhelmed hospital system, so you still get care. How many places were there people who were unable to be treated for COVID nineteen in America because the hospital system simply had no more doctors, no more beds, nothing. Last I checked, it was zero. How many times did you hear that was going to happen? I don't know. A

thousand news articles probably came across my screen. Oh, the overwhelmed, the hospitals close to overwhelmed, about to be overwhelmed. Who was telling you last June that test in trace was moronic? Moronic for a disease at this level of spread. What they're gonna they're gonna trace one hundred thousand cases a day, and are they kidding? They're gonna find everyone who's been in contact with hundreds of thousands of people across the country, and that's how we're going to fight the virus. Yeah.

That to remember, you were hearing a lot in Nancy PLESI tic test and trace was supposed to be what would be necessary to get us out of this. They actually had test and trace mandates in place from New York before we could reopen, and then they realized they were never going to get it in place and time, so they had to finally reopen without actually meeting their own standards. They've been wrong so much. When when are we allowed to say enough is enough? They've been wrong

so many times. Now they're telling you double mask. I said they would, they would tell you this is what we needed to do. It's on record. I said it months ago, and people who were now saying double mask shouted me down. That's idiotic. Don't say you know what you're listen to science, Listen to Fauci the bleating of sheep. They're really sheep whose aspiration as a society is to

turn into lemmings. So they can take us all over the cliff together, all because they think if they listen to the so smart people, we'll be safer, we'll be fine, we'll all live forever. Our news for them, none of us will. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Follow Buck on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The media is worried about that, obviously, You guys really love that. You don't care as much if it's a quote peaceful protest, and then it's fine. You don't care as much if they're

celebrating a Biden election. You only care about it if it's people that you don't like. So I'm a Bucks fan. I'm damn proud of what they did on Sunday night. And so in terms of the UK variant, here's what we know. We know based on all the evidence, that these vaccines are going to be effective against that, and that's really the main concern. I mean, we're getting our seniors vaccinated. We've not seen any data or any evidence

to suggest that these vaccines are not effective. And so if we get the seniors vaccinated, we're going to be good. And that's what we're gonna do, not panicking, not allowing the media narrative to drive policy governed scientists just saying we got this. We're going to do what is reasonable and what we can do. And that's all I ask for.

That's all I've wanted all along, for politicians to understand that a do no harm approach for COVID policy would have been far better than what we've had, because they've made so much worse. They've politicized the hell out of this thing. And we see it all the time. If there are people that the media doesn't like who aren't wearing masks outside and so it doesn't matter, it's a front page news story. If there are a protesters for justice, oh yes, they've achieved so much of that, haven't they

so much justice? Then we're told that it's fine, that the virus all of a sudden will take a kind of holiday and nothing will happen. That's just not true. And yet there's the possibility the federal government will go after Florida here, that's right. The federal government may decide to make an example of Rhonda Santis and those who

support his approach. This is from the Miami Herald. The Biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearful that coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard fought progress on the pandemic. Now, notice that they're going they're going specifically after Floridy here because they're saying, oh, they've and the excuses, well, they found more of the

variance in Florida. Does anyone think that the variance of the UK strain or the South Africa strain or whatever strain are limited to Florida at this point? Does anyone really think that the federal government isn't isn't a little bit at least thinking about how they can slap down the descentists approach, because it undermines what has Joe Biden done that's better than what Trump was doing. Name one

thing on COVID response one thing. I'm a double mask come or a double mask because you know, because I believe in science. So in our triple mask, come triple masking. You know. The problem with everyone thinking that the masks are going to be our salvation here is that people unmask themselves in front of other people constantly. You can't have an entirely masked society, and so over time people are just exposed to this over time, essentially everybody gets

exposed to it. They've led us to believe, if only we listen more, some people would never even come into contact with the virus, to be fun, no real threat of infection. Well, we're seeing how that plan has worked out so far. How much worse would it be anywhere else? Take a look at what's gone on here the Biden

administration imposing possible domestic travel restrictions. I am starting to get really worried that the reset in the stock market, in the economy, and a great financial calamity is coming to this country because of moron woke lib Biden voters. You're listening to the Buck Sexton Choke podcast, make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio or wherever

you get your podcasts. If you look at the projection, I would imagine by the time we get to April, that will be what I would call from you for better wording open season. Namely, virtually everybody in anybody, in any category could start to get vaccinated. Now, shouldn't that mean that we could establish at some point, all right, everybody, we've all had our chance to get vaccinated. Can't we just decide now, okay, by June we go back to

normal life. Enough, they won't do that. In fact, Fouci's already said that you should be prepared to wear your mask and all the nonsense, all the anxiety, all the finger pointing from the anxious little tattle tales that watch too much MSNBC. How dare you take your mask off in the store to drink water? You're putting us all at risk? How much longer? We'll deal with that till at least the end of this year, he says. Then, if Fauci's telling you by November or December, we can

start to let our guard down, as he calls it. Oh, it'll be it'll be next summer before they finally take their grubby little fingers out of your life. That's what That's what you're really Oh and they've done such a great job, haven't they, with with all the mitigation measures in stopping the virus? Has it been amazing listening to all these people mask compliance? Highest it's ever been by far? Look what that did for us over the winter. Oh, it was magical, wasn't it. We had we had such

a great result. It's awful. And yet if we listen this time around, they promise us everything will be so much better. There's no you know, there's no leeway whatsoever for individual choice here, because of course you're a threat to other people. It's like, well, isn't that interesting. They've created a narrative here where they can continue this forever if they want to. They have new variants, new strains of the virus. Maybe they we've gotten into the Maybe

this could be true. So let's build policy on its stage of the panic, the COVID panic that has been forced on all of us. Perfect example, where is the science on if you're vaccinated and or have already had and cleared the disease officially, you were tested, you had it, you got sick, you're better that you should still mask and quarantine. Well, it's because we haven't done massive specific studies for COVID nineteen about how long you have immunity.

But we know that based on all other science to date, based on all other data we have about vaccinations, you're going to be immune for quite some time, unless somehow this is different. But oh, the possibility is enough. Everyone still has to mask. You know what this is really about. They realize that if they made the allowance for people who had gotten vaccinated not to mask. There'd probably be people who just say, you know what, I'm not going

to ask any more period. And that's that's why, because because their explanation is absurd. Otherwise, oh you could, you can get the virus and spread the virus, but your body's already protected against it. Is that true of other viruses? Is that a common thing that that occurs in science in medicine. No, but with this one maybe it is.

That's what they tell you. So because they can't prove that their theory that goes against all other vaccination data and science for you know, for over well, first vaccinations were around the eighteen hundreds, we're going to a couple hundred years, but certainly the last hundred years of modern medicine. And yeah, now they're telling you what we can't prove, I'm not wrong. So wear your mask. And it's a symbol of all this stuff, all the restrictions, all that

continued hell that they put people through. And to give you an idea of how how stupid they really are. Right, remember I told you test and trace as a means of controlling the virus was stupid, and I was right, no one. They could put any MD up against me, any PhD. I said, how are you gonna do? This isn't about Oh but I look at slides under a microscope and I have an MD PhD M. It's just logic. You're gonna find hundreds of thousands of cases a day.

You're gonna track all these people down. And so excuse me? Can you corn? And what did that even do? Can you quarantine? Please? Uh? No? Boop? What are you gonna send people with guns to everyone's house? Make them stay at home? Is this is this communist China? I know some Democrats want it to be. Test and trace was a joke. Double masking was coming because masking did not work sufficiently even with mass adoption. That is what happened

in this country. So now it's double masking or better fitted masks, to which I just say, triple mask baby. We already saw there was a news story on NBC or maybe it was CNBC about how effective triple masking would be. And sure enough, now some people are going to start doing that. So I knew that was going to happen. And there are so many of these these rules, these regulations that are idiotic. But if you tell them that, they yell at you. I'm amazed at how many people.

I'm trying to give them back some autonomy, some freedom, some dignity, get some of their dignity back that has been taken from them by the Fauciites. Got to be terrified or relatives. They told you to be afraid of your family members over Thanksgiving and Christmas. Remember every two weeks it was, oh my gosh, the explosion from the holidays. No, it's called wintertime. And there were more viruses spreading then, as is always the case, they want to do avoid

family members. There will be a lot of people who don't die from COVID, but this was their last Christmas, or this was their last Thanksgiving, and if they loosened to fauci they didn't spend it with family. Thanks fouch. And now they're talking about a test before you can get on for domestic domestic flights, a test for COVID. Gee, that's not going to be a giant pain in the ass. What is it going to be three days before, two

days before? When are you good? You know that there are a number of there are a number of people who are going to get false positives that's just baked into the testing system because especially the way they were doing it before, with the amplification of the of the virus particles, with the way they were doing it was at such a sensitive level that it would pick up old virus, dead virus, discarded virus. They've, I believe, begun

to scale that back a little bit. And so now they're telling you if the test before you get on a plane, you could still get sick the day after you get on the plane. And also we're taking precautions on planes. I thought, plane, we're supposed to be pretty safe. What the heck happened? I thought if we were our masks on the plane, it's not that big a deal. It's an acceptable risk. This is all about acceptable risk. And then the dumbest thing of all, but it's political.

That's why I understand why they're doing it. It's not really about science. It's definitely not about keeping you safe. It's political. Where are we with domestic restrictions on travel

that there's a possibility that that could even happen. This is back to this piece in the Miami Herald where they're saying, quote, the Biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearful that coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard fought progress on the pandemic. By the way, the progress is, it's burning through our population, and we have vaccinations. That's the only progress that's happening.

We haven't contained. We didn't stop it. Obviously, outbreaks of the new variants, including a highly contagious one first identified in the United Kingdom, as well as others from South Africa and Brazil that scientists worry can evade existing vaccines, have lent urgency to a review of potential travel restrictions

within the United States. Discussions the administration over potential travel restrictions do not target a specific state, but focus on how to prevent the spread of variants that are surging in a number of states, including Florida and California. But oh, this was this was so interesting to see. You mean

the place that we're this article has been updated. I was going to say that they've been some of this language has been changed since I read it yesterday, the addition of California, and there everybody latched onto this and they said, hold on a second, because the initial headlines were just about Florida. They're going to have travel restrictions in place for Florida. How is that going to stop

the virus. Let's just sit here for a second. This means that people they're trying to test this one out. They're putting it out there. It's kind of a trial balloon people in and around the Biden administration at the top level. But this means Faucci. Of course, Fauci's just sitting there like the little bureaucrat Hackey is, and he's talking to whomever on Biden's task force, and probably Biden himself,

and they're thinking, you know, Florence got these problems. I'm here, and with the new strain, the new variant, you know, maybe we gotta do a little something about that. Oh you mean you're going to isolate and perhaps even quarantine from travel one state in order to protect us all from the South African variant, which is not more deadly. They just say it's more transmissible. They don't know that it goes around any vaccinations. They have no proof of that.

These are just theories. But you see, when they want to do something, a theoretical justification for it is enough Oh, you can't travel the Laura anymore. Why because we're not sure if the vaccines will work against this variant that there's one hundred cases I think or two hundred cases of it in Florida. Okay, but it could the vaccine may well work against it. We don't know that. So what Oh, yeah, but we gotta do we gotta take the precaution as if it's only in Florida or only

in a few states. And then let's let's take a step back even further. How dumb are the people in charge? Really? I mean, do not let the possibility that we are truly ruled by morons ever stray too far from your mind. Okay, you're gonna limit domestic domestic airline travel. Well, this thing exists in America called cars, and people go to other places, they go to other states, and they see other human beings.

So unless you're going to do a full on statewide quarantine lockdown, no one in or out, what do you really going to accomplish? And so it's a dumb idea top to bottom. It's a it's an enormous, an enormous restriction of the rights of Americans to travel freely between the States. And I know they haven't done it, but the fact that they're even considering it just shows they would love nothing more than an opportunity. They'd love nothing more than an opportunity to take a big shot at Florida.

Because the data, the data is there now last twelve months. You don't You're you're picking where you're going to be just based on the on the economy and the COVID response. Would rather be in New York or Florida. Rather be in New Jersey or Florida, Rather be in California or Florida. You get on the list. It's pretty clear they've got to do something about this. They can't, they can't allow this narrative to continue because it's a threat to their

continued power. Hour and then there's just one more thing, back to this other point, when do you think this really stops? I want you to really keep that in mind, because if possibilities are enough for infringements on your liberty and on your day to day life, you don't think they can always conjure up another possible strain, another possible variant. Libs have no problem with this, They have no issue at all. They like this stay at home, zoom life.

They like wearing the mask. They like having working class people out there being the ones that are actually exposing themselves to the virus. Will they just stay at home and type in their computers with their mask on? Oh my gosh, they're fine with it. They think the mask is no but they always say, oh, it's like seat belt wearing. It's like, really, do you have to wear a seat belt when you go for a walk alone in the woods with your dog, Because that's what these

idiot libs want. Now. I worry. I worry this country has has lost, has lost it guts that our population we're just we're too we're just too soft and and uh, you know, as long as we're to borrow from it's the souls of neats and lines. As long as we're safe and warm and fed, it's all the same to us. Doesn't really matter. You know, whatever they tell you to do, we'll just do it. You know, it'd be one of the bad people. I'm amazed, amazed to one of my

fellow Americans have be willing to go through. I try my own little private acts of protest against this, and eventually the system overwhelmed me too. Won't silence me. I still speak about it, but I'm not going to get arrested for being the one person in Manhattan who refuses to wear a mask. Right, So let's it's not worth it. Everyone else around here is like, oh my gosh, he's killing grandma. They've all been brainwashed and they can't. Another

problem here is they can't disassociate this from Trump. They viewed this as a Trump thing. I could care what Trump says or does about, or did about the mass situation or the virus in general. This is about right now. They just don't want to give up the control. You're in the freedom hunt. Thanks for listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast. Get the latest from Buck at buck sexton dot com. It's nearly a United's opinion from health officials,

the schools have not been particularly high. Sources transmission that they have been safe places for adequate ventilation and social distancing, that schools have been safe, and so many American parents,

of course, want their children to be back there. The Biden administration has caught some real criticism on this that they seem to be not living up to the goals that President Biden first set out, and yes, preson Sackey suggested that they're one day a week, that that would first of all, share a number of schools that they're talking about, narrowed that it would be the younger kids as opposed to the older kids, and that alienated some parents.

And then that yes, that one day a week for a certain percentage of students would be enough to hit their threshold. She walked this back a little bit yesterday. She said they're still pressing forward, that she acknowledged that they that they want this is still a major centerpiece of their plan, but it does seem like right now that they're behind on that while and that's something that

they have taken criticism for. As we see schools like Chicago, cities like Chicago and Philadelphia have real issues, and there's a sense that they're being reluctant to challenge the teachers unions to put those teachers back in classrooms. There's not a sense there's the obvious reality that the teachers unions are just using this for maximum leverage for their adults at the expensive kids. That's it. That's it. Democrats need them,

Democrats want their donations, want their support. And remember it's not even just the federal level. It's really important at the state and local level too. The whole Democrat machinery doesn't want to touch teachers unions, although they're in the back pocket of the Democrat party, or rather the Democrat parties in the back pocket of the unions. But why is this so important to look at? Here we have put in front of us the most clear possible data.

We've run the experiment. We have private, private, and proochial schools have been opened for months. They're fine. All the data from America, from Europe, from every country in the world. Children are fine. There's no real risk. Democrats won't act on it. Democrats won't act on it. This is the if you needed proof that they are unreasonable and acting in bad faith on COVID nineteen, here is your clear as it can possibly be proof that that is what is going on. You know, I think some folks are

just coming to this recognition now. For a lot of the rest of us, it's hard not to say, yeah, I told you so. This was never about protecting the kids. This was never about keeping you safe either. For a lot of Democrats, the shutdown of the schools was one thing and one thing only using the kids as hostages to get adults easier, better, lazier jobs. That's it that they're unfiable from courtesy of their taxpayer paychecks. That's what's

really going about. This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to get through your day in forty five minutes. Make sure you subscribe on the iHeart app for wherever you get your podcasts. What should we make now of what we've seen so far and what we're going to see in this impeachment trial. I'm trying to only take the important takeaways and give them to you folks. So let's bring in our friend Ned Ryan. He's the founder of American Majority. Tell us what he's seeing. Ned. How

you doing, buddy, Hey, I'm good Buck. Good to be with you. And you know, it's interesting times we live in. But I was thinking yesterday as I watched Ted lu and Eric Swalwell, you know, I guess if you're gonna have a proper circus, you've got to have a parade of clowns. And so one after one of those clowns

came up, and you know it's the big lie. I mean, this is the thing Buck that I think people hope understands that all of this, neither impeachment was based in fact, right, there's no facts involved with the first one, and there's no facts really involved with this one. And it based

on a big line. And you know that Democrats know it too, because they edited out three very keywords in their video peaceful and patriotic, when they were trying to to show in this video that somehow Trump incited violence and sedition and insurrection. But of course they eded out three very key words in that. It's all a big life based off them trying to pin down President Trump on on somehow inciting all of this, when in fact it wasn't insurrection at worst, it was it was a

riot of some really stupid people. And again we're finding out facts. Two buck, this was premeditated people. There now is evidence that there were plans being the months ahead of time to do this at the Capitol. And in fact, we now know that those pipe hobblems were actually planning to at the DNC and the RNC the night before. So all of this is a big line. In my supposition in all of this book is it's a big

lie to cover the big rig. Right, if you're if you're distracted by this, you're not focused on that Time magazine article talking about the big rig of what they actually did in twenty twenty. So this is all kind of, I think part of their plan to distract people because they're not they're never going to convict them. Tell us one more Republicans go ahead, They're going to convictim and they already said it was unconstitutional to continue on with

this trial. Tell us about the the Time magazine twenty twenty article that was celebrating I mean, you're somebody who understands the inner workings of elections and what actually goes on here from messaging to ballot boxes. I mean, you're you're somebody who knows that top to bottom. What were they celebrating about how they stacked the deck in twenty

twenty in favor of you know, in favor of the Democrat. Yeah, yeah, No, I would encourage people if you've not read Molly Ball's article at Time magazine about the secret campaign to save the twenty twenty elections, which, of course they demolished electoral integrity to four to five the election. Though that was one of the most curious or welliam words I've seen in recent times. They weren't rigging the election, but they were fortifying it. But it really was the big rig.

It was collusion between big tech, big labor unions, Chamber of Commerce, who has always been they've always been problematic. They've always been more corporatist than capitalist. And obviously the big tech not only playing a role in basically stopping the free flow of information right censoring the New York Post, Google not really lighting some of this information that would

be damaging to Joe Biden come out. And on top of that, you know, I've talked about this, some of people need to be what Mark Zuckerberg did with the Center for Tech and Civic Life, in which he dropped three hundred and fifty million into a nonprofit that then was used to pay private funds used to paid election officials in these battleground states, specifically in blue counties and blue cities, to boost the blue vote Democratic vote. I mean literally by a margin of ten to one buck.

We know on Wisconsint thanks to the Amistad Project that in Wisconsint alone, the Center for techn Civic Life money was basically forty seven dollars per vote inside of blue counties and Blue cities versus more to four to seven

dollars in Republican counties. So what they were doing in this Time article, and I have to tell you, when I first read it last week book, I was torn between feelings of thin completely infuriated because they completely destroyed I believe, in my mind, and are not proud of it, Americans' ability to truly self governed. Right. They're kind of done with democracy, Right, We're not going to let this happen in such a way. We're going to manipulate it and

rig it to get the election results. We want to make sure that the great outsider doesn't win again. And so you start to really understand and they're proud of it, and so you're infuriated at the same time. But the thing that concerns me they only brag about these things that they think they've won. Right, people that are this braise and think they've somehow pulled it off with the American people are too stupid to understand what they actually did,

or just simply not going to pay attention. So I would encourage everybody go read that Time article, and I hope you have the same feeling I did, complete completely infuriated by what they did in manipulating our twenty twenty elections. We're speaking of Ned Ryan, founder of American Majority Ned. I also have to say that it seems as this impeachment farce continues on with this in this trial this week.

There are very important things that are not known publicly, and I do not believe are known by members of the Senate who are supposed to be adjudicating this whole thing. And the first one that comes to mind is how is it that we were told? And I I am somebody who fell into this category, we were told something as straightforward as a police officer was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher. That was the report, right given,

given the violence. There was violence involving cops. They did hit them, and you know, there were there were scuffles and there was assaults on officers. But we were told that somebody was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher, or at least it was hey with a fire extinguisher and died as there was the injury. And now it's quite clear that that is not what happened. How could

we have I mean, that has been the singular. That was the murder that was supposed to be the basis of the violent insurrection narrative, because other than that, you have what's clearly a riot, you have people running around taking photos, being idiots, breaking the law. Should be punished, no question, But it seems pretty important that we get the officer sick nick story correct. But yeah, we don't

have it. We don't know, no, And I think I would encourage people to read two articles that have been done on this very specific topic. One is Julie Kelly's An American Greatness. I believe it either in yesterday or the day before, but Julie Kelly An American Greatness and it Revolverknews Darren Beatty. I'm not sure if Darren with the actual author of it, but there's another good piece on this that Revolver News about the exact same issue

in which this was pushed. This was you know, this officer setting it was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher. This is murder. And now they're realizing, yeah, that those aren't really the facts. There's a lot of questions about that. There are a lot of questions about obviously the premeditation, the FBI's knowledge of this. Apparently they knew it beforehand.

You know, Mark Meadows came out the other day and said Trump realized that with that many people in DC and a lot of people coming in, that we should have more National Guard. You've made a request to have more National Guard in the city before January sixth. Mayor Bowser said no, I mean, there's a lot of different details that need to be addressed and understood. But again

again I go back to my earlier point. Neither of these impeachments or the trials had anything to do with Fox and the ultimate purpose, and I wrote about this at American Greatness yesterday, is to basically say that any descent to our narrative, any descent to our status quote, to our system, will not be tolerated. We will punish you financially, your reputation, We will shut you down. Now,

dissence is not patriotic. In fact, it's seditious, and it's your insurrectionist and in fact you're even a domestic terrorist. Descent will not be allowed. And how dare you question us? But the other thing too, Buck really quick that that's kind of fascinating to me. People that really think they have one, that really feel confident about this, don't do

this right. There's almost an element of fear and some of the things that they're doing, trying to get Trump disqualified from running again, trying to shut down seventy four plus a million people, and saying, you know you made a bad choice. We're going to take away your right to choose any candidate moving forward, and if you choose

the wrong one, they'll they'll be consequences for you. But there's almost this element of fear of what they're doing because I don't know how confident they really actually feel, because they really had to do a lot of things to kind of rig to get the results they wanted to, and it doesn't feel like they're terribly confident in their position right now. I mean, that's at least one of my thoughts. Ned. I also think that everyone should should

be aware. In my estimation what's going on here is that they're they're setting a net narrative of events with this Senate trial that is actually, in many ways more more to create the basis for steps that have nothing to do with this right, to create the basis for enhanced counter terrorism based surveillance of Trump supporters, to create a narrative of of of kicking people off of social media who are Trump supporters because of violence policies, and

that that essentially this what the what the the Democrats Senate is doing right now, or Democrats on the Senator doing right now, is creating the excuse for the abuse of Trump supporters that's going to occur in the rest of society. And they're going to point to this trial and say, see, those were the facts presented. Yeah, I mean, I think we're in a very dangerous period in American politics in which they are trying to, for all intents

and purposes, dehumanize a very significant percentage of population. Right if you can say these people were insurrectionists, they're domestic terrorists, they're Unamerican. If you can say that and actually convince enough of the American people, we'll maybe they're right, Maybe these people are very dangerous. Well, then it lays the

ground for work. You'd be able to justify what you're going to do next, you know, and be able to punish them, whether it's censored them, whether you know it's it's concerning you don't even really want to think about where they're headed. But I know this is the first step in a very dangerous path. If you want to be able to do certain things to people. You have to first dehumanize them, and then once you dehumanize them in a certain segment of the population's eyes, you can

do whatever you want to them. Moving forward, deeply troubling, deeply concerning Ned. Ryan is a founder of American Majority and Ned to that end. You're a guy who is in the political trenches and you're trying to actually organize and mobilize people for constitutionalism, conservatism. What do we do now? I keep getting this question, and it's one that I think there's no single answer. It's really an evolving answers

as more situations arise here. But what do we say to people right now who are feeling exactly what I think you and I are, which is that this is

a precarious moment in American politics? How do we go forward? Well, first of all, I think people need to fully understand what they did last year, and one of our big projects with American Majority this year is Electoral Integrity Project, in which we're going to be spelling out here's what they did in twenty twenty, using the Time article, using the Honest Dead Projects Report, using some of our other research that we pulled together to really explain to people,

here's what happened in twenty twenty. We can never let it happen again. Right with universal mail in ballots, you know, twice as many absentee ballots cast this time around than there were in twenty sixteen, a lot of questions about the validity of a lot of those votes. So explain to people what took place, and then reform items. And I'm telling people what you need to be focused on over the next eighteen months, because I really do feel this buck we've got one shot at the death star.

When you see some of the things that Pelosi and these people are doing to kind of entrench some of the stuff they got away with last year and turn it into law, I think we've got one shot at it. Between now twenty twenty two. We got to do electoral reform. And there's a whole list of electoral reforms that we're going to be going through, whether it's dealing with absentee ballot laws, state legislators actually knowing their rights and you

can't skirt state constitutions. We're going to try and clean voter roles, dirty day that leads to dirty elections, and then encourage people as they find out the right bills that are being pushed in these state legislatures, to actually call and lobby their elected officials on that to make sure reform happens, and at the same time to take

it another step book. I think some people that are listening and people that we're going to be training moving forward this year, I'm gonna challenge you gotta run for county clerk, you gotta run for county registrar. You gotta run for these municipal level positions that have oversight into elections. Some of them might even actually end up running for Secretary of State or other positions that have to do

with the electoral process. Because we cannot allow what happened in twenty twenty to take place again, because it really was hollowed out the American right to self governance. It was manipulated. Laws were broken and skirted, State constitutions were skirted, and we've got to be aware of what took place and then followed these action items and get it done before twenty twenty two. And I have to tell you,

but there are twenty seven Republican governors out there. There are twenty three trifectas in which we have in the state,

the governor, the state Senate, and the state House. If we do not have meaningful legislation in at least those twenty three states, you know, I'm gonna question Republicans intelligence on this issue because they have to address this, and if they don't, Republicans, I don't think they might never win a national election again, And if it gets really bad, they'll never win an election at any level inside of

a battle Brown State. Ned One, last quick one for you, what do you think the former president's thoughts are on running again Donald Trump? I think the real test just

twenty twenty two. If he wants to be the kingmaker and really shows some political clout in twenty twenty two to pick a series of House races and Senate races and do rallies and raise money and have a huge impact, right, a huge winning percentage in twenty twenty two, I think it sets the stage for running again in twenty twenty four.

But for me, the twenty twenty two elections and his role in his impact on those elections really are indicative of what he'll do in twenty twenty four, Ned Ryan of American Majority, Everybody Ned always a pleasure, Thanks Budd,