You are entering the freedom hunt. Looks like there was more coordination behind the scenes between the deep State and the Democrats on this whole Ukraine situation. We'll talk about that. And also the anonymous book is out and people say it stinks. Will break down just why that's the case. And some crazy protesters get up in Buck's face on the streets of New York City. Addam work coming up.
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whenever you like. Listen to it in drivetime. So before I get into the latest on the back and forth over Ukraine, an impeachment, and this political fight that has become an obsession of the media and an obsession of the political class. I wonder how much most Americans really care about this, although I suppose we'll just have to wait and see what comes of it all. I want to tell you that last night I went to a gala here in New York City for the New York
Young Republican Club. It was a great, great event. The guys who put it together really made it all happen, and it was It was fun. It was a it was like a Conservative Avengers reunion kind of situation. We had a man Raheem Kassam there, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaeffer, Steve Bannon was there. I gotta say. Bannon gave a keynote, and I I've met Steve before and I'm familiar with some of his work. His speech was or the mic didn't work. So Bannon stands up and there must have
been almost three hundred people. I think we're there last night. It was two fifty or two sixty in the in the ballroom, and Bannon stood up and the mic was just on the on the fritz. So he just said, all right, I'm just gonna project, which is this is what a pro does, right, That's how you do things. It would have been like, I'm just gonna say it would have been my move. You don't want to keep being a test dang, test dang, touching the mic and you lose people if there's too much of that. And
the room was small enough that he could project. So he stood up and he gave a very good speech, and she said, we are we are losing right now. He said, We're not losing in a micro policy sense, but we are losing if we don't understand how close we are to continuing to lose ground to China, for example,
lose ground to socialists in our own country. And just because Donald Trump has been a moment of pushback and fight back against all of that, it doesn't mean that if you take if you take a step back and look at the totality of what's going on, that the situation for conservatism and for individual liberty and constitutionalism in this country is looking good. If you were to put it on, if you were to plot this on a longer X Y axis, it is trending against liberty, it
is trending toward collectivism. This is not what he said. This is my interpretation of some of Steve's remarks. And he also gave just his review of what it was like going into the final weeks of the election. Because I believe three years ago. Was it three years ago today? November eighth? At least three years ago was when we had our first day? Was it the first day of the election, the first day after the election. It's been three years. It's rather amazing that this time has gone
by so quickly. Yep, Raheem Kassan Pasobic Bannon was there. Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer was there, a bunch of other folks that, Oh Rob Smith, great guy he was. It's funny I saw Rob in the New York City subway in the morning randomly, and then I saw him at night at the Galla. So even New York with eight million people, can feel rather small sometimes. Well, while it was a fantastic night, my little brother was there. He's
looking very dapper as always. While it was a great night for all involved, there was a contingent outside of of protesters, and they had clearly studied who they invited and you know, VIP guests or whatever you want to call them, essentially media people or those with some public profile. And it was also a black tie event or black tie preferred, so most people were wearing I mean, Bannon didn't wear black tie. Don't worry Bannon war with Bannon wars,
which is very specific to Bannon. But there were people who were outside and there must have been about sixty or seventy protesters i'd say, outside of this event, and they, you know, yelled epithets as I was walking past them, you know things, you know, alt right and racist and things like that. And then I have to tell you
one of them actually jumped out from the credt. Now there were police there, so there were police standing right there, which is interesting because on the one hand, I know some of you are saying, well, if someone got up in my face in this way, I would, well, if the cops are there, someone yells at you and you put and you you know, you escalate that situation. You're the one who's going to get the silver bracelets on you. So you just have to walk into the building and
not pay attention to it. But there was one individual in particular who kind of got up and actually stood in front of me to block my way. And he looked to be he was a white male, probably late forties, early fifties, and you know, I don't think that. Let's just say he was not a rugged looking fellow, and he looked like he'd spent a lot of time indoors playing battle chest by himself. And I had this guy in my face and he was screaming in my face, you are not welcome here. I'm a member. It was
at the Yale Club. I'm a member, you are not welcome. You're screaming in my face. I just kind of looked at him and you know, smiled actually in his walk, walked around him. And it was so interesting because my mindset at first it was, you know, what a clown. And there was a little part of me that was like, you're lucky that there are people here, because I am somebody, and I should probably get this out of the way now in case there ever is an incident. I don't.
I don't deal with aggression usually by just being cool about it. I may seem very mellow and relax and I do the show which I am, and I think I'm a very fair fellow and never looked to start any problems, but I do not react passively to aggression.
That said, I initially had that moment that I think a lot of guys in the audience and galls in the audience would where it was this guy's lucky that, you know, because the worst thing you can do as a conservative, of course, And apologies for my voice, obviously, I was out a little bit late last night. There was some mescal involved, but the worst actually was tequila. Wasn't mescal for really going to be fair, I asked for mescal and they didn't have it, so I wanted
there to be mescal, but there was just tequila. If you do anything, if I say, if you say anything, if you curse it them, they're all just hoping to create some incident that then they can put on. I saw someone call huff post Huff huff poop this warning on Twitter, which I had never seen that before. That was interesting. But one of those sites and or someone also referred to vox as as pox like chicken pox.
But you know, they're waiting for somebody to overreact and do something bad in a circumstance like that, and so I had my I know that, and so I'm just going by them and I kind of like smiled at some of them just because. But then I was walking the building, I had I had a couple of other thoughts. I mean, there was this process that went, the initial thing of somebody getting right up in your face, you doesn't know you, screaming at you, and they targeted me specifically.
I mean, Bannon was smart enough to show up later on when they didn't have a permanent anymore. So the police weren't there, so you can go in the back door, said, you know, some of the other people I just went at the very beginning the event, I didn't care. And so they came after me specifically and got right up in my face and yelling at me. And you have that initial that initial feeling of this person is showing aggression. He's lucky, I don't I don't, you know, take his
head off. And then as I walk inside, I just thought, this is really what libs are now, this is who they've turned into. This guy allegedly went to Yale University. It's pouring rain outside, there's an event with people who are it's a private event, people wearing black tie in. You know, the all I mean the keynote speakers are military veterans, all three of them, and all of whom
served their country in uniform. And there was a very It was just not that this really should make any difference to anybody, because you know, but I thought it was interesting. It was a particularly diverse crowd as well, which I just think the left I always say, oh, you know, it's all these white male Republicans. Anybody who was there last night. The first of all, obviously it was about half women, but even beyond that, it was
very It was actually a diverse room. Not that I feel like we should always have to have that caveator, just does every party have to have a I mean, private party have a diversity quotient. Well, the left seems
to like to enforce that kind of thinking. But as we went in, or as I went into the building, I just remember thinking, I talk about these limbs on the air and how they're crazy, and it was actually it was good to experience this because this was and it's not the first time, and I get people write horrible things to me. I don't write, I mean, I don't read the stuff that comes in on roll call. That's you know, your horrible. You know, go go blank
yourself or go do something terrible to yourself. You know. I don't read because why, I mean, it doesn't it's not. If it's funny, occasionally I'll read it, but I don't read this stuff where it's just people who are venting spleen. It's not worth hearing for anybody. But as as I went to the building, I was thinking, this is real.
I mean, people have actually lost it. I mean I would be so ashamed to show up at a private event and get in the face of a stranger and yell at that person and try to ruin that person's night, which it didn't at all. I had a great night. Sexton brothers were out in the town, had tons of friends. We had a fantastic night. So it was great. I would never last ning like this again in the way of that. But that was the purpose. Obviously, it was to rattle people and make them feel, you know, like
like they can't have a moment's peace. This was a purely so it was a social event. It had nothing to do with you know, we weren't raising money for a candidate or anything. And it is a reminder that these people are they are crazy. I mean, they really have taken politics to a level that I would be.
I would be. I would not just be ashamed personally, I would be ashamed to be friends with someone I would I'd be ashamed to be associated with somebody who would wait in the rain outside of a private party to yell. By the way, if I had asked, I mean, I thought about engaging this guy. What what do you not like about my positions? You know, you you utter more on but it's it's not I'm going to a party. I don't. I don't care, it doesn't it doesn't benefit me.
But I'd be ashamed to even be associated with a human being that would do that. And there were seventy of them or so fifty sixty seventy something like that waiting outside, that's my estimate, all in a line of placards the whole thing and pick people out to try to And I know that they do this on college campuses, but keep in mind this this was not and this was not meant to be. We weren't trying to provoke
a dialogue with the outside world. This was a private party that you know, some Antifa group in New York found out about and they sent their lunatics to it. And I'm just gonna just gonna say this on the record right now for all the team because you know, hopefully the hopefully the corporate folks in the world will
always back me on this one. But if something ever happens and I have to lay out one of these guys, I'm just telling you that they started it, Okay, It just there's zero chance that I started it, So I want to make sure that we're all you have. That that is the that is my alibi from the get go.
If something ever happens and there's a video of me and I have to knock somebody out, they started it, just so you know, because I know myself and I would never react unless I was actually physically personally threatened in that way. But they're they're crazy, which you saw,
and then you also have they're pathetic too. It's such a such a bizarre, sad and loser thing to do to wait outside of a social event and scream at people because what because Donald because we voted for the same president that half the country voted for, that that makes that acceptable. And I would just wonder, you know, do these do these loser leftists, all Libs, all Democrats all only know I'm sure MSNBC and CNN watchers they probably go on Slate and vox dot com and think
they're getting the truth. I mean, there wasn't a single non leftist in this group of protesters outside. But you have to wonder to yourself, well, I just would they be Okay, what if somebody was having a wedding, you know, at that venue, and Steve Vanham was attending the wedding, would they wait outside? And you know, the left really is much closer to the depravity and disgrace of the Westboro Baptist Church for example. Then I think many of us know because the media is always covering up for
them and trying to hide this. But they're not embarrassed by these people, which I think is really noteworthy. I mean, they're they're not disgusted by people who would wait outside of a private event and get in a stranger's face, someone they knew nothing about. And I mean he wasn't trying to intimidate me because that would not have worked, but was clearly just trying to be rude, and I got it. Actually, I think more aggressively than anybody else.
I mean the other people. They really came after me in particular because other people were walking in before me, other people that I know from media world. And it's it's a reminder that as I say to her, and I tell you about these things about how we are going into political trench warfare, we are going into an era now where the gloves have come off and people are ugly and they're nasty, and they're mean, and they're crazy, and they're stupid, and they're ignorant, and they're liberals. That's
where we are. That's what has become normalized on the left. There's no embarrassment over things like this. There's no sense of shame that these people allegedly represent liberal values. They represent liberal values by shaming people going to a social event. You know, I just would wonder do they have any boundaries at all, they have any respect, any decency whatsoever.
The answers no, of course not. And I'm quite honestly, I'm sure that if they found out that Steve Bannon or some of the other people that were in Eric Prince was in attendance as well, if some of them were at I'm sure they would wait outside a wedding and probably spit at the bride. These people are disgusting. They are disgusting, and their liberals, they're leftists. They adhere to this ideology that we're always told is in resistance
to Donald Trump. If this country goes down a very unfortunate and destructive path, which I do have days where I worry about that, I do think the same way that I tell you that if I ever have to defend myself against one of these Antifa lunatics, trust me, it's their fault. If we ever go down the road that I'm hoping is unthinkable, where this country really starts to have political violence in the streets, which happened in
the sixties could happen again. Last night was a reminder that these leftists, maniacs, they're the ones that are responsible for it. That much we know ahead of time. All right, let's talk about this whistleblower situation with some revelations on Tucker Carlson's show. Before I get I actually get into Tucker shows, say Dort, Producer Mark, we will not let anybody know where Producer Mark's wedding is because if if any of those Antifa clowns show up outside producer Mark's wedding.
All bets are off baby, old old school, buck the trade, somebody they're a dead man. I know. I'll be right there with you. Man. It'll be like the scene in Office Space where they have the fax machine, but it'll actually be some guy from Antifa. That's what it'll end up happening. That's one of the best seeds that Office Space bet. If you haven't seen it, it's like worth going back, just because to this day, I think I'm on my fourth printer in my apartment in like four years.
It's just they always break. They always there's always a paper. There's fear. They know when you really need to when you really need to print something, you're like desperate to get some form in or you're gonna lose your driver's license or something. That's what always happens when you were in college and you really need to paper performance. It's outrageous anyway, Office Space, if you haven't seen it, that's
my movie wreck for the weekend. It is a timeless classic that I'm sure would trigger libs if they watched it today. All right, so what's the latest in this whole saga? Do we call it? I'd like to call it a farce, a saga. It is a comedy, but it's not funny. We're gonna here's just a general it's
a prediction. It's also an update of what I've been telling you all along, and that is that the more we find out about what has really happened here with the whistleblower and all this, the more this will be just what we had before with Russia collusion, where people set this was a setup. This it was a conspiracy,
not a conspiracy theory. This was a conspiracy that there were people who are conspiring out of a moniacal hatred for this president, for what he represents, for the threat to the established order of the elites in this country, and they feel very justified in doing a whole lot of stuff, including up to and including breaking the law, in order to harm this president. Well, it turns out, and this was an exclusive last night on Tucker's show,
Tucker Shows Great Tucker's fantastic dude. By the way, just putting it for those you know, sometimes I come on, it's I say that people in media, a lot of them are really bad, really crappy people. It's true, and by the way, it is true conservatives that you all know too, but I won't you know, I I home team gets a respect. Even if there's some mean people on the home team. Mostly lives are the terrible ones though,
just so you know. And there are people like Tucker out there in media who are just awesome, very talented, great guys, super nice. So the good news is that there's plenty of Shannon Bream is amazing and super talented and nice. You know, I mean, I gotta I'm gonna sit here and go through like fifty people at Fox,
but I mean, you have what I'm saying. There are some really fantastic people on the right in media, So I know, I give the media all hard time, but you know, Fox is like this one outpost of sanity and in a crazy, crazy world out there. So here's what happened though on Tucker's show. This is the exclusive that former US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Ivanovitch. I think
that's the way we're supposed to say it. A key witness in House democrats impeachment inquiry communicated via her personal email account with a Democratic Congressional staffer concerning a quite delicate and that's a quote and quote time sensitive matter, just two days after the whistleblower complaint that kickstarted the inquiry was filed, and a month before the complaint became public.
Emails appear to contradict Ivanovitch's deposition on Capitol Hill last month, in which she told US Representative leez Zelden about an email she received on August fourteenth from the staffer Laura Kerry, but indicated under oath that she never responded to it. The communication came from the Foreign Affairs Committee, and they wanted me to come in and talk about I guess
the circumstances of my departure as Ambassador to Ukraine. Ivanovitch testified, I alerted the State Department because I'm still an employee and so matters are generally handled through the State Department. She then went on to say, so she emailed me. I alerted the State Department, and you know, asked them to handle the correspondence. And she emailed me again and said,
you know who should I be in touch with? Fox News is told that it is a breach of normal procedure for Congressional staff to reach out to a current State Department employee at their personal email address for official business. Yeah, you canna say that again, Why would why would de former US ambassador to Ukraine, who is one of the main voices that they point you now to shore up this flimsy impeachment case against the president. Why would she
want to talk to them about a sensitive matter? Talked to a Democrat House staffer. Doesn't that seem odd quite delicate and time sensitive? Two days two days after the whistleblower complaint. Does anybody want to take the position this is a coincidence? Do they want to try that one? Oh? This is yet another indicator of what I think we've
all known has been the case all along. There were people, there was a group really of Obama administration holdovers or people that had been in the State Department during the Obama administration, had formulated what they thought was Ukraine policy. Keep in mind these Ukraine experts, this whole group of them, vinmin Ivanovich, you've got all you know, You've got these different ambassadors that are giving their testimony, So how many how many envoys and aids and ambassadors and all the
stuff they really but conversation for another time. You have all of the all of this happening here, and yet they weren't able to do one of the most important things that could have been accomplished. These these so called Ukraine policy including Eric Charamelo's name is now out there everywhere. We're all talking about it, and including last night on or yesterday rather on the view that was that was a fiery exchange with the President's one of the President's sons,
Donald Trump Jr. And the ladies of the View. I still, though, I'm stunned by how stupid the analysis is of you're breaking the law by sharing a news story that names the whistleblower when everyone knows the name. So are we suppose we're really going to embrace this Orwellian world that the Left wants us to where we pe we pretend to not know that, which we know that's going to be the way that the game is played forward. I don't think so. I don't think we're going to do that.
But Ivanovitch talking to a Democrat, of course, a Democrat staff are on Capitol Hill. Oh and they weren't able to get lethal A to Ukraine, is what I was going to say. They weren't able to convince the Obama ministry. All these Ukraine experts care so much about Ukraine but at the end of the day they were ineffective. That's right,
at the end of the day. For all the complaining about Donald Trump in Ukraine, the fact of the matter is that on the single most important decision about Ukraine that has to do with stopping Russian aggression, Trump got it right, and Obama and all of his so called experts on Ukraine couldn't get it done. And you could say, well, buckets Obama's choice. They couldn't override him. Well, they really couldn't convince him of this one. Did they try that hard?
Because it mattered a lot. But you won't hear that, will you? That Trump policy is more pro Ukrainian where it counts and how it matters, just like you won't hear about how Trump was the one who blew up a couple of hundred Russian mercenaries in the desert for attacking our Kurdish allies. But all the Kurds abandoned. We've abandoned all the Kurds. They're all the whole Middle East is gonna be a war in genocide, Remember all that stuff. When was the last time you heard about the courts, folks?
Is there a genocide happening? No, oh no, Buck, you're not. You don't that's it could have any day now, it's gonna happen. Well, if you wait long enough in the Middle East, in any region, there's gonna be violence to speak of. So I just can I get a timeline here for when Trump pulling fifty US soldiers out of one part of a country that's been in the midst of a civil war that's killed five hundred thousand people.
Can we get a timeline for when that was clearly not the most catastrophic, horrible decision ever made in foreign policy? Because I think we're already there, folks, But oh my gosh, Isis is gonna rebound? Really? Ice is gonna rebound because the Assad regime and the Russians and the Turks they all have an interest in Well, the Turks it's a little a little more complicated, but the Assad regime and the Russians, they don't want an Isis resurgence. Do we
want them to be fighting Isis? Or do we want to be fighting Isis? You know, this is the people think that they've studied and understood the Middle East, and they forget that it's the people who live there who have to ultimately do the fighting. We can't be doing it for them. We're not going to stay forever, although
people seem to want to do that in Afghanistan. I just I just note on different areas of foreign policy, the narrative is never to give credit for Donald Trump on things where he clearly has been better than his predecessor. And there's there's no question, there's no question that he's been better than predecessor Barack Obama in fighting the Islamic State. Just look at the numbers looking out rapidly ISIS got rolled up in Syria. And also by the way that
we can stop calling it isol. Robama I wanted to call it Isil. We're gonna stop him or stop him Isisol's bat. We're just like, why are we calling them isol? No one called them that. Obama called him that and his executive branch. And I know this because I had friends and the Intel community who were telling me that it was It was isol was what they were insisting on calling it. Wrestling nine percent of the rest of the worlds like isis. Let's just keep it simple here.
Irakan Syria, not Irakan Sham, the Greater Levant Area. It was all just I had said this. All people had this whole theory about how it was about Israel and negating. No, no, no, it was just trying to be pedantic. They were just trying to show, you know, that was a It was a little thing meant to indicate that the person using isol instead of Isis was really more knowledgeable about the situation over there. You know, I even knew some people are calling it dash because they wanted to use the
Arabic acronym. And then I'd say, do you speak Arabic because the answers no, I don't think you should using the Arabic acronym for it speak American. So here we have the Ukraine policy disputed playing out again. We find out that the another day of this, we find out that Ivanovitch, now that I say the name properly, apparently I'm really having fun with it, had contacted a Democrat staffer in a timeline and in a way well one
that which is a strange thing to do. Why would this person the state department have content with the Democrat staff from the hell I worked for the CIA for five years. I never never just wrote some email to a Now this is a state department person. And I'm just saying, why would somebody who's in the federal government in this way just fire off an email to a staffer about the sensitive matter. M Right, curious, isn't it. Oh, but the journals out there are not going to dig
into this one. No, no, no, no reason to dig into this one. Why would they want to do that? My friend. What I've been saying to you all along is increasingly going to be obviously the case, and that is that they'd use this that really, the whole Ukraine thing was just meant to get the impeachment proceedings start.
It was the excuse to start it. The I think what you're gonna find is that this impeachment situation eats a little bit like pretending that General Flynn violated the Logan Act so you can get him on which note was just not serious. There's no real charge there and it would never happen. But they really wanted to get him online or you know whatever, just to trap him and say, oh, it's such a serious crime to a
lot of the FBI. Oh they changed is three h two by the way, they had Lisa Page that they've now this has been admitted, and I know I'm jumping around here, but it's Friday, so it's my party, and I'll jump around if I want to. Lisa Page, the lawyer with Strok, the ones that will go on trum Trump is gonna be president. I can smell the Trump
supporters though we're Hillary voters. Hillary is great. And anybody who thinks that Hillary is some fantastic person and that that alone is reason to vote for her over Trump. I mean, you gotta be kidding me, right, Oh yeah, Hillary, paragon of virtue, great person. People I know who have spent a lot of time around to say, she's not even she's not even nice, she's not even a nice person. But oh yeah, she's one. He's great. It's wonderful. Vote
for her. So, Lisa Page, the senior FBI lawyer changed the three you know, had some hand in editing General Flint's three O two. And now the position of the federal government involved in this prosecution. These prosecutors who remember they want to it's often partisan, but also within the federal federal bureaucracy there are people who just want to defend the institution at all costs, so that can also
factor into this. But they change Flint's three O two and now we're being told, well, he pleaded guilty, though well, yeah, maybe he wouldn't have pleaded guilty. If you know, if the cops show up, they sit down, they're like, hey, you better take a player, you know, the prosecutor rather sit down and say, hey, you better take a plea because we have a we have a signed confession with your signature on it. And you're like, wait, what, I
don't remember signing that. They're like, yeah, you just you walked in here and we have video of you and you signed it. And maybe you were you know, I don't know, maybe you're drunk or something, you're high, but you signed this thing. Here's a signed confession and it's already been you know, maybe at that point you'd say, okay, I guess I have to take a plea deal here, right, what's your other? And then if you found it after, it's oh no, it's fake. Right, you didn't sign this,
You weren't sleepwalking and signed a confession. Shouldn't you be able to retract that plea deal? I mean, that would seem to be a logical, unjust approach, but they're not looking for logical injust here they set up General Flynn. I mean General Flynn should be all charges. I mean, rather, the whole case against him should be dropped. He should be exonerated, The whole thing should go away. It's it's a disgrace. It's a disgrace to our justice system, the
whole thing. But then again, so was the mother prope. So at this point, much more justice system disgrace can we take before we say enough is enough. Oh but speaking of perjury, see I'm bringing it back now, bringing it back full circle is how we roll here in the Freedom unt. Speaking of full circle, why is Ivanovitch able to lie under oath? I mean that seems to be what has been admitted here, that she did have contact.
Representative Zelden said, it is greatly concerning that Ambassadory Ivanovitch didn't answer my question as honestly as she should have, especially under oath. Roger Stone right now is in a trial for lying apparently the FBI or you know, allegedly lying to federal authorities about non crimes that no one really doesn't matter, they don't mean anything. They want to send him to prison though for years. So if roger Stone can get sent to prison for lying, you know,
under oath or lying to federal authorities. If General Flynn, after thirty years of military service could get sent to prison for long, is Ambassador Ivanovitch oh, because she's hashtag resistance and we all know it is that why she doesn't get in trouble for this. One of the biggest threats we often hear from the Democrats. We hear from them about how there's such an undermining of our institutions. One of the biggest threats to the integrity of our
institutions of government is the growing perception. And it's real, and it is rooted in reality, a growing perception that we have a two tiered justice system, one for people on the right and one for people on the left. It's a big problem. I never heard any discussion in my entire ten year as vice president about the twenty fifth Amendment, And why would I The very notion of this anonymous who wrote an editorial now it's reported that
they've written the book is just appalling to me. If there's someone in our administration or serving our administration that does support this president, doesn't support his agenda, they should do the honorable thing in the sign. Isn't that pretty straightforward from the Vice president there. If there's somebody who really thinks that President Trump is a danger to the Republic, a danger to all of us, shouldn't they not work for him and go out in public and say what
needs to be said. But look at look at Anthony Scaramuccies. He's some brave truth teller. I mean, we know that he got on the outs with Trump Nolvis on the Mooch's like, hey, Trump's the worst. I hate him, He's terrible. I remember the mooch going on. I sat next to him once, said on a Fox Business show, and he was, mister, you know, Donald Trump is amazing, and he's going to transform politics in this country. And he has a brilliant,
genius level instinct for understanding American politics. And I mean, and then all of a sudden, he's not White House Comms directord morning. He's yeah, Trump's the worst ever, He's terrible. But is the mooch so brave? Is everyone is the mooch in danger because he criticizes Trump. Why can't the whistleblowers come out? So maybe I will call myself Christian genius, Christian billionaire genius buck Sexton, because I kind of like
the sound of that. Although only one of those three things is true, you can probably all guess which one. But that's what Kanye West has been telling people. He might change his name too. He's also saying he might run for president in I think twenty twenty or twenty twenty four. I'm actually not sure which one it is, but I like the I like the sound of Christian billionaire genius buck Sexton. That would be kind of fun.
At least gives me something to aspire to. I could earn the name after calling myself a name down the line. I also just wanted to point out something that you're not going to hear, because you know, I feel like I have to upate you on some of the latest on this situation with you know, all of these all these different people who are coming forward to speak about impeachment, these different ambassadors. Well, here's one, a career guy named George Kent. Now Kent, he said some stuff that was not,
you know, helpful for the Trump side of things. Right. He said that the president's personal attorney sought to manipulate US policy on McRae, on Ukraine and Alice Foreign Ambassador Marie Ivanovitch guess what the president kid said and whoever he wants to do whatever he wants on foreign policy. The president gets to do foreign policy. All these bureaucrats you don't like. Remember, bureaucrats don't like President Trump's foreign policy on Ukraine or they're they're concerned about what he's
going to do about it. Meanwhile, thanks to President Trump, they actually have missiles to stop the Russian tanks from running over their brothers in trench warfare in eastern Ukraine. Right, So who's the good guy here? I just all the bureaucrats, the stuffy buik are working so art on this issue. Please, I see, I know these people I worked, the kind of people that do all the grandstanding about how important they are and how much the you know, we mattered,
the US foreign policy matters. The self importance of the State Department is just I'm going to be honest, it's just vomit inducing. It's always The State Department could be a fifth of its current size, and if you just had good people who worked hard and got things done, everything would be fine. He could be twenty percent of its current size and we would not the country would
not be in dire straight. We might have like a few less unnecessary you know, agricultural training programs in countries that you know are not thankful for the help we give them anyway. George Cann who's this and he's this guy who is a lifelong bureaucrat for the State Department. Here's what he had to say in testimony. This is you know now the test was coming out. Question and anytime was there discussion of perceived conflicts of interest either
in the part of the Vice President Biden or his son. Answer? You're talking about a period leading up to his visit in December twenty fifteen. Well, Hunter Biden, he first support that he was on the board in mid twenty fourteen. Correct, And the Vice President's involvement with Ukraine is pretty significant at that point in time, and it remained until he
through twenty sixteen. Correct. Yes, And the question was, you know, were there any discussions of a perceived conflict of interest on the part of either Hunter Biden or the Vice President when I was the first time I was in Ukraine as acting Deputy Chief of Mission in the period of mid January to mid February twenty fifteen, subsequent to me going into the Deputy Prosecutor General on February third, and demanding who took the bribe and how much it
was to shut the case down against Zlotchevsky. I became aware that Hunter Biden was on the board. I did
not know that at the time. And when I was on a call with somebody on the Vice President's staff and I cannot recall who it was, just briefing on what was happening in Ukraine, I raised my concerns that I had heard that Hunter Biden was on the board of a company owned by somebody that the US government had spent money trying to get tens of millions of dollars back, and that could create the perception of a conflict of interest. Oh you don't say, hm, Hunter Biden
conflict of interest daddy running Ukraine foreign policy? Huh? This State Department guy's putting all the puzzle pieces together, isn't he question? And what did the person the other end of the line tell you. Remember this is a State Department person talking about raising to the Vice President's staff
the problem of Hunter Biden. Here's what we said. The message that I recall hearing back was that the Vice President's son Bo was dying of cancer, and there was no further bandwidth to deal with family related issues at that time. Was that pretty much the end of it? That was the end of that conversation. Okay, that was in mid twenty fifteen. That would have been in February, because the best of my recollection, bo Biden died that spring.
I then returned to you Ukraine in August of twenty fifteen, and I believe he passed before then. So the only time that conversation could have happened is in the narrow window between January February twenty fifteen and subsequent to that. Did you ever think through with other State Department officials about whether we should try to get Hunter Biden to leave the board, or maybe we should get the Vice President to transition his key responsibilities on Ukraine to some
other US official. No, it's easy in a conference room like this to have a considered discussion about things in Ukraine. At that time, we had a war with Russia occupation. We had an embassy staff going from one hundred and fifty to two hundred fifty Americans from no special forces US government soldiers to close to seventy in country. Our assistance went from one hundred and thirty million to nearly
a billion, and we were working nearly NonStop. Ambassador Piat I can tell you from working for him, would wake up between four fifty and five oh one am because that's when I got the first email from him and went to bed, because that's when I'm blah blah blah. Okay, yeah, NonStop. Twenty hours a day, seven days a week. Right, no one's ever worked as hard in the history of the universe, is these particular diplomats do. I was in war zones with the federal government too, folks. I know what really
goes on. So yeah, all these State department guys twenty hours a day, seven days a week. Sure. Anyway, the real reason I'm reading this transcript portion to you is just so we're all clear. The media's, oh, I don't think there's anything wrong with Hunter Biden being on the board of the company is just feigned stupidity. Nobody's that dumb.
Everybody knows that what Hunter Biden did was gross and gross enough that there would be justification to look into whether there was actual corruption, abuse of power, you could say, by Joe Biden on behalf of his son in these circumstances, you could at least justify an investigation of it. But instead what we have is an entire media apparatus that is anti Trump, just willing to look really dumb because it's easier to look dumb than have to explain this
stuff to the American people. They'd rather pretend. And speaking of looking dumb, I mean, I have said this before. I do believe, and there's some there's some competition, for sure, but I think that Senator Mazie Horono is, based on her public utterances, the dumbest elected official in the United States Congress. I think that that's probably that's a there's a strong case to be made that she said the dumbest things of anybody in Congress. I'm just this is
just one man's opinion. I tend to be right. Here's what she says, though, about this whole situation. Play seventeen. Please the whistle lords complained, which first brought to light that the President engaged in this kind of what it turns out to be cripocal, has been collaborated by Taylor by others. And so here's the Republicans, you know, they just can't deal with a substance of what the present did. So they're doing all kinds of things so to muddy
the waters. They can't deal with the substance, so they want them under the waters. We've dealt with the substance every day for weeks now. Substance isn't changing. We know what the substance is. We know it's set on the phone call. Perceptions of policy from bureaucrats from the period of time and question. I don't care, it doesn't matter.
They're not telling us about anything that we need to know from them, especially because there's this irony that Trump's policy on Ukraine was better for Ukraine that Obama's and all these people who work together, but there's all this connection. By the way, they think now that Scaramella may have traveled I believe with Biden to Ukraine. I think I saw that in the Washington Examiner. I mean, this was like a it was like a cabal of Obama era officials that had one view of what should be going
on in Ukraine. And there's also this question about CrowdStrike and whether you know why was CrowdStrike, which is Ukrainian funded, the only group that ever looked into the DNC server and the FBI never actually examined the service. Is that a crazy thing to ask? Can I get an answer about this? They're gonna ask a private entity that's Ukrainian funded. I mean, that's why Trump brought that up on the call.
And maybe there's maybe there's nothing to it. But you see with Democrats, they think if they just shout loud enough and they're shrill and nasty enough, they can prevent people from just doing fact finding. How about we find out what happened. Wouldn't that be a good thing to do. We had to sit here and be lectured by crazy libs for over two years about how oh, the special counsel this is all by the book, this is all legitimate. No, it's all crap. The whole thing was garbage, and I
was saying, along is right all along. It was a conspiracy to take down a president. And if there was anything that they could have produced, trust me, they would
have because they went through everybody. Nobody got the benefit of the doubt in that process process, crimes were thrown at people left and right, turned up the heat on people, did real financial and psychological damage to lower level staffers in the White House who had to just get lawyers and deal with sleepless nights because they had to go in for you know, with Muller and his team knowing that if they you know, lied about what they had
for breakfast yesterday, they're going to get thrown in prison. It's just crazy. Oh, but we can't find out about anything Ukraine related. That would be that would be terrible. Let's also understand even if let's say that there was an announcement about this has gotten skipped over by everybody here.
Let's just say that with the quid pro quo, Oh, the quid pro quo, Let's just say for a second that it was followed through with or it really did happen, meaning that Zelenski announced that there was an investigation into Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, that whole situation. So let's assume that that actually was going on. That would be like a two day news cycle, the announcement of an investigation. You know what, all the Democrats would say, there's nothing there,
it's a part of an investigation. Who cares, They're not going to show up with anything. And if they didn't get anything from the investigation, that would be it. You know, the way that people are talking about this on the left. It's like it's like Donald Trump said, Hey, we're going to arrange for like hunter Biden to travel to Ukraine and can you guys throw him in prison and like
never let him get trial. You know, that's not what happened, the way that the hysteria, Oh to invest foreign interference by investigating your opponent, Even if that had happened, Okay, even if if that had gone through, does anyone really think that Democrats would have stopped supporting Joe Biden? Where there's a joke right of me, like they're gonna all of this sud be like, oh, well, because they're investigating this Ukraine situation. I guess Trump wins the election, and
now you might say, oh, what about those independents? And that's where it will really matter. Okay, but guess what. Politics is a rough business. And Donald Trump is currently has gone through a criminal proceeding meant to take him down, that was based on lies for two years, and now is going political proceeding meant to destroy his presidency, and
yet they still haven't been able to stop him. So maybe this is going through this gauntlet is I think forging him as an even stronger candidate in this whole process, or a stronger president, somebody who is just unflappable. I mean, you cannot, you cannot keep this guy, keep this guy down. It's really remarkable. So just some some additional thoughts on this. You know, where I have more more bureaucrats, more people are gonna come out from a state department and they'll
be targeted, leagues of different information. But it's all telling us. This is why amazing heronaus thing I think is such garbage because the substance, we already know what the substance is. They just keep trying to say, hey, but do you see this thing that happened that he said on the Yeah, we know I don't care, not going to care that. They're not going to make me care by repeating it every day, which seems to be the plan as well as I said, they're gonna switch. They're gonna switch into
something else because this isn't gonna cut it. It's just not enough, it's not it's not damaging and off this narrative that they've concocted, it's not going to get it done. If you held a vote today in the House, would you vote to impeate this president impeach this president. Well, that question I won't answer because I do have to keep an open mind and an appearance of an open mind.
I have said that the evidence is pretty damning. Oh yeah, he's keeping an open mind, all right, noddler there, No, it would't it wouldn' vote impeach the president, right of course. Not, no way, no way you would do that. I mean, come on, this is what This is one of the things that bothered me so much about Democrats, like they will resume as soon that we're all so stupid. Yeah, sure, sure, he's he's still waiting to see that evidence come in
before he makes up his mind. You know, same thing with like you know, Pelosi and Shift and all the rest. And they're still waiting for the evidence. This is all based in the facts. This isn't This isn't a political narrative that's driving their perception of the facts. It really is. It really is stunning to them, just the dishonesty and the the disingenuousness of all of this. And I would like to think, I would like to believe that the
American people understand really what's going on. Enough. I had to say enough America, beause there are a lot of forty eight forty five percent of the country. I really believe this wouldn't care if Donald Trump were being impeached based on evidence that they knew to be fraudulent, they would not That wouldn't bother them if they were, if
they knew that they somebody had, you know, fabricated. I'm in and I can't really walk you through how this analogy would work, but I'm just saying if they they don't know, they don't care what it is. Forty to forty five percent of the country of the voting public, all Democrats obviously, they just want Trump gone. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter what the explanation,
the explanations and the process and all. This is just trying to hope to get republic looking defectors and create enough support among independents that the Democrats have a shot at regatting more power in the next election. But I mean, the Democrats, this is all They're not sitting around, you know, none of the leftist none of the psychopaths who are
protesting the event I went to last night. I mean, none of these people are sitting around saying, wow, I really don't know if Donald Trump should be impeach, we need to let the process play out. Yeah, sure, sure. Remember that was what they were saying about Mueller until Muller didn't give them what they wanted, and then it was, oh, Muller, move right to impeachment right away. These people are nuts, by the way. Senator John Kennedy he he had some
thoughts on what Pelosi is doing here. Really what the precedent is that Nancy Pelosi is setting, Prince Mark, could you play clip five please? She is going to elevate partisan impeachment to the new normal, so that hymns fourth. When we have a new president and we will have a democratic president day, many Republicans are going to feel obligated to impeach the democratic president because they don't agree with his or her politics. And I don't think that's right.
I just don't think that's try. It's a little bit like the the nullification that can happen in states when if you just get a private enough private interest groups together or just interest groups who want to recall somebody, you know, recall elections, well you know what a total recall. The original was actually a pretty good, watchful movie. The
remake was terrible, which made me sad. You know why made me sad, Producer Mark Why because Jessica Bill was in it, I believe before she married justin Timberlake, so she was still in the market at that time, so there was hope. And now you're you have no hope anymore. I mean once she married somebody like Timberlake, I mean even I think he's dreamy fair point. Yeah, I mean he wasn't even good in the social network, which which
was pretty oppressive. So anyway, I think that recall elections, for example, can be a way where yeah, I mean, if someone's doing horrible, I understand why it exists. But you know, it's a little bit like jury nullification. Nullification is a real thing. It's also an extreme thing. It's also should be a last resort, and impeaching a president should be a last resort as well. And anyone who is telling you that this what's going right now with
President Trump is a last resort is a liar. It's just not they've been wanting to do this all along. It's all pretextual. It's all based on some excuse that they'll find in order to make it seem like they haven't been trying to do this all long. But it's just it is just lies, my friends. It is just lies, and you know it and I know it. But Democrats have gotten very, very comfortable with that, so I don't think it's going to change anytime soon. All right, let's
check in on the crazy Democrat candidates, folks. I feel like I feel like we haven't done much of that. We haven't a nad lay today. I've just been getting an impeachment and telling you about you know, psycho antifo wannabes. They're just jealous that Buck pulled off the tuck. So well, what can I say? Double o seven buck baby, it's how we roll. We have. If you haven't, you gotta you, guys, gott follow me on Instagram. I need more team Buck
following on Instagram. I post photos from this stuff. I post some on Facebook two, but Instagram now is where the photos usually go. So if you want to see the event last night, you should definitely follow me. Just Buck sexon on Instagram's very easy, All right, Ulizabeth Warreen, let's start with Elizabeth Warren. How do we have crazy Bernie Bernie Sanders getting crazier and crazier. Where is this here. Yeah,
I think we met a Bernie here somewhere. We do have Warren for sure, talking about Elizabeth Warren want Shane just wants to take the wealth from the rich people and just wants to pay for everything else for everybody else. Here's her telling us all that rich people are. Remember she's rich, she's millionaire rich. There's not billionaire rich and millionaire riches like you still have to think about things, you know. I mean, I'd love to be millionaire rich
first son bad. I've never experienced this, but billionaire rich although I am, as producer, Mark will tell you perhaps going to legally change my name to Christian Billionaire Genius Buck, and maybe that should just Christian Billionaire Genius Buck if you can make that the show title today. I just yeah, sure, you know. But if you're a billionaire, I'm not getting paid enough. That's true. Yeah, sorry, we'll have to up the salary. But it is. It is technically fake news
that I'm a Christian billionaire genius. But Elizabeth Warren is out there saying that rich people are bad. Play fifteen producer Mark. When you see a government that works great for those with money and it's not working so well for much of anyone else. That is corruption, pure and simple, and we need to call it out for what it is. When you see a government that works for people with money and it's not working so well for much of any one house, that is corruption, pure and simple. What
does that mean? You know, that's my favorite question on the show. But what does that mean the government work? The government has a almost trillion dollars welfare budget, right that spends almost a trillion dollars on welfare. Depending on how you calculate welfare. I think it's like eight hundred billion a year. Where exactly is how I mean the government in what way works for rich people. I'm not saying that that's not that there's not ways. The system
is rad it's definitely true financial system. It's not fair. There's stuff that goes on that's that's bad and dirty. But I would like a little more specifics than just the class war fair envy. I don't like the rich people stuff Fromlizabeth Warren. I think that we could ask for a little bit more specificity than she's giving us here.
Oh that's right. Wealth tax time, baby. Now, as a conservati, I'm gonna tell you this wealth tax wouldn't affect me, so woooo right, Producer Mark, Oh, wealth tax, they're gonna get up in our bank accounts. I don't think, so we don't have to worry about that. Good, no new taxes for us, Yeah, exactly, Mom. Robin Hood Baby, Take from the rich, give to the poor. Important. What is the best version, live action or animated robin Hood of all time? There's only one answer to this question, but
let's see if you get it. The best version of robin Hood the tale of all time. We're gonna go with the animated one, right, correct, ding ding ding? Producer Mark gets it done. The Disney animated I mean, nothing's better than most of the Disney animated movies. Remember that's like, uh, that the Sheriff of Nottingham that's singing that little little tune. I think so you've been a while since I've watched him. Yeah, anyway, it's great. If your kids haven't seen it, that's one
of the best. That's an underrated Disney movie. Because here's the thing. Uh, the robin Hood Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner. Why could everyone else have a British accent but he can't. He's like, yes, I am Robin Hood, and I speak in a monotone because I'm Kevin Costner. He doesn't. He doesn't have a British accent in the movie. It's like it took some guy from you know, central Illinois and put him in you know, thirteenth century England or whatever. Rob be like if James Bond spoke with
an American accent. Yeah, exactly, I'm James Bond. Baby here I am. Look at my tucks, New Yorker, James Bond, New Yorker, James Bond. I like hot dogs, football, tuxedos, the Mets. Clearly that James Bond with like the Mets. What what is that supposed to mean? But we know what's up. We know, you know, we know there's this there's certain certain New Yorkers like the Yankees, and certain New Yorkers like the Mets. That's all I'm gonna tell you. It's the thing. I'm a Mets fan. Fuck. I know?
Is I like we like the poke producer bark a little bit? So anyway, do you a Robin Hood prince athesis is bad men and tites is reasonably entertaining. It's actually Dave Chappelle back in the day was in met robin hood mentites. All right, Sorry, I got totally sidetracked Fromlizeth Warren wealth tax. There we go back on track now. So the thing about a wealth tax. As a conservative, I understand that the wealth tax is problematic in a
lot of ways. But before I get into why the wealth tax is problematic, let me say that the I always tell you when I get a little status tingley, I get a little thrill up a leg of statism or something, or statism is throwing up my like whatever you understand, I I always know when I'm veering into that, Like like when they banned smoking in places, I'm like, I know it's big government, but stinks for all of you who like to smoke in the public places, like
and I know that that should be private, private day places to be able, but they regulated and they say can't do it. And I like it, even though I know that technically it's not a free market liberal liberal or I should say a liberty base is when I liberal Buck had a long night. Buck, his voice is a little bit scratchy and my brain's not foggy, though I'm not having like a not having like a Biden moment. Here or anything. Um see that we should call it.
Call it a Biden moment, when you forget where you are, when you're just sort of blabbering incoherently about something. So I like the idea that at least a wealth tax because the super rich Libs and wealth tax is bad. Don't you know? People can cut this and like Buck, you said, you're like a wealth tax. No, I don't like a wealth tax, but there are some parts of it that I kind of like. Because the problem you have with a lot of Libs is that they love to talk about how much they want to pay higher
t axes and they're all fine with it. And yeah, you look at somebody like like John Carey when he was running for president. I think back in two thousand four, right, think about that John Carey was a Democrat nominee for president. Wow, that guy, Yesh, I'm really boring and I talk like this all the time. And I've been fortunate to marry two incredibly wealthy women, one after the other. And John Carey, Man, my, John Carey is actually kind of good. I haven't pulled
that one out a while. I was like, I felt like John Carey was in the room so some of you were like boo false. John Carey when he was running for president. I think he had something like seven million dollars in income from investments and things, so like, not from labor, but just from investment income. And I think he paid ten or twelve or fifteen percent because there are all these incentives and all this stuff, it was structured. He paid a shockingly low tax rate on
the seven million dollars. And keep mind they're not touching any of the principle of his overall. Well, so of course for people like that, they're like, yeah, fifty percent tax rate whatever their bills are already paid because of super rich people don't have to care about the tax rate all that much. The tax rate on income, my friends, they don't have to care about because their expenses are already all covered and are covered by what they can
accumulate just from investment income. Essentially, even though right now bank accounts he don't get anything. I mean, this is I will say, you know, from Bannon last night, one of the best things that he said at the at the speech, and he went into how the government policy and this is where this is true. Government policy has because of quantitative easing and this enormous FED balance sheet and the acquisition of all this cash by the federal
government to use and then distribute to printing money. I mean they don't actually print it, but to put money out in the marketplace. What it means is that's why you can't get any percentage on your savings that's worth worth a damn anymore. You can't. You know, there were times when you could get and some of you listening to know this because you got it. And I've never been alive when it, but you would get you know, seven yeah, even I think at one point it when
I was high. Well, I don't know. I don't want to give you a number because I will be wrong, but I know it's seven eight nine percent on a savings account. You could get back at one point. Now there was higher inflation obviously, but still now you can't get any money on that stuff. And that means that the money goes into the into the stock market, in particular inflated people who have assets, those assets get inflated,
they do well. But people who are trying to save money pay for essentials, they are you know, you're transferring money from from people who are at the lower end of the scale who are just trying to get ahead and build some economic security of people who at the very top of the scale. That's a real economic phenomenon. Ben I was talking about it last night, and that's something that we should not forget, you know, Lizabeth Warren, some Democrats, some of the stuff they talk about is real.
There are there is a growing gap between rich and poor in this country. I mean, there are some phenomena that they they discussed that are we need to discuss two because it's real. But we just have better ideas about how to fix it. But a wealth tax affects the people that like to walk around being, oh, I don't care how high am I tige whicheverybody should pay
higher taxes? Oh really, All of a sudden, the really rich people start and of course the super rich libs out there start to say, oh, no, you can't take a percentage of my overall assets, because that starts to feel like they're actually they're they're feeling that. It feels like they're feeling it, that's the way you could say it. It It feels like they take note of it. And here's Senator Elizabeth Warren doing her full Marxist class warfare routine,
play clip sixteen. Please, And here's the thing. You may have heard some billionaires on TV recently crying about that two cent wealth tax. Ah, but we asked the top one tenth of one percent to pitch in two cents on their fortunes. We can invest in an entire generation two cent wealth tax. I'm assuming she means ah, I'm assuming she means two percent. Uh what exactly is her Yeah? Yeah, annual on two percent? Yeah, that's what. Of course it's two cents. Why she says it's two percent, she's calling
a two cent That's why I don't. I guess she's trying to be clever with two percent wealth tax, two percent on every dollar of net worth above fifty million dollars. What this would do is it would over time, it would shrink very large fortunes. That is true. It would and people who right now are very haughty about how they don't care what their tax it is, they would start to care all of a sudden. They would be a change, There would be a shift in their thinking.
And so if for no other reason than that, I kind of like it. I kind of like it because now I do not just I do not support a wealth tax, but I like the aspect of it where it shows some of the hypocrisy. It shakes rattles up a little bit. The people that love to talk about, oh, I wish I could pay Warren taxes. First of all, those people never just they can send as much money as they want the federal government. If you want to give the federal government every dollar you have, you can
do that. And I'm sure there's some leftists who so that's the patriotic thing to do, give every dollar you have for the government so that the Democrats can redistribute it to legal aliens, right. I mean, that's they're great with that. They think it's a fantastic idea. But the wealth tax Elizabeth Warren is bringing up is that's where Wall Street is all of a sudden starting to turn on her. This is where people are seeing things differently about Elizabeth Warren. And they had in the past ease
every bit as radical as Bernie. She just comes across as less radical in her demeanor. But it's really just a style thing. It's not a substance thing. She has all of Bernie's radicalism and then some, and we should not forget that as we continue to think about which Democrat, which Democrat do we really want to have squaring off against President Trump. That's that's an interesting question at this point.
I don't I don't have a clear answer in mind, other than I feel like I'm quite confident that Bernie Sanders would lose, but I don't know. Maybe Biden is more likely to lose. In Sanders, I think it's important for the nation to raise him and raise a fifteen dollars an hour or the next seven years. Is that possible? It is possible. You know what happened was when Barack and iron office. What happened was we pushed it, and a number of states came along and responded to that push.
And there's a number of states. Now there's fifteen dollars minimum ways that's phased in. And the argument's going to cost jobs is not true. Just take a look of corporate profits there. The idea he can't pay for fifteen bucks an hour is not It is just not accurate. And look, it's all about giving people some dignity. There has to be the ability to be able to have healthcare, education, be able to live a decent life. Nobody should be working forty hours a week and being paid was below
the poverty level. It's just not right in minment. Now. I know this is a very popular issue left hand right. People like minimum wage, they like raising minimum wage, and we never seem to get past this. It's a little bit like the intractable nature of the pay gap between men and women, which is not what people say it is. The pay gap is a lie. You keep you have
to keep coming back to this. No, women do not make you know, seventy seven cents of the dollar or what They're doing the same work, at the same level, the same stuff. That's not true. It's just not but people like to say it. And on minimum wage. I know this is where because I feel that to you, I mean, I want people to get well paid. I look, anybody who shows up and does an honest job for an honest wage deserves respect. And I mean that from
bottom my heart. And I think that, you know, one of the things about America that makes us Americans is that if you show up and you're doing an honest job for an honest wage, it's it's every bit as respectable was any other job at anyone's doing for a ton of money or famous or whatever. It may be, and that's that's part of our that is part of our American ethos, that is part of our American culture.
But I also understand economics a little bit better than Bernie Sanders and better than Joe Biden, that's for sure. And I know that the studies they've done on this are very clear. Minimum wage. When you raise it, some people do make more money. Some people's hours are cut back, some people's jobs are cut that's just your screen. The price is the price. I always say that's the central planners pretend that's not the case. The price is the price the market sets. The price paying somebody is the
price for their labor. And there are factors that go into that that are not just we think this would be a good amount of money for you to make. And it's also the case that it makes it harder for people to get into the workforce, it increases automation.
I mean, there's all these there are all these things that happen you raise themum wage and people feel good about it, and there are some people who will be you know, in that margin of okay, the company can pay a little bit more, or they it's good pr for them. So they'll just they'll pass on the cost to consumers. There's all these different but ultimately you're just mandating. The government is mandating that the money is going from
one place and into another. That's what's happening here. There's there's there's not some magic money tree that they can just shake and the money comes down for all the people and everything is fine. But everyone like this is you know, Republicans lose on this issue. People like the minimum wage to get to be higher. No one wants to hear from the nerdy economists who actually crunch the numbers. You'll tell you that it doesn't do. It does not do what people say it will do. There are costs
and there are drawbacks. But you know, I know, I sound like Buck the Grinch, the whistleblower whose complaint has now led to impeachment hearings. The whole point of releasing a name is to intimidate someone, to threaten someone, and to scare other people from coming out. That's something that dictators do. I've lived in China. I've seen that firsthand. That's not what America does. That's not who we do. We don't we stand by our people. Why did you
want to release think think. I think the reality of the answer is the whistleblower's name was on a little website called the Drudge Report a couple of days ago. It was in real clear politics. I literally quote tweeted an article that had the guy's name in the title of the article. So that whole thing is that I wish the outrage would be equal. I mean, there was no outrage when you know, my family got an exploding letter of you know, with white powder substance in it.
You know, they're protecting a guy, you know, in the CIA and the great outrage. But when your family gets something, it's there. And that's a big part of the book, which is it's not a level playing field in terms of outrage. We do live in an outrage culture. We do live in an outrage culture, that's for sure. And it was an outrage how much stupid stuff was said on the View yesterday by some of those co hosts.
First of all, we've we went over to remember that you had Sonny Houston saying that it was a crime, which she's don't have her as your defense attorney that much. I assure you that bad idea not a good lawyer. Okay, You're not going to prison in any normal circumstance, at any normal court in this country because you shared a news article that was freely published that you just happened to share online. That that does not happen, not yet
at least in this country. But even an Abby Huntsman there, who I remember when she worked in FI I thought she was kind of supposed to be a conservative? Is that Abby Huntsman just is she whatever she has to be for the job she's in at that time. Is that where her ideology lies? I think so. So, you know Huntsman in Romney, you get some of these folks who are Republican names out the Republican dynasties who don't
seem all that concern with helping out. Republicans sometimes seem much more concerned with, well, what's gonna help me at any point in Ton? But her her no, no, look, I don't. I'm surprised that she's actually on an opinion chow because I've never really heard her share much in the way of opinions. But she said here that you know this is meant to intimidate, to threaten someone. First of all, Don Junior didn't release the name of the person.
But beyond that, for a second, she brought up dictators. That's what dictators do. They out people who are whistleblowers in the government. You know what else dictators do. Dictators hold secret trials. Dictators don't have to present evidence for public scrutiny. Dictators will take sworn testimony or just testimony from anonymous sources and use that as the only justification necessary to punish someone, to destroy someone. Dictators do that too.
Who's doing that right now? And Aunt Trump, it's not the Republicans. It's just a particularly stupid moment there. And as I keep saying to you this, the whistle blower legally does not have the expectation of complete and utter privacy. The whistle blower Statute is out there to protect people from retaliation. It is not meant to be a cover so that someone cannot be that they can engage in a political debate from behind the cover of anonymity. Look
at Democrats doing this, folks. This is now a new game They're played. Got the anonymous book, which apparently terrible. I mean, there's like, because this guy writes this anonymous book, it's the same thing, the same problem you have with the whistleblower who won't subject himself to scrutiny. How can we test the merit of any of these claims. Let's just take all the politics out of this for a second.
If I said to you, if I said to you that your business partner is stealing from you, right, if i've you and I my dear and beloved audience, if we are have a conversation you and I knew you, and I said, look, I know your business partner stealing from you. And you said, well, how do you know that? And I said, well, I just know, and I wouldn't give any more information than that. Would you be right to act on that? Would you be right to go and confront your business partner and say, hey, are you
stealing from me? No? If your business and if you asked me and I said, well, it turns out that I'm really good friends with your business partner's accountant, and he's worried and he's going to the FEDS because there's some embezzling going on here, then you might say, okay, I got a problem here, right, But how can you know without me giving you that critical piece of information? What if I said your business partner stealing from you. And you said well, And I said, well, I a guy.
This actually happen. Once a guy came up to me in a wizard hat, serious like a wizard, you know, like like Harry Potter, and he wanted to tell my fortune. And he just sat next to me and started telling me what's going to happen in my future. If I told you that guy, random wizard walking around to the park, guy who claimed to be able to see the future, that he told me that your business partner is stealing from you, you'd probably say, I don't think I'm not
worried about my business partners stealing for me. How can you assess the credibility of information without these necessary facts? You can't. Why am I? You know, why am I telling you this thing? On what basis am I telling you this thing? The anonymous book that's out there right now comes from somebody who won't give the details about obviously himself or herself, but even beyond that, won't give specifics enough about the incidents in question because doesn't want
to be outed by you know what. You get into certain conversations in certain places in the White House, there's only a small group of people that were in the room, and they're gonna be able to figure out you know, they're gonna find out who the mole is. Essentially right, they're gonna find out who the leaky, leaky member of
the team is with this book. So you don't know who the person is, and they won't give any details to prove that what they say they heard or what they say happened happen, but we're just supposed to believe them. Is that? Is that the country you want to live in? Anonymous allegations that you're supposed to make a decisions, momentous
decisions on, and you're not allowed to ask for more information. Now, the willingness for journalists here to abandon transparency and the you know, the they're supposed desire for transparency and they're dogged, unrelenting search for the truth all the time is appalling. It's appalling. By the way, those are those are things that are generally fake. Most people who I know who are journalists really don't show up saying I just want to I just want to break a story that's a
big story on a thing. Most journalists that I know, or I want to break a big story that hurts the other team. That's the real goal, because that's how people that's how your audience in mainstream journalism, that's how they come to love you when you do something that takes down a Republican, takes down somebody who opposes the world view that you think you you deserve to have, You deserve to live in a place where that worldview is constantly reflected back to you. So this is uh,
it's it is. It is troubling stuff to see this, but nonetheless it is the view, I guess. So so there is there is that aspect of it. I guess we shouldn't think that the view is going to give us a great legal analysis. I don't think anybody would expect that. But also just that this is supposed to be a reflection of mainstream, even Democrats, perception of things. Now, the whistle blower is supposed to be anonymous, we're supposed to believe that the media is not all in the tank.
For this whole whistleblower situation, it forces us to ask the question repeatedly, how dumb do they really think we are? How dumb do they think we are? The answer is really dumb, it seems, which makes me kind of annoyed. I think everybody should be a little mo annoyed about this special treat for all of you out in a radio podcast and Pluto TV land my man Jesse Kelly, host of the Jesse Kelly Show, which is a great radio show down in KPRC Houston. Also my counterpart here
on the first Chiel two forty eight Pluto TV. Mister Jesse Kelly, how are you, sir? It's Friday and I got one more show of each this week, so I'm just all right, my man, here we go. What's new out there? Is it the Bloomberg News today? I find
this to be hilarious. Well, this isn't I just want to be clear this is not technically Bloomberg's announcement, but I will take a little trip down Bloomberg memory lane if I can with you, Producer Mark, would you do your favorite in play clip twenty four, please let me summarize today's announcement for our Spanish speaking New Yorkers A late pademosa Toto slush New York knosk say mentagan inm
infomatos subrey el Harican Sandy Ya. You remember when when Bloomberg would go into his and people call him, said you were, said, said you were Bloomberg Ghito, And all of a sudden he was. He was doing as Bloomberg in Spanish love. He's like something as as a Texan that is the worst Spanglish. I remember, like he says it like such a New Yorker in toto if no no, no mass margaritas esto a key. I don't speak much Spanish, but I think I speak as much as as much
Spanish as Mayor Bloomberg Ghito. I just thought it, girl, like, why don't have somebody else's come up and translate for him? Now? He wanted to do it himself. He's like a mayor. Bloomberg got the you know uh, but he crashed me up because and I realized he was a better mayor than Deblocio. He was a much better mayor. I must be honest with you. He was. But it's this you look, you're a resident again of New York City, so maybe
you can speak to it. And you know that I love New York City, so don't everybody's scream at me. I love your town. But there's something about these New York City mayors. They rise to be New York City mayors and they're unlikable jerks. You know, they have that New York City screw you everybody's stupid attitude. And then they take that power and think I could be president. I mean, what is Deblasio doing running for president? That guy is a jerk. Yeah, well they really think that
they're mayor of America. Is what happens the same way, and I realized it's a big success. He was a good mayor. That guy you sit down in one interview and you're like that guy, I feel like he's yelling at me. I feel like he's looking down at Mean, that guy, you can't be president. Look, I mean, also's gonna remember that a mayor. You know, mayors aren't generally dealing with weighty constitutional issues, dealing with issues of war
and peace. They're not deploying soldiers abroad. They're not you know, you know mayors. It's like, you know, keep make sure the trash is getting picked up, don't let the city budget run too far on the red and collapse, don't you know, upset and undermine your law you know, police and law enforcement. I mean, there's like it's you know, it's like a managerial job. You know, I mean, it's something that if you just don't be an idiot and and Deblasio can't even manage that, and you'll pretty much
be okay as a mayor. But there are a lot of idiot mayors, unfortunately, oh there are. And plus it's New York City and everything's so corrupt, and you know what, I kind of love that it's part of the charm of New York City. But everybody from New York City that's risen to positions of power there has so much baggage. It's it's really tough to be president from there. Now.
I want to ask you about the h the ABC Roebock situation, right because I mean, first off, what's your sense of the willingness of the media to kill a story like that? ABC News? But then also I think Tucker called it a cartel, which he just beat me to it. I was going to refer to as a
cartel too, ABC, CBS, NBC. They all like have got each other's backs, like they all want to just keep this little fiefdom of where the elite broadcast news networks, when in reality, I mean, it's all just a bunch of libs saying the same things to each other and
getting overpaid. Well, it's I mean, now, this story has more of a human element to it than other stories, in my opinion, just because on re loose sight of the fact we all do there are real underage teenage girls in this who had their lives destroyed by this freaking monster, and we shouldn't forget about that. I mean, wow, it's fun to make fun of the media and stuff, where we shouldn't forget about the fact that they're dropping the ball on this or just flat out hiding this issue.
It costs people their lives. I mean, it costs people the quality of their lives. So there's that. But to your greater point, that's what we've seen since Trump got into office, is the media never a moment, never even a brief moment of accountability, of holding each other or
themselves accountable. They all just locked arms and circled the wagons and decided that they are the First Amendment warriors who are speaking truth to power, and they're defending America and any attacks on them at all should be repelled. They meant to take a moment of account It's a little I mean, you and I take a similar view of these mainstream media outlets. But it's it's amazing to your word that CBS would do the bidding of a
competitor ABC and fire. But I believe it's a woman, and Megan Kelly's actually sat down to interviewer fire a woman for blowing the whistle essentially on killing the Epstein story at ABC. CBS fired her for that. But it's not amazing when you consider the fact they consider themselves to be one entity and so many of these people, the higher ups there and the underlings there, as evidenced by the fact this lady was an ABC and then at CV had they just moved in between networks, They
bounced from network to network. The CEOs are not sitting around thinking how they can cut the throat of their competitor. They're not at each other's throats. They consider themselves to be an essential part of the country. No different than the way the old guys used to do it. I mean, no different than you know, when we started a war with they we started the Spanish American War with New York City newspapers, you know, thinking they knew better than
anyone else. This is the history of the press in the country. They don't they don't compete with each other. It's them versus Republicanism and Jesse, what do you think, though you know about the whistleblower situation, specifically the willingness to keep that whistleblower sacro saying even though we all know his name. And then no media outlets even covered
the project Toss. I mean, I should say, ABCCBSNBC, none of them even covered the project very Toss audio of ABC as though it was a news story and a very serious one because of the Jeffrey Epstein connection. Exactly. Well, that's what I mean. It just goes to prove the point I was already making of if you were saying anything against Donald Trump, no matter who you are, whether you're a quote whistleblower or whether you're James Toby, or whether you're a serial killer, you are to be protected
and lionized at all costs. You are to be held up as some mantle of all that is good and right in America. But if you go after the video, I mean, you remember Buck, it wasn't that long ago CNN wrote a threatening letter to docs a guy who made a gift online of Trump doing a body slam or something of a CNN sign some stupid little gift
that made a couple of people snicker. CNN publicized a threatening letter saying, you will stop doing this, and you will not only pull this down if you do anything like this again, we reserve the right to release your private information. That happens in this country. It's it's outrageous. I want to ask you, Jesse, who is currently the worst Democrat in the race for prett Because we've had a few drop out, Bedo is gone to blah. Who is the worst? Oh, you know, honestly, it's Pete. I
knew you were gonna say that. That's what I want to ask you. Go ahead, Well, it is because he has you know, he's one of these hit and there. This happens in politics all the time. He's one of these paper champions. You look down if you're a Democrat or you're somebody in the press, and he's made for you. You know, a young, good looking dude. He's gay. I mean, they love that part of it. He's from the Midwest.
They're trying to win back the Midwest. He can speak, he's got military service, so they can act like he gives a crap about America. They have all these things laid out for him, but it just doesn't work. It does not work. Scott. This simmering anger about him that I saw a long time ago, and it seeks from his pores that it turns people waffable. That's one of
the guy's never gotten any attractions. He raises a bunch of money because there's a lot of money and being gay in the Democrat side there just is there's big you know, you can rally a lot of donors being that way. So he's raised a ton of money. She has editing in place to be a major candidate. It just ain't ever gonna ask. Yeah, just we've only got about it to twenty seconds. You're Jesse, but I wanted to ask you as well. Who's going to be the
Democrat nominee at this point? Oh? Elizabeth Warren. I saw that coming a long time ago. She is unstoppable and then Trump is going to curb stop her. Wow, there you have a Jesse Kelly telling us Elizabeth Warren is going to be the next Democrat nominee for presidency. Everyone should check out to follow Jesse Kelly on Twitter. Also watch him on the first channel to forty eight on Pluto TV and if you're down in Houston, KPRC Houston, the Jesse Kelly Show. A man, Jesse Kelly, have a
fantastic weekend, so we'll talk to you soon. Good well Jeff Sessions here, I've proved to say President Trump's cabin. Did I write a tell all book? No? Did I go on CNN and attack the President? Nope? Have I said a cross word about our president? Not one time? And I'll tell you why. First, that would be dishonored. I was there to serve his agenda, not mine. Suck at the President doing a great job for America and Alabama, and he has my strong support. Jeff Sessions running for
Senate in Alabama. You know you all listen to the show now that I have a I have a soft spot for Jeff Sessions because he did this show like three times when he was a Tourney channel. He called in, we got a bunch of Jeff's and I had to sit down with him at a video interviewer. Jeff Sessions was he's He was not a very nice man. I look, I don't think I don't think that his loyalty to country or loyalty even to Trump was ever in question at all. I think he did what he thought was right.
He's just not a He's just a guy. You know. There's some people who are you're in a bar fight and you got a buddy with you. You know, they're a good guy, but like they're just not much much use in a bar fight. And Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, there's not a lot of use in the bar fight, you know what I mean. So I think he had a Trump was very very tough on ever since he decided I'm look I am honestly by my bias here Jeff Jeff. I guess he used to listen to the
show sometimes and he was Attorney general. He liked it and we would get to have him in the mix. But yeah, I wish him. I wish him well. Man. I think he was very effective in the Senate. He's really one of the only people who, even before the Trump phenomenon happened, was supportive of a lot of Trump's signature policies. I don't think Jeff Sessions gots enough credit
for that, especially on immigration. By the way. So you know Jeff Sessions, and he's a smart guy and he's a good dude, And I feel badly because he got. He got put through the meat grinder with the whole Attorney General Russia losing thing. Should he ever have accused himself, No, probably not, But you know he made that decision, and a lot of stuff happened after that. Facebook dot com,
slash bucks, sextan a little double roll call today. We'll do some Facebook stuff, to do some email stuff, Adam first in here, Buck on the Avengers, you make me sad. Producer Mark is on the money. I respect your opinion. I humbly ask you to reconsider Shield's high. I knew Mark was good. That's one I'm gonna count throughout the show. Yeah, okay, Mark one buck zero, Mark one buck zero. So far, let's see. Let's see what ends up happening here on um, Matthew,
you asked for it. Here we go. I'm sorry, Producer Mark, you are wrong. The New Avenger movies are poor cinema, if they can even be called cinema. Buck, you are wrong too, though, whoa it's like? Is this like a draw? Then? I think hockey is great? Oh all right, that's Mark two. You're right on. He's giving you the hockey win. But I think you take the loss on the Avengers. Let's see, Amanda rites in buck Love the show. I need some
book recommendations. I thought i'd asked someone smart and well read, that's you. What would you say are your top five pertinent and instructive reads giving the nation's current situation. Coming Apart by Charles Murray is really interesting and worthwhile, and I think you would enjoy that as a book on what's going on the country. The Great Revolt by Selena Zito is also a very good book about the current situation.
Trying to think what else would be I actually saw a book that I have not been able to read yet, but I it is in my my queue of things that I want to read, and it's about here we go, Nathaniel Blake's Oh no, sorry. The book is The Strong Gods. I just saw this today, actually, so I might check out a book called The Strong Gods. I've heard it's about issues going on this country. That was a recommendation, is actually a recommendation from Molly Hemingway, whom I very
much respect. So maybe I'll check that one out, The Strong Gods. And I hope that that was a reasonably helpful answer. Amanda, Thank you so much for running in Charlie Right's Heybuck, it's Chuck from Penn State. Would you please give your thoughts on this, opinion of mine a
huge reason for the political discourse in our countries. It's here and because people approach complex problems with a lot of with a lot of nuance, with simple answers, and these problems answers are pushed by mainstream media who don't dive into the nuances the problems or the potential solution. Shields high and producer Mark is the man. Look at the producer. Mark's got fans. Producer Mark has fans. I'm
gonna call it three. We'll give you a third on that when you get three points on the board, Charlie. Political discourse is deteriorating. There's a lot of reasons of the change in discourse that has resulted, specifically, in my opinion, from social media is a big part of this. People now feel very comfortable and feel very justified in saying things and writing things and doing things on social media that they would absolutely not do face to face to
another human being. And then there's also the echo chamber effect, which can be I mean, you can you can exist in a world where all the news you read, if especially if you're a leftism, it's going to be honest. All the news you read all the time supports your worldview, reinforces your political biases, and it's just a constant, oh look at me, look at me, I'm right, uh situation. So yeah, I think that that's that's what I would add in here. Uh, Kristen, I do not agree with
your assessment of the Avenger movies. I think they're great, though Endgame was a disappointment. The rest are excellent examples of action movies. Another point for producer Mark Wamp, whom I love when I'm right. Yeah, this is I'm have to skip these ones. It's not fair. I know people, well it's my show. People to start thinking you're right, your name's on the door. Yeah yeah. Well, anyway, the producer Mark is winning the Avengers battle today, that's for sure.
Justin the Trump impeachment is straight out of the Democrat playbook. They take a crime they are one hundred percent guilty of and turn it back on the Republicans to change the narrative. Example, Russia collusion. Hillary clearly colluded with Russia to try and win the election, and even prior to the election, so turn it back on Trump to draw attention away from that. Now we have Biden one percent guilty of a quid pro quo, so they can blame Trump and change the narrative, all in an effort to
cover their own tracks. The swamp is really deep. Well, it is a tactic. It is a tactic that you see with the left thinking that that they can get away with accusing Conservatives of doing exactly what they're doing, and that that is real. I'm trying to find this for you now as I'm live, you know, doing the show in real time. But there is a there was a story I think it was the New York Times and it was it was an editorial, actually, but will
Republicans ever accept political losses? And I just think that's amazing because what we've seen from Democrats is they're very a very real situation of them not accepting. They do not accept political losses. They do not accept that Hillary Clinton lost the election in twenty sixteen. They still think that there's some way that they can justify to themselves acting like that election did not happen. So let me see. It was a New York Times piece. I think I'll
try to find it. It was the editorial where they write in The New York Times was once a great newspaper. I mean now it is a straight up propaganda rag of the left. I mean the New York Times is a is a disgrace to journalism, and they've got an article today the billionaires are getting nervous. Yeah, The New York Times was okay with you know, New York Times was okay with billionaires when Carlos Slim was injecting cash in the New York Times. That could stay stay afloat.
Here we go. Matt Buck. I'm a few episodes into Jack Ryan and I can't say it's all too bad. Sure it has some lib undertones, but these days you'll find that in almost all content. It's much more watchful than anything on TV. Lighten up a little bit and enjoy a fun storyline. Matt Oss Original Saturday Squad Matt Man. I'm all about light. I'm light as a feather. I'm just chill all the time. Twenty four to seven. Pretty much. I can't agree. I just thought this is not a
good show man. I don't know what to say. It's the scene where the ambush scene, the first in the first episode was just weak sauce. Man, it was just bad, It really was. I mean I could come up with a cooler ambush sequence like fifteen minutes of scriptwriting. So it wasn't good. So look, man, to reach his own You're completely entitled to your own opinion, and I'm entitled to be right. Oh just kidding. Uh let's see here, um, Laurie, right, do the night guard for your grinding problem. I actually
have two broken teeth, which involves expensive crowns. I also bought the ultrasonic densure cleaner to clean the guard weekly. It has cut down all the ramifications of grinding. You can do it and get used to it. Oh, Laurie, I'm really gonna wear this thing. I wish you feel like when I put the guard in my mouth and that turner talks a little bit like cold stick that the top of your tongue. I have your guard in
your mouth. I do you know, like maybe maybe you know at some point, uh Buck would like to I don't know, like being a committed relationship and be married every night. I'd be like, honey, I'm sorry, I've put my night garden and I've got a protect protect my key with a night guard because it's really in there. It's not good as a radio as your radio producer, I should tell you to stop talking like that immediately
and um because it sounds like ridiculous. And you know, once you get past the first couple of months, you can do stuff like that in a relation, right, but I can't. I can't put out a ni night nor when you are in bed with her the cup. First couple of times you don't wear it. Yeah, but it's it's you can wear it on a nightly basis. Yeah, okay, fine, but you know like it's it's you sound like I like, if you ever have you ever used what you ever
talking about the night gard? Understand what it is. It's like you know, when you were like kids and you'd have brace like like the big metal bracket braces, and you're a kid, and it would sometimes get like and it would interfere with It's like that. You don't sound cool, you know, sound cool? You don't always need to be cool, buck, I don't know, man, I think I gotta you're still worried about a wife and kids, but you gotta keep yourself healthy. Tests that's true. I don't Also, I look
I mean, I think it's good advice. My dentist says, gotta put the night guard in, and I just couldn't do a radio show with it him, that's for sure. Truck writing a copper mounting the voice again. All right, I know that's bad, but that's what it sounds like. I'm trust me. I've gotten used to it. Um. I've tried it now a couple of times. David, Hey, Buck, I'm all for these idiots wanting to reduce the population.
They will and we won't. Long term, we win, of course, canes, as in John Maynard said, in the long run, we're all dead. Not necessarily true, my friend, keep up the great work. Take care of Dave. Dave, I like where your head's at on this. You're good, You're a good man. Uh let's see run rights Buck Trump again. Reference syringes in San Francisco. The city says that they intercept them before they get to the oceans, but somehow plastic straws seemed to sail on through, so we must be we
must ban them. Amazing shields eye. Interesting points here. You're saying so that the hypodermic needles obviously are a form of waste in the city distributing that waste at the same time that they're banning the distribution of plastic straws, that they would say, obviously, you don't need a straw, you need a hypodermic needle, etc. But I see what you see where you're going with that, Sarah, it's buck.
I love your show. Oh well, thank you, Sarah. I'm a teacher of thirteen years and at a public school, and I completely agree with your viewpoint of schools basically being a socialist entity. Here we go. The teachers know them right. It doesn't matter how hard you work or how great of a teacher you are. When a horrible teacher has the same number of years experience as a great teacher, they make exactly the same amount of money and there's no incentive to work hard. I keep getting
more jaded each year I teach. Keep doing what you're doing. I keep telling everyone I know to listen to your show. Well, Sarah, thank you so much. Really means a lot. Please do tell people listen to the show. Our podcast numbers last month we're jumping up a bit, which was just in response to me asking all of you to please tell people about the show. So that's great. Please do continue
to spread the word. You guys are the best, the best you know, word of mouth that I can have, or from you guys who listened to the show, and gals of course whatever you know, everyone's allow to choose that the pronounced these days, guys, gals, whatever, whatever one's
chosen nomenclature would be. And Sarah, Yeah, about about public schools, I mean, this is true from friends of mine who teaching in the public school system, and I've talked them about this and what you're telling me, this is the way that it is, and it is very much a socialist entity. And I really don't like the you know,
I've had to I've sat down with teachers. I sat down with the president of the American Federation Teachers a few times, and I worked at the Hill, and it was just the same old wap talking points about how teachers just want to teach and it's just about teaching, and it's about the kids. I've got our future and teachers wanted to teach and the kids and our future, and okay, yeah, but like where are we spending all this money? Are why are outcomes on any better? Why
are we not seeing test scores rise. Why are charter schools able to fix this problem in a way that public schools can't, even the public schools have greater resources, Like, that's the conversation that we should have. You know, why isn't parental involvement more a part of school curriculum? And I want to stay involved. I don't mean doing the homework with the kids, but you know, you know, parents need to be involved. And people like to think up,
I dropped my kids at the school the school hands. No, the parents need to show up. They need to be engaged. You need to make sure the kid feels supported in the endeavors in the school. You know, there's an education process for parents as well. I don't mean education as it in the classroom necessarily, but learning about how to be supportive of their kids. And I don't know this from personal experience because I don't have any kids yet, But I know this from the teachers who have been
in the trenches doing this stuff. And they'll tell you that parental involvement is an enormous factor in success or failure for kids, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, etc. Parental involvement really really matters. Here we go Tim but given the power and extend the cartels in Mexico, which were brought to light this week, how long before Mexico is considered a failed state? And if and when that happens,
what would our plan be? Failed state across our borders a huge security risk and becomes an even easier entry point for terrorists. It's a fair question. I mean, Mexico is not yet a failed state because it does have a government apparatus that is largely still functional. And let's just remember that there are there are portions or parts
of Mexico that are very actually quite safe. There are parts of Mexico that would not be problematic to go visit, you know, an interesting what really we'd have to think more about how do we define a failed state? You know, state that no longer has a functioning government or a government that can exercise its sovereignty enforced tracks and the rule of law. Is that what a failed state really is? We have to look into the specifics of the definition.
Mexico is not yet a failed state, but the power of the cartels and the ability of the narco traffickers to take on the federal take on the Mexican federal government head on, and that's very concerning. That's something that we're going to have to have more of a policy focus on. I mean, Mexico is a bigger issue for US than Syria. By the way, no one ever seems to think about this, at least in the media, But Mexico and the cartels and the drug war much bigger
day to day concern in our lives than Syria. All Right, I hope you've enjoyed the show. My friends, I love doing it. Producer Mark is going to miss you all. He sends you hugs. He's not always grouchy. Have a fantastic weekend. We will talk to you Monday. Shield's Eye