Collusion Delusion

This is the buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, You're a great American Again The Buck Sexton Show begins the set. Do you think the President of structed justice? Yes? I do. If it's very clear that the President instructed justice. It's very clear. Eleven hundred times he referred to them investigation as a witch hunt. He tried to he fired, he tried to protect the

Flynn from being investigated by the by the FBI. He fired Comy in order to stop the Russian thing. As he told NBC News, he's intimidated witnesses in public. If that's the case, then is the decision not to pursue impeachment right now, simply political if you believe he obstructed justice. No publicans spent two years shielding the president from any proper accountability. It's our job to protect the rule of law,

that's our core function. And to do that, we are going to initiate investigations into abuses of power, into a corruption of justice, into a corruption and into construction of justice. Let me tell you something, the real obstruction is the Democrats who are obstructing this presidency. Welcome to the buck sex and show everybody. I mean, I know we start off with that the Nadler over in Congress, but we're already there, folks, We're already there. They know that Muller

doesn't have them, doesn't have collusion. They know it. They know it. And so now all of the obvious, dishonest and ridiculous walk backs, changing the subject, smoke screens, all this stuff. They're all going to try to evade any account of accountability. On the media side and on the political side, they're just going to march on to the next thing. Oh, it wasn't really Russia collusion we were worried about. It was Trump's finances. We were worried about

all this time. It was the collusion of the deals that he did back in the eighties or something. These people have no honor. You have to remember, they have no honor, They have no integrity. They just view this as a street fight and whatever they have to do to when they will. There's so much going on here, folks. There's so much that you're going to see in the next few weeks. Assuming the Muller probe ends as is

expected this month, that much we can say. It's supposed to end this month, according to all the reporting I've heard from sources in DC that would know that it is going to end soon, and that there'll be a report that's given to the Attorney General bar and he will then be able to make a determination about what will happen with that report. So we know that it's supposed to kind out. They could reopen stuff, and you know, until it's done. Yeah, yeah, it ain't over until the

fat Lady sings. Fine, but the Left has to prepare the ground too. They can't just wait for the inevitable disappointment among their friend ze partisans about this collusion situation. That there is no collusion, that Trump has been right all along, and I working through this problem together for two years. Have not been wrong one time on a matter involving Russia collusion. Not once. Not one time I had to say, oh, you know that thing, uh that I thought was true about collusion, Guys, I I got

that one wrong, you know, not once. How many times have different pundits, analyst, newspapers, you name it said, oh, you know, Don Junior is gonna go to prison any day now. Oh, it's just a matter of time before the other shoe drops, you know, Oh, there's there's they've got him on the Trump Tower thing, they're gonna press charted, you know, whatever it is. How many times have we

been told this wrong? Wrong, wrong, wrong all along? That's what the Democrats have been, That's what their little media lackeys have been. I'm usually somebody who takes the position that being wrong, that having bad judgment on a matter of politics, is something that we should leave open to. Okay, maybe somebody made a mistake, you know, so that we should leave the door open, and people saying I was wrong,

I admit it, and you move on from there. But in this case, given the depth and breadth of the effort to destroy this presidency with an obviously phony narrative, with a phony dossier paid for by the Hillary Clinton d NC. Given all the factors that we've seen here and the viciousness with which they have gone after people in Trump's orbit, defamed people that tried to, like me, stand up for the president on this one, I'm sorry.

I can't let all of that pass. And so the outlets, places like CNN that have been responsible for spreading this garbage all this time, they should have to pay a price. And the price is that we don't ever take them seriously again. They should be considered unsious news organizations, partisan, biased, dishonest. And if you think that that's excessive at this point, here's a little vignette. Know, CNN has this whole crew

of national security experts. They call them Apparently if you work in the federal government and you are an employee of certain agencies, even if you have no particular knowledge or judgment or expertise, they can call you an expert. But a lawyer named Vinagrad was on CNN and this is the kind of stuff I mean, This is a perfect example of what we've been hearing. Major networks, major newspapers, saying and writing about the president for two years on

this Russia clusia nonsense. This is an example of what I'm talking about, playclib one. His statement makes me sick on a personal level. Preserving our heritage, reclaiming our heritage. That sounds a lot like a certain leader that killed members of my family in about six million other Jews in the nineteen forties. This whole sea pack speech. How many pieces parts of President Putin's to do list was President Trump trying to accomplish today? He denigrated our institution,

the Department of Justice, and the US Congress. He spread misinformation and conspiracy theories. He undermined the credibility of several of our institutions. He's sowed divisions, He's sowed confusion. He was speaking to his base, but he was also saying things that really look like Vladimir Putin scripted his speech. That's a national security expert at CNN, folks, that's what they call her. I mean, she's actually an idiot, but a national security expert. Comparing Trump to I mean, she

is the trifecta. Trump is basically Hitler who killed six million Jews in the Holocaust, doing everything Putin wants him to do. Looks like Putin scripted his speech and undermined institutions. I mean, she's hitting all the usual bs, collusion talking points, making a fool of herself, and also on her point that Trump mentioning heritage, you know, reminds her of somebody else who talked about heritage. Hitler. Here's somebody that talked

about heritage in a public speech. Play clip two. It's time to stand up, it's time to fight back, it's time to reclaim our heritage, and it's time and we are ready. We are looking for this fight. The future of our country depends on it. Oh my gosh, Joe Biden said he wants to reclaim our heritage. She's like,

he's like Hitler. I don't call people idiots lightly. I mean, I think that there are people that that really do need they do need to be put in check, that they do need to be called out because what they're doing is destructive and they're making fools of themselves. There are people on the left that I have respect for, at least on an intellectual level and on a personal level. There are there are plenty of leftists that I like and think are smart. I think they're wrong, but I

can I can deal with that. The people at CNN puts on air are dishonest, imbeciles to talk about this issue. Dishonest imbeciles. I've put out a request on Twitter and getting a bit of attention. I've said, who wants to debate Russia collusion with me? Find me a Find me a leftist of some with some following and stature. Right, it can't be some guy and some you know, living in grandma's basement somewhere. But find me a leftist who's on TV or who has a platform, who has been

talking about Russia collusion along. Who wants to debate what's really happened here and what's the remarkables. I had some some professor from the University of who gives a crap APU decided that who wrote a book called proof of Collusion? And he's like, I'm not even I can't debate you on this because to debate your position that the Russia collusion is a hoax is like is like talking to an anti vaxer or a you know, I think, or a flat earther. Okay, so Mueller isn't going to prove collusion.

They know it that's why they're all worried. And by the way, if Mueller was going to prove collusion, trust me, they'd be prepping with CNN and the stories and they'd all be they're trying to walk away from this thing as quietly as they can in the media. But Mueller can't prove collusion. But this random third tier professor, he's already proven collusion, you see. And if you disagree with them, you're a flat earth. This is going to be the way that they treat this because they can't handle it.

The the recognition that these people who all think they're so smart, Oh, all these oh how could you not understand that Trump worked with Russia in some plot to steal the emails and that this turned the election? And these people are insane. But they think they're so smart and they understand that unless they do a lot of you know, figuring out how to how to you know, bob and weave here and there, move here, move there, change the narrative, move on to obstruction, you see, that's

what they're going to do. Unless they do that, there might be a reckoning. People might actually say, why did you get this so wrong? Person who thinks that he or she is actually a genius, when in reality they're not very bright. They're probably middle to middle to uh, you know, bottom third of the intellectual pack of America. Like what, why did you get this one so wrong?

How could you have been so wrong all along? They need to avoid that because there are people who's in time, they're they're the credible of their careers hang in the balance, and there's just the beginning of some recognition here that that's what's going on. So what are they going to do. They're going to say that Trump obstructed justice and just

shift the investigation and engage in lawfare. Today they sent out what was it eighty seven different people getting requests for documents from the House Judiciary Committee, which the Democrats now run. I mean, they're just they're going to drown people in paperwork. They're going to ruin people with legal bills. This is what the Democrat and they're going to call it oversight and use a lot of flowery words about all respecting our constitution because people are a nightmare or

these Democrats are despicable. They should if they were honest people, they'd say, wow, maybe maybe you know, sure, we can oppose Trump on policy maybe this whole rush of thing. Maybe we were wrong on this one, maybe we did get ahead of the facts. It's we're thinking, oh no, no, no, no, no, that's not what they want to do. That's not where they want to go with this. They're gonna say that

it's obstruction. You see. I mean we started the show listening to Nadler, who was not an impressive guy, but he's a political fighter. He's gonna try to you know, he's gonna try to score some hits on the President and his people. For sure. Nadler is saying that obstruction is the President calling this a witch hunt. So I

just want I just now want to be clear. They think if you take someone like Nadler at his word, the Democrats should be able to run a wildly partisan, destructive, out of control, unconstitutional, not founded in any actual crime, special counsel. And the President of the United States, who is the target of this ridiculous fraud, the target of this hoax. The President is supposed to be silent, you see while this is happening, can't say anything about this

investing Asian because that's obstruction. He's the commander in chief, he's supposed to just sit there quietly and take it. If you listen to now they're the answers. Yes, these people are absolutely off their rockers nuts. And now because of enough, Oh Trump is so mean and he's terrible. You know, enough people voted. You know, oh Trump is so racist and sexist and all these the Democrats have

control in the House. You know, the media is a very powerful tool and managed to convince enough people foolishly to give the Democrats power. Look what the Democrats are doing with just a taste of power. A bunch of radical socialist lunatics. And now they're weaponizing the government apparatus against the President of the United States while he's in

office under the flimsiest of pretexts. After doing this for two years on Russia collusion, when they got nothing, I have not yet begun to fight today, my friends, I've got much more for you. Stay with me. The effective impeachment is to overturn the popular will of the voters.

We must not overturn an election and remove a president from office except to defend our system of government or our constitutional liberties against the dire threat, and we must not do so without an overwhelming consensus of the American people. There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment, or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties and

opposed by the other. Such an impeachment will produce the divisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to come, and we'll call into question the very legitimacy of our political institutions. You may have the votes, you may have the muscle, but you do not have the legitimacy of a national consensus or of a constitutional imperative. This partisan coup deta will go down in infamy in the history

of this nation. Wow, Nadler really opposed to impeaching president for oh oh, that was Jerry Nadler in nineteen ninety eight when Bill Clinton was on the hot seat. So I just want to know what change between nineteen ninety eight when impeachment should not be a partisan tool to overturned the popular will of the voters, and now when we know that they're going to try to slow build

up to impeachment. They're essentially going to put Trump's administration through the meat grinder or see what comes out the other side, and then decide then decide if they're going to go full force on impeachment. But this is all supposed to be a constant testing of the water. They're gonna slowly turn up the heat. Turn up the heat, see what they're doing. That's going to be the plan. I do think by the way they end up impeaching the president, I think that that's where we're heading. There.

Absolutely unhinged base is going to demand it. There's no way around it. There's not some reasonable Democrat party that all of a sudden is going to come forward. And that's why I think it's it's important we all know that this is what we're up against. Folks. They're gonna lie, They're gonna do whatever they have to do in order to destroy this president and to ruin him and impeachment, even if it is counterproductive for Democrats, They're willing to

do it because they want to. I really believe that as well. Usually politicians, they're they're only real interest is self interest, as we just see most of the time. But with these Democrats right now, I think a lot of them have taken on hatred for President Trump. They really really do hate him. Fortunately we have Trump around who will fight back in this whole process. I like this one shifty shift. I'd never heard this before. This was at spac Place seventeen. These people are sick. I

saw a little shifty shift yesterday. Now it's the first time he went into a meeting and he said, we're going to look into his finance. I said, where did that come from? He always talked about Russia, collusion with Russia, the collusion delusion. The collusion delusion is real, folks. It's not going away either. More for you on where the Democrats are going to take this in the waning days of the Muller Paluza. Oh no, you mean Saint Muller is not going to give the Democrats the end of

the Trump presidency. How will they ever handle it? Unfortunately, they've got plans. I'll tell you what they are on the other side of the break. So now we're waiting for a report and we'll find out whether or not and who we're dealing with. We're waiting for a report by people that weren't elected, and now we have people that lost. And unfortunately, you put the wrong people in a couple of positions, and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there, and all of a

sudden they're trying to take you out with both. Okay, the notion that we're talking about, the notion that there's no evidence is just factually wrong. Just in the public domain, there are literally reams and realms of evidence of Russian outreach the Trump officials, and clear interest from Trump officials, including the president's own son, welcoming the opportunity to get dirt on Hillary. Circumstantial evidence, as opposed to direct evidence,

is what you go back and forth on that. I think one of the things, and I don't claim to be a legal expert by any means, but folks who I've talked to have been in the prosecutorial business, have said, you know, when you're looking at conspiracies, it is almost

always based upon a pattern of circumstantial evidence. Bracy, Okay, these people are absolutely out of their minds, and it's because their reputations hanging the balance, and they know that their power is at risk here because if nobody believes them anymore, how are they going to stay in power? How are they going to be important? That was Senator Mark Warner obviously falling up after Trump is just like these people are just completely full of it, and Trump

is right. But Senator Mark Warner. There, this is a novel approach. Oh, collusion has already been proven. What there's already proof of collusion where I'm sorry, taking a meeting with a Russian person who says that she has she has information that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton? You think that's collusion? I need to understand that, because, by the way, if that's collusion, then what has the mother probe been doing all this time? No information was exchanged

at this meeting. Let's change the character a little bit here, So you're gonna tell me that if the Hillary Clinton campaign had a oh, I don't know, a British guy approached them, who remember that's a foreigner. I know. Oh, Russia is supposed to scare us so much, Brits or foreigners too. British guy approached them and he's like, hey, you know, I'm an investigative journalist and uh, I've got some incredible information on Donald Trump that's gonna sink his candidacy.

Are they they they're gonna not take that meeting if they have some you know, basically, or you know, no one's gonna take that meeting in the Hillary Clinton campaign or do they think we're all morons? I guess they do. They're wrong, but they must believe this because I mean, this is pathetic. We're back to the Trump Tower meeting

where no information was exchanged and nothing happened. And when you look also at the connections that vezel Nitskaya, this Russian woman has, you know, you know her background, it looks like a setup. The whole thing looks like a setup. She's gonna show up to this meeting. I set up against the Trump campaign. You're gonna set up in this sitting. This meeting doesn't have any information on Hillary, and I'm going to claim she also wanted to talk about the

Magnitsky Act. I think Fusion, GPS or Perkins Koe and one of them was, I forget what it is. You know, it's tough to keep all this stuff straight. They were involved in trying to get lobby I think it was Perkins Koe. They're trying to get rid of the Magnitsky Act. I forget some one of them was. But there's some shady stuff and in her you know that that goes to her motivations for this meeting. But that's the collusion. Well, here's here's a surprise for Mark Warner. I don't give

a crap about that meeting. I don't think it was I mean it might have been unwise to take under the circumstances, because there was nothing that happened, and it opened them up to all this lunacy. But nothing happened, and who cares. And under the circumstances, I can understand why somebody would have taken the meeting. They keep saying, oh, Vesilandskaya with ties to Russia. Everybody has ties to Russian intelligence.

Everybody in Russia has an uncle named Yuri, that knows somebody that knows somebody who's in the f s B. You know, I mean this ties to Russian intelligence. They didn't sit down and have a meeting with the Russian ambassador for opposition information. And I think it's fair to ask that's not criminal either. So what exactly someone needs to explain to me? Mark Warner. See, then, never debate this stuff in the open, And that's why this has

been so damaging the credibility of the media. None of these people ever subject themselves to opposing points of view, none of them will ever allow themselves to be cross examined on this stuff. So so Mark Warner Senator Mark Warner Virginia explained to me, this riddle me. This chief taking a meeting with a Russian to find out if there's opposition information about Hillary Clinton or her campaign. That

is a horrible, unpardonable sin. But paying through a cutout, officially, your campaign paying through a cutout a foreigner, Christopher Steele, to use foreign swords Russians, to compile a completely BS dossier that you then, using Democrat allies in the government apparatus, launder through the intelligence community to get FISA warrants, started to spy on the campaign and Americans who had done nothing wrong. You think that's not a problem. I mean,

do you think he has an answer? Oh, but you know Bud, you know Brennan and and Comy, and these are the great amer No, they're not. These people are clowns. They are partisans. They were drunk with their own power. They thought they were this special pratorian guard for the federal bureaucracy here in DC, and they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, and their reputations have taken the hit that they deserve. They should be thought

of as the partisan hacks that they are. Comy McCabe, struck page, Brannan Clapper, go down the list, all of them, Yates, all of them. Oh, but they were in senior government positions. Like that's supposed to mean something to me. I don't care. Having a senior government position doesn't mean you're beyond never my criticism. You're you're beyond prosecution, You're beyond the ethical boundaries that the rest of us would expect. Of course,

not Eric could. They're they're they're corrupt kings, stretching back for as far as there have been kings. I mean this notion that will you know, James Comy was such an honest fellow, and you know the FISA process. They would never abuse that. Oh oh okay. See I was in the CIA when the Libs hated it, and all I ever heard about was torture and rendition and all

these terrible things. That's all the Libs are talking about, how terrible, and they they wanted to procute, they wanted to prosecute some of my colleagues, send them to prison for fighting the war on terror. Now, you can agree or disagree with whether or not their tactics are right or wrong, but let's not pretend that Libs think that just because you have a senior position in a national security organization of the government that you can have you know,

made made a big mistake Mark Warner. You know, Mark Warner was on Meet the Press. So obviously he won't get any real pushback from from Chuck Todd because they're all in on this. This has been great. They by the way, they have monetized this. I think you need to remember that too. Not only have the Democrats been using this in order to try to stop Trump's presidency, because if Trump had been allowed to do what he wanted to do without this investigation, because this is really cheating.

I mean, this is not this is not political opposition, this is not making. This is dirty tricks, underhanded stuff. You know, this is like, yeah, sure we had a vote, but you know we were burning some of the ballots that we didn't like. You know that that's not democracy, right, That's not what's supposed to happen here. So when you look now at what they've done, they've been able to

slow down this present. They've been able to scare away a lot of good people from working for the administration all of us, and many of them have made themselves richer and more famous in the process. I mean, you know, Jim Acosta has created a brand of just being a overly hairsprayed idiot who makes a mockery of himself in his hashtag resistance moments in front of the the administration because

he's a journal Oh, all these journals. Oh, it's so scary to be a journalist in America, you know, I mean, every death is a tragedy, folks. We've been like five journalists killed on the job in the last thirty years. Thirty years basically as long as I've been alive, there have been five journalist killed in America. But oh, my gosh, Trump is terrify all the journalists. It's so scary to

be a journalist. Now. These people have absolutely no shame, and they're going to insist on avoiding accountability in every way that they can, and they're going to move on to this additional fairy tale of obstruction. Let's think with us for a moment. I mean, you have congressmen who are already saying that Trump opposing the investigation of him and those around him, and saying that he does not agree with it. Is he supposed to say he does

agree with it. I mean, this is really you know, we're gonna we're gonna put the witch out in the middle of the lake. We're gonna tie rocks to her. If she drowns, then we know that. You know. If if she drowns, then clearly she's innocent. And if she doesn't drown, well then she's a witch. And then we'll have to burn her at the stake. Thanks. Right, What is Trump's supposed to say? Here, you're right, I've been guilty all along. You got me? Oh no, he's not guilty.

So that's what he's been telling people. And yet that alone is you that's some kind of evidence of wrong. I mean this it has been exhausting, has it? And now that we're getting now that we're getting close to not even really the truth, because the truth would be McCabe federally prosecuted for lying, Comy prosecuted for official misconduct. I mean, you know, the truth would be Hillary prosecuted. Yeah, that's right, Hillary prosecuted for violating the Espionage Act over

one hundred times. That's what That's what real justice would look like. I'm not saying we're going to get justice, because we know in this country, unfortunately there are two tiered There's a two tiered justice system, one for Democrats and one for Republicans. But at least we will be approaching the end of this collusion nightmare and all the nonsense around it from the Mullar probe perspective, and the Democrats are going to act like nothing has happened, nothing changes,

The plan is still the same. That's what they're gonna do. They're gonna now run additional investigations as though they could find out between now in election day. What Muller was a team of Democrat seasoned, vicious prosecutors, by the way, I mean, these are these are people that did not give anyone an inch. Nobody got the benefit of the

doubt with these guys. That was a Republican. Where's Tony Podesta by the way, you know the guy that's tied to clinton close confidant, John Podesta, guy ran Clinton's campaign. Remember how he was involved in lobbying overseas same organizations at Manafort. Do we where's his Faraoh registration charge? I could go through this all day. General Flynn gets charged for lying about a non crime. Why shouldn't FBI Acting director McCabe get charged for lying about misconduct while in office.

Anyone want to try to answer that one for me? How many times do we have to see this despair? It's despicable, it's despicable, But they don't plan on changing anything here. They they are digging in and they are doubling down, and it's it's it's obviously very very troubling. But we need to understand that we have to continue to fight because even when this Muller probe finally comes

to a conclusion, they're not gonna stop. Trey Goudy, by the way, it said that, you know this is just all like we all know that, right, it's all politics. I let's hear from Trey play five. Remember when Natler and Shift didn't want to interfere with ongoing investigations. Does anybody remember that they no longer have that concern? So this is all about twenty twenty and they can ask for it, but the President's got really smart lawyers, and I'd be shocked if they produced it. Well, they sent

out to the eighty seven request for Joe. I mean, they're just gonna They're gonna flood the zone with investigative requests. They're going to flood the zone with legal bills for everybody around Trump. These people, it's all just sore loserism about Hillary in twenty sixteen for a lot of them. You gotta remember this, and this includes people like Comey too. They were expecting eight glorious years of being close to the decrepid part of power that was going to be

the Clinton administration. That's what they thought they were owed. A lot of people had to pretend that Hillary was likable, that Hillary wasn't a sociopathic grasper, a greedy, lying, manipulative you know, they all had to sort of just pretend. But the point was they were going to get eight years of Queen Hillary, you know, yeay queen, and they were going to get all the all the trappings of power and wealth that came along with it, and then

Trump stole it from them. And they're not going to let that go because now, who knows the next Democrat nominee is going to be. Even of twenty twenty works out for the Democrats, which I don't think it will. There are a lot of left wing Democrats, or I should say, pardon me, not, a lot of establishment Democrats who cannot will not forgive what they feel was stolen from them, because you see, they're really important people, they're really powerful. There are kind of people that go on

TV and say collusions already been proven. How do you not know? Yeah, those people, they're not going to change anything.

We'll be right back. So while he's talking collusion, collusion, collusion, I think in oversight we should be talking about taxes, taxi taxes, and his bank accounting, bank accounts, his bank account, his financial statement, statement statements, because that's where I think, actually some of the most troubling practices are with direct relevance to the American people under the scope of oversight.

The good news for us is that aoc there o'cazio Cortez is too dumb to high the plan, and the plan is, although it is obvious what the plan is to be fair, to essentially engage in an IRS style, all in audit of everything a president has ever done, all of his personal finances, all of his bank accounts, everything. Just investigate him and when he was a private individual

doesn't matter. Just investigate everything. Now, what I would want to point out is that the people that are telling you and have been telling you for two years now, oh my gosh, Trump is undermining your institutions. How can any American have any faith in Congress as an institution in our government right now as an institution if the response that we're going to see from elected officials when they don't agree with someone is to just conduct a

fishing expedition of everything in their life. And now you might say, Buck, that's what politic be is No, no no, no, I'm talking about using subpoena power the law. I'm talking about the use of the force of government to pry into someone's life. Never mind the you know we've they've already tried everything. They already tried their October surprise with the Billy Bush tape and all that they've done, all that,

we've already been through all that. Now it's going to be seize his records, seize his bank account, seize his taxes, and we all know those are going to get leaked, right, we all know it. This is the way the Democrats play the game. It's dirty. But there you have to remember, there are zealots. They are radicals. Now the Democrats have radicalized as a party. And that's why what would stop normal people from acting in this way won't stop them.

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the other side, I encourage it. I say, no, no, I think the New Green Deal or whatever the hell they call it, the Green New Deal, right, green New Deal, I encourage it. I think I think it's really something that they should promote. It is something that we should laugh at, although we also have to take it seriously. It is worthy of mockery. But just because you mock something does not mean that it can't be a problem. Right. In fact, I think that satire and mockery are very important,

very potent, and necessary political weapons. But I would also say that, yeah, we need to we need to have foam. All we talk about the Green New Deal, but we need to be aware that this could become our reality much more quickly than I think a lot of folks realize. Because it is a It is a cult, and I really mean that. I mean, this is not a normal people are not normal when they talk about the Green New Deal. They do not approach this from the perspective

of let's have a rational discussion. It's why don't you want the earth to survive? And they completely freak out, and they lie about it a lot. But before I get to the freak out chorus on the Green New Deal, we should at least establish that this is where you see the Democrats embracing socialism really across the board. Every major Democrat candidate for president right now has signed on for the Green New Deal, every single one of them. The Green New Deal is socialism, make no mistake about it.

That is what the Green New Deal is. And Kirsten Jillibrand, who is a big fake Aphonian, a liar, she can say as much as he wants about this, Well, she doesn't really know very much about anything, but she is now claiming that the Green New Deal is something Republicans can go for. I mean, I don't know if she's not smart or delusional or what, but play glibble looven. So you think there's coming ground on a Green New Deal in medic You think you can get Republican votes

for that? Yes, modern republicans can. I tell you why, because I believe it. So the Green New Deal is three things. These are not new ideas. It is infrastructure, which is widely bipartisan. More money for mass transit, more money for electrocrids, more money for rural water supplies, roads, bridges, everything. The second piece of the Green New Deal is jobs. It's all about training people to do win solar to your thermal hydropower, biofuels, and we do that in New York.

I mean, the Green New Deal. If it's going to involve infrastructure spending that the Green New Deal would be okay with, is going to be the biggest waste of money, the biggest boondoggle, the biggest fraud of a public works project in the history of the planet. Keep in mind that if we were to really take these people seriously and do what they want us to do, without a replacement for for fossil fuels in our economy, which we do not have, not only would the economy screech to

a halt, you would also have people starving. I mean, fossil fuels are necessary for the production of food, for the transport of food. I mean. The level of catastrophe that we would have to endure to go to a net zero carbon emission society is astonishing. It's the kind of thing that only a zealot, that only a radical could push for. But that's what they're doing, and I think that it's important that everyone understand what we're up against here. The Green New Deal is a religion of

the left. These are people who want to inflict themselves. Remember, it's not religious belief in the sense that this is their spirituality, that's private, that's personal, that guides their own lives. In fact, one of the defining characteristics of the Green New Deal is the hypocrisy of the high priests and priestesses of it, as we see from o'cazio Cortez and the New York Post piece on her that says that you know she's her head quarter is real close to

a subway. It doesn't take the subway. It spends a lot of money on ubers and flies instead of takes the train from New York to DC whenever she can. So you know, she's not talking the talk and walking the walk. Or maybe she's talking the talk, but she's not walking the you know what I mean. However, that foom and wants can't get fooled again, you know what I'm saying. But this is a this is a left wing religious belief, and there is no room for heresy.

You will be made to believe too. You will be made to live under the mandates of these Green New Deal high priests and priestesses too. That's what makes this so aggressive and so problematic for all the rest of us. If you know, it's one thing for like think of this like vegans, Vegans can be pretty radical. Vegans can be pretty intense. I'm not saying all the minute. Thirdlier vegan listening to the show, I'm not necessarily something. You just think it's healthy, and that's cool. And look, I

got no problem with vegans. People want to eat what they want to eat. That's fine. You know, I probably eat too much high fat and cheese and things like you know, everyone, you know, these are our own personal choices. But imagine a vegan who came into Oh, you know who's a vegan, Corey Booker. It's all you need to know about him, it's all you need to know. Can't can't trust them, uh guy, guys like, oh, I can't

eat bacon, and I can't can't trust them. But imagine a vegan that said that you have to live the same lifestyle that they do. That is kind of like the Green New Deal people, except they don't want to live a vegan lifestyle. They just want you to live a vegan lifestyle. That's right. They want to take this steak out of your mouth while they're sitting there chomping

on a ribbi right in front of you. No, I'm not a violent hand, but that might push even the most even tempered of us to take matters into their own hands. You take the ribbi out of my mouth and you eat it in front of me, We're gonna have problems. But that's imagine the the kind of extremism and evangelism of a vegan, but they're not going to actually do it. Only you get to live that lifestyle. That's what the Green New Deal is. That's how this

is is so different. And if you have any doubts about whether this is it's fair to call this a religious belief, remember there there and there's all kinds of you know, Satanism is a religious belief. You know, the Thuggy Cult of India was a religious belief. There's a lot of religious beliefs out there. Right. Just because something's a religion doesn't mean that we have that's another fallacy. Just because it's a religion, I have to respect it.

False I do not. I do not have to respect it just because it's a religion, Because if that were the case, the Church of the Flying Postafarian or the Flying spaghetti Strainer or whatever it is, I'd have to

respect that religion too, and I don't. But in case you had any doubts, you are now seeing an increase in these movements of people and just seeing more public commentary from people who are saying that they're so afraid, they're so afraid of what the future holds because of climate change of stea, that they won't even have kids play clip twenty one. Our planet isn't a kind of collapse. The natural world is collapsing around us, and that's actually

happening right now. And I'm so disappointed by the response by our authorities to this crisis and so freaked out by it everything I've read that I've basically last year, I came to the decision that I couldn't bring a child into that, and you have come to the same conclusion, Alice, Yeah, I have. I'm I mean, each day for me is struggle, I really do. Just I'm so depressed and that has led to just a fear that I've never felt before.

And my decision for being on birth strike, and mostly has come from not wanting to pass that fear onto someone else. If we're in this situation now, you know, even since my parents had me, we've destroyed sixty percent of life on this planet. What would that be like when my child's my age, will there be ten percent left. That's not just to do with being, you know, a nature of what life enthusiasts like I am. That's actually

that's dangerous as well. Yeah, it's like I can't bring kids into the world because you know, climate change and we're losing all these species, and if we don't have an ample supply of delve to smell in the natural habitat in the Simi Valley of California, I just feel like, look, it's just not worth it anymore. Yeah, so I needed four thousand brown m and M's or Rosie wouldn't go on stage that night. I managed to take care of the target with a can of mace, but the shopkeeper

in her sum was a different story altogether. All right, I'm sorry, So, but those people are crazy, right, I mean, they're they're actually nuts. I can't have a baby. I'm on birthstrike. I've never heard of that before. Birth strike they're they're on birth strike because of the Green New Deal, because of how dangerous the world is going to be going I'm sorry, because of the lack of a Green New Deal, because of how dangerous the world's gonna because

a climate change. Really, these are adults, folks. These are people that at least ostensibly can read and write and think. And not only are they truly some of them, I mean I do believe that a lot of them. This is just a political mobilization tool. It's classic Alinsky. Once you mobilize a people on pollution, then you have them to mobile lies on corruption, then you have the mobilize them on racism. You know, once you get people all riled up about one thing, it's very easy to move

them onto another thing. And so this is essentially a mobilization tactic. But the Green New Deal is really at its core for those who are the high priests and priestesses. I don't think they really, I don't think they're the true believers. The true believers are those women who are like, yeah, it's just you know, I just don't want to have

a baby because it's like one degree centigrade. It might be like one point two degree centigrade in a hundred years, And what will my child think if it's point two degree centigrade warmer on a global average based on incredibly inaccurate data of measuring global temperature. My child just couldn't handle it, right. And plus he'll be like really old, like he'll be like a hundred and he'll be very warm all the time, right, I mean, you know she's

got a point there, right. But the high priests and priestesses of climate change, they they don't view this really as saving the planet. They view this as controlling the planet. The Green New Deal is all about the implementation of socialism and control. The Green New Deal is not at its core for the people that are running it, for the people. It's like the Communist Party, right, think about

the Commnist Party in the Soviet Union. Were there some true believers you know, was well, Trotzky was, but that's why they put an ice axe in his head, you know, lett in him. We're that true believers, yeah, but we're most of the polite borrow early on really just people that realize that they were in the power loop and that they just needed to keep this thing going, to keep the con going. Yep, that's what the Green New

Deal is. It's really about control. And people would argue that a lot of religions are about control, and that that's actually been at the heart of much of a religious belief for a very long time. And now we're getting into a deeper theological conversation than I had intended. But in this case, in this instant, they are emotionalizing the topic with religious fervor of climate change hist area,

people are convinced they shouldn't have babies. People are convinced that they should tell ten year olds the world's gonna end in ten years or twelve years. And if you by the way SNL, you know I rarely give an SNL shout out. The Dianne Feinstein clip they did on SNL is actually pretty funny, so I would recommend you go check it out. It's on YouTube, just type in

and search for it. But they're terrifying small children. They are willing to destroy our economy, but they will be in control, and they know that that is ultimately the single most important thing them because control is power. Control is just a form of power. So if you are a power obsessed lib, the best way to get the society you want that will be full on socialism without calling it that. Just get this green new deal in action. When do you want to spot that burglar when he's

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can't help herself. I will say, I'm a little disappointed because there was a there was a time, and I said it on the show many times, there was a time when I really did, I really did believe that Hillary Clinton was going to run again. And I'm I'm I will admit when I'm wrong, folks. Hello, I will admit when I'm wrong. And I think that Hillary is this time. I think she's probably not running. That's right, all right, Maybe she's not running. Fine, I might have

gotten I might have gotten this one wrong. Um, I might have gotten this one wrong. But Hillary is still gonna be out there. So I don't think that you're gonna have a Hillary free twenty twenty because she's gonna she's gonna be a surrogate. She can't help herself. She has to be near the near the spotlight in some capacity. Oh wait wait, I I forgot to get to this. Mazie Herono, I think the dumbest person in the Senate, right, I give her that. I give her that title. There

are some others that are very close. It's a tough call, but I think Mazie Herono is in fact the dumb person in the Senate. She had some thoughts on climate change too. Play clip nineteen. Can tell me what you were saying about. Were trying to get rid of air travel and I said, well, that's gonna make it hard for Hawaii. But what with a Green New Deal stands for is the a recognition that climate of change is happening,

not sticking our head in the sand. So it's really crazy at Trump and all his minions and his ilk who think that global warming and climate change is not happening and they'd rather just stick their heads in the sand. They offer absolutely zero in terms of what they would propose, So all they can do is lock an attack, And I think that is a crazy position because they are denying the science behind climate change. Yeah, we mock and attack it because it should be mocked, an attack because

it's idiocy. I just want to note that, you know, Senator Horrono, I think that she really, you know, she's she really came through here, folks, She really did. Because if you recall when the Green New Deal was initially came out, Maizie Horono was the one who got a little bit of attention for saying, well, if we eliminate air travel, that will make things hard for Hawaii. Right she said that, And it was one of these you know, broken clock right twice a day scenarios where you go,

whoa look at Mazie Heron no smarter than o'cazio Cortez. Right, she she understands something that apparently a leading luminary of sorts on the left does not understand. And yeah, but then but then she decided to walk it back a

little bit. Then she decided sure enough that she had given a little help to the Republicans by being saying for a moment by accident, nonetheless, and she just want us to know, oh no, no, no, sen Senator heronos in fact a straight up idiot, and she regrets that moment where she said something accidentally that was insightful or intelligent, And she would like the left and the Democrats to know that she is still a full a full law and imbecile and does not have anything to add to

this discussion worthwhile at all. Opposing the Green New Deal is not crazy. What's crazy is is, or rather, the Green New Deal is not crazy, Opposing it is so so there's so there's that speaking of one thing, you know, I will miss this back to the Hillary thing for a moment that we will have the Trumpster going full on mockery of Hillary, which which would have been great, but at least we will have the Trumpster mocking Elizabeth Warren, who's so very very richly deserves it. Play. This was

him at Seapac Play twenty. I should have saved the Polka hunt this thing for another year because I've destroyed her political career and now I won't get a chance to run against her, and I would have loved it. We gotta you know, I don't want to knock out all of the good stuff and end up with somebody that's actually got talent. That would be terr Yeah. I think you know that the Trumpster's got a point here.

He is single handedly forced Elizabeth Warren, or brought Elizabeth Warren to just take her political her political chances the presidency and essentially liked them on fire just because she was so rattled by Trump messing with her. So it's one of Trump's magic. It's one of Trump's super ours, folks. He really gets under libs skin. Let's talk about rent control? Shall we now? Hold on a second? Don't even think about skipping past this segment because you're like, oh, buck,

I don't have rent control in my area. I don't really care. Rent control is becoming a more popular idea. It's usually associated with New York City, which is why I know quite a bit about it, including from friends of mine who have rent control departments. But now we have whole states, whole states that are thinking about going rent controlled in terms of housing. And this is one of these moments where we can really look at what

progressives are proposing and doing. What government intervention does? You know? This is a rubber meets the road moment for why conservatives are right and liberals are wrong on an issue of economics that really affects me's lives, all right, And that's what that This piece by Mark Hamingway is a great writer. It's in the Wall Street Journal, Oregon's progressive politicians want rent control for all. Is really an interesting

read because this is the first time. As I mentioned, Oregon is going to be the first state to have statewide rent control. Now what that what that means in this context is that there can only be a certain a certain cap on rent, a certain cap on rent that you can't go above as somebody who is a landlord. Now, this is in response to rising prices, so see, and this is this is a perfect think about how this works in this case and apply to so many other

things that libs do. Right, they see a problem, they don't think about what's caused the problem, and their immediate knee jerk reaction is to try and fix the problem with government mandates, with government intervention, community organizers, agitators, left wing groups, all this stuff. They all start picketing and saying it's not fair, we need more housing, it's not fair.

You know. They do all this stuff instead of saying, well, hold on a second, Why does Portland, for example, have the highest i'm sorry, the second highest rent increase on average in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen. Why don't have the second highest of any city in the country after Seattle why is there's such a housing shortage? Right? This is basic economics, This is supply and demand. Why does Portland have a housing shortage? Folks, that's the real question.

This is where the economics should kick in. Now, what liberals do is they come at this from the other side. They come at it and they say, well, hold on, a second, housing is too expensive, So let's just make howing less expensive. Let's just mandate that you can't charge as much. And this is not going to make the problem any better. In fact, this is going to make it worse, as we all know. But libs never learn

their lessons. Let's take a step back. Why does the state of Oregon have overall, but in particular Portland, but why does it have these problems? Well because of policies instituted by the government quote smart growth policies back in the nineteen seventies that put urban growth boundaries around cities in an effort to stop them from having what is called urban sprawl. So what this means is that they look at a city and these are city planners, which

by the way, is a form of central planning. They have these city planners who come together and they say, well, we don't want the city of such and such to be any bigger than this, And they draw lines on the MA and outside of those lines you cannot zone for certain kinds of development. So, for example, you can't build outside those lines a tall apartment building that would be cost effective. You could only maybe do you farming communes, or maybe build a single family home or whatever it is.

But they are intruding on the market because they don't like urban sprawl. This was just a thing in the nineteen seventies which a lot of people say, isn't that just natural growth of a city, But they don't like

urban sprawl. So that led to in Portland in particular, there are being disparities because where you are on the urban sprawl line could be the difference between, as Hemingway points out in his piece here, whether your property is worth one hundred and eighty thousand dollars for an acre or across the street. Folks, based on where these lines were drawn across the street sixteen thousand dollars an acre. How could the same neighborhood have such a you know,

as one of them a toxic waste up. No one of them is a place where you can develop land, and another one is a place where you can't because that a one urban sprawl. So this means that developers, guess what, developers don't want to come in and deal with this. There's also a lot of red tape on top of it, where you have a lot of expense that's put on top of building apartments at homes in a city like Oregon that are just bureaucratic expenses. This

is from this piece. Systems and development charges and permit fees for even a five hundred square foot unit in the city of Eugene, Oregon are close to about twenty thousand dollars per unit. That's just all red tape expense. That's just you know, the city inspectors coming in and got to this and got to do that, and just people getting involved in this that are extraneous and in fact just drive up the prices, just make it harder for people to be able to get housing. Because this

is Affordability is a function of the market. Affordability is not in fact something that you will achieve with government mandates. And as I've told you before, and this is I'm not saying that Portland's going to turn into Venezuela or Eugene, Oregon, or Tacoma, Washington, or any of these places. I'm not saying that, but price controls were one of the primary mechanisms instituted in Venezuela to create the descent into a failed state, economic catastrophe and all the chaos we see.

The price controls in Venezuela were pretty straightforward. There's not enough of X product, let's call it. Let's say microwaves. There aren't enough microwaves for everybody in Venezuela to go around right now. So instead of trying to deal with that through a market incentives what they did, or by liberalizing their markets or lowering tariffs on the product or whatever it. Maybe they said, well, now you can only charge one hundred dollars. Well that's actually pretty expensive microwave,

but whatever, you only charge twenty dollars for your microwave. Well, guess what, the people making microwaves can't make any money. See what do they do? They stop importing microwaves. That's what's happening with housing in a rent controlled environment. They're driving up the cost with mandates, and then they mandate that the cost get driven down. This is straight out of the road to serfdom. Baby, this is Hyak coming at you with all the truth. What does Hyeke say

in the road to serfdom? Every government intrusion is going to be followed by more government intrusions because they create, they create dislocations of capital and sound investment. And then the the response to that from the people that did in the first place is always going to be, oh, well, let's fix that with more dislocations of capital and unsound investment.

That's what happens, that's what gets done. And then you add on to this the lack of because remember affordable housing, folks, You're going to hear it a lot from Sanders and o'cazio, Cortez and all these you know, you're a lot of affordable housing talk, a lot of that going on. You know what all that's going to mean is the government either subsidizing developers, which just means the tax dollars are going to this, or it's going to mean that they

institute rent control policies. Rent control in New York drives up prices for everybody who is not covered by rent control. But in New York, the problem is that there are all these there's a million people in New York City who are directly affected, meaning they were one of their family members is in a rent controlled unit of some kind. And so when you try to change that, if you're in the New York City New York City Council, guess what, you got a million people that'll show up and make

sure you lose. They are single because housing is so expensive in New York City. They're single issue voters on rent control. But that's just chronyism, folks, It's just chronyism. Just people that are getting something that they're not entitled to, that are defending it through the political process. But that's what cronies do. You're going to see more of this, but see see it's a perfect illustration of how the left does not understand the root cause of a problem

and in fact just makes it worse. They make the problems worse. Oh, by the way, as if that wasn't enough, there are left wing activist groups that make this a function of who wants who wants to guess. Remember in Venezuela they do price controls, and then what's the way that they they double down on this. Oh, that's right, that's right. Social justice, social justice, that's what they are trying to accomplish here. Go back to this piece in

the Wall Street Journal by Mark Hemingway quote. Rather than address the lack of housing supply, legislators have seized on rent control and feisty left wing groups like Portland Tenants United dominate grassroots politics in Oregon. Over the past few years. The group's divisive founder, a professor named Margot Black, has become a political force. PTU has organized rent strikes and picket lines against landlord seeking rent increases and push the

legislature to adopt drastic rent controls. Homegrown Oregonians tend to be white and racist, she said during a twenty seventeen television interview. I think the faster they can get out of the landlord business, the better. The PTU imploded last year in parodic fashion. Miss Black was forced to step down as a leader of the group for allowing, among other things, a PTU organizer to sing this land is our land over the objection of the group's Native American

racial equity tregner. Well, that might seem absurd. Ptu's persistent agitation is largely responsible for making rent control a dominant issue in Portland politics. Folks, this is what happens. This is a microcosm of progressive urban politics at work. What

do they do. They create a problem with government regulation, They try to address the problem with government price controls, more mandates, and then when that doesn't work, they just say it's the bad, greedy people responding to these government incentives in rational fashion. They're the problem. And you know what happens. Then the builders, the developers, they say, I'm going to spend my money elsewhere. I don't want to deal with this madhouse in Portland, and housing is even

more in short supply. It's like the anatomy of the left on economics here in one and one fell swoop. So see, it tells you a lot about how the left. Thanks. I hope you enjoyed our little foray into Portland and Eugene and other places in Oregon in their real estate situation. We'll be right back. So I think I have a long history in civil rights activism. In nineteen eighty eight, I was one of the few white public officials who supported Jesse Jackson for President of the United States, and

they end up winning. For month, I think if you look at my record in terms of civil rights and other areas, you will find that it is consistently a very very strong work. Any legislation we can point to, well, legislation that benefits African Americans, but not specifically, you know, legislation. Oh but the you know, I'm a I'm a civil rights hero, but I didn't actually pass through the legislation. Oh just you know, I want to talk about social justice.

And you know, Bernie gets away with a lot because he comes across as this somewhat likable, kookie professor guy from New York, even though he's not a professor. He's been a guy living off the public, public dime for his entire adult life. But he's really not very impressive. I watched and we didn't really pull any audio from it because it was all the same. You know, the millionaires and the billionaires are gonna pay for this, and they're gonna pay for that. And we're gonna have free

college like every industrialized country in the world. We're gonna have great healthcare, you're gonna have no more debt. You're gonna have unicorns and magic plumb fairies giving you all the sweet treats you want. I mean, it's the usual thing. A lot of Also, how Trump is. I thought it was interesting he said that Trump is divisive, and Trump

is the guy who's separating people. Meanwhile, Democrats whole platform is based on intersectionality, which is just how you assess and how you rank and handle different groups that oppress each other. I mean, that is what intersectionality is. But Democrats accused us of, or rather Trump of being the divisive one. I think that's kind of rich. But you know, Bernie Sanders, I think right now, if you had to say who's going to be the nominee, a lot of

people would put their money on Sanders. A lot of people would say that Sanders is going to come through this Democratic which is already what it is that twelve candidates already, I think. I mean, it's crazy how many candidates there are the Democrat Party right now. It's just crazy. A lot of them are just complete, you know nothing burger candidates as well. I saw this guy today, John

Hickenlooper from Colorado. I would say, I haven't really have really, you know, heard of this guy much before, and I was like, where have I heard about him? The biggest knock on him, from what I understand, is that he's not a total communist and can be somewhat reasonable, and everyone's like, whoa, you can't win a Democratic primary if you're gonna be in any way reasonable or normal. But then I realized that the most famous thing about him is that he likes to pull this this trick where

he'll drink water to prove that something is clean. He drank he drank fracking fluid back in twenty thirteen to show that it was safer than the critics were saying. But he also after a major environmental disaster on the Animous River, he drank a bottle of water from the river. But turns out he put a water purification tablet in it beforehand and waited thirty minutes for that to take effects. So I don't know about that one, but I don't know if we can give you the give you a

pass on that. And then of course he got the other one, the other great hope of the Democrats, Joe Biden. Joe Biden, and Trump's already got his numbers somewhat where. But Joe Biden's a total mediocrity, all right. Nothing about him is impressive, nothing about him is inspiring. He's just a classic Democrat machine politician. And there's just he's just got nothing. I mean, you know, and without the media

running cover for all this stupid comments. You know, I don't think that you're gonna have the same ability for him to just pretend like, oh, that's just Joeb and Joe. But I see today the New York Post is saying that you know who might run if Biden doesn't run. The governor of New York himself, Quomo, who many people say does not have three entire brain cells to rub together.

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peaceful transition of power, but all options are open. If you choose this path, you will find no safe harbor, no easy exit, and no way out. You will lose everything that was President Trump at CEPAC over the weekend talking about what's going on in Venezuela. We have a friend of mine, an ex burnt on Latin America, joining us now from the Heritage Foundation. Anna Rosa Quintana is with us, so you can tell us what's going on right now with Venezuela and also Cuba, which has gotten

into the mix. And thanks so much for calling in. Hey, thanks for having me. Okay, so let's just start with Trump is now tightening the Cuba embargo because Cuba's helping Venezuela. Can you walk us through the Venezuela Cuba situation here?

I mean, the best way of understanding the relationship between both countries is Venezuela has exported to Cuba and has kept up the Cuban government alive through oil and through petro dollars and Cuba and exchange has provided Venezuela with a police state, which is why you have not seen the level of defections that should be normally be seen in a country with such a dire humanitarian crisis. I mean, because the police state and the I mean just the

counterintelligence system that exists withinside of Venezuela. It's the same reason why the Castro regime has survived for sixty years. Well, they were and they were trained by the KGB, and so that's so everyone should keep in mind that the Soviet KGB trained the Castro regime secret intelligence, which has now trained Venezuela's secret intelligence. So there's that exactly exactly, and Maduro is a product of that. I mean, Maduro is not somebody who is a savvy politician or who

knows the US political I mean not at all. Maduro is a thug, and he's a thug who is a Soviet trained thug. I mean, he's a diehard Castro apologist. He's obsessed with the Cuban government, obsessed with the Castro Revolution, just like how Hugo Chavez was. So, you know, and I keep seeing this recurring criticism on the left and from some pretty big voices, including Representative Ilhan Omar, who's in trouble for some other stuff she's been saying recently,

But you see it from her. You see it a lot from Glenn Greenwald, who on some issues I think is very sound. That is thinking on this one I think is pretty far off. I listened to a podcast with Army SKay Hill. You know, you have some of these very well known leftist American thinkers and writers who keep saying that we are engaged in a coup in Venezuela and that we're making the same mistake that we've made for decades in intervening in Venezuela. I wanted your

take on that whole line of thinking. Listen, the only intervention that's happening in Venezuela, and that's been happening for the last twenty years, is the Cuban, Russian, Chinese intervention. And they all have various different objectives. Right, Cuba has only survived. The cash regime has only survived because they've they've been like leeches, right, they've like sucked their teeth into a foreign country that's had more resources than they've had.

You know, before it was a Soviet Union and then and now it's Venezuela, and it's you know, and now you look at Russia. Russia has political objectives inside of Venezuela because you know, Venezuela is a country that's in the Western Hemisphere, and now Russia can be a powerbroker in the future of Venezuela, a country that the United States has deep and strategic interest in. And China. Again, China's economic interest in expanding their presence in the Western

Hemisphere is very well known. There's no there is zero in terms of interventionism. In fact, it's the opposite. The United States and over fifty countries this is what I think is so critical. Here's over fifty countries and it's the majority of the Western hemisphere. This is something that is unprecedented. You've never seen the majority of Latin America unite behind anything. They've never united against the cast regime. And the Castra regime has been around since nineteen fifty nine.

Yet the majority of the Western hemisphere has said enough is enough. The Madure regime as a dictatorship. These guys are drug traffickers, these guys are thugs. We need to get rid of them. Now, what do you say to the criticism from the same some of the same folks. But you're doing such a good job with the other criticism. I want to throw this at you too, that well,

why Maduro? Why Maduro? When we're friends with the Saudis, We're friends with the Chinese, you know, you know, we do business with some pretty bad people around the world. To the left is saying, I'm like, I think it's a smoke screen, But I want to know what way, what do you think? Look, I think one of the United States does not have a cookie cutter foreign policy, right, I mean, there's times where the United States has to

put aside principles in terms of greater national security interest. Right, But when it comes to Venezuela, you have to look at it from the perspective of one Venezuela. The Venezuelan government and high ranking officials within the Venezuelan government are well known drug traffickers. I mean, and now I'm not talking about like small amounts like these guys are deeply involved with Mexican drug cartels. These guys are deeply involved

with Columbia's terrorist organizations. And we have to remember Venezuela and Colombia share a very long border. Colombia is the United States is largest foreign aid recipient. So when we look in, Columbia is also the country that is the largest cocaine producing country in the entire world. So when we start thinking about, all right, the United States still has a massive cocaine problem. Right. We have an opioid crisis, that's for sure, but we still have a huge cocaine problem.

So we look at the Venezuelan government's criminality, and there's a US body count that's directly associated with that. That's one. Two. You look at the refugee exodus, You've had over three million Venezuelans who've left the country. If that number continues, there's thirty two million Venezuela, thirty two million Venezuelans left behind in the country. If the political crisis, the economic crisis, the humanitarian crisis, if that continues, that is going to

destabilize the rest of its neighboring countries. Colombia has already received nearly two million Venezuelans who have permanently stayed inside of that country. Over fifty thousand leave the country every single day and are transiting through Ecuador, through Peru, through

all of these other countries. Imagine if the United States, imagine if Mexico, for example, is having a humanitarian crisis, and we have one point five million or two million Venezus Mexicans that enter our country and permanently resettle here within a time span of like four or five years, that'll completely distable. Exactly. It is our problem is it's our problem. It's a huge problem, right, And that's the thing.

And I mean, there's just so many other factors here, and it's just like, guys, what's happening in Venezuela directly impacts US national security interests. What is keeping Maduro from toppling at this point. And you know, without getting too far into this from the American side, what should the US,

what should the Trump administration were doing? Look, so, the Venezuelans have been really great about keeping this police state in place, right, and Maduro has over the last twenty years, they've been able to consolidate the levers of power under their control. They control the food distribution systems, they control the electoral authorities, they control just everything. And also they

have such high ranking the high ranking government officials. I mean, they've just benefited so greatly and are just so deeply entrenched from corruption, whether it's drug trafficking, food trafficking, you know, making money off of embezzling from the oil industry. I mean, it's just the corruption has just been rampant, right. So it's obviously clear why these guys have not defected because

they really have no other options in life. It's either being a corrupt government official or just you know, spending the rest of their days in either Russia or Havanah. And so that's why we haven't seen those really high level defections. But I mean, there's been nearly six hundred

soldiers who have defected putting their families at risk. I think that's that's pretty significant, the fact that six hundred soldiers have risked the lives of their families because now what happens is now these guys have crossed over into Columbia. Their families can be arrested, they can be imprisoned, they can be tortured, and that's probably what's happening to them right now. And that's why we haven't seen the high level of defections that you know, that should be that

people are, you know, thinking that should be seen. But the momentum and the time is not on maduro side. I mean where Venezuela is right now in comparison to where it was three four months ago, I mean there's a strong momentum against Maduro and really time is not on his side. And in terms of what the US should be doing, I think it's not just what the US should be doing, it's what the international community out of be doing. You have the over fifty countries that

recognize Guido. These guys ought to be making sure that only Guido has access to Venezuela's reserves abroad, if he is the interim president, if he is a legal legitimate President Maduro should not be able to access one single

penny of Venezuelan state reserves. That's one two. I think every country and in that entire coalition ought to be ready to name, to publicly shame all of the Venezuelan Maduros, the Madurou regimes, families, their affiliates, their enablers within their respective countries, because there will be a day where they should no longer be allowed to enjoy living luxuriously in Spain. Also their illicit money. I know other governments should be working to seize this money as well. The US has

sanctioned nearly two hundred some odd Venezuelan government officials. I mean, Trump has just gone sanctioning crazy, like he's just been such a rock star at this. He's really hit these guys where it hurts, and they only care about their pocket bucks. Other countries ought to be reciprocating and doing the same. All right, Anakinzana from Heritage, great stuff. Thank you so much for joining us to share your expertise. And we'll have more on this and we'll follow up

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coming up so often these days? Well, it's basically this idea of exploiting global people to sell something to raise your brand awareness. And I think it's coming up because, well, look brand Seapack has always been a representation of where the Republican Party is, where it's going, and I'm not sure it was ever at this place for intellectual discourse of some people will say, but it has in recent years become more like Trump. It's a celebration of Trump.

And so you see a lot of grifters, people throwing red meat rhetoric out at crowds to raise their brand. Guys like Charlie Kirk, Diamond and Silk Michelle Malkin. Those are the people there, and they are selling books off in at Seapack. They're trying to get subscriptions to their organizations, and so you know, it's no longer any pretense of discussing intellectual philosophy about conservative movements. It's now about really raising a brand, owning the libs and selling your books

to these people. Hey, guys like Dan Bondino, I mean that is absolute bullcrap, but of course it's it's CNN talking about Sepack. It is absolute garbage. Now, are there some red meat fire up the base speeches that happened in Seapack on the main stage. Of course there are, but there should be. There are very few events that occur in the United States where you show up and conservative media is well represented, never mind the dominant force. And you know, this was the first time I had

participated in Spack as a speaker. It's the first time I'd really ever been to Seapack in its modern narration. I haven't been in ten years. I just popped into hear Rush Limbaugh speak back in two thousand and seven. But this idea that there was no intellectual discourse at seatback. And first of all, whether you agree with with me or you agree with Mark Tison on our Syria exchange, I represent the get out of Syria point of view with as much background and knowledge as as anybody on

that issue. Not to sound a little bit pompous, but it's true, at least in the media. In the media, I'm not there's a difference between people who are working the issue in the government side still but from the media perspective. And Mark Tison represents the neocon point of view as well as anybody. And we really got into it, and you know he is I disagree with them, but he's very well read and he's he's eloquent from his point of view and is certainly not lacking in knowledge

on the subject matter. Neither am I. And yes, that was just one, but I also did a breakout panel with Bill Gertz of the Free Beacon and a congressman from actually from four Wayne. The congressman's from four Wayne, Indiana. WHOA WHOA in the House? That's right. If you're listening on WHOA Whoa better come to talk tank who WO listeners. It's in April, middle of April. Check it out. Go to your who WOA website. Tommy larn and Buck Sexton, We're gonna bring down the house. It's gonna be amazing.

But that discussion that I had with them in this in the side panel, where were there about one hundred people or so, maybe seventy five people in the room, we really got in depth on cyber war and critical infrastructure and these are people that understand the threat of cyber espionage. And I mean it was a very high level discussion. Gordon Chang did a speech that was not even standing room only. People were sitting on the floor and standing to hear about how we're doing with China trade.

And I mean, so so this this idea that Seapack it's just all buffoons and owned the Libs that you know, this is the caricature, But really Seepack also fills this very interesting position in our media culture because for a lot of DC journos, it's almost like a trip to the zoo to go to Sepack. They see all these different people that are their conservative counterparts, and they don't

socially interact with them very much. They don't work at outlets where they spend time around conservatives, and you know, they won't go on Fox News, they won't talk to people who work in talk radio like I do. I mean, that's just the reality of it. You know, I live here in DC and I have constant interaction with people from obviously the Hill where I work, but from the Washington Examine or the Daily Call or the Free Beacon, Fox News. You're gonna go on the list. I never

see any CNN people. I never see them professional and never see them socially because they won't they won't be around our ilk. They don't consider people and this is the dirty secret of the media. They don't consider conservatives to really be colleagues. They think that conservatives at best, at best are some kind of you know exhibit. Like I said, it's almost like conservatives were like the menagerie. You know, Oh, we have got a couple of conservatives here.

Look at the conservatives. Look at the way they eat, Look at the way they interact with each other. You know, we're a spectacle, an oddity. They think that what they do is media, what we do is conservative media. They don't understand that they just represent a lib coastal smug elite point of view, and we represent the other half of the country that's a little known group called the other half of America, and share a point of view

that maybe they should learn something about. But this also brings me to how, you know, liberals don't understand what conservatives think or how they think. They really don't. I know what liberals think. I can make their arguments for them. I understand very well what they really believe. And I can't tell you how many liberals I come across who when whenever, whenever it comes to conservative points of view, they really fall on this. Oh it's all performance theater.

Oh it's all it's all a con. These people don't really Conservatives don't really believe this stuff. And I sit around and say, I socialize with I spend time with lots of conservatives in media, many of whom you hear on this show. We really believe this stuff. We go out, we drink, we eat, we hang out together, and we still talk about this stuff and we really believe it.

It's not a con it's not a grift. But I guess that's really from the from the left wing perspective, they would prefer, they would prefer the possibility of us just being frauds instead of having to engage with our ideas. And also they like that they get to slander us as frauds without having to provide any evidence or support

for that. And then there's just one more thing. And I went to a couple of parties at Spack where a lot of a lot of prominent conservatives were there, and you know, I was talking to former spec ops guys that have started that have started their own media company and I'm hoping to do their show soon, and they had just we had such a fun time, so many good people at Speck. But there were these little

smug lib reporters kind of skulking about. And I don't mean it's one thing to skulk about in the you know, in the back of the main stage room, because you know they're pressed. They're they're covering the event, and we want them to cover the event. And yes, there's gonna be stuff like the Bullwork, which is a crap publication that's just a bunch of bitter people that aren't relevant anymore. Hiring an anti abortion communist to cover people at spack

for a supposedly conservative magazine. That actually happened, But you know what I saw happening, And this is just tells you who these people are on the left. Yeah, these reporters that were going to social events and you could tell they're you know, people are drinking and they're talking, and they're just looking for a conservative doesn't have to be a public figure to say something that they can vote out of context, to trash seapack. That's what they're

there for. They're there not to cover it as journalists, but to do opo research. And that's why why this discussion it's bad, bad Stelter that maybe they are just cants. Maybe that was making that Stelter, you only have your job because you're a lib suck up who looks like the guy who runs CNN. So there's that we reject oppressive speech, coats, censorship, political correctness, and every other attempt by the hard left to stop people from challenging ridiculous

and dangerous ideas. Instead, we believe in free speech. Many emergency declarations have been used to protect people in far away nations. Now we are protecting fine, our people. You, our people. So Trump is pro free speech, which liberals increasingly can't say that they are the most interesting takeaway from his Seapack speech when I was there at all the seapack well, actually I cannot tell why I was at home during trump Seapack speech. I was watching it.

I did watch it, but I had had a late night the night before at Seepack, and so I decided to get some sleep and rest up. Because the Secret Service requirements with it, you had to be there very early in order to get close to the Trumpster when he's doing the speech. So he said that he's thinking about pulling federal funding for universities that will not commit

to free speech. And what I think is so funny is that automatically liberals hear this and they go, oh my gosh, how will you have universities be speech police, and I have to laugh and say, Okay, first of all, they already do do that. They just do it in favor of libs. They just do it to the benefit of the left. But they're already policing speech. So all that we're trying to do is say, can you police speech to make sure that it is free? Essentially, don't

police it? How about that you are policing it now in favor of the left. How about you just don't do that thing? As liberals are all, oh my gosh, what will we ever do? How will the universities know what free They think about this? The left takes the position that it's hard for the universities for colleges to

know what free speeches. If colleges can't figure out what free speeches, then I think we really need to rethink what's going on in colleges as a very a very general and sweeping way, like what would you say you do here colleges. I think it's a very very important idea for Trump to push out there, and to keep in mind that, you know, Obama and his administration really one of the most just despicable things that they did, or at least we're thinking about doing. They at one

point threatened to pull federal funding for schools. That's right, Department of Education funding for schools that if a state would not enact their insane transgender policy of twelve year olds, you know, showering with twelve year old twelve year old boys showering at twelve year old girls because they feel like a girl. That's what the Obama administration. Yeah, this was a real thing. The threatened to pull federal funding. So I think pulling federal funding for schools that refused

to be free speech supportive, I'm fine with that. I don't see what the problem is. And people say, oh, they can't implement this, I just I point out, well, hold on a second. What about Title nine? Why why is it that wrestling and lacrosse and other programs at school's crew men's crew, which I did in college, they've been decimated across the country. Why is that? Oh, because you need parity for men's and women's sports, even though men generally care more about playing sports at a college

level than women do. Don't tell anybody. Look, you can yell at me by the percentages, it's i't People get mad when I said by the percentage is it's just true. It's just true. Doesn't mean you shouldn't have women's sports. But interest from men in playing college sports is higher than interest in women. It's just a fact. But you have to have parody in the fun day anyway. Schools enforce all kinds of Title nine, including the kangaroo courts

over sexual assault where the accused has no rights. The federal government uses Title nine and the removal of funding under Tunnel nine as the way to, you know, implement all that. So trust me, if they want to, if they decide that they want to get compliance here on that free speech is important, they can get it. There's no problem. There's no shortage or ways they can make this happen. So don't believe a laugh when they're, uh, gosh, how can they have the free speech? I don't know,

it's really not that hard. And if universities camp be beacons or free speech, well where can we have that? But as we know, this is what was it in June. When I am When I am weak, I played by your rules because it favors because it favors me. When I'm strong, I played by my rules because it favors me. I mean, that's that's essentially the left on college campuses. I've got that quote. You know that was a paraphrase, but you know it's a good quote. It's from Dune.

There's a book I should probably read at some point. Hey, Team Buck, it's time for roll call. I just want to say it thank you to all members of Team Buck who came out to see pack and said hello. We got to chat, take photos. A couple of people had me signed things, which was which was fun. So thank you so much for making that happen. Good to see all of you, and I hope you enjoyed my debate with a very hardcore neo con We definitely got into it over what should be done on the question

of Syria. So if you got a chance to see that, I think you saw. I wish we had about another twenty minutes, but we made the best use of our time on the maid main stage that I think we could have under the circumstances. So let's get to it. We have first up here Harry who writes, oh this is Facebook dot com slash buck sex and if you want to be a part of this parte Hi Buck. I read Mary Hudson's essay on Teaching in New York. I never found it on your Facebook page, by the way,

But then again, I'm a ludd Eye. No, Harry, I'm a luddite because I forgot to put on the Facebook page. That's my bad. The last two paragraphs sum it up perfectly. If lower or no standards are set, they will be met. My generation may have been one of the last ones to get a genuinely good general education before racial integration, which I'm not saying necessarily a bad thing unless coupled with lowered expectations across the board. That seems to have happened,

and all the leftist nonsense took hold. Even my sister tears behind me had an inferior schooling. I believe we had a couple of young friends mid twenties that seemed to know very little. I fear the leftists have won by producing a population of functional illiterates, incapable of critical thought shield tie Harry, Harry, I don't know. Is that all a quote from her article? I can't tell if what's yours and what's from that Mary Hudson essay on Teaching in New York. By the way, I would just

say that the article's really good and I should. John will remind me to put it up now. I invited her on the show and she didn't come on the show, And as producer Mike pointed out, it's probably because she's a liberal, because she has a PhD in French literature, which just doesn't sound like a very conservative resume to me. So not that you can't be a conservative and have a PhD in French literature, but it's unlikely, I think.

But she just had out enough with the school system and with the most fascinating part of that essay is the attitude, the attitude that these kids in a high school level are owed something and even though they don't do their homework, they don't do any work, they don't have any respect, they don't have any discipline. They're all going to get to go to four year colleges. It's

not how it works. And by the way, even if they could theoretically go as in the funds were made available to them, that may not be a good idea. So it's a very good essay and I will try to remember to share it. Garrett right, It's been a podcast listened for nearly four years. And share a show as much as I can. Thank you so much for

taking a stand about the evils of abortion. My question is what does the two thousand and two Born Alive Infant Protection Act not accomplish that necessitated the bill blocked by Democrats last week? Love the Show, Garrett. Garrett a very good question, and I'm not sure I have the one correct answer on it, So I would just say that before I tell you that I think that this bill added criminal penalties for the doctor for not for not taking action to save the bait or to give

the baby medical care. But it's a fair point. I would need to compare the two bills. I would need to compare them and see what's in them. Man, I have not done that. Michael rides Heyblock. I was watching Fox News today. They were saying how legalizing marijuana and prostitution is a bad idea. However, the drug war is the worst idea as a country we've ever had, and laws against prostitution don't stop. They just make things worse.

Now I'm going to run out and vote for those crazy Democrats because of this, but I just might stay home. I think continue to advocate for the criminalization of victim's crimes a bad idea for Republicans. What do you think shields High? You know, Michael, I think that legalizing marijuana is probably the lesser of two evils. I think that

legalizing marijuana is probably the way to go. I certainly don't think that people should spend any time in prison or have their lives ruined for personal use of marijuana. I mean, I feel very strongly about that. And as to prostitution, you know, it's a very it's a very sad thing that anybody would be in that position. And the line, as we've seen from some news reports recently, between prostitution and human trafficking, right, somebody who's essentially forced

into prostitution can be a pretty thin one. I think that as a moral society, it's very hard to have prostitution be legal. I really do. And this is look, this is this is core libertarian debate stuff, and libertarians are obviously very into pushing to decriminalize victimless crimes. I would just say that marijuana is not a dangerous enough substance to be treated as a Schedule one drug. That's just that's just anti science. I don't know how else

to put it. You know, alcohol is I think an obviously more dangerous substance in large quantities than marijuana is. Um so the science I think, and among other things, as legalizing marijuana is gonna do. But you know, prostitution,

I just can't. I know, people do it. I know they say, oh, it's the oldest profession and all this stuff, and you know what's the line between some of these They have all these websites now where you you have, you know, an arrangement or the the they call it, like the girlfriend experience or any things where someone you're not explicitly exchanging money for sex, but the person expects

to be. You know, you're a sugar daddy, right, you're signing up to so you're going to take care of them, and that means paying their bills and giving them money for things. And obviously the implication is that there will be a physical relationship. You know that is that illegal? You know? I don't think so, but you start to see it gets a little gray. But now I've been talking about prostitution way longer than I intended. Er in rights, Hey, a quick question for you. I'm working a little project.

I'm wondered how you would define conservatism. Thanks well, Conservatism is the act of conserving, and in this case, I think it would be using history to conserve the wisdom that we have learned in the past of limited government, constitutionalism, natural law. And yeah, that's a pretty good that's a pretty good off the cuff definition of conservatism. Seth rights Ben Wine Garden Kickbot on Friday. Well, set that makes

me happy to hear. Ben is an old friend and a very very smart and a good guy, and I do get a lot of positive feedback about him on the show. And like I always say, I want the best guest host possible because I want you to listen every night. I don't ever want there to be a night, whether you're listening live or listening on the podcast where you say, ah, you know, I'm not gonna tune anything because Buck's not there and so and so. No, No, I want you to listen every night. So that means,

like I get the best guest host that I can. Wayne, Wayne, I'm on, I can't remember the words that song I was gonna go into the Hey, Wayne, isn't that is that Nirvana? John? I know I'm singing that's Nirvana? Right? Yeah? And isn't that it's Wayne right. This isn't one of the things where I have the lyrics wrong, is it that would be? Is it really I'm wrong? I thought it's yelling Wayne? Do I Did I just do that on air? Did I just get the lyrics wrong? Go

a Nirvana song? You know what I'm talking about? All right? Whatever I like, I'm gonna tell you something. I'm gonna get a lot of heat for this one. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know if anyone who cares anymore. I just think Nirvana is overrated. I just think Nirvana is not that great. You know, people get so excited the nineties about Nirvana, and I think kind of sounds like a lot of other bands and the music is yeah, you know what, I don't really like that drop. So

we're gonna we're gonna have to get that one. That was producer Mike put that one in, and it's not it's not for me. But see, I'm obviously in a curmudgeonly mood right now. So there's that. Katherine with a why this is meant for roll call? Great show? Buck. My question for you is have you read the book The Human Factor by Ishmael Jones. It is written by a former CIA officer who says the agency has bloated

and bureaucratically corrupt. You agree with his conclusions. Also, have you read The Fate of Nations by Sir John Glub Thanks for your response, Catherine. I have read The Human Factor by Ishmael Jones. He is right on some of his broad conclusions about the agency being bloated and bureaucratic. That is true. The book itself is very boring, so I didn't I can't say that it's something I would recommend, but as somebody who was in the agency, yes, there's a lot of a lot of bloat, a lot of waste,

a lot of sloth and bureaucratic nonsense. And there's really no question about that. Oh and the other one, the Fate of Nations, I have not read that. I'm almost done with the Last City of the Monkey God, which is kind of an adventure book. It's a true story. It's about finding the city in Honduras. In this area, Mosquitia of Honduras is very the kind of most unexplored

part of Honduras. I wish I could tell you that I really liked it, but you know, it's a lot of like, oh, the dangerous snakes we gotta be you know, I feel like I'm reading a book that's kind of a bad version of The Crocodile Hunter, because yeah, there's a lot of dangerous snakes. Okay, but now you're just telling me more about Look, I haven't finished the books, so maybe it gets better. But there's a lot of like, yeah, and then we saw this really old stone that could

have been an altar for religious stuff. Oh, tell me more about the old stone. It's not that awesome. It's not that awesome. Andrei's writes buck your seat pack debate was masterful on Syria. It was truly painful to hear. I was in the Pentagon when the planes hit on nine to eleven. Why do people do this? Do they think it adds to their credibility? You're a patient and thoughtful dude. I know it's rough. Keep spreading freedom of knowledge. It's not only your passion we appreciate, but a gift

for us. All well, Andrea's man, thank you so much. And shields how to you? It is very very kind of you. And yeah, I think I think I was able to explain my position well at the debate. Oh we got another one in here, Philip rights Hey Buck Shields High outstanding performance at SEAPAC on the Syria topic. You smoke, Teason. You made the most poignant point on the number of deployments required to fight them wherever they are.

Professional think tankers have run our form for far too long. Yeah, Phil, I think that they just also never learned the lesson, and that's frustrating because they don't really they don't really carry the burdens, and they just do not learn those lessons. So I gotta find the clip of that SPAC debate so I can post it on Facebook. I'll try to do that sometime this week. Thank you so much team as always for joining me here in the Freedom Hunt and honor and a privilege, indeed a pleasure as well.

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