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what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American. Let you're a great American again. The Buck Sexton Show begins. No, we have to have border security. We have to have a wall. In order to have border security. You cannot have border security without a wall. I mean, we can play games and we can talk about technology, we can talk about drones flying around. You know, right now formed is an eight thousand person caravan and the caravan is

heading our way. Congratulations, we have another one. We stopped the first one, we stopped the second one. We didn't have a wall in those areas. It would have been very hard to stop them. We have the military, and we have the border patrol. They've done an incredible job, and Ice has done an incredible job all over the country. Frankly, welcome the Buck Sexton show. President Trump's dead. It's strong

on this one, not backing down, not giving up. And it looks like some people, at least on the Democrat side, are a little bit concerned about where all of this is going a little bit worried that there's at least a possibility that maybe Nancy Pelosi getting into this spitting match, shall we say, with Trump was not so wise after all.

Maybe it's in fact the case that Nancy Pelosi has has overplayed her hand a little bit here, acting in a clearly imperious fashion toward the president, which, whatever you think of Trump's tactics up to this point, I think Pelosi has acquitted herself very poorly in all of this. And I really, I have to say, I've really enjoyed some of Trump's barbs directed at Democrats like Pelosi, but there are some who are saying, hold on a second, there, there could be a problem here. There could in fact

be an issue. This was from Maggie Haberman last night on Twitter. She wrote that the white House believes Pelosi has aired in getting into a tactical fight with Trump that involves testing who can kick more dirt. I think that there's truth to that, you know. I think that the Democrats are used to republic aikins, who the moment you start to get a little nastier, they go, oh, no, don't hit me, you know, don't don't be so rough, and they kind of run away. Trump doesn't do that.

He leans in, He says, give me your best shot. And I think I think that if nothing else, the debate over the fence, let's just start. Let's just start saying the fence so that they don't they don't have this, you know, this talking pot anymore about oh he said a wool will fine the fence. I'm hearing people now who are saying, okay, okay, fine, fine, we all know that offence is is gonna work. That was kind of

what we'll give up. We'll give that up. That was kind of a dumb thing that we were saying, offense is gonna work. But let's just reopen the government then we'll get the fence built. WHOA a whole lot of second. We've heard for over two years now, that the notion of a fence at our southern border. Democrats, demagogues on TV, left wing pundits and anchors and journos and all the rest, they have been saying that offense at our southern border

is foolish, racist, immoral, all that stuff. Now, if you pay a little closer attention, you'll hear people say, well, you know, maybe there'll be some funding for a wall for offense. You know, later on we'll do a little more offensing. Yeah, yeah, fine, maybe our walls don't work. Talking point isn't quite as brilliant as we thought it was,

But this is remarkable. Until about five minutes ago, it feels like all you gotta do is go on CNN and be like, walls don't work, and everybody goes, oh my gosh, you're right, gosh, walls don't work and water isn't wet. These are really intelligent things to say. But sure enough, as we look into this a little more, we find that Trump has made in roads in this national discussion in a way that I think should at least we should give him credit for it. At least

now I can say it. I'll play you some We have some audio of a never Trumper that was arguing the boarder with me earlier. Today, it's making the rounds on social media. You'll want to hear some of it. But you know, as as I see here and think about the discussions about the boarder that have happened in the past in public, you can no longer get away with just saying that the offense is stupid. Offense doesn't work.

You know, if you show me a ten foot wall, I'll show you an eleven foot ladder that you've been hearing for how long? Things like that, and people who say it think that they're smart for saying it. They think that this is a really wise that they've come up with some witty retort they've got, They've got Trump cornered on this whole wall thing, and it's just it's idiocy. It's so very very dumb. I wonder if Senator Lindsey

Graham is correct on this woman. He says that he thinks that Nancy Pelosi is not only misunderstanding her position visa VI Trump in this debate, but could be a problem in the longer term for the Democrats on this play fifteen, Please, Nancy Pelosi has become a nightmare for the Democratic Party. She seems unreasonable. She seems to have a dislike for the president that is hurting the country. And this idea of not letting the president speak is

really overplaying your hands, it is. You know, she does not look like a seasoned and well adjusted statesman or states person on this one. She comes across as somebody who is taking a lot of this all very personally and is trying to find any way she can just stick a thumb in the President's eye. And people are looking at the issue and saying, well, hold on a second, why is it so hard for you guys to give some money for fencing at our southern border? Why is

that so unthinkable? Think of all the stuff that all the money that you know is wasted by the government on a regular basis on nonsense stuff. This is important, and yet they can't find the money for this. Democrats, for the first you know, the only things that Democrats don't want to fond apparently are the military beyond a you know, minimal amounts and defense, or rather, I could put in you this way, the only expenses the Democrats really seem to complain about are the military and the fence.

I don't know what else. They complain about everything else they want. The government is spending the taxpayers money. But I do think that the problem that looms here for the Republicans and for Trump is that the situation at the airports is about to get bad. TSA and all this stuff, you know, and man that the journal journalists, I can tell you, they are just waiting in the wings to swoop in on this whole situation. And they really look journalists have gotten their teeth kicked in the

last week. They really have. Although you see that producer Mike, you see that that Acosta has has a book coming out. Jim Acosta has got a book coming out. It's called like, uh, you know, speaking Truth in the Era of Trump or some nonsense. I can't I believe he's not calling a dear diary. I just think that that's a miss. Anyway. This is one of the great myths of our of our time, is that journalists in this country are in danger. Oh no, they're journalists. Oh it's such a dangerous job.

I think I told some of you that the Committee to Protect Journalists reached out to make I wrote an editorial about how not dangerous. I'm not saying there are aren't countries where it is dangerous. There are America is not one of them. You basically have two shootings of journalists in the last thirty years, and you know about both of them. One was at the paper in your Baltimore. The other was the live stream shooting that you know.

These are just two disturbed individuals. Yeah. You There have also been shootings in the postal buy postal workers against their colleagues and by any number of different Yeah, they're bad people out there. Journalists are not in jeoparding this country. No one is stopping them from doing their job. No one is stopping them from saying whether they want to say when this is a fantasy. They might as well be submitting fan fiction written about themselves. Oh wait, that's

what Jim Acosta is doing. Man, that guy. You know what's funny is that I know enough about him from people that work with him too. It's not like he thinks this is some great calm that he's running and he's just lining his pockets. I could kind of have a little bit of yeah, you know, I get it, it's got bills to pay. No, I think he really believes that he's a First Amendment martyr and that it's necessary for the health of our republic that we all

hear from Jim Acosta. But how he speaks truth to power. I have the book for you, by the way, what is the name of the book? It's awesome. The Enemy of the People. A dangerous time to tell the truth in America. Oh my god, Yeah, I can't believe. A dangerous time to tell the truth in America. A dangerous how Acosta dangerous? How he's more famous and richer and more more beloved by the CNN LIB audience than he's ever been. So you know what does he even Oh

my gosh, He's the gift that keeps on giving. He's incredible in that way. But there is a speaking of CNN nice transition here. There is a CNN exclusive story just came out right as we went on air. So you're getting this hot off the presses or whatever, or

off the digital stuff on the screen. The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border, and has identified more than seven billion dollars in potential funds for his signature border wall should he go that route. According to internal documents reviewed by CNN. Hopefully CNN's actually seeing the documents or else this is going to look pretty bad.

Trump is not ruled out using his authority to declare a national emergency and direct the Defense Department to construct a border wall. As Congress and the White House fight over a deal to end the government shutdown. While Trump's advice just remain divided on the issue, the White House has been moving forward with alternative plans that would buy pass Congress. I think this is the right move. There's a Congressional statute that says that he's allowed to do this.

It's you know, see, here's the problem that I know we run into. People say, Buck, what about the next president who comes along, who's a Democrat I wants to declare a state of emergency. Do you do any of you think that the next president who can't get his or her way, who's a left wing Democrat, which just means a Democrat, is going to shy away from declaring a state of emergency if he or she feels it useful to them because Trump didn't do it. Do you

think this will stop them from using this authority? Obama said how many times I don't have the authority to go alone publicly in front of the whole country. I don't have the authority to go alone on DOCCA. I need Congress to do something. Congress was like, nope, what did Obama do? Did he did he sit around and mope and say, oh, I don't I don't have the power on the authority to this. No, we all know it. Obama did. He said, Okay, I'm just gonna do what I want. Guess what now, I say, I have the

authority DOCCA. It happens not only that, but then when Trump comes along, it says, well, if Obama had the authority to enact DOCCA, I as president must have the authority to unenact DOCCA. And a court says no, A court says no, it's you know, heads Dems win, tails, we lose. That's not a good that's not a good look for the judiciary, for the presidency, for anything. But that's where we are. So that's why that argument. Although I'm aware of it, and it's a it's a real point,

I'm not discounting it. I don't find it as persuasive as some of my conservative peers because I know Democrats they have a lust for power, and they love to wield power and rub the faces of conservatives and of Republicans in it when they do so, and do a lot of in your face. So you think by Trump walking away from a state of emergency, they won't try that with and keep in mind, yeah, and then that

president will probably have it go through the courts. You know, if a Democrat comes along, it's this, there's a climate change or our Second Amendment emergency, and I'm gonna seize all your Yeah, you know, you know what stops Democrats from saying they're gonna seize all our guns though they know that they can't. Ultimately they know they can't. They like to talk about it sometimes maybe a little amongst themselves,

but it's not gonna happen, and they know that. So a state of emergency may may be declared here pretty soon, my guests would be Monday at this point, based on what we're seeing here in the reporting. Because they're gonna miss another pay cycle tomorrow. You're gonna hear a lot more stories about federal employees who can't pay the bills, can't you know, can't handle the mortgage or deal with any of the stuff that's come up. Now, and I'm not being dismissive of that. I know that that's a

financial hardship and that's real. And then the Republicans are gonna say okay, or at least Trump is gonna say, all right, I'm gonna go for it. And then what's interesting is that the only coequal branch with the presidency is the Supreme Courts. So what happens if the president says, I'm the commander in chief, there's a security emergency, We're building this wall, and a federal judge says no, and the president says, um, how are you allowed to stop

me on this? I'm just putting it out there. I'm just putting it out there. Does a federal judge I think they're gonna they're gonna do what. They're gonna issue a an arrest warrant for contempt against the President of the United States because he's ordering the military to build a fence somewhere, you know, And maybe we should call their bluff on this a little bit, you know what, Yeah, it's gonna go into the court's fine. How does it? How does Trump lose in the courts on this issue?

He says, as an emergency, there's a statute that says the president may declaring an emergency. He would have border patrol and Immigrations and Customs enforcement to back him up on this that there is an emergency. So what exactly is going to be the rationale? Oh, because Congress hasn't appropriate of these funds. Well, that's why there's the statute that says that he can declare state of emergency. I you know, Trump people, forget Trump one on the so

called Muslim band. He won on that, and I told you he was going to win on that because he had the authority as the commander in chief to do that. And all these so called legal experts, you know, the Jeffrey Tubins of the world at CNN and these others, they were all saying, oh, no, no, no, you know, he can't do this, he can't do this, because that's what their audience wanted to hear. But it wasn't true.

Buck doesn't even have a law degree. And I'm a better legal analyst than these libs who go on TV to talk about this stuff. Trust me, I'm right a lot more than they are. Pay attention. You'll see we got more coming up. Stay with me. The State of the Union, speech has been canceled by Nancy Philosy because she doesn't want to hear the truth. She doesn't want the American public to hear what's going on, and she's afraid of the truth and the super left Democrats, the

radic old Democrats. What's going on in that party is shocking. I know many people that we're Democrats are this switching over right now, this switching over quickly. So I hope they know what they're doing for their party. So far they haven't. Nancy Pelosi is getting such a pass from the media on stuff. It's astonishing. First of all, for a third time, you have House Democrats that have decided they will not allow GOP efforts to actually pay federal

workers during the shotdown to go through. They don't care these just like the Democrats with everything, They don't care that federal workers aren't getting paid. Really, they care that it looks like Republicans are big, mean meanings because federal workers are not getting paid. Nancy Pelosi is not losing sleep at night because Coast Guard and Border patrol are

not getting paid. Trust me, all she and her little Democrat cohorts care about is that enough Americans are going Okay, well, I watched the news, and the news says the Republicans are responsible for those you know what about who's forget about who's responsible for the shutdown? Who's right in this debate? Who is correct the Republicans of the Democrats. Is there a crisis at the border? Yes? Would a fence help, among other things that Trump has laid out in a

comprehensive and very serious proposal. Yes. Is it fully within the authority of the United States government to take these actions and try to secure the border? Yes? So why do we have to sit around and go, oh, well, it's the Republicans fall. The Democrats are the ones that are immigration extremist. They're making no sense in any of this stuff. They keep, you know, they keep hiding the ball, moving the football, doing all that stuff all the time.

When you look at the substance of the issue, who is correct? And the truth is that the Republican Party is correct. Trump is correct. He makes a lot more sense on the board of the Nancy Pelosi does I can tell you that, but I think we all know where this is head. It's probably heading to an emergency declaration. And Democrats are gonna say that Trump is literally worse than Hitler. And the Ninth Circuit's gonna enjoy this, and they're gonna say, sorry, he can't do or are they're

gonna put a stay on it or whatever. I shouldn't have made that lawyer comment. Now I'm like, Yeah, what's the legal language I gotta use here. They're gonna put a stop to it until it can go make its way through the courts, and that's where we'll be. But you know, give give Trump credit if he takes this thing all the way. He's taking this thing all the way. And I think his base, his voters are going to remember, and they're also gonna remember the Democrats on immigration are

a bunch of liars. Ah, Yes, never Trumpers. There's a whole set of conservatives in the media and across the country that refer to themselves with pride as never Trump. And I've always said from the beginning of this never saying that. I know that sounds simplistic, but it's true.

You know, you just don't know. And beyond that, what I see is that there are a lot of people who have adopted many of the what they think of as the as the cultural and ideological attributes of conservatism without actually caring about what's happening to conservatism and conservative

causes conservative action. Right, So you know, people who think that they're carrying on the legacy of William F. Buckley by deciding that, you know, they should smoke a cob pipe where boat shoose and speak with kind of a fancy account about things instead of well, are we are we getting conservative judges? Are we getting lower tax rates? Are we getting less of regulation? Are we getting a foreign policy that focuses on American needs beyond the needs

of foreign countries? Are we securing the border? You know, the reality of the of the implementation of ideas is irrelevant to them. It's just the going through the motions, right, It's it's the facade of conservatism, the veneer of conservatism in place of conservative action. And that then brings me to the little exchange that I had today with mister Charlie Sikes, who apparently used to have a radio show and not one that I ever listened to or heard of,

but he came on my show Rising this morning. He is very very much a never trumper, and we talked a bit about the wall, the fence, the border, and there were some remarkable take us. By the way, I would recommend you to watch the whole clip. It's on Facebook right now. You got to Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton. It's also on YouTube, so you should be But the easiest ways to just go on my Facebook page. You'll see it there. And I want to walk you through some of what's gone on here. UM play play

clip eleven. But why do you hit all a Donald Trump's feed when the Democrats are being completely intransient? I mean a year ago they were talking about twenty billion dollars of funding for border security in the wall, and now they're saying, we won't give you a dollar, not a dollar well, okay, saying that though, well, that's actually what Nancy Pelosi said recently. I mean, I don't know

where she's today. She said, no, not a dollar wall. Okay. Well, that they've offered billions of dollars for board of Secure thousand and six, the Secure Fence Act passes, Chuck tchumers talking about twenty or fifteen billion dollars for border security overall, which would have included upgraded fence again security. So I'm just worrying. I mean, as you obviously don't like the

President like what he's doing. But all of your eyers seem to go toward the Republicans and toward Trump on this and not toward the Democrats, who obviously don't want a secure border. I mean, that's clear. See that's that's just that's just that's just demogragu ry. How is that because of course they want to secure. We all wanted, we all, we all wanted by the way, the way you want to secure. Yes, they want a lot came back up for helping. Fuck, this is this is where

it just all at all starts to go here. Democrats wanted to secure. Do you think Nancy Pelosi wants to secure border where people really just cannot get any illegally? Why do they object every time? You think that they want to shut down the magnet to bring people into this country, which would mean e verify, workplace verification, and internal enforcement of immigration laws, which means deportations of people.

Do do you think that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats want the eighty to ninety percent of the family units that will not get asylum in this country. Therefore they are illegal, They are not allowed to be here, and they will not show up for their hearings. This means they should be deported. Do you think that they support that? Now? Of course not. You know, these never trumpers are on Pelosi and Schumer's side on immigration. Whether

it's this guy Sykes who's really smug and annoying and unimpressive. Um, I was told that actually, you know, he's one of these guys also always always bashes the president for his you know, moral turpitude, and you know the guys. This guy himself has been married three times and each each marriage has apparently ended in a tourist affair. That that's what I was told. So you know, I'm look, I'm not one to judge, but I will judge one who

should not be one to judge, and that is this guy. Um. We had we had more going on here though that I wanted to get into a play clip. Nine. We have this shutdown over the non existent wall, which the President has already caved on. I mean, there is no wall. He's he's he's changed his position on all of that, you know, and position on that mean well, because we're not building a two thousand mile concrete barrier. Um, we're now down. This is all just not over a relatively

small area. Um, but last two years, when somebody like me said, you know, you're not going to build a two thousand mile concrete barrier along the border, we were accused of being cuts and globalists and for open borders. And now the president is saying this. He's winning defense debate though, which is a big change. I mean, anybody who knows anything about the boy order now knows that the fence out. Oh well people will know anything about the border. No, the fence works. I mean that's no

longer up for discussion. Yeah, this is but see this is what I mean. Well, you know he's switched on the wall. Yeah, he switched from a wall to a fence. What what sort of semantic baby ish nonsense is this? Okay, he hasn't caved on this is so stupid. He hasn't caved on the concept of a barrier or whether you call it a wall or a fence. I mean, this is crazy, This is crazy. Well this is what you get from from the never Trump or squad. And then

things got a little more interesting. Play twelve. Do you think the border is important? Do you think the border security is something that's worth Yeah? I didn't care. I mean they passed along two thousand and six, saying you're gonna do this right, never funded it. Now here we are. There is a crisis of the border. Whether it's a big crisis or a little crisis we could argue about, but it's a major problem. There is no crisis of the border. Yeah, but there is no There's no crisis

at the border that we cannot handle. There's lots of ways of securing the border without engaging in the kind of crude, reductionist fiction that Donald Trump has engaged in saying I'm gonna build this big, beautiful wall that Mexico is going to pay for it because buck betiful irishes. He has had to change his position on what the wall. It's a fence, maybe it's maybe it's not a wall.

Now we're saying it's a barrier. But this is a position that anybody who's known about the border in any real sense has known should happen for a long time. They passed Congress passed along two thousand and six. I need to do this. Trump has finally gotten this thing

to where it's close to maybe happening. And we're going to criticize him because Mexico is not paying for it, isn't a much more important issue that there's actually the possibility of getting the wall that we even before we're gonna get You know, this is I'm trying to have a conversation like a normal person. What really matters here, that we're gonna get a barrier, that we're gonna get a fence, that we're trying to do what should be done.

And he's saying, oh, this reductionist fiction of the wall the Mexico this is all distraction. Border patrol and rations and customs enforcement want a wall. Anyone who knows anything about the border knows that we should have a barrier offense. So wall, it doesn't matter. Something physical there to prevent illegal entry into the country in areas where that is effective, which is a lot of areas that are still open.

So what is this guy even talking about. By the way he went on, he says during the interview, you gotta watch it. You know, there shouldn't be a wall. There should be a wall. Trump is ikey. I gotta tell you, I just wish there were none of the balls and strikes crowd on Trump. Some great people, they're honest, they're smart. I'm fine with it. The never Trump squad. I don't know anybody who knows what the heck they're talking anymore. It's just all bunk, it's all nonsense. Here

it is a wealth tax. It was only a matter of time, my friends. It's not surprising at all, but here it is. Elizabeth Warren apparently didn't have time to hang out with Nathan Phillips at the Indigenous People's March. I'm a little disappointed personally. I kind of would have liked to have seen Elizabeth Warren, you know, suit up and then uh and go to the list, go to the Indigenous People's March, you know, because she's one one

and twenty fourth Native American. I think she's got to represent that tiny, infinite, testimal fraction of herself that could any way be described as Native American. I think she needs to really, you know, say it loud and say it proud on her Native American heritage. But she isn't going away. There's a part of me I almost I almost find myself respecting it. And I can't say I do respect, but I almost respect her resilience because resilience

is an incredibly important character trait. I mean, as I get a little older and see a little bit more in life and actually feel like I know some things now. It's I mean, I thought I knew a lot of twenty seven, I didn't know squat. I know a lot more at thirty seven. I think at forty seven, I'll probably think I'm, you know, some kind of savant. But anyway, I didn't know any twenty seven. I've learned a lot

since then. Resilience is key, being able to bounce back, and and so that part of me that really just respects that human quality that Elizabeth Warren with a straight face, thinks there is any universe in which she is going to successfully run for the presidency and she's going to stick it out and stay in. This is wow. It truly is wow. But she's got some tricks up her sleeve.

You know, she does have a few things. She doesn't have a few cards to play and attacks that goes after very wealthy Americans, you know, to really dig in deep to the envy, the envy quotient here to you whose class warfare as a central campaign theme, and promise really that she's going to soap the rich, She's gonna take him, take him down. It's powerful stuff. It works

very well. It works very well. It worked very well for Chavez and Majuro in Venezuela, which we're going to talk about in the third hour of the show, worked really well for them. Didn't work out well for the Venezuelan people, unfortunately, didn't work out well for those who had to live with the consequences of empowering demagogues who became despots. And by the way, usually despots start out

as demagogues. Worth noting. I also love the definition of a demagogue as a person who says things he knows to be untrue to a room full of people he knows to be idiots. That's that's a pretty good working definition of a of a demagogue. I think that's no. I don't want to see if I give the wrong attribution on a quote. I know you you, This is a very I gotta always do my homework and then something before this show because this audience is you guys. I know late, I gotta make a correction later on

in the show. Came into our inbox on something so nothing nothing flies by this team. I use the past plu perfect improperly, and all of a sudden, you know, things go, things go wrong. But Elizabeth Ward is proposing a wealth tax. Ah, here we are. Here's really this sweet spot of the social justice left. And I'm gonna tell you, because I'm always honest with you, that this is going to be. This is this is a powerful idea, and it's powerful idea for a few reasons. But let

me just first tell you what the idea is. It's, according to the Washington Washington Post, a wealth tax on those with more than fifty million dollars. He says this is to combat soaring wealth inequality. The tax would hit those above fifty million with a two percent wealth tax and those above one billion with a three percent wealth tax, and that this is supposed to raise two point seven five trillion dollars over the course of ten years. Now here's where this is going to be. Here's where this

is gonna be tricky, folks. And I'm not gonna lie to you about this. If you're really going to talk about inequality and what is fair, a wealth tax is actually much more fair than an income tax. And you know I cannot tell a lie. A wealth tax makes

a lot more sense. Think of it this way. If somebody with a million dollars in the bank and the numbers here, I'm just using them because they're easy, right, But somebody with a million dollars in the bank makes fifty thousand dollars a year in unearned or rather, you know, investment incomes and say unearned it's earned. Sorry, I know that was a little I threw myself a flag there. That sounded a little aoc like. You know, it's it's unearned because like you didn't like, like work really hard,

like and at coffee shop to make it. I get it. Fine, But if you make off of investment income fifty thousand dollars because you have a million dollars in the bank and you've got a five percent municipal bond, let's say it's like Bucks breaking out the green eye shade. Here, let's break down the numbers, and then you work really hard at your job, whatever job you have across a gun, you make fifty thousand dollars. To treat that income as though it has the same impact on your life is nonsensical.

It's just true, right, you know, to tell it's for somebody who has a million dollars in the bank to live off a fifty thousand dollars, which you know most people the million dollars in the bank wouldn't be happy to do that. But you know, if they want to live off fifty thousand dollars a year, they can. But to act like the financial pressures and financial reality of somebody who makes fifty thousand dollars a year is the same as somebody who is getting fifty thousand dollars a

year from the assets they have. This is why a wealth tax. Actually you start to say, hmm, interesting. Now, the way that the way that people always get around this is what if your wealth is what if your wealth is tied up in real estate or investments, or you're not liquid in that percentage? And how do you assess I mean, if you have if you've got a ten million dollar home, is it really a seven million

dollar home? I mean, you know there, I understand there's a lot of implementation problems at all, but I am just saying from a political perspective, this is going to be a pretty potent idea. This is going to rally the left because people can sit there and say to themselves, well, hold on a second. You know, if one person has ten million dollars in the bank and they make one hundred grand, and another person has fifty dollars in the bank and bank and they make a hundred grand. Treating

that income the same way is unfair. It just is. I mean, you know, this is an income tax is really not dealing with the separation between people, because the biggest problem that most folks have is just making enough to sustain themselves, pay their bills and not fall into debt. Once you get out of that trap, then you know, money has a very different once you have enough to cover the bills and to take care of your lifestyle for you know, for the foreseeable money doesn't have quite

the same value. Right, what is this diminishing marginal utility? I mean, we could talk more about that another time. But the Warren wealth tax here is going to have a really this is this is not something that we can just sort of laugh at and forget about, because

it's going to be powerful. Because finally, the big problem of Democrats have in the past with the income tax is that to say that somebody should be let's even say somebody who makes two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year or you know, five hundred thousand dollars a year, they should be taxed the same way as somebody who makes fifty million the same percentage. Why who came up with that idea? You know, why is that fair? You know? It really just turns into a fairness game. Look, this

is why I'm want a flat tax. I do not believe in all this graduated income tax stuff. I think it's it's nonsense. There's so many ways of people cheat, and so many loopholes and all this other stuff. But if we're really going to talk about what's fair, a wealth tax is more fair than an income tax. So I don't agree with Warren on this. It's a disastrous idea, a lot of problems with it. Can't really implement it.

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So that was a Governor Cuomo, whom usually I have a lot of fun mocking, but this is as serious matter as we will ever talk about on this show, and probably ever talk about on any show. And then at the end there that was just also the people in the New York States Senate Chamber. The Democrats who after legalizing abortion at any point in a pregnancy, for any reason, any pregnancy up to the moment of conception,

we're giving a standing ovation. You know, I go back and forth between outrage at these people and feeling deeply sorry for them and really wondering what's gone wrong with their souls. I can understand the good faith questions that people have about about the life issue in certain ways and at certain times, right, I mean, I can understand that. All right, Well, let's have a debate over you know, is it the moment of conception? Is it? Is it? You know, when when it can feel pain or whatever.

I think it's the moment of conception. I think science supports that. But the more important point here is just that's not where the left wing Democrat party even wants to have a discussion. That that doesn't really matter, That that's just for the sake of creating a smoke screen and making it seem like the pro life movement somehow extreme and and out of the mainstream. And you know,

you don't you can't trust them on these things. You don't know what they're going to say about these things because they're just radicals, which of course all of this is untrue. In fact, that the pro life movement is over just so incredibly decent and thoughtful and full of people that really do just want to support life, which is as important to cause as exists in the world. And they do. They march for life, they fight for life,

and they do so with dignity and decency. But when we're now supposed to have a discussion with people who are standing and cheering for this, they don't do this and skulk in the corner and have a sense of shame that they are passing policy that without question would allow for a baby at term to be terminated. It is no it is now in the Health Code, it

is no longer in the legal Code. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is satanic and that this is the greatest moral sta on this country since slavery. That that is no exaggeration. That is a i think,

a moral and ethical fact. And it's also, unfortunately, at this point so central to the political and cultural identity of the Democratic Party that the issue of abortion is really an existential issue of power for the Democratic Party that they cannot conceive of a world in which finally we come to our senses as a country and outlaw this barbaric practice and say no more is this going

to happen. You know, whatever we have to do, however, we have to set up you know, more more, you know, adoption centers and facilities and more resource you know, whatever, we have to do, whatever we have to do as a country, so that so that babies are being born, so that you don't have circumstances like you do in New York City where one in three babies overall as being a board, and more babies from the African American

community are aborted than born. Horrific, horrific statistics. But you know, we should get to a place where whatever we have to do as a country, we will do to stop this practice, to prohibit this. You know, the human race existed for a long time, and we've been around a long time without people doing abortions at eight months, okay or nine months. I mean, we've been around a long time. This is not something that is a necessary part of

our survival. It's not necessary for women's liberation or any of the stuff. That's all just brainwashed lies. But what I was getting to with the Democrats and how it's an existential issue for their power. Is that if we move to a place of moral clarity on abortion, there will also have to be a reckoning for what the Democratic Party has been doing all this time, and the yes, you could say, buck but the Democrats supported slavery and

look where they are now. But there would be a period that would last for quite a while where the Democrats moralize on how they pretend to care so much about the poor, and they pretend to care so much about women and minorities and all this stuff that's central to their talking points. But if you look at their leadership and how the party really governs and functions, I think it's self evident that these are nothing more than postures that they take for the reason of political popularity.

They won't want to have to face what they've done, and they won't want the American people to finally turn around and say, what have you been pushing for all this time? What is wrong with you? Which is the only question I think that really comes to mind that one can even begin to answer in this situation, or begin to ask it. Rather, in this situation, what is wrong with you? And Andrew Cuomo is from what I am told by people who have worked here and around

him a not a good man. I don't know why people in the state of New York, where I'm from would vote for somebody like this. I don't understand why there's not more of an outrage from the Catholic community. You know, where where are the Catholic firebrands? And again, I don't leave out Evangelicals and Protestant denominations because of any reason other than I'm just that's not what I was raised in and I don't know them as well.

But the Catholic Church is very clear on one thing, which is abortion is a is a is a serious sin. And why aren't they you know, why aren't they excommunicating Nancy Pelosi? Why aren't they excommunicating Governor Cuomo. I think these are completely fair questions. These are people who claim to be of the faith, who are pushing for and and and then I know there's also a whole, a whole line of argument, and I agree with it that you know, forget about faith, I mean, forget about the

the religious component of thiss too. Anybody with a basic understanding of science knows that this is life, and life that is being extinguished. There are two beings here, there are two human lives. There are two people that are in this process of mother and baby in womb. There's no way around this. This is like the left on the gender identity debate, where they pretend that men and

women there's nothing different about them. But they're wrong. There are fundamental physical differences, and they can say that a baby in the womb is not a baby, but they're wrong. Scientifically, provably, observably, they are wrong. And that then also leads to all the other falsehoods around this, the inability that they have to speak honestly about the abortion procedure, about what's involved

in it. So many people I know will say, oh, that's not what it is, that's not what happens, and then they will have to be told, oh, no, that is just that is how barbaric this whole process is.

That is how wrong this is. And the Left is rabid about this, and they celebrate it, as you could hear from their standing ovations, and you know, they celebrate the idea that remember our tax dollars, your tax dollars, A minor going to this too in a sense by paying taxes were complicit and I don't know what to say about Republicans not defunding Planned Parenthood. You know, I cannot begin to make excuses for it. I don't know what it's going to take for us to hold them

accountable for this. This was a promise that was made. This is a promise that Trump and the Republicans have not delivered on. What was stopping them defund Planned Parenthood? How hard is this? They didn't do it. They didn't do it, and I worry it's because there are a lot of people that like their donations, They like getting invited to fancy cocktail parties, they like being thought of well by the elite media. And at the end of the day, even in defense of unborn life, there's a

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should have walked away. That's what I was trying to do. I was trying to walk away. There was a spot, there is a place where I could take wire close because we were surrounded. We couldn't go right, we couldn't go left back, you know. And then that I was still in prayer, still singing. And then I was looking past the crowd and I took that first step in

that crowd backed up. I took a second step, and crowd started scattering or breaking apart there and I took a third part and I actually seen a clear space. I said, that's the space, and we started going that way, and from somewhere, just from a clear space, a person was there. You feel you were blocked, Oh, I was blocked. That's a lie. We know that's a lie because we

have video of the whole encounter. He walked up to a bunch of kids, got right in one of their faces, found one with a maga hat on, and banged a drum as loud as he could. That's what happened. Everything else that, in all these other descriptions of it, all the other versions of events. Guy's lying. But it shouldn't be surprised to anyone because this this individual is in fact a liar. Nathan Phillips is somebody who I think people should understand is not to be trusted on this account,

I'm sure on many other accounts as well. I mean, he's clearly a weird guy, right, So I would I would start with that, and which doesn't mean that he's untruthful, but when you add into it all the things that he said that are false, that are fake, you have to stop and say to yourself, well, hold on just a second, what exactly are we Why do we give him that this benefit of the doubt? Oh, that's right, because of his he's a Native American with military service.

That was the only story they wanted to tell. Kind of reminds me remember what the Trayvon thing, when there was such an effort and you saw it with with Mike Brown too. You have a minority, and you know, in the whole Ferguson situation, you have a minority in Ferguson, a minority in Where was it, producer, Mike? Where was tripe? Was that in Miami? Where was the tripe? I know

it was Florida? Where was it in Florida? I forget now anyway, I think it was in the Miami area, but I could be it could be in another So it was in Florida. That's all it really matters. But there was this very clear media decision to you know, depict Trayvon Martin as a twelve year old, and in fact,

people forget this. It was an NBC reporter or producer who changed the audio of that guy Zimmerman, so that it sounded like he said something he didn't say, just because she thought, you know, for the cause, you know, why not, let's just stack the deck on this guy. And you know, you had Mike Brown, this photo that would show up of him all the time, was him in his high school graduation photo. You know, clearly designed

Miami Gardens, Florida. Yeah, I was right about Treyvon. Okay, clearly designed in the case of Mike Brown and Ferguson to give the impression that he's some kind of scholar. I mean, the guy had just just strong arm robbed a store moments before, and then he tried to strong arm rob a cop of his gun and it didn't work out well for him. This, you know, it reminds me of how the media, you know, talks about the

Covington story. Who look at the Treyvon case, you look at the Mike Brown case, and there are people who will still say that there are some kind of heroes. I saw a Black Lives Matter march in New York City where there was a bit there was a car you know, almost I think it was a pickup truck driving down Sixth Avenue and there was a big placard of Mike Brown. And you know, remember Mike Brown, Like

Mike Brown's some kind of hero Mike Brown. According to eyewitness testimony that were included African Americans who lived by the way in Saint Louis, and we're there for this whole situation, Mike Brown attacked a cop. You know, probably didn't like that. The cop, you know, told him to get out of the middle of the road and asked him if he had just been at a store or whatever, and things got things got physical, and he tried to

charge a police officer. Well you try to charge a cop and you're you know, six foot three and two hundred and sixty pounds or whatever he was. Guess what, It can end very badly. But they will stick to the narrative even when it's false because it has emotional impact. You see, it emotionally touches people. Even though it's not true, it becomes a fiction that is useful. The media will do this. They will tell stories to you that are

useful fiction. And that's why with this guy Nathan Philip Ups, you know, he's a Native American he was just there peacefully praying. Wasn't doing you know? Also he was demonstrating for who what is he? He's standing outside the Lincoln Memorials, standing there, and he's part of the Indigenous People's march. I mean, what is what was really his purpose? Is what I went on this guy as an activist. I'm just curious. These are the questions I think a real

journalist would ask somebody. But instead, you know that they present this narrative of a guy who they say, you know, his his military service, uh, you know, and a Native American background or all you need to know about him, and then even his military service becomes a point of some contention. Play five. Clear, you served in the Marines at the time that Vietnam was going on, but she

did not serve overseas. What I've always said is I've never stepped foot in South Vietnam, and that's I don't care. How much care can that be when I come home those times I got spin On, actually spin On called a baby killer. I'm a Vietnam Times veterrian arnorable discharge. Yeah, I gotta Section eight home because I'm a veteran, wartime veteran like that arnorable in Deeter. So I have section eight home. I have to defer to again defer to the veterans and the audience about you know how this

guy's describing as time. I've always found that that's people in the in the different civilian services of the country as well overseas. You know, you always want to air on the side of downplaying stuff, and you know, I certainly wouldn't want to be you know, I was. I was in a rock era, you know, desk kicker. It's like, what does that mean? You're not a door kicker, You're a desk kicker. I mean, what does that? Someone explain that one to me? Um very very very strange from

this guy. But but you know, I just think that they're latching onto this and they're they're not They're very clearly not going to let it go. And then there's one more thing here about the the smirk. This is the issue Guthrie. I didn't get this yesterday Guthrie when she asked Salmon, the fifteen year old kid, about his face. Here, let's just dig into the playcli Bait. I see it as a smile saying that this is the best you're going to get. Out of me. You won't get any

further reaction of aggression. And I'm willing to stand here as long as you want to hit this strong in my face. What some people see as a young kid with a smirk on his face. What would you say for people who see that and are making a judgment

about who you are? Well, people who have judged me and based off one expression which I wasn't smirking, but people have assumed that's what I have and they've gone from there to titling me and labeling me as a racist person, someone that's disrespectful to adults, which they've had to assume so many things to get there without consulting anyone that can give them the opposite story. I just want to know, look at how how very clearly she is. I'm going to get into this more in a moment,

but the difference in tone, it is so obvious. You know, Guthree is very you know, playing the playing the tough schoolmarm when it comes to Sandman. But you know, with Phillips, the military vet and Native American activists, you know, just you know, yeah, we're just so glad you're here. I'm just so glad you're safe. After all those terrifying fifteen year old high school Catholic boys didn't do anything to you,

but you know, maybe they could have or something. I've never had less respect for the media than I do this week, and I'm never going to feel differently about them than I do now. A troubling scene many are calling a racist played out in Washington yesterday on the steps of the Lincoln the morning some students harassing an older Native American man of Vietnam vet. The situation came to ahead when that young man there, wearing a Make America Great Again hat, got right in his face and

didn't move. The video appears to show dozens of youths wearing Make American Great Again hats mocking Native American elder in Vietnam veteran Nathan Phillips. Yesterday, a Native American man was confronted by young people make America Great hat song. There's something wrong with that. Outrage over this now viral video showing high school teenagers harassing a Native American elder.

When you have the kind of anger that we saw at the Indigenous People's March where a veteran, a Native American man was you had a standoff with students who were, you know, mocking him. A crowd of teenagers surrounding a Native American elder and other activists. As one smirking high school student blocks the elder's path, another man of peace

stands face to face with Big. We feel that President Trump is giving license to some of this behavior, so much nonsense, so many lies from a media that does not seem to care very much at all, that they have put children in a situation where they are now receiving threats. They are now their parents have been receiving threats. They have to have police at their school. They are no longer in a situation where they can just focus on their studies and what should be going on in

their lives. They have to now think about safety and the way they never have before. And I keep going back to this, they didn't do anything wrong. I don't mean that they didn't do anything really big wrong. They didn't do anything wrong. And this is why I think when I when I wrote earlier in the week about when I wrote on the Hill dot com out the way that the social media mop can come from anyone,

can come for anyone. This is so instructive of that concept what's happened to the Covington students, And I think it's maybe starting to show people that there is a need to socially reject this idea that people should just get away with piling arm destroying someone's character, ruining their lives, ruining their reputation just because they feel like that. That should be considered entirely and totally unacceptable in every possible way.

Because these kids, they didn't get in trouble because they were on social media. They got in trouble because they were on a school trip. People wrote to me because that column that I mentioned Earli the week, it went pretty viral. I mean, it got a pretty huge readership, which was nice. Thank you all of you, by the way, who share my stuff, whether it's you know, when I put out too links for the podcast or obviously articles that I've written. I'm trying to write every Monday now

and going forward for a while. But I've I've got a heavy load that I have to carry in terms of the workload every day. So one thing I thought was interesting was how many people came to me with, well, the real the answer here is just don't be on social media, and no, no, no, no no, No, this isn't. Oh gosh, how do you avoid being dragged which is what everyone calls it when you get the pylon and

everyone's trying to destroy you on social media? How do you avoid getting dragged on social media if you're using Twitter, if you're using Facebook in these places? No, no, this is how do you go through life knowing that you can do something entirely insignificant and in which you are

in no way wrong. But because of the social justice left, because of the kind of people that really like to leap on certain stories, create certain stories, even that fit a preconc see view that they have of the world. You could be walking to the grocery store and you bump into somebody walking in the door, and all of a sudden, you turn into a viral meme. You know, if you're wearing if you were in a Maga hat,

you better watch out. I've been thinking for a while it would be interesting just to see what the reactions were if I were to walk around certain parts of DC with a Maga hat on. I'm gonna be honest with one of the reasons I haven't done it and videotaped it obviously, is because I don't want to have to get into a confrontation with a possible physical confrontation

with something just for wearing the hat. I was very disheartened today when on my own panel at the Hill, I said that for Lissa Milano, who's Chihuahua almost peeed on my foot, that one time, I'll always remember that, We'll always have that Alyssa for a Lissa Milano to say that the MAGA hat is similar to a KKK hood and for some of the people on my panel, the panel guests said that he kind of understands that.

I'm like, no, you can oppose Trump, you can hate what he's doing and all that stuff, but let's not just completely forget about any reality, any sense of perspective or context, you know. And this is where I am. I just have media outrage fatigue on all things Trump. I mean, I do feel like sometimes if the Trumpster did have a really bad day and did something really

really bad, I'd say, yeah, it's bad. But I don't even know how much it would registre with me, because I know the media would be saying, oh my gosh, he's Hitler. No, he's not Hitler, he's not Hitler, and they need to stop this nonsense. But putting aside the present for second, as you see, that same frenzy and that same over zealousness to try to tell certain stories about certain kinds of people can affect fifteen year old

kids on a school trip. It can affect anyone. You don't it's not enough to not be a social media user. If you leave your house, if you go to work, if you have any interaction with the outside world, you can be somebody who becomes a social media mem I

think of. You know, there have been some of these cases where someone I think, wouldn't open the door to a private apartment building for a group of a group of kids, and you know, the person didn't believe they lived there or had a reason to be there, and that was called And I don't remember the specifics of the story, so you know, maybe there was badtech whatever.

But I'm just saying minor day to day interactions, because we all carry the means to both record and transmit to the Internet everything that's happening all the time, minor day to day interactions can become a national scandal. Even if you don't have a Facebook account or a Twitter account. It doesn't matter if you're just out there doing anything. And I think about how, you know, when I was at when I was a student at Amherst, there was we had this pretty pretty fancy gymnasium, I guess for

a relatively small school, and wanted to use it. We had multiple basketball courts, and you know, it was a nice facility, and townies would would show up. And a good percentage of the townies, by the way, they weren't African American, but they were non white. A few of them I think were Filipino, a few of them. There were a bunch of different a bunch of different ethnicities represented in this group of townies that I'm thinking of in particular, and they would show up and they would

use our facilities. Now, technically they're not allowed to be there. And more importantly than just the technicality of them not supposed to be on the gymnasium, you know, using the facilities that people are paying a lot of money to be able to use, is that there's actually a liability. So if one of them were to break his ankle, he could sue the school and he'd win. Okay, So there's a real reason for them not to be there.

But when the students who were paid, you know, minimum wage to sit at the door of the gymnasium, asked them for their student IDs. Oh my gosh, there was a It was a huge scandal. And how dare they because I think out of a group of twelve or thirteen townies who were not students, there was one kid who actually was a student, and he was a minority. Therefore, the fact that all the other kids they asked for their IDs who did not have them because they weren't

supposed to be there, forget about all that. It's just the one, the one person who was a student who had to show his ID. That became a giant scandal, and they wanted to install a wildly expensive I forget what it was, but you know it was I think in the at least in the tens, maybe even a low hundred of thousands of dollars system for swiping and all this. Anyway, it's just but I just think of these these incidents that I know have happened. Where could

you imagine if this was caught on video? I mean, now you could be you could be in a position where you're you're the bad guy. You know, you're you're the bad person. You're the person that everybody gets to beat up on and say is terrible. And maybe we weren't even doing anything wrong, but that doesn't matter because the mob comes for you. And that's another part of

this too. It doesn't matter where the truth is, as we see with the kids, I mean, it doesn't matter the mob at least as we see with the Covington kids. They the people that spread this stuff around. They feel righteous even when they're wrong, just like the media. And we're gonna talk more about that in a moment here. First question, how are you doing? This has been a whirlwinds few days for you. You find yourself on the front page of every newspaper. How are you doing and

how are you feeling? Well? I woke up strong this morning and with the really positive attitude, and I had an opportunity to go and to traditional prayer ceremony, and that was the other night yesterday. I woke up with all kinds of good feelings in my heart for all those who've been been mean to me, I want to forgive them. Notice the tone of traditional mainstream media Darling Savannah gut three here, Notice the tone. Hey, so I just want to say, so, how are you doing? You know,

how's it going? This is intentional, folks. The tone that she takes when interviewing the adult who has led to the threatening of the small children, right, or not small children, but the children or fifteen years old. The tone she takes toward the kids Sandman is much more along the lines of a scolding teacher who just wants the student to know how he's made it. You know what he's done wrong. It's it's not that I'm angry, Nicholas Sandman,

It's it's that I'm disappointed. That was Savannah Cutthree's tone. Meanwhile, with Nathan Phillips, she's like, bro, my fellow liberal activist, my Native American brother who has suffered so much oppression because all Native Americans do. And I want the audience to know how much I care. As a good lib who is in good standing with the Democratic Party. I want them to know how much I care about all of this. I want them to know that you know, I'm on your side, even though I'm not going to

say it openly and outright. This guy is a problem. This guy is the one who led to kids getting threats. He chose to create a weird confrontation. He was banging a drum in someone's face, which is very aggressive, and she clearly thinks that he's a good guy. And Savannah Guthrie is a joke. He's a joke. I don't care, it's just true. Might try to be mean. She is not. She is not a serious journalist in the sense that she has any ethics or integrity and how she approaches this.

She's a partisan pretending to be a journalist, which is the worst kind. You want. You want some examples of just what I'm talking about here, play clip eighteen. These are all the times that Nathan Phillips attacked Nick Sandman in the interview where there was no pushback at all from Savannah Guthrie. Play I was upset. I was made to sit down and watch it. What was her reaction to it? Coached and written up for him? Insincerity, lack

of responsibility. Well, if there's an apology, there'd be an apologie for his own behavior because of the tomahawk chop in the mocking. In one of his statements, he did say that he was the leader of that. He got permission from his school teacher. So there's there's a lot of times he could have walked away. You can hear him saying, build that wall. All that anger was directed at those four individuals, the black Israelites. It was getting

really explosive. We were surrounded. We couldn't go right, we couldn't go left. Back how I was blocked. He has a PR firm, so those aren't even his words. If he has a PR firm, some sincerity, some sense of responsibility for his action. Yeah, they were surrounded, just like Phillips was surrounded back in Nam, right, a country he never set foot in. But les to refer to himself as a Vietnam time as veteran. I'll leave that to the vets in the audience. How much that annoys you,

you know? How how I know some vets who said they feel like that's just on the edge of stolen valor to say that you are a combat vet in a war zone when you never even were in the war zone. You are a refrigerator mechanic in the States, that you know. I'll leave that to the vets to to determine one way or the other. They can be the judges of that one. To me, it's it strikes me as problematic, But I'm not a vet, So I'll pose that one to those who are notice all the

things he says here. I mean, he's trashing a fifteen year old kid. And you know, this guy's a professional activist. All he does, this is all he wants. I mean, this is probably the best day of his life. Let's just also agree on that. Right, he's not getting threats, His life hasn't been upended. You know, the media didn't didn't start trashing him. In fact, they made it very clear they think he's some kind of hero. You know,

he's the good guy in this whole process. He's the one that everyone's supposed to say, oh wow, look at look at the terrible MAGA hat wearing white kids that have surrounded him, to say that the kids should have apologized for what exactly. Salmon didn't do anything. Producer Mike is telling me, this guy was also listed as a wall three different times, you know, I mean, yeah, take that for what it's worth. Salmon didn't do anything wrong.

So I'm going to need someone to explain to me why should an individual apologize when that person did not, in fact do anything wrong. You know, why should somebody be in a position to say to the whole world of the whole country. Oh, I'm so sorry about that. I'll never let that happen again. When they didn't do anything that should require an apology, you know, I just have to say that. Then the media on this has somehow managed to be even worse, you know, the BuzzFeed debacle.

We all said to ourselves, those of us are paying attention. Wow, these guys are so anti Trump that they can't they just can't shoot straight. I mean, they don't get it right. They flop on this one. You could tell the way the media was reporting on this, there was very yeah, if true, but then there was very little skepticism of this. There was a feverish excitement around the possibility of finally getting Trump. And Joey Baija says, you know, this is

what this is, what this is all about. They want to get Trump, and anyone who's trying to stand in the way of them getting Trump is a problem, and they want to take Trump down and that's why they jump on these stories. Right, So we know all that, But then to tell this false narrative about these fifteen year old kids and to create a situation where the entirety of the media is then trying to scramble to find some justification, right, to find some justification for having

reported on these kids this way. So that's when you get they didn't even tell you about this they I think it was NBC News, No Surprise, ran a story about how a kid who claimed he wasn't allowed to speak at his graduate high school graduation because he was gay. I also read it was because he turned in his speech late and he missed the deadline, but anyway, says he was gay. They quoted him as saying, I'm not surprised about what happened at Covington, and that became a

news story. The kid doesn't even go to Covington. He doesn't know anything. He's just some kid from Kentucky who's gay and says that he wouldn't be able to speak because he's gay. And then he's picking on Covington. Was he some kind of Covington expert? This is crazy what's going on? But media is pathetic. Well, the big news is the US is calling for a UN Security Council meeting tomorrow morning to talk about the situation in Venezuela. It really seems to be reaching a crisis point between

the two sides. You have basically two presidents in the country of Venezuela, one Maduro elected fraudulently according to the US. He's telling US diplomats to get out of the country within seventy two hours, that would be by Saturday morning. On the other hand, you have the man who's declared himself president, Guan Guido. He is saying the US diplomats don't need to leave, and the US is saying they're going to listen to Guido. The diplomats will not leave.

All right. The crisis in Venezuela has finally reached a tipping point. You heard there a little bit of the breakdown on Fox News. Here's what's going on. You have hundreds of thousands of people have flooded the streets in Caracas. You have a member of the parliament there who, under his constitutional authority, has aimed that there is a vacancy in the presidency which he will temporarily fill until new

elections can happen. His name is Juan Guido. You just heard there, and he is saying that the other current president, although no longer accepted by the US government as president, Nicolas Maduro, is illegitimate. This is in effect, the overthrow of the Maduro regime via constitutional and legislative means inside of Venezuela. Now, I think this could only be unless we get incredibly unlucky. A good thing and a good sign.

In my opinion, there is very little that we can look to here from the regime and think that it could get any worse. You know, when you start to break down just how horrific the economy is. A million percent inflation, folks, That was, which effectively means Venezuelan currency has no value. Breadlines, toilet paper lines, shortages of all kinds of foodstuffs, products, basic medicine, very treatable diseases have

been going untreated in Venezuela. People are losing weight, not because they're trying to be because they have no choice. They're losing weight in an unhealthy fashion. They're losing weight in a quasi starvation state because they can't get enough food. You have close to twenty thousand murders a year in Venezuela. It's a country of only thirty million people. It's the

size of California population wise. Imagine if there are almost twenty thousand murders in California alone, Some of the most senior government officials in the Majora regime have been sanctioned as drug kingpins, and according to the US Treasury Department, have been involved in using Venezuelan government resources in personnel to tranship, upload, and offload mass of quantities of cocaine. So this is effectively a narco state that we are

talking about. It has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, larger than Saudi Arabia, as you know, but it's incredibly poor because of the government mismanagement. Mismanagement's far too gentle a word. This is Marxism and action. This

is socialism unveiled for the whole world to see. True socialism where the government can seize the means of production and tries to operate the means of production, where the government can dictate anything it wants in the market, including the prices that otherwise private businesses can set for their products.

This is what happens when you have a thugocracy that uses the wealth gap in a country and yes, the envy and the political opportunities that that creates, in order to exploit the frustration of the people in a promised revolution of the people that turns into nothing more than what we always see with these kinds of pseudo revolutionary movements, where the fat cats in charge get fatter, the people have heavier chains and more prison time ahead of them

because the state itself becomes a prison. This is what Venezuela has turned into in front of the whole world. And it's worth noting that liberals were chairing for this regime in the Chavez years and hopeful in the Maduro years,

if not a little bit rooting for it too. That the libs back in twenty eleven and twenty twelve at the New York Times, the Washington Post and elsewhere, we're suggesting that the populist, yes it's not a dirty word when they use it about a Marxist, the populist revolutionary Bolivarian impulses of first Chavez and then Maduro. Maybe we're going to work out just fine. Maybe this would be a model for the rest of Latin America. This was delusional nonsense from the start. We all should have known.

We should know that a country that has leaders that want to be friends with Cuba and Russia and Turkey and every bad actor Iran, every bad actor in the world, is a regime that tells you all you need to know about it. And when you look back in the earlier days of the Chavez regime, remember Majuro was chavez

Is stooge who took over for him. Chavez used to spend up to forty hours a week, yes that's right, four zero hours a week doing a television program where he would ramble on endlessly about whatever he felt like, and would make policy declarations and decide that some businesses we're going to get shut down or seized by the

government during that live program. Chavez was a conspiracy theorist who did not believe in bin Laden, did not believe that the Earth, rather that the United States had landed on the Moon, and at one point had the remains of Simon Bolivar interred from the grade they were held in in order to run some kind of a test to compare himself to the Bolivar. I mean, it's crazy, and this country has been destroyed. It has been destroyed.

It has been taken down to the seventh circle of Hell by people who complain about Yankee imperialism, you know, American dominance in the Western hemisphere, who say that capitalism is the exploitation of the week by those who are already in power, who were able to convince a lot of people with a pretty minimal level of education and resources that their lot was going to get better if

they just turned over all the power. That and then some that their government had to a bunch of thugs, a bunch of thugs, and it's a shame what's happened to Venezuela. But the US now has backed this new Guido presidency and we shall see. Rahim Kasama is going to join us the Minister to talk more Venezuela. Stay with me. You're probably familiar with AARP, you're someone you know might already be a member, But did you know

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made by the president. But if any harm should come to these diplomats from the United States, I want everybody to know that the consequences I believe from this administration the Dolompo's will be swift and they'll be decisive. I know this for certainty, and I think that message needs

to be clear well. Marco Rubio saying, if the Maduro regime in what could be its last days, although who knows, we're to go after the US embassy after giving a seventy two seventy two hour deadline for all of our diplomats to get out, that the consequences would be swift and severe. I don't really know specifically what he means. I think we're all assuming he means military intervention of some kind to protect our diplomats. But let's get into this,

shall we. We have our friend Rahim Kassam, Rahim the Dream. He is on the phone with us right now. He is, of course the author of No Go Zones, author, former of advisor to Nigel Farage and Claremont Institute fellow and generalman about town. Mister raheem, good to have you back. Hey Buck, hey doing, I'm good man. So what do you what do you think about what we've done or what Trump has done an administration has done so far about this, this crisis in Venezuela of you know, two

presidents only one presidency. Yeah, well, I mean, first of all, just so people don't wonder why the heck I'm talking about Venezuela. I've actually had a lot to do with Venezuela in the past five or six years, working closely with people like Diego Aria and some other propos of figures in the country. And it's and it's a very important country as far as the US southern border is concerned. It's also a very important country as far as the enemies of the West are concerned. I e Iran, Russia

and further afield too. So those that two ways and reasons that I look at this. I don't think the southern border for an example. First, you know, we've seen hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans fleeing into Mexico and other surrounding Central and Latin American countries over the last couple of years, and that is obviously, naturally a case of the socialist policies and the prendo nature of the Bolvarian,

Chavez and Madureau governments, respectively. So you have a situation where Venezuela has put an amount of strain on Mexico, and in turn Mexico then dealing that strain in turn

to its border with the United States. So from the starting point, I think this administration in the United States, the Trump administration, recognizes that in order to deal with a lot of the sort of refugee and asylum problems that are coming up through Southern America, you have to deal with what's going on in Venezuela, and so I think that is the national security and national interest concern of the United States. The second part of it is,

as I say, the foreign policy element to it. Venezuela's under Maduro and Shavas stood with firmly Iran, and the non aligned movement around the world, which has played both inside the United Nations and as its own force against the played growth firmly against the United States, against the United States allies such as the State of Israel and

so on and so forth. And so because I think one of this administration's major priorities is also to weaken the Arabian regime, helping to topple the current Venezuelan regime goes somewhere into doing that too. That we also have to consider that this administration, the Trump administration, has for a long time said, you know, you don't need boots on the ground, you don't need invasions to shape the world geo politically and to address either strategic issues, national

security issues, or indeed humanitarian crises. And once again it was seeing the Trump administration as people you and I know, Buck, they're using other things in the arsenal to get boost things done. Now, the near conservatives of the political establishment on the film maybe a little bit mortified by that

because it sort of proves their entire resondentre incorrect. But I think for the rest of the world, it's kind of a sigh of relief that you know, we can both eradicate and target inequity in the world, but it doesn't necessarily require you know, flags draped, dohn coffins coming back, or the expenditure of trillions of dollars. We're speaking of Rahim Kassam, author No go Zones. You all know him from also his very excellent guest hosting here on the

Bucksaccent Show. What do you think about what what Trump has done so far? I was seeing and I always have to avoid words words like surprise and shock because it's not neither surprising nor shocking that there are some liberals who, in their US to just own Drump at every opportunity are saying that, you know, it's a terrible idea that Trump is backing gui Ido and essentially, you know, we're meddling, and this just you know, it's to me

if there's ever a case for us. We're not intervening militarily, we're interviewing diplomatically. I feel like to not interview in diplomatic at this point would be to make a choice in and of itself. But what do you think about the decision making that Trump has done so far? And do you have concerns that this is going to lead to some kind of US mission creep in Venezuela, because I mean, I will say, and I don't want, you know, one hundred first airborne landing in Caracas. And I don't

think anybody else does either. No, that's exactly right. And then and nor do I, And I don't think America's allies want to be part of anything like that or either I don't think that's in the nature of this administration. Look, it's it's exactly what you said. You know, the last couple of administrations in the United States, the Obama administration and the Bush administration, they took no action. And in

taking no action, they make an active choice. They made an active choice that they were quite happy to let the Bolvarian Republic under Chavez and under Maduro um not just stand, but but but flourish in the sense of it's it's it's pincer movement of power over the Venezuelan people. US foreign policy is as well as the foreign policy, by the way, and this is because this is not

just a US problem. It's not a US problem per se at all, but the foreign policy of the rest of the world, including the European Union, the United Kingdom, et cetera, et cetera, stood by and watched these guys as they as they raped their country of wealth. You know, I think, I think the Chavez fammily has something like forty billion dollars in their bank accounts at the moment, and while the people there were forced to do god awful things for basic amenities such as food, water, toilet paper,

and so forth. Now again, how does that relate to the United States And why is that an American problem? Strictly speaking, it isn't, but it is a problem once the migrant crisis that has gripped Latin America and prove Central America up into Mexico and then onto the US border becomes a harsh reality. And it has become a harsh reality. But you know, you were there last week.

I'm not saying that it's you know, four hundred thousand Venezuelans at the US southern border, but it is a constituent part of that problem, and it is a constituent part of how the Mexicans are dealing with their own immigration problems at the moment. Trying to shift a lot of the blame and the burden away up to the US southern border. So I think this administration has taken

into account a vast array of things. I don't think it's going to have any military intervention in mind here apart from perhaps having to evacuate diplomatis the situation worsens, But that's not unactive. That's more of a passive thing to do and one which you would expect. Um, how much can I can I want to ask you a question him about just they can avoid it. I want to ask you a question about sort of broader Latin

American political instability and troubles here. How much of of the the political dysfunction that this kind of um, a kind of of Marxist cycle that keeps cropping up in

Latin America. Uh, do you think is is really just a result of continued and in part because the some of the political class in these different countries will will use this, they'll find this, but the continued resentment about North American history in the region and North what they view as a kind of Yankee imperialism, because you know, these are countries Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua that should not

have by all accounts, all the problems they do. You know, they should be a little bit more like Canada, but yet they are not. What do you what do you think is going on with that? You know, I can't speak to the mentality um of of of Latin America. But but what I will say is this, there is a there is a distinction, UM, you know, some hemispherically between the United States and Canada. And let's take the

United Kingdom. If you were able to sort of draw a line across the ATLANTICUM, and then you go south of that line, and of course you've got South America, and you've got Europe UM, and you've got Europe's homer colonies in Africa as well. And the southern part of that line is socialistic, welfareistic defers to the state UM, doesn't have much concern for either the individual or the concept of of of of of human dignity and sovereignty

as as pertains their government and their constitutions. UM. And so I think it's I think it's more of am a ligne influence of European welfareism that still plagues South America than anything else. And you know what you might

refer to, well, not what you might refer to. But what the left might refer to, as you know, Yankee imperialism or so on and so forth, is just what we know as the historic and repeated continuation of British liberties, common law, um and and you know, human dignity and sovereignty over over oneself and one's responsibilities and so Philosophically, it's a very interesting delineation that you can draw literally physically on a map. But besides that, I'm not sure

why they haven't snapped out of it. To be fair, I'm not sure why either. But Venezuela is going to get I think it's gonna get a lot dodgier before it gets any better. Our man Rahim Kasama follow him on Twitter at Raheem kasamos Rahem Kasam dot com is his sight and we'll have more of his projects for you to talk about in the new year or as the new year keeps going. Raheem, thanks so much for making the time, my friend. Thanks much, Team hit A quick break will be right back. It's alive. I've never

seen the original Frankenstunt movie. I just realized this as we play that a little clip for you there. But that's that's a little special intro. Now, whenever we talk about libs and science, it's alive because they're all freaked out about it. And climate change is the LIBS science topic of today because it really has very little to do with science. This is a virtue signaling through the

prism of perceived scientific consensus. But that's one not a thing when it comes to climate change, other than to say that climate change exists. But will of course climate change exists, right, we can start to reduce this down. And yes, the climate is changing, the climate is always changing. What would be bizarre is if the climate, given all the factors involved, stayed at exactly the same temperature globally year in and year out and for all of eternity.

That that would seem rather strange, wouldn't it. There are fluctuations in climate every day, so shouldn't there be fluctuations in the average climate every year? But nonetheless, this is obviously where they say that, oh, it's about human human involvement, a human cause climate change, all this stuff. Humans are there, the primary They use a lot of these kind of very non scientific words. You'll notice that you know humans are a primary cause of climate change. Well, what percentage

five fifty ninety point zero zero five. Yeah, do I think that human beings are probably point zero zero five percent of climate change? That sounds about right? Am I

gonna leave it? Lose any sleep over that? No? But you know what's funny, neither or really anybody else NBC News, which has covered itself in ignominious stank for the last few days way it's been covering the Covington kids situation, and NBC News has come out with, well, they're just popularizing or publicizing this survey that was done by Hey, who cares, I don't know, someplace that does big surveys

of climate change. And according to the latest poll data, seven and ten Americans, or sixty nine percent, say that they are somewhat worried about global warming. Twenty nine percent say they're very worried. And who wants to bet that those are all super libs who think that Nancy Pelosi is just like so smart and like she just totally cares about poor people on the climate, and like she

really wants to make everything better. Yeah, all that stuff, But what's really funny is that the upside of this for all the rest of us is that guess what, Americans, despite the knowledge of climate change. Despite the numbers that say that some people healthy portion of the population has either some or a lot of concern about it, do not want to have to do anything in terms of paying more money to deal with it. Oh, what a shock. They don't want to you know you have here. The

surveys showed conditional support for taxing carbon emissions. It found support grew if the taxes went to prefer uses, with sixty seven percent saying they would approve of the changes or charges if the money went to restore forests, etc. But the AP survey showed that Americans don't want to pay very much to fight climate change. A one dollar a month fee was favored by fifty seven percent of

those surveyed. However, if the monthly charge increased to ten dollars a month, just twenty eight percent would be supportive, while sixty eight percent would be opposed. Oh, that's right. People are really worried about climate change ending the world because they think that the science says that except for the fact that they're not so worried, they do not care enough that they're willing to pay even ten dollars a month. That's right, ten dollars a month to deal

with the problem. So this is why I cannot take this seriously the way that Libs want me to. And I know that some of them, including lib friends of mine, think that I'm just They think I'm nuts on climate change, and I just say, what do you not get? They're wrong on this over and over again. I'm going to be right, Okazio Cortez and her ilk are going to be wrong. The World's not going to end in twelve years. New York and Florida and California are not going to

be underwater in twenty I guarantee it. I mean, I always tell you I can't predict the future, but there are some things I can predict, you know, maybe not with one hundred percent certainty, but ninety nine point nine and the world is not going to end because of climate change in ten years, or in a hundred years or a thousand years. I promise you what's not going to happen. These people are just self indulgent, virtue signaling wackos. There I said, it ain't no party like a Team

Buck party, because a Team Buck party don't stop. Yeah, we got Buck turned up to eleven. It's time for roll call. Oh, many wet and rainy day here in DC. Hopefully wherever you are across the country, it's quite a bit nicer. I did get to interview a congressman from San Diego right before he said, well, it's only about seventy five degrees here, and he was a Democrat, so I had to ask him a question that he didn't know the answer to. That was fun during the interview.

Why do hunter and migrants who just want to flee oppression and violence stop in Mexico and then refuse to accept asylum and stay in Mexico didn't have didn't have an answer for that one. I thought that was interesting, which if I were a congressman from border state, I'd probably be ready for that one. But it's what he

got for flaunting is good weather at US. I was just talking to an old radio friend and advisor last n out of the phone and I said, you know, man, you gotta I gotta get out to LA for some I want to do some I want to do some team buck meetups across the country and especially in warm places.

Let's let's get to it, you know, And he said, maybe we can make it happen in Los Angeles so I'm I'm hoping to get out to La soon, certainly in March, if not February, and I'm maybe I'll even stay out there for quite a way as if I can. All Right, roll call time. Not just Buck babbling on about nonsense, but Team buck La. Get ready for it. The Buck Nato is coming for you, Kurt. First up Facebook dot com slash buck Sex and if you want to get in on the action, I watched your interview

with Charlie Sykes on Rising. I'm sure there must be tens of readers who enjoy the bulwork. But what I wanted to respond to was Jamal's claim that most illegal immigrants are visa overstays. In fact, there are three illegal visa entries for every two overstays. That isn't most In my book Shields High, Kurt, you know, I actually don't know those numbers offhand. I think you are correct, but I would have to look into what the specifics are about how many there are. Mean, yeah, there's a half

million visa overstays. I mean I can tell you that there were one hundred thousand family units that showed up at the border requesting asylum last year, and those family units are at least two people, in some cases three or four. So that's not any quote illegal crossings because when they come into the country, they are in fact entering into a legal process by claiming asylum, and then eighty percent of them do not show up for there yours,

Andrew Rights, got to call you out on something. The etymology of sollipsism derived from a Latin's sole equal sun. My dictionary gives etymology as derived from solos meaning alone. I've always thought of soleipsism as the belief that all external stimuli are nothing more than a dream. Definitely, not that someone is the center of the universe like the sun.

You are correct, Andrew, and I want to blame whoever told me the wrong thing here about soleopsism in terms of etymology from a definitional perspective, I am not the way I explain the definition is a way that people will meaning that you know you think you're the center of the universe. Technically, soleopsism as a as a philosophy is the ideology that only you or the philosophy I should say that only you, your own brain, your own thoughts, can exist and you can know nothing else beyond it.

But if people refer to somebody as being soleopsistic, it's it means that they're not thinking about anybody else and are Essentially, it's a way of a fancy way of saying selfishness. Right. So there you have it here, characterized by solopsis and this is from a dictionary dot com, the theory that only the self exists. Her treatment of philosophy dealt with madness as a complete, self contained, sollipsistic world.

So it's totally self contained. It's all about you. It's also an expansion of what's called the egocentric problem and the inability to view reality outside your own perceptions. But yes, you're right, soulis not from soul the sun. It's from soulis alone. I despise being wrong. I won't say who told me this because I told this a long time ago, but I was told the wrong thing. Nonetheless, the reward

is correct. The etymology needed to be corrected, So thank you for that, even though now I'm gonna go scream into a pillar because I'm mad. Max rights. Hey, there, Buck, negotiations over the wall and shutdown don't seem to be

moving along very quickly. What do you think of the idea of Trump saying that his compromise offer has an expiration date, say two weeks or so after that he'd revised his terms to be less favorable to Democrats, for example, more wall funding from and or shorter protection for DACA. Enjoying the show, Well, Max, you know he's trying to negotiate.

He's trying to get them to do something that they don't want to do, and you know that involves trying to do sometimes position yourself so that you have leverage over the other side. I think that the Democrats, unfortunately, are better at playing the zero sum, all or nothing political game than Republicans are, and maybe maybe even than Trump is. I'm I'm not quite sure, but I will say that. And Coulter wrote an I think it was just published yesterday where she says that what should really

happen is Trump should just build the wall. Just build the wall. Just tell the National Guard, tell the Army Corps of Engineers, whoever the specific the specific body, maybe tell them to build the wall and make the court stop you and then win in court in time to be reelected president. That's what That's what I think is increasingly likely here. And I think that the other option would be for the president to start the government up again.

Remember he could start the government up and then say, Okay, I funded the government. And remember we keep saying this. I hate the way we're forced to talk about this. Eighty five percent of the government is funded. We are talking about fifteen percent of the federal government, and people refer to this like it's a catastrophe. So I think that there's a real possibility that maybe the government does get funded and then Trump says, Okay, we funded the government.

We've had this discussion. This is nonsense. Democrats are crazy. I'm just going to declare a national emergency and funnel and not forget fund the wall, just build the wall. He's just gonna do it. I think that's very possible. So that's how I see this going on. Stanton, excellent vid of you taking that rhino Charlie Sykes to town on border security. I'm so sick of hearing that it's just a strong man argument to say the Left isn't

for securing our southern border. At some point, Dems will need to provide actual proof that they support curbing illegal immigration in any way, or they could just publicly acknowledge and embrace their open border agenda and save us all a lot of time and energy. But whatever, keep up the good fight. Buck well, buck, I'm bucking your Stanton, Thank you Stanton. And yes, you know Charlie's he's I don't mind his you know, I'm happy to talk to

people about ideas. He's just kind of smug and undeserving of his degree of smugness. You know, he's a guy who okay, I mean he was hosting a radio show before he was now the editor of The Bullwork and now he's sitting down talking to me. I mean a lot more people listen to this radio show than listen to his radio show. We can tell you that. So why why the condescension? Like what's what's his based on what exactly? And also, I mean you can see his argument.

He contradicts himself. He's self refuting, but he likes to pepper in a lot of and you see this among the never Trumpers, the Max Boots, the Bill Crystal, the you know name and never Trumper there's always this, Oh, you know, let's turn to the facts or I'm sorry if I have to use some big words here, like buddy, I'll I don't know what to tell you, but no one is impressed, and you're not speaking above anyone, You're actually speaking below them because you don't know what the

hell you are talking about. So if you haven't seen that video, I think I put it up on Facebook before you can check it out there. But we do get into the back and forth over this. My colleague Jamal, who's a Democrat, let me do most of the interview, fortunately, because that was the most interesting thing that could have happened. Although having somebody else there, I had to defer my time to him a little bit, and I wish you

it had just been Charlie Sykes. To me, this is one of the problems with a left right style show is sometimes the left or the right person is pretty superfluous in the conversation, just because you know, there are times when Christo really wants to fight with Candice Owens and I'm just gonna sit there and there's nothing for me to do. I mean, I tried to cut it in a couple of times, but I couldn't. But with Jamal, I thought was so interesting was that Charlie Sykes entirely

agrees with everything Jamal says about immigration. Jamal's a Democrat, So that's fine. But Charlie Sykes says he's a conservative, So why is it that the conservative agrees with the Democrat on basically everything? And then when I pointed that out, he got very hissy about it. But I'm just stating the obvious. You know, he might as well be Nancy Pelosi's communications director. I mean, I think Charlie Sykes should apply for that job. I think he'd do a good

job as a spokesperson for a Democrat. And I have a feeling that a lot of people that write for him at the website that we don't have to give another plug to are also in that capacity. So I'm fine with people exchanging ideas with me all the time. I just there's no need for I'm always polite to people until otherwise. Guy doesn't need to be a condescending jerk because he's in no position to condescend. That's what

That's what I think he doesn't understand. And that's same with Max Boot, same with these people who are making just jackasses of themselves and are not nearly as clever or knowledgeable as they think they are, and they're really doing a lot of work for Trump by acting in this way by being so self indulgent and childish. Here we go, Keith, he writes, shields high, Bro, and he sent me Nancy Pelosi photoshops with a dunce hat on.

All right, man, thank you, I appreciate you sending that along. Buck. This is Ryan. I think you know banning DDT did more harm than good. Perhaps Dad disagrees. He thinks DDT was used excessively and persist in the biosphere. Short term benefits, long term costs. There's a lesson here, though. The correct move would have been to improve pesticides and regular DDT's use. But of course the Greenies dropped the band hammer and

poof malaria. Ryan, I did talk about dd on the show a long time ago, so I don't know if you're maybe a couple of years behind on the podcast or maybe six months behind. But it is an interesting topic, so thank you for bringing it up. And yeah, the downside of DDT was greatly exaggerated by the environmentalists, and a lot of people died from malaria because of it, so there's that. Yeah, these these decisions they make, these bad decisions that the lefty environmental types make, are not

without consequence. For the rest of us worth keeping in mind. Tomorrow, we got Friday coming up, so maybe we'll be able to do a little bit of phone action for those of you who want to call in. I think that's always fun. When we can do it, we can get to it. Until then, I've got to go drinks some hot tea because I am sick once again, although hopefully not that sick, and I will rally for tomorrow's show, so until next time, Team She'll tie