Cuomo's Extreme Quarantine

welcome everybody to the buck Sexton Show. Great to have you here with me as always and honor a privilege and a pleasure. They get to talk to you about everything happening across the country. My mind, we have a very clear declaration of intent, I think from the teachers unions, which we should always think of as the as the the shock troops, if you will, of the Democrat Party. They are right out there and have been for a long time. They don't burn down buildings, they just hold

the kids hostage. Going into this fall saying that they are they're making demands of what they want, and this at a time when the whole country is trying to figure out what exactly is going to happen here. If we're now going to have these restrictions in place that are even preventative restrictions. In some states that don't have very high COVID cases, we have extreme restrictions, and other places. Who knows when those can end, because then you might

have a surgeon cases. There is just a panic out there right now, and schools are now on the front lines of the make sure Biden gets elected campaign. That's what's happening with the teachers units. I'll get into more of that, and what are their demands? What are the demands that they're putting out there In case you're wondering if they really are acting like a teachers unions are acting like a Marxist terrorist group that has taken our

schools hostage. And my friends, we are entering this phase now where everything about COVID, the economy, law enforcement, it's just all a big political fight. You will not have any good faith effort from Democrats to come into the center on these issues or to work with Republicans to make anything better. And of course I don't think Republicans will go over to their side. They already have a

little bit with some of this police reform stuff. But I also think they shouldn't go over to their side. I think the Democrats obviously are wrong on all this stuff, but they will they will double down, they will dig in. They're not going to move on any of this in the least. And then that brings me to what we're

seeing at or in California. Now. Remember, remember the narrative for the last week or so has been that California that the states that are having a really rough time really the last two weeks, Texas and Florida, Texas and Florida. Yesterday I had that guy from MSNBC searchas in Florida the dumbest leaders and they're so stupid and they're and then we have sure enough California now going back into

a lockdown, stay at home orders. Now California is saying, you know you got you gotta respect our authority to tell you exactly what to do. After weeks of protests, after weeks of protests that not only were a loud but that Governor k Newsom was encouraging. They were all pretending that this was fine. They want to lecture us all about public health. They want to allow the Democrat, the Democrat base of lunatics to mobilize in the streets

were also oppressed and police violected all that stuff. And now after the virus has reached large levels, high levels of cases in these states, they're telling us that they want to bring back all of the all the old stuff of shutdown, lockdown, same thing, that's what they're trying

to do. This is astonishing. Here's Governor k Newsom saying himself, Blake clip seven, we are now effectively, rather effective today, requiring all counties to close their indoor activities, their indoor operations in the following sectors restaurants, wineries, tasting rooms, movie theaters, family entertainment centers, zoos and museums, card rooms, and the

shuttering of all bars. This is in every county in the state of California, not just the counties that were on the monitoring list that we announced on July first. So this is a new statewide action effective today. Every county in the state of California impacted by a requirement now to modify indoor operations and to expand opportunities for

outdoor operations in these specific categories. Now, to be fair and to be clear, they're getting they're they're moving back, They're not going all the way back to square one. You can still have some outdoor things that are allowed. But just wait, just wait, see where this goes, see what ends up happening, especially if cases continue to be very high for a few more weeks. There's a problem with what we've been told last last few weeks about

what's happening in the country with COVID nineteen. Texas and Florida have been the focus of all the criticism from the media. Why because they both have Republican governors and they're considered to be full of enough red state people, even though Florida is not a red state. Although we should probably all move there, my friends and flip it like now, make sure, hint, hint, let's all go. Let's all you know, I got an idea. You guys want

Trump to win. Those either are thinking about Florida, Producer Mark included, maybe it's time for us to head on down there, register and make it happen. So they've been focused on Texas and Florida because Texas and Florida are able to be put on the Republican side of the equation. And I know that it's very imperfect. And now they're even saying I've seen these polling that says the Democrats are thinking that Texas might even be a battleground state

for them, And Biden's up five points. And I don't think that the Democrats are gonna win Texas, but remember if the Democrats win Texas, were it's all over. So keep that in mind. California, though, is a state that has been sanctimonious in its We respect the science, we

wear masks. We've been very slow to reopen. California was the place where they were shutting down beaches and they were chasing individual paddle borders out on the ocean with nobody within a hundreds of yards because of COVID nineteen. That's the state of California run entirely by Democrats, dominated by Democrat voters. This is the liberal left wing stronghold of America, really only rivaled by New York. And California has had an enormous spike in cases and now they're

shutting down. So if what we've been told recently was true, that it was because Republicans don't believe the science, right, That is what we're always saying. Republicans don't wear enough masks. You've got a lot of mask wearing in California. You got all kinds of you know, they'll listen to everyone listens to Democrats there. They believe the science, all that stuff.

Why is California in this condition right now? Then? Now there is an answer to this that isn't really about the science entirely, which is they're always going to err on the side of more strict lockdown, more restrictions on economic activity. Because the Democrats, remember, not only are they going to have do they have the incentive of beating Trump in the fall, they're also going to just keep pumping money, pumping money through the system to people, and

they're going to keep their social services going. They're going to do all these things while small businesses are going out of business, of course. And then they're going to make demands from the federal government, and they're gonna start raising taxes on people that still have jobs and are being productive. Now not to say that people without jobs

in millions of cases, it's no one's fault. I'm just saying they're gonna go after whoever still has a job or whoever owns a home, raising their property taxes and start redistributing wealth that way. That's their plent, so they're not worried about it. If everyone has to stay home, order in you groceries, and watch Netflix until election day. State of California, it's pretty much fine with that. That's

what it seems like. And if it means that Donald Trump is guaranteed to lose the election, which I'm just gonna say this, if you have major states on lockdown and an economy that has not been able to recover, it's gonna be It's gonna be a miracle. If Donald Trump wins, it's gonna be a miracle. Now, some of you are probably already saying, yeah, buck, but it was a miracle in twenty sixteen, wasn't it true? True? But are we really going to expect two miracles in a row?

You expect lightning to strike twice. I'm concerned. I think we all should be very, very concerned. But I just want to point to California as a place where I'm sure the mask shaming was at a maximum and has been for a long time, and you have an entirely Democrat controlled state legislature, a Democrat governor. They hate Trump, They're all you know. Doctor Fauci is the voice of sanity. Reason, decency, and all the rest of it. And yet they're having

to shut down now. I don't think they would shut down if they didn't have a high level of cases they have had. I have friends in California who I know have gotten COVID in the last thirty days. So I mean, I'm talking to people who are saying, yeah, they've had it. Most of them, I'll just have, you know, minimal symptoms. Some it's like the flu, and they're in rough shape. But I don't know anybody in California who's

gotten a really, really bad version of the disease. But this is now going to be the fight, which we now an election to. What you're going to see is the absolute politicization of every decision made in the name of public health to really be about defeating Trump. That between now and then, we've known this is coming for a while, but we've really we've reached the tipping point where middle of July, you know, the next ninety days you're just gonna see Nope, shut it down, keep it

shut down. Everyone be panicked. Don't worry. The cavalry is coming America. They will tell you, in the form of Joe Biden. Let's just hope he knows which way to ride the horse? Am a show up? Ramo? Where which where am I? Yeah, Joe Biden's gonna fix all of this. Joe Biden is the answer to our prayers. It's a terrifying thought, but that's what we're gonna be told. And

the the viciousness. You know, for years, Democrats were so nasty about Trump, I mean really really insidious in not just the way they talked about the president, but also their view of his supporters. When things were great, not fighting any big wars, booming economy, and they still convinced themselves fascism is coming to America. Trump has been given with this whole COVID pandemic, an enormous open door if he really was a fascist or somebody who wanted to

be an authoritarian, an enormous or open door. You know. The only people who were walking through that door and being little petty tyrants are Democrats, no surprise, but they were saying that Trump was a fascist and a tyrant and all these horrible things when the country was doing so well and everything was pretty much on track. It wasn't perfect. Yeah, we got problems, of course, right, I'm

not crazy. All. I remember all that stuff about the border and the border surge and how do we get control. Democrats were lying about that. Of course, Oh, they're just going for a thing because they need asylum. No, they just wanted to cheat the system and coming to the country.

But those were the challenges we were dealing with before. Now, I mean, you're looking at a death toll that's going to be between one hundred and fifty and two hundred thousand come election day, and the Democrat left instead of looking at what's going on around the whole world and the fact that there have been a lot of deaths from this disease, and this is it's a very it's a tragic and terrible circumstance that there is this pandemic

that is a global phenomenon. Instead of saying this was a challenge that hit us akin to similar to a natural disaster like a massive earthquake or a tsunami or something like that, they're they're going to put the blame squarely on Trump's shoulders and Trump's supporters. They're going to say they're already convinced of this, that the reason people have died from COVID nineteen is not that it is a highly infectious and very dangerous virus or dangerous to

people of a certain age with certain comorbidities. That's the real danger zone. But instead of viewing it that way, they're going to view it as every single death, every lost life from this disease can be attributed to Trump and the supporters that put him in office. That's the plan. Of course, that's unfair, it's immoral, it's crazy, But they don't care. This is what they're going to do. I'm telling you, I've predicted the Democrats moves for months, and

you know that. I've been telling you. We're gaming out what their next plan is. I told you would get to lockdown two point zero. I've told you that they were going to say that there was no danger from the protests, and then when enough time passed there like, yeah, maybe there was a little bit of transmission from but now we're way past that. Now the transmissions community spread. So who cares that the protests did In fact, the I mean the mayor of Los Angeles has said that

the protesters probably did, yeah, spread this. So let's all be very clear right now about what is coming our way and what we are facing you're in the freedom line. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. President Trump's total hostility towards science, evidence, facts, logic, reason. He is a showman. He is a reality TV star. He likes to try to bend reality to suit his own preferences.

He had really made it clear that he was more interested in the optics than the facts when the virus first hit, and he kept saying, you know, we have fifteen cases. It'll be over soon. So you've got to begin and end with His total lack of leadership is indifference toward what this virus has cost us, not only in lives, in jobs and livelihoods. And now of course he doesn't want to hear from our leading infectious disease

experts like doctor Fauci. He doesn't want to hold the even the sham of the meetings that he used to hold to try to talk about it. He's he's helping that it either goes away or it leaves our attentions fans, so that he can get back to be president. Good God, too much. Hillary, Sorry about that team, But here she is telling you you could say what happened? Remember she was gonna be president the United States. Everybody and Now she's all, Donald Trump doesn't have leadership. I should have

been the leader. Oh it's horrible. I know it hurts your ears, it hurts my ears. But that's it's really the most true, most true to the essence of Hillary impression you could ever do. It's just all off putting and screechy and awful. But yes, that's right, she's telling you exactly what I said. The Democrats will continue to say, which the Donald Trump's lack of leadership has cost us lives and jobs. Meanwhile, let's look at the choices that

the president made about the virus. He handed over the policy essentially to Burkes and Fauci, so they're not listening to the experts thing it's just a lie. He shut down flights from China, which now everyone who looked at this admits, well, that was a good idea. It wasn't perfect, it didn't stop everything, obviously, but it was a good idea, and he was heavily criticized for that. And that was

an early decision. They said we were gonna run out of ventilators, used the Defense Production Act Bam, lots of ventilators, more ventilators than we need. Turns out, ventily is aren't even a very good way to treat the disease. It's a really very much a last stitch effort. But they said we're gonna run on a PPE Defense Production Act. Nope, we didn't run out a PPE. And then they said that Trump was going to be a tyrant by telling states what to do. No, he said, the CDC's guide

is as follows. It's up to states. When they reopened, what do they oh? Because he said that this was gonna go away or he was hopeful about hydroxy chloroquin. Once again we see that liberals talk as though Trump has made catastrophic decisions when really and this has been their problem, this has been their psychosis. So along he has said things that upset them, which they take to be catastrophic, but which had no meaning, doesn't mean anything.

The President says, you know, yeah, hopefully it's gonna go away. Okay, that was then, and then he took a lot of that. We saw what was happening. I mean, the president doesn't know. Fauci was saying it was no big deal too. I mean they're just hoping that you don't ever look and do the research and figure out what a bunch of liars. The libs are thanks for listening to the buses and show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app,

or wherever you get your podcast. I think it is a fair point to raise as to whether or not if he loses, she's going to go quietly or not, and we have to be ready for that. I come on, this woman wanted to be present the United States. She's supposed to be serious. Hello, here's Hilarie Clinton saying that Trump, if he loses, may not peacefully leave the White House. These people are insane. This is not reasonable or rational at all. They said that he was a fascist, he

was an authoritarian. People were making all these allusions to the Third Reich when Trump won in twenty sixteen, and you have a pandemic where he could be an absolute iron fisted because look at what people are doing in different states, Democrat governors and even some Republican governors these days. But no Trump has said, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna work on this. We're gonna work with the I would

seck there. We're going to have you know, committees and talk to different states and give them funding and work with CDC, nothing fascistic about it. In fact, if anything, he might have been a little bit too much of a of a soft touch on dealing with these different issues. He might have benefited from being a little bit more hardline in his approach to you know, for example, the speed of reopen or whatever the specific dispute may be.

But they haven't. The Democrats haven't recalibrated any of the talking points, they haven't changed any of their initial set of hysterical analyzes. And Hillary is just another example of this with her, Oh he may not leave the When is that? When? What you could say? This is without evidence? That's one of the Democrat's favorite snide little phrases. What with what evidence is there at all? Their zero? And

so why do they say this? Why do they do this? Well, because it goes to that part of the liberal brain that has been so polluted with anti Trump propaganda that there's nothing that they can say about him that it's too extreme to believe. Remember, they've called him a traitor for years now, without evidence, call him a trader, be trade his country, such a bad guy. What are the

horrible things that Trump has done in office? I love asking liberals this and theyllwist turn to some remember what he said about the Charlottesville It's like, that's a lie. Stop lying. He didn't say the neo Nazis were good. I've read the transcript dozens of times now, it's obvious what he said. He clarified it. That's a lot, But that's one of their first go to because Libs are used to arguing from this cheap virtue position all the time of oh, well, I'm the good person and they're

the bad person. So it doesn't matter what they actual argument or issue is. You know, I'm a supporter of BLM and they are not. Therefore I'm a better human being than those Republicans. This is what they do with everything all the time. It's never about the issue. It's always about they're just superior. Their side is so smart. That's always an amazing one to me too, right, their

side is so smart. Meanwhile, if you're dependent on the state, if you're effectively award of the state, you vote Democrat. And if you're an ultra elite billionaire, chances are you will also be a Democrat. You know, there's a wide swath of ideological proclivities and of individual situations that the Democrat Party encompasses and what it doesn't include people that see things for what they are, just want to live their lives, make as many decisions for themselves as they can,

and just be left the heck alone. That's the kryptonite to liberalism, which is of course the worst word ever for it, because as they're anti liberal, but conservatives not only have we ceded institutions and this is a this is a major complaint of mine, and I know I complain about it in the hopes that this will just catch on more and we will think about this more. And my friends in conservative media, I think we need a better name even for usselves sometimes or better shorthand

phrases than just calling ourselves conservatives. I'm okay with right wing. I don't see what the problem is with that, but uh, there, we need better language to use in these debates. We need a better term for you know, what is the word that brings together BLM activists and ANTIFA lunatics and statue toppling, you know, mediocre PhD students like what brings them all? Yeah? The left? But that's very broad. We

need better terms. Liberal is a misnomer, an intentional misnomer the same way that Black lives Matter is the name of the group, So that if you challenge the groups policy positions, there's the implication of racial animus, because are you saying you don't agree that black lives matter? I mean, this is it's it's a cheap trick, but it works. Right, do you support black lives matter? You better say yes to that, right, even though, of course black lives matter.

But are we talking about the group? Are we talking about the phrase? This is? This is how the left argues the same thing they do with Do you believe in climate change? Of course I believe in climate change.

Climate's always changing. What kind of Oh? No, do I think that we should put morons like AOC in charge of reordering trillions of dollars at the economy and putting endless government commissions and bureaucrats in control of every aspect of your life down the manusha down to the minutia of the light bulbs in your house, what you're eating, how you deal with your waste. No, no, I do not agree with that. Right. So the same have the same problem with calling them liberals. They are anti liberal.

But to be constantly talking about the liberals assault on liberty creates a cognitive dissonance just the language we use. And this really matters. You go back and read Orwell's Orwell's essays on politics and the English language, and he knew that this is this is a critical part of the battle of ideas. What words do we have to use? Why are they always trying to force us to say? Undocumented? Undocumented is so easy? Right, that's there's no law breaking there.

You're just let's just give them some documents. Illegal alien sounds like somebody that shouldn't be doing what they're doing. It's illegal, and an alien is something foreign. But no, no, undocumented, Let's just give them some documents. Right. You see endless examples of this. But Hillary, Hillary, Hillary, There's nothing that can be said by Hillary or any of the Democrats that will be considered beyond the pale about this president.

They will go to absolute extremes and they will lie right to your face, right to America's face, about all of this. Think about what they've been willing to say when the country was doing well, and now now the country is in trouble. It's not the end. I mean, if Democrats win, maybe, but you know, well, well, we will get through this. But the ferocity that has built up in the leftist mind from years now of what they view is having to suffer under Trump. This is

a major issue. This is a major concern. We're all gonna have to deal with. The psychosis, damn is breaking. They're going to come at us with so much. And people that you thought were reasonable, who were in the media before, people that that you thought we're maybe willing to be fair minded sometimes are just going to sound like the most extreme huff Post do as I say,

or you're a racist ibologue, imaginable. You're going to see this happening all over the place, and it's going to be a very disconcerting to anybody who hoped for a better future for this country. Oh and you're going to have people weighing in, like Susan Rice on why Trump is such a bad guy, because now we're thinking about we're being told at least that Susan Rice may become

Joe Biden's vice president based on what Susan Rice. You know, And I guess we've reached this point too in politics, where it's just all about the narrative that can be forced upon people. It's not really about accomplishment or ability or leadership, certainly off of the Democrats. And look, I got a lot of nasty words for Republicans these days too. Republicans are asleep at the wheel, not getting it done. Where is the Republican Party? How much different would the

country really be right now if Republicans didn't exist? It's worth asking the question. I mean the Republican Party, not people who are conservative in their ideology, but how different would the country be if the Republican Party's like, yeah, we're just gonna vote present. It's kind of what they're doing. They're just showing up voting present. So you're going to have people like Susan Rice who are just repeating the

most mindless talking points. But if you hear it enough, maybe for you and me, it doesn't have any effect. For a lot of people who are frustrated, who are scared, who don't know what the future holds, given what the country's going through right now, they hear enough of this and they're going to think, maybe we just need something else. How bad can Joe Biden really be? Guy's been in politics for longer than I've been alive. How bad can

this really be? Well, pretty bad. But here's Susan Rice play four, and he shouldn't respect the science and respect the experts, stop assailing people like Tony Faunci put them in the lead. The reality is that this is not an pandemic that we can wish away. The President Trump was cheerleading the reopening of the economy. It proved to be deadly premature, and that's why we're seeing in the South and the West some of the first states to

reopen these extraordinary resurgence. We cannot do as the President Trump is doing and play politics with and be willing to sacrifice the lives of our children and their teachers. So we need to get the testing ramped up even further. We need to get the contact tracing sorted out. We need to restore some of the restrictions that were put in place early on and lifted prematurely, as California has just done everything. She says here, let's think through for

a second. Okay, this is moronic. We're testing would do what exactly? We're testing more than we've ever done before, and you know we're finding out we're catching about, uh, you know, ten percent of the actual cases that are that are new every day, So we're gonna do ten times as much testing. People are getting sick all over the getting this disease all over the place, in California

and Texas and Arizona and Florida. Recently. You know how many deaths were in Florida with you know, fifteen thousand cases in a day or whatever. It was thirty I think it was thirty four. You know, these are this is still a manageable situation. But what she tells us is listen to the science. That's a stupid slogan. What does the science tell us testing testing, testing, This is meaningless. The disease is spreading. You can have testing all over the place and we do, and people will still get

the disease because it is at widespread levels. It's all over the country, it's all over the world. Yeah, we'd know a little bit more, we'd have a little more data on where some of the hot spots work. Guess what we already know where the hot spots are. Testing is not a cure. They act like testing is a vaccination. Oh, just got enough people tested it and everything's gonna be fine. No, And then the tracing thing that she even says that that's laughable. You're gonna trace this right now? A lot

of people are waiting. I am a friend who just got tested and waited a week for results. So unless we're going to get everybody to have fifteen minute tests, how are we ever going to have a tracing system. The only way a tracing system is going to work is at the virus level went down to effectively zero, and then it was at such low levels of spread, and you would have to have people in place and ready to go and be efficient and be pretty lucky to trace it and to try to contain it before

it's already spread all over the place. There's no tracing this. So when they say things like keys to listen to the science, more testing and we need to get our tracing squared away, bull crap. This is just noise. This is meaningless. But this is what you're just gonna hear more and more the think it through. Okay, we're gonna we're gonna do. What What is testing gonna do for us? Beyond what we are? We're already testing. All I hear about this all the time. We're already testing. We're seeing

record levels of testing. If we doubled the testing, what would that mean we have more test on it's just that they have no real answers on this. Oh, and then more restrictions, the the policy tests and trace. All of this was never about shut down the country until the virus is gone. That was never offered to us. That was never the bargain we were told. It was about hospital capacity. And now you have people who keep coming forward to say, listen to the science. There are

too many cases. Lockdown again. Okay, you go into restrictions, tell people this, stay home, no indoor activities, but the virus is still out there. When you start doing things again,

the virus will return to a level of spread. And we cannot have a functioning society that keeps locking down for a virus that kills less than one tenth of one percent of people who get it, which when you look at the real numbers, eventually it's probably gonna be you know, point one, maybe point three or four percent fatality rate. You can't keep locking down America over this. Oh,

but they pretend like they have answers. These people are They look the shameless demagogues, and they're ruining the country right now. They're ruining it. You're in the freedom hunt this is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. And when you test, you create cases. So we've created cases. I can you. Some countries they test when somebody walks into a hospital sick, or walks into maybe a doctor's office, but usually a hospital. That's the testing they do, so

they don't have cases, whereas we do. We have all of these cases. So you know, it's a double edged short. At the same time, we have the lowest mortality or just about the lowest mortality in the world. We're doing a great job. We're doing very well with vaccines, and we're doing very very well with therapeutics, and I think we're gonna have some very good information coming out soon. But we have the best and certainly the biggest, by far,

the biggest testing program anywhere in the world. We do have the biggest testing program, and we still have all this criticism from people about how there's not enough, there's never enough testing, there's never gonna be enough testing. This this is the way, because this is it's like the theoretical how do you ever get to the place where there's enough testing? Were never there? So let's just complain

about it constantly. Look some of what Trump said, there is a little off by the facts, but he's right on the broadside since but yeah, I know we're not. We don't have the lowest mortality in the world compared to some smaller countries in New Zealand and Japan, and Japan's not a small country, but there are there are countries out there that have done better than us when

it comes to per capita mortality against this virus. But what he's referring to is that compared to the societies that are of comparable size, complexity, diversity, you know, international travel hub, etc. To the United States, You're looking at large Western European countries and you have the US beating Italy, Spain, the UK, every large European country on a per capita basis except for Germany. France better than France. So you know, it's it's not like America is the one place that's

been hit really hard by this. But that is the lie the Democrats lean into and just will not stop telling it, And now that is going to turn into a giant battle over schools. Thanks for listening to The Bus and Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Teachers unions, you may have figured out at this point, I'm not a fan. I'm not a fan of any public sector

union quite honestly. I mean, I could be persuaded that cops and firefighters need them, but not civil servants, not you know, bureaucrats working in state capitals, people that are teaching kids in public schools. I just I'm not signing on for that. But unfortunately, that's the reality of the education system in this country. You have a massive, bloated and highly ineffective on the whole public school system that is largely a jobs program for adults and at best

a babysitting program for kids in failing schools. But the LA if you want to know what this is really all about, Yes, it's true. And it's obvious that the shutdowns of schools in places. Los Angeles County has already said no, not gonna, not gonna open schools in the fall. They've already said that that's their position as it now. Now that could change, But when you look at what's being talked about, hold on, I thought this was just about safety. I thought this was just about making sure

that everyone's okay in the classroom. Oh No, it turns out it had to the Daily Caller for this one. The United Teachers Los Angeles union has called for the defunding of police, a moratorium on new charter schools, new wealth taxes on California's millionaires and billionaires, and Medicare for

all at the federal level. In a research paper issue on Thursday, It's time to take a stand against Trump's dangerous anti science agenda that puts the lives of our members, our students, and our families at risk, said United Teachers Los Angeles president Cecily my Art Cruise. Yeah, there you go. There. I got a paper here that says that the reopening of school should be conditioned upon the passage of Medicare for all at the federal level, along with all that

other stuff. Wait, wait a second. I thought teachers unions just wanted to teach man. I thought they were all about the kids. I thought this was just about getting the classroom safely to open up the wonders of the children's minds to the great literature of And there's this. There's a whole other conversation that we should have and we'll have sometimes about what constitutes great literature or literature

worthy of teaching children anymore. From what I understand from a friend of mine who is a public school teacher in New York, there's a there are a whole series of books, and I have not read them, and so I'm not deeply familiar with them that go into um, shall we say, stories that would be more familiar in high crime and largely minority neighborhoods, instead of you know, reading Charlotte's Web or you know, other books that many of us were would be familiar with from the what

had been considered, you know, Catcher in the Rye, Right, I don't know things like that. No, no, no, Now they're reading books about guys who are This is what I this is what I was told, guys who you know, don't have like like a guy who comes home doesn't have a mom or dad, you know, living with his grandma. They're drug dealers on the corner at all. And I understand maybe they're trying to do this outreach of familiarity of under certain circumstances. But I thought that great art

and great literature was something that all people. It's it's our all of our inheritance, right, It's something we should all agree on, and what they teach in schools increasingly seems more overtly like political indoctrinations. That's what I hear.

And everyone that I know who teaches at a private school leaven in New York, and there's some very fancy private schools here, they will say the schools have just become the administrations are very liberal, because what you have, even in the private school system now are all these ultra rich Democrats who send their kids to these schools that are very homogeneous racially, and they send their kids to these schools, but they want at least the administration

to reflect the most progressive approaches because then they feel like, you know, oh well, yes, we send little Timothy to our fifty thousand dollars a year first grade. Which that's a real thing that exists in New York for those of you who are wondering, it's plenty of schools fifty grand for grammar school year. Yes, we sent little Timothy to that school. But at least the headmaster put out a strong statement in favor of black lives matter. Oh well,

then in that case, everything's fine. In that case, you know, come on, you've done your part for social justice. You're good, you know, give yourself a palament back when you take a helicopter out to your beachfront mansion in the Hamptons. That's very, very nice. Pelosi is California. Of course, Pelosi weighs in on this as well, and she wants to help the teachers unions hold schools and the education of these children hostage to whatever the demands the Democratic Party

are Play clip six. So all of these things are related to the safety of our children going back. Is it hybrid, is it virtual? Is it actual? Well, let's get given it our best shot. Putting our children first, we know what we need to do. The Republicans have resisted the Hero's Act and impartially because they don't want to support the state and local government, which is essential to the safety of our children going back to school as well. The resources are there, but to make a decision.

I mean, Pelosi is so shameless that I almost I'm almost in awe of her shamelessness. Sometimes here's someone who has been nothing but unhelpful at every stage, who delayed you recall twice votes to get money to people who no longer had jobs, no longer had businesses to operate because of government mandate. That's not the free market. That's the government's fault. That's the government's decision right to shut down your business to mean that make it so that

you don't no longer have a job. And now Pelosi is trying to leverage this for the maximum. Look, there's a very a very clear process at work here. They're using the school issue as really a proxy for shutdown, for the feeling at least of the country in shutdown going into the election season, and if they get schools shut down, they feel like it's gonna be very hard.

It's gonna be very hard for Trump to win, because how can you tell people you're better off now than you were four years ago when your kids can't even be in school. That's it. That's that's really the game that is being played. It's very damaging, it's ruthless, and it's a it's a shame that the politics of this have gotten so ugly. But that's where this is. You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sex and

Show podcast. If you think that Democrats being wrong is ever an impediment to their power grabs, If you think that democrats making RMIs errors of judgment based on the results would at least result in some accountability. Unfortunately, you'd be wrong, especially in states that have become political monocultures like New York, where I am currently doing this show. Of course, I'm doing it for many of you all

across the country. Governor Cuomo. Governor Cuomo, who is one of the most shameless, ruthless politicians I've ever seen in my life. He likes to do the press conference where he has this kind of rhythm. Okay, next slide, New York, give yourself a pat on the back because we did such a good job. We don't even buy a good job. A good job is whatever I say it is, and

so stop asking questions. But he put out his own state authorities put out a report on the nursing home, really the nursing home massacre that Cuomo is as a matter of direct policy and decision making responsible for. He put out this report that exonerated him. You know, just a nurse totally an os Cuomo's fault, federal government's fault of anything. This has become that this is the escape hatch for every stupid Democrat decision that has been made

during the COVID pandemic. It's blamed the federal government. Blame Trump. That's what they really mean, Blame Trump. And when when you have thousands of nursing home deaths. And in March twenty fifth order that said that that coronavirus patients coming out of hospitals from nursing homes have to go back into nursing homes. And this was because of the greatly exaggerated, as we now know, fear that they were going to run out of spittal bed, which was never even close.

And Cuomo puts out this report that says, quote, eighty percent of three nursing homes in the state that took coronavirus patients already had patients before Cuomo issued his order. Okay, what about the other twenty percent? Anyone want to guess what happened there? What could be more straightforward? Coronavirus is

particularly lethal, particularly dangerous to elderly people. Period. All the data in every country, in every circumstance suggests that you add a layer of danger on top of that for those who have diabetes, heart conditions, breathing issues, comorbidities, obesity.

We know that's a that's just established fact. And how could it be more obvious that there was a mistake made here than the Cuomo sent people who are already at high risk from the disease themselves, who likely had it, and sent them back into nursing homes where they were almost guaranteed to spread it to other varying at risk individuals. And that's why, you know, I just want I just want to hit the roof. I mean, I just lose my mind when I'm seeing all this. Look at what

a good job Cuomo did versus the stats. Cuomo did a terrible job. In New York, there's this former Obama administration health you know, a health expert moron. I'm forgetting the guy's name right now, but he's gone on a few terrors on Twitter where you're saying New York shows how it's done. New York lost thirty five thousand people dead, California has lost about six thousand, Texas has lost you know, three to four thousand, Florida something along those lines, about thousand.

New York lost thirty five thousand people, and quomost taking a victory lap. I think about this and the media is like, yeah, that's right, I Quota did a good job. Gavin Newsom has been a tyrant in California, and guess what, now they're back into you know, a moderate lockdown phase even though they've had all we made it, probably because of the protest right, but no one wants to talk about that. We have seen, particularly younger people have been

where the spread of this disease is. I know, younger people also are more likely to congregate in bars and you know, play flip cup and do all these things. But I was never very good at flip cups. I'm a little get a little bitter about that. Or what's the other one, producer, Mark, what's the game? The beer pong? Yeah? Yeah, beer pong? Thank you, thank you. We actually called it something else in my college. But it's a weird name, and no, I feel like no one ever used that

anymore anyway. Yeah, people are young people are more likely to be in close quarters in those situations and possibly give each other COVID, but they're in really close quarters. I mean there's a photo of a protest in California with just thousands and thousands and thousands of people in such close proximity, just jammed in like sardines, and Newsom's like, yeah, this is great, that's great. We were really doing a great job here in California. These people are terrible. Producer.

Nick says Beyrout. Yeah, they used to call it Beyrout in college, which I don't know that that's what they used to call beer pong, And I mean, I think it's because Beyrout had a long civil war and people were, you know, a lot of artillery shells. Maybe I don't know, but it was called by route. I think you there's that too. Yeah, how many kids today even remember the lett Any civil war would stretch really from I think about nineteen seventy five to nineteen ninety or so, fifteen

year long civil war. It was a rough time anyway. Governor Cuomo has put out this report and it's just absurd. This report is absurd. There is a theory out there.

I'm just gonna say this, There is a theory out there that it's not just because they keep on doing these serology tests looking for antibodies, but there's also T cell immunity to infection, which means that your T cells are capable of very quickly responding to an infection so it does not become a serious infection take hold in you and you have all the symptoms and so on and so forth of the worst symptoms at least, and there's a theory out there that there may have been

much more broad exposure that also, let I'm not this has not proven. This is a theory that there may have been broader exposure. And so New York, for example, where I'm telling you this disease, when it was out there, it was all I mean, it was spreading all over the place. Right. We all know that I was riding the subway four times a day when this virus was at its absolute, unrestrained maximum, just people coughing on each other everywhere, and we're told, don't wear masks, don't No

one even heard of social distancing at that point. So there are a lot of people who were exposed to this who didn't get it or didn't really get symptoms. The prology testing that's done right now looks for the looks for antibodies, but t sell immunity is not something that it would it would catch. And this all goes to a theory that I think is likely. I give credibility or credence to this theory that is in some

corners of the medical community. Again, this is not a fact, this is a theory, but that the virus effectively spread hit and now you have a population that's much less susceptible to it because it effectively burned through New York. You know, it's like a forest fire. It's already burned through, it's burned down the trees and what's left. What you know, then the regrowth is happening. And that hadn't happened in other parts of the country. It hasn't happened yet, not

the same way. So I know there's tremendous concern about the second wave here. And now you've got CUOMO with twenty two twenty two states on a list that are required to do additional quarantine if they come back, required to do quarantine for two weeks, if they come back to New York City from traveling in those states, and they're going to make you fill out a form and they're going to find you up to two thousand dollars for non compliance. Well, where is the authority on this? Now?

How is this? Where's the DOJ? Why aren't they suing? How is this not a violation of interstate Gammer's clause? You're going to lock people in their homes for two weeks just because they've visited a state where the governor

of New York thinks there are too many COVID cases. Remember, they've they've expanded this not just to people who have the disease that's quarantine, but people that go to places where there are people with the disease and they're going to come back and now'll be in or two week quarantine. We can't keep living like this, folks. I think that's We're all just going to have to deal with this. You know, I've told you this all along. I may come on to the show one day and say, guys,

I feel I'm really sick. I gotta take some days off here because I've caught COVID nineteen. I understand that. I know that that could happen, and that will change nothing that I have said to you. We all take risks. We are all living in an imperfect world where there is no guarantee of safety, certainly not from the state, but there's no guarantee of safety period. And we keep on getting told things by the people in charge who are seizing more and more authority for themselves that are

just fundamentally nonsensical and not true week. We cannot beat this virus by having these arbitrary government you know, lockdown, shutdown, mass distance, lockdown, shutdown mass distance. Through cycles and cycles of this, it isn't working. It has not worked. It did not work in California. Why is it going to work now in all these other places? Thanks for listening to the buses and show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcast.

Let me say what honor it is for me to serve under a president who is such a strong supporter of law enforcement. I've said repeatedly that, to my mind, there is no more noble profession in our country than serving as a law enforcement officer. The police put their lives and well being on the line every day for us, and their jobs have never been more difficult than it

is today. I believe it's a important to understand that, just like any other institution, there's always room for improvement, and over the past several decades, there's unquestionably been a lot of progress and reforms in policing that's improved policing and life for the officers, their families, and their communities. We have the most professional police in the world. Thank goodness that we have an administration with people like Bill Barr who will say what needs to be said at

this point in time about law enforcement. The Democrat Party has not just turned their backs on law enforcement. They are They are throwing law enforcement officers to the violent, vengeful mob and making it less safe for all of us on the streets and doing tremendous damage to the rule of law. To the sense that we have certain parts of our day to day lives in this country that we all agree on, right, we all want everyone.

I want everyone. I want every person in America to be safe going home at night, walking to work in the morning, you know, driving to their job. I want every person to have the full protection of law enforcement, to have full due process as well. If they're on the wrong side of law enforcement, that's not These are

not partisan agenda issues, right. I don't want anyone to be the victim of a crime, and I want the maximum amount of police protection feasible and reasonable to have a bare minimum of violent crime in our society for everyone. I don't want anyone getting attacked by whether it's one individual or a violent mob on the street. Democrats don't seem to subscribe to this theory anymore. You know, we're a bad country that's very racist, that needs to be punished.

We need more violence on the streets. We need our cops to be defamed, to be demoralized. That is their approach. That's what's happening in America today. And I'm happy to hear that the Attorney General will say these words, but we need a lot more. We need a lot more than just words. You have Deblasio for examples out there,

saying things like this play clip five. We obviously took money out of the NYPD budget, put it into youth programs, put it into social services, put it into recreation centers for young people. That's really the right direction. I'm glad we did that. But the fact that we're going to have to fight crime in many ways is also clear. We need the good work of the men and women

in NYPD the streets of our city. We need communities to come forward, particularly through civic leadership, clergy to your violence movement, do all the things that they can do, and they can do things that police can't do. And the NYPD is quite clear about that. Community voices, community members can achieve some things differently, and we need both pieces to happen. So we're going to devote ourselves to all of it. We are going to fight this back.

I've seen us fight back from much, much tougher circumstances in terms of crime and violence. We're going to fight this back, but it's going to take everyone. Oh wait a second, you mean that moving funds from the police and making sure the cops don't feel backed up when they have to do their jobs and deal with violent thugs. Do you mean that that's resulted in more crime? Who could have guessed? Oh, everyone guessed, everyone knew, But now

it's oh, no, I guess we have a problem. We need to have a whole of community approach to do with this Deblasia never talks about how we need to talk to clergy or just community leaders. About parental involvement in school activities, meaning parents drop the kids off, pick them up from school, if they can make sure their homework is getting done, make sure that when they get

home they're asked about their school day. Make sure that there is a focus put on learning and that there is an expectation that children will do their homework, will be responsible, will be respectful to teachers, will be quiet when quiet is requested by teachers. That intact family situation,

intact families. I mean, if you look at the data on intact families, and hat tip to Matt Walsh over the Daily Wire who pulled all this data together recently, and I mean, I've known these, I've known the analysis here, but Matt actually pulled some facts and figures I was looking through last night. If you just look at families that are intact across America, the problem of poverty and problems of poverty and domestic violence and dropping out of

school and criminality all plummet across all racial categories. So if you really want children, whether it's White children, Black children, Hispanic children, Asian children, if you really want to promote something as a policy and as a goal that is the single most likely thing to improve their life outcomes, it would be the family. It would be promotion of getting married, staying married, and waiting until marriage to have children. This is the I was gonna say, it's like the

secret pathway, but it's not secret at all. It's obvious, it's known. But Democrats won't touch it. How can they? Black lives matters out there arguing for the elimination of the nuclear openly arguing for the elimination of the nuclear family, the exact wrong thing for the Black community. For all communities, all families do matter. Families are important. Families are the basis for so much of our sense of how we

deal with authority and our emotional and psychological and intellectual development. No, no, but de Blasio acts like, you know, if we just we have a couple of more you know, after school programs or something where people can play sports, there won't be any more violenced. Look, I'm not opposed to after school programs. It's great. I'm not some maniact things that you know, we shouldn't have kids have more opportunities to

play and do fun things. But I'm also not the one who was locking down playgrounds while massive protests were happening. De Blasio was. But I also would like to see better outcomes for all of us. It will be better for society and promoting intact families. But you know, there's a degree of individual responsibility that goes into that. It's not the system that's preventing people from getting married and staying married. That's an individual choice that's an individual responsibility.

And if you look at, for example, immigrants that come from communities from countries around the world, including say Nigerian immigrants,

we're told the system is very, very racist in America. Meanwhile, immigrants from Africa, who particularly if talking about immigrants who have intact family structure, and immigrants from Africa have basically the same percentage, it's within a few percentage points as white American native born white Americans do on a per capita basis, the household income of those immigrants that come from Africa, dominently West Africa, and the analysis that I

saw is higher than the average white born in America pera capita household income. So somehow the system that is so racist and that is to blame for everything does not prevent immigrants from Africa from coming here. They are black, and they do very well, and they have intact family structure, and they are success stories, right, And we know about

Asian family structure and the success stories there. Right, The overwhelming number of Asian immigrants to America have intact family structure and their children, you know, are you going off to fantastic schools? These are all generalizations, but we're talking about numbers and we're talking about numbers, you're talking about the aggregates. If you're going to talk about policy, policy

has to be made based upon what's generally true. You can't make policy based on what's always true, because nothing is going to be always true about a public policy matter. There's always going to be exceptions or places where there are a gray area or confusion. But it's just it's so remarkable that we're all focused now on how do we and look they're not even the Democrats aren't even really focused on making these communities better. This is all

just window dressing. Now, Oh yeah, we need more money, no more funding, whatever. No, this is about hating the cops, turning out the minority vote for Biden against Trump, and creating the Democrat Party, creating a whole lot of excuses for why Democrat controlled enclaves just can't get it together, can't manage to control crime in places like Chicago or Saint Louis, and now in New York, which couldn't control crime for a long time, got under control but is

now losing control. You have a just a whole series of excuses and no willingness to look at what would really make things better. For everyone, encouraging behaviors that would make things better for everyone. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Princeton University is a very fancy place. It's very fancy. They have eating clubs,

which are like fraternities, but in multimillion dollar mansions. Well you're served lunch on porcelain, and then you get to talk about how much Daddy has put in your trust fund this year. Princeton's a very fancy place, no question about it. But Princeton University because it's an elite school now, and I don't even know we should call them elite, because who knows why people who can get into these schools anymore. There's an open letter though, that has been

published there. Remember this is I think consider the third the number three Ivy League school after Harvard and Yale. A lot of people would put Stanford ahead of it, but Princeton's still certainly a very international renowned institution. And here is what this. This is a faculty letter signed by I mean one hundred, one hundred and fifty professors. A huge number of professors have signed this thing, and it's on anti blackness as a foundational element to America.

In fact, the very first line is, quote anti blackness is foundational to America. Wow, that's the very first line of this letter. And then they get into a discussion of how we deal with this, and the way we deal with this is anti racism. Now, many of us have thought that the the only obligation we have as individuals and as people is to not be racist. Right, just don't be racist, That's okay, and then you're not

a racist, and then what's the problem. And racism is treating people or thinking of people as less than or thinking of them differently because of their skin color. Very straightforward definition. Don't do that, You're not being racist. But no, anti racism is the affirmative taking of steps demanded of you by the woke left in order to deal with the As it is said in this letter from Princeton University,

anti blackness that is foundational to America. And quote, So anti racism now turns into a whole list of demands. Now there are demands that are coming with all of this too. Right, George Floyd is shot, is not shot? Is killed asphyxiated in Minnesota by a police officer. National movement, and now here we are prince University demanding additional pay

and perks for professors of color. Well that's quite a oh no, But this is the way it works, right, This is the way movement was always going to conduct itself. Here's what they write. It plays a role anti blackness and where we live and where we are welcome. It influences the level of health care we receive. It determines a degree of risk we are assumed to pose in context from retail to lending and beyond. It informs the expectations and tactics of law enforcement. Anti black racism has

hamstrung our political process. It has rampant even in our most progressive communities, and it plays a powerful role at institutions like Princeton, despite declared values of diversity and inclusion. So anti blackness, according to this open letter, signed by written by professors at Princeton, Signed by professors at Princeton, anti blackness is a constant failing of Princeton University, even though Princeton University thinks of itself as very diverse and

progressive and all the rest of it. Right, not enough, So you'd say, well, okay, what are we supposed to do? But let's just assume that let's just accept this premise for a second, that the country is still so racist and we don't talk about this enough. We've talked about it every day, we talked about this all the time. CNN. I've left this out of today's show. I shouldn't have is creating a new I believe it is called a quote race Coverage team end quote to focus on race

issues at CNN, specifically in the newsroom. They're going to have a race you know, you talk about your beats in the news in the news world. Race is now going to be a specialization at CNN for journalists. I'm not making this up. This is what Jeff Zucker said yesterday. They came out and talked about this. So, okay, what can we do. How do you get to be an

anti racist? Is it enough to just treat people of color as hello, human beings deserving of all the same rights and dignity and decency that you'd give to any and to any person, And to be an advocate for treating everyone equally under the law and make sure that everyone is judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Oh no, no, no, that's not anti racism. Anti racism is quote quote create a

center specifically dedicated to anti racism at Princeton University. Reward the invisible work done by faculty of color with course relief and summer salary. That's right. Additional financial perks. Reconsider the use of standardized testing at Princeton University, which research shows to be strongly correlated with the underrepresentation of people of color. Acknowledge on the Princeton homepage that the university

is cited on indigenous land. The statements should explicitly acknowledge that Princeton University's land is unseated and quote acknowledge the land of this university is the unseated traditional territory of the nanticoke any Lenapey tribal nation. Oh my god, that's right. Bend the need, do as we say all of our give us money, give us privileges, give us what we want, or else you're racist. That's what it's turned into at Princeton, and it's not the only place. Thanks for listening to

the Buses and Show podcast. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's harsany time we should make like a little intro form or something. Our buddy David Harsani is with us now. He is a senior writer at National Review, and he's got a piece coming out on what I was talking about earlier in the show about Cuomo's ill deserved undeserved victory. Lap mister Harsan, You're great to have you back, sir.

What was the pleasure? Thanks for having me? Ah, So, Cuomo, with thirty five thousand deaths in his state, is create artwork. That's right. This is a real thing, folks, for those who are wondering artwork. You commemorate what a tremendous victory he has had here with all of this. Tell us what you think about all that? I mean, hold on, I actually I'm trying to pull up the name of it. It is the New York Tough poster of success under

Cuomo's leadership fighting against COVID nineteen. What do you think, David not a not a fan of it because it's mythical and it's obviously a conservative conservative effort by his allies and himself to make it seem that new that. You know, his policies were successful in New York, which they most certainly were not by any standard. In fact, if you if you compare New York to other countries in the world, it's one of the worst. To compare

to any state in America, it's the worst. And when you think about it more deeply, and you know, many people have mentioned this, but Cuomo made perhaps one of the most deadly policy mistakes in the whole coronavirus crisis by sending infected people back to the nursing home. So that whole entire ridiculous pyramid poster he has is insulting to anyone who was paying attention. If it was done right, there would be thirty thousand dead people. At thought him

of that pyramid, frankly, you know. And it's just disgusting that the media has basically given him a pass. It's disgusting that his poll numbers are so high because I have to assume that most people don't know all the you know, things that have happened. And it's disgusting that he blames other states now for for mismanaging when he is most incompetent governor in America. I can put him work starkly, Yeah, No, I mean I tell us that I really feel I totally agree with you. I'm a

little astonished. I look, New York is overwhelmingly Democrats state as we all know. I think statewide it's like three to one New York. It's like eight to one Democrat to Republican. And yet I don't know how anyone could be so dumb And it's like a seventy percent approval rating he allegedly has in the state be so dumb as to think that he did a good job. But it really this is turned into whoever mouths the approved

slogans of the lockdown movement? You know, who's ever like where a mask and you know, social distance and a listition to the sacience and all these things that Cuomo saying all the time. If you just say all that stuff, you're like one of the good guys. Even if you were sending COVID positive seniors into nursing homes to kill a lot of their fellow nursing home residence. That's what happened, was that your New York accent you just did? That was Cuomo. This is you know, you have a here

with a press conference. He sort of he goes up here and then sometimes he brings it down here for a little bit, but then he goes back and it's kind of slow. But you were saying, David, Yeah, I mean, you know, that's all correct, you know, And I think part of the problem is that you have him giving competent looking or you know, something that projects competence in press conferences. Right, So I think those press conference has almost fooled me in the beginning as well. You know,

he looked like he knew what he was doing. It look like he had control of the situation. He's got the code on, you know, all that stuff. And then obviously he's on you know, CNN every day with his brother just lobbing softballs at him. He's on the Tonight Show where they're talking about all the women who are really into him because he's so competent, et cetera. And you create this perception of competence that does not exist. And then the media not all I have to say.

I mean, some people have gone after him, but in general given him a pass. And I think that that, all, you know, is part of it. And then partisanship is part of it as well. You know, people want to blame Trump, so they don't blame Cuomo or you know,

or whatever. But seventy seven percent. He's one of the most popular governors in America, and his state has mentioned I think this last week on your show, but there are more deaths in New York nursing homes than they're on the entire state of Florida's, entire state of Texas, and I believe still entire state of Arizona, which is yeah. I mean you would think that, don't. We always hear

things that don't the results speak for themselves. This has been a as you, as you let it out, a propaganda campaign to completely overcome and really erase the results because there's there's no arguing the numbers. I mean, New York, I'm right in the middle of it. I was living here. I couldn't see family members for months, couldn't do anything,

and this place was a catastrophe, an absolute catastrophe. And you know, David, I also have to wonder, and I know you're somebody who you're you know you're you're more open to some of the more traditional mitigation arguments working than I am. I'm not saying they're wrong. I just I think I'm a little more skeptical of some of the new Although I don't want to put words in

your mouth. But New York had a lockdown where everyone wear a mask and the disease was raging out of control for about ninety days, right, and I never saw anybody without a mask, and everyone was on lockdown, but the disease was still spreading and spreading and spreading, including spreading in people's homes. California has been under you know, the Democrat mantra of mass, mass masks, social distance, all this stuff, and now they're rolling back, no more indoors stuff.

They're just shy of a phase one lockdown. If the policies work, why aren't they working right? Well, here's my position on this stuff. Some makes sense. I have to I have to trust experts because that's how we live in life. I get on a plane, I have to trust that the pilot's going to get me there. Um. But more, as we get deeper into this, I realize how little they know. Yeah, and I'm very, very skeptical of anything they say, not because I think that most

of them have, you know, bad intense. It's just that they don't know everything we think we know we do. There's just no we will not make sense of this for years and I'm all with the experts until one topic, and maybe you've discussed this is opening the schools. It is clear that the science says open to schools. The science says a common sense says that. My empirical view

of it says so. And yet now Democrats were against that as well, which just tells me they want to keep this going until November, many of them, And there's just no other way to look at what they're up to and not come to that conclusion, at least from my perspective. Yeah, no, I think so, And on your that's for me. The main thing, David, it's that there are things that experts know, and there are things experts

know more than the general public. But it's important to establish and know what those are as a non expert, because there are also things that experts either think they know or should know, and do not. And what we're seeing with this virus, I think is a lot of that. You know, you ask them, why is it that we have this six foot guidance rule? What's that? Based on the answer is it's a guess. There are other countries that have a three foot social distancing rule. Why is

it at ten feet? How could you even enforce this. It's actually absurd, but it's just, you know, like telling people to wash their hands a lot. If washing hands could stop this disease from being a pandemic, obviously we'd

be in much better shape. It's not enough. Now I understand all these things together, they would argue might lower the transmission some degree, but we're still in the middle of a pandemic, one for which they can't tell us how long immunity lasts, one for which they can't tell us whether a vaccine would even be good for more than one year, more than one side. I mean, it's

there's all these things they just don't know. But all you have to do if your Democrat is go on TV or go on social media and say listen to the experts, as if that's some kind of panacea. But I did want it to get your take also on this just this was just breaking today. So it's something new to add into our discussions about Barry Weiss resigning and sending out a blistering letter of resignation. She's at the New York Times. Tell folks, who, why do we

care about who Barry Weiss is? And what does this tell us about? What's going on with the crazy woke lives at the New York Times. Barry Weiss is a person that maybe five years ago we just call it a liberal, right she has She's probably more on the moderate side. I don't know all her positions, but she's you know, she's pro Israel. You know, she takes a more moderate view of Israel and other issues like that.

You know, she calls that anti Semitism, even if it's coming from certain you know, it's coming from far Coon, etc. Yeah, Firac, unlike some some other editorialists. But she, as we know at the New York Times, you have incredibly woke and incredibly you know, I don't know what's called them progressive people who complain and I get people fired who they disagree with and pretend that words are violence. And she's on the liberal end of things, I mean the liberal

and the small l real sense of things. And she was basically from what her letter says, and there's no reason to disbelieve it, considering all the other things we've seen that she was bullied and insulted and made to feel unwelcome there and to leave. So she wrote a letter, which I think is probably the best thing She's written fantastic letter about liberalism and liberalism and about what went on there in open discourse and she left. I think it's a it's an incredibly notable for people who are

in journalism and writers. I think that her letter is incredibly important. I feel like it will be. It feels that way to me, and maybe it will be a turning point. I hope it will be. Do you think it's a sad sense that she might sue them? You know, she's kind of intimates that she will, and I hope she does. Actually, do you think that there's how you

look you've worked? I know you've worked at some some large newspapers in the path that you worked at the Denver Post, and you've been at a few places in the past where I'm sure there were liberal journalists there. So do you get and you haven't worked at times if memory serves, But do you think that there's embarrassment among the employees of the newsroom who just won't come out and say it, or do you I know, I'll ask you to kind of look into Crystal Ball a

little bit, but they can't. You can't really think you're a journalist and that you make you're living on free speech and that what's going on right now isn't insane, right? Or am I giving I'm talking about for the majority of the people that work in these places, or am I giving them too much credit? I think that's probably a large contingent that are just not you know, I wouldn't call them cowards, but they don't want to be fired, they don't want the attention. They just want to do

whatever they're doing right, their movie reviews, whatever, right. And then there's a contingent the people we know on the editorial page and the columnists who are themselves bullies and cowards. And I think they're activists and they think that what they're doing, like a religious fanatic does, is always okay because they're zealous about it and they believe it really deeply.

These are the people who you know, pedal Pseudohistoric sixty nineteen projects and like column at race obsessed column after

column calling anyone who disagrees with them a racist. And these people on the page, and clearly including Paul Krugman, who does similar sorts of things, are people who see no problem bullying other So Paul Krugman went out of his way recently, he tried to get someone at the University of Chicago fired because he said all lives matters or forgot what he did some some you know, free

speech crime or thought you know, wrong thing crime. And so that's I think what you know, it's a small segment, but it's the segment of people, the faction that run the paper. Barry White said that Twitter is the real editor of New York Times editorial page. And that's the truth. I think a mob runs the paper. Remember a few like last year or on a number of occasions, they've changed headlines the news such changed headlines because the Biden camp being cold or the Twitter got mad. They are

They're just cowards. These are cowards that started at the Atlantic with Kevin Williamson's my colleague Nano being fired for having an opinion about something, and now we see it there. Damon Arsani, everybody, David keeping the fight, stay safe. Thanks for joining us, my friend, Thank you anytime you're in the freedom und This is the Buck Section Show podcast. I figured i'd share with you some of what this New York Times editor Barry Weisse puts in a resignation letter.

Remember New York Times is the the Grand Cathedral that they probably wouldn't like to be called that, But you know, it's the I don't know what's what's the what's the proper way of saying it? Um, the Superdome? How about that? It's the superdome of leftist journalism, of democrat aligned journalism in America. It's it's the most elite newspaper, even more so really than the Washington Post. And yeah, they've lost their minds over there. That's that's for sure. Barry Weiss

in her resignation letter, how's the following? Um, this is I guess for this is to Salzburger, the guy who owns it, runs it. It is with sadness that I write to tell you I'm resigning from New York Times. I joined the paper with gratitude, an optimism three years ago. Blah blah, a voice to bring other voices, blah blah blah blah. Okay, here we go, good stuff. Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times, but

Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper. The paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space. Stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions. I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first draft, a rough draft of history.

Now history itself is one more ephemeral thing, molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative. Wow, I mean, this isn't surprise at all. Right, it's just somebody from the inside, a liberal, my friends, who would disagree with you listening to this on ninety percent of stuff in life, or maybe seventy percent. She's a little less crazy than some of the others, but I would disagree with you almost all the time. And was an editor at this paper.

And she's resigning, and she is telling you what I tell you every day about the New York Times, and what you know about the New York Times is in fact entirely true. It's true. I'm not I'm not exaggerating Murra right wing radio. Ur. I'm not sitting here, you know, I don't know where they hate him. And it's terrible, you know, I'm not doing any of that. I'm just telling you the truth, and it's amazing that this is

what it's come to. The most famous newspaper are arguably, I think pretty clearly in the country is run by She says, Twitter and the opinion of Libs on that social media platform, I mean, Twitter has effectively destroyed the facade of journalism because you have all these people who now don't have to go through an editor, don't have any quality control over their sharing of thoughts, and they're telling us I'm a huge leftist, I'm a Marxist, I'm

a lunatic social justice warrior. Oh, I'm now just covering national politics on the front page of the New York Times, and I swear I have no bias, as if we're all morons right, as if we don't know exactly what's going on there. A little more from her resignation letter, My own forays into wrong think have made me the subjects of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist. I have learned to brush off comments about how I'm writing

about the Jews. Again, several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers my work and my character are openly demeaned on companywide slack channels, where masked head editors regularly weigh in. There. Some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly inclusive one, while others post ax emojis

next to my name. Wow. Still, other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter, with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are. There are terms for all of this unlawful discrimination, hostile work environment, and constructive discharge. I'm known legal expert, but I know that this is wrong. Oh yes, sue them. Go for it. Barry, sue the New York Times into oblivion. Go for it. I think this is fantastic. They should be sued. It's

this is a great a great letter, the basics. Look, it's worth reading the whole thing. I won't read it to you all in air prusin Mark. Maybe we should post it on bucksex and dot com. I don't know if people what do you think people would like? I don't know. I'll tweet, I'll tweet it out, I'll tweet it out. But it's amazing. This is my favorite thing.

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That'll be up. That's up today already, all right, Jim Buck love the show. Listen to it often after work at the golf course while I practice my game. I'm usually starving at this time. My attention focus is when you talk about food, in particular. You've recently discussed both a skillet seared steak that you based an herb butter and a spaghetti carbonara. Both of these sound decadent and delicious. Unable to decide which of these to have tonight, so I decided to have both. I want you to know

the meal was amazing. Not surprised. The two go together perfectly and should become your sign your dish. Thanks for the food tips, and keep up the good fight. She'll tell my friends. Now I'm off to a food coma. Jim, you made us. It's a power move, my friend. That's some good stuff. Making sure that you have what you

need on the plate. Let's producer Mark. If I if I told you that tonight you were going to have a fantastic steak cut of your choice, perfectly cooked and seasoned, or a really excellent creamy spaghetti carbonara, but you can only have one. Which would you go? That is a tough choice, Buck, I think so too. Actually, they're both so good. I go steak just because I think that's my favorite thing. Yeah, I probably go steak too. But what's on the side of the steak? Maybe and I

speaked potato? Yeah, something like that. If you get you know, you gotta have some kind of a starch. I guess steakhouse sides are good, but you know, you get more variety that you go to a steakhouse for steak, maybe for the seafood. Sometimes the sides are good. Um anyway, Yeah, I'm making myself hungry, man, it's not even dinner time for me making myself hungry to staking about this. But yeah, no, carbonara is my favorite. You told me your favorite pasta

was ravioli. Uh no, I don't even remember. If No, that was not my favorite. Rigatoni was Producer Nick's favorite. Rigatoni was producer Nicks. I guess i'd go Penny Alivadka. Yeah, maybe some tortellini. All right now, I really am getting hungry. D Buck. My husband and I met you on July four, twenty nineteen at the Trump International Hotel Cool. We live in Mississippi. We listen to you on the radio today. You said that there aren't enough people standing up for

what is right. I'm ready. Please give us some insight on how we need to start. Should we start having peaceful protests locally and try to build from there. We are ready to stand up for America. I think that's what we will call our group. We still need some advice from you. D I think you got, first of all, very lovely meeting you in the husband and yes, indeed I was on July fourth, twenty nineteen at the Trump Hotel in DC, so that is accurate. That is true.

And as for how to get going and how to mobilize, I think that you're on the right track. I think that you've pretty much got it. Do as you were planning on doing here, get up and running on it, you know, just do your thing. Local organizations very important. With social media, there's a lot of reach and power that you can have, especially if the movement, you know, if you are on message and people seeing like they're

both energized. But also think of the way that we could have such a differentiation between conservative mobilization, Republican Party people voting for Trump, and how we would have orderly, safe, respectful protest or respectful demonstrations versus the anarchy, absurdity and a viciousness of these lib protesters who are out there. So there you go. Yeah, I think d that's the way to do it, and I think your instincts are

spot on. I would just go for it. And to say hi to the hubs for me, shield Tie Toby Buck, I am crushed upon hearing about Jay Severn. I'm a fan from Boston and he introduced me to conservative talk radio when he had the afternoon show. Even a liberal Boston. He was a giant. Very saddened and Toby, I totally appreciate and understand that Jay Severn was. He was a real radio host. And I mean that in I think he would know that too. I mean that as a term of real respect. You know, he was. He was

the real deal. He wasn't somebody that just uh, you know, was able to play the corporate game and you know, have a lot of guests on or hang on to somebody else's coattails to get a radio show. Uh, and you know, get on get on stations. I mean, he he's really good. He was good at radio. He was talented at that medium and was a guy who did his own thinking. And look, I know that he had he got into some hot water here and there for

what he said. Um, but that's because he was a guy who was pushing it along the edge and that makes for interesting radio. And I always appreciated he. We weren't close or anything like that, but I could speak to him about the business and especially it was very early for me and he, and there was a respect between us whenever we talked about this because he knew right away and said that I was. I was a

real radio guy. And he recognized that and said that you're gonna have a very You're gonna have a very big career if you keep doing this. And Jay was not a warm and fuzzy kind of a guy, but he you know, game respects game kind of a thing. And I always listened to Jay as somebody who I knew. The only reason this guy had a radio show is because he was good at this. That's not true about everybody. Um, let's see here, James Buck. Anyway, I also pardon me,

just to finish off with with Severn. Um, you know, thoughts and prayers to his family, and it was it was said, look, we've lost. It wasn't even planning going here. We've lost Jay Severn this year from the you know, the world of media that I've operated in. Someone that was a colleague of mine. We lost Doc Thompson a terrible accident. You know, it's we've lost. Those are two guys I worked with at the Blaze, and they were taken way before their time. So make everyday count, folks,

Make everyday count. I know it's maybe trite to say, tried to hear, but it's still true. James Buck. I don't know if you've talked about this. Now, we are being more or even more forced to wear a mask at stores. If you don't in all of New York State, you can get a thousand dollars fine, and stores will get a two thousand dollars fine. Cops can get called on you. To me, this is unconstitutional and in my view illegal, with the fine, they are wasting or our

emergency resources to arrest maskless people. She'll tie from w G y up in Albany, James, New York is going nuts. Man, we made COVID basically is not a problem in New York anymore. This is not I mean there's like very few cases. No one's dying from it, really, I mean maybe a half dozen people a day, which is sad for every case is a tragedy. But you know, hundreds of people are dying from cancer, hundreds of people are dying from heart to use every single day. I mean,

people die from things that happens. And the mask mandates are only going to get more extreme. And uh, fights that we see we didn't play. There was this guy who is this great who was approached by two I should have pretty sermark. Can we find I'll play. I know it's late, but I want to use it tomorrow. We got to clean it up though, because there's a little bit of curses. But the guy who's is he in a costco and a woman comes up to him

and she's like, you aren't wearing a mask? You know, why are you just back off like I'm just you know, oh, look getting up in my faith of the whole you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, I think we played that last week, did we. Yeah, the guy who's yelling I'm threatened or something like that. No, no, no, no, the very no no nos a hot spot for this lately. No no, no no that that guy just lost his mind

on somebody was screaming. This guy was like, oh, look at you, trying to get a little bit, a little bit of video. He's got like jean shorts on, a tucked in T shirt, trucker hat. This guy's great. This guy I would be buddies. He's hilarious. There's two women or videotapium because he's in a store without a mask, and he's like, why don't you just mind your own business, and they're all just like, yeah, I'm taking video. I'll find it. I'll said it to you. It's great, it's great.

I really like this guy. He's he's just funny, like he just makes a joke out of it because they're really trying to antagonize him, and he's just like, what are you doing? You know what? The chances are that they're antagonizing a guy who doesn't have a virus, who has nothing to spread to anybody. It's about ninety nine. That's how insane people are. Now. Oh, if there's any chance at all of you know, somebody having um, you know,

it just drives me nuts. It's really interesting advertising strategy by Costco there. They keep sending in people without a masks so they get videotaped in Costcos. It's not sure that's necessarily the kind of it's definitely not the truth. But if it wasn't, I know what you're saying, I'll get you. Yeah, this mask thing is going to be. This is going to continue on and look were really what we really need is we need to run experiments with people wearing masks, and you know, we have to

do this. We're gon we're gonna have to run some some true, controlled, gold standard mask experiments and I will bet money that they will find out if and when they no. But they're going to try not to do this because think of what that would mean for the global health community and all the experts. We've we've been masking people thinking that it protects. It's one thing, you know, Yeah, it prevents you from spitting on somebody if you're up close.

If a doctor is going to be examining you. You know, you don't have their breath directly on you. So there's some just sort of general hygiene field, dude, But in terms of preventing viral spread of respiratory droplets that spread virus, I look, I'm I would be fascinated to see a real study or you have Okay, let's have a bunch of people in a room for an hour with somebody who has COVID, and you know, you have a bunch

of volunteers who are in there. Everyone's wearing masks, and they're all in a room together for an hour, and like, how many of them get it and how many of them don't? I mean, I don't know how you'd even construct the experiment so that it would be definitive, but get as close to it as possible. That's that's what I would want to see, because I just if it was just as easy as wearing masks, we wouldn't have,

you know, the problem, we wouldn't have this problem. People have been wearing masks four months, for months still, hundreds of thousands of cases all the time. Anyway, I just I wish, I wish it were as simple as just browbeat those evil Republicans into wearing masks, Dave, Dude, I'm an observer on Facebook for the most part. Love seeing people's kids, picks, family vacation, etc. God forbid you try to be nice and respond to anything political. People freak out.

I have no idea how you do what you do. You have much thicker skin than I do. My friend, Dave, you will freak out of me all the time. The thing is, and even who freaks out is inherently an unstable loser. And you just you learned it very quickly. You're like, what is wrong with people? You know what is wrong with them? So there's that you just got. You Just gotta roll with it, man, just gotta roll with it. You're in the freedom. Huh. This is the

Buck Sexton Show podcast. All right, more roll called John. Listen to your Friday night show right now on podcast. Heard your response to Frank at the end. Heard you mention getting a PS four and hopping on some call of duty. Man. I haven't been out of work due to COVID because I work in water distribution. However, my job has had me quarantine to home outside of work hours to ensure we don't bring it in the rest of the staff, minus working out or binge watching movies

and TV with my wife. My life has been bourbon and Call of Duty. If you do, indeed get a PS four and hop off for Call of Duty, give me a holler. We can start a Freedom Hutshields High team, keep up the good fight and God bless John. This may have to happen. I kind of like this idea we started. We start a team freedom hunt on Call of Duty and I'll play, and we could all talk and play Call of Duty together with whoever wants to show up and do it. That producer mark, do you

ever do Call of Duty? I've dabbled, but not as much as some of the more extreams do. I played. My older brother and I were playing together of the weekend. We had a lot of fun, and I am getting less terrible at it. I'm a I'm sort of freakishly good at the FIFA soccer game, like I have a lot of ability there for whatever reason, well because I've played it a lot in my youth and I just understand soccer well, which I shouldn't admix. It makes me

sound less American. But Call of Duty, man, these guys people are really fast with those controls. I just gotta say they're very good. That's why I don't play any of the shooter aims often is because I'm so bad

at them in comparison to everyone else. Yeah. I also sometimes I get I shouldn't admit this on the radio, but I'm the guy that someone will sneak up behind when I have a fully automatic weapon and they have a knife, and they will knife me, and then they'll squat on my corpse and I'll hear someone screaming over their headset. That's right, Neube, that's right. Most like, why do you have to be so mean? You already stuck a knife in me from behind? That's what ends up happening.

Mark rights Buck, please explain on your show why a governor can declare a state of emergency and why they appear to have no limits on their power during this time period with no expiration date in sight. Why are our Republican state legislators not fighting back anywhere? Why our business is not pooling money to sue. Why are these powers not being challenged in the courts. Why is there not a tsunami of lawsuits across the country finding these

arbitrary hours. How can how long can a government governor maintain these emergency powers? Because to me, it seems the answer is forever. Mark, you are absolutely correct. It does seem like it's forever. It seems like it's at their whim and there's no stopping this, and it's just absurd. It is just it's just I don't know, Dio Jane. He's to start suing. We need we need some legal pushback on this against the states. They're out of control. So it's nuts, Brent, right, San, I hope you and

Mark get a laugh out of this. My gym Crunch Fitness in Ohio is making us wear masks when we walk in and as we walk around from equipment to equipment aka about five minutes of my workout. The other hour plus of my workout, I'm allowed to spread all the germs I want. Follow the science. Yeah, man, this is just it's just nonsense. What people say, just nonsense. What's going on with a lot of these restrictions to

just counter it's counterintuitive, it's irrational, it's irrational. You don't have to be an expert to know when something's irrational. You just have to be a smart person who's not afraid of the truth and knowing the truth. Well, that's why you're here in the Hut, my friends, because you know we are not afraid of it. In fact, we chase down that truth. We say truth. I want to be friends, Be my friend Truth. Thanks for hanging out. As always, pass the buck speaking of friends to some

of your friends. We'll be back tomorrow, Mark and I with a fantastic show for all of you. As always, here in the Freedom Hut. No matter what we face, we face it together, shields high,