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shape or form really up to this job. But it's amazing to watch them not able to make sense of that which is so clear and so obvious. In fact, they often take the wrong conclusions or come to the wrong conclusions from the most clear and most important evidence that you could see. And I'll get into exactly what

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We all understand that I know that there's a close relationship between Israel and the US and that they are a strong ally in the Middle East on so many issues, but It's as I've been saying all along. When someone threatens you with lethal force, you your family, your people. With lethal force, you do what you have to do to stop that threat. Everything else just starts to sound like noise. Everything outside of that is a second and

dary consideration at best. And I do want there to be a ceasefire, and I understand that desire, but I also know that it will come when the Israelis no longer have concerns about an imminent threat from Hamas rockets and Hamas terrorist acts. That's just the way this is going to play out, so we have to keep focused on that. But the thing for me that's pretty fascinating to watch it play out is how the left in this country manages to show us so many of the

philosophical dysfunctions that they bring to domestic political issues. You see in the context of Israel and the Palestinians, so many of the misconceptions, the moral relativism, the obsession with victimology, the view of everything through a racial and ethnic lens, so much of that as apparent, And in that way, I think that this can be instructive for all of us, because you see that the left approaches everything foreign policy,

domestic policy, economic issues, national security issues, applying these same intellectually bankrupt, morally rotten approaches. They use relativism, victimology, Marxism, critical race theory, which is really just a cousin and an offshoot on the family tree of Marxism. But they apply those frameworks to it, and that's how they end up with absurd things. That's how they end up saying very very stupid things and not it seems as though they're not able to figure out the most basic concepts

of foreign policy. Who are your friends? Who are your enemies? Do they know? The difference? Doesn't matter? That's just start with that approach whenever you're talking abou That's just a good framework for pretty much life. But it certainly works on the world stage. Who are your friends? Who are enemies? Do they know the difference? Does it matter? Does it matter?

And it seems that there are a lot of people in this country who have a strange affinity for hamas a terrorist death cult that will execute people for any number of crimes, real or imagined, that will kill people who oppose the regime with impunity, that will kill homosexuals, that will kill people for a whole range of not actual crimes. But Hamas is a terrorist organization that will determine that there must be an extreme punishment. They will

throw people off of buildings. It's a mafia state with some ge hottest flavor thrown in. That's what's really the essence of Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in its orgins. This should be quite clear any of you who have been to Israel as I have no It's a rule of law, well functioning state where people just want to live their lives in peace and want to pursue their own dreams and have their own freedoms. You know,

you have Palestinian members of the Knesset. You have Palestinians who have senior posts in government, and they support the Israeli efforts to stop the rocket fire from coming down all over Israel. They agree with them. I mean, I'll tell you this right now. For all my criticism of the Biden administration, if China invaded tomorrow, I'd be talking about how I want to be shoulder to shoulder with good old Uncle Joe and all the crazy Libs repelling

that invasion. You know, there are some things that really do bring people together. And when you're living in a small country it's like the size of New Jersey and you are getting hit with rockets all over the place. It is very understandable in those circumstances. It's very understandable that you're going to rally behind leadership and want your national government, wants your armed forces to do everything they

can to keep you safe. And yet the idiots of the American left see a moral equivalency here in some ways, or they can't seem to compute all of this. They don't seem to understand, well, why is it that the Israelis end up killing more Palestinians then Hamas ends up killing Israelis Well, because they're in this for very different reasons, trying to achieve very different ends. Hamas also started it, which is another very important fact to keep in mind

as we go through all this. But for me, more than anything else, this illuminates some of the core dysfunctions of left wing thinking. Shows you why not only do they get it wrong on Israel Palestine, they get it wrong on so many things in so many areas. There's a deficiency in their approach. Here's Chris Hayes of MSNBC, who it seems to be an increasingly radical leftist over the years. He used to just be a kind of you know, shrill Beta mail, but now he actually seems

to want to pose as the revolutionary of sorts. But anyway, here he is. And by the way, before I play the audio here, I want to be clear. I don't want anyone dying in Israel or in Gaza. I wish there was no violence, and I certainly don't want innocent civilians to be killed. But Hamas forces a situation where that will happen. And in fact, and there's plenty of proof of this, because they do have a cult of martyrdom, so to call it a death cult is by no

means an exaggeration. You can even see there are are mothers of suicide bombers that have been interviewed of Hamas and other jihadist anti Israel entities in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip. There are interviews with the parents, with mothers even of of young boys who have been suicide bombers in Israel, and they are considered shahid, they are martyrs, and they celebrate this. They think that this was a good thing, a good idea, to go in and strap.

This is from years back when this was a constant threat against the Israelis. But they would send individuals with suicide vests into a crowded cafe in Tel Aviv or in Jerusalem and try to murder and maim as many people just who happen to be trying to get a drink, trying to see friends, see family. That's Hamas's version of their their glorious resistance. I mean true evil, really evil personified. And yet Chris Hayes sits here saying, why don't we

get an iron dome for Gaza play nineteen. You know there's been these images I've seen of the Iron Dome system. Right, so this this missile defense system the US partly funded, that has been intercepting Hamasa rockets into Israel, and those rockets are being fired as a Palestinia Human rights layers had said on their show last night, indiscriminately civilians are war crime by definition. And the Iron Dome has worked quite well today. Some got through. I think two Thai

nationals Hasraeli died as a result. But I look at those images, I think, well, good, that's good. I'm glad that those rockets are being intercepted. And also there's some part of me it's like, can we get an iron dome for Gaza? Can the American taxpayer foot the bill to protect innocent children in Gaza, where there's two million people in one of the most densely parted populated parts of the world, so that they don't have death rained

down upon them. The iron dome in Gaza is for Hamas to stop firing rockets, then they'd have a de facto iron dome because Theseraelis don't want to bomb Gaza.

How does a primetime host that MSNBC not understand this because it's yet another deficiency of left wing thinking, bringing moral relativism into this, as if the situations are the same, as if there's an equivalency here between Israeli air strikes on positions that are Hamas militants, where yes, there are and will be civilian casualties that are part of that too, and the Hamas approach, which is just kill anybody you can, as many as you can go for, do it as

often as possible. If there was more parody among the military capabilities of Hamas and Israel, if we were anything near that, we would just have a bigger war. I think it was Ari Fleischer who put out on Twitter, and I don't know if heat coined this or if this is a quote from somebody else, but if Hamas disarmed, the violence would end tomorrow. If Israel disarmed, Hamas would end Israel. That's the truth. These are basic fundamental understandings

of the situation. So why does the left get this stuff so wrong? Because they apply the frameworks of identity politics, racial Marxism, victimology, anti colonial indoctrination. They apply all of those to this conflict today instead of just looking at it with clear eyes and saying who's causing the violence and how do we stop the violence? I think it's the media itself is finally beginning to air both sides of the dispute. Social media is doing things that you

all are not able or willing to do. The images that people are seeing on social media they cannot unsee. And I think that you have changes that are going on. Things like the Tulsa riots, things like Black Lives Matter are seen as connected by a very large number of people, not just in the Democratic Party, but partly particularly young people on campuses, young people all over the country. And I think this is something that's actually happening, not just

in the United States. There's a lot of pushback, there will be even more pushback, but I think people are moving in the direction of understanding that much many of these bromides. Israel has a right to defend itself. Do Palestinians have a right to defend themselves? Israel's security? The most insecure people in Palestine and Israel are Palestinians. And

we talk about Israel's security. If people are people and we believe in him rights, which the United States supposedly stands for, then the kinds of things that we expect for ourselves we should expect for people, not just in Israel, but also in Palestine. Always be wary of eloquent, sophomoric bullcrap like this the bromides. He says like Israel has a right to defend itself. Yes, that is true. This

is as I've said. They can try to tell people as much as they want that Israel shouldn't do what it is doing right now in response to these Palestinian rocket attacks Hamas rocket effects. Remember Hamas is the government

of Gaza. So it's not like there's some little, tiny fringe group that is firing some rockets that has nothing to do really with the mass of the Palestinian people in Gaza, and Israel is just wildly overreacting to it and using as an excuse to kick people out of their homes or take territory or whatever it may be. That's not happening right now. That's not the situation. But notice that the connection made here by that Rashid Khalidi

guest on MSNBC. He refers to to Jim Crow, he refers to racial struggles in this country in the past. What does that have to do with Israel and Palestine. Well, I know that the left has all these different frameworks that they applied and they say, oh, but you know, Israel is an ethnonationalist state and it's a terrible place. And I sit here and to say, how many Islamic states are there in the region. Do we ever hear

them referred to as ethno nationalist states. Yeah, show up in Saudi Arabia and be like, hey, I'm a I'm a white Christian or a I'm a white Jew, and I demand, you know, equal rights and equal treatment. See how that goes for you. But we we get distracted here from the core of what's really happening, that they want to always turn this into a a historical struggle, I'll say this, or a historical debate. It does remind me of when you're in something of a toxic relationship.

Some of you have maybe been through this. I've been through this. Unfortunately in life, you're in a toxic relationship. What is a sign of a toxic relationship when you try to address a problem and the other party in that relationship does not want to address the problem and just wants to bring in other things that they disapprove of or don't don't like in order to go on offense against you and avoid or even nullify the problem

that you have raised. This is very destructive, right, Hey, you know I invited you to this to be my my date to the wedding, and you were two hours late. And then it's well, you didn't you know, take me out to dinner on our anniversary and you said you would, and we just had, you know, a cupcake instead or something. Right, that's toxic. That's you. You have to deal with the issue you're talking about. You can always find a way to make it about something else, to bring up some

other issue and focus in on that. Here you have, you know, people that are going to try all these different historical analogies and bring up all these things that are not really about the issue at hand, and it's because they don't want to deal with the fact that this is quite clear, this is a straightforward situation with the Israelis and Hamas right now. I'm talking about the fighting.

I'm not saying they're overall circumstance in the region. Yeah, I know a lot of history, a lot of enmity, a lot of bad blood, and all kinds of stuff. But you fire rockets of people, they're going to come back and hit you, and they're going to try to stop you from being able to fire rockets like that. Again, They're they're not going to wait and see if you're going to be nice the next time. Basic reality of life, and if you're in a weaker position than they are,

you shouldn't have fired rockets unwise. But Representative Jayapile, for example, is trying to find a way to make this about blaming Israel Play seven. Well, we condemn Hamasa's firing of those rockets, but I think you have to look at what prompted even that behavior. I think there was, you know, the continuing annexation that Israel has been undertaking for years actually, and you know, Jake I was at Kanaalakmar several years ago when the bulldozers arrived to bulldoze that village. It

was stopped by an injunction from the Supreme Court. But this has been a pattern of action from Israel that frankly, has taken away the idea even of a two state solution. Has led to increased hopelessness from the Palestinian people. And I think what Hamas has done is obviously we condemned that, but we have to look at the power of balance here or imbalance as it were, and we have to put more responsibility on Israel. We condemned that, but that's

the construction that you'll hear all the time. That's the construct rather you'll hear all the time from leftists on this. We have to put more responsibility on Israel. You know what Israel was doing until a couple of weeks ago, trying to get their people back to full free life after mass vaccination campaign, trying to reopen, trying to have companies create really valuable intellectual property and prosperity for their own people, and patents and things that will be useful

all over the world. That's what Israel was doing. What were they doing in Gaza? Yes, there are people going about their lives. I understand that, feeding themselves, sending your children to school, But what was the regime doing in Gaza? Stockpiling missiles to fire at Israel. Again, they can try to make this much more complicated. We can allow the faculty lounge of left wing loons to frame this however

they want. At the end of the day, this is not a situation that requires a particularly adept mind to understand. All you have to do is look at what is happening and understand that there are good people and there are bad people in this world. There are good decisions

and bad decisions. There is right and wrong, and the moment you just start to think in those terms, instead of using a lot of jargon and bringing in all kinds of Marxism and intersectionality, you say, Israel is going to defend itself and the Palestinian people should find better leadership than Hamas. Joe Biden came in and in just four months he's frittered all of that away, he's undermined

Israel and Prime Minister net and Yahoo. He's sent over one hundred million dollars to the Palestinian Authority with the PA,

which is in bed with Hamas. Hamas the terrorists that are firing those rockets you're showing right now, they've fired over four thousand rockets into Israel, and every one of those rockets might as well have Joe Biden's name written on the side of it, because it is his weakness, his appeasement, his moral relativism and ambiguity, his lack of backbone to stand up and stand with Israel that is causing this war in the Middle East. Now, Biden is certainly out of his depth and is being tested in

a variety of ways and found wanting already. But I do have to say that we like to sometimes push this a little a little more as as a Biden issue on the right than it is a lot of other factors too. Now, would the mess around and find out approach of Hamas have been the same under a Trump administration. I don't think so, But I don't I don't know if it's quite accurate for Ted Cruise to say the rockets fired might as well have Biden's name

on it. Biden at our southern border. Yes, people are literally showing up with Biden t shirts on and saying I'm here because of Biden. That's that's real Biden rockets. There's a that's a that's a little Ted's bush. It a little far on that one. Because here's the other side of this. At the top level, administrations, both Democrat

and Republican have largely the same approach to Israel. Now, that was a bit different during the Obama years, but there was no Obama administration ending of USA to Israel. There was no Obama administry. You know. Obama said things that showed Israelis that he had a particular soft spot for the Palestinian cause as a civil rights and human rights struggle, right, said things that definitely irked people inside of Israel's no question about that. But if you look

at the actions, it wasn't that different. It wasn't that different. And this is where you see a lot of Democrats, far left democrats are upset. They're angry with their own side because they feel like at the top level, the Schumers, the Pelosis, they are pretty pro Israel in their statements you know, they'll call for a need to be even handed, and they'll call for a need to ceasepart, but it's it's not really going to do anything. They know that,

they understand that they're just they're just posturing. There are some who go a little bit, a little bit further than this. I mean, they love to attack Net and Yahoo. They view net and yah who as an Israeli conservative right. They viewed Net and Yah who as if the GOP existed in Israel, Net and Yahoo would be the head of it. That's the mentality that democrats have. And so that you have people like Senator Dick Durbin here who knows that he's he's not going to oppose Israel that

much openly. He's not gonna say that it's going to upset not just the Israelis but Jewish American voters who also pay close attention to a lot of this commentary. You know, even friends of mine like David Harsani, will will say repeatedly and openly that they don't view anti Israel sentiment as being different from anti Semitism. They don't

view that as the great separation that others do. Here's Dick Durbin talking about the policies of net Yahoo though Who he is someone who is safe for the left to attack on this stuff play too. I couldn't disagree more with the policies of Bbing Netniah Who when he comes to the treatment of Palestinians and the establishment of settlements.

I think the two state solution is the only realistic future in that part of the world, and the abandonment of that approach by not netnah Who and his followers I don't believe is constructive and I think is added to the tension and stress between Israel and the Palestinians. That's the reality, and I am certainly not going to endorse. Now. Let me add very quickly, I made a commitment early in my career that I'm standing by. I am going

to support the survival of Israel. Those who want to cut back on the protective missiles and such that they need, I don't join in that they live in a very dangerous neighborhood. Although I wholeheartedly disagree with amtnia Who policy, I am going to stand by my commitments to the survival of Israel. So I am mad at nan Yahu, but I stand by Israel. This is a classic establishment Democrat politician approach. You got to find something to make the squad voters, and you know, to make the AOC

wing of the party. You gotta give them something. But yeah, ultimately got to stay on the side of Israel on this as a Democrat too. So there's this frustration. You see this playing out especially among some of the younger the younger Democrats in Congress who are pushing racial Marxism.

The squad comes to mind, among others. The people that are pushing those ideas, they view Israel Palestine through that lens, and so they see this as an opportunity to you know, to make gains if you will, in that regard, to make the case. Whereas Dick Durbin has been in the game a long time, and you know, he says, I'm gonna stand by Israel at the end, at the end of the day. I'm with Israel, He's saying. But you know,

I don't like Yahoo. He's the bad guy here. Any Israeli prime minister would react to firing to Hamas, firing thousands of rockets in this way. Any Israeli prime minister, any of them, would do this, you know, I mean, if you had Bernie Sanders as the Prime Minister of Israel, he would fight. He would have the IDF going and hunting down hamas, firing rockets, because if you didn't, your own people, you're the citizens, the people who live in this date of Israel, would think you've lost your mind

and they would oust you immediately. Right, this is what are you gonna sit there and just let the iron dome keep shooting down rockets, keep shooting down rockets, because remember that's not the only thing, that's not the only effort at terrorism that comes from the Palestinian Palestinian Hamas. That's not the only thing they're trying to do. So you have to take the fight to them once they've

established these hostilities. You know, it's sort of like if somebody in a bar takes a swing at you with a bottle. Maybe you're not and you're able to knock the bottle out of their head, you're still going to punch them in the face because you know the next thing that they're gonna do is take a swing at you. As I've said, very straightforward, but Democrats make this all so much more complicated that it needs to be, because they bring the wrong ideas, the wrong framework in their

approach to this. They just they don't accept that there can be In their minds, the way they see this is that the Palestinians are brown, oppressed Muslim and suffering from colonialism like a colonial project. That is the way the left views the problem of the Palestinians. The way people that understand the situation of Israel today and where

the country is. You've got a place that has made numerous overtures at serious peace deals that have always been rebuffed, that lives next door to a terrorist group Hamas that is the government now of Gaza, and openly says and seeks the destruction of Israel, and wants to murder as many Israelis as possible, and celebrates the shedding of Israeli blood, men, women and children whenever it can openly celebrates it. Israel has civilian casualties and its military strikes and says this

is terrible. We are sorry. We try to minimize us as much as possible. Hamas says, we wish we could kill all of you. This is not the same thing. They're not on the same moral playing field, and we need to be very clear about that. But Democrats, you see, their confusion about Israel and Palestinians is very much merror image of their confusion of issues in this country. Who's the cause of violence on American streets? Police? That's absurd, that's idiotic. But where is the focus, all of it

from the left? All the focus from the establishment or the establishment of the left, is on anti cop rhetoric because of police violence, even at a time we have surging homicides in this country, because they have a framework.

What's the framework in this country that there is a there's a disproportionate number of people from communities of color who are shot by law enforcement, and even though the overall number of people shot by law enforcement is actually quite small, that violence is far more important to focus on by a factor of a thousand than the actual thousands and thousands of people being killed in American cities and towns across the country year in and year out

that have nothing to do with police, and in fact, larger numbers of people dying because of the Democrat narrative about police as the bad guys. You see, corrupt, illogical, immoral ideas have consequences, whether you're applying it to what's going on right now in the fight against hamas or you're applying it to so called police reform efforts in this country. We should we be worried about the variant. I think we would be remiss to say that we

are out of the woods. This pandemic, this virus has sent us too many curveballs to say that we too early to declare victory. Certainly with virus circulating in other parts of the world that is and high degree, that gives the opportunity for more variants to emerge. So I still it's among the things that keeps me up at night. But right now the variants that we see here, and we're doing a lot of sequencing now. Not out of the woods. Not out of the woods. This is what

we have to hear now because of the variants. You know, just let it go, CDC, leave us alone. Just stop stop being crazy. CDC stop. But they won't. I got Rachelle Wilenski. You know she'll change what she says next week. Remember you were not to question what the CDC tells you. But the CDC can change its mind whenever it wants. Okay, so it's written in stone. But they'll just bring out a new stone and chisel something else on it. I

see how this goes. I get it. Now. There's a need, a very clear need to do everything we can hear to get people out of this lockdown COVID forever mindset, because as you're already seeing, I think people are quite aware of it. There as a whole there are a whole lot of folks out there who don't want to let this go. There are a lot of people whose attitude about all of this is they're going to keep masking up for at least months, if not years, and

they still don't think it's safe. And you see this first and foremost with the desire to continue masking children, which is I think it's abuse. I mean there's different levels of child abuse, right. I mean people will argue, you know, some people would argue there taking a you know, a hairbrush and spanking your kid with it or something

you know hard is child abuse. Other people would say, well, if you know, you touch a kid's hand, do like a hot ire, and that's you know, criminal child abuse and you should go to you should be arrested for that. But this is abuse. I mean strapping a mask on a kid and saying go go play outside with your friends, go play sports, go go do competitive athletic endeavors as a ten year old or twelve year old, and you

got to wear a mask. This is absurd, and I find it very troubling that there are so many Americans who are willing to go along with this, who are willing to say that this is okay. Of course it's not okay. They should know that it is not okay. So why the confusion, Why the issue? Because they've been brainwashed by the CDC, because they're incapable of thinking for themselves on this one. Because we've had so much I mean, the mass media, and it's it's what's on your TV screens,

but it's also it's your computer, it's your smartphone. It's just the constant inundation with fauciite propaganda has been enormously destructive. Oh then there's Pelosi who is running around saying that you still have to wear a mask on the floor of Congress. You still you have to do it. Plate twelve members are reminded that the announced policies of January fourth, twenty twenty one, as updated on May eleventh, remain in

effect respect to the wearing of masks. The Chair will reiterate that members and staff are currently required to wear masks at all times in the Hall of the House, except when a member has been recognized by the Chair or when a member acting as Chair is speaking. This

is busybody hall monitor control on steroids. You know, you don't have to wear it in a lot of other places in the Congress, but when you're when you're actually on the floor of Congress, you've got it, you know what, the cameras there, and because Pelosi says so, because she has control there and she's going to wield that control. Many of us saw this coming along, So it's not even the least bit surprising. But to see how they don't even pretend it's about disease and epidemiology anymore. It's

not it's because we say so. It's because our team, your team Democrats became team mask, double mask, even when outside alone and vaccinated, double mask, because we're Democrats and it's so important to us, and we're we've internalized all this. And then the other side was why are you being so crazy? You know? Yeah, maybe there were some people on the right who were a little bit less concerned, a little bit two lax about some of their exposure

to possible COVID at different times. I'm sure that's a real thing, but by and large, the conservative position on this has just been don't be crazy, follow the actual data that you have, be reasonable about what works and what doesn't. And that has been a huge problem for the left. For the Democrats, they had to be on board for all this because the moment they started to allow this is why the reversal of the mask mandate is such a big deal to them, or at least

the removal temporary. I believe removal of a mask mandated from from the CDC at the federal level is so important. The moment that they have to admit that one thing is stupid, it opened up a hundred other things they've made us done as being stupid. Right when the second that they can say it's anything other than because we say so, then we get to say, well, hold on

a second. If you admit that vaccinated people, yeah, it's not perfect, but they're safe enough that they shouldn't have to wear masks, why did you say that we had to wear masks outside all this time? Again? Why did you say that we should have been doing this when we go into a restaurant, but not when we sit

down at a restaurant. I mean, there's a huge list of things you can point to you say, well, this makes absolutely no sense, a huge list of things that is utterly bizarre, stupid, counterproductive, arbitrary, and now we can all see it for ourselves clear as day. But Pelosi still, but yeah, you have to maskus. I said, so, Memorial Day is coming up, and so's Independence Day. Worth of July. This is a time when people start to think about how much they love this country and how important it

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Show Allegiance dot Com as the website. Get your flag today. Make sure you use promo code buck for ten percent off your order. House Democrats vote in favor of a January six commission, a nine to eleven style commission for the January sixth insurrection, also known as a riot, for which people have already begun to serve solitary confinement sentences for crimes including a vandalism and trespassing. Kurt Schlichter is with us now. He is a senior writer at townhall

dot com. He's also a veteran and a lawyer and a guy who knows many things. Kurt, great to have you, great to be here. The January six commission is not going to be anything other than and extension really of what we've seen in the past and situations like this, whether it's the two impeachments against Trump or the Russia Special Council probe of Muller, where this is just going to be used for propaganda purposes or am I missing something? Kurt, No,

You're not missing. This is a festival of Onanism. It'll do nothing but give transitory pleasure to the Democrats and allow them to distract from President Asterisk's unbroken track record of failure, gas lines, war in the Middle East, inflation. It's like Jimmy Carter's coming back without the competence. Amazing

to see how quickly things have unraveled. And I would even note that the border for me is the one that's the most obvious and direct failure of the Biden administration, as in, he changed the approach, he changed the rules, and the floodgates were open. But you name all these other things too. I mean, the economy, the economy right now should be a rocket ship that everyone feels like

they're just trying to get a piece of. And instead people are really concerned about inflation, really concerned that we may stall out or even sputter and start heading in the wrong direction. And it just goes to show you. I mean, we're reliving so many of the failures of the Obama years all over again because Democrats take the wrong lessons from the pain that we the American people have to go through. Well, Buck, I think you're missing the bigger point here and why we should be celebrating,

which is no mean tweets. We don't have a guy in the White House being mean to celebrities and other politicians of both parties to the extent there are two parties. We have no mean tweets, and we should be I guess I guess that should be enough. Now it's not enough for you, or for me or for our listeners, but I guess that makes us bad people. It's stunning that the journals out there are still trying to push

the storyline of an insurrection. I mean, this is the It's a term they use very intentionally, you know, and I see the propagandistic effect of it. Curt to the same way that they always talked about Russia collusion, which was always fascinating because collusion is not a crime unless you're colluding to fix prices or something as a company. But this Russia collusion, there was a federal statute that they could have referenced Russia conspiracy, but they always wanted

to leave it open. You know, it was all about narrative creation. So even if they didn't find a crime, collusion was almost like a willingness to think about this other crime that Trump didn't actually do you see this now with the way they used the word insurrection to make it sound like there was a real serious effort to overthrow the United States government. I mean, if you would have had you know, how many people would it

really take to deal with Qann Shaman? And if they went in there and they were using there was some lethal force used as we know against Ashley Babbitt, But if there was a broader usage of lethal force against those people, the reason it didn't happen is because they weren't using lethal force. Being the protesters inside the building.

How can you have it? How can you have a bloodless coups, so to speak, well with the bloods on one side, as we know, when you have people who were unarmed and taking selfies inside the Capitol building, Well you can't and you don't. And I think this is just for liberals who watch CNN, MSNBCNN, you know, to essentially kill time and distract between Biden failures. Now, look, you were in a country torn by a civil war.

I've spent time in a country's tone by a civil war, and I was in a real insurrection here in Los Angeles, egged on by Maxine Waters. I'm talking about the LA riots. I served in the army for three weeks on the streets. So to those of us who are you know, adults with experience outside of gender study seminars and the MSNBC Green Room. This is not only a joke, but it's a joke in bad taste. And I think that they're overstepping.

I mean, normal people look at this and they start seeing the video footage which the federal government is attempting to suppress remarkably, and they're seeing these guys saying, yeah, we're gonna be peaceful and Cobs ain't come on in. As a lawyer, I love this and I can't. And have you noticed that the feds are doing everything they can to push off these trials. You have a right through the speedy trial. In certain circumstances, the government can ask for more time, and it has it's trying to

push it out. If I was representing any of these guys, and I don't do criminal law, but if I was representing any of these guys, no, no waiver of time you take us to trial. Oh by the way, under Brady, I want every foot of film you took. I want every inch of video, every single one, to defend my client. It's amazing how they've used this, They've weaponized this. It's it's a club with which they bludgeon all political opponents,

now all GOP, conservative Trump supporters, everybody the insurrection. We're speaking of k Yeah, we're speaking of Kirch Schlichtor. He's a veteran senior writer or Townhall dot com and and Kurt, you know, I actually wanted you to tell us a little bit about because you said you spend time in the military when you were deployed on the streets of Los Angeles during what really did feel like an insurrection.

What was what was going on? I mean, you know that this does not get the attention in in our collective historical memory that it should. What was that like? Well, you know, I compare it to Capitol Hill, which looked like, you know, except for an unknown federal officer murdering an unarmed trespasser. You know, that seemed like a fairly tamed frat party. Now in Los Angeles, stuff was on fire. People were getting shot. You know, your nostrils were filled

with smoke. And in my hands I had a M sixteen A one because it was a National Guard and we still had the a one fully automatic real world assault rifle and a bunch of ammo. It was serious stuff. It was real and what happened on Capitol Hill was a joke, and we need to continue to trade it as a joke. And finally some Republicans are starting to come around and treat it with the lack of seriousness it deserves. What do you make of the thirty five GOP members who voted in the House along with this.

I just Democrats don't have this. Democrats don't have elected official on key issues, on important moments, decide to spit in the face of their base, of their party, of their own side. It is a constant you know, It's like the Romneyite disease. It is a constant challenge for the GOP. Yes, well, there are less of them now, but remember that the left has an advantage to keep

its people in line. It has the media and the culture and the institutions, and to try and force our people over it can tempt them with the media of the culture and the institutions. I mean Liz Cheney, who represents a fraction of a fraction of Republicans, who's got a pole rating in Wyoming, that's right down there with pedophiles, is getting shots on every single media alla and not just little hits, long in depth interviews. Of course, sure

there's the contrapts. Oh, the Republican Party. Now. As fun as it is to see the Democrats tongue bathing a chainey, it's bizarre that anyone could take her seriously as anything else but a puppet and a willing one. She's essentially dancing for quarters. We're speaking of Kurt schlichtor, veteran Townhall dot Com senior writer and lawyer. And Kurt, do you think do you think that there's any chance that this commission actually goes through, that the Senate would allow this.

I think that we will find forty one people to block it. I think when Mitch McConnell, who is no who was not happy with the president and I'm not happy what happened on Capitol Hill, I think he understands absolutely that this is designed to be the lead news item for the next year and a half as opposed to the disaster that is the Biden administration. And no one is more persuasive than the murder turtle. Now, we all have as hardcore concervatives, we all have some beats

with McConnell, that's no secret. But you got to give him his due. He is the toughest, most ruthless, most effective Senate majority leader, probably of all time. He is unbelievably good at his job, and if he doesn't want this to happen, it will unhappen. And yet the media will continue to do their own version of the January sixth Commission day after day or fine ways to continue

to bring this up. And I think it's interesting that there's been so little attention paid to the fact that, you know, there was the fact that there's a video, for example, that is out there and the people have seen where you have Capitol Hill police saying Okay, if you guys are going to be cool, you can come

into the building now. You know. I can tell you that if I were you know, if I were here in New York City in City Hall and I was armed by the stage to protect the building, I would not allow an insurrectionist if I really thought that's what's going on, or just walk in and hang out and take selfies. Well, look, I don't think a lot of these are going to trial. I think they're trying to push it off as long as possible. I think one

guy's pleading guilty and agreed to give evidence. He should be the only one that incoming President de Santis or whatever woke Republican replaces this desiccatle weirdo who's currently president when it comes in office and pardons every single one of them, not because anything they did was particularly right or okay, but because of simple fairness. BLM and anti FOSS scumbags don't get treated that way. They get their charges dismissed. Fair is fair, one set of rules, one

set of laws. Yeah, there's people who are sitting in solitary confinement right now and the judges that I refuse to give them bail because they were there on January sixth. You know, they were riding on January six inside the Capitol building. KURTA. I don't know if you've seen this, but at least in one case a judges said we can't let you out because of the continued threat of insurrection. This is this is insane. I mean that is actually Soviet level absurdity and and real abuse of state power.

It really is. And when you have judges who do not judge fairly or correctly, that destroyed that. It's not only wrong in itself, it destroys the faith in the system. And your faith in the system should be teetering on the precipice, right Now, the fact is there are two sets of laws. Buck, There's one set of law for people favored by the regime. There is another set of law for people like you and me and our listeners. That is intolerable. We've tolerated this long because we're not

used to it. This is not normal, and people are resistant to accepting it. And you can see that with some Republicans. You see them a while ago, no no, no, trusts a system, and now they're going, yeah, I've just seen a little too much. Now I know there's a real problem. People are getting woke, conservative woke to what's

really happening. And as people pull up to the gas pump and pull out their wallets and find their paying over five bucks a gallon for gas because President Asterisk wants to cater to the weather cultists, they're gonna start thinking, you know, Fannise keeps talking about the insurrection, but I'm running out of money to feed my family. Who's gonna stand up for me. That is the opportunity for us,

That's the opportunity the GOP has. We will see if they take a Kurch look at everybodytownhall dot com for his latest pieces. Kurt always a pleasure man, talk to you soon. Thanks. Kamala Harris keeps a list of reporters who quote don't appreciate her lived experience and doesn't like words such as guarded being used to describe her. Oh wait a second, you mean Kamala is a really vain and petty person. Is this a surprise to anyone? Even Democrats recognize in the primary that this is not a

person who is impressive. This is not a person who should be in a position of leadership. She does whatever she has to do to get ahead. She is conniving and ruthless and just happen to be in the right place at the right time for this Democrat party to get picked as Biden's VP. That is it? So I guess I would go on the list of people who

don't quote fully understand her. Washington Post journalist Chelsea Jaynes, according to The Daily Mail Here, is believed to be on the list, and she covered a Harris event and said that she that her salute was screeching. Harris is known for being cagey and aloof around reporters. She got a new cell phone and old friends reportedly find it

hard to reach her. Yeah, she's trying to, you know, take herself away from a lot of folks here, because the more you know about Kamala Harris, the less impressed, the less that the smoke and mirrors around her can actually work on you. But you'll also note that Democrats don't in any way view this as something that they have to show solidarity with this reporter on. No. No, of course not. They know that their job, the job

of journalists at corporate outlets. We do not use the term I try very hard not to use the term mainstream here anymore, because why I give them that credit. The job of corp journalists is to do the bidding of the Democrat Party. That is their job. That's what they're constantly trying to do. And if that means that they have to throw some of their own under the bus, so be it. We've got no problem with that. This

is from this Daily Mail piece. She particularly doesn't like the word cautious and aids look out for synonyms too careful, guarded,

and hesitant don't go over well. But she continues to retreat behind talking points and platitudes in public, and declines many interview requests and opportunities to speak for herself, including this article The Dailymail says, at times, she comes off as so uninteresting that television producers have started to wonder whether spending thousands of dollars to send people on trips with her is worthwhile give and how little usable material

they get out of it. Here you have the vice president of the United States who is such a mediocrity and so boring, just so utterly uninteresting, vapid and incapable of saying anything worthwhile. That people who are clearly on her team, that Democrat politicians who will do everything they can to assist her. They I'm sorry, Democrat journalists who do everything that can to assist her. They're like, we shouldn't even bother because this is such a waste of time.

Which this is a perfect metaphor for the entirety of the of the Harris vice presidential phenomenon. Boring, not worth anyone's time. The whole thing is about optics, and they've got to protect the optics at all costs. Kamala Harris, I mean I wouldn't. I wouldn't want you, Kamala Harris in charge of the leasing office in the building where I live. I wouldn't want Kamala Harris in charge of

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and Hamas go. We've got our friend David if fun with us now. He is the editor in chief of the Algaminer. David, great to have you back. Great to be with you, Buck. So we are seeing the headlines that the ceasefire de manned from the Biden administration, as if that's something that they can really do has not been met as at least as of me speaking to you. Now, what is going on? Why, why is the conflict continuing? What are the Israeli defense forces? And what's net and

Yahoo's government trying to achieve? Well, I think it's simple to be frank and what Israel is facing and how is the responding. It's really no different to how any other democracy or a country, frankly would would behave. You know, you have a terror state the borders the southwestern part of Israel that's firing missiles into the country randomly targeting

the civilian population. So Israel is one objective, it's it's it's it's to get these missiles to stop, and obviously to create an effective to terrance to ensure that they won't restart at any time in the future. So for Joe Biden, the President or anybody to come along and say, well, you should really wind this down, it's kind of ridiculous because you know, what do you mean you should wind this down? Do you mean that you should wind it down?

If the rockets continue being fired, you should not respond. I mean, that's really the height of condescension and insults. And of course the Israeli responsibile be you know, thanks, but no thanks, President Biden. When it comes to stuff like this, we really couldn't care less what you have to say. You have people like Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat, saying that he quote couldn't disagree more with the policies of NET and YAHOO when it comes to the treatment

of Palestinians. I mean, what treatment specifically do our Democrats like Durban referring to here. I don't know what he's referring to specifically, but I can tell you one thing when it comes to UM, what what the Israeli government is doing to try and um you know, target missile and terrorist infrastructure in Gaza and still this rocket fire. This is not you know, some nitniah who government policy. This is the policy of everybody in Israel, including we

had a piece yesterday. Israelis in the South who are under fire don't want this to stop because they understand that if it does, and if Israel folds to international pressure, that's a victory for Hamas. That is encouragement and a license for Hamas to continue and do this in the future. This is not Nita who government policies. This is Israel, all of Israel defending itself, and the country's pretty unified

behind this action. And frankly, whoever the president would be, whoever the Prime minister would be, of any country, there's no other way that you can respond. So, you know, any suggestion otherwise really is obviously it's ridiculous, it's prejudicial, and obviously it's not going to be taken seriously because you know, you're saying to Israel that you should behave in a way that no other country should behave. You're holding Israel to a different standards, and that's that's obviously

a prejudicial approach. David, There's also a line of analysis that I keep seeing popping up in different journalistic outlets, at least allegedly journalistic outlets, where they're saying this could save Benjamin net and Yahoo's political career or something along those lines. Can you can you tell us what the people who are making that claim, what are they really getting into? What are they saying because nen Yah, who's been under pressure, this will essentially bail him out because

the country has to galvanize around him. Yeah, I mean, this is this is a horrible accusation from people who think they're very clever but have no clue what they're talking about. To be frank, um, you know, obviously this is a war. Um. You know, war is a horrible thing, right,

It's a horrible thing for populations on both sides. You know, you have Israelis, including a young Israeli child of five years old who was buried by his father in recent days, and obviously you have deaths on the other side as well. I don't believe that it is responsible for the vast majority of the civilian deaths, and there's been a great deal of horrendous misreporting on that front. We can discuss

that in a second. But to say that a leader, government leader, or you know, would allow this to happen, you know, just to sort of further their own political means. Is really a libel, a blood libel, because you know, you're you're, you're accusing him a sort of responsibility for this kind of cost is the cost in human life, you know, to promote a cynical political agenda. You know, it's unclear at this stage where things are going to go.

The most likely situate scenario right now is that Israel's going to go to elections again regardless of what's happening here. But I can say with absolute clarity now that the support for what Israel is doing comes from across the political spect missile, from all the way to the right to all the way to the left, including from from

the Arab parties. So you know, this, this is this is a strange, um and completely misguided accusation, and frankly it comes from people, um, you know, who think they're being clever but really don't understand anything about the region or Israeli politics, or at least some geopolitics. We're speaking to David Affoon. He's the editor in chief of the Alga Miner. I go to Alga Miner dot com for

Jewish and Israel news. David is looking like this may just be I mean, assuming that this comes to an end here soon imminently, that this might have just been even from the perspective of Hamas, which my friend David Harsani I think has rightly referred to as a death call, uh, that this was just a miscalculation from their end top

to bottom. Well, I don't think it was. You know, from Hamas's perspective that there is an objective over here and to be frank, that they've been successful in achieving

that objective. Um. You know, you have a situation under the Trump administration where support for Israel was unequivocal, where there was an understanding that progress could be achieved in the region despite you know, Palestinian rejectionism, and you know, with Biden coming to office, there's been a very significant walk back from that position, with the renewal of aid to the Palestinians, for example, with the renewal of the the the efforts to reach an agreement with Iran, and

just you know, really the sort of I mean, they're verbally stayed in commitments to the Abraham Accords, but doing absolutely nothing to reinforce them or push them forward. And in fact, you know, it seems with every day they're becoming weakened. And you know that's created an opening. You know, Hamas has has seen an opening here to sort of push themselves back into the center of of foreign foreign policy and international agenda. And you know this this is

how they do it. You know, it's it's a sort of um, you know, the function of a gangster state. You know, we see this obviously with with North Korea. UM, we see this with with you know, various states that that sort of want to shake down the West. Obviously, Iran behaves like this all the time. You know, they create damage and then they say to the West, well, you know, here's the cost um, you know, to make sure that your windows don't get broken again, you know. Um,

so there sees the opportunity here. They've they've taken the pulse of of of of the climate in Washington. UM. And there's there's really no coincidence that this is happening now a couple of months into the Biden administration, and it seems just by the Biden administration's response, you know, they're sending more money and that they're starting to pressure Israel. Um, you know, pretty pretty aggressively. Um that that that the hamass it's getting what they want it out of this.

You know, they know what they're doing. I know a lot of this, Davit is pushed by those who just are looking to take any shot they can at the former Trump administration or what was the Trump administration on behalf of the Biden administration. Now, but you've probably seen this too, people saying in a smarmy, smug fashion, looks like those Abraham Accords didn't do anything, as if the

Abraham Accords were about Gaza and hamas well. What is your response to that, I mean, for people that are trying to discount what happened at the end of the Trump administration with those peace agreements, those normalization agreements that were signed with other Arab countries in the region in Israel, tell us about the importance of that and what you think of the criticism that's being made now that well, because there's a problem with Gaza, there must be an

issue with the or rather it just nullifies the Abraham Accords. Yeah, I mean, they've gone it exactly backwards. My good friend Shanny Moore as a great piece at Newsweek. Um, you know, Shanny is a person of the left who advised you know,

left doing Israeli prime ministers. Brilliant, brilliant fellow. And you know he talks about you know, people you know under Jared Kushner when sort of he had this brief it was he he was the butt of all jokes, you know in polite Washington, the idea that you know, this novice could come with with his fresh set of ideas and make any changes. But the truth is, you know, the team there and you know I'm not speaking to

the chi the wider political question. More was achieved in terms of Middle East progress under you know, the four years of his tenure than probably you know, decades and decades before that. Now you have supposedly the the adults back in charge, and you know, a couple of months into it, the region is in flames again. Nobody is learning the lessons, you know, very hard to concrete lessons, which, by the way, if you talk to the Israelis, they'll tell you that this is just not how it works

over there. The previous administration had a far better understanding UM and policies that were effective. Now this business are saying, well, um, you know they they the three months in Um things are going to hell. And it must be because of the previous administration. Well, why didn't this happen when Trump moved the embassy? Why didn't this happen when he withdrew

funding from from the Palestine. And the reason is because they you know, the region responds to strengths um in a way that is, you know, more balanced, and and and and the belligerent actors checked themselves. Um, and it

responds to weakness in exactly the opposite fashion. You know, where it sees those opportunities, Um, they'll they'll they'll jump at it, and they they they use um, you know, they'll use actors like Hamas and the Iranians and as Baala and Islamic Jihad use violence as a two will for leverage when they sense that they'll get someone with it. Obviously they knew that under the Trump administration there was no chance of that. Now they're seeing an opening under

the Biden administration. Dovit afun go to the Algaminer dot net. Dobbot and his team are doing great work there for Jewish and israel News. Algaminer dot com. Dovitt thanks so much great to be with you, but so many losers when you look at Democrats in Congress. I mean, these guys in particularly we're about to talk about are just losers. You got a Swallwell, the spy who shagged me, and you got this other guy, Tim Ryan, who honestly, the fact that anyone cast a vote for this clown makes

me fear for the future of this country. Enough humanity. He's a charmless, brainless blob of platitudes and talking points. That's what Tim Ryan is. But just in the way they think that they can they can lecture Americans about the January sixth Commission and how they're really just concerned here with protecting or protecting or sacred democracy. That's what this is really about. Here's Swallowell taking a break from

Chinese spies for a moment. Play three. A Republican told me last week at the house, Jim, He said, when did you guys become you know, the party that stands up for cops? Joy, and I think you are seeing that this is a choice between our constitution and chaos,

and Republicans are standing with chaos. They're the Chaos party, and we are the ones who are backing the officers who put their lives on the line for us, who are in hand to hand combat for hours that day, who don't give a rip about politics, but want to make sure that their sacrifice has mattered. Three officers died, including the officer you just referenced, One lost an eye

and another lost multiple fingers. They deserve to have a commission that looks at what happens, what happened that day, and to ensure that no officer and no democracy ever whether something like that again, it Swallowells is a vile little turd. But notice he says that three officers died. None of those officers were killed by protesters. Based on everything that we know as of today, that didn't happen.

So the fact that officers had heart attacks or strokes in the days after this event, that's that's not a murderer, and they won't be able to claim it's a murder, and if they did, they'd end up being laughed out of court. I think I would assume it will, although we live in a crazy world a lot of bad judges these days. But notice that this is the only time Democrats seem to really respect and back the cops.

What do they think it's like to be a member of law enforcement and have Antifa throwing bricks at your face and bottles of urine at you, Because that happens constantly. It happened last year hundreds thousands of times two officers across the country. Officers were temporarily blinded by lasers intentionally

shine in their eyes. I'll tell you this. If somebody said, Hey, I'm shooting a laser in your eyes and I'm gonna blind you with it, I would use lethal force against that person and not think twice about it if I really thought they could blind me. I'm not going blind because some psycho Biden voter has a laser in his hands. Not happening. If somebody said they're gonna throw bleach in your eyes and try to blind you, and you at a fire m aren't you would you use it? I would?

But those cops, those federal officers, none of that matters to Democrats because those are Biden voters. We see the huge, disgusting double standard here. And then there's Tim Ryan, another

one screaming about this. He's a moron. Play nine. I want to thank the gentlemen from New York and the other Republicans who are porting this and thank them for their bipartisanship to the other ninety percent of our friends on the other side of the aisle, Holy cow, incoherence, no idea what you're talking about, Ben Gods and you guys chase the former secretary of State all over the country, which spend millions of dollars. We have people scaling the capital,

hitting the capitol. Police would lead pipes across the head. And we can't get bipartisanship. What else has to happen in this country? Cops, This is a slap in the face to every rank and file cop. Then the United States, if we're gonna take on China, if we're going to rebuild the country, if we're going to reverse climate change, we need two political parties in this country that are both living in reality, and you ain't one of them.

We're gonna reverse quarter change. This guy ran for president. Give your sends out delusionally he was Ohio. You guys voted or not listening to the show, but Ohio's voted for this guy. It's embarrassing, really, is that I would be embarrassed to tell anybody that I voted for this total jerk. But this is who makes the most noise in the Democrats side about the January sixth Commission clowns

Shawshank for January six detainees. The government argues the events of January six along with the defendant skepticism about the outcome of a twenty twenty election, are evidence the accused are a threat to society. That's the piece in American Greatness by Julie Kelly. We have our colleague, a senior writer at American Greatness, Pedro Gonzalez, with us now to discuss this issue a bit and what's talked about in this article. Pedro, great to have you back, Hey, thanks

for having so. From what I understand, and I've checked this in a few different places, now you have a number of individuals from the riot on January sixth who are being held in solitary confine no bail and as part of the judges who have have denied them bail you know, which you do usually as somebody is a threat to society or or a flight risk. These people are neither in any reasonable A lot of them actually

have no previous criminal record whatsoever. And I understand that these are people who very likely broke the law that day with either assault on a police officer, destruction or property. But they're holding them in solitary confinement. The judges are holding them under the premise that they are a continued threat of insurrection because they don't accept the January. They don't accept rather the twenty twenty election results. I mean, pedro.

That sounds like political prisoner stuff, right, and all I can think about as we're discussing this is the fact that, if you will call on not long ago, we had some riots and looting, an anarchy that rose to the level of what some people would call an instruction. When you have mass movements across the country who are saying that the political system, the entire public sphere itself is

racist and evil and needs to go. That was the thrust of the Black Lives Matter riots, and the people that were involved in riding often cases or oftentimes were

actually just let loose. If you recall, there was a police commissioner or a former commissioner who speaking to Fox News I think, said that virtually every single person who is arrested in New York or riding would get a slap on the wrist and be out in no time, in part because they had eliminated cash bail and just because this is how this is how the system works down this is how political machines in parts of the

country work. If it doesn't actually matter if you're an insurrectionist as much as it matters whose team you're on. And unfortunately for the people that shuffled into the Capitol Building on January sixth, and it seems like they did so with the approval of Capital po last department. By the way, Julie Kelly is also recently a team footage that shows Capitol police calmly talking to Trump supporters and saying, we're not going to stop you. Franchi being the building,

just you know, remain peaceful. Well, their problem wasn't that their insurrectionists so much as they were on the wrong team. This is very distressing. I mean, in a country where we've seen that, we saw the weaponization of the deep state within the DOJ and the intelligence community against a duly elected Republican president for four years from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty, really before that actually from twenty from a well, from the early stages of twenty sixteen into

the end of the Trump presidency. And we had no real consequences. I mean the Durham probe. Remember that, Remember the Durham investigation. We were being told though, you know, just wait, set your watch any moment now, big justice coming from the federal prosecutor Durham up in Connecticut, the US Attorney up in Connecticut that that led to. We've seen nothing from it so far, not even not a thing.

And yet on the other side of this, you have people who are being held in solitary confinement treated like they are a clear and present danger with regard to the overthrow of the United States government because they I mean, the worst crimes that are actually accused of pedro They did not kill anyone, They did not use a deadly

force against anyone. The worst crime is, as I understand it, that the people that are being held in attention from January six are accused of, is assault on a police officer, which is a crime, and they should be punished for that. And I'm very clear and habit very clear about that. But assault on police officers occurred so routinely that it's hard to even keep track of it in Portland, in New York, in Chicago, in Atlanta. For months during the BLM riots, and no one's being held you know, no

one's being held in solitary confinement for this. Right again, it doesn't The issue is not assaulting a police officer, it's why you assault in that what political colors you're we That's the reality that we live in today. I think that there is a really pernicious argument or narrative in the mainstream that things like the deep state, this is a conspiracy. It's not. I mean, the deep state's kind of a it's it's it's an interesting term that

I think kind of mystifies what we're really discussing. And really we're just talking about a gigantic political machine that tends to favor or one party has more control than the other. That's really all it is. I think there's there's a lot of other elements to this, but that's that's really what we're talking about when we talk about

some like the deep state. It's what the Democratic Party has successfully aligned itself with a lot of the bureaucratic, corporate, and governmental levels of power, and they've got their hands on them, and they're just willing and able to pull them a lot harder on their enemies. That that's really

what this boils down to. I think that this you see how persistent this, this kind of this dismissal of our position is when you consider that CNN and The New York Times have you even admitted that the only homicide case around January sixth has collapsed officers Signic. The New York Times was forced to issue an attraction a retraction, and CNN admitted that the prosecutors are having a really hard time making the Signic death into a homicide because

it's not. And then again, you have more and more evidence of Capitol police officers who allowed this to happen. It's strange to frame it as an insurrection when the people who are supposed to stop it from being, who are supposed to stop the instruction, did not themselves see it as an insurrection. But again, all of these points are being dismissed. They're misleading. It's misinformation. Maybe the Russians are making us say these things, Buck, Maybe I'm taking

money from Putin to be on your radio show. I'm just kidding, not but that. But that's how actually absurd and just out of this world. The narrative is that everything we say is somehow alive and Again, we're quick to call it a double standard, but I think it's more of like a hierarchy. They're just reminding you they're in charge and they actually get to be the ones who decide what is not true. Yeah, this is a critical point. By the way that the Republicans conservatives talk

of double standards is fine. It does nothing because the other side is happy that they're in a position to enforce those double standards. They don't feel guilty about it. They don't feel like, oh, you're right, we're being unprincipled. Maybe we'll stop. It's what are you gonna do about it? And that's what conservatives need to understand is these are the rules of the game. Now. This is a big change from from our perception of even a few years ago.

We're speaking to Pedro Gonzalez, who is a senior writer at American Greatness and related to that point, Pedro, there's been look a lot of focus on Liz Cheney recently and the leadership battles within the leadership battle within the Republican Party, in part because they just want to show dissent in the ranks of the GOP. Also because Liz Cheney is really a mouth piece for the hyperventilating. Oh, it's an insurrection point of view on all of this,

and so that's just Democrats love that stuff. I mean, that is Scooby Snacks for Democrats. I mean, they can't get enough of it. But do you think that now that she has been at least somewhat reputated by some of her colleagues, are we in the process of seeing a GOP come together with a message that they're willing to fight because it doesn't They talk a lot about stopping socialism and I think people you know well who there's from, Mitch McConnell, others, people's eyes roll back in

their heads, like what does that even really mean? Digging in on these issues like wokeness, like indoctrination in the military, indoctrination in schools, and trying to win power to change things and use power to change things. Are we moving in that direction or is that too optimistic? I think it's too optimistic, And I don't mean to say that

you shouldn't be optimistic about the I am. Actually I think ultimately win in the long run, but I think it's important to remain extremely realistic in the short term and to look at what's happening with clear eyes in front of us. And I think the removal of Cheney is a good thing. I think, except there's the issue of Stephonic who's not actually better than Cheney. In some cases, she's actually much worse. She voted less consistently, which Trump

and Cheney did. But I think maybe as a symbolic victory, Cheney's outstair is more. It provides the base with some morale right, which they need. But on the other hand, we should not interpret this as the GOP going in

a fundamentally different direction. And the narratives around banning critical race, around the problems with cultural Marxism and institutions like the military, and and or even around the election itself, around the twenty twenty election, I think it's important to understand the GOP is not The GOP is not above at all all using these really hot button issues to basically just rile you up, get your attention, get your money, and get your votes so that you'll put them back in power.

And what do they do when their back in power. They suddenly stopped being culture warriors. They drop all of these important issues and revert back to well, hold on, we can't use antitrust action against Google. That's crazy, That's that's socialism. You know, it doesn't matter. Sure Google spying on you. Amazon is putting their boot around your throat and profiting from the destruction of small businesses and all that. But look, let's let's not get carried away here. Let's

let's compromise silicone value. And it's the same thing with critical race theory. They're passing legislation in places like Tennessee. But I think that this is this is the bigger picture that people on the right and you think about the issue of critical race theory goes beyond mere legislation. The basic narrative of critical race theory that America is fundamentally bad and evil. It pervades every tissue in the United States, social, cultural, even religious like this is everywhere

around us. And even in Tennessee, where they passed laws against this, schools are ignoring the laws, and how do you enforce this? So I guess the issue is, is it on the one hand, we should encourage the GOP to change, but we should not interpret these kind of slight changes as indicative of a broader fundamental change, because if we do that we're going to sit back, hold our arms and start costing the plan again. How has

that worked out for us? Not? Well? Yeah, trust trust the plan is something that people always said about things in recent years, when there was no plan and bad things follows. That's been very clear to me. Whenever I was hearing people say trust the plan, there was no plan. This is about a whole range of issues. You'd say, oh, this is related to the Trump four D chess. No, there was no four D or eight D chess or whatever.

That that was not reality. So I do think it's importably of reality and part of that pedro to try to come back and to combat what the left is doing.

I think it has to be a recognition that not only do they have control of the system, they understand some of these mechanisms and systems better and are more devoted to using them to their ends, such that even when, for example, Trump was in the White House, one thing that I know from some of his top advisors that I've talked to that frustrated him was that there were agencies of the federal government where they would just say, no, we're just not going to do that. Take us to court.

You know, we're going to say that this is a violation of what's there was a bureaucratic they kept bringing this up. It's essentially you know, moving too quickly without proper authorization or notification or something it was, and they took they actually would take this to court sometimes that the system sometimes will have people who shut down even

when we're in charge and won't do what they're told. Right. Yeah, And I think this is actually why the position of the GOP and the Conservative movement of course not talking about everyday people because I think every people have to have a good sense of things, unlike their elected officials. Uh. And what do you hear from the GP GOP Basically we want to get back to a position of civility. We want to get back to a neutral ground where we just get along on both sides. Grew to a

play by the rules. That is a pipe dream. It's never going to happen. And even with and again I'm not criticizing Republican voters, I'm criticizing their elected officials who tell them that kind of are giving them an opinion instead of listening to them. And so what you're hearing from elected officials is that basically there's a deep state and there's a swamp and it's all right against us, and we need your money to fight it. But also if we work through the system, we can we can

overturn the election of twenty twenty. Like you have to recognize the problem here. How are you going to overturn the election if at the same time you're claiming that that the deep state is a raid against you and also you're the way that you want to do this is by fighting by kind of Queensbury rules. You see, Like the problem here, it's like there's this huge task in front of us. Democrats are cheating, there's a deep

state in front of us. But also if you just keep voting for us and give us your money, we will take a principal stand against all of us. Like you have to see that there's this violent contradiction. Yeah, and all of these different things. This is like what Chenney offers you, which is a built in loserism with lofty promises of the future. That's what we have to avoid, I think, at all costs. And we'll continue to talk about it here. Pedro Gonzalez, Everybody, American Greatness, AM Greatness

dot com. Forerence latest piece Pedro always insightful. Thanks, my friends, I've made the decision to oppose the House Democrats slanted an unbalanced proposal for another commission to study the events of January the sixth, because everybody surely knows I repeatedly made my views about the events of January the six very clear. I spoke clearly and left no doubt about

my conclusions. Federal law enforcement made at least four hundred and forty five arrest and counting relating to crimes committed that day. Hundreds of those people have in charge law enforcement. Investigations are ongoing, and federal authorities say they expect to arrest at least one hundred or so. More. Action is being taken. Accountability is happening for those who broke the law. And we already had an impeachment on this. Why would

we have a commission if we already had impeachment? Right, So, what was the point of the impeachment if now we're going to have a commission In addition to the hearings that Congress had to rush through a second impeachment in one year. These people are nuts. These people are nuts. There's no fairness, there's no fair play, there's no we you know, we want to do this the right way. No, what can they get away with? That's what this is

all about. That's the desire here right, what helps their power? That's it. Fair play is laughable to Democrats. I've written about this on bucksexton dot com today. By the way, go check it out about the January sixth Commission. I wrote an op ed today on it because that's just I got so I'm so fed up with the nonsense what the Democrats are saying with all this. I mean, here's where is he Schumer is talking about this too.

The biggest attack, oh, the worst thing since the Civil War four What the Republicans are doing the House Republicans is beyond crazy to be so far under the thumb of Donald J. Trump, letting the most dishonest president in American history dictate the prerogatives of the Republican Party will be its demise, mark my words. Whatever that means for Democrats,

it's bad for America. We know, we all know there needs to be a thorough and honest accounting of what took place on January sixth, greatest attempted insurrection since the Civil War. This is the get Democrats reelected or elected in twenty twenty two commission. That's what it really is. And anybody who pays attention to American politics and has a keen eye can see it, including Schumer, he knows.

They all know. The same way that they convinced half the country that Donald Trump was almost personally responsible for COVID, that he was denying the science and all this other idiocy. But it was effective costom reelection. They're now hoping while they have that utter buffoon Biden running around, that they can get away with the same situation here, the same

circumstance here where they just lie about something. They just lie about it, and then we won't ignore rather rather than we will ignore that the person that they have was the president of the United States is an idiot. That's that's the plan. Create a narrative of fundamental chaos and threat to the Republic from the Republicans, and don't you know, don't pay any attention to the fact that people you're gonna put in charge our morons like Biden.

That's the game plan. Unfortunately it works. Sometimes the show ain't over yet, folks. It's time for roll call Facebook dot com. Slashbuck Sexton Teambuck at iHeartMedia dot com. But before we get to that, you all might have heard that. Um I kind of I kind of said, of y'all there, you know, producer Mark. I think we have so many stations and so many wonderful listeners in parts of the country that are the South. I think that I think we're allowed to y'all in here now or whatever we're

allowed to say y'all. I don't think so, because we're still Yankees to them. But I'm not a yank ye, but I feel like I'm an honorary y'all sayer at this point. It's okay, you know, Okay, I mean they can write in, hey to our Southern team. Buck, you can write in and either either grant or revoke y'all permission to me, because you know, it is very useful. I will say, it's a very useful term or useful phrase. Just don't say it in the middle of Manhattan. You

might get hit upside the head. Yeah. Well that well, you can also just get hit upside the head for just walking down the street of Manhattan. Unfortunately, Thanks the Blasio, Thanks de Blasio. That's where we are, so okay, um, where are we now we have, oh wait, Ronald Reagan telling a joke at seventy seven, Joe Biden telling a joke at seventy. Yet I want to note that when Reagan told this joke, he was seventy seven. There were the media was constantly saying that Reagan was senile Biden's

a year older at the start of his presidency. Right now, seventy eight, then Reagan was when he was telling this joke. And I want you to just hear Reagan's version of the joke, Biden's version of the joke. It really is a metaphor for these two commanders in chief play one. My Coastguard aids have been excellent. One of them taught me that, and I quote, the coastguard is that hard nucleus about which the Navy forms in time of war.

I can only assume that you will enjoy educating your family about how the Coastguard is quote the hard nucleus around the Navy forms in times of war. You are white, You're a really dull class. You're here here here, You're a dull You're a dull class, you know, or you're er er bad kept scar reverse shooting stuffs. Oh Man isn't amazing amazing that this is the guy that they put forward. Um, you know, the fact that he's a president.

I'm sorry, it's embarrassing. Okay, it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing. You're a dull class, he says them. No, they're just like, what did you just mumble out, old man? What was kept curing? And yet president the United States? Everybody so much smarter than Trump? They tell you, Oh, sure, he's so much smarter than Trump. Yeah, yeah, does any does anybody really want to have that debate now? I mean, I'm sure there'll be people who would say he is,

but they're out of their minds. Joe Biden's a dumbass. It really is. I mean, it really is. I never said that about Obama's not dumb. Obama's not dumb, wrong, but not dumb. Not a genius the way they said he was, but Obama was. He's a smart guy that you know. So I with it comes to Democrats, who comes to libs, I call it like it is. Joe Biden's dumb. He really is. He's just been he's just been around forever and he's just there and he was useful to them. So they said, Okay, you're the guy.

You know, he's a he's a puppet president. It couldn't be any more clear. All right, John, let's get into our roll call here, Block. I wanted you and Broducer Marked to know there are many flavors of Mountain Dew in regular production down south, and code read will be easy to find if you ever escape to Florida. RC

Cole is still around too, but not exactly widespread. As for what this category of beverage is called, most people I know and have dealt with in the Southeast call all of them coke, not to be confused with Coca Cola. A normal beverage conversation would be, can you grab me a coke? Sure? What kind? Doctor pepper? This is apparently in fury eating to both the pop and soda teams. Always fun to hear the odd discussions outside of politics, She'll side, have you ever heard this, producer Mark, that

people just refer to all soda as coke? I think this is propaganda from big Coca Cola. I feel like that's a Georgia thing, if I had to guess, because that's where coke originates from. And I know, like it's like blasphemy to drink a pepsi in Georgia. Yet I went to a hotel in Georgia once and they only serve pepsi. Have you ever done a blind taste test yourself to see if you could tell the difference you, I don't even it doesn't need to be blind. I

can tell the difference. Really. Yeah. I haven't at soda in so long I've I have no idea. I mean, I'm not saying I'm a regular drinker of either regular coke or regular pepsi, but I still know the taste. Yeah. Also not true. And people say that if you put a rusty nail in a coke, it does not make it disappear. If there's all these wives tales about this thought. It is true if you put a mentos and a diet coke that it will explode. Really, you've never seen

that on mine? No? Yeah, if you drop a meno, I think in a regular coke too, But I know for sure a diet coke because you drop amentos and to like a two leader bottle or any bottle, it'll just explode everywhere. It's actually quite funny to watch, you, don't I do. I think that and I do not encourage this because it is cruelty to animals, but I think it is true that if you feed alka seltzer to um seagulls, they will like basically implode it. Don't do that, don't I'm not I'm saying, don't do that,

but pep. This is like a thing alkas because they can't burp and so it's like the gas just builds up. It they don't actually explode, but they just die. It's mean, it's like you're poisoning them. So I'm just I've been thinking of wives tales or real things. I think that's a that's a real thing. Turns out that's real. Um. I will say one safety tip for everybody out there, because I saw a lot of this in Austin where people had dogs that they were going on long jogs

with along with them on a hot day. Dogs do not have sweat glands. Dogs can only exhale heat through their mouths, which means that it's actually very difficult for them to properly regulate body temperature while they're exerting themselves in high heat. So please public safety tip here. Make sure that you don't let your dog run when it wants to run. Don't make your dog run alongside you in really hot weather. They can overheat and that can be that can be disastrous. So just a little no

doubt there. I saw people in Austin, in particularly when I was there, it was a hot day, and they're all doing these long jogs with dogs that, first of all, or not even what I would consider to be distance runner dogs to start with. And second of all, I was like, this is bad. You shouldn't do that. There were signs up that's also I thought it. There were signs in Austin saying please be careful with your dog running because I think people overheat their dogs. A dog

is not a six mile run partner. A dog isn't even really you know, you don't want them running a mile in heat. You want your dog to let them run around the yard, in the field, whatever when they want, and then make sure they have shade and cool water, because it's much harder for them than for humans to regulate body amperature and to handle that. Josh, hey buck, I'm trying to represent the freedom Hut here. It's pretty hard being surrounded by a bunch of libs. I'm usually

the only one unmasked. Everywhere I go, I make them ask me to put it on. Just the other day, I made a local store explain why that is, considering the new CDC recommendation. I stay peaceful and obey their requests, but they have what I want to buy. One last thing. The other day, I was unmasked and decided to wear my red Maga hat to pick up my kid from school. The looks were hilarious. I'm not looking for trouble. I'm just trying to represent a beacon of courage. People shouldn't

be afraid to stand up for their individual freedom. I love my country. I love what you do, Buck Shields. I from California. Wow, now that Josh is telling me he's from California, I'm like, oh, I get it, buddy. We're in a Maga hat in California in most place. I know there are some reddish parts of California, but let's be real. If you're in California, you're pretty much surrounded by the opposition, and that can be a real challenge that can be an issue for you in your

day to day lives. It can mean that you feel there's a certain hostility around you at all times. So, Josh, it's certainly something that I am aware of, and I feel you on that because I walk in and out of my building no mask on. I'm the only person that I've seen not wearing a mask in my building. Of hundreds, there are hundreds and hundreds of people who live in my I live in a very tall, large

building in New York. Hundreds of people live here. The only one that I've seen walking out without a mask on is me, the only one. And the guidance has changed in New York. People are still wearing them. What are they doing? Well, they've been brainwashed. It's really it's very clear they have been brainwashed. Oh but Josh, thank you so much for trying to pass the buck. Tell people about the show. It really gues. It means so much.

Every time you get a new listener to this show, you're just you're helping us out, You're helping us grow, making what we do more and more, you know, impactful. As I was telling you, and I just like to be very upfront up with you all about this. And we don't have some marketing budget. I don't spend you know, fifty thousand dollars a month on Facebook. So I get a lot of people downloading my show and clicking on my show all the time. Other people have that they

do that. I don't have that. I just have all of you. I have the fact that this is the best conservative radio show slash podcast out there right now. That's what I rely on. That the quality of what we do here is so high. You know, I feel like we're making the best We're making the best dinner for you here. I don't have the biggest billboards, I don't have the most people standing on corners hanging out and handing out my menu, but we make the best food here, so it's on. It's really all of you

telling people about this show. That's what makes it continue to be successful and grow. So we do it the old We do it the old fashioned way here. It look. I'd be nice if I had some you know, bill millionaire professional sugar daddy who was going to write checks for me to you know, go speak in places and spend a lot of money on social media to promote my stuff. But it's just me, producer Mark and this microphone. So that's how we and of course all of our

affiliate stations across the country. But I'm saying in terms of promotion of selling this show to people through the different marketing mechanisms. You know, we're very grateful that we have the affiliates we do. And beyond that, it's word of mouth. It's word of mouth. Robert Bucking, producer Mark Love the podcast. It's my daily go to for great insight as to what's really going on in the political world. I have an eighth grade daughter who is not ready

to have who I'm not ready to have vaccinated. Yet there's no long term studies available to see what this would do to our kids. The problem is I now. The problem I now have is that we all had as kids. The outsider problem is that my friends are getting the vaccine and I don't want to wear a mask to school. That's what the kids are saying. I live in Connecticut where it seems imminent than kids will

have to wear masks in school if not vaccinated. Question is, Buck, do we move to a state with more sane rules or do we fight the fight for our kids and keep those shields high man, Robert, A great question and not one that I have an easy answer for you on. Do you want to live in a different state? Are you up for that can you can your job move or can you easily find a similar job somewhere else? You know, those are the questions you have to ask. Um,

will you stand and fight on this one? That's another option, but you'll probably if you if you stand and fight the school board yourself, you will probably, at least in the early stages, lose. So are you prepared for that? And then you're going to have to abide by the guidance send and be the guy who's kid uh you know who you were, the guy who was fighting against getting your kids vaccinated? Right, That's what's going to happen, Robert.

As you know, I'm a realist. I do order of battle in my head as it is not as I wish it were. So you would have to tell me, can you move to another state? Is that really disruptive to your family? If the answer is, you'd be happy to do it, man, go to Florida, Go to Tennessee, go to Texas. Go to a zero income tax state where you have red state government and greater freedom, greater protection, Second Amendment rights, lower cost of living. Connecticut's very expensive.

So but if you got to stay, and this is important to you, you're gonna you know, you're gonna have that fight. But it's just it's like I try to tell people this, sometimes you got to stand up to the bully. Just know that you're probably not actually gonna get away with punching the bully once and winning the fight. You might get punched and you might lose even after you stand up to the bully. Just remember that doesn't mean you don't do it, just means you've got to

be realistic about what you're facing. Roll call continuing here, Eric now xt up, we have well bucked the Libs have finally gone full, full grown and blown, full blown crazy here in Portland. I have finished reading a recent article from The Oregonian describing we will now need to provide proof of vaccination in order for go masks indoors. I wanted to spread the word about the disgraceful leadership

being shown by the Demps here at Oregon. Also, what do you think about a RHN Descantis and Rand Paul duo for the twenty twenty four presidential race. I've been very impressed with Rand Paul's aggressiveness when taking on the LIBS side. No producer, Mark, you are much too young to sound this grumpy all the time. Shieldsaye. First, I'll

let producer Mark respond me grumpy never exactly. As for the Oregonians describing in this article that you need to have proof of vaccination, here is a part of this that I don't think has gotten enough attention. If you have to provide proof of vaccination one time this time, won't you have to do that again when there are booster shots, which we're not talking about right now because everyone knows that that would be a real kick in the face and make us realize, oh wait, they think

this is reality forever now. But they're probably going to bring that up and they're still You've got the CDC director talking about variance. You got Fauci out there to variance. You know what it is? That the other thing, the variance. So yeah, that's what's actually happening. That's what we see going on, and yet we don't talk about it because it would be politically costly for Democrats. It would be a politically costly situation for them right now to say

that there's going to be booster shots. But if you have to prove it this time, you're gonna have to prove it next time, which means you get you get not only forever COVID restictions, but you get forever vaccine passports. You know, just just give it time. Remember vaccine passports. Liberals are in favor of voter ID. They somehow oppose voter ID is crazy. How dare you say we should have voter ID? That's racist? Vaccine passport? Oh, that's great,

go for that. They are all about it. And then you also said a Rand Paul Eric Randi Santis ticket to Santis Paul. Look, I hope de Santis runs for president and wins in twenty twenty four. That's my belief. That's my hope right now. Who knows. That's a long ways away. Rand Paul. I really like his ideas. I

like his consistency and his principle. He lacks retail political retail skills he does, so I don't know if that'll work, but I do like, I do like and respect his idea he is as a politician and what he does. So I got a lot of respect for Rand Paul. But he's just not a He's not a charismatic enough guy I think to be president. That's the truth. But maybe I'm wrong. Sometimes I am not Usually that's it for today, folks, thanks so much for being here. Back tomorrow, Shield tie