Forever Masking is For Commies

that's going on. We have, for example, this fight playing out on the floor of Congress right now with who will be the next Speaker of the House. We will discuss that, plus more and more people recognizing that the COVID vaccine shots or whatever you want to call them, not working as planned, and the DeSantis inauguration. I'm here today in Tallahassee, Florida, which is why you're not seeing video of the show up on the Rumble channel. But it's a very happy day here in Tallahassee as descantists

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Sexton Show. But because I'm in Tallahassee at the Desantists inauguration celebration, I thought I would speak a little bit about what this has meant, what Florida means going forward. For anybody that feels like it is impossible, that the Commies are winning, that there's nothing that we can do to win back the culture, that politics is pointless, remember that the states are supposed to be laboratories of what

our Republic can achieve at the national level. The states are the proving grounds their areas yes of constitutionally declared autonomy in many matters, in most matters, but they also show people what happens as different policies play out. So you have the experiment of each and every state and the results that are produces. Why does that matter so much? You just look at what's happening in Florida and for the rest of the nation. I would say, one, don't despair.

If you live in New York or California, you can always consider moving to another state. But even if you can't, it got pretty close in New York and in California. I think there will be a turning point at some point in the future. But you do want to ask yourself questions, why is it that New York, for example, New York State has fewer people but double the state budget of the state of Florida. What are you really

getting as a New Yorker for that? And the answer is a massive, massive welfare state and a massive bureaucracy that is largely funded to administer that welfare state in one form or another. That's it. Do you want that? Do you want your state taxes to go to that? What happens when you have leadership as they do here in Florida that pursues sensible policy goals, that tries to just get things done that make people's lives easier, that

make their life day to day a little better. Well, we see those results and keeping Florida open during the pandemic, being the most open state, which was clearly without any doubt with the right decision, and so few states unfortunately made it. That required a lot political courage. But we also see this with the war on wokeness, which is really just a war on a new version of the

communist ethos that has destroyed so many countries. That's something that you can do at the state level, state and local matters, state and local matters, and I think Florida is a really important reminder of that. And also in terms of having a strategy. You know, I'm thinking about what can be accomplished in this new year for me personally, and I've really I've thought about this a lot. Cutting

down drinking was easy. I'm not anti having a drink ever, because I will have wine or really I just drink wine and tequila. I'll drink those two things. But I've cut it down to the point where it is I drink about as frequently as I have you know, cake or something like that, so you know you're not having cake every day. I'm certainly a drinking every day. I probably have cake once or twice a month, and that's probably where I am on the drinking front, and I

really only have one or two. Now, I don't say this to judge. I just say that it was easy for me to make the choice to cut it back and to do so. But man, if twenty twenty three we're talking resolutions cutting back on my sugar intake, I'm sure a lot of you have the same feeling. Cutting back on sugar is so hard to do, and a lot of people think that it's not hard. Have never actually really done the math and looked at how much stuff has a lot of sugar. You have some really

delicious beef jerky. Some beef jerky's got twenty grams of sugar in it. You have some ketchup loaded with sugar. You things that you would not anticipate. Fruit juice, don't even get me started. Might as well have a Coca cola, right. Fruit juice very different from fruit in the way it enters your body and your bloodstream because of the fiber content of fruit. Eating fruit is great, all about that, and I'm gonna allow myself to eat plenty of fruit.

But drinking straight orange juice, for example, a lot of sugar in these things. And it's it's interesting that there still seems to be some debate as whether your body can develop a degree of addiction to sugar. So I don't have. There are no other addictions that I struggle with. I'm very fortunate in that sense. But if I had to pick one thing, and if twenty twenty three is a year for improving oneself, there's a lot of things

that I want to do. Watch even less television of any kind than I do, read more, sleep more, work out more, spend more time with family and close friends, spend less time worrying about you know, am I doing this at the absolute the absolute pinnacle of whatever is possible in this professionally or you know? I mean, you try to do the best you can. You got to sleep at night. You can't just second guess yourself all

the time. But cutting back on sugar, as somebody who has spent a let me see, I really started getting serious for me about strength training to where I consistently have done it four or five times a week, almost without exception, although this past week was an exception. For nine months now, so not even quite a year. But it's helpful, it's working. But cutting back on the sugar would be something that I would really like to try to make happen in this year and just sort of

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All right, So we got to talk a little bit about this as I speak to you. It's now two votes have already happened for the Speaker of the House. Kevin McCarthy has lost on both votes. So this is going into another realm. And this is a situation that I don't think anybody really knows exactly how it's going to play out, including the people who are, in this case the rebels from the GOP establishment. Kevin McCarthy here said that this is when you know things are getting rough,

Things are getting a little rough and tumble. Kevin McCarthy saying that as of last night, there were some GOP members of Congress who would be okay with Hakim Jeffries, a Democrat, as Speaker of the House instead of Kevin McCarthy playclib one. Last night, I was presented the only way to have two hundred and eighteen votes if I provided certain members with certain positions, certain gavels, to take

over the Church Committee, to have certain budgets. And they even came to the position where one Matt Gates said, I don't care if we go to polarity and we elect Hakeem Jeffries that it hurts the new frontline members not to get reelected. Well, that's not about America. And I will always fight to put the American people first, not a few individuals that want something for themselves. So we may have a battle on the floor, but the battle is for the conference and the country. And that's

fine with me fighting words to be sure. But you know one thing that I did do over the over the Christmas break was I spent spent a lot of time reading just what I felt like reading. I just finished a book, The Last Founding Father, James Monroe and a Nation's called The Greatness by Harlowe Unger very good, by the way, very very good book, and I give it an effort for the genre solid B plus. I enjoyed it. And I'm actually about one hundred pages into

George Washington's biography by Churnow and which is excellent. I've heard, you know, he's the one who wrote the super famous Hamilton's biography that then was the inspiration for the Broadway play, which I thought was just atrociously boring and I didn't like it at all, but I a lot of other people liked it. It became, I think, the one of the first billion dollars Broadway enterprises ever. But The Last

Founding Father is really good. And one aspect of reading about that period in history that I think is so useful in moments like this where you have the speakers or the speakers gabble being fought over in this way and people say it's some pretty rough stuff. You know, Oh, they want to help the Democrats and they don't want to help the country. Is this is the nature of politics. It's always been the way things are in this country.

I think that we get into this mindset of we are the only ones who are having this kind of acrimony. Who have these politicians slamming each other in this way. It's just not the case. The stuff that the founders thought and said about each other and the regional politics that played out. I mean in the War of eighteen well, at one point, New Englanders we're kind of like, I know, I like the British, we should do more trade with them.

You know, you're on your own states that are to the south of New England and fighting against the British. You know, you're on your own. You want navigation rights for the Mississippi River. Bostonians were like, man, not our problem. You know, this is this is the nature of how it is and how it always has been. Politics is about conflict and disagreement as much as it's about consensus and finding a way forward. And so that's why I don't get overly worried about what's gonna happen if they

have this fight. What's gonna happen to the Congress if they don't have Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. Look, if they allow a Democrat to become a Speaker of the House, it's a massive blunder. And you know it's hard to fathom that they would let it go to that point. I don't think they will, but they may decide to hold this out for a few weeks, who knows, maybe longer. They may decide that they would really want to make a point over this. But I want to

know what their end goal is. And I say that with total earnestness. I'm not suggesting cynically that they have that that that I know they don't have one. It seems to me they may be lacking one. But I don't know for a fact, and I want to know. I want to know what the plan is here. So this is a major issue that is going to continue to I think this is going to go on for days, if not, if not weeks, so we shall see. Um

what is the economic outlook for this year? One thing I thought about a lot also over the break is I'm over the holiday, I should say, as considering you know, am I gonna put money in some investments and how am I going to move my my meager savings around and try to build more for the future future generations of of of you know, buck and Buck junior. I don't know what the female equivalent of a buck would be if I have five kids, which I'm hoping to

have soon. But anyway, here is Cudlow, Larry Cudlow with a twenty twenty three economic outlook I want to share for second play five. The best news I think is the inflation rate is coming down. Was clearly evidence. So I think you're gonna run a three to four percent inflation rate. Okay, that's still above their two percent target, but that's a big help from nine or ten percent.

All right, that's good. Here's the point, my friend, Iris Stall is a great column the Starris Stall makes a conservative Supreme Court and a Republican House will stop the worst of the Biden's lop sided anti growth, big government spending in central planning policies. So that's on the bright side. So let's see how this plays out. So this is the paradox that I have talked about now for a year,

which is the Biden administration. And I know this sounds crazy, but I really like to hit this because I this is how I see it. The Biden administration is in a better position for his reelection because Republicans have the House then they would have been if Democrats had had everything. Because now I know the narrative wouldn't necessarily support that, because if they're all Democrats won, they must have won

because Biden's great. No, no no, no, because the damage that they will be able to do to the economy that they were doing for the first two years obviously and then had to back off, the damage that they will do to the economy will be limited, and therefore there will be some resetting and some healing, if you will, of the economy going forward because they won't be able to mess things up the way they would want to if they had total control and were completely in charge.

That's how I see this playing out. I mean, I think it's very likely, which also why I believe Joe Biden's gonna run again, because why wouldn't he. With Republicans in the House. Guess what they're gonna say. They're stopping They're gonna tell the progressives they're stopping us from getting our agenda through. That's what they're going to say. And there's some truth to that, because the Republicans do have

the House. But to the swing voters, to the persuadables, to the people that are in the middle, however you wanted to define that, they'll say, look, the economy is getting better. Things are improving. It's not as bad as the Republicans said. It was going to be vote for what you know, vote for the Biden. You know, that's really going to be the pitch. This is why I think the economic outlook is so interesting unless you have a massive brutal recession this year, which I know some

people think could happen. I just want to know what the what the indicators are that it is happening, right. We need to establish that upfront because as you've seen, what is the recession? And there's some questions Democrats really don't answer. What does a woman? Democrats don't have an answer hat tip Matt Walsh and his excellent documentary. They don't really have an answer to that. What is a recession? Well, they change the definition of recession as it fits their

political needs, as you know. So we should probably get ahead of this now and say, if the following occurs, we're in a really we're in a really bad economy, because I if it happens, they're not going to admit it, and they're going to shift blame around. Because the one thing that I believe delivers a smashing victory to Republicans in twenty twenty four with more certainty than anything else is we have a two thousand and eight style recession, a big nasty correction in the housing market and the

job market, and you name it. That's the one thing where and look, I'm gonna say it. You know, people people are talking about Trump's electability going forward, Trump's economy twenty sixteen to twenty twenty as a pitch laid against or put up against a massive decline in the economy Underbiden. You can start to see how that narrative fits together. It might feel, oh, that's crazy right now to some people,

but things change very dramatically. So you know, these are the ways I see the economy affecting politics, and of course politics affecting the economy in twenty twenty three. So yeah, I'm gonna try to cut back on my sugar. I'm not sure if there's gonna be a huge recession. I don't know who the Speaker of the House is going to be. And the COVID lunacy is continuing on too, with people now bringing back mask in some places. I gotta tell you, I see this and it's remarkable to me.

I really mean this I think now the dead end maskers, the ones who just don't care, they're going to keep doing it increasingly. You see them with the tightly fitting mask, and now this is the this is the term that it's always a well fitting or tightly fitting mask, and they take this to be quite literal. The tightly fitting mask idea comes from the N ninety five mask, which has to be for medical purposes fitted onto your face. The seal must not be broken. Rust the mask obviously loses.

You know, it's like if a condom breaks, right, doesn't really work if it breaks. If the seal is broken, then you're not getting protection. But the I mean beyond that. What you see now are people who are wearing these masks with these two rubber straps, and you can see based on the way it's pulling into their head and their hair, they're making it really tight because that is there. This is their their hair shirt. And if you understand the medieval Catholic reference, this is their their way of

proving to everybody how seriously they take the virus. And they brought back in New Jersey public schools and Patterson masking for kids or other school systems. Now they're bringing back masking. So we have a commie lunacy here in the COVID era that is lingering, and the fight against this is not over because they have to admit that they are wrong, or else they will try to do it to you. And that is my my mantra on

this for twenty twenty three. As long as they do it to themselves and they don't have to admit that it's wrong, their long term plan is to make you and your children do it too, Not on my watch. I'm not gonna let this go down without a fight. All right, twenty twenty three is underway. I'll be back with you tomorrow. Hopefully we'll get the new video up. The studio is almost totally complete, so we'll have great stuff up at rumball dot com. Slash Buck Sexton and

I'll talk to you tomorrow. Shield's High