Iowa Blows Its Caucus

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on to New Hampshire victorious, victorious, six up. They don't know if they won a victory. Insofar as no one knows who is victorious. Welcome to the Buck Saxon Show. If you are here joining us, you are victorious because you have made the best choice possible for your audio listening today. I'm gonna tell you this right now. I was not somebody who was all excited about the Iowa cocues. I just wanted to know the result. I was not somebody who was playing the game, staying up all night.

I wasn't live tweeting it. I didn't get too into the details of this. To me, it always reminds me a little bit of the political version of punk Sitani Phil. There's all these little rules that everyone gets so excited about it, but what does it really all mean? You know,

why don't we just have votes? I know there are other states, by the way, that have caucuses, although fewer and fewer now, there are a handful I think about a half dozen or so that have that have a caucus system, and Nevada has a caucus system, so there there are a few places that have this. But to me, it makes just very little sense. I know, people don't don't bust out the history lesson. I know that caucuses

have a long and storied history in this country. But you know, now we have electricity and everyone has running water and TVs and air conditioning, and I think we could probably figure out a way to do this a little bit more efficiently. I'm just I'm just saying, if you want to know, the current way that it goes is you have people. They show up. In Iowa, it was to one of almost seventeen hundred precincts, So already you got to look at this like, wow, that's that's

going to be a mess. Almost seventeen hundred precincts. And people show up and they cast there, they stand in groups. There's not that many of them because i was not that biggest state and there's not that many people taking part in the Democrat primary. And then they go and they stand on a different side of the room depending on which candidate is their first choice. And then if the candidate doesn't get fifteen percent, then they have the option of moving to join another candidate, to walk to

actually physically moved to join that group. And they've made some rule changes and I think now you can only switch from your initial candidate if the candidate is less than fifteen percent. And you know, there's all this stuff. I mean, well, this is why the party activists are so into this, because they have outside influence in the whole process. But here's the long and the shorter of the folks. It was a total mess. It was a total mess. You a headline today, Iowa blows its caucus.

I mean, it was a really bad scene because the Democrat Party decided to know the DNC apparatus in the state of Iowa, decided that they would use an app, use an app that was untested in order to tabulate votes. It was a pretty straightforward process. Why they used a company that I believe is called shadow Ink, so as if there weren't going to be enough conspiracy theories out there about how this was really all meant by the Democrat apparatus, the same Democrat apparatus that stole the primary

from Bernie Sanders in twenty sixteen. No question, they did everything they could to make sure they handed it to Queen Hillary hollow what happened. They gave it to Hillary, took it from Bernie Sanders this time around. You'd think they'd be a little more sensitive to this. I don't even know what happened here other than it's a mess. Not only did they have an inability to use the

app properly, I guess the app crash right. They created a smartphone application or computer application that's meant to tabulate the results of all these different caucuses. It crashed, it froze, whatever happened. But the backup to it was a phone in line, a hot line to relay results to the central Iowa Caucus's command center. And sure enough, that was busy. People were unable to take the calls. And at one point CNN I had to see this after the fact

the clip. CNN had a precinct captain or whatever you call that, the caucus captain calling into the central hot line and after waiting for an hour, just got hung up on. That's a pretty good that's a pretty good indication of how things went last night for the Democrats. And you have to remember, these are the people that democrats, the Democrat intelligentsia, the people running the DNC, running Democratic Party.

They are the people who want to be in control of paying for your healthcare, deciding what healthcare you get, what doctors you can go to, who you can see that they say they're going to handle all of this and it's gonna be better and cheaper if they're in charge. The same people who brought you by a calculation by Bloomberg, which is I would assume a company that knows, even though it's a media company, how to add and subtract pretty well, right. Founded by a guy who's a businessman,

Michael Bloomberg, who's running for president right now. Bloomberg did an estimate of the Obamacare website. Initially we were told it was about it was roughly eight hundred million dollars of cost for a website. My friends turned out it was really more like when you add in all the contractors and all the bells and whistles and the graft and the corruption and all the other nonsense around this. I mean, they wouldn't call it that, but that's what

it was. It's more like two billion dollars. Trump has said five billion. That might be a long term costs estimate of the site, but at a minimum. Bloomberg has said, the Obamacare website. Remember talking about a website, folks, We're not talking about building, you know, massive facilities, and this is just an online entity that's supposed to handle data. Two billion dollars of your money went to the Obamacare website that, as we all remember, the day of the

enrollment crashed, wompomp. And now I'm sure we're going to find out that the money spent on the Shadow Inc. I'm not making it up, folks. That is the development company that decided to or that was picked to make the app to tabulate the results in a state that is critical for the establishment to deny to Bernie Sanders. Now,

I don't know. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm just saying it looks bad, and to people who are conspiracy theorists, it looks like, uh okay, trying to take some of the wind out of Bernie Sanders sales at a minimum. Who knows if they're really going to claim that there was anything beyond that. We'll have to see. This was a great version of this though headline this morning CBS

News Republicans gloat over Iowa caucus meltdown. First of all, notice how the word Democrat doesn't appear anywhere in that headline. The Democrats held a caucus that is a disaster or a debacle. No results last night, folks. I mean, this is like an election where they're like, sorry, I don't know what to tell you. I mean, they'll probably have all the data to day and it'll all be fine. This isn't some major crisis, but they just look like a bunch of dufases. I mean, they look like clowns.

And remember the whole promise yere of the Democrats is a return to a return to civility, or return to competency, or return to better governance. That's what they offer you if you get rid of Trump. Forget about all the numbers, the prosperity, the stock market, unemployment, the economy. Forget all of that better government from the Democrats, who in their first moment to show, I mean, this is more than

just a caucus. It's the first time the whole country has its eyes focused on a Democrat run election contest. And it is a belly flop off the ten foot high diving board with somebody who's got way too bad of a sunburn on. I mean, it is rough, people know. I like that analogy just because it's very visceral. We've ever done a really bad belly flop when you have a sunburn? That's no fun. Brucer Mark ever been there before? Yes, he's nodding. Yes, you don't want to do that. It's

a lesson you really have to learn once. But the Democrats messed up last night. The media, of course, is doing the whole Republicans pounce. Republicans pounce, Well, what are we supposed to do? We're actually not pouncing. We're laughing. It's a different thing. We're laughing at them. We're not really pouncing so much. That's that's too active. I'm sitting back, rubbing my belly and guffawing at the clownish Democrats. So they're trying to say, we're gloating, we're doing all these things.

And I can't help but notice that the political party that dominates Silicon Valley and the faculty lounge of colleges and universities seems to have a lot of trouble with a smartphone app and basic arithmetic. You I think this should be in their wheelhouse, right, This should be something that they have greater ability to do. But sure enough they do not. And now you have the different campaigns all trying to spin that just sort of take this and say, well, we won't sure because we don't know.

One let's just feel like our result is basically a win, even though we don't have the results. It's a very Democrat moment, you know, it's a very Democrat approach to this. It's like everybody gets a trophy for first place. But if everybody gets a trophy for first place, does that mean anybody gets a trophy for first place? And Pete Buddha Judge tweeted out, we started the show with him just because you know he he needed this. If he can't win an Iowa, he can't win anywhere Iowa. You

have shocked the nation. He tweeted out, by all indications, we are going to New Hampshire victorious hashtag Iowa CAUCUSUS. And then to that, I just would respond that declaring victory before any results are in is really very on brand for a ACRAT party that claims the twenty sixteen election was stolen without a single vote being changed, and the twenty election is illegitimate before a single vote has been cast. The results are never the results if they

don't like them. That is the Democrat approach. They pretend there's something else. Reality does not matter. The truth cannot intrude on the narrative. So I suppose we should not be surprised at all that what we saw was this last night, this nonsense. But I would just say this to you, America. Many of us thought that we go to bed last night after seeing the troubling news that a socialist had just won a statewide contest in Iowa.

But instead we woke up to a reminder the Democratic Party specializes in screwing things up and wasting your money. Hashtag winning hashtag America still has a shot because we could see who these Democrats really are. It was fantastic. You're in the Freedom Hud. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. They changed the rules and streamlined the process because of what happened the last time too, Bernie Sanders.

So if anybody wanted to come out on top, you know, if he finished at the top here tonight, that's one more day of being on top. That's one more day of momentum, It's one more day of raising money and attention. And he has been denied that by this process. Some people are noticing that, you know, Bernie Sanders, that was Bro Cuomo. First of all, he's like, do you even lift, Bro?

And then second of all, he wants to make sure everyone knows that Bernie Sanders is not exactly getting a fair getting a fair shaken all this this was this was Bernie's moment. I mean New Hampshire, He's New Hampshire is going to be where he does the best. And also the narrative has gone very quickly away from Joe Biden, who in some places and again we don't know, I mean, I'm on air, and we'll probably know more later. But in some places it was expected that he dramatically underperformed

what was expected for a so called front runner. Hey what have I been saying? Team? I've been telling you for how long? Now? It's not gonna be Biden. It's not gonna be Biden's a loser. They know it. Biden's a loser. It's not gonna happen. The part the party apparatus is hoping that all of a sudden that will change. That's why they keep that Biden is going to become what they want him to be. But everyone kind of knows, I mean, and for some reason I'm wrong, and Biden

does run. I feel very confident that he will do no better than Hillary Clinton did in twenty sixteen, which means he will lose. But then again, the great part about political predictions is you only talk about the ones you get, right, So Cuomo says, Bernie Sanders have been denied a victory, and I with another just noteworthy moment

here came from Elizabeth Warren. This is you know, she shout out there now trying to tell everybody to get excited about how you know she's just gonna be the president that you've always hoped for, one who just makes it up as she goes along. She's by the way, I mean, she's really in line with Bernie. But you have to break out a very fine magnifying glass in order to see the differences in policy between Warren and Sanders. I mean, they're they're quite close. We think that gets

lost the media narrative. But this was a line that I thought was very interesting from Warren last night. Remember, they don't have results, they don't know who won the caucus. Here's what Warren is saying, play a priest of Mark fourteen. Please, what's a night is for every undocumented, unafraid organizer and volunteer proudly knocked on doors to let the world know that the path to progress run through courage, not fear. Now, I'm just gonna say this because i'd like to know

what the response is. We have been told now for years that it is a violation of the Emolument's clause because of foreign foreign money going to Trump via diplomats in DC buying Hamburgers at the Trump hotel. That's a real thing. The Washington Post, I mean, the most serious, so called serious news organizations in the country will run this. We have been told countless times about foreign interference in the election, in this case of Ukraine, just even talking

to a Ukrainian counterpart about something when nothing happens. They wanted to say that was a campaign donation, a campaign donation to Trump an a legal one was with the initial claim of the impeachment lunatics, and then of course Russia Trump putin collusion, which is a fantasy, but a

massive false conspiracy that they've been spreading. I need someone to approach me and sit down, who's who's not aftwing loon and explain how it is not foreign interference and perhaps even an in kind donation or assistance to an assistance to a specific campaign for undocumented aka illegal aliens. Undocumented is a made up term that does not appear in the legal code anywhere. Illegal aliens people not of legal status in the United States, to assist a campaign,

how is that not foreign interference in the election. They all come for foreign countries, folks, I know this is they're all subject to a jurisdiction not of our own, unless unless we're going to claim that everybody who's actually no, that's right, they would all be subject to the foreign jurisdiction thereof, or at least unless I'm missing some loophole here, How is it not the case that foreigners which I mean if you're an illegal alien, People would say, oh,

even what about people that are brought here? You know, the dreamers. Dreamers are born somewhere else. They have citizenship in some other country, or at least they should. They certainly have a claim to it. So if you were a foreigner on US soil and you were going door to door to knock knock on doors for Elizabeth Warren's campaign, how is that not foreign interference in the election? So

you know, you're allowed to assist to the campaigner. I mean I have to get into the election law specifics here. You're allowed to help, You're allowed to donate your time, which is a you know, remember a thing of value. That was what we're always told a thing of value. Information can be a thing of value. Remember the Trump Tower meeting a thing of value? Sitting down with Donald Trump junior just saying, hey, I want to tell you about something Hillary Clinton did. Oh that's and she's Russian.

You can't have that. So you can't have somebody sit down and have a conversation with somebody who's foreign, but you can't have foreigners going door to door doing work that other people would get paid for to help your campaign. Does anyone want to take take take a knock at this one? How is it not foreign interference in our election for a legal aliens to be directly assisting that can pain by her own admission of Elizabeth Warren and I'm sure other Democrats too. Someone to explain that to me.

Thanks for listening to The bus Essen Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. I spent a lot of time in Iowa campaigning for Paul Simon, Barack Obama, and others Hilary Clinton over the years. They're wonderful people, and the Democrats there are a great bunch of supporters of our party events values. Having said that, I think the Democratic cox in Iowa is a quirky, quaint tradition which should

come to an end. Wait a second, Hold on a minute. I thought Democrats were all about process. I thought Democrats gave us speeches all the time, whether we want them or not, about the sanctity of our elections, the need to do the need to respect all the different rules and processes that we have in place. And they talk about this so much. I mean, think about Nancy Pelosi's Nancy Pelosi's speech is recently about how much she loves the founders or the constitutionated. You know, the guys who

are on the guys who are on our money. They're great, all of them. You know, you have to look at this and say, hold on a minute. Here we have another time when the Democrats don't like a result and they're willing to throw the process out. This is true of the Supreme Court. Oh let's just stack it with more people if we don't get our way. It's true of the primary process. It's true of the general election process with the electoral college. Trump wins, let's get rid

of the electoral college. Trump doesn't get removed by a two thirds majority of the US Senate, which will happen hopefully tomorrow. But assuming that that's the way it goes, they're gonna say why do we even have senators? Why do we even have this federalist system? Now, it will be one thing if they had been saying that all along, if they really believe that they know better than the founders, which we know libs do. I mean, leftists always think

they know better. They ignore history and then pretend that somehow history is on their side and tell us that they know what should be done with everything. But when they tell us in this case that they want to get rid of either it's the two thirds majority, you know, they want a constitutional amendment. They'll never get that, so they probably won't want that, but they're just gonna complain.

They're gonna whine. They're gonna say that it's it's wrong that that two senators come from a state like New Hampshire, a state like Vermont, although maybe not because Bernie Sanders is from there, so they got to protect that, but that these smaller states with smaller populations have the same representation in the Senate as states like California and New York and Texas and you know, big states, and they act like they've never had a basic civics lesson and

they don't have an understanding of the ideas that the Founders wrestled with and why they came up with the system that they do. And I've got to tell you not giving enough credit right now to the Founders. They came up with something. I mean, forgot about what the Democrats say, because that's all just lip service. They know nothing about it. They don't care about the Founding. Nancy

Pelosi is an ignoramus about us history. Forget all that, right, But the Founders managed to have a system in place that, even with the Democrats completely losing their minds in our current era over Trump and willing to do anything to lie about the President, to put them through a special counsel investigation, which who knows what the Founders would have even thought of that, right, you know, you look at some of these things, you say, look what the president's

already been through. But they were smart enough, smart enough to make sure that if you're going to remove a president, if you're going to undo the will of the American people as expressed through a national election, you better be darn shore. And darn shore means sure a majority, a majority in the House of Representatives, but also two thirds of the Senate, a lot of wisdom, a lot of

wisdom that continues to the current day. They recognized that the passions of short term partisanship could reach it reach their current level. Obviously we would through a civil war in the middle of the nineteenth century. I mean, there have been times when partisan passions have overridden the system

even I mean, nothing is perfect, nothing is impervious. But today, or I should say really tomorrow, this week, we will be reminded very much of the genius of the founding, the understanding that if you're going to have a system of parties that are in opposition to each other when it comes to things like this, when it comes to the really, really big stuff, you want to make sure

that this isn't just petty, spiteful partisan nonsense. And we have that because the founders were smarter than Schumer and Pelosi and Chief and yes, even a whole lot of Republicans today. I mean, there was a genius, in a genius in what they did. But the willingness to throw out the system the moment that it no longer suits their needs. I mean, this has become really a calling card for Democrats. This has become something that they're completely

comfortable with, and they see no hypocrisy in it. There's no irony, there's no oh, well when it works in our favor, you know when in the House of Representatives, and we just saw this play out with this impeachment fiasco the House of Representatives. They have the majority of votes in the House, and so Schiff and Pelosi and Nadler, they run that thing with an iron fist. They make no apologies. They stack it against Trump as much as they possibly can. There's no effort even for the optics

of it. There's no effort at fairness. There's no effort at giving a fair shake to both sides because they have the power, and that's the way they conduct themselves.

And in the moment they don't have the power. You look at what happens in the Senate where Republicans have a majority, and all they do is complaining why and say it's unfair and the process is wrong, and it's rigged, and it's a sham and it's a cover up, and how can you how can you have a serious how can you have a serious conversation with these peoples, which you really have to ask at some point one is

it just too much to bear? When is it to observe speaking of absurd Schiff hasn't totally given up yet. I mean, he realizes he's planning to a very a looney left constituency in California. I think he's from Burbank, California, right, So Schiff is just trying to make his district voters happy, which is not hard. Just hate Trump with the blind fury of you know, of all time, and also play to the national media. Make all the journos think that

you're a really excellent hashtag resistance leader. That's what he's trying to do. But I'll even go off and say things that you if you were a normal person, you would ask yourself, how could anyone say something so stupid

and not feel ashamed of it afterwards? We will have more of that coming up, by the way, But Democrats have been really outdoing themselves recently, and we do have a new contestant for you know, I've said before the Masie Herono is the dumbest person in Congress, and I think that's I think that's an assessment that is just rooted in fact. There are some people that who that could You could argue with me, and I'd be open to it. But I think me, she's certainly the dumbest senator,

or maybe not Congress. I shouldn't like, are the dumbest senator. Congress has got a lot of dummies. The dumbest person on TV, though, who's a political analyst? And I'm not including like reality TV stars. The dumbest person on TV is a political analyst. You know, I would generally say, uh Anna Navarro from CNN, But Steve Schmidt at MSNBC, I think he might be number one. He's he's really exceptionally dumb these days. And I guess it's it's what the audience will clap for. It's what they want to

hear at MSNBC. Um, but you know, you can get into this game of who's crazier the Democrats who are actually elected in office or the Democrats who are speaking to represent the whims of the Democratic Party outside, you know, the political analysts and the consultant class, the pundits, all the rest of it. I mean, here, you, let's let's play a little game which one of these things is crazier. We have On the one hand, uh, where was it Adam Schiff telling us that there's the possibility of selling

Alaska play clip five. Please Trump could offer Alaska to the Russians in exchange for support in the next election. I mean, how how is he? Is he really dumb? I don't think so. I just think he's just so slimy and dishonest and just will say anything. You know, he really represents the worst of the legal profession, in which there's no ethics. There's just only whatever whatever tactics you have to use in the moment to get what you want. You know, there's no honor in the in

what he does at all. Or I don't know if he thinks that we're all so dumb, but Trump could offer Alaska to the Russians for help the next election. It's so offensive that he would say something like this, because what he's really saying is that Trump voters and his unfortunately his supporters are delusional enough, and Democrats are delusional enough these days that they would nod their heads and they'd clap like trained seals for this kind of commentary.

But the reality here is that Republicans Trump supporters would not be okay with that. Of course not. Now he's just speaking in absurdity. There's a million miles of difference.

You could say, probably, you know whatever it is. However many square miles we're talking about with a Laska, very big place, But there's a million miles of difference between asking a foreign leader if he has information about a completely legitimate area of inquiry that happens to look bad for Democrats involving corruption in a foreign country, the Ukraine situation, and we're going to give one of the fifty states to a hostile foreign country to help someone elect. I mean,

this is just crazy. How can he say this publicly without people on both sides of the political aisle completely and utterly ridiculing him. But no, he gets away with this. He manages to say this and have Democrats act like somehow this is normal that you and I sitting here right now would be okay with the president selling a state to a foreign country, which, first of all, how would that even work? I mean, it's just this is like Adam Shift saying, well, what's gonna happen when the

when the aliens space aliens not illegal ones? What's going to happen when the space aliens land? And they've actually been running Trump as a Manchurian candidate and Trump's actually a member of like the you know, the lizard people from the planet Zarcon or something. I mean, you know, it's just just blather nonsense. Adam Schiff, What if he said, what if he tried to sell Alaska to the Russians? Yeah, you're moron. We would have a problem with that. I'd

have a problem with a lot of things. Yeah, what if if if President Trump tomorrow declared himself president for life? Guess what? Trump supporters would actually not be okay with. I know some of your laughing saying, actually buck, but no, really if that happened, wouldn't be okay with that. Wouldn't be okay with Trump saying there's not going to be an election and you know, I'm gonna make one of my kids the next president. I don't know. Of course,

wouldn't be okay with this at all. And then you would have the process, by the way, and it would be quick. It'd be speedy. If normal people, not Trump to arrange, people really recognized egregious conduct from the president. Yeah, they'd remove the President United States. You know, Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz and all these guys, and the Republicans in the Senate, they wouldn't be sitting. They're like, yeah, he said he's president for life, we're not going to know.

You'd have the two thirds vote. This would sail through, be at office in a day if he took real steps to make himself president for life, whatever that would mean. But see, they forced us to defend the insane as a way of keeping us from looking at really how weak and crazy their narrative is. Right, I mean, we end up talking about nonsense because they're making nonsense accusations instead of looking at some other real problems they've got, Like the Joe Biden thing is corrupt. They can keep

telling us that there's nothing, there's no crime. It's the most corrupt country, one of the most countries in the world. And we're supposed to trust the word of prosecutors and the Obama administration working with Ukrainian prosecutors that the Biden family wasn't engaged in any illicit quid pro quote. I don't think so. But no, Instead we have to pretend that we're worried that Trump is going to sell Alaska. Alaska is very beautiful place. I would I would not

let Trump sell Alaska. No, I want to keep it. Thank you, you're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Okay, so we had the crazy thing that Shift said about selling Alaska to the Rahans, which was insane, But is that dumber? Is that crazy er? Then?

Steve Schmidt, formerly the guy who ran John McCain's highly unsuccessful two thousand and eight presidential campaign, Like, I mean, that's that's a that's a credential kind of like you know Neville Chamberlain as great peace negotiator in our time. I mean, it's a credential, that's for sure. But you know it's gotta stay on the TV. Like, Hey, Steve Schmidt, and I'm gonna lecture you on history and stuff. Would

you play clip for polease producer Mark. Do we want to have at the head of our country a president or do we want to have a king? Do we want to have an emperor? Do we want to have somebody who sits above the law? Do we want to have somebody who is unaccountable to the institutions that from the beginning of the country have said that no institution, no person in the country is above the law. That's

what we fought a revolution for. And so there's a fundamental question that now sits on the table eleven months before an election, but mag no mistake at the at the at the aftermath of this, when he is acquitted, there will never ever have been an American president with the power that Donald Trump possesses right now in this moment. Not FDR in the Second World War, not Lincoln in the Civil War. No president is as powerful as Donald John Trump in this hour as we get ready to

see his acquittal playout. That's in the pantheon, in the Hall of Fame of stupid political commentary. That SoundBite deserves a special place. No one Nolan's ever got as much power as Donald Trump ever in the history of the country. There's never been an American president with the power. Okay, and he actually went so far as to mention FDR and mentioned Lincoln. FDR sent Japanese Americans, including a very high percentage of whom were full US citizens, two internment camps.

Not not a peep peep from the Congress about a peachmid nothing democrat FDR. Of course, Wouodrow Wilson resegregated the civil Service and had a showing of a deeply racist film Birth of a Nation in the White House, and is a very bad guy, not a peep about removing Woodrow, Wilson, and Lincoln, as much as we revere him for holding the Union together, did suspend habeas corpus. He was basically just like, I'm calling the shots and the Constitution doesn't

get to tell me not to. That's what happened, suspended habeas corpus. The president actually does not have the authority to do that. Lincoln did it. Nobody well, I mean, I was gonna say nobody in the Congress removed him from office. We all know what happened the theater that night. But this is what people, I guess who watch MSNBC want to hear. That no one's ever been more powerful than Trump, no one's ever been under siege more than Trump as president, at least from the media and from

the opposition party in this way. I mean, it's absurd the things that they're trying to remove him from office for doing or even just talking about or thinking. This doesn't upset normal people the way that it upsets Trump deranged loons. And yet they tell us that he's acquired so much power that he's effectively a king. He's an emperor, a king, or an emperor wouldn't sit through all this process.

A king or an emperor wouldn't allow. Look, if the vote happens tomorrow, and if for some reason Republican senators said, you know, we're just gonna we're just gonna deal with the hatred of our constituents, but to save the republic two thirds. You know, there'll be a two thirds vote if they removed him. They're removed, Hm, folks, that yet

he's not president anymore. I mean, I couldn't come in here in good conscience and good faith and say to you, well, you know, I don't like that vote, so we're just gonna pretend like he's still president. No, we're literally twenty four hours away from a decision about whether to remove the president from the United States for effectively doing nothing wrong, and they're acting like there's no check on his power whatsoever. This is what crazy people think. Thanks for listening to

The bus Essen Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. This really is one of the most important elections of our lifetime. We have somebody in the right house who should not be there, and I am running to defeat Donald Trump, but also to put the United back in the United States. We are not together, and we have to be. And that's the other job that you just have to focus on.

That means providing health insurance for people. It means a wresting student loans, it means affordable housing, public health. There's a whole bunch of things, climate change, which my foundation has been working on for a long time. Very little. I just think of little. You know. Now, he wants a box for the debates to stand on. Okay, it's okay, there's nothing, well you could be sure. Why should he get a box to stand on? Okay, he wants a box for the debates? Why should he be in ton

with that? You really? Then? Does that mean everyone else gets a box? I guess that the Wall left. It's very interesting Corey book, and all these people couldn't get any of the things that Bloomberg's getting. Now. I think it's very unfair for the Democrats. But I would love to run against Bloomberg. Who's right, Who's who's telling the truth? Who's got the the real that was he used to say, who's got the four one woman? Which would be for the you know, the getting information the phone, and I

guess it doesn't work anymore. I'm kind of aging myself with that one. Who's got to four one one means nothing? Right? Or does it still work? Three one one in New York City gets you city information? Trump? Bloomberg? Is that

where this is all heading? I don't think so. But I don't think you can count Bloomberg out entirely in this whole thing, just because when you have that much money to spend in that many markets and such a weak Democrat field, And let's be honest, how many of you listening right now, if I, if I may, if I said Trump is not running, Trump for you know, for personal reasons, says he's not running again, and then there's no Republican candidate who comes forward. I'm gonna just

this is a thought experiment. If you've got to pick between Bloomberg and all these other Democrats that are running, how many of you would say, at least the guy knows how to build a business. Maybe I could see some people making the case they'd rather have maybe klobaschar who at least understands you're not going to knock one hundred and eighty million people off their health insurance and that Bernie Sanders saying he's gonna do that. It's just

it's just crazy. But Mike's point here, mini Mike is that or a little Mike because a little Mike or mini Mike, it's it's I think he calls him both. Maybe either one gets to the vertically challenged nature of mister Bloomberg, which he's not even by the way, he's not even producer Mark. I think he's like five to seven, right or five eight, which is normal height from what I gather, meaning average height, I should say, not normal height,

but it's average height. To tell me if I'm correct on that one, that's not even if he were like five to one, that's that's normal height. I mean I keep saying normal, I mean average average height. Well, how tall is Trump? He's like six three, so everyone's a little short to him. Yeah, he's he's got the Trump's got the Jesse Kelly syndrome where Jesse Kelly just walks around that tall physically looking down on everybody all the time.

Jesse is like it's like his eyes are on the top of Mount Olympus or something like he just gazes down from the sky because he's like eight feet tall. He's absolutely enormous. So yeah, Trump is like six three or six two. Maybe he's a big dude. I remember when I was with him in the Oval office when I was working for the Hill and DC. He's a He's a large fellow, that's for sure, but not quite Sebastian Gorka big though. I don't know if you know this.

Gorka is like the Mountain from Game of Thrones, which he kind of sounds like it a little bit too. He's got like a very deep voice. But Sebastian Gorka, doctor G who I'm very fond of, is is enormous. I mean he's he's got palms the size of grizzly bears. I'm telling you, enormous. To all conservatives are enormous, I guess,

I guess. I mean our team. If we had like an Avengers style, you know, throw down at the very end of the movie where it's like all the good guys against all the bad guys, Conservatives mail conservative pundits would would definitely thrash the lib conservative mail king the Avengers moment. Oh come on, everyone knows Avengers though, so I just go for it. Let's go for it. I'd

be kind of fun. Actually, you know, they did a one of the one of the I believe it was the comfortably Smug Twitter account did a contest a kind of March Madness bracket of biggest liberal hack in media and the winner of the whole thing, And I have to say it was based on public vote, and the winner of the whole thing was Brian Stelter Bad Stouter at CNED, just as the bid e of Zucker. The CNN executives by say he's a real jealist as the

speak of the truth. So little Stelter also known as mini me Zucker because he looks like Zucker twenty years ago. He was the winner of the whole thing, but Jen Rubin of The Washington Post was close. I do think she's the only person in media who one day might just come out and be like, ha ha, messing with you guys, because there's no way that she's that there's no way that she's that absurd and doesn't realize how

absurd she is. It's not possible. One of the best things in terms of amusement that I've read in a long time was Charles cook Over at National Review Online. Just took a series of remember Jennifer Rubin's a Washington Post columnists, so featured the Washington Post, very storied platform, to be sure, and he just took Charles just took Jennifer's previous statements, things that she had written, and then showed what she was writing about them two years later,

maybe diametrically opposed without missing a beat. You know what's going on and with Israel and Palestine is terrible. What's going to Israel and Palestine is awesome? I mean, just whatever on any issue, just you know, climate change, climate change is a hoax. Oh, climate change is gonna kill us all. Just turning on a dime based on whatever's most valuable in the moment tour. So anyway, I found

that that contest pretty funny. There are some others that I would have I would have wanted to see make it further into the liberal hack media tournament. But Brian Stelter. Gotta give a little little golf clap for Brian. He came out on as the winner and that whole thing.

But back to you, Bloomberg and Trump. There's a an overriding talking point that you get from Democrats right now, that Trump must be removed from office, and we're all supposed to just go along with this, right, We're supposed to believe that because so many people who have a prominent platform or are running for office themselves, whatever it may be, so many loud voices on the left and some on the theoretically on the right, say that Trump

needs to be removed from office. And so that then brings me to well, you know, Bloomberg for example, saying that that he has he should not be there. Why. We never really get to the why do we? And when you push them on the why, it always turns into a series of you know, kind of whiny you know, you know, just rubbing one's hands together as they come up with some oh it's the tweets, or I don't like what he said three years ago about this thing

or that thing. Normal people, And when I say normal people, I just mean Americans who have not yet been brainwash, have not yet been forced or brought into a state of Trump derangement syndrome where everything Trump does is bad. Trump is literally worse than Hitler and Stalin combined, the worst person in all history, so so terrible they make, they make this constant pitch to the American people. And yet Gallup today has Trump at a forty nine percent approval,

which is better than Obama in his first term. So well, what exactly are they are? What exactly are they telling us when they're saying that Trump is the worst president in history, a danger to the republic, must be stopped, cannot be allowed to stay in office. I remember what the arguments were in favor of Mitt Romney over Barack Obama. And it wasn't that people were saying that Obama is going to actually bring us to nuclear war, destroy the whole country, nothing will be left. He's a king, He's

an emperor. Democracy is finished. People are you know, being put in cages. And I mean, it wasn't all this stuff that you hear. It was I think mid Romney would be. And now I choke on these words as I say them, but I remember what I was saying. Then, I remember what all the conservatives. I'm not letting any of them skate on this one. Pretty much every conservative I know was some people were really big Rick Santorum fans. I was never a Rick Santorum guy. I just wasn't

my thing. I had a few friends of the Blaze really got to Rick Santorum, you think this guy should be president? Okay, but I remember that the pitch for Romney over Obama was Romney would be a more effective chief executive of the United States government, run the economy better, understands how to create growth and prosperity better. But it was very much a you know, he's any sure there are other arguments in Romney's pro life or he was when he ran for president, not when he was the

governor of Massachusetts. Perhaps that was a tip off about something, friends, But you know, there were arguments on policy for why Obama shouldn't win election in twenty twelve. They were real. I mean, healthcare was obviously a huge one. Obamacare, which was supposed to fix our healthcare. Does anyone feel like it fixed the healthcare system? It expanded the welfare roles on Medicaid, and some people in the individual markets got a little bit of subsidy from the government did a

little bit better off. Other people individual markets did worse off because guess what, they're subsidizing the people that are better off. That's all it was. That was all that fight, ultimately in terms of the implementation of that healthcare plan came down to that. But that was a real argument

on policy difference. Well, we're offered for why Trump. It's not just please vote Democrat instead of Trump, it's you must vote Democrat because Trump is, to borrow from Pelosi and others, a clear and present danger to the United States,

a danger they say. And I always turround and I say, based on what keep in mind that they're where arguments that could have and should have been made about why Obama should not have been reelected that we're not really made because the media was more in the tank for Obama than they were even for Hillary. I mean, they're more in the tank in twenty sixteen versus twenty twelve. You know, Obama was absolutely sacred to the Democrat media apparatus.

If you were a journalist and you were not pro Obama, you know, ninety five percent of your peers were against you. So there were things like, for example, the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, and which was a very underreported thing because there were a lot of casualties, a lot of people died, a lot of people lost their lives in this country fighting in Afghanistan because Commander then Commander in chief Obama had this very very basic formulation of

Iraq as the bad war. Afghanistan is the good war. I don't want to look weak. Let's send one hundred thousand plus troops to Afghanistan and let them go clear out Kandahar and Helmond and see how that goes for them. Let's send the Marines down into the most intense ground combat of that period of the Afghan War and then just figure out everything later on. I guess that's what they did, and there there were hundreds of huge spike and casualties in Afghanistan. Where was the anti war movement

when Obama's Oh they weren't. It didn't really exist. You know, once or twice a year you'd have some shrieks from some of the Code Pink ladies or something, but that was it. The anti war movement effectively disappeared when Obama's in office because it was so important to the left to make sure Obama got two terms. Eight years wasn't

enough for four. I had to have eight years. We were at this point now where the separation in perception between those who hate Trump and those who are willing to either support Trump or are die hard Trump supporters is so vast that it is really hard to have a conversation. I mean, Trump's approved rating is so high

with good reason. Any Trump supporter could look any Trump detractor in the eyes and say, what am I supposed to hate so much about what's happening in the country from the perspective of the United States government and what the government is doing. That I have rising wages, that I have more money in my pocket because of a tax cut, that unemployment to super low, that labor is better off now than it was three years ago. That I mean, you get on the list. That we're not

fighting and or escalating a major war anywhere. What is it? We're not getting hit with mass casualty terror attacks on a regular basis inspired by a metastasizing cancer in Syria known as the Islamic State. Because the Islamic State was crushed crushed by whom, Oh, yeah, that's right Trump. The Iranians have gotten a little quieter. Why oh, because Solomony got taken out after years and years of people in

both parties saying, ooh, can't do that. Now, even some European leaders have looked at this and said, well, I mean, it has changed the calculation for the Iranians quite a bit, hasn't it. I'm not going to just get away with doing whatever they want, and oh, we don't want we don't want to antagonize the Molas. We don't want to escalate there. That gave the Molas a freehand, not anymore.

Trump comes along and says, okay, in the administration now with the peace plan with Israel and the Palestinians, says, we're just dealing in reality. Israel's not going anywhere, Israel is secure, Israel's doing well. Palestinians, you want things to get better. Start acting like people in other parts of the world when they want things to get better. No more hamas, no more terrors, and none of this stuff where you can keep doing that and not gonna get

what you want. What is the thing that I'm supposed to see in the Trump administration and hate so much? And this is why I find that never trumpers, who, by the way, in the Iowa Caugus is Joe Walsh, who's just really just embarrassing. He got one point four percent I think of the vote, and Bill Weld got like point seven percent or something like that. Good job, guys, really glad you're speaking truth the power on this. But

the whole point is that we talk about them. The whole point is that just because they register on the scoreboard anywhere, even if they registered at zero percent, we got to say, up, there's these other guys registering at zero percent. Trump had ninety seven percent of the votes in Iowa, ninety seven percent of the supporters in the Republican Iowa caucuses. And guess what that's about. What he

has within the Republican Party. Democrats can keep telling us that the country is in terrible shape, that things are so bad. But he's going to go out there tonight in a State of the Union address, armed with facts, figures, armed with a reality, not a clever narrative creation machinery. Not oh if only you look at it this way or from this side. You know. Obama's whole thing was because when he came into office, the economy is going

through recession. He always just pointed to the worst possible years of that recession and then pointed to, you know, the best I'm sorry, the worst months of that recession, then pointed the best months of when he was in office that see, I saved the economy. No, I mean the economy just didn't completely collapse with Obama in office, but it was the weakest recovery in the second since the Second World War. And people forget this. It was Bush who stabilized the banks. It was Bush who did tarp,

it was not Obama. Obama did the stimulus, which was basically just throw a whole lot of cash. Dak's bear cash at uh. You know, all kinds of social welfare programs, extension of unemployment insurance UH and and some other just grab bag things for left wing interest all over the place. Right. But that's that was when an appammy Obama did saved the economy. Economy was in, it was in a weak

recovery when he was going for reelection. Trump goes out there tonight and he should be doing a victory dance. I mean, it's a shame that he hasn't already been acquitted that well. I don't know why they delayed this. By the way, they should have had the EQUATA vote on Friday so Trump could go out there. You know, Mitch McConnell, cocaine, Mitch, where are you out on this? Because Trump should be He should He has earned the right in the state of Union restaurant to spike the football.

Spike the football on behalf of the American people for whom things are good, things are going well. These are not. These are not dark and scary and ominous days for the country. These are prosperous and happy and peaceful days for the country. Whether Democrats accept that or not doesn't change what is true. And this is part of the

desperation they have. Trump is at a higher approval rating at this point at his presidency than Obama was, and Democrats recognize that if if he is judged on the merits of his presidency, guess what he's going to win reelection. You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton

Show podcast. It is amazing. Just as I talk to your team about stats and figures and numbers, this story today that there are five tech companies that make up eighteen percent of the stock market is that's a stunning figure. But it's also a way to keep in mind, it's a way to understand the shift in power that has occurred. And part of the the media desperation you're seeing now, it's because they're all a bunch of Democrats. They don't understand that how other people see the world. They don't

even pretend to try. But beyond that, the power, the cultural and economic and narrative projection power that the mainstream news outlets had is lessening all the time, and it's being replaced with Google, Facebook, you know, even you know, Amazon, Amazon obviously owns the Watchington Post, Jeff Bezos does. But we've got to look more into this because we are we are heading more and more into what feels like a tech oligarchy, oligawky. As Bernie says, thanks for listening

to The bus Essence Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. It really supports veterans. I'm an Air Force bettered myself, so I really respect that because, like no other president has really been actually sticking the neck out for us, and I really appreciate what he's been doing for the VA and um he's trying to keep us

out of wars. You know a lot of the things I thought he was gonna do, Like I thought it was gonna get us in the war with North Korea that didn't happen. Let's didn't get us in the war with Iran. That absolutely didn't happen. And he's a real strategic genius. And I really mussed the dude. He's dope, I love it. Are you going to vote for the president of twenty twenty? I appears so question. That's that's that's not even that's no question. That's why I'm here.

I'm absolutely gonna vote for him. Not Spanish, and I'm gonna vote for him. And again, yes, he's gonna be out of president twenty So that the gentleman that started that soundclip is an African American and veteran, and he's just saying why, based on results, based on the merits, he's going to vote for Trump. And then you had a woman, it was Latina, who also says that she's going to vote for Trump. Again. Now, I have no illusions here. Trump is not gonna get, you know, thirty

or forty percent of the African American vote. He's not going to get thirty or forty percent of the Latino vote, although he probably will get twenty percent. I mean, you'll do a little better, I think than previous Republican presidents have done. But if he could even get fifteen percent maybe of the African American vote, it's it's all. It would be all over for Democrats if that were to happen.

And one part of the Trump presidency that I think is so troubling for Democrats is that because it's a because there's such a a clear advocacy based on the results of the presidency, things done for people, more money in your pocket, more jobs in your neighborhood, less regulation, choking your business off, doing all the things that conservatives have been saying along this this will make things better, this will make things better. You know, you have this

competing vision of governance playing out in the country. You have the Trump view of pushing the interests of this country, trying to do everything possible to promote greater wealth for the American people, greater freedom for the American people, less government messing up your life, doing things that shouldn't do. And so that's at the federal level, but that plays out in different ways in each of the states as well.

And then at the state level, you have California, you have New York or we're currently doing this show from and you see what happens when Democrats get their way, unobstructed by any Republicans to temper their leftist passions to slow down things from the state from the status perspective.

So this is something that I think people are also seeing now an understanding that this is the greatest danger that Trump really poses is not just to the left and to the establishment in politics and media and just to to really to the ruling class in this country, which you could define in many ways, but people who have been ensconced in wealth and power, who often are there for either combination of luck, right place, right time because of the perception of their excellence that's a result

of going to certain institutions or working at certain institutions. That it's just all a perception game. It's all well, these people should be making all the decisions, they should be the ones that are in charge. We should listen to the so called experts on this because they know more than us and therefore the outcomes will be better. Trump comes along and says, who are these experts? Have they been right before? Are they good at this? This

is why I was at the LAP. I mean, foreign policy has been has been one of the most fantastic examples of this, because you have this whole foreign policy intelligentsia that has all of these maxims, all of these ideas that if you challenge them, you just don't know what you're talking about. And then Trump comes along goes, now, we're gonna do something differently. We're going to take a different approach to China, to North Korea, to Iran, to

the Middle Eastern general, to the Israeli Palestinian issue. To Russia. Oh I know, Oh, he does all of Russia's bidding, right. He does Russia's bidding by sending lethal aid to the Ukrainians that Obama wouldn't send, and by blowing up two hundred Russian paramilitary paramilitary fighters in the Syrian desert because they were threatening our Kurdish allies. Think of how quickly they cycle through narratives about how the Trump is the worst ever. We were going to have genocide in Syria

of the Kurds because of Trump. That didn't happen. As I was telling of the time, people need to come down. That's not going to happen. We were gonna have World War three because of taking out Salamani in the Iranian response didn't happen. In fact, not only did the Iranian response show that they're a little scared to Trump, but the Iranian response showed that there are a bunch of

that the Molas and their regime is grotesquely incompetent. They blew a civilian jet members a civilian jet flying out of their main airport of their capital city. They blew it out of the sky with missiles. And this wasn't like an international airspace. And there are some situations where you can understand there's there's even you know, the margin for air would be a little bit wider because you can see how a mistake could be made flying out of your capital city, taking off, blowing out of the

sky right away. That's the big bad Iran that we're so scared to defy and scared to upset, or at least that both parties. For a long time now, I haven't wanted to challenge the mullas when Trump comes along and says, why are you so smart? Why are you supposed to be so good at this? By the way, I don't reject expertise. I love expertise. I think expertise

is fantastic. One of the reasons why I generally only have a small number of guests on this show is because I only want to bring people on who are either really insightful or really entertaining or both. Not just people that can do what I do, which is tell you what's going on in the world, and not do it as well as I do. That's fine. I mean I don't need that, right, I'd rather I don't want to pretend somebody has a special knowledge that they don't have.

But when someone does, I mean I bring on you know, my friend Annie McCarthy, for example, because he knows so much about federal law and the criminal justice system of prosecution. You know, it knows more than me on that in that area. You know, I talked to producer Mark about the Rangers and hockey and sports and what it is to be a real American because you know, he has special knowledge in those areas that I don't have as

somebody from Manhattan, which is basically a foreign country. So you know, you look at these areas of expertise and governance, and we've been led to believe that there are all these people that are making these decisions that are really really wise. You know, you get into the discussions about who's smart, who's not, who's clever, who's not wise? Is about having intelligence, but also the application of intelligence in

situations that bring about good outcomes. That's wisdom, right. Wisdom is knowing what to do in situations when you should and should not act. And we have a democratic party that never learns from the mistakes of the past, always wants to repeat them because they are deeply believe This

brings us back to our conversation from yesterday. They believe that a government apparatus that gives you fewer and fewer choices, that makes more decisions for you, is inherently going to be better, and in fact, that's a more comfortable and I would even say more moral state in their mind, a state in which you are told what you can eat, what you can wear, where you can go, what you can say, how much of your property is really yours, how much of it you have to give to the state.

You have no real say in the matter. You just go down the list of all of the freedoms. You know, what firearms you're allowed to have. You know, you got on the list of all the different freedoms that you would expect as an individual, that you would want as an individual. And the Democrats, each on each thing want more government intrusion in your life because they know more this is this is at the heart of central planning.

I mean, this is at the heart of Bernie Sanders socialism and Joe Biden's kind of lowest denominator Democrat pablum. I mean, it's just the you know, the advantage that Biden gives the Democrats is the belief that he somehow is more moderate and more reasonable and more realistic. But they he's trying to take you in the same direction. The Democratic Party off today wants to take you in the same direction that Bernie Sanders does. Sanders is just

more authentic and honest about it. You know, the Democrats, the Democrat apparatus of Pelosi and Schumer and Chief and Biden, the people that are well, Biden's not really you know, he's a former vice president, but he's still considered very much of the establishment. Same thing with John Kerry and

these other figures. They want to believe, or they want you to believe, that they're just going to be better administrators, They're going to be wiser than the Republicans on these matters, and that might mean a little bit more, a little bit more tinkering around the edges, when in reality just means control. They want control and Trump is a continue challenge to all of that. How could he be better on foreign policy than his last three predecessors in office

at a minimum? Right? How could he be better on that when he's not supposed to know anything. Oh, he can't find Ukraine on a map, they say, or he can't find a Ron on a map, or whatever it is. How could the economy be in the shape that it's in right down? The President's going into the State of

the Union address tonight, And I really mean this. If you had told me on the day after Trump's twenty sixteen election victory, if you told me that right now, or if I had a time machine and could just wake up where we are today from where we were three years ago, I would say to you, or going on now four years I would say to you, there's no way this guy's came is not going to win re election, because what do you really want in a president.

I've seen a return of some of these Democrats coming out with the oh you you know, my eleven year old said, why is Trump saying those mean things on TV?

You know they love to do this. I don't. I don't get it, and I hate it because it's so first of all usually false, meaning they're just making it up, you know, Daddy, I just wanted to know, you know, why is it that Trump doesn't allow for a more centrally planned, fixed to our healthcare system that would have a better distribution of healthcare goods to a greater section of the populace without disparities among racial and socioeconomic status. It's like, I'm sure your eight year old did not

say that, lib I'm sure of it. I'd bet, I'd bet all the money I got, not a lot, But I'm sure your eight year old didn't say that. But they'd like to tweet this anyway. Oh, my eight year old wants to know why Trump is such a mean man. Oh, it's always like, what what are they talking about? Why do they think that there's all this wisdom that comes from the mouth of mouths of children and about political issues?

This is I mean. And Greta Thunberg just got nominated for a second Nobel Prize, by the way, the second year I should say that she got nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. So all you have to do is be a mouthpiece, be somebody that that mouths the slogans goes around spewing what the internationalist left wants, and you two can be a Nobel Peace Prize nominee at least,

if not, if not a winner. But if you told me that we'd be here when Trump first won the presidency, I would turn around you and I would say he's got to win, right, Because isn't this what politics is

really about? Producing results? Isn't that what this is? We have these elections so that we can make the wisest decisions we can about whom we entrust power to, and we do and we do all of this so that we can live in peace, live in prosperity, live in you know, as much freedom as we can have our rights protected and you know, the rights and shrine of the Institution, and even additional freedoms and liberties. I mean,

that's isn't that what this is all about? For a lot of people, it's a bit sad, But it's about personal branding. It's about the way that's supporting one party or one candidate makes them feel about themselves. They don't look at the results, they don't look at what is happening with what the government actions that are being taken or not taken do in their lives. It's what are my buddies, you know, what are my colleagues, co workers, whether it's you know, at the construction site or in

the faculty lounge or wherever. Right, what do they think of my politics? And does it advantage me socially to hold a certain political position or support a certain candidate. And as long as we live in a country where the media and academia and now it's largely the legal professional law schools, I mean, they're all working together to create the perception that Democrats are the good, nice, smart people.

It doesn't matter how many victories Republicans rack up when they're actually in power, Democrats have already been brainwash into thinking, no, good, nice, smart people who care about the poor and care about the downtrodden, they support Democrats. Yeah, based on what That's what I always want to ask. You're in the freedom mud. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. So, Tam, I saw the news right after the show yesterday. It just broke broke for me. I mean I just saw it

coming across on Twitter. Actually, that the single greatest, most powerful, most influential, I would say, most important voice in conservatism of my lifetime. Perhaps people would say, perhaps he himself would say, well, no second to Reagan, but the most powerful conservative voice of my lifetime, Rush Limbaugh, has come down with a very a very troubling diagnosis of advanced lung cancer. I will tell you this now, I've been honored,

and I mean that it's a true honor. And I mean one of the the great phone calls that I have ever received was the first time Kit Carson, who also passed away just a few years ago, who was Rush Limballs. It was Kit Carson and mister Snerdley Are were the two guys that many of you know from Russia's show and you know, behind the scenes making sure everything on that show was as powerful and successful and

entertaining and wonderful as it was. I remember I got that call from Kit Carson, and it was the only time I've ever received a phone call from somebody that I thought I was being put on, Like I thought it was a joke. I thought it was someone pretending to be kid, because why Kit Carson would call me to fill in for Rush Limball. The Rush Limball come on?

And I ended up doing a number of I mean, I don't know, probably a dozen times or so filling in for Rush over the course of a couple of years, maybe more than that, and clearly led to me getting my own syndicated show. Was probably the single biggest break of my entire professional career to date. And really there were two moments that were game changers. One was, to his credit, Glennbeck finding me out of nowhere and just saying come work for me. I had never worked in media,

so I always give Glenn credit for that. Also, Glenn, of course works for a premiere and iHeart media. And then Rush Limbaugh's phone call You're a few years after that, and I just bring it up because the impact that rushed at me. First of all, thoughts and prayers for Rush, and if anyone's going to beat this thing and come

back even stronger, if that's possible, it's Russia Limbaugh. So I just I would only, I only would ever bet on Rush to win, whatever that means, and in this case, I would still put my money on Rush to come through and be fine. But I also would just say that I've never met Rush, I never had the honor of actually meeting him in person. I did a show many times. I know his staff very well. I think of them with tremendous fondness. They made me a better

radio host. They made me better at what I do day in and day out here in media and talking to all of you. And Rush created this whole world that we now inhabit, that you who are listening to and watching this show inhabit, where we can have a real conversation, where we can speak the truth about things. Rush was the guy who was hacking that out of the woods when there was no trail. He was the trailblazer.

He was the guy. And there are thousands of us who owe our careers, in our livelihood and really our life's mission to Rush Limbaugh. And there are hundreds of millions of us over the years in this country who in one way or another have benefited from what Rush has done already. So prayers up for Rush, the original, the Best, the one and only. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcast. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Team I want to bring you with some bring you some updates on the coronavirus situation that is rattling markets and just scaring people all over the world right now. But but I just want to say, first, this was circulating on social media. Does is Trump having his best week ever? I think that was a show. I wasn't it a show on E for a while, producer Mark right, Trump's having his or not Trump, but best week ever for different people. Yet it was a show where people

are they having their best week ever? This is what's happened. This is gonna be Trump's week, we'll say, from last Wednesday to till tomorrow. So we're going ahead on this

one a little bit. GPS blocked witnesses in the Peachman trial, the complete debacle with the Iowa Caucus is a State of the Union address tonight that is going to be a pep rally on steroids for the Trump agenda and all of its successes thus far, all time high job approval rating I left that out before, better than Obama's at this point, but also all time high for Trump acquittal tomorrow from the sham impeachment sign the US Canada Mexico, US Mexico Canada whatever trade deal. I mean, Trump is

crushing it right now. I mean he's just doing a fantastic job, and yet there's such divisive, hateful stuff out there. About how Trump is terrible, I need to remove him from office and all this stuff. Anyway, It's just it's just insane. I really I do worry. I say this, and I know it's going to sound like I'm just being a bit a bit cheeky, but I really do worry about the psychological health of many, many, many, many

Democrats across the country. The day after Trump is reelected, I just I'm not sure they can really handle it. I don't I don't know if they'll be able to process it. They're so convinced that he's the worst person ever, and yet the president is doing better than he's ever done, and his supporters are more locked in than they've ever been each year of the Trump presidency. I'm you know, I don't know. I've run out of I've run out of giving him superlatives. I don't know what else to say.

It's just better than I thought it would be. And I thought it was going to be good. I was a supporter, But here we are, all right. Coronavirus is it a Now you have the big debate over whether or not it qualifies as a pandemic. I mean, still most of the cases are in China, in Wuhan Province. And I've noticed that we were talking about experts in the last hour, and how we believe that experts have all of this this knowledge that we must always rely

on it, and certainly in the medical field. That sure, I want super geniuses working in medicine. Why also, I want doctors to be paid well. I want medical researchers to be paid well. I want pharmaceutical companies to make real profits. I do want those things to happen because I want the best, you know, I don't want the Soviet Union's version of big pharma. I want an American

capitalism's version of pharma. I want people who are staying late at the office, who could have had other jobs, but do this because they're really, really, really good at it, curing cancer and finding finding things out. So, you know, the medical area is one where we always want I think we we understand that we want to have the most knowledge possible. We want the best of the best. You know, just ask anybody, do you know do you care about your heart? Do you care about anything to

do with your heart surgeons, politics, or anything else? You know, what color your heart surgeon is, what gender your heart surgeon is, or you just care about you want the best heart surgeon you can possibly get. And I think nine percent of people in this country and probably around the world would say no, No, I just want the person who's the best. So we want those who are in the medical field. You know, that's that's not subjective.

It's not like literature professors really cooh, maybe we needed to be more representative of whatever. No, we just want the best of the best. Unfortunately, in some cases, and you graduate school admissions and other as they've fallen away from this, even for medical school admissions, and that's that's troubling. But you look at the experts on what to do about a pandemic, and it's yet another one of these moments where if you're paying attention, you see they're not

really sure. You have some people who are coming out who are elevated as the voices we should be listening to on this, you know, specialized epidemiologists and it's a fun word to say epidemiologists, specialized people dealing with with outbreaks, dealing with contagion, mass contagion. And they'll tell you that flight bands don't work and are counterproductive and are a bad thing, and they say, well, hold on a second, if we can't if containing the virus from being actually

shipped all over the world on planes. I mean, you look at the spread of pathogens in the past that led to mass outbreaks, led to mass casualties, and one of the reasons that you would have outbreaks of disease, like going all the way back to the days of the Black Death, bubonic plague. Again, a lot of this pandemic disease. Now keep in mind Europeans were the source of New World pandemics, So I mean, disease has just moved from the greatest concentrations of people, which have been

in Asia for millennia. You know, they moved west because of the age of exploration, the age of the great sailing ships, and so all of a sudden ports places like Venice. That's where initially the Black Death showed up in Europe, and then and our diseases in Europe made their way too, So you know, people get there. There's

this cultural sensitivity about speaking honestly about this. Well, I mean, if we're going to talk about how about how flu viruses originate in Asia and how some of the practices of animal husbandry, which is this way of saying, you know, raising animals for livestock and all. Why I keep saying, it's like I'm getting all Shakespearean over here. There's husbandry in heaven. It's actually what he says in Macbeth for when there's not much of the moonlight coming in Producer Mark,

that's what I'm here for. You just want to be a husband so bad that up, I've fairly got husband on the mind. So I gotta I gotta gotta find that, missus Sexton. So if we take the model though, of well, the disease has spread throughout the Western World, starting in the Asian lamb Master. Let's keep in mind that we the explorers of the New World, the Europeans. When I say we, I just mean, you know, the West, we

brought disease that wiped out the New World effectively. So we were the source of pandemics, smallpox notably, and influenza and some other things that came in and just effectively eradicated the populations of the New World, of the native peoples. That was what really did especially, I mean smallpox destroyed whole minor civilizations. Okay, so that's this is people say, oh, let's not talk about how these disease originated in Asia. Know they originate in Asia, they go to the rest

of the world, and we have a history. We e the Europeans spread lots of disease. So disease is a human thing, right, It's not a nationality thing. It's we're all just trying to avoid untimely death and all the pain and laws that comes from pandemic disease. Okay, so now let's just look at this from the expert perspective. Some of them are saying that we shouldn't have these flight bands in place, and I just sit here and

I say, well, it shouldn't. We be all in the same page about continuing to say, oh no, but it doesn't really work, and it ends up economically depressing areas, And then there's less honesty about whether in governments because they don't want to lose all the revenue from having the flight bands and you have all this stuff, and so the experts don't agree on what to do about this necessarily, which I always feel is a place that

we have to remember. We find ourselves as the public figuring out who we should listen to and asking those who make decisions in power based upon expertise to understand that even scientific expertise can be a whole lot there's a whole lot of descent, a whole lot of competing theories about what to do in pandemic disease is one of those areas you think about, even to just yesterday, prous of work, you know. I saw that they're saying now that babies unless they have a real allergy to it,

a true allergy, not alike. I read something on Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop site that says, we have allergies to it, that milk, and in fact, whole milk is good for babies. Now again they've decided that's really good for babies. You show young and young people growing whole milk, full fat milk, very good things when they feel like it. Well, I mean, because like there was a few years ago, like oh no, cow's milk bad, you know, antibiotics, all these things everything.

I wasn't even supposed to drink whole milk. I mean, I love whole milk, by the way, really yeah of coral, yeah totally. I'm I'm a little bittle bit of a milk snob. I will only drink organic milk. It tastes better. Oh, you're one of those. And it has nothing to do like a producer. Mark is a fancy milk guy. It has nothing to do with like, oh I need to

drink organic. No, it just tastes better. I have. I have hazel nut milk, and I will tell you that I pour hazel nut milk in my Black Rifle coffee in the morning, which I'm not sure if that's okay. I wanted the Black Rifle guys to find out that I'm pouring hazelnut milk and they're delicious coffee to taste like hazelnut, right, Well, it's just it's just milk hazelnuts. Yeah, yeah, So it tastes like hazel what's wrong with that? It's

a little fruit through you know what I mean. I mean, we'll get that and like, you know, I feel like I feel like in America, we like we like that little plastic creamer thing that can last like fifteen years, Like after the nuclear apocalypse, you could still open one of those little creamer plastic things they have in the andy. It still tastes the same. Whatever it is, just putting your tail in your coffee, it's just wet. Oh my gosh, have you ever had any tel Now you're gonna have

to roll me into this place. I have ever had to tell you. I don't know. You could put an tell on my shoes and I would eat them on the planet. I'm talking about the tell I was talking about pandemic did all right, I'm gonna go back to pandemic disease here, and what's going on with coronavirus? Hold on a second. You're in the Freedom hud. This is

the Buck Sexton Show podcast. So the experts on coronavirus aren't aren't seeing out eye, And I wanted to tell you on what to do about it necessarily, and we have to rely on the Chinese government. And it's interesting because, you know, pandemic disease is a place where you see the crossover of people who are very status and people who are believing in much more limited government. Because this is really a national pandemic disease automatically, phil falls into

a really a national security exception. I mean, the only way that you're going to stem these things, You're not going to rely on the private sector to just do its thing right all of a sudden, you want government action.

And there's some interesting history here. I'm gonna bring it back to New York City for a second on how to stemp pandemic diseases, because I told you yesterday about I think it was the eighteen thirty two and eighteen forty nine the cholera epidemics in New York City killed thousands of people, which would be more like one hundred thousand people in New York City today if you adjusted for population size. Well, there was some sense that the

water was dirty. They didn't really understand microbiology at that point, but they knew the water was dirty. And so what ended up happening, Well, the state of New York had to come up with a plan to deal with this, and there were some experts who said, we're gonna we build an aqueduct. An aqueduct from what is now the Croton Reservoir System brings water into New York City. People have clean fresh water, better for everybody, great for public health.

We need to do this. But instead you had competing interests, in this case, competing commercial interests. A fellow named Aaron Burr. You guys all remember him, right. Aaron Burr wanted to found a bank, but you needed a charter from the state of New York to found a bank back in seventeen ninety nine, and to get that charter, you had to say that there was going to be some public good.

So what he set up was a water company, a water company called the Manhattan Company, and this was going to be a competitor to you guessed at Alexander Hamilton's

Bank of New York. So the Manhattan Company comes in and says, oh, we have this charter, now what should be doing the public good of bringing water in and so we will pull together funds to create a water system for the city of New York, which will help prevent these outbreaks of things like yellow fever and cholera and you know other diseases pathogens, bacteria, protozoa that float in the water. Usually it has to do with not to be gross if you're if you're eating lunch, turn

away for a second. Usually has to do with essentially human wastewater getting into your drinking water. That was the big problem, especially with wells. They didn't really understand that that the water groundwork can be infected and seep into wells, that they're not protected properly. So the Manhattan Company decides that they're going that they have this charter and they're going to bring in a water system. But what do

they do well, they just want to make profit. Aaron Burd just wants to make more money because any money left over after they've raised the funds to build the aqueduct system into New York in seventeen ninety nine, any money that they have left over, they can use for

banking purposes. Ah. Yes, So the Manhattan Company decides instead of using metal pipes, iron pipes to bring in the water, they want to use wooden pipes, holid out trees instead of using Instead of using a more mechanized system to initially flush the water out, they used horse drawn system

to do so. They essentially cut corners. And the biggest corner of all was instead of bringing water in from the Croton Reservoir system north of the city, pristine, clear, beautiful water, which also would have been How when you run water over sand and gravel, there's a process you run it through sand and gravel, it can be cleaned

distilled to a certain degree. That way, a large percentage of pathogens can be removed from water just through that simple filtration system, and really a natural filtration system, and instead they get all cheap on it, and they decide to go on the cheap and they also bring in water from a stagnant pool here in the city to

distribute to people as part of this water system. And sure enough, there is a whole lot of disease that results from this disease that is primarily affecting those who cannot escape the city when their outbreaks, those who do not have country homes or homes, and other parts of the city. And so the five points that I mentioned to you, and Irish and freed slaves and newly arrived Irish immigrants getting the worst end of this. Interesting little

historical note too. The Manhattan Company, which was founded by Aaron Burr, you know, Aaron Burr was Vice President of the United States, got second most votes after Thomas Jefferson, and that was the way they used to do this system then and Alexander Hamilton was talking a lot of stuff about Burr and also including his rapacious greed and his practices as a founder of the Manhattan Company. And as we know, that led to a duel in Weehawk

in New York. Hamilton shot his gun to defend his honor, but away from Burr Burr just put one right in his chest killed him. Interestingly enough, that Water company you probably all have heard of that Manhattan the Manhattan Company, which was initially set up to bring water into the city of New York. Because that, through iterations of corporate mergers, became what is known as JP Morgan Chase, the second

largest bank in the world. That is how it started out bringing dirty water to poor people to save money so they could lend money out and make it on the banking side. That is the reality of it. That's also why if you look at the JP Morgan Chase logo, you might look in and say, oh, it just looks like a corporate logo. Uh. JP Morgan Chase's corporate logo comes from the Greek god of the ocean, oceanics Poseidon kind of but oceanics. Uh, that's that's where all this

comes from. Isn't that interesting? There was a in fact, they used to hold meetings up until I think it was eighteen ninety nine. The board of JP Morgan, which it wasn't called JP Morgan at the time it went. It went through very you know, there's all this different

consolidations that occurred. But that the company that was the Manhattan The Manhattan Company even after it gave up, and it gave up pretty quickly having anything with water held itself up as as a water as a water company, and they would have these board meetings and they would all have drinking glasses out with water, and it's sort of as as a tradition, but that is in fact the origin story of the second largest bank in the

world today, JP Morgan Chase. It started out it was founded by Aaron Burr to compete with Alexander Hamilton, and they decided to bring dirty water to poor people, which poisoned them and their children, in order to make a little more money. You can imagine there's a lot of people that point to this now and say corporations are bad.

But I would point to this and say, well, maybe you shouldn't have had chrony capitalism and the charter necessary to form the bank in the first place coming from the state of New York which decided there had to be a social welfare component for a company that had no interest in social welfare. See what I did there. But that is the fun history lesson of today. Producer Mark, was that your favorite history lesson so far? Is that

is that top of the list? JP Morgan Chase. If you go in there, I'd be like, Hey, you guys still feeding dirty water to poor people? Yeah, I should absolutely. I'm sure they will understand what I'm saying too. I'm not sure that your average teller would necessarily or even your average JP Morgan Chase managing director would know the backstory. But does ce don't even know that. I don't know, just buck no more than the CEO. It's always possible.

It's a thing that could happen. Yeah, So that's that's how we got say, pandemic disease in New York City was what led to the founding of the second largist Bank of the World, which I'm sure some of you have accounts with and do you're checking with, et cetera, etc. You can now you can drop a little knowledge and you walk in your JP Morgan Chase branch and just be like, Hey, where do you guys get your drinking water from? Thanks for listening to the bus Session Show podcasts.

Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. I know I'm going to get notes on this one, so I said this before. He's like Posidon, but Oceanis was the Titan god of the water, whereas Poseidon is an Olympian from Mount Olympus, which we actually randomly mentioned before on the show. So Oceanis was from the Titan period of Greek mythology and Poseidon is from the Olympian school of make believe gods

from the Greeks. Anyway, I because I knew Producer Mark I was gonna get a hammer on that one. Now we can begin our role call. Please like soft butter on warm toast, time to spread some freedom coast to coast. It's time for roll call. It is time for roll call. First up, we've got Adam, who writes in. Producer Mark I recently saw the Harlem Globetrotters. I think the song might be Bucks Kryptonite Shields high. I assume there's a lot of whistling, and I meant you like when I

have sound effects ready, thank you. I don't think I'm gonna have an injurism. That's enough, that's enough. Sure, Yeah, I think we're good. Okay, Look, whistling is not something that people need to do. I'm just just putting it out there. Bill Hey, Buck, I have recently started listening to your podcast, and I have to say it's quickly become my favorite. I just and I purchased a couple of Tomahawk ribis and tried the reverse your method. I

will never grill my ribbis again. Shield's high. Well, Bill, First of all, you have fantastic taste in podcasts and in red meat. Ribi is my favorite cut. I recently had had a kind of American style wag you that starts with a Z and I'm trying to remember if I could even tell you. I think it was like a zamboni or something like that. It was, Oh, zabuton. There we go. I want to make sure I got this one right. I had a zabuton steak. I made

it for myself. Wow. It was fantastic, highly highly recommend because it was similar, I believe, to a butcher's steak. Yeah, it's similar to a butcher's steak or butcher's cut steak, which is also excellent. You look at it, it it almost looks like a short rib. It's a bit thick and kind of square. Usually the way they cut up it is it was delicious. Yeah. Reverse Here here's the thing I understand, there's nothing quite as satisfying. It's throwing a big hunk of red meat on a on a really

hot grill outdoors. You hear the seer, you smell it, all the men of making myself hungry, all the you know, the charcoal and carbonization and all this stuff adds all this flavor. But you know it doesn't add flavor when the outside of your meat is blackened and you get to the center of your very expensive, very delicious cut of red meat and it is like stone cold and purple. Now, some of you might like your steak black and blue. I am not one of them. I like it medium

rare because I'm a civilized fellow rare. I will do sometimes I will say that if I'm really living on the edge. But I like I'm a medium rare guy. And if you reverse sear and you just look it up on YouTube, I should do it. You know what, because we are going to have a YouTube channel up to in producer Mark, we keep stopping and starting on this one. I'm going to do a whole bucks reverse sear method where maybe I'll sit there and I'll talk politics while I reverse seer a steak, and we'll put

this on YouTube. Well, that would be interesting and it'll be like Buck's Cooking School. That's what I'm saying. While you talk politics, I mean, or just about things you don't even need the politics. Yeah, I probably just do like history lessons or something, or talking about something more interesting than politics. But the reverse, hear. Have you tried to your producer Mark, I would like you and the missus the next time you guys are doing red meat

at home. She doesn't need red meat. That's right, you told me that, So do you ever? Do you? You know it's too much point myself. Yeah, okay, forget that. I'll have you guys over some time. I'll cook you. I'll cook you guys the reverse your method, because if you're really into cooking it perfectly, I mean, you want it exactly the right temperature and exactly the right seer on the outside. Reverse here, it's it's annoying. It turns

it a little bit more into a chemistry experiment. I love taking my burger, throwing it on and I can do the field test, which is when you just push it and you can tell in the center based on how squishy it is, whether or not it's whether well it's ready. I'm I can prey. If the burger is thin enough, I can do that. If it's too thick, you can't because then it's just it's motion in the middle.

You can't tell. But if you do the reverse here things you have to you have to do it like a science experiments where you're putting the thermometer in like every because you'll reach a certain point and you'll get close. But you want to get a perfect you gotta put it in like every five minutes to see. So it's a little much better cook than I expected. Yeah, that's right. I've skills. Yeah, oh no, no, no, I actually make it happen, man, I make it happen. You're you're a

single man in New York. You know you gotta know how to cook. That's true. You know what I'm saying. Damn, restaurants are expensive. So I'm glad you like the reverse her method. Everyone else at home, you're probably saying, bucket sounds fancy, It sounds like a fancy French word for surrender reverse here, But no, it really is, in fact a great way to cook your meat. And you will you will love it. Um you will think it is fantastic once you've done it, and it's the way you

want to cook your meat all the time. Leanne. Right, So what's the name of your brother's gluten free bakery, Leanne. My brother is the founder of a luten free baked goods company called Susie's s O O Z y Um. They have them in a bunch of national retailers. You can just see them online. You'll check it out there.

I mean, it's amazing, the best gluten free products you'll get in my opinion, of course, my Rose company, but I really do believe this best gluten free products you'll find anywhere in the baked It's in the frozen section of the grocery store, by the way. And that's another thing too. I used to think frozen was equaled, not fresh.

When I was young, I didn't really understand this. The freezer is a critical part of, you know, your whole culinary life and experience, because the freezer is where you're going to keep a lot of meat that stays for a very long time, that stays good. It's freezer is not just for TV dinner. Freezer is for fruits and vegetables picked at maximum ripeness. So that when you want them, you have them, and you don't have to worry about that.

You can keep I mean I've pulled. I've pulled ground chuck for example, really good ground chuck out of the freezer after a couple of months and made a burger out of it. It It was absolutely fantastic. Gotta make sure it stayed frozen the whole time. But you ever you rocked the freezer, freeze is always full. Though. If you go to a restaurant food taste frozen, that's probably well, that's a bad thing, right, they're moving, so they should be moving so much product through that why would they

have to use the freezer. But at home it's a very normal thing. At home, it's very very economical. You gotta be jays or something very economical, right, And if you get a great deal on for example, you know, if you get a great deal on Prime rib or something, you know you use some of it maybe right away, but if you know, obviously you don't want to throw it out. Food cost will just go up if you do that, your own personal food costs. So I would say go for it. But baked goods, here's a little

trick for you. Do you go to the county fair and you get a delicious uh you know, to some delicious chocolate chip cookies that are still moist and whatever. If you put them in the freezer right away, if you're not gonna eat all of them, you can pull them out and you can even just you don't have to thaw them. You can just put them in the microwave. They'll be almost every bit as good as when they came out of the oven. I mean truly minimal. Minimal. Yeah. Oh,

you can do with really any baked good. I've done it with um if you take so. I sometimes will find like fancy gluten free paste trees are bread, like gluten free pistachio bread is something. I found that a few coffee shops in New York are very fancy. I'm sure they kind of are everywhere. Now. I was in Nashville and they're like, excuse me, like I'm doing some chemistry with your coffee. I was like, this is Nashville.

What are you doing, sir? Give me a cup of joe? Yeah. So, yeah, I know if you if you take like banana bread, for example, that's fresh, and you put it in the freezer, it'll be fine. So that's a thing you can do with Susie's. I mean they have muffins and donuts. And you take producer Mark Howlin, he'll tell you what it was very good. Yeah, you put it in the microwave for thirty or forty seconds and it's fantastic. Joe, right buck, Hey man, hope life's good. Keep fighting the good fight.

I wanted my wife to listen to the let me tell you a story about Kobe Bryant monologue about the boy he visited the hospital, but I couldn't find it? Could you or producer Mark point me in the right direction? Shields high? Um, I do you want? Do you want the thing? I have to know? Joe, We're happy to put into the right direction. But just right back us. Know if you're looking for what I said about that on the show, or if you're looking for just the Facebook post it was based, do you want to read

or do you want to hear? It? Is what we have. I think a couple of people who wanted to read it. They want to say, no, where to find it? Want to read it? I will send it then to producer Mark and we can put it up on the Facebook page Facebook dot com slash Buck Sexton. So because I have it, I have it somewhere. So that's the that's the best way I think we can go about that, all right. Next up here, Mike hi Buck. Like all of us, I was devastated to hear Rush's announcement. Thankfully

he has. He is a fighter that has millions praying for his recovery. It reminds me of how we so easily take for granted the influential conservative voices that offer real insight and wisdom, especially when good humor is involved. The importance of laughter can never be underestimated. I listened to several radio shows and find yours the only other one that gives me the same genuine satisfaction as L.

Rushbo does. So keep up what you're ps. Do you think Rush should receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump for what it's worth? Seems like a fitting gesture, But maybe Rush wouldn't like the spotlight on him in that way. Just a thought any anyhow, Shields High. First of all, Mark, I mean, Mike, thank you so much for the kind note. And yeah, we're all we're all pulling for Rush. And if anyone, if anyone's going to

come out of this. Uh, you know, fine, it's gonna be Rush Lombaugh and then guy's a fighter as forum. Whether he should get the Medal of Freedom, I think that's a great idea. I don't I don't know, As I said earlier in the show, I've never met Rush, never even talked to Rush, but I think that that

would certainly be fitting. And he created he created, really, you know, an industry, you know, I mean, Rush is like think of him almost like the Steve Jobs of talk radio, and that he created this whole world that didn't really exist before. People might say, oh, there was there was you know, they're a talk host before I think there was this guy Bob Grant, who I think, I'm not a talk radio story by any stretch. I

don't know that much about it before my time. But Rush, I mean there was a time when I was younger, I remember him. It was basically Rush Limbaugh. And then it came up with the Internet, the Drudge Report, and you had Fox News starting in nineteen ninety six. But the whole world of conservative the alternative that conservative media presented to the American people was only really possible because

of the trailblazing that rush Limbaugh did. He created that space that now so many of us have rushed alongside him to try and you know, to try and fill in our own way. But he was leading the charge. We were the ones that came in after him, the generations that came after him, and other talk hosts from his generation too. You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. All right. We got Richard writing in for Roll Call. Buck. I work third so

I get paid to be up. Huh, Okay, I'm watching this Iowa debacle. This is why you stress test your software. Remember when Romney's Get out the Vote app crashed on election day? The Dems now just did the same thing. Sometimes it's just better to use paper to record votes and a phone call to them to put them in. And these people want to take over everyone's healthcare. They can't make an app to record one thousand, six hundred anyone,

cacus precinct results, shields and wait times high. Yeah, Richard's a bad look for the Democrats, no question about it. Bad look from the Democrats. This was not you know, we should expect that they'd be more capable than this. Even for Democrats, this was particularly weak Carl. Next up, Buck, I wanted to point out a characteristic of yours I think separates you from other show hosts and why I've stuck with you for going on five years. You have

great instincts. What I mean is you always know exactly what those on the left wing will say or do in a given situation, how they really think, and what motivates them. It's more than just understanding their arguments. You know what makes them tick, and you see through fakes, almost like you have a sixth sense, always spot on. And by the way, I'm tired of people citing the fact that Bernie is consistent, as if that's some sign of higher morality or honesty. No, no, he's just an

ideological fanatic. When the rest of America recognized communism for what it is post Cold War, all Bernie did was changed the name out Front Communist to Democratic Socialist, like a bad buffet that got shut down for healthclad violations and opens the next day under a new name. Shields High. Carl, thank you so much. I appreciate your your insights on Bernie's changing of the nomenclature for his ideology, and then also the kind words about my instincts on the show.

Thank you so much. I appreciate five years. Man, that's great. That's we've spent a lot of time together. That's why I always love the team because whenever they see me on the real world, people who listen to the show, the didn't know me. I mean, they've spent a lot of time hanging out with me. They know what I think, they know what I sound like, they know they know my I was gonna say my kids names, whoops, no kids yet. They know my parents dogs name, they know

my siblings names. All that dusted hey, buck listening and the TV analogy used actually proves your argument wrong. The reason those TV's are cheaper and better is because they're made in China, and as you know, they're communists. Just saying no dustin that doesn't prove the argument wrong, because the argument is that when people are incentivized, they will make they will make better products and make them more cheaply.

The Chinese are incent We're incentivized to do that too, and that's why you are able to buy a television that today is three hundred dollars that ten years ago would have been three thousand dollars. That's why you carry around a supercomputer in your pocket. Capitalism is not limited to this country. We are in a global market. So I'm not seeing how TV's getting cheaper because they're made in China. Prove that capitalism does not result in better

and more and more efficient products. And in fact, China has embraced market economics in certain sectors of its economy, certainly in its global exports, because that's how it's making so much money in China. Is not a true China is a is a command control Uh, you know, China is essentially an authoritarian capitalist country. Now it's not really it's it's not a communist country. There's no way, because you know, you got people driving or I think people

rolling over the place. I was just there, what nine months eight months ago, people driving around and BMW's all over the place. My friends, this is not the Soviet Union communism that you're used to, Erica. I wasn't bothered by the Bloomberg ad. On the contrary, I want all the Democratic presidents for candidates to waste their campaign funds

on ads that try to persuade me to vote for them. Well, Erica, I'm glad to hear that, because you know, we as we've told you, we have no we have no ability to control political ads that go on the ad space, on the podcast or on our radio show here, because there are fair you know, equal time regulations, fair time regulations that come into play during a political cycle. And yeah, I mean, if we can get some of that Bloomberg cash right, producer Mark Bruce and Martney's a new pair

of shoes. Yeah, I need a lot of things. If he wants to donate money directly to me, that'd be great. Yeah. I mean, if Bloomberg just wants to like sponsor the first hour of the Buck Sex and Show Off, all I have to do is be like, Hi, I'm ay a Bloomberg vote. I don't think you would like the impression very much. Well, at least I'm saying he's not super short like Trump. Yeah, that's true. You defend him earlier. Yeah,

see exactly, Peter. You're Elizabeth warren impersonation last week regarding her celebrity crush on The Rock was so funny that now you have at least three new podcasts subscribers because of it. Well, thank you, Peter. Is there a way that Chief Justice Roberts can be forced to explain these reasons for refusing to read Ran Paul's question with Eric Charromello's name in it. I found that appalling, and I

wish Rand had pressed the issue. I believe that forcing the issue would either force Roberts to pretend to be embarrassingly stupid or out him as the partisan fraud he is, or some combination thereof Shields High, Peter, Peter, I don't know. I don't know what the mechanism would be for getting an answer from Justice Roberts on that one, but I would like an answer. I'm with you. I don't understand

what the heck was going on there. That struck me as way off, Sam tonight, I was way off, all right, everybody. The show was amazing today, It'll be amazing tomorrow. Thank you for spending your time with us. Please tell people about it Past the buck. The Apple podcast store is a great place to find the show. The iHeart app Until next time, Shield's High,