Justice For General Flynn

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Everybody there. You have the President talking about what was and what he says will be again. We will get to that place where we have a rock and economy. Things going very well for business, for individuals. Some optimism, we need optimism. These days. It's grinding us down, isn't it. It's getting a little tough out there on these lockdowns. It's a question that we're going to keep revisiting. When are we going to reopen? How fast can we reopen?

And was all of this really worth? It? Was all of this something that we should have put ourselves through, And if so, I want to see the data, because so far over the data that I'm seeing suggest that it was not. Now, look, there's some tough new information. There's some tough new data, specifically about jobs. You've got an additional three point eight million more people sought jobless benefits,

and I'll talk to you a bit about that. We've also got some bombshell stuff last night that I wanted to begin with today, where General Flynn, I mean, the move against General Flynn is beyond any reasonable doubt, something that you could refer to now as a deep state ambush of the Trump administration National Security advisor that used the worst kinds of behind the scenes FBI abuse of the system of their discretion, that relied on dishonorable, disreputable

tactics from people that are partisans. And now this new information is just confirming what many of us have thought all along, and I think that's really important for us here. I think we need to take stock on this issue of General Flynn of who was right, who was wrong, and why did they get it so wrong. Those who have been skeptical of the case against General Flynn from day one and been calling it an evil politically motivated

injustice were right. Meanwhile, the multi billion dollar media apparatus that defamed and tried to ruin Flynn out of partisan spite, we're wrong. Never forget that, Never forget that. Those of you who have been listening to me talk about General Flynn for the last three years, about his case, about what was done to him, I've been right at every stage. CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, the New York Post, and all the assorted liberal outlets out there. They were wrong.

They've been lying to their audiences, They've been misrepresenting what happened. They've been putting stupid analysts on TV and running their columns, running their analysis in various platforms. That now is just completely indefensible. I mean, it was always wrong, but at this point they should be offering up apologies and that

will not that will not happen. The unbelievable corruption and underhanded partisan tactics that the FBI and DJ engaged in against Flynn and Trump's campaign, it should be noted happened on Obama's watch and our ultimately Obama's responsibility. Libs can try to obfuscate this all day, but it's a fact it was Obama's team on his watch taking this action against the presidential transition. What a bunch of petty, spiteful,

insidious garbage. This was your team loses, and so you make sure that the team that gets to take the field is not able to have the full benefit of their victory. You do this on the way out the door. Disgusting, Absolutely disgusting, And there's no way at this point, there's no way for anyone to explain this as an act of a mistake or as as good faith gone awry. No, we see, and I will, I will take you through the latest information here on this. We see what really happened.

The Justice Department has had to turn over documents. And this is all because Sidney Powell, this this lawyer who has taken up General Flynn's cause. She saw what she saw what happened here, and She's like, I'm not allowing this, you know. Flynn and originally went to Covington and Burling. That was the firm that he went to represent him. And it's funny, actually used to live like across the street from their office, and he did this thinking that

they were going to represent his best interest. Now it looks like they had a massive conflict of interest and they were not acting on his behalf in ways that they should have. Here's the quick review of what happened here. General Flynn, the National Security Advisor, former DA director, and thirty plus year military veteran. He had a couple of FBI guys sent to talk to him after there was a news story about a conversation that he had. Someone

leaked a conversation that he had with the ambassador. The criminal league by the way, and this person whoever league, they should go to prison. They should sit in a cell. They should go to prison for this. You're not allowed to do this, not going to play games with secret information in this way, someone in the government betrayed their oath and broke the law. They should go to prison.

It's not General Flynn. So this league happened to ignacious The Washington post, and then the FBI guys decided that they were because you know, initially Flynn was denying, and look, maybe Flynn kind of forgot what he said to the you know, he didn't have the transcript of the conversation, but he said no, you know, he denied it. And then they figured that they were going to go and

get him. That was some of you will recall from from Ghostbusters when they see the first ghost in the New York Public Library, and you know, they go, stay close, stay close, get her, and that's their whole plan, you know, And afterwards Bill Murray's kind of laughing, that was your whole plan, get her, get Flynn was the plan. That was all this was. There was no reason, there was no real crime, there was no investigation. And we remember from James Coomey that they were taking advantage of an

administration in change in flux. You know, the transition is underway, and they were taking advantage of that for partisan purposes. So you have a new presidential team coming in with obviously tremendous responsibility, a lot of authority, a lot of power, representing the interest of the American people. Duly elected in twenty sixteen, despite all the whining and crying from Libs. Who should cry more? Cry more, Libs? Please? You know you're gonna be Oh, man, I certainly the party that

I'm gonna throw. I don't care if it's a party for one, but the party that I'm going to have if Trump wins reelection this fall, Man, we are going to go. We are going to go jet skiing in a lake of liberal tiers if Trump wins, and I still think there's a very good chance he will. But anyway, I don't want to get ahead of myself. So they send in, They send in these two FBI agents, and now we have notes about the thought processes, thought processes

around this. Here's what Fox News breaks it down. Handwritten notes by the FBI's former head of counterintelligence, Bill Prestapp after a meeting with then FBI Director James Comey and then FBI Director Andrew McCabe, suggested the agents planned to get Flynn to admit to breaking the Logan Act in the alternative when he spoke to then Russian Ambassador Sergei

Kiseljak during the presidential transition period. What is our goal, one of the notes read truth admission or get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired if we get him to admit to breaking the Logan Act. Give facts a DOJ and have them decide. Another note read Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley called the documents implications chilling folks. This is exactly what I have

been telling you all along. They did here. They created a completely absurd pretext, an absurd pretext to bring a ridiculous charge or to create a ridiculous criminal predicate that no one really thinks this is a crime. This is kafka ask I mean, this is Soviet style abuse of the law by pretending that there's nothing in the law that has to make any sense whatsoever, by misinterpreting it and misapplying it for political purposes. This is a disgrace.

James Comey should be in prison. Andrew McCabe should be in prison. McCabe should definitely be in prison for lying under oath that they just gave him a pass on this because they didn't want to hurt morale inside these institutions. Let me tell you something, the FBI is not gonna be able to live this down for a long time. Anytime there's a political political edge to an investigation that's going on with the DGEN the FBI. Now, people are rightly going to ask a whole lot of questions. Is

this on the up and up? Is this a bunch of deep state libs taking out their aggression on somebody that they don't like politically. That's what Peter Struck did, That's what Lisa Page did. And Comey and McCabe they were every bit as bad as we said. They were every bit. And if you're wondering what was Comey's role in the Comy thinks he's a hero for this. I mean he is truly a sociopath. I mean, Comy's got real problems. This guy's a loon. He was the FBI director, folks.

He was a US attorney sending people to prison for a long time, making the determinations about who gets charged and who doesn't. This guy is a sanctimonious, self righteous loon. And he was at the very top of the United States law enforcement apparatus after the Attorney General, arguably the most powerful law enforcement figure in the country. And we think this is okay, of course not. But he's gonna

he's gonna skate. He's got a seven figure book deal and he's gone around giving speeches and here's what he said about his role in all of this play seventeen. I sent them something we I probably wouldn't have done or maybe gotten away with in a more organized investigation and more organized administration in the George W. Bush administration, for example, or the Obama administration. The protocol two men that all of us have perhaps increased appreciation for over

the last two years. And in both of those administrations, there was process. And so if the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official, you would work through the White House Council and they be discussions and approvals and who would be there. And I thought it's early enough, let's just send a couple of guys over. And so we placed a call to Flynn, said, Hey, we're sending a couple of guys over. I hope you'll talk to them. He said, sure. Nobody

else was there. They interviewed him in a conference room at the White House Situation Room, and he lied to them. And that's what he's now played guilty too. It's pleaded guilty, which you would think the FBI director would know the proper terminology and beyond that, he used, he exploited the disarray and the frenzied nature of a presidential transition for a political hit. That's what this was. It was a political hit. And notice you look, Look, the FBI has

got big problems here, folks. This is not going to just go away. Current FBI Director Chris Ray doesn't look like he is willing to wash the dirty laundry properly within his own institution. You know, the CIA rightfully got pounded pounded in the public's eye for nine to eleven and then for the Iraq WMD debacle. Okay, my old agency got absolutely crushed in the in the public's mind

for those two. Now, the CIA, I mean the nine to eleventh thing was intelligence community wide, so that was more diffuse anger, but it was certainly a failure at the CIA was actually really in a lot of ways a bigger failure at the FBI. But conversation for another time. And then the Iroq WMD thing, which really was blamed on Bush. But the CIA should have done better, that's just the truth. Now we have the FBI, which is much more concerning to us than the CIA, because CI

doesn't have law enforcement powers here. CIA can't show up, take you out of the shower in front of your family at gunpoint and lock you in a cell. CI actually can't do that in this country. They won't do that in this country. FBI can just ask Roger Stone. They'll send thirty guys with long guns and tack gear on while you're having tea with your wife and your silk pajamas watching reruns of The Price Is Right, and they'll make sure that they come at five o'clock in

the morning and that CNN is there. Oh yeah, because they got lucky. Remember that whole thing. CNN is a bunch of liars. These people have lost it, my friends. They can't go back and reclaim their honor because they don't have any and they don't care. We'll get into the media angle of this in a second. But this is the deep state. This is real. We have proof, We've had a proof for a long time. But this is even more. This is smoking gun the Logan Act.

You're going to have a conversation with the incoming National Security Advisor about the Logan Act. The guys allowed to talk to people. First of all, the Logan Act is unconstitutional. Start with that. How could you even apply this. It's unconstitutionally vague and unconstitutionally broad, and no one ever charges it. So that's why it hasn't gotten overturned. But they decided they were going to just try to dust this one off. You show me the man, I'll show you the crime.

That was Laventi barrier of the Soviet secret police. That's what they're doing here. That's the approach. And now there's no question about it. Flynn should not only be pardoned. People that were a part of this should be run out of the public square and should serve prison time. And you don't hear me, So I'm not somebody says, oh, people should go to jail for this or that, you know, some of the Benghazi stuff, for example, from the Obama administration,

that was in competence. It was indifference, it was stupidity. But you're not. You can't send people to jail for being morons. There are else a lot more politicians would be in jail this though. This is malice, this is abuse of power, This is ruining lives. There needs to be justice for this. We cannot allow this to stand. They went after one of the top White House officials of an incoming administration to settle a pro Hillary vendetta.

That's what this was. And also because all these people in DC that have been working there for decades and have reached the highest levels of the bureaucracy, they think they're so much more clever and important than they are. And let me tell you, they're overwhelmingly, deeply unimpressive. The people who work there to day in these places, some of them are fantastic. Some of them are bumps on a log, they're workless, but some of them are fantastic.

I've known both the people that rise to the top, though, especially in a Democrat administration. Remember Obama pointed Toomey, the people that rise to the top bureaucracy is like this in Komi McCabe. They're just all pretending and they hope that people don't find out that they're really just frauds. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sex

and Show podcast. I mentioned before. The media's role in all this, as they were celebrating the destruction of General Flynn, after all the time that he had served his country, after all the good that he had done for this nation. I just want to remind everyone that whether it's General Flynn, Justice Kavanaugh. Nicholas Sandman of the Commington High School. Liberal journals are willing to set these people up with lies and then pounce on them like hyenas, with no regard

for the lives and families that they ruin. And do you ever see the journals apologize? Do you ever see these journalists who run with these stories and then put analysts on to amplify the stories by felling in what they don't have facts on so far, even if the facts are initially wrong with their own supposition. Do you ever see the journals go on TV and say we were wrong about this one. General Flynn was set up. I'm sorry, America. Do you ever see that? No, you don't.

And yet do you ever see on the other side people that are destroyed by conservatives and then it turns out they were entirely innocent. No, what names come to mind? Jesse's small att Oh, that's right, he wasn't innocent at all. He's a total fraud. Journalists in America overwhelmingly have neither introspection nor honor. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts. The iHeartRadio

app or wherever you get your podcasts team. You know that I've been warning about the overreach that is inevitable here, that we would go from a period of a perceived consensus. Now that's not the same thing is a real consensus, but people use the term so that they'll say, everyone agrees that we should do this thing that I want to do. There's a consensus, right, They pretend, for example, that they have one on climate change and how we

have to tackle the problem of climate change. But there are these there are these these signposts that you can look for, these transition points that will always happen where at first it's there's consensus that the government has to take a certain action, and then it's when the government begins to fail, we're told, well, we had no choice because everyone agreed that we had to do this. And then when you realize, wait, but we did have a choice,

they say, shut up, peasant, stay indoors. We have power. Now this is the way it's going to be. That's the natural progression when you're dealing with the state, and when you're dealing with the trajectory of unchecked government power, which is what we've been seeing in this country, when the government can show up and tell you your business shut down no reason other than we say so. Yeah, they can claim that it's for a virus and all

this other stuff. Fine, But there are states where there are a few hundred people who died from this, which means there are far more people over the same period of time who have been dying from a whole bunch of ailments and sicknesses out there. We're not shutting down for those. Now. New York is different. I understand the same way that if Louisiana is hit by a hurricane, God forbid, but that's happened the past. Louisiana is a disaster. You've got to do a lot of stuff for Louisiana.

You don't do that for Michigan, though, you don't do that for Montana, right, I mean, so, we took this approach of a nationwide lockdown without really thinking this through. And we also recognize that giving once the national consensus again there's that word it creeps in. You started using it.

Once the national perception was that we all had to do this, then state governors and law enforcement that respond to state governors, they will do whatever they can to increase their authority in their power, because they at first think that they've got a responsibility, and then the frustration sets in that they're not they're not changing things the way that they might have thought, and so they want

more power, they want more responsibility. I gotta tell you this is just a side note, but I I was walking a little Telou the frenchie, who is quite adorable, and I liked we like to wrap her up. I like to wrap her up these days like a little burrito, and I call it a Toledo because she's like a Tolou burrito. I know this is what happens when you spend like twenty four hours a day with a dog and it's really your only companion. So anyway, but I was walking her outside your face mask on, of course,

just kidding. I don't wear a face mask when I walk the dog. That's stupid. But as someone came, I saw someone was double parked and they had their hazards on. And keep in mind, there's very few cars on the street, and there's no traffic to speak of. There's very few people on the street. Producer Mark, how long do you think it took the NYPD tow truck to throw that BMW on the back and take it off to the to the the impound half hour, Oh, my friend, three minutes,

three minutes the guy, the guy leaves double Park. He's got he's got his hazards on. There's no cars, there's nothing, and roof right, you know, he goes off. I felt so bad, as where is the guy? We gotta get him. We can't let him get his car, Toad. That's one thing. I feel like everybody always has sympathy unless you're being a real jerk and blocking traffic or something. But if you know, when when you leave the car and the fire lane or something and there's no fire and you

get that, you get Toad. It was a nice car too. There's a there's a new Beamer. You know. Beamer drivers tend to think they can do whatever they want, so I don't really feel bad for them. But this guy. It was just it was so interesting because, um, when you know, when I used to work for the NYPD, there was a government. The the the example of government efficiency that even the cops and point two is ticket

writing in tow trucks. And it's very obvious why that is, right, Well, why is the city so good at writing tickets for traffic violations and you know, for for parking, and why are they so good at at deploying toe trucks. It's just money in the bank. It's just revenue. But you know, even even now when you would think that, you know, maybe if somebody might get a little bit of a break or whatever. Man it was this guy was like

a toe truck ninja. I mean, it was just boop boop poop, car in the back and it was gone. I was like, oh, rough, it's rough, but it's money. They want money. I mean, the city is desperate for cash right now. And that's going to be true of a lot of cities in a lot of places. And you're going to start to see, you know, people talking

about cutbacks and essential services. That puts additional pressure on cops in law enforcement across the board, and then they feel additionally stressed because they're pulling longer shifts and ot is cut bag. I mean just telling you, I know, this stuff all starts to spiral. It gets bad fast. So while I did have a moment of a moment of just got a feel for the guy who's car, you know, you got to spend like an hour at the impound. Now it's going to cost you about five

hundred bucks to get your car back. Oh man, it's rough. It's rough. You also see what's going to happen in these cities, and they're the bureaucracies. They're once their funding gets cut off, the bureaucracies getty pretty aggressive and they start taking going after the citizens with things like well and any way they can drive up Revene anyway. So I've been warning you about how this is going to happen, and you know now that it is happening in different places.

Parents are being arrested in playgrounds for taking their children out of open air. Who has the science on their side? The parent who with their kid member, The kids and the parents all live in the same home and they're constantly interacting. So trying I mean social distancing, but among immediate family members is not something that's really happening. I mean, maybe if you're somebody who's at high risk. Kids are

at almost no risk, I mean basically zero risk. So maybe if you're social distancing to keep grandma or grandpa safe, you know, that might work. It's very unlikely to be an easy thing to do. Maybe it'll work. But for families, you know, a husband and wife and their young children, there's the science is absolutely on their side, not on the side of the cop. Who. I do admit I feel bad when cops are being told you got to clear the park and that's the city ordinance, you know,

that's the rule. You know, what are they what are they going to do? I mean now, I think that they can use discretion. And I know a lot of law enforcement listens to the show, and you guys know, you know, it always comes down to people, right. I mean, you can see this in some of these videos. I'm about to play a video that that things. It sends a chill up your spine. It's not not a good video about a law enforce interaction with people. But I'm very sensitive to it. You know, if you're if you're

being respectful. You know, I gave a I mentioned a few weeks ago, maybe a week or two ago, that I and a sometimes Secret Service can be a little imperious. It's because I had a an interaction with one of the with one of the family members, not not for Trump himself, but with the Secret Service member. And I was completely right and being respectful, and the guy was being a jerk. And I know the difference because I've

been on different sides of that equation. And he was out, he was out of line, and maybe he was having a bad day. Maybe you know, maybe his wife is you know, angried and for something. Who knows right and not get that? People are people. When you're dealing with law enforcement, and I know all the cops and former cops listening to this, no first thing is how how are you responding to the law law enforcement request? Are you showing that you are being reasonable and cooperative? That's

always step one. I actually think that they should I don't know if they do, I will say that, but I think that they should teach this in school. You know, I'm going to tell you this right now. I remember being when I was a freshman in high school to take you know, they took a banana and a prophylactic device and they you know, they actually they actually do that, like they taught us how to do that, you know,

in health class. We had a health class, you know, And I feel like it would be important for people to learn first of all, basic finance and accounting so you can manage your own your own economic and financial future better. That would have been helpful. But beyond that, they should have people. They should do it like a role play where you're dealing with cops. I think it's a smart thing and all it shows you is just be respectful and don't you know, don't antagonize them. Don't

antagonize them. A lot of people do that and then they start doing the wire. You're putting your hands on me and you're not allowed to arrest me, and you can't do that. Actually they can in that You can always adjudicate it later. You can sue, you can bring a court action, but in that moment, I'm not getting arrested. Today is not an option. So you know, you get into this difficult, this tension. That's one side of it. The other side of it is cops are people to

have got a cop of my immediate family? Cops are people, well, yeah, I think it is. You know aunt's uncles, those are those are considered immediate or no, well in my family, sorry, in my family. I don't want you guys to do a deep dive and say, wait a second, Buck's dad is a cop. No, No, one of my one of

my one of my uncles is law enforcement. But you look at this and you say to yourself, Okay, everyone understands that there's some pretty wacky rules out there, some pretty bad regulations that are being enforced on US Governor Gavin Newsom. This just happened last night. I should have mentioned at the top of the show. He is closing beaches in California to punish people because too many people weren't social distancing enough. Collective punishment is the calling card

of authoritarianism. I mean, collective punishment is like a baseline reality in authoritarian societies. And that's what Governor Newsom's doing. Oh, you guys don't social distance enough, I'm gonna take I'm gonna take away your beach access. Well, everyone gets their beach access taken away because some people aren't. And the beach is all one of the safest places you can be. It's that's the whole thing. Is so stupid where surround with so much stupidity, But it isn't coming up on

law enforcement to make good decisions about this stuff. And they they also you know, so I said before, you got to be respectful law enforcement. But there's it's a two way street. Law enforcement has to use its discretion appropriately. You know, law enforcement has to be willing to uh, you know, they've got a lot of authority. They can let you go with the warning, or they can just say hey, as a head's up, you know, or they can make a big thing of it. And everyone knows this, right,

Sometimes they're going a little too far. This is what happened in where this was in Wisconsin, and here's how the exchange went. Producer Mark play it. So are you aware that we're in a stadth Hoole order right now? Yeah? Obvious? Kay, you're aware of that. I am aware. I don't need to explain that to you. No, you don't need to explain to you. Can you can because your officer was just here two weeks ago, could you, And he explained

it to me that you guys weren't enforcing that order. Okay, you understand it though, Okay, So why are you here? Because your daughter is going to play at other people's home and you're allowing it to happen. They were over here as well, So are you here? Okay? So now I understand okay, And so either you can acknowledge it or you can argue I'm I'm acknowledging it. Okay, stop having your kid go by other people's home. Stop having

your kid go by other people's homes. This woman got a got a visit from two sheriff's deputies to tell her that her child, who I guess we could assume is probably you know, usually if you're arranging played eights kids like six or seven or eight or something, a young kid going over to play with other kids. No, no, stay locked at home. Because they say so. Children are at almost zero risk from I mean to say that,

you can't technically say they're at zero risk. But also, you know, you can't say at zero risk for someone to drink water because the water could be contaminated. You know, the water could have bacteria, could have you know, salmonella in it, or a garda or something, and you could die. You could die from that glass of water that you're drinking right now. I can't I can guarantee you you're not going to die from it. That's crazy, though, right.

We don't think that way. That's not how we approach life. We always build into our actions and to our assumptions. Some assessment of the real risk. The real risk to children from this virus is zero, and the risk of transmission increasingly we're seeing from children to adults. I can't explain why this is, but we're seeing study after study that suggests the risk of transmission from children to adults is also very very low. So here you have a woman who doesn't want her daughter to not have not

be able to see any friends. We're going on now six weeks. This is going to be week seven of lockdown. And you know, kids are out of school, they're locked at home all day, they're not developing, they don't have the normal growth and the normal mechanisms in place to foster a healthy environment for them. And sheriff's deputies are showing up and telling her, you know, you're you're gonna either you're what exactly. Also, that's the other thing that

they're gonna arrest her. I mean, like the way to do this would have been a sheriff's deputy come knocked door and be like, look, you know, we understand this sucks, we understand this doesn't really make much sense. But ken yet now maybe now, maybe I think there's a suggestion that this is her second time. Maybe they did that the first time. So I try to be fair, we're

only seeing slice of this situation. But you know, they assuming, you know, if I'm that cop and I'm going over there, I'm gonna say, look, this is kind of it's kind of crazy, I know, but let's just, uh, let's assume going forward that we're gonna be a little more and a little more willing to respect this rule. It's as dumb as it is. You know, try something like that first. But instead, do we have mark with them saying put her on the list? Or do I just stry just

verbalize that one. Okay, Well, they go on in the clip and it's fine, you don't need to hear all this, but they go on in. The female sheriff's deputy who's there is asking her name, and she's like, why do I have to the woman who who is the mother of this daughter who, heaven forbid when and played with some other kids. They're asking her name. She says, why don't have to give you my name? And you know, this is where you start to get into that cops

going to escalate. It's getting a little more antagonistic, and it says because they want to put her on a list, a list of people who are being uncooperative with the stupid regulations. This is a dumb regulation. This is this does not make sense, that not allowing kids to see other kids, it's it's the science doesn't back this up.

We're told listen to the science. A science does not support the Wisconsin state order here that these law enforcement officers are being told that they must they must enforce. So then you're putting people on list though, and you're marking them was uncooperative. Well, what kind of list is this? Is it a criminal charge? It is this going into some kind of report for what? This is not? This is not good. This is not the role of police, This is not the role of the state at all.

It shouldn't be done this way. And I know that they are starting to be some challenges to the constitutionality of all this, but we shouldn't get to that point because stupid policies like not letting kids see other kids right now do not have any do not have any scientific basis for them. And we have people that don't know enough to pass a sixth grade basic science class telling us what we can do with our day to day lives because of the science. These people are these people,

the politicians that are making these determinations, they're morons. They don't know anything. They're deeply ignorant. I mean, if nothing else, this is a reminder of how feckless and worthless most of our political class really is. That's what we see happening here. But the overreach is just going to get worse. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. The data shows that ramdesivia has a clear cut, significant positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery.

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get your podcasts. Senator Mitch McConnell, you are bailing out in New York when every year you take out more from the kitty, the federal pot, thirty seven billion dollars more than you put in. Who is bailing out whom? Senator to Scott Florida, You're gonna bail us out. You take out thirty billion dollars more every year than you pay in. How dare they? How dare they win? Those are the facts? How long are you going to play the American people and assume they're stupid? They are not,

and they can add and they know facts. And I don't care what the news media tries to do to distort these facts. They are numbers and they are facts, and they can't be distorted. And this is every year. So the fight among the states is also a financial one. As we see, you have the pressure to reopen red states blue states. Blue states are going to move more slowly on this. Hopefully the red states like Texas will do very well, though Texas is opening is going on.

Are pretty They're they're moving cautiously. They're not jumping into the deep end of the pool here. They're they're moving at a relatively slow pace, but they are opening up. Twenty five percent of businesses will be able to operate. So I hope things are going well, especially down in Austin. Are wonderful affiliate their KLBJ Austin. I hope you folks

are doing all right. I was planning. I've been planning for a long time to get to Austin, although I think that it's gonna have to wait until I'm allowed to fly on planes. But I know Texas is moving along and that will hopefully put additional pressure on these blue states to it up and running. Two. But there's also the financial obligations component of this, and this is going to be a very interesting discussion. It should be easy,

it should be straightforward. A state might be able to make the case, I think, especially in New York, State's going to make this case that virus specific budget shortfalls deserve federal assistance. And that's the same way that if a state was decimated by a hurricane or an earthquake, there would be federal funding. There would be federal assistance. I think that that's that's a fair case to make,

and there's there's merit in that. The problem comes up when all of a sudden people are saying, well, why don't we just and we got we're spending trillions, why don't we get an extra you know, ten billion here, twenty billion there, to take the debt off the state's books for stuff that has nothing to do with the actual virus shutdown. That's where you get in this fight with miss mcconaughs and Miss McConnell had said maybe some

states should be allowed to go bankrupt. New York State, for understand, I think has has a hundred and thirty billion dollar debt. It's a lot of money. New York is very very deep in the red. There are other states Illinois, producer, Mark, would you tell me what the Illinois state debt is? I don't want to look at it right now. I can't try to look it up while we're on air. But let me know what the

Illinois state debt is. Some of these states have run up enormous tabs, and right now there's a very clear political incentive for them. While the piggy bank of the treasury has been shattered, and everyone's just grabbing, grabbing for whatever they can get, and it's gross. There's a lot of that's going on. We all know what's happening. But while that's going on, these states are seeing this as an opportunity themselves to get some of their debts taken away.

Remember the debts that states are running up are overwhelmingly from one thing. Say with me, folks, public sector pensions. That's what that's what they huge issue is here when you look at some of the some of the contracts and remember that you got one party rule at the state level in a place like in a place like New York, in a place like California. Wow, Illinois had to producer mark Illinois two hundred and three billion dollars in the red, two hundred three billion dollars debt for

a state. That's that's remarkable. So that's why we see this in states are saying, hey, you know, maybe they won't get the whole thing wiped away, but can you imagine if you're a state you get to have your your public debt cut in half or even cut it down by twenty or thirty percent. Oh, what a windfall that would be for public sector unions, which are the

ones that are the most egregious. I don't know, and again people get mad at me for this one, but the most egregious public sector union with this stuff is the teachers union. It's the teachers unions and the EDGE and the edge ucation departments for these different states. That's where a huge portion of this budget shortfall comes from yearning year AT's why property taxes keep going up in these places. That's why the state taxes are as high

as they are. And there's there's an unholy alliance between the Democrat left and these public sector particularly the public sector unions, and it's a huge source of political donations and political muscle to make sure Democrats stay in charge in these places. The reason the pension benefits are so big,

and this is not that complicated to understand it. To find out the pension benefits are big because that's something that's back ended and so that they can do a calculation, they'll promise the unions, hey, you know, you guys, we can't pay you all one hundred and fifty grand, right, we can't pay a public school teachers on Well, they'll pay administrators money like that sometimes depends on the school district.

But we're not gonna be able to pay teachers that, but we will be able to give you, you know, full benefits, full healthcare and retirement for you know, for the rest of your life. And with twenty years of service. I mean, you know, you have to look at what the specific contracts are for different places. But after twenty years of service, regardless of how old you are, and you can go get another job, you're gonna have full benefits the rest of your life. Really sweet back end

deals that are very expensive, very expensive. I remember when I was I was not actually a uniformed officer, so I was a contract civilian effectively brought in as an outside expert to work with the NYPD as as a civilian, but I knew what some of the deals were in place and what the union had negotiated. If you're NYPD,

you know, you get to retire. At least when I was in when I was working there, you could retire after twenty it doesn't matter how old you were, so you could retire in your forties with full pension and benefits for you and your family, which was which was a pretty amazing deal. When you think about it, and the healthcare that they have is effectively they don't really pay anything for it, and it's good healthcare. I had terrible healthcare as a contracts civilian, and Hypd's healthcare for

me was total garbage. So anyway, that's where the big budget shortfall comes in. And this is long term spending. These are bad habits that states have that they don't want to be held to account for. That's why Trump comes along and he's like, Okay, well, you know we're gonna have a conversation about this. That there's going to be bailouts for these states. It's not going to be as easy as just you know, we want money, give us money. The federal government doesn't have to do that.

There's no obligation of the federal government to come along and financially make these states whole or solve it. Even so, this is what the President said, play clip twelve. I don't think you should have sanctuary cities if they get that kind of aid. You know, if you're going to get aid to the cities and states, if for the kind of numbers you're talking about billions of dollars, I

don't think you should have sanctuary cities. And by the way, the people that have sanctuary cities, they don't like it. I think politicians like it a lot more. I go to California, I go to lots of different places. Sanctuary cities are going to be a part of this fight. The Department of Justice has already been taking this on the Department of Justice does not want this to be

something that continues. So we'll see. We'll see if the President holds to this, but there might be some negotiating over what states get, what they can do, and how far, how far this bailout is really going to stretch the red states and blue states. We are seeing we're seeing federalism at work, but as we know, that can be a messy and loud process. It's not a seamless, not a seamless situation. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is

the Buck Sex and Show podcast. We're now on average about thirty thousand tests per day, which is a dramatic increase now where we need to be, but a dramatic increase. Where we are now. You should know is New York State is doing more than most countries are doing. So we have been very aggressive and testing and we have made great progress, and New Yorkers should feel good about that,

but we have more to do. You know that I've been skeptical of how successful will be in the biggest single point that you'll hear from the shutdown, lockdown forever chorus or the lockdown until it's safe, which is not a thing. There's not going to be until it's there's not going to be a safe unless a miracle happens. And we don't wait for miracles. We don't shut down our economy hoping for a miracle. But test in trace has been the refrain, right, Oh, we're just going to

test in trace. That's what we're That's how we handle this, that's what we'll do. And I've been saying, well, on the one end, there's just the civil liberties issue of having people. Now that we're hiring these tracers, people are gonna talk to you about everyone you've talked to you and been around a little creepy from a big those of us that worry about big government, that should be

an issue. I would think it's an issue. But then you'll also add into this the competency or lack thereof, if the government to even do this proct now now testing fun. We're going to test at a high level. But remember we're being told that if we test enough, that'll be that will allow us to suppress the virus, which would mean we'd have to be testing large numbers of asymptomatic people. We'd have to be able to the

system would have to sustain that. And then we have this tracing capacity where anyone who has the virus, they're going to track down all their contacts and find out who and make sure they get tested right away so that they know if they have it before they infect other people. I does this sound plausible to you, because let me just say this, the unemployment numbers that came out today, which we all know are are just jaw dropping, but we kind of expect it, right, there's no surprise.

You're three point eight million more of sought jobless benefits. But we're also seeing that the states that are supposed to be dolling out money here, including the six hundred dollars a week of additional benefit from the federal government, which is why now you have so many employees who don't want to go back, don't want to work when they could just stay home and keep getting paid more money.

You know, I love this job, but I don't want to know if I double producer mark salary and said, producer Mark, you can stay home for double the salary, or you can come in and work. You know, I might have to ask him at least pretty pleased to actually come back in and work, right, And that would be true of anybody if you're making more money, considerably more money in a lot of cases, for folks staying home than you are working, the incentive to work goes down.

But the states not only that they have to deal with this problem where people don't want to go back and work, there's also an inability for these states to dole out the money properly and to process the unemployment applications. They're not really able to do that. You say, well, how is that possible? Well? Wall Street Journal has a really good piece on it today about the surge in jobless benefits testing state systems. Here's what they tell you.

Many states unemployment benefits systems quote are hamstrung by archaic, decades old technology, coping with relief legislation that provides an additional six hundred dollars a week in benefits and making independent contractors such as Uber and drivers Uber Drivers Eligible has created additional strains. The administrative problems means the official tally of twenty six million initial claims is almost certainly

an undercount. About six hundred thousand people tried to apply for benefits in the week end at April twenty third, but we're unable to file due to long waits or other reasons. Then then they do. So the system is decades old technology. I've told you before about my experience the NYPD using a and this was in two thousand and eleven, so almost ten years ago. But they were using a system I'm not kidding. It ran on DOSS.

So it was like you know, the little, the little I don't even know how to describe, how to describe it, but this is I think almost before producer Mark was alive. But you know, C colon, dash, dash tab, semi colon. That's and we were It was always this big joke and frustration in the office that we're using a DOSS system. This thing is quite literally from I think then maybe the early nineties, and that was what we had to do to pull up files for things was absurd, absurd.

But states have a lot of stuff like that where they don't want to. They don't want to invest. You don't get votes. You know you don't. You don't consolidate your power as a state government by making sure that people are more efficient at their jobs. No, remember this, the government always has an incenti of state governments in particular. Well, all governments really have an incentive to be inefficient because their inefficiency becomes the justification for a greater demand for resources.

So they need more people, they need more stuff, they need more money, they need more money. Well, why make someone better at their job when you could hire three people to do one job. So you have to keep that in mind. That's how the government functions as a general rule. Than The Wall Street Journal brings his home by explaining what this means for people that states, Remember the states, they're going to do the test and trade system. They're gonna do test and trace, but they can't handle

the jobless applications out there. But they're going to handle test and trace really well, does anybody believe this? Journal? Here reports that a resident of New Jersey, amber Montserrat, said she had a pass to electricity bill and rent to pay, but still doesn't know when she'll receive on employment benefits. She's a mother of four boys and her family's main breadwinner. She started applying for unemployed I mean in mid March. She was laid off from her job

as a waitress because of the pandemic. She now works one day a week delivering meals to families in the school district. She calls the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce every day to find out what the hold up is, but has not been able to get through. So people have no money, they have no job. We've just been told the governments at trying to just shovel money to them as fast as they can, and they're

not even able to do that. But we're going to have a massive program of finding all cases, finding all positives and everyone that they've come into contact with once they're positib we're gonna set that up real fast. Does anyone want to place bets and whether the buckster is going to end up looking right on this one or not. Quote I'm reading that the system is over forty years old. It's pen and pencil type stuff. She said. That's not really acceptable now when you have people that are relying

on these services, it is not acceptable, is it? This is why you don't want state governments in charge of things. This is why you don't want the government running your whole economy. There are reasons for the beliefs that we have has conservative. There are reasons why we want limited government. It's not because we're mean, it's not because we're all Ebenezer Scrooge. It's because we understand the limitations and the built in lack of incentive for efficiency, for getting things

done well. And then the Wall Street Journal article then gives you then this is a this is a classic. This is what's going on in Connecticut. Remember, these are unemployment systems that have been substandard for a long time, and now they've just had the biggest deluge of claims in history, and they're just breaking under the strain of a New York system had to come down. I'll come offline because it couldn't handle all the applications. Here's how

it is in Connecticut. The extra six hundred dollars this is from the federal government pushes the highest eligible payout to one two hundred and forty nine dollars. But Connecticut's computer system was designed to handle only up to three digit payments, pushing up the maximum to four digits would require reviewing and modifying well over one hundred main frames.

That's right. Connecticut can't even give people the money that they are legally due from the government because the Connecticut system is so crappy that it only can process three digit claims. So if they want to give you nine hundred ninety nine dollars, you're good. But if your unemployment check is going to be a thousand dollars, wow, wow, too bad. But remember, folks, a massive campaign of consistent, accurate testing across the populace that is mandatory. I suppose

how they're going to get people to do this. Maybe people aren't gonna want to take all these tests all the time, but put that aside for a moment, and then finding finding these people once they're positive, and finding the people they've come into contact with, test and trace. That's the answer. New York State, state that can't give you money that's due you, is going to make sure that you know whether or not you've been infected and everyone you come into contact with, and do so in

such a timely fashion that it prevents future outbreaks. I hope, I'm I hope I'm wrong on this one. But I don't think so. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. I believe her. It's

obvious not okay. Her story is credible. If I believe the women believe her, she is credible, she should be heard and send it to treat her with respect and dignity that she deserves the honesty, her integrity, her truth. It's obvious you should be going to jail if he was allowed to be prosecuted today, it's not okay. Do you believe the allegation that's been put out there by terror read against Biden? Vice President Biden has vehemently denied

these allegations, and I support Vice President Biden. Do you think some of the Democrats who sup Blasi Forward's allegations against Kavanaugh, who've been silent on this Biden allegation, do you see that as a contradiction that they're not speaking out more and addressing terror Reid's allegation. I stand by Vice President Biden. He's devoted his life to supporting women,

and he has vehemently denied this allegation. Kirsen Jillibrand, Senator from New York, telling everybody there back during the Kavanaugh error, she totally believed Blasi for totally credible. It's great, Oh yeah, we believe her. And then when I asked about the Joe Biden accuser, it's I believe Joe Biden. Wait. I thought women had a right to be believed. Now it's Joe Biden has a right to be believed. I want to bring in Saraje Hashmi from the Washington Examined or

Two weigh in on this one. Sarage, thanks man, first time having you on. Appreciate you having me on. Buck. So, I think that this is going to just get worse and worse because the New York Times really set set the initial tone of this by waiting two weeks and then saying, yeah, well, we didn't think that Biden was as much a public figure as Kavanaugh, which is just a flatly absurd and kind of crazy thing to say.

And I've seen some efforts to try and claim that the double standard here is not as bad as it really is. Chris Hayes last night on MSNBC, to his credit, brought up the allegations against Joe Biden and now fire Chris Hayes is trending on Twitter. What is going on here? It's actually incredible to see the double standard at play here. Usually when you see things like this, usually you're running

the mill type of political story. This has to do with sexual assault accusations against the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. And Kate Kelly, who was the one of the writers of the book about Brett Cavanaugh's accusations, works with The New York Times. She wrote in a tweet about a couple of weeks ago, how there was just a different news ugment when they came to Bret Cavanaugh versus Joe Biden. And that's why they didn't cover Joe Biden as aggressively

that they cover Bret Cavanaugh is the presumptive nominee. I mean, how how different is that news judgment. It's all become a point where it's if your side does it, we should just give it an automatic pass. But if the other side does, ah, shame on you, naughty boy. Yeah.

I just would wonder how any journalist who who was taking the approach and it's in writing and you can, you know, you find the clips online of them going on cable news that women have I mean, the phrase was women have a right to be believed, and they completely believed Blasi Ford. And the standard that they set up was that if there's even a doubt about Kavanaugh, we should not put him in power. Right, That was actually what was being said at the time, and I

remember I was very involved in that fight. So then I want to know why is now the standard that we just believe Joe Biden, because when the allegation against him, there's nothing about it that is not credible. I mean, I challenge somebody to find where the contradiction is or where the absence of essential facts would be. Politics, in short, has poisoned the well here and the well being the

Me too movement. It cannot be escaped. Rose McGowan, who actually has been very consistent about her stance on sexual assault accusations or any you know, any allegations of the sexual misconduct nature, she is actually in a tweet last night posted about her kind of dismail and how discourage he was to see how she's been a lifelong Democrat and all the Democrats are just rallying behind Joe Biden in spite of these very well, could be very credible

accusations of sexual misconduct by Tara Reid against Joe Biden. And what we're seeing right now is that you're just gonna see the whole METO movement unravel to the point where all the good will that was built up will be to enough. We're speaking of Saraje Hashmi. He's a commentary video expert at the Washington Examiner. Joe Biden hasn't responded to this yet. Journalists, it seems, haven't been willing

to ask him about this yet. Nancy Pelosi has been saying that she stands with him, of course, because you know, Nancy Pelosi wants power. You had. Stacy Abrams claimed the New York Times effectively exonerated Biden, which is not true. Even the Times has said, well, we didn't do that, or you know that that was found not credible. They did not do that because there's no way to make

it not credible. So far, when does Biden have to get asked about this or do you think it's possible that that journalists are just going to try to, you know, push this thing aside and ride it out until people don't care anymore, which I don't know when that's going to be. From what I'm hearing that terror Read is strategically making sure that her story is being heard through the media. You're yetting get heard by Chris Hayes on MSNBC.

Eventually you're starting to hear You're actually starting to see Brian Selter tweet about it. Albeit Brian Felter hasn't really been sort of the best arbiter on what the media should be covering and should not be covering. I'm hearing from Ben Smith the New York Times, who's a media reporter who's previously with bugs feeds that Tara Rita is in discussions with Foxes to join Chris Wallace's show on Sunday.

We'll see what happens with that, because there's a good chance that if she ends up becoming sort of a staple within conservative media, then there's almost the immediate the immediate backlash to that would be, Look, she's a she's a plot of the conservative media's plot with the Republican Party to try to destroy Joe Biden. Therefore her accusations

the sexual misconduct should be thrown out. So there's a very there's a balancing actually has to play right now, and it all it really depends on who she speaks with and what she says. But the corroboration from Lynda Lecass earlier this week, certainly there's a lot more than what we've seen from Christine Blogge accord against Brett Kavanaugh. And do you think that the pressure on some of the journalists out there to push Biden on this will

become too much? Because right now I mean meaning that that he has to actually answer for this. I would also just say, and this is an aside, this is my opinions as a guy. If someone saying this about you, I don't care what the circumstances are. If it's not true. I think you say this is not true, this did not happen. I don't think you allow your campaign to do that for you. I think that's weird. But that's

my opinion. But what do you think about the journalists out there who have access to Biden who have yet to ask him about this. That's the thing I think it's a good question to ask, is when it comes to journalists having access to Joe Biden is asking the question about Tara Reid's accusation going to jeopardize their access to the Democratic nominee. And I think for a lot of reporters that's always been a fine line that they've

had to try to balance. Here. I think what we've seen in the last week, in the last few days, is that the amount of evidence or an amount of people talking about Tara Reid is going to become so great that the mainstream media, that the main outlets, you know, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, ABC and Fox News and CNN, they have to cover it.

It's too big of a story to ignore, and that that's what you got to just keep talking about it, and Tara Reid has to continue to tell her story and try to tell it as much as he possibly can, but at the same time not get lost in the woods of being trying to become herself a media start because sometimes victims use Unfortunately, there's some victims out there who use their story to sort of launch a career in and of themselves, and I don't think Tarah Reid

is one of those types of Saraj Hashman of The Washington Examiner, Saras, thanks so much for your time and we'll talk to you soon. Thank you so much. Buck, You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. And finally, we need to ensure that women have access to all health services during this crisis. Abortion is the essential healthcare service. It's being used as a

political wedge right now, and it shouldn't be. The American College of Obstetricians and kind Ecologists in the American Medical Association degree that it shouldn't be categorized as a procedure that can be delayed. It can't. I know that there's the huge political double standard that we often talk about when it comes to me too, but let's also remember that there's always when it comes to any issues involving

women and how the left will treat people. If you are pro life, they will try to destroy you and you get no benefit of the doubt. You get no, no second chance, nothing. If you are pro choice, you're always going to be in a better category. I'm not saying that it's a get out of jail free card, but it's it's always going to be a better category for you. And obviously, if you're a Democrat in your pro choice and you're important to the movement, well then

you're Joe Biden. And then you know, look, he's going to get a pass on this. There's no chance in my mind that Joe Biden is going to be held to account on this. What is perhaps perhaps still lingering in the back of some people's minds, maybe it's just my mind, is that a certain someone doesn't think that this whole thing is totally over yet in terms of the nomination and who the Democrat nominee is going to be.

There's someone out there who never says that it's all over, you know, never says it, never says that it's time to pack it in. There's you know, the unexpected can happen. You know, things can just all of a sudden change in your favor. You know, Epstein could no longer be a problem in How did that happen? Right? I mean,

you know, things all of a sudden just change. You have a crazy circumstance that breaks in your in your direction, and you get to be the nominee who's thinking in those terms, who's thinking about you know, maybe Biden is a you know, has a health issue, a real health issue, which I think we all see happening in real time anyway, But you never know what's gonna happen when the Clintons are in the background. You never know how things are going to go. Here's Hillary talking about what she thinks

is going on here play one. This is a high stakes time because of the pandemic, but this is also a really high stakes election. And every form of healthcare should continue to be available in pluting reproductive healthcare for every woman in this country, and then it needs to be part of a much larger system than eventually and quickly I hope gets us to universal healthcare. So I can only say amen to everything you're saying, but also to again enlist people that this would be a terrible

crisis to waste. As the old saying goes, we've learned a lot about what our absolute frailties are in our country when it comes to health justice and economic justice. So you know, let's be resolved that we're going to solve those once you're elected president. I promise you that's gonna be my objective. M Yeah, you better better be your objective. Joke, because Hilary doesn't sound like somebody who

just has some helpful ideas, does she. She's in the background of how she's still there, wondering when it will be her time round three third time to charm she tried twice. Want to give her a third goal. I'm not going to give up until there's somebody else on election day on the Democrat ballot. I'm not gonna say that it's all it's all over. I'm just I'm sorry. The Clintons. There is something truly you almost respect the malevolence.

You know, you almost have to say to yourself, it's amazing what they're able to, what they've been able to endure, and they just stick and they're so shameless and so reckless and oh my gosh, really, you couldn't write better political villains in some ways than the Clintons. They're they're

really in a class by themselves. Oh you know, I mentioned climate change the other day, and if you want to know how much the science is really driving the discussion now, the the climatologist in chief, the world's most famous climate change advocate, is now appearing in New York City Department of Education videos telling us to listen to the science on coronavirus. As if this wasn't politicized enough by people who don't know what the heck they're talking about.

Here she is, you know, I'm talking about Greta Thunberg play six. Listened to science and listen to the experts, and that of course not only goes for the Corona crisis, but also all crises, for example, the climate crisis and the ecological crisis, which of course is still ongoing. Yes, got to tie those things together. Listen to the scientists. Thank you, Gretafortelli's listening to the scientists. What are the scientists telling us about how we reopen our society and

how we go back to life? Oh you mean that's not a scientific question, that's a societal question. That's something that we have to just. I just it's amazing, isn't it. They still they have I think she's sixteen or seventeen. Now you can't. You can't make fun of her until she's eighteen. Then you're allowed. I think technically you're allowed, because then she's an adult. Then I think you're allowed.

And she's being her opinion is being foisted upon. She's not a private citizen, she's not somebody who's just trying to live her life. You know, we don't make fun of private citizens who are just trying to go about their business. But for now, it's Oh, she's a kid, but we should all listen to her. It's one of the more amazing, one of the more amazing disconnects that I've seen among lives, and there's a lot of them. Right we're talking about their disconnect with justice over the

general Flint case. They're disconnected over the double standard that so slap you in the face obvious about this Joe Biden situation versus Kavanaugh, and even some of what they said about Trump, although to this day, what was what's the credible People have always said that Trump sexually assaults people? Liberals will say this, what's the credible sexual assault allegation? Again from whom and in what circumstance? Oh, he said

that they let you grab. Okay, well, he's just talking about being a celebrity who can be aggressive sexually with women who let him do that. That's not sexual assault. What exactly is the you know you hear this? It's thrown around all there's you know all I've heard numbers, two large numbers they say of women that say, oh, well, it turns out that there isn't one, is there? But

the media reported on it. Oh there was that. The one woman who wrote the book and then went on TV, and everyone realized that she's emotionally unwell, and then they dropped that right then, they dropped that situation pretty quickly.

But we keep seeing this the the double standards that are really a necessity for liberalism in the current context because it's so desperate for power all the time, Because that really is the psychology and the magne collective emotion and emotional and psychological state of contemporary liberalism is a constant relativism in search of power and authority over others.

That's that's really what it is. That's if you if you boil it down, if you take it at its core, and that means that there's going to be a lot of double standard there's going to be a lot of shifting goal posts, and we see a lot we see that happening right now. Oh, we got my friend and Porter Stansbury in the house. He's going to be joining us here in just a moment to talk about what's going to happen with the economy. Basically, Porter's gonna answer

the question for us. This is all he does is look at this and try to make good investment ideas for his for his subscribers. Where is the economy head from here. Porter Stansbury will answer that one for us in just a moment. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, team, we know the economy is in tough shape right now.

Let's putting it mildly, So I want to bring somebody on who just looks at the economy and markets all the time, has been doing so for decades, and actually really knows what the heck he's talking about. We've got mister Porter Stansbury with us, the founder of Stansbury Research, which I write for. I've done a podcast with Porter in the past. They've also sponsored some of our radio radio spots. So Porter, great to have you on. Great with you as always, Budd. All right, let's just start.

Were this thirty million roughly unemployed officially unemployed at this point, that's that's pretty much where the number is. What is going on right now at the US economy? And how concerned are you about what's happening? I'm I think I'm probably among the least concerned people who look at the numbers and things, because you know, if you just look at the numbers. I think you're really going to be

led astray. If we had had thirty million people unemployed because there was a real estate bubble, or because there was a collapse of industrial demand, or you know, a trade war with China that had really spun out of control. I think that's a far different circumstance than saying, hey, guess what when nobody can go out to eat, When nobody can go shopping, every single person who's employed in restaurants, food service, or retail is going to lose their jobs.

And that's what's happened. So I think the more important question, and the unknown question, is what will happen in six months from now with that number. And if the answer is that number drops from thirty million to ten million, I think our economy is going to be just fine. If the answer is the FED keeps spending tons and tons and tons of borrowed money and makes unemployment checks very attractive and people don't want to go back to work,

then welcome to permanent socialism in America. And I think the bigger risk is that the bigger risk to me is not economic. The bigger risk is political. What happens in the future because of how much power the government is exercising now and the role that it has taken to play in the lives of millions and millions of citizens.

What about some of the major industries, and some industries really people think of as just either one company or a handful of companies, or the airline industry, for example, the aerospason defense sector with Boeing. What's going to happen to those to those different sectors of the econom me for which tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of jobs are dependent. How do you see that playing out, certainly

over the next six months. You know, I'm in the camp buck that that really sees the economy coming roaring back. The steps that the government has taken in terms of the amount of money they're pushing into the economy is really incredible. I mean, there's this is a this is going to end up being a multi trillion dollars stimulus package, and I know that that there will be enormous amounts

of pent up demand as a result. I mean, people haven't been able to leave their homes now and more than thirty days in my case, it's been about sixty days. And you know, everyone's booking travel, everyone's making plans for the summer in the fall. Everyone wants to get back to life. And so I think that you're you know again, I really do believe that the economy will come back very very quickly. I'm very bullish on the second half of this year. And I think this is just an opinion.

I'm I'm obviously not a medical doctor, but I think that the response to the virus has been what's caused the bigger problem. Um, you know, it's not unusual for sixty to eighty thousand people a year to die of flu and pneumonia, So so you think this was I think you think this was an overreaction for her. That's I mean, from a policy standpoint, I think that's the bigger story here. Frankly, I honestly believe, but that the

economy will be just fine. Uh. You know, when you there's a I see there's a giant different tree and hitting a pause button and seeing things like a real decline in consumer demand or seeing a rise in bankruptcy that was organic, you know, this is a very very very different kind of recession that we're having. It's it's not organic, it's not it's not basing economics. It's completely

a political problem. And I truly believe that when you allow the politicians to run over the constitution and to decide for every individual how much risk they should take with their own health, you've lost something that's way more important than money. You've lost liberty. You've lost freedom. And again that's my concern. The government's going to print up a ton of money. We're going to get through this

bump in the road. The economy is going to curboring back, employment's going to surge in the third quarter of this year. Those things are very obvious to me. What isn't obvious is how long the government's going to going to accligate dictatorship and when will, if ever, will the government admit that a lot of the strategies that they have used over the past two months were enormously expensive and completely

medically unnecessary. You know, there's been some great work that's come out that shows how much more widespread the virus has become, how many people didn't have any symptoms, and what role obesity and other health problems have played, and the fact that this virus is fatal in some cases. But I bet you by the time I'm the data comes in that we will discover that this coronavirus is no different or more dangerous than any other coronavirus that

typically circulates among human beings. What was bad about it was that nobody had any native immunity, and so a whole lot of people got sick at the same time. And yeah, that's a big problem. It is, But it doesn't mean that I'm going to die if I leave my house and catch this virus. If you're under the age of fifty, if you're in reasonably good at health, you really don't have any to worry about. So why should the government tell me I can't leave my home?

It makes no sense. And who is a better Who is a better judge of that, Me and my doctor or the governor of my state. I mean, I think the answer to so obvious that this is such an unbelievable overreaction that I think is the bigger issue. Can our government ever really look back at these measures and do a better job next time, Because my big concern is is not that the economy can't come back. My big concern is that there will be a change in

the political dynamics. There will be winners and losers from these measures, and the people who are winners from these

measures are going to insist on taking them again. We've already started to see, you've already started to see some of the prominent Democrat politicians are letting it out that they view this as an opportunity to change things dramatically in this country, not just while the virus is out there and to get us back on our feet, but to change things for the foreseeable, to alter the course of America economically and politically. I'm assuming you've you've seen

some of those early indicators too. Yeah, of course, And listen, there's plenty of real world examples. There are plenty of places that didn't shut down their economy. You know, there's Japan, there's Singapore, there's Sweden, there's Iceland. There's plenty of places that handle this in a different way. And we're not going to see any additional mortality in those other places. We are not going to see that because this virus is not fatal to one who's in relatively good health.

And if you look at the numbers of people who have died, what percentage of them we're already in nursing homes. It's like twenty five and you know, I'm sorry, but those people were out the door anyways. They weren't going to stay with us no matter what. They would have died from a regular virus, they would have died from pneumonia. They would have died because they're old and sick. And that's tragic. But it doesn't it doesn't mean that we should all give up our liberties and our businesses and

our and our our freedom. It makes no sense. Have you been. And if they can do if they can do this for a for a blue virus, then what are they gonna What is going to trigger them to do this next time? You know? Oh my gosh, there's a risk of an earthquake. The scientists say an earthquake is coming, No one leave their homes or whatever whatever the next pretext will be. And one more thing about

about this. Think about the Battle of Britain. You know, back in the spring of forty one and the fall of nineteen forty, when you had Germans killing thousands of people every week with bombs. Right, this is a real threat to a country. Did the government of Great Britain mandate that everyone live in their basements all day long and not leaving the house because there was a real risk if you're walking around in the street, you're gonna die.

In fact, it's happening to thousands of people every day, and it's not from a virus, it's from bombs. But what do they what did they do? How did they what happened in that situation? Everyone went to work, everyone went out to dinner. Everyone ignored it because there was nothing they could do about it except live their regular lives. And that's what we should have done from the start. And you know, if we had, then there would already

be her immunity. There's probably something between fifteen and thirty percent of people in urban areas that have already gotten as virus. You know, they're not gonna We're not gonnall die. Let us go back to work. It's the biggest overreaction. And so then the real question is why who was winning politically by locking everyone in their homes? This is what I was going to ask you, So take that away. Why do you think this has happened? I really can't fathom.

I just I think there are probably plenty of politicians who were scared and we're afraid that if they didn't do quote something, then if there was a bunch of mortality associated with this pandemic, that they would be seen in history as you know, uncaring fools. So I think there's always the preset tendency is the government has to do something to justify, you know, its existence, and so they're probably going to error always on doing quote unquote something.

But how crazy is it that they would that they would mandate this extreme reaction when they didn't even have data, like, at the very least take a random sample of population, understand what the viral impact has already been. And the models were wrong, as we know now. But they tell us that the models that were used to justify the shutdown, it doesn't matter that they were wrong. That's that's the

latest theory that we're all supposed to live under. Porter, I need, I need to take a quick pause here, will come right back with you. I want to ask about what should folks that are being hit economically right now by this, what should they be thinking about? What should they be doing? Founder of Stansbury Research, Porter Stansbury. More with him when we come back in a second. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast Okay, we've got the founder of Stansbury Research,

the one and only mister Porter Stansbury with us. So, Porter, you're you're bullish for the long term here for America. You were saying before you think that we will be able to bounce back, which I think is honestly really encouraging to the people all across the country who are listening to this. But I want to ask you though, in the in the short term, for folks who are either hurting badly economically or who want to get prepared, Well,

let's start with the folks who were hurting. What would you do or how would you advise someone who's operating a small business right now? Would you tell them I'm trying to open as soon as possible, you know, how can they try to prepare their finances and their economic future given the uncertainty we're facing. Well, you know, I've seen a lot of small business owners doing a lot

of very smart things. There are some folks, um you know, I'm here today at my farm in Baltimore County, but I also have a penthouse apartment downtown and walking around downtown Baltimore, I was I was so happy to see how many small bars and restaurants have basically set set up outdoor gardens where people are congregating and enjoying food and booze and socializing. Now they're you know, they might be standing a little bit more further apart than they

ordinarily would. But there are a lot of business owners have found ways to flow out the wall and the regulations. And I'm, i'm, i'm, I think that's great. I'm I'm. You know, my business, I wouldn't describe it as small, but I think there's lots of entrepreneurial things that we can do. For example, I'm making a T shirt that says your mask and as an American flag on the back. You know, the consumer demand is going to change relative

to where we are in this pandemic process. But anything you can do to serve your customers, anything you can do to find ways around the regulations, and then you have to do And I think that the good business owners have already done that. They've already they're way ahead of us. But a guy I know in town who makes custom clothing, nobody's ordering custom clothing right now because no one's even going into the office. So he went through his contacts in China and began making designer masks,

you know, and he's selling them like hot cakes. So there's lots of there's lots of ways to stay in business if you will be creative and if you will meet the market demand where it is today. And what do you say to our listeners right now who are seeing where they're well, they're seeing where they're four oh one k is and it's it's obviously for a lot of folks down a bid from where it was a few months ago. But this does bring up an interesting thing.

People are scared about what the market will do, but port in the market hasn't really crashed the way that if you had told somebody we had a pandemic or everyone's locked at home, they would have guessed. I think. I mean, it seems almost like the market is frozen in place in some ways right now. What should people

be concerned or should they just ride it out? Well, I don't know if you'll remember or not, but on March twenty fourth, we had a conference, an online conference for ours, for our clients, for our subscribers at Stansbury Research, and I got with our analytical team and we put together I believe it's forty different stocks to forty large businesses that we said at that time, this is the

greatest opportunity in your lifetime. You'll have to buy these businesses, and we recommend that you began buying them, even though the market hasn't shown any sign of bottoming. Right at that point that I was down almost forty percent, and so that was a really dire time. Meanwhile, what I saw was you can buy American Express at seven times earnings. I saw you could buy Coola Cole with a four percent dividend. Are these are opportunities that I had never

seen in my entire lifetime as a financial analyst. The ability to buy the world's best brands, the world's best business models, the world's best products at forty percent off. And you know, I'm not saying that the market wasn't a little bit overvalued at the start of this crisis, but it wasn't It wasn't, in my mind, m so overvalued that you had to, you know, you should be

in cash. U So a forty percent decline from something that's very likely to be a two or three quarter impairment to earnings, that doesn't make any sense to me, Buck, And so that's why I was telling people to buy, and I think I think to a lesser extent, of course, because now the market is rallied twenty five or thirty percent from that from that point, but there are still great opportunities for long term investors. Now. Look, I can't tell you what the stock market's going to be a

month from now. I can't tell you what stock market is going to be six months from now. But I can tell you that this pandemic is not going to wreck our economy. The risk is that it will wreck. The risk to our economy is political, not financial. The amount of liquidity and loans and money that's being pumped into our economy is going to cause us to have

a very very strong recovery. And I would be willing to bet you that twelve months from now there is no impairment whatsoever to the earnings of any major, high quality blueshift American company. That's very positive stuff. So that's that's good to hear. How are you doing? Pour it down there? Brother? How are you riding out this whole situation? You said you've been in almost sixty days of quarantine. How are you keeping busy? Well, you know, luckily there's

lots to do for my company. We all it's not hard for us to work from home. We all have laptops. We issue laptops to all of our employees in early March February and anticipation that something like this might occur. So we've been serving our clients just like we always do, producing research, making recommendations following the results of the different

recommended businesses that we track and endorse. We've put out a new portfolio to help investors, the Forever Portfolio that I mentioned, forty stocks, and really the opportunity to buy these businesses is very exciting for us. Obviously, this isn't the way that we hoped that we'd be able to serve our customers. We would have much rather the bollmarket simply continue and for everyone to keep going to work. But we met the market where it was, and so

luckily things for me have been very good. And I have young children. I've got a twelve year old or nine year old, and I've gotten to spend a lot more time with them, which has actually been very enjoyable. We bought a couple extra dirt bikes here for the farm, so we've we've been teaching them how to write motorcycles. And we've been doing a lot of hunting. I've killed I don't know, maybe a dozen foxes. I gotta get it. I gotta get you. And Ted Nugin we had him

on last week. He loves to talk about thinking, I gotta get you guys out at the same time. But ever you go, choke. I saw that fox that my my son traveler guy. Did you see how big it was? It looked like it looked like a like a like a tiger or something. It was huge. It was a big fox. It was the fox. It was over twenty pounds. It looked like a coyote. Was Yeah, I've never seen a so yeah, we've been actually having you know, we've been having a lot of fun here on the farm

and business is going very well for us. And again this is not the way we would like to succeed um, but it's when people when we have crisises, people definitely need help with their finances. They need help to know what to do with their money, and we've been able to provide the information for them, fortunately very successful. Stansbury Research dot Com is the site folks go check out

the Forever portfolio. You got the founder here, the big man himself, mister Porter Stansbury, the guy who began at all. Porter always great to talk to you. You stay safe and I will be in touch. Okay, well, thank you very much for having me. Thanks for listening to The bus Set Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts roll Call time. But first I want to tell I want to tell you guys all something. You know what

I watched last night. I actually watched it with the Snow Princess because she was in the movie. She's like, can we watch? And I said, let's go for it. We watched the original Jaws movie, which I kinda say, it's just such a classic. It's great when you really sit down and watch it. It's so well done. It holds up, it moves really well. Because they used the I think his name is Hank is what they called him, the you know, animatronic shark instead of an have CGI,

so instead of a CGI shark. It just yeah, it doesn't look that real, but it looks real enough. And it's just much better the way they did it than if they had tried some kind of graphic imposition of a shark. So I as a producer, Mark, you've obviously seen it, right, Yes, of course. I think it's one of the great like cinematic classics of all time for enjoyment purposes. I'm not saying that it should have won all the Oscars or anything like that, but who cares

about that. But if you're just looking for a great popcorn movie, I think it's fantastic. Yeah, And I'm very upset at Universal for getting rid of the ride at Universal Islands of Adventure, one of the one of the parks down in Orlando. It's gone one of the best rides. Had you Did you actually do that ride? Yeah? I did. When I was a kid. I lived in Florida for a period of time and we would go on school trips up there. So that was really fun. And I

love the Jaws ride. It's really fun. Yeah, And you know they do some there's some great stuff um that they that they work into that script when they talk about the Matawan Creek shark attacks of nineteen sixteen, I think it is um. You know, there's a series of shore was actually the Jerseys. Do you know about this? Producer Mark? On the Jersey Shore and like I've heard of it. Yeah, Well they talk about it in They allude to it briefly in um in Jaws, and people

say that it's really the inspiration Mobe Dick. Obviously there's a lot of parallels. People say with Moby Dick, katain Ahab is actually that guy Quinn. But the idea of a series of shark attacks shutting down a seaside community. It happened in Loose nineteen sixteen or nineteen eighteen in Manawan Creek, New Jersey. They had four people I think it was, who were attacked, and I think they all died in a period of a couple of days from

shark attacks, and like right near each other. So there was a shark that was running wild, just eating people all over the place. They still to this day they think it might have been a bullshark because of the brackish water, you know, the mixture of salt, salt water and freshwater in this creek. And when you look at the photos of the creek where people were attacked, it's like a little river through a town. You would never think that there was a man eating shark that could

in a million years be in there. So yeah, it's pretty cool. Fun talk, yes, very fun talk. Good story yeah, fun talk all right, roll call this Marks? Like Buck, you talk enough? Why don't you let the people who write in the kind people who take their time from Team Buck to write in. Usually it's just uh Poosi. Mark's great and he's so funny and yeah yeah yeah, where do we go? Here we all? Here we go,

here we go. We have starting us off Terrence, Hey, Buck, wishing the best from here in South Korea where you are a morning show. Oh uh, I'm young Asia. I think that's close to saying I think that's hello. So I was pretty close. I remade a daily listen from back on the Saturday Blaze days. I know there are a lot of factors determining success in the COVID battle. Not sure what the specific thing is that Korea is doing right, but the results speak for themselves today shields

high Well, Terrence. First of all, it's great man to have some oss here, and you're listening to me in South Korea, so this is truly a global show, which I appreciate, so thank you very much for that. And yeah, as to what South Korea is doing right, I don't know. I mean we're hearing that they are very high rates of testing, but I just also think that they have a tremendous amount of individual compliance in the society for the mitigation measures that we can all take. We all

know this from cold season and flu season already. There are things you can do to make respiratory diseases less likely to spread. And if everybody does those things, it really devotes themselves to those things. I think that the government's actions become far less necessary, and it's also much more likely that you be in a position to continue to have your economy open. But that's just how that's how I view it. That's my take on it. Terrence, Oh,

I'm sorry that was Terrence. Greg Hey Buck sounds like you cook a lot of steak life hack. Melt some butter with garlic and grated parmerjan into a sort of sauce and pour it over your steak. You won't ever regret it. Best thing ever, Well, Greg, that does sound amazing. I will tell you something that I often do as a finish when I'm cooking a good steak is I will just you know, once you've seared and you've gotten them meet the right temperature, put it in the pan,

preferably a cast iron obviously, because we're civilized here. We use cast iron when we can on our meats. And you use that cast iron pan and you you have built in heat in the pan. Put it on really low medium heat because there's already gonna be a lot of heat in the pan, and you throw in some herb that you have a time is a great option, you know, a little time, maybe a little Parsley sage. I love sage. I've been kind of a sage kick lately.

And then you throw in those herbs and then you throw in a big pat of butter with it, and it will effectively fry the herbs right there in real time. And then you spoon that over the steak. So you have an herbed butter that's melted in real time and you just throw it over the steak and woo menu fique. I would throw some grated parmesan into it. But for me, I'm just gonna say it. I like where your head's at, Greg,

and I respect the game. That for me would be if I were working with maybe a less excited cut of meat, because I feel like the cheese would be a little strong for me, and some people are gonna disagree. They're gonna love that cheese on all their producer producer, Mark, are you are you a melted parmesan on your steak? Guy? There's no wrong answer here. It's not something I regularly do, but I would definitely try it. It sounds delicious. I mean, I'm sure it would taste good. But butter on the

steak is definitely the way go. Oh one hundred percent the way to go. Yeah, you gotta I mean, if you're already eating red meat, you you gotta go bigger, go home. And that's when you got to use that. And the herbed butters are very nice, and if you have the time, there's a there's a there's a way to take the butter. You know. You dice up your herbs very very not not dice mince them, I think

it's the proper term. Or you cut them very finely, and then you roll them in with some cold butter and you put it in the fridge and you make your herbed butter beforehand. That's a very nice way to go to because then you take out that butter pat and you put it on top of the steak when it's still really hot. And which just melts into it. It's wonderful. Um, I'm getting hungry. Peter Buck still listening to work while protecting the grid and cat skill. Thank you, Peter,

frontline worker shields. I hope you, improucer Mark are doing well. You ask when will the testing be enough to fully open the country? November fifth, Well played, Peter. When they hope Donald Trump is no longer the president, then the cry will become we must open now because Trump held up the economy and it's up to us, the Libs. He didn't write that, but I'm saying it to save the American people. Stay healthy and safe. Well, thank you, Thank you so much, Peter. And yeah, I think you're

largely correct here. I share your analysis on this one. So well done, Craig. I'm a podcast and occasional AM one thousand KSOO listener. Wonderful. Thank you so much, Craig. I hate the fact that the federal government human resources terms of essential and non essential have now been forced into our daily lexicon. I hated these terms while managing Department of Army civilians during my career. If during an emergency, a government employee is not needed for the functioning of

the organization, then why do they have a job? If only essential work occurs during emergency situations, then what work is being accomplished by the majority of them most of the time. Now, the state is using these unfair and illogical terms to divide the public sector. All jobs and businesses in the economy are essential and needed for this

great nation to work. If we want to get these shut down over quicker shutdowns over quicker, furlough all non essential government workers and not allow them to work from home and earn a paycheck, as is happening for many in the economy. Since the majority of federal civilian workforce is classified as non essential, the outcry within the federal government would be deafening and one that politicians could not ignore.

Keep up the good fight, Craig, excellent, excellent note. And I think you're right if you had people who work for the government who were no longer drawing a paycheck and we're not able to work from home, if they were furloughed, any non essential government employees instead of getting paid because right now, my understanding is they're paid to be home and work from home. But if you're non essential, why are you getting paid to work? From home as

a govern employee. Craig is asking, it's an interesting point, isn't it. And it would put so much pressure, especially for state and municipal employees. Think about how annoyed they would get with this circumstance very quickly. It would change, folks. This is really a lot of this is about pressure points in the separation of those who are still getting paid and those who are not. And it is a very meaningful difference whether or not you are getting paid

right now. There's just no way around it. It does matter to people's perceptions of how serious this is, how severe this is. And there are way too many people out there, I think, who are allowed voices on this issue, who just think that there's not really a massive cost or consequence to continuing as we are because it hasn't been that consequential for them yet, although eventually it will be consequential for everybody, especially in the private sector and

the public sector. It takes longer because they just rely on the government to pay them with the printed money. But for people that have to actually be reductive. We will see sooner than later what the real consequences of this can be. Uh and a lot of us are already feeling it. Um. You know we we are feeling it in media. I can tell you that at least some of us are. It's this is not fun um

financially speaking. I mean, I can't get into details, but this is not a not a good time for for media in general, but more specifically, you know, conservative media, because we run so much on on ads and on economic activity. You know, this show only works because you guys all try out our sponsors. Well, people are buying less stuff. Uh that that hurts the economic model of of all talk radio, of all the different platforms out there. So you know, yeah, I'm still working, but it's it's

tough out there, folks. It's tough for us too. Don't think it's not. You're in the freedom hud. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. All right, more roll call here, Tim rites Buck Penn should a mask at all times. He is our only buffer between us and insanity. If something were to happen to Trump, President Pelosi makes me ill to even type it. Well, Tim, I appreciate that you want to keep are very esteemed and really really

an exceptional person. Our vice president's a good guy. I appreciate that you want to keep him, you know, keep him as healthy as possible. I certainly agree with that. I think I think the Vice president, given who he's around and what he's dealing with every day, probably has a pretty darn good sense of what is necessary for keeping him healthy and safe into the game. But I hear you on that we need Pence staying strong, stay

and healthy. And the same thing with our president, man Trump, is this guy is going through hell right now as president. I mean you can only imagine when from things that were in his control, we're going so well, you know, the economy was so strong. You gotta understand, this is his life work, right, This is his the crowning achievement of this guy's entire career, which has been a pretty remarkable one at that. And he's doing such a good

job and then this happens. I mean, this is like, you know, you're you're showing up to you're showing up to sign the deal of a lifetime and you get struck by lightning on the way and he's just like, how does this happen? Man? This is terrible. So he's obviously very tired, and I think he's particularly grumpy during some of those press conferences, which I I can't understand. I can't understand that. But he's particularly tired and grumpy during the press conferences, and I get it, you know,

I can only imagine how challenging that is. But Trump's staying healthy during all this is so important too, obviously keeping him free of COVID nineteen, but just also not getting run down with other health issues. I mean, the guy's going through It's it's tough right now. Think of the weight that he carries on his shoulders every day, and all the all the libs like a bunch of hyenas lurking in the background, just waiting to pounce on a mistake that he makes. Michael right, Daily listener, love

your insight, keep up the good work. We are listening in texarcanat Texas. Oh Michael, thank you so much and great to have some texts Arcana support and we appreciate it. And like I said, guys, please do check out buck Sexton dot com. That's our website. We've got stories posting every day. Things from this show go up there, extras, all kinds of fun stuff. Buck Sexton dot com. That's where you go, and please do continue to stop in bookmark it and tell people about the podcast for the

Buck Sexton Show. Oh, if you haven't subscribed to our YouTube channel as well, start watching us on YouTube YouTube dot com slash buck Sexton. So that's another thing we want to keep going and growing. Gyle. Hey, Buck, last day, I work for my crew. We build aircraft parts, and the future is bleak. You and Mark stay safe there at ground zero and keep your shield high. We'll be listening and keeping my powder dry. You stay safe well, Gyle. I'm sorry to hear about the slowdown in your work,

but man, aircraft parts, this will will come back. It's gonna come back. It's just gonna take some time. But I know that right now, right now, that's not really a whole lot of comfort. Given then you got bills to pay and a family to take care of. And I know it's tough. I mean, Boeing is looking at huge layoffs from what I understand, I mean, the airline industry. How's that going to come back? It's gonna come. You

know how it comes back. And be honest with you, it's when people feel like, you know what, I gotta fly and I'm gonna go. Maybe I wear a surgical mask on the plane. But I'm gonna fly, and I'm gonna take that risk, and I think it's important, and I'm healthy enough that I can handle this. And then once that mentality becomes widespread, then I think you'll start to see the airline industry maker will come back. Jake, right,

it's good, Hey, Buckman, at your recommendation. I recently read The Guns of August, which led me to read a few other books about World War One. The scale and misery and loss of life from that war is just staggering, But compared to our societal expectations today, it is clear that the acceptance of necessary risk in those days was orders of magnitude higher. Too high, one could argue, I could go on, but to sum it up, I think our society and government are showing themselves to be excessively

risk averse. Perhaps paradoxically, we have become fatally risk averse. Well, Jake, first of all, I'm glad you're enjoying The Guns of August. It's a great read, and it's a sort of a timeless overview of the or the opening i should say, of the First World War, the opening month of the

First World War, in particular, of the actual conflict. And as for your fatally risk averse comment, it reminds me of Professor Unitis from the University of Stour Stanford University, who was saying that we're becoming like an elephant that trying to escape a mouse falls off a cliff. That's a similar idea to what you're talking about here. And he's an epidemiologist and esteemed one who's saying that we're acting like this is a bigger threat for us than

it really is. So there you have it, my cool Buck, I usually jump at the vote, A jump at the chance to vote for a libertarian. So will I vote for Justin Amash? No, absolutely not. After how he's been acting in the past couple of years, I wouldn't vote for him to be my congressman either. Shields High. Yeah. I don't know what happened to Himash, but he went over to the he went over to the bad guy team,

and it's a shame to see that happen. But I think it's I think it's where we are, my friend, I'm not impressed, as putting him mildly, that's my impression of how he's doing. Terry writes, Hey, Buck, why don't the Libs call the President's daily COVID nineteen briefing stupid but not Governor Cuomos, I think I know the answer. Well, Terry, you do know the answer. It's politics. There's nothing behind

it other than that. It's a shame that the Libs will not put aside their political gripes during this very difficult time where we all really should be banning together and counting on each other to make decisions that are best for the country. But liberalism is a question in the era of Trump is a disorder. That's it for today, Folks, bucksexon dot COM's the website, make sure you tell somebody this week. Please do me a favorite. Tell somebody to

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