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Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everybody's great to have you with me. Is always live from the Swamp. We've gotta get some cool swamp sound effects. You know, Gate is in the Bayou, that kind of thing. Although this isn't a charming swamp like what you have in Louisianna. This is uh. This is a swamp of lobbyists and influence seekers. You know, if I had to give you a a tagline on our nation's Captain Washington d C. It's where tremendous ambition meets relentless mediocrity. That's really what

I think of when I think of DC. That that should I don't think they're gonna put that up on the on the board of tourism anytime soon for the District Columbia. But that's the do you want to know what's really going on here? There? You have it. So I've got a lot of stuff that I'm excited. I'm excited to talking about today. I had so much time to read it. I was up late last night reading in doing research, and then today uh, getting situated here

in in the district, in in the swamp. Um. But the story I want to leave with is not one that I think you're seeing grabbing all the headlines. Right. I know that there's a lot of attention on North Korea. Will we'll get to that and the possibility of a cancelation of the summit. This is where we're seeing the Kim Jong on that we expected. Right, He's gonna be KG.

He's not someone we can trust. Administration knows all this um I want to start, though, with a continuation on a theme that we often have here in the Hut, the freedom Hut, as it were, and that is that progressives espouse certain beliefs. They tell us that they really care about certain things, and yet when it affects them directly, all of a sudden is whoa hold on a second, all, what's all this, what's all this status m going on here? What's all the latest here? With big government? In effect,

settle down with those taxes. Great examples of this that

we've been discussing recently schools. Liberals are all about just the social experimentation by social justice warriors in the public school system in all schools if they can until it affects like their kids school, then all of a sudden there like, you know, I don't want to just bring in a bunch of low performing students and make the better performing students in this school, the school that you know my kid goes to have to deal with that, but everybody else should have to deal with that. But

I don't want to deal with that. You know, this is for thee but not for me. A definitional slogan for modern democrats and progressivism also true amount illegal immigration. I remember and when we talked, yes in Alibu, hey do you come here at the booze goes syr feing, Right, That's not what anyone Malibu talks like. They're like, well, where's the butler. The chardonnay has gone warm. That's what

they sound like in Malibu. But they don't like it when homeless people are camping out down the street from them. They want the city of Los Angeles, for example, to allow there to be ten cities that pop up and and no ordinances enforced about not Remember it's not just the tents on the street. Then the cooking occurs on the street, urination, defecation, uh, sexual activity. This is all occurring intense on the street. Do you want to walk

past that? I remember New York City in the late eighties, really nineties, I tell you, you you know, as a little kid, you know, holding my dad or my mom's hand real tight as we walked past and open there homeless shelter that wasn't actually a shelter. It just was people that had set up a city on the street, you know, yelling at each other, fights would break out, their sexual assaults would happen, And I'm like a six seven eight

year old kid. I remember walking past that. It was not something that we wanted, but it was in our neighborhood. What are you gonna do. You're gonna cower and fear, you're gonna hide. The city authorities didn't want to clean it up. And I was in liberal New York by the way. But that's a whole other discussion. Now you get all these liberals that have managed to separate themselves in the rest of society. So they're all in favor of illegal immigration, but they don't want I legal immigrants.

They don't want asylum seekers for example from Nicarago or a Salvador being put in their school system. Right. They don't want those undocumented miners, right, those dreamers, if you will, UH, in their school system. They want them in your school system. They want the taxpayer to pick up the bill for them, but not them as a taxpayer. They don't want to have to deal with the hit. And here we are.

So with all of that lined up, here we are with a UH and a completely unsurprising circumstance of two of the biggest most progressive corporations out there, Amazon, owned by Jeff Bezos and Starbucks. Remember, don't forget Bezos about the Washington Post. He has tremendous influence on elite opinion as a result of that. But you have Amazon and also Starbucks, two of the biggest companies in the country

right to the and very progressive ones at that. You know, Starbucks just decided that you no longer have to be a customer to use the bathrooms. You know what that's gonna mean for the bathrooms at Starbucks. They're going to make the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan's Circle like five when it was for you know, people fleeing the law, runaways and and homeless uh, you know, homeless vagrance right there, a lot of that in the Port Authority Buster. It's

gonna be the bathroom like you'd find there. That's what's gonna end up and a lot of Starbucks, not all of them, but because people don't care, there's no longer any relationship between the customer and the establishment. Now, look, I'm not gonna follow my sword over Starbucks bathrooms. I don't really care all that much, but it's not gonna be good total aside. But this goes in the buck wisdom category. I I think it was Anthony Boordain, but

I forget who it was who wrote that. You can tell everything you need to know about the bathroom in a restaurant, everything if you just pay attention. I used to think that was silly. I've actually found it. I've gotten older, it's true. Just that's just file that one away on the random Buck Random Buck Nuggets of Wisdom. Um, there are some other things, you know, there's some other things. If if the soup is good, you're usually in very good shape. If the bread is good they bring out,

you're usually in very good shape. But stories for another time. Back to Starbucks and Amazon. Seattle is a very very progressive, left wing city has a big problem with homelessness. So the Seattle City Council has introduced a way of alleviating that problem. And here's what it is. We gotta we got some affiliates on Washington State. So if any of you folks by the way, you're listening eight four four two five eight four four nine buck, light light it

up here and tell me what it's like. Oh you're I think a lot of our affiliates are in interior Washington State, not not out in Seattle, are anyway, they've got a lot of homeless people in Seattle. Homelessness is a very serious problem, and you know, all of us listening have a lot. I look, I have a lot of sympathy for the homeless. I think a lot should be done to help the homeless. And the more you learn about homelessness, what you find out is that you know,

the media often portrays it. Oh and by the way, depending whether you have a Democrat or Republican as president, the home listness problem. I think Bernie Goldberg did a whole chapter on this in his book Bias many years ago. And it's true, the problem of homelessness gets highlighted when you have Republican in office, even though the same number of homeless may have been there a week before when it was a Democrat in office. It's used as a

political as a political tool, political cudgel. And the truth about homelessness is that a vast majority of the homeless now and this is a little bit different where you have these kind of able bodied occupy wall street vagrant types who carry around iPhones and iPads while they're like sleeping on the street and camping around. That's different. That's it. I'm talking about real long term homelessness. It is overwhelmingly tied to alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and mental illness over whelmingly.

Now that's not to say that that means that we shouldn't care or we shouldn't help whatever, but you know, we need to understand what the problem really is. Because also once you get that the homeless population are not people who just like lost their job at the middle and now couldn't make ends meet. That's very it can happen. I mean, and people say, oh, buck, I know this story about a person who lived in his car for

a year. By the way, I think I'm being serious with you there, there's a term um actually think used it in here somewhere when you're when you're living in something, but you know, like a car, you're not homeless. You're

like considered unhoused, I think, is what they say. Um. But yeah, it can happen, you lose your job, hit hard times, but long term what you could consider the same way there's structural unemployment, there's kind of structural homelessness in the sense that there's a certain um, you know, long term homeless population that we're dealing with. Uh. And if you're gonna look at the problem. Realistically, it's not

a downturn in the stock market that calls it. It's not you know, the the unemployment rate affects it a little bit, but not all that much. It's really alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and mental illness. Okay. That also means that those people really need help that are on the streets. It's not a you know, you get some people and some of my more radical libertarian friends are like, you know,

leave them alone, like they can do whatever they want. Well, you know, urinating and defecating and sexual activity in public and you know, setting fires because you're cooking stuff and unsafe way like, these are municipal issues. These are problems for cities and towns that to deal with because it's a problem for everybody else. And also there are these cases of um, you know, a majority of vast majority

of the homeless even more than that, right whatever. Overwhelmingly the homeless are nonviolent, but there are cases where some pretty terrible stuff happens because somebody's mentally ill and a threat to the public and they don't get dealt with. So that's just some back backstory for this issue of the tax. Because what is the government's first, well, government's first rule, have had a deal. The problem is is hold the committee right or have hearings? You know, have meetings.

What's the second? The second thing that the government always does. That's right, find a way to spend your money. You gotta hold the meetings. You figure out where you're spending the money. Not that it's going to be spent well, but then they take your money. That's how government solves problems. They think, that's what government thinks it is doing. We're gonna spend money on this, it will solve the problem. You would think though, that Amazon, which is one of

the largest most powerful companies in the world. I mean, it's on track to be a trillion dollar company in terms of its value. And you think that Starbucks as well, which is I think just after McDonald's in terms of number of franchises across the country. Um that they would be all in favor of attacks to deal specifically with homelessness. And the Seattle City Council must to figure the same thing that they're gonna raise tens of millions of dollars by having a head tax on those on on any

company with revenues of over twenty million dollars. By the way, that's not just Amazon and Facebook, but they're just two companies that have gotten very vocal about this. And it's gonna be roughly two. Originally they said five dollars a person. So for every if you make over twenty million dollars a year, you have to give five hundred dollars a person in taxes to this fund in Seattle deal with homelessness. And then they cut it down two fifty dollars a person.

But what they're seeing is, sure enough, the biggest companies involved here are losing their minds over this. Starbucks and an Amazon specifically all of a sudden feel like they need to call out how the government is inefficient. Oh, they're saying, the government's not going to spend the money. Well, whoa hold on a second? Starbucks and Amazon, you guys

are pushing progressive agenda all the time. You know. Now now all of a sudden, you're worried about the government being inefficient, about taxes that are punitive, About the effect on employment. Oh when the tax affects you, meaning you mega corporations of the left. Now it's a problem. Now it's anti business, Now, it's anti competitive. You know, couldn't that be said to be true of other taxes that are instituted with the best of intentions. You know, things

that any social justice warrior would be pleased about. You see the moment that it starts to affect them, the loudest voices in the Democrat Party, in the left, they start to change their tune. It is so very, very predictable because you know where I'm going. Hypocrisy is the defining characteristic on an individual level, and now is if you're on a corporate level of the modern progressive hypocrisy

is they're defining characteristic. They want all these things to be done by the government in their name that they like, but not be done to them and not to affect them. See, I got a problem with that. We also got to talk about going on in Illinois with their system here, we got a lot more show team. I mean, we just got started, but I'm just getting started. We haven't even gotten into North Korea, fallout from Gaza yesterday, a

whole lot more stuff. Oh and the I think the single silliest thing that Kirsten Gillibrand has ever said, which is really saying something that are more coming up. Yeah, Bernie Sanders is getting in on and play their team. The move toward oligarchy in our country not only impacts our political system, it impacts our economy and the standard of living of working people. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, saw his wealth increase by two hundred and seventy five

million dollars every single day. Meanwhile, thousands of Amazon employees are forced to rely on food stamps, medicaid in public housing because their wages are just too low. Moving toward oligarchy, baby um, Bernie's wrong in the economics, but he's right about this debases a lot of power. But I wonder where he is on, where Ernie is on what he

thinks about the pushback on this proposal? Right, you know, Bezos, I'm sure, and and the the folks who run Amazon, the folks who run Starbucks, And I would note a lot of other companies that make over twenty million dollars in Seattle. Those these are just the two super big you know, those are the two companies most associated with Seattle, along with UH. I think Microsoft moved out of Seattle, right, it's somewhere else now, I don't know, I forget what

Microsoft is headquartered out of. But they're making a lot of noise about this, and you would think that if they agree with Bernie on all these issues, that here's an opportunity to do more about the problem of homelessness. I just thought it was so interesting to see the that Amazon's vice president wrote or said, quote, the city does not have a revenue problem. This is Seattle and

has a spending efficiency problem. We are highly uncertain whether the city council's anti business positions or it's spending inefficiency will change for the better end. Quote well, how is that any different than any of us who have to pay taxes on all kinds of uf feeling like, uh, yeah, Microsoft is in Redmond, Washington. Producer Mike has told me

so different place. Um, but how is that any different than all of us who feel like, yeah, they're just gonna take more of my stuff and spend it poorly on crap. You know, remember the Obama stimulus, a trillion dollars, folks, just to give away to left wing Democrat interests. Didn't do anything for the economy. Just spend a lot of your money, That's the Democrat answer to everything. But when it hits home, when the progressive corporations that love to

push social justice policies all over the place. When they gotta pay a little more in taxes, though specifically they have to pay more, not everybody. They go, what do you mean, I don't like this anymore? I got another tax problem to talking about. Stay with me. He's holding the line for America, Buck Sexton his back. So not only do you have this idea of listeners or or I should say, addressing to be fair to the the liberal redistributionists do gooders out there in Seattle and elsewhere.

They want to address the problem of homelessness with us. They know it's not gonna fix it. Okay, fine, but just tax people, tax the rich. It's the Bernie plan. Baby. Oh yeah, Bernie. Thanks you tax rich people enough, you're gonna get You're gonna get more of what you need. The problem with doing things like that in cities and and Amazon, by the way, is big enough that it did throw its weight around. It threatened to stop building a headquarters because of this tax specifically. But you know,

Amazon is a company that can do that. Not all companies can. But sometimes they'll be able to fight back. Sometimes they will find a means of trying to push back and refused to just get pillaged by the government for its own needs, for its own reasons. But it's not just in Seattle. It's happening all over the all

of the country in different ways, different times, different places. Illinois, Illinois is a is the the blue readout in the Midwest, right, it's the it's the fortress of liberalism because of Chicago in the Midwest. And Illinois has got a massive budget crisis that it's dealing with, right It's it's got it's billions and billions of dollars in the whole and it's been run by Democrats, as you know, for a very long time. It is a it is a big problem. What do you think the biggest issue they have is

when it comes to budget in the state of Illinois. Oh, that's right, pensions, the because as I've told you, there is an unholy alliance. It's not just the Illinois, it's a number of states, but an unholy alliance between Democrat

party politics and public sector unions. And the way this works is the best way to get benefits, to give benefits the public sector unions is to back end it, right, juice up the back end of the deal by giving people cushier long term benefits than just you know, if you start paying third grade teachers a D fifty grand

across the board, people are gonna start asking questions. Right, But if you give them pensions where they pay very little into their health care, they have health care for life, their family has health care for life, all paid for by the taxpayer, and some formula where it's you know, sevent of the last of the average of the last three years, or you know, it depends where you are. I don't know. I knew what it was in New York. I forget what it is, or I don't know what

it is in other states. But they have unfunded pension liabilities and the taxpayers just can't keep up. Now you may be seeing yourself, well, hold on a second, but now this is at the state level, mind you, and so you do have some redress here. And that's what's going on with California, with Illinois, with New York. People are saying I'm out, I'm done. Those who can not

everyone can. People if you're you know, underwater on your mortgage, or if you're even just you know, you don't have that much equity in your home, and it's the market goes this the market for sellers go soft, and there's all kinds of reasons why leaving is not impossible from a certain state when it embraces more confiscatory tax model.

But it's hard. It's not that easy, you know. I I wish that there were some conservative friendly, low tax parts of the country that we're also major media capitals, but I've yet to find one, have yet to find one. Unfortunately, where where there's media, there are liberals. And that's just the reality that I have to deal with right now. But Illinois is as really decided to to up the stakes here a little bit with how they're going to

approach their pension, their unfunded pension liabilities. And this courtesy of of zero Hedge, a site that does a lot of interesting particularly bearish and uh dare I say, catastrophe leaning analysis, but they also do some interesting stuff. It's a site that does affirm a good amount of traffic

and has some insightful posts. But they talk about this this uh last month a pension event with the Civic Federation and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and what they decided is okay, so there's the Federals are big Chicago, They're like here, here's the way we fix the pension crisis in Illinois. Right, Remember we just talked about out Seattle. How do you fix the homeless crisis? Tax corporations, which

could cause corporate corporations to leave the state. But the way they want to fix the the the looming catastrophe, the ticking time bomb of unfended, unfunded pension liability in Illinois is Oh, that's right, you guessed it. Taxes on the individual. What is the way that they are choosing to up to raise tax of individuals to really go after you, and that is property taxes. Now I have a problem with this, folks, and I always have before

I get into what Illinois is doing. Just just philosophically speaking, I think it is wrong. It is fundamentally wrong that the government will only really tax one asset you have as an asset in this way that it can change as it sees fit. Right, you don't submit to the government every year. Eight. Hey, I'm worth You know, I have a net worth of uh let's just say by the way I wish, right, but let's just say it's a million dollars. Right, you have a net worth of

a million dollars. I wish that was my networth. I'm worth a few thousands. Bring it um. But if you have a net worth of a million dollars and you had to submit every year a check based on that network, that would be a wealth tax. We don't have that. We have an income tax. So wealthy people like Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry and other people that are wealthy based on money that other people made, but they get to have long term capital gains, which is tax at

a much lower rate. They have, you know, tax shelters and and just ways of living off of the interest of unearned income. So they don't really care, right, they don't care what the income tax rate is. I promise you they would care a whole lot more if all of a sudden it was, you know what, every every uh asked every dollar you're worth over ten million, there's a two percent surcharge on that you sent a check

to the government every year. All the limousine liberals, you know, would be I mean, they'd be like, lay miss baby. There'd be pitchforks and yelling on the top of the barricade, and you know, Monsieur Valjean, you know all that stuff, right, they'd be freaking out right. You know, you know you're coming. You saw the movie, you guys saw it. Don't look at me like you saw the movie with Wolverine and

Maximus in it, whatever their real names are. Um, But what they're doing is is a is a version of the wealth tax bits on homes, which is where a vast majority of people have most of their money. And I I just disagree this because the government should not be able two force you out of your home that you own because they are raising the taxes on that as an asset. Right. So if your home is worth two year in some places you have to pay on property taxes. A lot of you, I know right now,

are not on your heads. You're like, yep, buck, it's stinks. I gotta send a check property taxes. He send a check for whatever one percent of the assess value. By the way, the assessed value depending on where you are, but based on what the assessor thinks, assess value can be way beyond what the market value of your home. It's depends on where you are. But they'll say, oh yeah, this this house is worth a half million dollars. You're like,

what I paid to fifty for it? And They're like, yeah, yeah, but you're gonna pay taxes as though it's worth a half million. You're like, but I can't even get I can't get a half million dollars. I'm gonnak at two fifty for this house. Oh no, sorry, you're gonna pay at And that's it. Fighting and in court is very there's a problem in New York State, by the way, I no, no, people that have had to go through this fight very difficult to deal with the assessor's whims.

But in in Illinois, they are taking this to the next level where you're gonna be paying about one percent they estimate of actual property value each year for the next thirty years, straight up tax on the on the overall asset that is your home. What this really means is you're renting the home you own from the government. You don't really own it, You rent it from the government. This means the state of Illinois is a landlord. You have to send them a check every year or else

you lose your home. It will be repossessed. This is wrong, This is fundamentally wrong. And I you know what, I'm only a few blocks away from the White House here. I know some people down here I want to start. You know, we we gotta I know people's a buckets at the state level, but this needs to be a much louder, much more forceful conversation. Government should not be

allowed to come along. And I think remember the outrage if you try to touch Nancy Pelosi's you know, bank account with twenty million dollars in it, just take a percentage of it, She'd she'd freak out. She only wants to pay a percentage. I know, I like picking on Pelosi because she's a rich elitist, but she'll wants to pay a percentage on the unearned income she gets from her assets. Right. But that it's really hard because the

private jets really expensive. But you got what I'm saying, if you were taking a percentage of of of her wealth, she'd be very upset. Anyway, a lot of these liberals, they're very wealthy. You know Tom Styre, well once again the billionaire category. I guess you probably don't character you're so wealthy that you know whatever, But otherwise wealthy people would start to have a big issue with this. But they're gonna start charging people in Illinois property taxes three

four five depends on where you are. That's crazy. That is crazy. And also government bureaucrats get their pensions. And here's the part of this that's really stinky. A zero head zero Hedge points this out, you might say, well, back, they should leave. We got plenty of room down here in the Carolinas, plenty of room in Texas or in Florida, and Florida is pretty crowded these days, but you know,

plenty of places they can go. Nevada, right, no state income tax and more favorable taxation regime across the board. Problem is, property taxes are also tied to the value of the home, so it becomes harder to Once they raise the property taxes, becomes harder to sell the home, which means you've got to lower the price, which is just another form of confiscating wealth from people to give it to the government, and confiscating wealth from those who

are working hard. This is it's going to affect affect people at the you know, at the everyman, you know, working class level, all the way up the chain in Illinois, and it's just it's just an outrage, you know, and you're seeing this in other states too. The taxes are gonna go up, and this I'm gonna put a pin in this. Now. We're gonna move on to some other stuff I got. We gotta talk Gaza, North Korea, and

there's a lot of that coming up. But you know, your pocketbook matters, right your Your money matters to me. My money matters to me. Tax increases are coming at the state level in I think you gonna see a lot of this, and it is only a matter of time, and it could be a lot sooner than it feels right now before federal income taxes are gonna get raised.

I know, right now, we're still kind of filling the high of Trump's tax cuts, and it's been a good thing, great for the business, great for business, grip of economy. Do any of you listening for one second think that the Democrats will turn around after this and say, yeah, you know what tax cuts were that that that that worked, Let's try that again, or let's keep it going. No, my friends, they want to turn right around and make up for lost time and just tax and tax you

into oblivion. Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders, and others. They want to take more of your money, if not to fund pension liabilities in the state. In states which they're not going to do that. Obviously, they're doing it too pay for the twenty trillion dollars plus of debt we've run up. Oh yeah, it's coming. They just remember the words of Amazon. Right now. We're worried about how the UH money will

be allocated and spent by the state in this instance. Yeah, I'm worried, my man, about how the money is allocated and spent in every instance by the federal government. Well, I want to give them the bare minimum of my cash because Buck needs it. Buck needs a new pair of shoes too. We'll be right back. We have yet to see any credible evidence or intelligence that led to the opening of this investigation. I believe they never should

have opened a counterintelligence investigation into a political party. Counterintelligence investigations are are very very rarely do they happen, and when they do happen, you have to be very careful because you're you're using the tools of our intelligence services and relationships with other countries in order to spy on

a political campaign. Probably not a good idea, Yeah, I was, Devin noonez you know, I think that one one separation, one difference between the way a lot of conservatives I know, of you all this stuff, and the way the left views it is that if I were to find out on all this, with the Mueller probe and everything, the Russia collusion stuff, if I were to find out that I had been in in any way really wrong about this, meaning that there there really was a credible and serious

effort to work with I mean, I can't say with a straight face, but yeah, I would be um very upset at people working in the administration. I'd be very upset at the Trump administration, and I would want answers and I would want justice. That all said, it's kind of like saying, well, okay, what what would I do if if space aliens landed tomorrow and like try to take over the human race? It's not something that I

worry much about. But on the other hand, if in fact it becomes irrefutably true, as I believe it is increasingly the ace, if it becomes irrefutable cannot be debated by any honest and serious person that the intelligence community, the f behind the d o J were embroiled in a plot two undermine the Trump administration weaponized the intelligence community, weaponized the spying and the fires the process, everything and by the way, I know you're like buck already there.

But but but I mean, when we get the real, the smoking gun that not even MSNBC can ignore, right, the small game gun that cannot be explained away, Here's the part of this that I know is true, and I just want to psychologically prepare you and me for it.

No matter what we find out about what Comy and Struck and Page and McCabe and Yates and all these different characters, no matter what we found out they did, no matter how obvious sleep police state and authoritarian and wrong and deep state, and the left will be like, yeah, it was necessary, though under the circumstances you cannot shame them.

There will be no shame if, in fact, it becomes clear as it already I think is almost there to anyone looking at this, that that the real, the real, underhanded effort was to stop Trump, not to help Trump, from within our own government, using sources in the Trump campaign, run by the FBI, the d o J, and perhaps others. If we get to that that day, when it's just all there and clear and clear as day for us, they won't care. They will think that all this had

been worthwhile. They'll be happy with what's going on, and they, in their view, they wouldn't matter what folks, I need you to remember that they're not playing this game to be ethical. They're not playing this game to defend our democracy, to uphold their institution. That's just the facade. That's just what they tell each other. Many of them do so with a bit of a snide sneer. They have no

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the Israel Gaza border. First of all, the way that the media talks about this stuff, it's it's astonishing to me that so many people in New York and d C have such a soft spot for vicious terrorists. Based on the way they talk about it, I don't know what else to say. They seem to really bend over backwards to do the minimum of means. Speaking about Hamas, an organization that, if it could, would launch suicide bombing, attacks against Israeli women and children and the elderly at

weddings in pizzerias and discotheq every day. That's what Hamas would do if it could every single day. We know this because they've done it before, not every day, but as often as was possible for them, and the Israeli's outflanked the bad guys, created a wall, created barriers, created security for themselves. Sorry, Hamas, go live in the misery that you create for yourselves in Gaza. It really is in exemple are It's a case study the whole world.

Do you want to be a rule of law, civilized Western style democracy Israel, or do you want to be an authoritarian theocracy based on hatred and jihad Gaza? One of them is a nice place to visit, a nice place to live. The other is not. It doesn't have to be that way. Gaza actually could be a nice place to live. The problem with Gaza is hermas in the ideology of a lot of people who live there. Media doesn't seem to get the hint on this though. I really don't, and I mean here, here's just a

montage producer Michael together play clip too. These were peaceful protesters, and a lot are saying that Israelis didn't necessarily have to use live fire on them. Tens of thousands of young people crossing fields between the urban part of Gaza and the Israeli border unarmed. The protesters, including six children who were reportedly killed today, seem to be losing their lives for nothing. An unarmed protesters is not what it

is about. Is no justification for the shooting and killing of unarmed Palestinian protesters, the IDEF snipers shooting kids, people in wheelchairs behind that on, the Israeli authorities killing will All of those babies are dead. All of those people are dead. They're dead. All right, let's unpack this, shall we Let's work through this together for a moment here. Oh, what we know is that actually there were Hamas operatives.

This was released today. At least about a dozen Hamas operatives killed people that work for Hamas internal security at that fence. Reporting from a Jerusalem Post is As follows uh the id F cant disturbances of the fence. Intelligence was received that a Hamas squad was planning to place an explosive charge on the fence to allow for a mass infiltration into Israel. They are trying to do kind of a prison break from Gaza into Israel to create chaos, bloodshed, anarchy.

That was that was what they were trying to do, and they opened fire in order to prevent that. Now the Israeli I d F. Rules of Engaged, by the way, this reminds me of the movie Rules of Engagement was actually pretty good. Um, if any of you have seen it, it's got Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel Jackson and it's at an embassy in I think they're in Yemen. I forget if they specify that or not, but I think it's in Yemen. And there's a protest outside the embassy.

But there are also bad people with guns killing marines outside the m c u S marines, And so Samuel j Action tells his guys to open up and they kill a whole lot of people because there there are snipers in the crowd, people with weapons in the crowd. And then it turns into a whole political fiasco afterwards of did this marine, you know, execute all these people who are just peaceful protesters and you see the same

stuff unarmed, Oh they're unarmed. Well, first of all, that wasn't the case in the movie, which I actually think it's pretty good at worth going back and watching that rules some engagements called um and they weren't unarmed in this case either. See a lot of people in the press don't understand they have no tactical training whatsoever. They don't understand how firearms work. They don't understand how ballistics work.

So for example, when you were dealing with a crowd of people, if someone has a Molotov cocktail and they were running at a soldier, they keep saying, all the snipers were shooting them. The snipers were shooting them. Um, you can hit that person, and the bullet can actually very easily go and hit someone behind them. It depends on what kind of weapons we're talking about here, And you know, is this a ghalil, what what kind of rifle? Or the Israelis are trained to shoot at the legs

so that they're using less than or trying to use. Look, you can still hit it from moral artery. Can You can pretty easily die from and shot a leg too, but a lot less likely than if you're shot center master in the head. Then then you know, the odds of mortality go up dramatically. But the Israelis are trying

to use less than lethal force when they could. They were shooting at legs when they could, and then if they felt an imminent threat, yeah, they're gonna take out Hamas operatives trying to get to the border, trying to get through the border, throwing molots off cocktails. You even you had Matt Bradley over at MSNBC again with this unarmed talking point, but then he had to actually address that a little more plicklipic one. What I've seen here

just yesterday and last Friday was horrible violence. You saw tens of thousands of young people crossing fields between the urban part of Gaza and the Israeli border, essentially trying to walk across this heavily militarized border um unarmed. Now as you know, it's it's easy to say they were completely unarmed. They had some light weapons. A lot of them would be burning tires or rolling tires to try

to melt the razor wire. They had sling shots. Uh. They had a new and crazy invention incendiary kites, where they would try to loft kites and set them on fire to try to light up some of the agricultural fields beyond the border with Israel. Well, according to the I d F, a pistol, grenade launchers, charges and preparations for opening defense were all found where the where the main firefight was between I d F and this so called unarmed, unarmed mob but a few hundred people with

rocks and molotov cocktails and makeshift weapons. Would you want to face them down? Would you feel like that was a threat to you? Would you want to let them pass you? If you were in charge of security, if you were in charge of secure this nation's border, let's say, from an angry rabble threatening to go in as they were chanting. But how they wanted to kill the first American? In that case they're talking about Jews, but the first

American they saw. Would you just let them through and be like, well, you know, they didn't have that, they didn't have semi aumatic rifles, and I didn't I didn't think it was a fair fight, So we just let them through. They can burn down the first house they come to, and you know, kill all the inhabitants. But at least I didn't shoot them. I don't think so. I don't think you do that. I don't think I

would do that, right. How does the media not get this and why do they play into the propaganda of Hamas here in a way that's just so blatant, so obvious. And not just the news media, also in pop culture Hamas has become a resistance movement that Hollywood celebrities are like, oh, look at what's going on with and they'll say, oh, it's not Hamas, it's just the Palestinian people. Who do they think is behind this? Who runs Godzas, Godzas not a big place, Who is the law, who is the

state such as it is in Gaza's Hamas? Who wins elections there? Although you know it's not a free society, I know, but I'm just people. There are people who vote for her Moss Okay, I understand that this is not just some tyranny and force at the end of a gun. There are Hamas supporters, lots of them. What's the real number of stuff to say? But you you have, for example, Chelsea Handler, who is I think charitably described as an idiot um but she's out there with her

you know, he's got millions of Twitter followers. She's writing this about what happened yesterday. Now the bb crazys are running the show unchecked and will effectively turn Gaza and the Left Bank into starvation camps or mental asylums if not already, and bomb Iran into submission. There will be a religious term for this. I think the evangelicals call it the rapture. So, I mean, it's not even really

worth dissecting her stupidity. It's I just wanted to share with you this is what American celebrities say about this. There so hateful about Israel. Other she wrote much worse stuff than that, but I didn't want to read all of it on the air. Judd Apatow somebody who's, you know, responsible for making some movies that are someone pretty funny, someone are pretty good. I don't like, you know, some of the stuff stinks. But he wrote it on Twitter. Why would the US not want to investigate all of

this killing? If our people were killed somewhere, wouldn't we want an investigation? What are we becoming? I mean that's in response to the shootings at the fence, and we all know. I mean this is because America supposedly shut down this attempt by the u N to characterize the Palestinian protesters as peaceful. They are not peaceful. But this this word game that they play with unarmed, right people

are unarmed protesters. It's just meant to automatically set the conversation a certain direction, which is well that if they're unarmed, they must be innocent, they must be not a threat. This happens with Black Lives Matter and the anti cop protest movements in this country all the time. Oh so and so was unarmed? Really? Well, was he trying to punch the officer in the face and take his service weapon because then he could really easily kill the officer.

Was that happening? Well, yeah, but he was on armed during the struggle, he didn't get the gun because the officer had to use force to defend himself. Okay, so you know we see this time and again Mike Brown ferguson unarmed guys like six pounds trying to pummel an officer, and all accounts were that that's what happened, is that officer supposed to let him get tackled the ground completely

outweighed outside. I you know, a big size differential with Mike Brown, and see who wins that wrestling match with a gun in play. I think not all right. I have a patrol officer now retired in my family. I wouldn't want him to wrestle with somebody of Mike Brown size and see who ended up with the gun at the end of it. Sorry, that's not how this goes. But you know, there's all these different threads that come together.

Why the media loves to loves to just go along with the Oh, the Palestinians are such victims, and you know Hamas has misunderstood, and the Israelis are these big, bad bullies. Part of it is just there. Uh well, I do that. Look, there is a lot of anti Semitism that's involved in this, certainly in the case of European media. I think a lot of the a lot of American journalists have problems with Israel that go beyond its foreign policy as well. But then beyond that, you

have the the idea of the Palestinians. Then we're gonna talk a lot about intersectional politics, identity politics, and how it affects medical school and science by the way, in this country. That's gonna be a conversation we'll get into later this hour. And then I'll go you know, probably going to the next hour to I think this is

such an important topic. But even the Palestinians abroad and the way that we the way that the American left and media views them, goes through this lens of intersectional politics. So because Palestinians are Muslim and and brown, in the parliace of the left right, this is other. They'll say their Muslim, they're brown. Uh, they are victims and worthy of greater support and uh excuse making you know, whatever

we have to do versus the Israelis. Now, anybody who knows anything would be like, well, the Israelies are Jews, it's the Jewish state, and goes about saying Jews have faced more than their share of persecution throughout history and in recent history too. Uh. But yet because Jews are or Jews in Israel are um predominantly white, not all, but predominantly white. And you know, they're not victims of colonialism.

In fact, in the in the left wing framing of the Israeli Palestinian issue, Israel is a colonial outpost in the Middle East, despite the fact that the Jews have been in Jerusalem and and and in uh Juday and Samaria for you know, thousands of years, they still think of it as a colonial issue, and so there's a kind of a white oppression of the non white world inherent in the Israeli project. I mean this. I'm just telling you. I studied with left wing radicals on campus

on this very issue. I specifically took seminars in Arab Israeli conflict from people that took this, so I know how they think. They write papers on how Israel is an apartheid state. They want it to be divested from the international financial system. They want Israel to be a pariah state, and that's taught here in this country in elite schools. Trying to get to the y behind all

of it. But they're really embarrassing themselves on this. In particular, NICKI Haley had some uh someone, particularly a student commentary on this. I want to I want to hear from her for a second. Pla cliff ten. They light molotov cocktails attached to kites on fire an attempt to fly them into Israel to cause as much destruction as possible. When asked yesterday why he put a swastika on his burning kite, the terrorists responded, quote, the Jews go crazy

when you mentioned Hitler. This is what is endangering the people of Gaza. Make no mistake, Hamas is pleased with the results from yesterday. No country in this chamber would act with more restraint than Israel has. Radical Islam is a death cult. Hamas is a radical Islamic terrorist organization. Death cults push for as many martyrs as possible to justify more violence from their side later on. So yes, it is in fact true when Nikki Hilly said there,

Hamas is pleased. Could not be more pleased with what happened at that border fence between Gaza and Israel. Um, like I said, we'll talk about intersectional politics later on in the show that's coming up. And uh, I've got a whole lot more for you teams to stay with me. We put the onus squarely on Hamas here. This is an organized, purposeful propaganda technique by a mass to try and garner support and sympathy from media outlets and from

the rest of the global community. But when they have a clear disdain for life by using human shields repeatedly, as you just saw Nicki Haley testifying to the fact that they were putting molotov cocktails on kites, and trying to fly them over the border. This is the type of action so that they will in fact get shot. So it looks as though it's somehow someone else's fault for their action. Yep, exactly what happened. It's exactly what's going on our buddy Kenny, and Boston has some thoughts.

What's up Kenny? Hi Buck? First off, I am beholding that Buck has not suspended my Team Buck membership, and I take solace, my leach and your bombitable magnant entity. But anyway, um, I was wondering why hummus uh Is named them solved after a bunch of sherode gabonzos and sesame seats, and I know it's hamas. Anyway, I had

a comment earlier about that taxation thing in Seattle. Yep, and um, well, I know I don't want me to be a dead equine or anything like that, but isn't this just another slide way that they can put a hidden tax on the middle class, Well, the the the the corporations they're talking about, especially like a Starbucks or ah Amazon, is it a perfect position to go, Okay, you want to put that tax on us? If it affects our BottomLine, we're just gonna pass that onto consumers.

So yeah, and the politicians know that. I mean, that's not like they they're trying to like hide it and think, yes, we're going after those big evil corporations, but when in fact, really they know the money. Yeah, the big evil corporations are in the are in the best position, Kenny, to just socialize the cost of the taxes by passing it on to all the rest of us. Right. I buy stuff from Amazon all the time, so I don't am I now going to be subsidizing Amazon's taxes in Seattle.

I mean, you know, they're a big enough company where I probably wouldn't feel it over here. But that's how it works. It does get passed on to the consumer. Thanks for calling it from Boston, my friend, stay strong up in Boston. Good to talk to you. Um Christian Jilbrand. What is the dumbest thing she's ever said? Now? I mean, actually the dumbest. If you stay through this, uh quick break here, you'll find out he's back with you now. Because when it comes to the fight for truth, the

fuck never stops. North Korea is threatening to cancel the Trump summit. Uh. This is because of the quote provocative military RUCKUS of joint US South Korea drills, which North Korea is saying is our rehearsal for invasion. So you have the June twelfth summit in Singapore, and now you got North Korea that is making noises about our joint military exercises with the South. UM. Look, this is not surprising. Uh. They also the news state of North Korea started to

dismantle a nuclear test site. They're they're posturing and they're trying to negotiate, and there this We need to get ready for this and strap in for this. It's not gonna be smooth sailing to some kind of obvious choir of angels singing moment at the summit with Trump and Kim Jong un. It's gonna be a lot of back and forth. It is high stakes poker. Is gonna be bluffs.

There's gonna be calls. There's gonna be things that happened that call this whole thing in a doubt, and the eventual result may not be what we want, but we're in the game. We're trying trying to find a better path forward North Korea. I might have more more thoughts on this tomorrow. I just I feel like there's updates to this, and then there's also just the media obsession with North Korea. Let's just talk with North Korea. Well, this is a negotiating tactic on their part. We'll see

what they come up with. We'll see what the U S response is. There's not really much more to it than that that someone has not been called off. I think right now it is unlike the summit will be called off, but it's gonna be a bumpy road, so maybe we'll get more in North gree tomorrow. I want to talk about Kirsten Gillibrand, not to be confused with Kristen. Kirstin and Christine are the toughest names to keep a part of anything in the English language that I'm aware of.

But she was at some kind of a forum. I don't know. I'll just so I can give you the yeah, I'm gonna live Nashal Syndicator radio show and like over a hundred and twenty five stations or something, and my computer just froze. So that's that's cool. That's the thing that happens. But I was gonna look up where she said.

That doesn't really matter. Gillibrand was at some kind of a forum talking about some stuff, and she said this play fifteen if we don't value women in society, and that's just the fact, and it's not just you know, I feel exposed because I'm cheering up because I'm not like a man. Now, how about I'm cheering up because I'm so angry and frustrating and my emotional intelligence is gonna what make this company succeed. You know, if it wasn't Lehman brother but Lehman's sisters, we might not have

had the financial collapse. I think that's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. If it wasn't Lehman brother it's that Lehman's sisters. Yeah, girl power. It's like the dumbest they ever heard. I mean it's not the dumbest, but it's certainly in in the pantheon of stupid quotes from US politicians. I think that's close. I think that's

up there. It wasn't Lehman Brothers but Lehman sisters. This is a recurring theme now there is this movement to the Democrat Party of what I think you'd have to just call a brainless feminism. It there's no thought that goes into it. There's no uh, no philosophical foundation for it. It's just you know, yeah, like we're so oppressed and like the wage gap and yeah, so off angry yelling. I don't think that that, oh, we don't value women in society. That was another quote, we don't value women,

and that we don't value women. Ah, that's a fascinating thing. So we don't value our our mothers, our sisters or wives are our our life partners. We don't value the women we work with. That that's there's like a level of stupidity that sometimes is reached. Where she was speaking at the Center for American Progress Ideas conference, Okay, there you go, but there's a there's a level of which you have to say to yourself, I'm I'm overwhelmed by

the stupidity. I'm overwhelmed by, as I said, the brainless feminism. And that's where cure and by the way people talk about her as a presidential candidate, folks, Yeah, women have like no value in America, And I think we're like Lehman's sisters, really who these women have no value in America. Women are more valued in America than anywhere else in the world. Okay, start with that there's greater equality between the sexes here than anywhere. I don't know. People say, oh,

but what about Sweden or something. Please all right, give it a rest. It's it's just amazing to see this. And it was like, you know, Michelle Obama about how you know women are you know, have to be better than men and everything else? Did get the same job? No, this is this is not you do not try to create a special victim class of half of the planet

called women. You know. And I know if I started saying things like actually, in America we revere women, and you know, I feel like guys like me, a lot of our are drive in life is to be a good father, a good a good husband, a good you know, protector and provider, and to be worthy of the women in our lives. Don't value them. Be like for a lot of us, guys, uh, women are like a big part of the reason we get up every day and do the stuff we do, the good stuff we do.

It's for women, the women in our lives, to be worthy of them. They're not valued. Chris and Jillibrand he's just an income poop. We'll be right back where is the left really wrong. I know that's a question that a lot of you probably are either thinking to yourself or maybe even shouting out a bunch of answers right away. But there's a big battle being waged right now, ideological intellectual struggle over identity politics, and not just are they

a good idea? Are they a moral idea? Are they ethical? Are they the right thing? From a philosophical perspective? Are they the right thing? Also? Then from a policy perspective. Right is treating people part of a group. This is at the heart of identity politics based on a racial and sexual orientation, and you know some other categories of of different of a hierarchical nature. Right, some people are this category. You know you have, Uh, Black people go

into interse sectionality in one place. Uh, the LGBT community goes into intersectional politics in another place. And you know, Latinos and Asians and and and everyone is treated like they are a part of some group that's determined by their their birth and their um, their skin color or their ethnicity, right, all these different things. Is it just wrong on its face to make decisions about people based upon that and to treat people as though there are

immutable characteristics that come along with that identity. Right, people think of, well, isn't that racist, Buck Well, certainly it is when you're talking about negative characteristics, But what about when you're imputing positive characteristics, or what about when you say, because you are part of this larger group, you should have certain benefits. Right now, we're getting into something of the affirmative action discussion or the diversity discussion, which is

even broader than just affirmative action. But there are some places where this doesn't really seem to hold sway. Professional sports, for example, is an interesting how we never really hear about the need to diversify professional sports teams. They just are what they are because there's an understanding that whoever is the most elite in that sport, and therefore whoever can compete at the highest level and draw the most viewership on TV and at at events is the person

that should be yeah, elevated. We understand that with sports, and that's why you don't have calls for diversity at sporting events whatever, you know, whether we're talking ice hockey or basketball or you name it, it is what it is. We all kind of accept that, which is interesting and

unique about the Sports World. One other place where until recently I think you could have made the same claim is in medicine, and the science is more broadly sometimes it's referred to as STEM, the STEM profession science, Technology, engineering, and math. But there is a blockbuster of a piece out from Heather McDonald, who we've had many times before on the show, and it's sent in City Journal, and

it's called how identity politics is harming the sciences? And what she's talking about is, look, there is an effort underway that has become really pervasive to just straight up change the qualifications full or high level math, and you know for high level math graduate school or engineering or medicine.

Medical schools, medical schools now are very much concerned with diversity in a way that you're gonna start to see some pushback on it, because, hold on a second, do we really want to play games with who get to be the next generation of brain surgeons? Don't we just all want the best brain surgeon? And this is what I mean by comparing it to professional sports. I think

you see where I'm going with this one. I don't think that any rational human being would say to himself or herself, you know what this doctor who went to Harvard and Harvard and you know, all the best schools for medical school. But I don't like his or her uh ethnic background, so I wouldn't want that. No, you just want the best doctor, period. You don't care what color, you don't care what gender, you don't care what gender identity.

You just want the best doctor. But how can you think you're getting the best doctor when medical schools are actively changing the criterion of who they accept, and then at higher levels within the medical community who gets certain fellowships and research positions, and it's elevated within the hospital hierarchy too. I'm sorry, folks, but I don't care what the social justice warriors say. I don't want somebody getting pushed along and pushed along who's gonna be operating on,

you know, my great great grand Pappy's heart. I don't want that, although that would be quite a surgery, because you know, that's a few generations back. But you know what I'm saying, right, I don't want my my imaginary on Ethel to get somebody to come in there who, for the purposes of making liberals feel good, is being held up as as the best in the field of and by the way it is fiercely competitive to just

get into medical school. But as Heather bricking autod rights in this piece on identity politics and the sciences, they are just straight up rigging the system. And this is going to have very negative ramifications and the left. This is where they're just wrong. They're just wrong because what they're doing is creating an objective set of facts that

essentially non white males and non Asian males. By the way, so Asian males and white males go in this category of we've got too many of you, But everybody else in the medical field going forward could reasonably be suspect in the level of their skill because they are straight up across the board at the best to the worst medical schools changing the way that they assess the skills of people who are non white, non Asian males. So all female doctors, that's right, it's all women now, because

they're pushing really hard to get women into. Uh, the the higher fields of mathematics as well as the higher fields of medicine. Medicine will focus on that. This, by the way, also applies to engineering. You know, the people that are involved in like making sure that a bridge can hold the weight. That kind of stuff, um higher level mathematics, rocket scientists and physicists and people that do

all that. But with medicine, it really hits home because I know the one thing we feel like in this country we have going for us is it's really hard to be a doctor. Doctors are well paid. We want the best of the best. I do not want. And I remember Ward Connolly, by the way, African American who was very prominent in getting rid of racial preferences in the California school system. I remember him saying that, And

this is back when I was in college. I want highly paid and the best when it comes to a surgeon, I don't care what the demographic breakdown of his medical class was. I don't care if it feels like this is nice for society. I want the best. I feel the same way you and I feel the same way. On this team, we want the best. Pe cool. But when you start to look under the hood and Heather McDonald has done it, they are really uh playing games here.

I mean, this is the worst kind of do good or virtue signaling social engineering, because the long term ramifications are gonna be one. You've got people that are just not qualified for the jobs they have and they literally hold people's lives in their hands. And two people are gonna start to change their perceptions of this. And this is what I mean by the left is wrong, because people are gonna say, hold on a second, is this you know person who's uh, you know who is this

doctor who is a you know, transgender Latin American? Uh and and disabled? Is this doctor the best that's about to come into the operating room? Or is this doctor somebody that was being helped along the whole way because of the identity politics involved here? And the left will just say you're racist or you're you're bigoted for saying that. Meanwhile, it is just a reflection of the reality they are creating.

Here's what Heather rights in this piece quote applicants and uh or this is about admissions into medical schools that they will employ holistic review in order to engineer a diverse class. Quote. The result is a vast gap in entering qualifications. From twenty sixteen, medical schools nationally admitted fifty seven percent of black applicants with a low m cat of twenty four to twenty six, but only eight percent of whites and six percent of Asians with those same scores.

Individual schools have larger disparities. This achievement gap does not close over the course of medical school, but the underrepresented minority students you are, m students who do complete the medical training will be fanatically sought after anyway. UH think to the medical school's diversity woes is the fact that the number of male, underqualified, underrepresented part of me under represented minority student applicants has been declining in recent years,

making it even well end quote there. So you know how think about this. They're they're changing the you know you're a doctor now, they're changing the the m CAT scores of people that get to be doctors based on their ethnicity because they think that that's making the world a better place. I think that that's making the world actually a way worse place for all the reasons that I'm that I'm stating and telling you about. UM, But I want to go on a little more into some

of what what Heather has to say here. UM. She she makes some really good cases. And it's more than just uh, it's more than just the idea of admissions. It's also in the coursework. UM, they're now teaching scientists to be inclusive. Here, here's what she writes. There's a course that maintains instead that all students are scientifically brilliant. Science is a practice of collective sense making that calls

forth inclusive ways of being brilliant. Students In this inclusive chemistry one a coursework uh in groups, arranging data cards and the proper sequence represent blah blah. Let's give that for a second. Chemical terms of art are avoided wherever did wherever possible to accommodate different students academic backgrounds. This

the instructors hold teams accountable to group thinking. A team can't question and instructor unless it is collectively arrived at the question and poses it in we language, folks, this is like, this is Marxist medicine. That's what this is. That's what's going on here. Look, I want to get more into this, so stay with me. We're gonna talk more about ident any politics and the medical profession. I think this is the biggest story in the country that

no one's talking about right now. I really do. Uh. How do how do they then teach the hard sciences and how do they grade it? Oh? That's right, they start changing it based upon what they think the ethnic composition of some of these incoming classes should be. I'll finish this up team on the other side. Uh in just a moment. Stay with me. I absolutely love dogs, all kinds, all different breeds, shapes, sizes, but one thing

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is animating intellectual conservatism right now. People talk about the uh, the the the conservatism that's gaining followers online and you see some of these names out there are people that are making the you know, the what is the intellectual dark web. I'm trying to think of what they call it. But this is where you see that the left just has no answers. You're all, they have our accusation and anger, and they can't deal with the substance because what are

we to say about not just changing the way. Remember there's a couple of things going here. One of them is they're changing how we gauge merit, right that so so that right now eight and look it's it's male female too, folks. So this goes beyond just uh, you know, racial and ethnic identity politics. This is also an issue

of male female's just gender politics, if you will. But what ends up happening is that these schools are run by these deans, these and diversity educators and all these different all these different people who are making determinations, by the way, determinations that have a real effect on the lives of the young people who, in the case of medical school, are taking out quarter of a million, half a million dollars of loans if they're really gonna go all the way through. So it's a huge, huge deal

where you go to school. And I have friends who I friends who were very smart who didn't get into medical school. So these are life changing decisions that these committees, these schools get to have. But not only are they changing the way they gauge merit and with admissions committee, they also change the way they're teaching science. As I said,

it is Marxist medicine. Now you've got to sit there and before you can ask the professor question, you have to get the agreement of your group to ask the question. I mean, this is the collectivization of of day to day class work, right, This is collectivizing the individual's ability to think for himself or herself. I mean, think about the message that this is setting. I mean, they've done

this already in law. This is what I'm trying that people say to mean Buck, why why is the intelligence community so left wing, and I say to them, well, there's a lot of conservatives in it, but there it is at the high level very left wing. And it's because people that study international relations and foreign policy and political science are overwhelmingly going through these liberal indoctrination centers.

Same thing is true of law schools now. I mean law schools have all turned a hard left, and now we're seeing it in medical schools, which means that your doctor ten years from now is gonna be a Bernie bro who probably wasn't so slick when it comes to getting into medical school depending on what category, or maybe it's a Bernie Ciss, you know, depending on what category here she fell into in the in this whole application process, but also the way they're learning, the way they're teaching.

Remember this is in this article. As you can tell, I was up late and last start reading this and I was just wow, this article is just crazy stuff going on here. You know, hat tip Heather McDonald for what she wrote in City Journal, But you know, I want to give you some more of the details of how they're teaching in these actual classes. Um. For example, she she touches on well, you know, she touches on

how all male research teams are mocked. And this is now just in general with STEM industry leaders, right, So this is in addition to the medical community which has this going on. This is what's happening at the biggest tech companies with science, technology, and math quote. STEM industry leaders are fully on board the diversity juggernaut, having absorbed

academic identity politics. The giant Silicon Valley companies offer gender and race exclusive mentoring programs and give special consideration to females and underrepresented minorities in hiring and promotions. Managers go through the same costly, implicit biased training as faculty committees. In August, Google fired computer engineer James Daymore for questioning

the premises of Google's diversity training. The discrimination lawsuit he subsequently filed against Google reveals a work place culture infused with academic victimology. Employees denounced the advocacy of a gender and race blind policy as uh, sorry, I cut off. I cut off my own quote there, so I don't know what it says. I'm assuming as bad all male

research teams are mocked. Employees self righteously offer to protect Google's oppressed females and underrepresented minorities from ignorant conservative opinion. I mean, this stuff is and so so, this stuff is now at the top tech companies, it's at the top universities, It's all over the place. I mean, this virus of identity politics and social justice, the social justice ification of class work in science, math, medicine, and the professional tracks that it puts people on is well underway.

And you know, this is one of the reasons I keep talking about the left. They're just wrong here. They can talk about it as much as they want, but it's just wrong. And then Heather really gets into well, I'll hold off on that part of her second She writes, underrepresentative minorities are encouraged to apply, indeed beg to apply to medical school and postgraduate medical training programs. Everyone at this level is trying incredibly hard to be fair, generous

for giving thoughtful, kind and encouraging to these applicants. But if the pool of candidates is actually declining, no amount of effort will achieve diversity. It's one thing to do poorly on the MCAT, it's another to not even bother taking it. The latter is now the bigger problem, because the academy has already relaxed its standards and come up with all kinds of ways to explain away they need

to do well on these tests. It's what she's saying is, not only has the diversity craze, the diversity mania really set in and all these institutions, but they have changed the standards so much that now their biggest problem is they literally do not have the applicant pool that they

think they need for diversity. So think about this. If you're a white or Asian male and you're applying to medical school, you are very unlikely, you know, unless you have phenomenal m cats and grades something, you're very unlikely to get into a top medical school just by the numbers. But at some of these medical schools, they're so desperate for underrepresentative minorities and yes, females in the medical profession that they are they don't know what to do because

they don't even have the applicants. So now they're going they're doing outreach. So think about this. Imagine if you know you're you're some son of you know, Filipino immigrants, and you apply to Harvard Medical School, you don't get in. In fact, you don't get into any medical school despite having pretty solid m cats. Meanwhile, those same m cats, by the way, the admission tests, it's like the S

A T for medical school. Those same schools are doing outreach programs begging minority students to apply to medical school. And you're like, where's my white privilege? Right, you're a Filipino immigrant and your or your parents are and your first generation American. Huh. That's where the left is wrong. They're just wrong here. It's unjustifiable. They cannot that, they cannot defend these policies other than to say that they think it's good and if you disagree, you're racist and

you're a bad person and you're a sexist too. Uh. This is another part of this I thought was really interesting. Heather McDonald writing this. I'm just quoting her. This is a national journal um the This is about the belief that every scientific field would show gender parody. This is what she says. That belief is ungrounded. Males outperformed females at the highest reaches of mathematical reasoning and are overrepresented

at the lowest level of mathematical incompetence. Differences in math precocity between boys and girls show up as early as kindergarten. For decades, males in every ethnic group have scored a higher than females in their same ethnic group on the math s a T. In twenty sixteen, the percentage of males scoring above seven hundred was nearly twice as high as the percentage of females in that range. There are two point five males in the US in the top

point zero one percent of math ability for every female. Now. Funders, industry leaders, and academic administrators maintain that scientific progress will stall unless we pay close attention to identity and try to engineer proportional representation in schools and laboratories. The truth is exactly the opposite. Lowering standards and diverting scientists energy into combating phantom sexism and racism is reckless in a

highly competitive, ruthless and unforgiving, unforgiving global marketplace. China is catching up to the the US and science and technology. We need to pa attention. So there's a few different things she works in here. One is, as you know, by the way, that got Larry Summers just for bringing that up. He got fired from being like the provost or dean

or whatever he was at Harvard. At Harvard University saying well, you know, maybe in general, all you know, men actually just in the aggregate, have more, look, more people that fall into the realm of like math genius basically just because he got fired for that. Heather is like, well,

that's actually what the numbers show. This is the same same discussion that gets in different ways, gets people like Sam Harris and Charles Murray and Heather McDonald and others into all this trouble because they're just like, well, this is what the science says. And then they go, how

dare you you can't discuss that? And you get the voxes of the world, you know, the the the shrieking beta males of the digerati coming after people were just trying to actually have a real discussion about what's what's happening.

But then the point she makes about our our competitiveness, Yeah, I agree with Heather that this is an issue with trying to, you know, stay ahead of China and science and math, and that's our biggest civilizational advantage other than our general respect for rule of law, which Democrats are also rooting. Legal immigration, the Mueller probe and all the recklessness with the prosecutorial misconduct. But at the level of our day to day What do they think it's going

to do for people's sense of the victimology and intersectionality? Right, the idea that all these different groups are oppressing one another. When all of a sudden people are saying, you know what, I just I I want a doctor who falls into these categories because I know that he, and it's gonna be a he in most cases didn't get a leg up and had to earn it. What's the left gonna tell us when in ten years we're looking back and saying, hold on a second, what about these doctors who just

aren't as talented and aren't as good. Why did they get pushed through? Who is that benefiting? Do you want to be the one getting open heart surgery from the affirmative action doctor or the gender parody doctor. I think we all know the answer to that question. So this is where the left is wrong. The thing about critical information for your business is when you need it, you need it right away, and you need to get from people that you can trust. For the best in the business.

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One of the things that Trump learned in New York, in the toughest media market in America is at back down. Apologizing never worked because the people who are your enemies just take that pocket and come at you again. And so I think he has a very clear pattern. He's he's done this all the way through. He doesn't apologize,

he doesn't back off. You know, Nude has become one of the most stalwart defenders of this administration, and and he's saying here what I was just saying yesterday about the whole Kelly Saddler situation, which is I understand why the White House isn't isn't giving into this whole You must apologize for the bad but private comment of one of your employees after she's made an apology to the family, because it just means that that by the way, you know,

I don't know what Kelly Soundly looks like right now. Um, she's slowly fading out of the news cycle. I mean, the media is trying to keep her in there as much as possible, the non Fox media, right the CNN, MSNBC anti Trump accident us out there. By the way, we should the access networks, you know, kind of like the access powers. We should really come up with something here. But the the truth is that when you apologize, it

used to be the case. And I think this is a cultural shift, And this is what got me thinking about this today. I think there's been a real change here. It used to be that if you apologized, there was some hope that the other side would say, okay, if you if we think you're you're sincere. If you've done enough penance, so to speak. We will let you go on with your life, will let you go on and do what is you think you you know, should be doing. But now your apology is kind of like being forced

to testify against yourself. Right, there's a reason why we have a constitutional right not to, uh, to give testimony. That could be a problem for us, because there's something particularly debasing, right you. You you have a right against self incrimination. You have a right to remain silent, as you know, and take you plead the fifth and that

and a right to man silent is miranda. It's differently, but it's a similar concept, right that you can just be quiet and the police can make you talk, that can make you testify in a court. Uh. What the left wants now is not just the apology and to hold that up like some kind of a trophy of victory over you. But they want to force you to apologize King Geoffrey style from Game of Thrones. They want to force you to admit your treason so then they can lop your head off and say, but I mean

he admitted it, folks. Right, the game has changed now and and you can never, never, never apologize look, we we saw this with Laura ingram Over at Fox News, who I didn't think step down the line at all. First of all, really, I mean, you know, there's a difference between not my cup of tea and out a line and what she got in trouble for initially with the with the media wasn't out a line. It just wasn't you know, it wasn't what I would a said

or done. But you know, and then she said, all right, you know, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that, and and they used that admission against her, right the I'm sorry, Uh, you know, I could have been taking the higher road or something that was that was used against her, just like you know, anything you can, anything you say, Kennan will be used against you. That's what apologies are now.

And that's why I understand the hesitation from the White House, because the moment the White House and you know this as well as I do. I mean, there's a lot of posturing going on over this the moment, by the way, you know, put this aside for a moment. The the Democrats on the left have made a particular I've almost become like professional John McCain defenders insomuch as it's a

useful cudgel against Trump and this administration. You know, I remember when you know they were they were trashing John McCabe when he was running against Obama me. But you know now now it's it's useful for them. So there. I don't mean on this specific incident, but even those that came before this, with this administration, they always take McCain's side. I think it's interesting. I think it's obviously opportunistic. But the hesitation to apologize, I understand where it comes

from because I see what happens. Uh. The good faith apology is no longer rewarded by the left. The good faith apology no longer gets you anything, and in fact that it works against you a lot of the time.

So the moment the White House were to come out and say, you know what, we want to give a formal apology on behalf of Kelly Sadler, who has apologized to Megan McCain, Uh, the moment they come out and say that it is the only news story you're gonna see the country subjected to with any consistency for about forty eight hours, Oh, this White House, Look at how terrible it will be as though Trump said it himself

and has had to apologize for it. And this is where narrative and framing and contacts and all the things the media, all the games they like to play, really come into effect. As you know, you know, a comment made by you know, Joe Biden saying'm gonna put you all back in chains for example, I mean comments that really are out of line, and he will say, oh, you know he's speaking. Look, they they made a science of this practically with Joe Biden. Joe Biden would say something.

He'd be like, yeah, you know, if you're an Indian and you own a seven eleven, I mean, that's just what he said. You know, you remember this. We we could probably even grab a clip of of of some bidenisms and just played here for you on the air. Maybe we'll do that later on UM. But you know, Biden would say something that was offensive over line, they say, oh, you know, that's just Joe b and Joe uh uh. That were Republican, it would be he needs to be

run out of office. This is an outrage. So it's just it's changed the game aim with apologies, That's all I'm really trying to say. It is a different world now for this, and you only apologize if you feel it is it is what honor and ethnics demand, not what they demand, not what the other side is demanding of you, because the apology is just used as the rope to finish off your career, your your dunzo when you apologize now, because that's the way the left is

playing the game. UM. So with that, I want to talk to you about Tom Wolfe, who just passed away. That's coming up. I usually don't spend much time on the show talking about those who have recently departed, um in terms of people that are well known celebrities, political figures, but you may have seen that Tom Wolfe passed away today at the age of and this this was one that I have to say, I kind of had to stop and think for a little bit about how this

guy had an influence on me. If you haven't read Bonfire of the Vanities, I think that it's a book that to this day maintains a lot of it's political salience. It still gives you a real sense of how the game is played when it comes to criminal prosecution, the way the media deals with them, and just the social and political dynamics at work in an American city. I think that wolfs Bonfire the Vanity is really captured that.

You know, you get people that are all pushing, They're all pushing their own agendas, and that has some very real effects for folks who are caught up in the Maelstrom. I think it's a good book. I was assigned it years ago in in school, and I had already read it on my own, so that was kind of a

fun one, you know whenever. I used to love that when I had beaten the teacher to the punch, but then I up having to read again because you know, reading comprehension tests, you've gotta remember if you know the lady wore a pink bone or hair or not or else, they think you didn't read it. But you know, Wolf was Wolf was a really gosh I was gonna say profound author. That sounds pretty hackneyed, but it's true. Doing for Bonfire very bad movie. I was actually just talking

to my family about that over the weekend. The film adaptation of Bonfire the Vanities is pretty much total garbage, and as Tom Hanks in it, yeah, that's right. Tom Hanks is capable of clunkers. Don't think that Hanks is above uh dropping some pretty bad stuff out there, because it has certainly happened. Um, Bonfire is a case in point. Just it was miscast, poorly written. The whole thing. It was just bad. It was just really bad. And uh

electro kool Aid acid test Um. I Am Hooking Up was another book that he really I think that was a collection of essays that right, that one, Uh and then I Am Charlotte Simmons, which was really based on Duke University maybe ten or fifteen years ago, and he got some of the dynamics that we see today we're talking about political correctness and uh, he he got some of that very right. He wrote a sex scene in the book that people gave a very hard time to the book for just and that it was the whole

thing was kind of uncomfortable for people to read. And uh, you know, I think he gotta I think he got a Razzie for it, like the Award for the Worst. Um. But I Am Charlotte Simmons also was concerned with something that I always talked about, which is that universities have turned into I don't know, people get mad at me

for this and that's fine. I'm okay with that because I think I'm right, and I'll tell you what I think is right, that a lot of colleges universities have turned into minor league sports franchises that also have classes, and that needs to not be the case. I was shocked, even when I got to a little rinky dink D three athletic program at Amherst, that this was a centerpiece of campus life, that we were all supposed to care.

How are terrible football team did each year, why they weren't very good at all, and no one cares although we were all supposed to care. I was, I guess, a a school spirit, malcontent in that sense. But at a school like Duke, where you're talking about being national champions and things like basketball and across UH, it's it's even more powerful a force on the campus. And I just think it's gotten completely out of control. And and

he dealt with that in the book. He referred to some of these D one athletes as essentially mercenaries who go through the motions of being students but really are very leading, very separate lives and have a very different emphasis from their fellow students, especially if there's a prospect of going pro so yeah, Wolf, Um, you know Wolf fastuated.

He was known for wearing white suits all the time and for Oh he also was the author of The Right Stuff by the Way, which you know what, I actually haven't read that one, and a lot of people say that's actually his his est. Uh. He worked at the Washington Post New York Harold Tribune. Um. He wrote a literary style known as the new journalism. So yeah, he was, he was, he was a big deal. Say he was kind of a big deal. Tom Walt years

of age. Um, I have to say, you know, there there are only a few books that I remember reading when I was really young and thinking it would be the greatest job, imagine will to be a novelist, And Bonfire the Vanities is one of them, um, and also really captured a kind of eighties zeitgeist of being in New York City for those of you care about that kind of stuff. Bonfire and the movie Wall Street are

two that I would really recommend. In fact, you should watch Wall Street and then read Bonfire or vice versa. But being a novelist has got to be one of the greatest jobs of all time. If you can do it. I feel like now it's you know, e books, and there's all this different competition, so there are only a few writers. I mean, with Ristopher Hitchens passed away, I felt like, wow, I'm not gonna read any more of

that guy's stuff. So it affected my life in that regard, right, wow, I'm not not of course he feels sorry for anyone's family and it. But these guys had lived. Hitchens and well he was a bit younger, but a wolf certainly at his age, led a very full, very successful life. But you think about how for folks who really look forward to the next article or the next book by some of these people, it affects you a little bit. You're like, oh, wow, I'm not going to read anymore.

But as I said, the right stuff now I think has to be put on my list of books that I will have to tackle going forward. Although that list, right nows is huge, It's really big. I gotta find a way to start cutting it down to size. I've fallen off the wagon the last few days. I've been so ensconced and other projects. I haven't been reading books, which I forced myself to do every day at least um some portion of the day roll calls up. Next team,

it's time for roll call. Swampy, my friends, it is swampy down here in d C. I just was talking to Brandon's running the board today and I told him, I'm I'm schwitzing way too much. I walk around and it's just a constant schwitz And it's not in the fun way where you feel like you're releasing toxins. I'm just walking around in a state of dampness, which is neither fun nor nor particularly attractive. I think. Nonetheless. Uh, down here in the swamp, and a lot to talk

to you about here on roll call. If you want to be involved in the roll call, it is a pretty straightforward process. It's gonna face book dot com, Book dot com. Uh, slash buck Sexton, Facebook dot com, slash buck Sexton Donald first up here. Love the show, Buck listen live every chance I get. But your podcasts are great to have too. Well, thank you, Donald. Regarding yesterday's show where you were playing news clips about the embassy in Israel, it was just eight years ago and we

were told that we had to change our traditions. Just an observation of the media's hypocrisy once again. Well, Donald. Let's see. I see what you're going for there. And yes, in fact, it is the case that the way things were done in the past. Uh, that's unbreakable tradition. When it's something that the left likes and the way things were done in the past that the left doesn't like, we're told that's on the wrong side of history. That's

the phrase that the Obama administration particular liked to use. Uh. Seth is next up here, Hey, Buck, I agree with your Roll Call contributor from Monday's episode regarding Joe Rogan. I had to stop listening to him because he was Trump bashing too much. Plus, you're both wicked smart, and I bet you'd make for a great guest. I'd love to hear that podcast from Seth. Seth, thank you so much. Yeah, man, Look, tell Joe, send him a note, send him an email. I'm happy to do it, and I will. I'll reach

out to him. I don't think we follow each other on Twitter, but I'll send him a note and go for it. So yeah, but but please help me spread the word it is. UH is really appreciated. Whenever you can get my name out there to other hosts, other folks who have a platform that you think I should join in on. Next up is justin. Every time you bring up homeless in Malibu, all I can think is stay out of Malibu. Labowski. Uh, there you go, Yeah,

the big Lebowski. I'll I'll tell you the truth. I I didn't think it was a great movie the first time I saw it. I had to see it a few times, and then as time went on, I liked it more and more. H Um, don't ever do this is from John. Don't ever do that teenage girl voice again. Okay, Sorry, John, They're not all they can all be winners. Michael. Next up here, Black Rifle Coffee now has decalf pods. Dude, I'm on it. Buck one five. It is true, folks, if you're now a decalf person, you can get your

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an air fryer before. But I feel like I've had at some frou frou fancy places in New York, like air air fried French fries or something. I think maybe I'm making that up, but that sounds right anyway. Love, it sounds like a great suggestion. I just don't know anything about it, so I'll look into it and I will get back to you. Michael. Next up here, Buck, I got beef with you. Bogus Journey was no excellent adventure, but it's just as ridiculously awesome. Death's character was hilarious.

It has some redeeming qualities. Station Um. You know, I have to go back and watch Bogus Journey. I just remember it being disappointing, and I was young when I saw it. Maybe maybe it's age better than I thought. But Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures is just fantastic. I always like actually the scene where the dad right uh Ted Theodore Logan I and Bill s Preston esquire. Um, but when Ted's dad is who's the police chief? Or maybe it's Bill's dad. I forget which one has the

police chief dat. I think it's Ted, who played by Keanu Reeves, and he brings the well I was gonna say the historical character of but he brings Sigmund Freud in the office and he's like, He's like, so he's like, tell me your name, and he's like Sigmund Freud. And then Freud's like, so tell me about your mother. I have to say, like, you know, there's some good stuff in there. You know, there's some good stuff in there.

And the Napoleon character, the best part of the whole movie is when they take Napoleon to the water park. I think, I don't know why, but the guy who plays Napoleon actually is a pretty good look alike and just does a great job. It's a fun movie, man, it you know, it's it's crazy, but George Carlin's in it. If you haven't seen it, obviously it's a little bit out there, but I would recommend it. I think it is fun and you can watch what the whole thing family.

Joe next up in roll call, Hey Buck, you mentioned a leaker in the White House regarding the McCain controversy, and I'm wondering, hasn't anyone ever heard of a polygraph? As a CIA alumni, don't they ever use it? If no? If not, why not? I was going to be an FBI agent after college, but I smoked some drugs and

assumed i'd be polygraph so I didn't try. Ironic considering on the same age as Bill Clinton from Joe, Um, you know, Joe, the truth is that the polygraph is not the cure all for uh for lies that a lot of people think it is. It's as much art as it is science. And it also takes a trained polygrapher to apply the darned thing, so it's not that easy. Um.

But nonetheless, uh, yeah they could. They could probably polygraph people, just take a long time and to polygraph people though for non criminal behave if you're in the White House, that that would I think that would be seen rightly as a as a bit extreme. Next up here is Dave. He writes Italy is great right by the flat Iron building. We stay at the Hotel Henry across the street. Went

in the city. Well, Dave, that is yes. The flat Iron neighborhood named for the flat Iron Building which is on uh the corner of twenty three where Broadway and Fifth Avenue, uh meet and it is or no way where they actually diverge, not where they meet. Um. The flat Iron Building was I think initially called the Fuller Building. Um, and it was supposed to be an office tower to create in in that part of Manhattan, which is roughly st a a new financial center. So didn't happen, but

it is a trendy fun era. If you're ever in New York City, I do really recommend the flat Iron district. A Madison Square Park is beautiful, a lot of great restaurants around there, a really nice place to take a stroll. And if you go further west into Chelsea, if you're in the galleries, lots and lots of really funky and in some cases very very expensive and high end art galleries. All right, Next up we have Victor. Um, here we go, and hello Buck. I believe Canada has had legal sports

gambling for many years now. Um, I did not know that, Victor. Well, thank you for bringing that to my attention. And yeah, I don't think it's destroyed Canada, so we'll be okay. Canadians are nice people, so sports gambling. Look, it's already legal here, it's just a question of uh qui bono? Who benefits? Is it the state? Is it the gambling houses? Is it bookies? Is it organized crime? You know who?

Because there's gambling going on all the time, Like the stock market is just gambling with thoughts attached to it, gambling with research. But stocks are a form of gambling too, Alan, next up here, Hey Buck, you're probably too young to remember when the hashtag sign meant pound not hashtag. Look what I just did there? Uh yeah, now, imman, imagine using the old meaning with the current popular um meme

hashtag me too. That would create quite a stir. Alan, get your mind out of the gutters, sir, Eric, next up here, Oh man, you cracked me up with your spot on imitation of that Mike quickly character Well, I have no proof of that assertion. But can you prove my no proof assertion is unproven, sir? I think not. Your show is great for the analysis, but the hilarious impressions are perfect icing for the cake. Looking forward to the official unveiling of the new d C gig this week,

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