Mueller's Mass Hysteria

with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake, American, You're a great American. Again, the Buck Sexton Show begins. Analyst, He's a great guy. Sexton. No, we have confirmed that a letter was sent to the chairman and ranking members of the Senate and House Judiciary committees notifying them that the Special Counsel Robert Muller investigation was completed. Let me just read for a second from that text. It says, quote Special Counsel Robert Mueller the

third has concluded his investigation of Russian interference. But this is the important part. Well, Attorney General William Barr says, quote he may be in a position to ad buyse you the committees of the Special Counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend. So this is the first time that we've had an indication that the Attorney General may be able to move very quickly in terms of releasing

some information and the findings to Congress. What's not in the letter so far that we've seen is a timetable for a public release. Welcome to the buck Sex then show quite a Friday breaking news situation here, folks. The Mueller report has done no more indictments. Oh oh, you mean they're not going to prosecute the president. You mean that Hillary's not really going to get to be president all of a sudden after all. Oh No, we've known this day would come, and it is here, and damn

it feels good to be right team we've been. Just take a moment, take a little moment, you know, do a little little chin wagging and stretch stretch out a little bit, you know, just take a little strut around the office or around the kitchen or wherever you are, and just just remember, we knew it. We knew it. The delusional left did not know it. They thought that Trump was finished and Mueller's on him, and Mueller's I mean, people built careers for themselves around this lie. People became

a household names around this nonsense. And no new indictment. You know what that means. That means that there was no collusion, folks, there was no collusion. It's not there,

it's not real, it's not a thing. And now you will see so many people running for cover for a few days, not for long, because there will unfortunately be no real media accountability for all the frauds, all the peddlers of lies and fiction and smears meant to take down Trump and just to feed the malignant psychosis of the far left in this country that now runs the

Democrat Party, that is the Democrat Party. And do you think that anyone will will apologize for what they've done or say that they were wrong about Trump and they got caught up in the moment. And no, this was a mass hysteria, a mass hysteria that's swept tens of millions of people into it and has come at a tremendous cost to the country, to the Trump administration's ability to conduct its business, to govern well, to enact the agenda. So in that sense, I also say this with with

rage and with sadness. I mean, yes, there's relief and there's happiness. We were right and it's done. So just take a moment. Team, it's been two years in coming. We've been talking about this for two frigging years, and now it's over. No more. Muller. Who who's the next person he's going to and died? Oh is he? What does he have on Trump? Oh? What? The Russians? This the Russians, that, Russia, Russia, Russia. Finally, this insanity of at least the Special Council is coming to an end.

It's a good day. It's a good day for America. I would also note that I think you and take something from the fact that this is being dropped on a Friday in late March, as some of my colleagues online have pointed out, while March madness is going on, and this is a government Friday post five pm news dump situation. If this report said that the President United

States should be criminally charged. Now I know they've said there's no indictments, but even if you know, if you're going to take the position that maybe they suggest that the president could have been indicted but will not be indicted, and we don't know what's in the report yet. But if that were the case, trust me, they wouldn't wait until a Friday afternoon or evening to let this thing.

Let this thing go, No way, I'm going to have to really take a beat and think about how much how much twitter curb stomping I plan to do of insane luecheck libs who have been running around with this for days from days for years now, and they should be held to account. I do not believe they will

be held to account, but they should be. What they did was reckless, what CNN did weaponizing itself against the Trump presidency by being the center of this conspiracy theory about Trump working with the Russians to steal an election from Hillary Clinton as though the as though the presidency was her property. That, my friends, is not not something that we should let go lightly. That is not something that we should forget. And I do hope that there's

an opportunity here for a reckoning. But the Muller report is in the Special Council is done. This National Nightmare has at least ended a very destructive chapter. And take a moment for yourself. For those of you who have been listening to this show, those of you across the

country to just remember we were right all along. These people at New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, all the different left wing websites and move On and all media matters and these crappy, terrible, disgusting smear machines, they were wrong. We were right. They were full of it. We were full of truth. You deserve, we deserve a moment of victory on this one. We don't know what's in that report. We'll no more details soon, but we do know this. There was no collusion, and that's what

this was all about. I've got more on this. Stay with me. Think of it. I have a deputy appoints a man to write a report on me to make a determination of my presidency. People will not stand for it. Now, with all of that being said, for two years, we've gone through this nonsense. Because there's no collusion with Russia. You know that better than anybody. And there's no obstruction. They'll say, oh, well, wait, there was no collusion. That

was a hoax, but he obstructed in fighting against the hoax. Okay, think about that one for a second. Trump is right, folks, He's been right on this one all along. Okay, Trump is correct, his detractors, his haters. The Momulla Report is done, which means there are no more indictments. Now people are

gonna say, oh, look, shiny object, shiny object. The Southern District maybe is too that has the mandate of Russia collusion is finished and there are no more indictments that have been handed down, which means that, guess what, folks, there was no collusion, which we have known all along. And now you're gonna have a lot of people who have a tremendous professional investment in this who we're gonna try to come up with a way to explain to us.

I mean, you know, CNN producer Mike was telling me that one this thing broke, CNN has got a panel of like everybody and their grandma, and they're like, oh, trying to talk about this. CNN has zero credibility on this, zero none whatsoever. Nobody should be listening to what CNN has to say about Russia collusion because they've been putting hysterical liars on TV for two years. And just for the record, not to jump in here, but I think it's the first time that anybody on CNN has smiled

in the year twenty nineteen. I just want to say that, Well, but Mike, why are they smiling? There's no collusion. They're just happy that it's out. They I don't know, they don't I don't even think they know why they're smiling. It's well, I mean, I guess maybe maybe they're happy, like you know, when sometimes criminals want to get caught.

You know, the con is over now, right, the CNN, all these people, when people wrote books about how collusion is you know, going to break down this presidency, and this is Watergate and all this stuff. Do any of those people get to get mocked publicly? Do we get to say that this has been an embarrassment all along.

Do we get to point out that they have been completely detached from reality for the last two years, and they've been doing so in bad faith in order to take down a president's You know, will there be any consequences for this? I would like to say yes. I think the answers probably no. And we all know why this happened, what this came from. Right, they could not accept. They were too deranged with hatred for Trump and oh all the laws of not having Hillary Hello be president

of the United States? They just couldn't handle it. Trump is right, This was all an excuse, play clip. They came up with an excuse for losing an election. This should never happen to another president because most presidents wouldn't be able to take it. I know the politicians, I know the president. I know, I know what we're dealing with.

Most people wouldn't be able to take it. Let me tell you something, where what happened to me should never happen to another president of the United States because I depend on this right here, mind not other people. They have treated me so viciously. They have treated me so badly, and we did nothing wrong. You look at the other and all of these people you hear about that had nothing to do with Russia, Russia, collusion, nothing. It's all a big hoax. It's a witch hunt, and it's a hoax.

It is a witch hunt. It is a hoax, and I want accountability for it. I don't know if we'll ever get it. I mean, these people that have been running around with this theory, these so called serious journalists, I mean, seeing that has just been a dumpster fire on this just the worst. I mean, let's let's just be real about this. Folks, The dominant news story of the Trump presidency of the last two years has been a media hoax. I don't think the media should ever

recover from this. I don't think we should ever be forced to take them seriously again. If we ever took them seriously, they have covered themselves in dishonor. And now they're going to act like we're supposed to accept this. And there were people who were paid analysts on the on the left wing network, which is everything except for Fox.

They're paid analysts are going on TV who we're suggesting that the president's children might go to you know, might get federally prosecuted, that the president's going to be impeached, maybe even removed from office, that the president himself might go to prison over this prison over what I'll never forget when the President told me in the Oval office, Russia collusion is just a who would even do it?

It's such a stupid idea, you remember, stretching back to the beginning of the Special Council investigation, That's what I was saying. This doesn't even make sense as a plan. It's not even a you know, if Trump is a bank robber, this is like showing up to a bank where you know the vault is empty. Who would do that. It's not even a good plot to steal an election. It doesn't make any sense. It wouldn't work, and it wouldn't work, and it would be incredibly risky, and the

chances of being caught are so very high. And that's one thing that you have to keep this in mind. They're going to try to tell you that maybe it's maybe there still was collusion, maybe this still happened. They have to keep digging and looking more. If Robert Muller and the very aggressive demo crap prosecutors that he pulled together, spending tens of millions of dollars, if they didn't find collusion. Anybody who tells you that maybe there was still collusion

is nuts. Anyone who tells you that we need Congress now to spend its time and resources trying to investigate this thing more thoroughly is either a liar or just crazy. Muller had unlimited ability to pull phone records, pull emails, get all the content, pull all the business transactions, all the bank records, bring witnesses in, put them under oath, prosecute them, send them to prison if they didn't tell

the truth. What more could realistically be done? The answers nothing unless the goal here is twofold cover up for this lie, and then move on to further harassment, cover up this absolute disgrace perpetrated by the Democrats against this president, and then quickly transition into we need his tax returns, we need to investigate more, and oh, by the way, maybe there's still Russia collusion. This whole thing is the

biggest political scandal of my lifetime. It's something that should really make people think long and hard about not just the media, but the core of the Democratic Party. I mean, is the Democratic Party a serious ethical I know you're laughing already, but but really, you know, do they do they operate with any good faith whatsoever? I mean, this

is how they oppose a president. This is how they they show their political opposition by trying to weaponize the investigative functions of the federal government against the commander in chief and use their media allies and their lackeys and the mainstream press to create this this fabricated story. You know, we really I I have a couple of drinks this

weekend and just let this whole thing settle. We have been through an ordeal as a country and for what for what, So that you know, Rachel Maddow has some just lunacy to share with her rapidly left wing audience every night, so that Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer can pretend to be just journalists looking for the truth, and CNN can put all these former deep staters on its payroll, all in an effort to try to find ways to take down Trump. This is what they've done, this is

what they've offered up. I mean, they should be ashamed, but unfortunately they are incapable of shame. It's one of the traits that Democrats have that makes them very resilient. We will not let them scurry away from this one. We will not let them just pretend that this never happened. They need to be made to own If they are not going to pay for it, at least they have

to own it for the next two years. We need to make sure that the last two years matter for the next two years, going into the twenty twenty election because or the next whatever it is now you know, eighteen months, because this has been a this has been an abject catastrophe of lies, falsehoods, and so many people believed this. Why is it that you and I knew? I didn't think there was no collusion. I knew there was no collusion. Why did we Well, it's kind of like,

how did I know Jesse Smollett was lying? And the left just couldn't figure that out? You know, at what point is it clear that there is a wisdom, knowledge, and sanity disparity between the right and the left. How

much crazier would they have to be? How much more delusional and ideologically driven in defiance of reality would they have to be before we'd be able to say, you know what, we're not really dealing with the people playing with a full deck, so to speak, over here, that the left really has lost its mind and that should be scared everybody because now the far left is in control the Democratic Party. Are we talking more about that here in just a moment, But yes, the Mola report

has been handed in. With my Republican colleagues, they say things and I'm like, what does that have to do with what we're talking about? And like the person's like in charge of National flood Insurance program. We're like, what an the woman said yes or no and yeah, and she goes, yes, you're really good at just saying a I mean it's weird and like yeah, yeah, kind of this Fox News lunacies and is like in the well, like we're voting on like gun reform, and I'm like,

I think it. I think it is interesting. Have you met with a lot of inner party resistance. Yeah, Congressional hearings are not a Beyonce concert. You know, most powerful democrat in the country, folks, right there, number one right now, a woman who I have yet to hear her say a single insightful thing about anything. And I think that, with the way the media treats her, is just yet another data point for why we should not take the media very seriously, because they do not view their job

as as challenging power. They are all vessels for the aggrandizement of AOC. They view their role as finding ways to make her look even more fantastic. We'll talk later on in the show about what she said in Time magazine and some of the the just idiocy on display. But I can't get away from the fact that we've been told that so many stories about how Trump is is, you know, not as rich as he says, and he's intellectually incurious and he never reads and he does watch TV.

You know, you know, if the Democrats put forward the my proverbial you know, PhD in astrophysics, Navy seal who just wants to better run the welfare state in this country and have a more humble foreign policy with less interventionism, and you know, is willing to secure the borders with and not promote amistic well that now you can't be a damage. See this is a problem the Democrats. You know what, I just talked myself out of this whole thesis.

They can't put forward a normal candidate or impressive candidate. They have to put forward this. This is this is who they are. I think that we as conservatives have a little bit of denialism here, I know I do. Sometimes I keep thinking that they're going to snap out of it and go back to there. The Democrat Party has been socialist in its ethos for a long time, increasingly aggressively socialist. But at least they used to have to to play the game a little bit and make

enough of the country think that they care more. They care about workers, and they care more about your healthcare. And this was always the you know, they're the party of the nice people who want to do the government's going to help you. The government's going to be your friend,

it's going to it's going to assist you. And you know, I just have got to say that it's it's very, very frustrating that we are now in a position where everything that we said was going to happen with the Democrats about how they would be the party of socialism and that would be calling for single payer has come true, and the media just blows past that, like what our conservatives are we a bunch of wizards? Can we tell

the future? Now? We've understood what the game plan is here for a long time, but now they're finally at the point where they can't hide it anymore. You know, now now we see that left to their own devices, the Democrat Party is now the party of Democrat socialism. They're not Stalinists. Yes, they're not hardcore communists that are going to set up a central committee, but their central committee is really just a dispersed one. It's a very

broad communist central committee. The Democrats, their central committee is you know, the barons of Silicon Valley and the heads of media media organizations, and there you know, the billionaires that are pushing climate change and major lifestyle choices on people that are actually gonna have to live with the

conse of it, unlike the billionaires. So you know, there's a little bit, there's a there's shadows of that, there's little flavors of that, but they're not yet hardcore, and they're not going to be anytime soon, I think hardcore Stalinists, although on speech they're getting. You know, I kind of

go back and forth on some of the stuff. I talk myself into what I think is the real essence of where the Democratic Party, well where it is now, but also where it's going, and I just think that, you know, they can't they can't help themselves, you know, AOC. As much as I want to believe that Okazio Cortez is some kind of aberration, that she is a departure otherwise solid Democrat Party norms, now what's happened is she is the Democrat Party. Now. Pelosi is just a part

of the machinery of the Democrat Party. But the person at the controls who's deciding where the machine's gonna go and what it's gonna do, that's now AOC. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and some of these other prominent Democrats that you're seeing like Corey Booker, Kamala Harris. They are going to be drawn further and further into that that you are not going to see this snap into the center.

And that's why I think Biden when he does get in, I know, the pole show and being pretty strong, but it'll be clear to people who are astute observers pretty quickly. I think Biden is going to look like the old the old guy who is that's right, you know what's coming doing a belly flop into the shallow end of the pool. I mean, it's just not gonna work. It's not gonna work. He's not compelling, he's not in the

zeitgeist at all. You know. The only way he maybe makes it work is this idea that was floated this week of Stacy Abrams kind of like Beto and that another Democrat who lost but we're still supposed to think is a winner anyway and doesn't even accept that she lost.

Abrams may run on the bottom side of the ticket, and Biden says that it may say that he'll only serve one term, and so then you get the optics of a nationally recognizable African American female politician as the you know, the person in waiting essentially to be the president as the VP. You know, the idea that she'd it will be handed off to her in twenty twenty four, maybe hers to run with in twenty twenty four, and

that Biden would retire after four years as president. That's the only way that I think that Biden really has a chance of being president. I do not, and I don't think people care enough about the VP. Look what happened John McCain and Sarah Palin. I don't think that people care enough about the VP for that strategy to work. I think everyone realizes the VP is you know, VP is there in case of VP is not exactly blowing

people's minds. We'll be right back, Governor. Some of your male competitors have vowed to put a woman on the ticket, yes or no? Would you do the same, Well again, of course, but I think that we should be Well, I'll ask you another question. How come we aren't asking the question? I don't, I don't, but half couple we're not asking. We're not asking more often the women who should be willing to put a man on the ticket when we get to that point. So that was I know,

we played that for you yesterday. And just I mean, Hickenloper seems like kind of a dork, you know, not that far left from what I understand. I don't really know much about him, but this is an interesting and interesting little moment because that you know, it was just the thing about hick and Looper that got attention this week.

People got really really upset about this. And and I'm noticing that this trend on the left, it's look at there's there has been a a hyper ventilating victimhood that is at the heart of feminism for a long time. I mean, feminists have thought for a long time that they are you know that that women and I mean in recent years. I'm not talking about when women did not have equal rights, which was which was wrong, and but you know that has been corrected. Women do have

equal rights. And in fact, if you go into family court now, which you will find is that women actually have in some legal contexts more rights than men. Family courts are incredibly skewed toward females over males, for just just because the mom is is the one who is more likely to get custom of the kids just because right So, on a legal basis, women actually have more rights than men in some contexts, and in general have

the same rights. But there's still this, you know, the the and I think it really comes from the boomer finists out there, who, unfortunately a lot of them, I think, have some regrets about how certain things when certain things have gone, certainly regrets about Hillary Clinton not winning the twenty sixteen election. There's a bitterness. I mean, feminism and bitterness are very much intertwined. And also feminists don't have a sense of humor, which is another really undesirable, unlikable

trait of feminism. They just nothing is funny to a feminist, right. You know, you hear the joke about the feminist and the other feminists. You know, that's not funny, that's the joke. Here's what the media said about Hey, Hick and Looper. Look, he made a kind of goofy look, you know, maybe we should ask if the men will be on the two, you know, But he actually kind of got it a little bit of a truth there, which is why why am I required to have a female as a vice president?

Why don't I just have the best person for the job. Right and the media got upset about this. Play three John hick and Looper's answer about the possibility of a female running mate sparking backlash. I don't know what the heck he was talking about. There are a lot of Democrats who feel that women haven't been given their just due, so when Hickenlooper says things like that, he's basically dismissing those concerns. Craig, I don't even know how to reply

to that. I mean, forty five presidents have been men. I mean, I think that speaks for itself. I think it's just one of those answers that you really grown at. I certainly did when I saw it. I think I'm gonna send Governor Hickenlooper copy of those place mats with all the president's faces on them that are all men. See.

This is at the center of why identity politics is an intellectual failure, and we'll always fall into self contradiction, We'll always fall into hypocrisy and an inability to defend itself as as an ideological system, and so therefore it will just go on attack. It will always go at hominem Right, identity politics cannot stand because it isn't based

in a principle that is defensible. If in fact, it's the case that we should have a president who is a woman just because we have not had a president or a vice president who is a woman, then shouldn't it also be the case that we have a duty to have the next forty five presidents be women. Don't

we have to balance it out? I mean, if if we're going to take the position that it's not in the here and now, when we are actively deciding a question, and you know, in twenty nineteen in America, it's not about who is the best and who the people choose for the job, that gender should matter as a as a factor, a perhaps deciding factor in that. Why shouldn't gender matter for the next forty five When is it enough? This is why the left also gets very uncomfortable with

the idea of quotas. They want the appearance of a quota thought without the admission of a quota existing, because well, how the moment that you say that you have a quota, you're not basing something on merit, or in this case, you're not basing it on the will of the people. You're mandating something that is external from that, will you're mandating something that is different from the meritocracy or what have you. Right there, there's a separation of the of

principle here that occurs. So when they when they bring up, you know, why don't you have a woman a woman who will be on your on your ticket? And he's like, well, why do what do I have to you know, he said it like in a goofy way, But the point is valid, which is does he have to Is this now a requirement? I mean, why is he being asked that? And now I don't think it's a problem that Donna

bash Do not call her Dana, it's Donna bash. Um. I don't think it's a problem that she has a journal has asked him, and it's fine she can say should you have a woman on your ticket? But I think it's funny is that the media got angry at him for saying it's kind of a silly it's kind of an unimportant, silly question because it either you either

want the best person for the job. And this is why identity politics, whether it's based on gender or race, or sexual orientation or anything else, always runs into this issue. They want to tell us that it's the best person should get the job. But then when we say, okay, well how do we how do we determine who the best person is for the job, they say, well, you know, we really need a person who looks like X, we really want a person who is of why background. But

that that doesn't that's a superficial characteristic. That's not that's not within the wheelhouse of how we're supposed to decide this. That's a that's an externality that you're now saying should perhaps even be the decisive factor. This is always the problem with identity politics. It's always the problem with the intersectional left. They want you to they want to create the anxiety around accusations of sexism, accusations of racism, and

so people will act accordingly. You know, you're always going to get the tie goes to the aggrieved minority, the aggrieved sex, the aggrieved sexual oritation, whatever it may be, and in a lot of cases a lot more than just the tie. But if you bring that up and say, well, hold on a second, is this I mean, for example, if you have a talk with any Democrat about whether it was an advantage for Barack Obama to be an African American running for president. They look at you like

you're crazy. Now, I'm not saying that as an African American Barack Obama did not overcome a lot of adversing in his life. I'm not African American, and I'm sure he did. But this pretense that it wasn't a differentiating and overwhelmingly viewed as positive, groundbreaking historical characteristic of Obama,

that yes, he was black, is delusional. But the left still they all, I mean, they they claim that the fact that he was black was a disadvantage in the election, and all the evidence is to the contrary, which speaks to I think the you know, it's all to the good, and I'm glad that the American people are what we are, which is open minded and tolerant, and you know, we aren't nearly as sexist, racist and all these other things

as the left wing media would have us believe. But I mean, let's just can we at least be honest about these things? When is something an advantage? You know, they'll tell you vote for this person because of their gender or their you know, their ethnicity, or their sexual orientation. But when you say, okay, so they have an advantage, Now, because of that, you're told no, no, you can't say that. Well, which is it? I just want to know. Can we

have clarity on this? If you're telling me it's a reason to vote for a person that's an advantage, that that's not a disadvantage. And if you're telling me, or you're telling Hick and Looper that he has to have a woman as vice president, jo't also tell him that he's picking the vice president because that's the best person. Because if you were picking the best person, you wouldn't tell him he has to pick a woman. You see, this is the incoherence of identity politics laid bare for you.

And people in the media. They don't grapple all this stuff in any in any serious sense, in any serious way. And that's why I have so much fun making fun of their silliness on a regular basis. But wow, our Friday is already rolling along. Your team, we have much more to go. I'll be right back. So I interviewed a Democratic candidate for the presidency today, and I gotta tell you a team it was actually, it was actually

pretty pretty intriguing. This fellow. Um, I think his policies would if enact, did his broad you know, major policies would be really bad for the country. But I think he is an earnest and sharp guy, and I can engage. I can engage with leftists who want to engage in good faith. Always I'll engage with anyone who wants to

engage in good faith. Right if someone wants to sit down and tell me that we need to kill all the cows and get off of fossil fuels and they want to talk about it, I'll do that if if they want to take that position, kill all the cows, no more fossil fuels. And if I don't agree, it's because I'm a racist, big as sexist. That's not really a useful exercise. To his credit, Democratic candidate for the presidency, Andrew Yang is in the I want to talk category, and so we had a sit down today. It was

on rising the left right, liberal slash conservative. Both sides show that I do at the Hill, and we had to have an interesting talk. So first it was on universal basic income, which he calls the free m dividend, and the idea there is that there will be a massive program of a thousand dollars a month for everyone in the United States over the age of eighteen. I said,

how will you found this? He said, well, well, we'll tax some of these super successful Silicon Valley companies and other industry and probably Wall Street, maybe a special internet tax. So that will be a massive program, incredibly expensive and a massive tax to pay for it. But at least he's saying, no, we're going to really tax the you know, tax that you know what out of things. I mean,

we're going to really go for it. But you're all, everyone's gonna get a check, no matter who you are, you gonna check every month in the government for a thousand dollars. So I think this is a good idea. No, because the thousand's going to turn into Okay, well some people should get two thousand, and then some people should get three thousand, and then you know it whenever you create an entitlement and then you start haggling over how much bigger the entitlement gets. So I don't think it's

a good idea. But it's not a bizarre idea. It's not like the Green New Deal crazy level of ideas. He also wants medicare for all, and I keep saying that in a world where we don't care about the debt, Medicare for a world we don't care about the debt. And if you don't care about rationing and shortages in care, if you don't care about waiting six months to see

your doctor, then we could do Medicare for all. The problems with it are that you're gonna wait forever because they'll be rationing, and it's going to blow a massive hole through an already sinking ship of a debt. It's going to be completely you know, we're gonna be at thirty trillion dollars before you know it, I mean fast. If we do Medicare for all, it's gonna be wildly expensive. But if you're willing to wait, and you're and he understands this is very expensive, you know, he says, we

already spend more than other countries on care. And to that, I say, first of all, Americans, and they never want to talk about this in folks. I gotta as I sit here and I'm thinking about the gluten free pizza that I'm going to be eating tonight and the gluten free pasta that I may be ordering, Americans are not as healthy as their European counterparts. We require. This is a fact that don't get mad at me. I'm not telling you, hey, put down that cheeseburger and eat some

tofu because I'm not a communist. But Americans are not as healthy as are the Europeans, and so we automatically have higher healthcare costs because of that. And we also have better outcomes of particularly for cancer treatment, than anybody over there. So if you get really sick, you want to be in America. If you get a little sick, you might want to be in Europe. But Americans tend to be sicker than their European counterparts. And oh, by the way, one of the reasons that our healthcare costs

is so high is prescription drug prices. And that's just chronyism. That's not a function of you know, Medicare or Medicaid. I mean, that's just legislation and regulations that are in place that allow these companies to just benefit themselves in a way that he's egregious. That's that is what's happening. You know, they sell it for different prices around the world, but they sell it for in a much, much, much higher priced here to extract as much as they can

have the out of the American market. I mean, there is some and the Trump administration knows this. There's some regulatory reform that has to happen. There no question about it. So Medicare for all he likes. Again, he knows the ups and that he doesn't accept the downsides that I brought up to him, but he at least is aware of them. This guy, look, this guy Yang, he went on Joe Rogan's podcast. He's a People are calling his

supporters the Yang gang. He's an interesting guy, and you know, he's very polite, he's he's not he doesn't run around calling everybody a racist. And I'm biggetting everything else. So I found him far more interesting to talk to than some of the other Democrats that I've come across recently, way less interested, incuring, at least based on my interview with them today, lecturing people on you know how just Donald Trump is some horrible monster and racist and everything else.

And then his other big ideas, and this ties into the universal basic income, is that automation is going to get rid of millions and millions of jobs within the next ten years. And even if we have the displacement of those jobs filled in other ways, it'll take a while. It'll be highly disruptive, and we need to be prepared for it. I think that's a that is also a serious argument. Now I'm not sure that the answer does

it just give people? Bunny and I don't. And I also don't believe that anybody can really predict the future. You can, you should prepare for the future based on your best predictions, but nobody can really predict the future. So on automation though, and he loved the book Rise of the Robots, which I have, and I'm embarrassed to tell you I have it in my stack right now. I have not gotten to it yet, but it is

in my read stack. I got to get through this book on the Lost City of the of the Monkey God. I'm never reading another book about archaeology. Oh you know, all these archaeologists are like, I had to sleep in this little tent and there were snakes outside. Ooh you know. And then I found a big mound that maybe was used for burial purposes. I just I got to get to a point in life where I see my thing is, I won't bail on a book. I rarely will bail

on it. I because I think that i've I've like given up, but I won't let the book if it's a bad book. I don't want to let it win by saying I'm not going to read this book anymore. But then you get stuck reading a bad book for hours and hours and hours, especially if it's bad. You really are you know, I have very few books that I've only gotten halfway through and then finished off. So so you know, the young thing was it worthwhile exchange? Today? I tell you, I really I found him to be um.

I disagree with them on everything, but it was it reminded me that it's possible to think that a leftist is wrong about everything and not want to scream at them to stop being a psycho lib that know nothing. You know, he's he's he's thoughtful about being wrong, which I can appreciate. Then he's got some other ideas I'm just gonna tell you get me real excited. And the Federalist pulled some of these together. He wants a national

texting line to report annoying robo calls. I think the robo calls are specifically set up to go off on my phone while I'm doing this radio show. And I cannot tell you how many times I have in my head had to stifle a curse and throwing my phone at the wall because I'm about to just reach that that moment of I've been building to that one thought that's coming during the monologue, and it's and then you know, on my desk and it's a robo call. I mean, I can tell it's a robo call. So I like

that idea. He got into an exchange with Ben Shapiro about ending infant circumcision, and we asked him about that today and this was just on Twitter, but he thinks that circumcision isn't something it's not the health benefits are not clear. These obviously male circumcision we're talking about here, and whenever, just talking about it kind of makes me think, oh, I'm just gonna be honest with you. But you know, it's an idea and it's something that he might be

talking to people about. And then he also thinks that we should have the American Mall Act to deal with the fact that malls are turning into ghost towns, which I don't know if the government really has a role in that. I think that real estate will get sold to other other use and that'll be fine. But anyway, he's a thoughtful guy. So you know, I'm not just here to just trash libs. I'd like to engage in ideas, and he's a guy with ideas, so we engage in

them and explain why they are wrong. But I'm glad that he spent his time with us today. I did appreciate it, and team will be right back well. The Trump administration has behaved precisely the opposite of the way that the Obama administration behaved during the Green the Green effort in Iran. Instead of shutting the people, we've supported them. Instead of denying the rights of the people of Iran, we're supporting the rights of the people of Venezuela. We're

committed to this. We're going to stay the course. There are multiple elements to this effort. There's the political element, there's the economic element. We are desperately trying to get humanitarian assistance to the people of Venezuela. We're committed to helping Venezuela the region deny Madure of the opportunity to engage in this thuggish behavior that has been so harmful

to ordinary Venezuelans. We're determined to achieve this outcome, and we're optimistic that we can get there at some point, I would imagine things will change, but we really haven't done the really tough sanctions yet. We can do the tough sanctions and all options are open, so we may be doing that, but we haven't done the toughest of sanctions. As you know, we've done I would say, right down the middle, but we can go a lot tougher if we need to do that. Venezuela is still very much

in the balance. No one really knows it hangs in the balance. What's going to happen here? Is it going to be Guido? Is it going to be Maduro? Who is left standing at the end of this. You have Vice President Pence writing in the Miami Herald the following Early yesterday morning, in Venezuela, armed members of Nicholas Maduro's secret intelligence for US broke into the homes of government officials connected to the only legitimate president of Venezuela, Juan Guido.

Maduro's thugs threatened their lives and those are their family members, and they brutally kidnapped Roberto Marrero, President Guido's chief of staff. Even now, mister Marrero is being held against his will in an undisclosed location. The United States calls for the immediate release of Roberto Marrero. We will not tolerate Morrero's imprisonment or the intimidation of the legitimate government of Venezuela, and those responsible must be held accountable. Maduro must release

Marrero now. This egregious violation of the rule of law is only the most recent example of Maduro's brutality and despotism. Last month, the world watched as the dictator danced in Caracas while his henchmen murdered civilians and blocked truckloads of food and medicine designed or destined for the suffering people of Venezuela. Just a few weeks before his inauguration, Maduro's intelligence forces arrested interim President Guido in a shameless attempt

to bully him into silence. Fortunately they failed. Maduro's got to go is what Vice President Pence is saying here, and it is the United States government's official policy now that he has been for a while, that he must go. But dictators, thugs, despots, they tend not to go particularly quietly. And I can't say that I would expect anything different

here from Maduro. And this is where I'm caught in this push pull in my brain between wanting to do more to help ensure the best outcome here for a country where there are legits, there are real US interests, and not not just humanitarian interest, but we do have an interest in access to Venezuela and oil reserves, that's

just and oil markets, that's just the truth. We also have a humanitarian interest in trying to help ease the suffering of people who are malnourished, can't get medicine, murders skyrocketing, no rule of law in the streets, and tyranny increasingly holding them in its grip. So I feel all of those things very acutely. But I also, though, have this sense that we just don't need to take on another

problem set for ourselves that's really somebody else's problem. I mean the diplomatic relations, the basic actions that we're taking in Venezuela. I think it's the right move, but we got to have clear lines about how far are willing to go here and when Trump is saying there that there may be additional additional sanctions, okay, sanctions, fine, but beyond that we have to start looking at when when are we doing too much and making something more more

our problem than it should be. Then you also have some leftists in this country who are still they still look they can't really just I mean, they will say they're worried in a sense about what I'm worried about, which is us mission creep in Venezuela taking on more of this for ourselves. But I really just think that that's a cover for them because they have a sympathy for Majuro based on the aims of the Bolivarian Revolution,

which is a social justice based approach to government. That's at the very root of this that the you know North Americans by that, I mean you know us, northe Americanos or whatever, that we are the reason for so much of the economic disparity and deprivation in Venezuela previously.

I mean, now I think that's a harder case to make, or are they still Maduro still makes that case and it's our fault, It's on us, and that if only the greedy landowners and business owners were brought to heal by the government, everybody would have plenty of food and they'd all just be kind of hanging out and you know, in the country would be like one big beach party or something that is a massive failure. We all know this.

There are these leftists that come across in America, in the media in particular, who just won't accept that Maduro is a really bad guy and has got to go that. They still hold to this idea that you know, he is legitimate, even though the election that is the only reason he's even technically considered the president was fraudulent. And I haven't come across anyone who disagrees with that assessment.

But I also spoke today to a an author of author of a book about Afghanistan, and it's written a book about bou Burggall, and essentially he's using bou Burggall. From what I gathered from the interview, I haven't read the book and I don't plan to. To be fair, I did not find it a particularly compelling pitch. But the book is about bou Burggall, and he's this author and his and his co author have decided to make Burgdall something of a a cautionary tale about the US

strategic mistakes in Afghanistan. Essentially, but Burggall was the result of bad US policy ideas and bad strategy, and really, you know, it doesn't hurt, It doesn't had he didn't have a critical word to say about Burggall today. This guy, now, he wasn't his co author as a veteran, He wasn't a veteran today who I was talking to. But I also had to sit there and say, I don't agree with using Burggall as a you know, his situation as a metaphor. That's what I was the word I was

looking for before for the entire situation of Afghanistan. But I do think that as we are now in ongoing open negotiations with the Taliban, and in fact our negotiating, according to this author today with some of the very people that we traded for bo Bergdahl from the Taliban, that Afghanistan is one of these This is where I'm gonna need Trump. We're gonna talk more about how Trump will just pull the trigger. Other people won't do it

on foreign policy, but Trump will pull the trigger. I need him to pull the trigger on Afghanistan because we've got it, we're done, and then we're done. Doesn't mean all right, everybody, you know, load up the C one thirties and you know we're all coming home tomorrow. But it does mean in the next twelve months leaving full stop, we are gone. We will have an embassy there, We'll

have some training forces here and there. But this notion of a permanent eight thousand man or seven thousand men military presence in Afghanistan, for which that indicates that we have a permanent responsibility for the national security state of that country, that just needs to end. I mean, we're already negotiating with the Taliban. We are negotiating, and people don't want to say this. We are negotiating with terrorists.

That's happening. We're not supposed to do that. But Trump, I think just as you will see a full US withdrawal during the Trump presidency from Syria. I do believe he will do that, even though the foreign policy smart set doesn't like that. They want, you know, Syria to be another forever war. I think that Trump might also finally be the one who ends the war in Afghanistan.

I certainly hope. So you are now entering the Freedom Huntechnical Operations Center, all sense of programs Musky Caps strigurely need to know Team Buck is cleared and ready for the Buck brief figure. We got some time to dive into some national security issues on this Friday, and for that we are joined by my friend Adam Crado. He is a senior writer for National security international Affairs at

the Washington Freebeacon. He has a piece today about Congresswoman Ilahan Omar in which he writes the following, Elan Omar holding secret fundraisers with Islamic groups tied to terror. Adam, great to have you on. Thanks for having me. I appreciate him. All right, what's going on with this freshman congresswoman? Yeah, look so so everybody I think is pretty aware of her comments accusing Jewish people and pro Israel members of

Congress of having dual loyalties. You know, these age old anti Semitic tropes that she seems quite un apologetic for. And I think what's so fascinating is that now with the radical anti Israel and anti Semitic left, she seems to be raising quite a bit of money. She's become a darling to these groups, and they're at least too so far that she's spoken to under cover of secrecy. That means these events are not open to the press.

Even if you want to attend, you cannot, and video is hidden from the public on it and these two groups. One of them is called Islamic Relief that is an international charity that for quite some time has been accused of having links to Hamas, the terror group, and actually has been banned by several countries for these terror tizes, including Israel and other ones. The second group you're probably

familiar with CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations. CARE was an unindicted co conspiracy, a conspirator in a massive terror fundraising case. And of course there a rhetoric on Israel is what you would expect, accusing the Jewish state of war crimes, these kinds of things, so naturally you can see why she would be invited to speak. And what I find so curious about that is that she's actually raising money off of her anti Semitism and anti

Semitic comments. And I think one of the problems the sources I spoke to are pointing at is that this has done in secrecy. There's no access to reporters, and I think that's very bad. I would like to wonder, in addition to what she's saying in public that's anti Semitic and anti Israel, what could she possibly be saying in private to these primarily Islamic Muslim audiences. I think

that's concerning. Now, what has changed, Adam in your estimation about where the Democrat Party is because we just had this whole dust up, this whole kerfuffle over elan Omar's comments. Would it comes to Israel? And it seems like from what you're telling me, no one nothing has changed to know and expects you to change in terms of her

conduct or really how she talks about Israel. No. Look, I mean she's being rewarded by that far left radical element of the Democratic Party that actually is becoming more of the standard bearer of the party rather than the vocal minority. And I'd like to tell people we could see this coming right. This is not a surprise. I know a lot of people are like, oh my god, people who are actually members of Congress are making anti

Semitic and wildly anti Israel comments. But I would point to the twenty twelve Democratic National Convention and even further back. They removed pro Israel language from their platform. They removed the issue of God, and delegates booed the mention of Israel. There. So, look, this vocal minority for some time has been gaining traction. I mean, we can even look at somebody like Bernie Sanders, this socialist who's a darling of the far Democratic left.

Two of his top advice, as I recently wrote, our longtime anti Israel activists who actually worked at the Center for American Progress when it was embroiled in an anti Semitism scandal. So you can see where they're plucking these people from. And it's not just the new ones like Omar and Rashida Talib and Orcasio Cortez's, it's really infiltrated

the entire Democratic Party as a whole. You have a number of Democrat twenty twenty contenders who are not going to be going to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee this year, the APAC conference, which usually is kind of a who's who in American foreign policy. This this conference. Here's betto Aurora saying why he's skipping play sixteen. I'm

here in South Carolina. I'm here in front of people who will decide who the Democratic nominee is, who are going to decide this next election, who will decide who will defeat President Trump, and then bring this country together. That's the best way for me to spend this time, so a non answer. Really basically, there's other stuff I can do, okay, but you're not going to APACK and people are noticing that. And it's not just Robert O'Rourke.

You also have a number of others including Amy klobaschar and who else is on Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Gearson, Jilla Brand, Elizabeth Warren. They are not going, I mean the name really, the who's who of Democrat candidates. What's going on here, Adam. Look, it shows you how the party has morphed. Israel used to be very much a

threshold issue, and that means for both parties. Once the plurality of voters saw that a person was sufficiently pro Israel, that means they understand the importance and the history of the US Israel military alliance fell it benefits both countries. People usually moved on. But this is no longer the case for the lift and this is why you see the divide in APACK. There is more of a reward

and intentive to boycott with these people. Think is you know, these nefarious Jews controlling foreign policy because it resonates with that far left wing of the party that is now more mobilized and more likely to turn out in an election.

And I think we could actually find ourselves in a place and just looking what's happening in the region now where we have a president, a democratic president, who does not understand and put value in that US Israel alliance, and that's really coming at a bad time considering what's happening with Iran in the region, in Syrian, Yemen elsewhere, and certainly with its terror proxies like has Bola Hamas.

They are all increasingly building on Israel's borders, and a president who doesn't understand that is really going to jeopardize the Jewish state. We're speaking of. Adam Crado of the Washington Free Beacon. Adam, can you tell me what happened? This didn't get much play today, but something's going on because everyone's waiting for the Maula report on you with bated breath. What happened? Were they r on today? You taught me some interesting stuff went down. Yeah, you know,

you're right. People don't pay nearly enough attention to this. The Iran nuclear issue still is ongoing while we've pulled out of that agreement. Of what we see is Europe scrambling to save the deal and actually develop that channel ways to continue doing business with Iran and skirt us sanctions. Off of that, the State's Department sanctioned a bunch of

Iranian entities. These are shell companies and individuals, and what they do is they operate on an illicit procurement network that continues to bring in nuclear technology and nuclear know how into the Islamic Republic. So als of that, what we've seen now, the State's Department revealed is that in fact,

Iran never stopped its nuclear weapons program. It merely pressed pause, and all of the people, all of the technology, all of that infrastructure continues to be working, continues to be there. And what we found is all they really need to do is play at any given moment and continue that march to nuclear weapons. So we see now the Trump administration sanctioning their scientists, shell companies that operate this illicit

procurement network. I would say, covering the State Department for a while, I'm usually critical of them, but this is actually a very very strong move that's going to help choke off those illicit back channels. All right, Saint Department doing some good stuffy, Yeah, well, by the way, well, the Trump administration also as spoken or President Trump spoken about the Golon Heights bring us up a speed on that. Yeah, So the Golon Heights contested territory on Israel's northern border,

annexed from Syria several decades ago following a war. The Golon has kind of sat in limbo for quite some time, but we're seeing it become particularly important because of what's happening in Syria, the spill out of militants into Lebanon and also Syria up on the northern border, and also Iranian militants affiliated with his Ball and other militant groups

also kind of amassing on that border. So the israelities have really made a push, not just with the Trump administration but with Congress to see a formal recognition that this territory is not in limbo, it actually belongs to Israel, and that would allow the US to send military equipment, particularly for use against these terrorists on the northern border, something that of the US government cannot do at this

point because it doesn't recognize the goal On Heights. So more and more that area I've fight there, it's beautiful, but more and more that area is unmanageable because of the spread of militants from Syria and of course Lebanon where his bowler rules. Adam craid to everybody Washington Free Beacon to read his latest Adam always great to have you all men. Come back soon. Absolutely, it's my pleasure.

Team will be right back. The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the nineteen sixty seven lines, would mutually agreed swaps. Yeah, nineteen sixty seven lines. So relinquishing the goal on heights Obama, huh, is that the way you think it should go? This

is how prime that was. Back in twenty eleven, President Obama, who was really a break from the bipartisan foreign policy consensus about the US relationship with Israel and especially the sensitivities around or the sensitivities with Israel and some of its hostile neighbors also known as its neighbors. Obama said that, and then net and Yahoo had this to say about Obama. The at least self described. I'm sure foreign policy stage.

Here's Manyah Who's response to Obama fifteen. I think for there to be peace, Palestinians will have to accept some basic realities. The first is that while Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the nineteen sixty seven lines because these lines are indefensible because they don't take into account certain changes that have taken place on the ground, demographic changes that have

taken place over the last forty four years. So then yeah, I was like, yeah, Obama, that was he was saying that at the United Nations, so it was in this country. He's like, Obama doesn't know what he's talking about, which

wouldn't be the first time. Well, I bring you the Trumpster, my friends, because as of yesterday, Trump with a tweet and now it is the policy of the United States government at the United States has said that the goal on heights, which we just talked to Adam about, which is this area of major national security, strategic importance to Israel because if the bad guys have it, guess what they can from an elevated position, not just surveil, but rain down rockets and artillery and all kinds of very

very bad stuff right into Israel proper. And when you have the Syrian Civil War continuing on as is and no realistic prospect of that ending anytime soon. Guess what, that's unacceptable. So President Trump just said, you know what, We're just going to tell our friends Israel that we recognize, well, the rest of the world may not recognize that, we recognize that Golan is now a part of Israel's territory. Fly thirteen. I've been thinking about doing it for a

long time. It's been a very hard decision for every president. No president has done it. This is sovereignty, this is security. This is about regional security. It's not about Naton now who's reelection. No, I don't. I wouldn't even know about that. I wouldn't even know about that. I have no idea. Hear he's doing okay. I don't know if he's doing great right now, but I hear he's doing okay. But I would imagine the other side, whoever's against him, is

also in favor of what I just did. Every president has said do that. I'm the one that gets it done. He's right, Folks, gotta give credit where it's due. The president took action on this issue, and foreign policy is one of those realms where the commander in chief has a lot of leeway and therefore also a lot of

responsibility for what happens. It is really in the commander in chief's hands what happens in these situations in many cases, and you know, this is just another time when Trump being Trump really pays dividends because other leaders are all, we need to have a study and a committee, we need to keep talking about this, and no, no, actually,

this is just what needs to happen. And it reminds me of the controversy over moving the embassy to Jerusalem, which even from my time in government, I remember people saying, oh, it would be such a big deal if the US ever moves the embassy to Jerusalem, the whole Arab world, you know, everyone will be up in arms. And Trump came in, he goes, you know what Israel is an ally, it's a country. Their capitals Jerusalem. It's always going to

be Jerusalem. So we're just gonna put the embassy there, Okay, thanks, And he was right, he was right. Sometimes cutting through the nonsense is in fact, this single most important thing that the foreign policy echo chamber should strive for. Right sometimes just getting out of this consensus driven opinion making and saying here's what needs to go down, here's what reality is, and doing it and just take action. That's the right move. Trump did that with the embassy, and

you'll notice the whole Middle East isn't in flames. Oh no, they moved the embassy to Jerusalem. I mean they used to have a consulate there and the embassy was in Tel Aviv. But your embassy is supposed to be in the capital city. So yes, they're symbolism to it. And now the symbolism is the right symbolism, which is that the embassy is in the capital city of Israel. That's just the way it should be, the way it is now because of Trump. And now with the goalon hights,

the same thing happened. So I mean, I just tell you that there's really very little, there's really very little that you can point to when it comes to Trump in Israel that he could be doing that, that he should be doing differently, if anything. And yet we were told all along that oh, it's uh, you know, he doesn't know what he's doing and he's gonna make all

these mistakes. And no, actually, sometimes a person who comes in with fresh eyes and common sense and an approach that isn't looking for all of you know, all of his peers, and the fancy newspapers say, oh what, what brilliant state craft? Right? So many of these people we've been led to believe are some kind of foreign policy genius, they're not. They the results speak for themselves, and the

results are poor. And when you look back on what we were told all along, it was often through this prism of the very same people that are part of that foreign policy consensus making. Right, everyone's got to agree this is a good idea. Well, if you go along with that, they write nice things about you. If you don't, they write bad things about you. And everyone has an ego,

especially politicians. And so there's this, well this understandable drive for people to do what they think they'll be praised for doing. Trump moved the embassy. It was the right move, move the embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. And now Trump has decided to just push aside all the nonsense and say, Golon Heights, Israeli territory. Well done. Trump, you know, maybe not getting everything right all the time on all things. But on this one, let's call it. Let's call it

like it is. He got it done. I'm the one that gets it done. Oh, she's on the cover of Time magazine. Everybody aoc Alexandria o'casio Cortez, and I love this, uh, this game that they play of Why you're conservative so obsessed with her? Why is the left so obsessed with her? Why has she become such an icon of progressivism without

really doing much of anything and without knowing much of anything. Well, that never slows down places like Time magazine that has written a over three thousand word just to call it a puff pieces, an insult to puff pieces. But she complained in this in this piece which was which was astonishing. That quote. An entire generation which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity. I have never seen that or

experienced it really in my adult life. That's that's a quote from this article on Ocasio Cortez, and you know, the piece then talks about how she took out loans when she went to bu She graduated in twenty eleven with twenty five thousand dollars in student debt. Then she went and worked at an educational nonprofit and did some side gigs as a bartender, and through her twenties lived

paycheck to paycheck. Okay, everybody, I lived paycheck to paycheck throughout my twenties as well, and was not making very much money at all. I don't understand how this is some big sob story, or rather that it would justify the feeling, the sentiment that she expressed here that there's never been real prosperity and her in her adult lifetime. That's just that's just a bizarre statement. It just flies in the face of reality. Why would she think that. Look,

I've got complaints too. You know, the boomers never want to leave their jobs. They've got too much debt. They have to service the debt. They want to stay in their cushy positions. They don't want to retire. I mean, there's a lot of so there's not as much headroom in a lot of places, and the industry is changing because of technology much more rapidly than it was in previous decades. That is also the case, and there's a lot of things that we can point to the housing market.

You know, the joke that I tell sometimes is the one thing you know, millennials can't ruin is the housing market because they can't get into the housing market. All all of these things are are fair points for discussion. But this country and the benefits that we have now as a result of the wealth that has been created, you know, we're spoiled. I mean we are spoiled in

this country now. We live in a time and it depends on also how you want to gauge it, right, if you want to look at this through the full scope of human history. The average American, the average American is so healthy, well fed, well off and comfortable that you would make a medieval king green with envy, isn't that is? That's the color your term when you're envious, right,

Green with jealousy, Green with envy. So thank you, John, just making sure you know we are able to walk around now and order whatever product we want want off the foam we have that has more computing power than the entire you know, NATO Alliance in nineteen fifty did and talk to people all over the world for almost no cost, read anything we want to read, usually for free, learn anything we want to learn, usually for free, and you know, have a video instant video con tap with

loved ones almost you know it, certainly anywhere in the United States, almost anywhere in the world these days, and are more able than ever to move around and work from home and all. You know, so there's so much that any you look at the cost of a few things have gotten really bad. Healthcare and education, and oh that's right, those are two areas where there's a lot of government regulation, intervention, oversight. But consumer products are incredibly inexpensive.

But see, here's the thing. People don't like to hear about how things are good. People don't like to hear it. I mean, you may right now, I don't know any like aah buck, you know it's not that good. Look, We've all got stuff, you know. I mean, I woke up this morning and my ankle just really hurts for no reason. And you know, stuff happens, right, We've all got our things, you know, we all have our struggles that I'm not trying to say, oh, everything is great.

Just be quiet. You're lucky. You're not, you know, dying of bubonic plague in the Middle Ages. I mean, that's not a helpful frame of reference. Either. But for Jasio Cortez to say that there's no American prosperity, I mean, that's just that's just silly. I mean, this is a a I think you could say, an objectively stupid and bizarre thing to say. And yet she is still hailed

as somebody who really gets this generation coming up. And I do worry a little bit that the millennials who are beneath, who are who are below me in the age bracket, you know, not quite the graybeard that I am. The millennials who are coming up because they're idols, you know, in politics and in media, have moved so far left.

Yet they're going to believe this stuff. They're going to believe that America is this country of deprivation now compared to what it should be when you have more, Give me a metric and I'll show you, if not that metric, something very similar to it that proves that this country is. We are getting wealthier and more osperus all the time. It's just happening. And now it won't go on a straight line. I do think that we're due for our recession of some kind soon, and my worry is that

that recession will be politically exploited by the Left. The timing will be perfect for a Sanders or Occasio Cortes like person to come along and say, see, you know, the fat cats were lying to you all along, and now we're gonna we're gonna really, you know, soak it or soak them and stick it to them. You could soak it to them. I guess that'd be kind of a fun. Sister and is a word, by the way, found that out? Yes, oh did we I did google that when I was on Arrow. Okay, just making sure

everyone knows. Sister is a word. You just don't hear it very often, but there has to be another, a word like brethren. And we've we've actually made up a few words on the show that I think should be entered into the you know, Miriam or Websters or whichever dictionary people think is the best one. So AOC gets to go around and say things that are just untrue

and no one will really challenge her. And I think that it's a very clear symbol of the intellectual bankruptcy of the Left that they have as their most prominent intellectual somebody who is an anti intellectual and doesn't even know it. She's not saying yeah, I don't read a lot of books, but you know, I've got a good gut instinct on this matter. She's somebody who talks about these issues in the language of a person who wants to be considered smart, but does not actually have the

knowledge to back any of it up. And that is, you know, what's really concerning isn't what you know, it's what you know that ain't so. And that is the case with Okazio Cortez and the way she talks about socialism and a whole host of issues that are associated with it, so that millennials have never tasted did prosperity, don't know, it's we're quite prosperous. I mean that, you know, the housing market, which the government has also been very

involved in. I have some criticisms of how the government has decided to make housing almost a right in this country, and there have been parts of that are that are problematic. There have been aspects of that that you know, almost melted down the economy before. But sure enough, things are things are actually going okay right now. And I just wish that we could get one interviewer to sit down with Okazio Quartz and ask her some real questions about

some real things. Just one one interviewer would be nice, you know, say, okay, so how are we going to pay for these things? What do you really think we should do? Do you think that she could manage to get through an interview on the Green New Deal without a complete meltdown? I think the answer is no, because she doesn't understand the science, she doesn't understand the economics. It's just all all part of the cultural left right.

The left believes in climate change, they believe in this Green New Deal, this kind of feel good ism in place of knowledge, experience, and history. That is, that's a troubling thing. And you see different points, not just in our history but in history more generally. When you have young and foolish people who are able to rally the masses behind foolish ideas, we had to do a bad place. But yeah, I want to talk to you about Sweden a little bit and socialism and how Sweden is not

a socialist country. I'll make the case coming up. It's always fun when I see an article out there that deals with the subject in some detail that I've talked you about here on the show. Capitalism Saved Sweden is this piece that I saw that from the American Institute for Economic Research. You've heard me say this, I'm sure many times, and is one of those moments when I guess I'll be repeating myself for a second. But Sweden

is not a socialist country. Folks, do not listen to the left wing Democrats who try to tell you otherwise. Do not listen to them. Sweden is not a left wing country. Sweden is in fact a very free market and capitalist oriented country that also has a large social welfare state or large safety net, however you want to say it. That's what the truth or Sweden is now Sweden.

In this piece, it's written by Michael Munger, and he goes into some detail here about how Democrats play this game and they've really been doing it since the twenty sixteen I'm sorry twenty yes, twenty sixteen election, when Bernie Sanders was pejoratively referred to by people like me as you know, the mayor of Stockholm, because they'd say, oh, we can't do universal healthcare, we can't do this or that, because you know, they would say, look at Sweden, look

at Denmark, and then we're supposed to accept that. Well, then clearly, if it works there, it can work here. But what works there isn't what democrats say works there, and in fact, and this is where this piece really comes in handy about how capitalism saves Sweden. Sweden was in the seventies a more accurately described as a socialist country. You had a lot of government control of industry, so

the government was running large sectors of industry. Essentially, the government was running businesses, very important, very large businesses, and unsurprisingly doing a terrible job of it. And he gives us definition here of state ownership and control of the means of production, state direction of production decisions, and direct

state control of education and employment decisions of individuals. That's socialism, all right, And then he tries to, in this very astute analysis break down the differences between socialism and capitalism. But we're going to have to really do a good job going into this election season understanding what's what when it comes to socialism and capitalism, because if we get lazy with the definitions and with our analysis, the other

side is going to get away with a lot. Sweden was a socialist country in the seventies and couldn't make it work. And then decided to become a very free market based economy. The idea was, if you let the markets decide economic activity in the country, you're going to be much much wealthier, much more efficient. Everyone will be

better off. And then with that greater wealth and productivity, they've decided to have a very large and some would say a bit of largess in their social safety system that they have, which means it's free college and free healthcare. Is really what Sweden has that people usually point to as something that we could emulate. But if you really look at Sweden, it is the sixth most protective country in the world when it comes to private property rights.

The US is the twenty fifth most protective. Sweden is the nineteenth most capitalist country in the country. Based on the metrics assessed in this piece from the Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom Freedom, Sweden is in the top fifteen most capitalist nations prout shrewd and shrewd and shrewden in terms of property rights, financial freedom, and business freedom.

Most sectors are largely unregulated, and the freedom to move capital make Sweden among the most capitalist nations in the world. Piece goes on quote Sweden fully privatize his pension system moving defined benefit to defined contribution. There's a means tested add on guaranteed pension top up for the least well off. But the first line system is personal pension accounts invested in one of these seven hundred private index funds managed

by private fund managers. It is the most privatized pension system by far in all of Europe. Sweden has a one one hundred percent universal voucher system for education. Folks. Sweden rejected socialism and decided that it would really in the eighties and nineties go on a very free market and pro capitalism path and has become a very well off country as a result. But when you look at the way business itself is conducted in Sweden, it is free market, it is not directed by the state. It

is in no way socialist. They just have a redistribution of income via high taxation to pay for a large welfare state. Now the other part, So that's that's one important point here that we have to get down. And Sweden is not a socialist country. People who say it is don't know what they're talking about, and it just as a country that has is very free market but has a large social welfare state. You've heard me say this before, but this is an in depth analysis here

at this American Institute for Economic Research piece. You know, this is one of these wonky think tank pieces that I come across that's really really useful, and I think this will be important for you when you're talking to your friends, especially if you know you've got you're gonna have that friend. I don't care where you are across the country is the hey man, I have Bernie Sanders supporter, and I just think we just free this and free that,

and Sweden does it. In Sweden's great. You can say, well, Sweden's not socialism, my friend, Sweden is not a socialist country, and very few socialist countries well refer to themselves as stalinist socialist countries. They want to be democratic socialism they want. But the main difference, for example, between what happened in Venezuela from an economic perspective from a government control perspective in Sweden is that in Venezuela the government ran industries

and set price controls. The government said you can charge this for this product, didn't care what the market said. That caused enormous pressures on different businesses that then cause them to collapse. When they collapse and did not have products to sell, the government blamed the greedy capitalists who were not allowed to set their own prices in Venezuela.

And that's how you had the downward spiral. It was a top down spiral because it was a truly socialist economy that they that the Majuro government was operating, or at least there were aspects of it that were accurately described as socialist. So you know, Sweden is not what they say it is. Don't let them get away with it.

And then on top of that, the middle class in Sweden pays about sixty percent in taxes, So understand that part of this argument, and you'll be able to, i think, fight back against all the people that say, oh, we could afford this. It's just the evil, greedy Republicans don't want to do this. Oh no, no, no, no, it's not going to be the millionaires and the billionaires who

are paying for all this. You will be paying for free college for everyone, free healthcare for everyone, including illegal aliens by the way, and the one hundred thousand a

month that are coming across the border right now. You will be paying for all of that we paying for all of the largess of the federal bureaucracy, of the Department of Education, of the university system that has become so bloated and I think turning out in so many cases such an inferior product when it comes to real education. But at least at least we should all be on

the same page with It's not a socialist country. And if you want the welfare state that you have in Sweden, you better start telling everybody you're gonna pay sixty percent in taxes. Let's see how that goes over in twenty twenty, Team Buck, it's time for roll call, man. It's starting to get nice outside. Everybody. It's a roll call for the springtime. I have to say, am looking forward to being able to walk around in a T shirt again.

It'll be it'll be a nice change of pace. Put away all the heavy winter clothing, the winter boots and all that stuff. Let's get to your thoughts, elks. We're doing a double roll call so we can hear from everybody we can today, Facebook dot com, slash Buck saxon if you want your thoughts to be heard. Coast to Coast, which is also the name a radio show. By the way, Lanny Rights, I'm sorry, Buck, but I'm so sick of

hearing Betto's name uttered every day. Lanny, I'm like, suck of it too, because I just want everybody to hold hands and just be friends with each other. Robert Francis O'Rourke is his name. I've heard other conservatives call him by that name, and doctor seb Gorka calls him Bob. I wish you would too. I heart your show. Don't be mad, but you know you gotta stop talking about Betto. Alright, alright, alright, fine, fine,

we have a little fun with Betto. It was really the week of the Betto, and maybe next week will be the week of the Yang or the week of the Harris or something. Somebody else will be in the center of the in the center of the storm. Dwayne

Buck refers to Buck his buck all the time. Well, Dwayne, I know that's kind of the joke, is it, my friend, Ken Buck, FYI, if you get a chance to this lecture by activist David Hogg, I will not listen to the lecture by activist David Hogg because he does not know anything and I do not care what virtue signaling and nonsense he cares to spew. I've heard enough. I mean, I know that he doesn't know what he's talking about, and he's a nasty and dishonest person. So there you go.

Kent buck Avit podcast listener, been listening since your Real News days. Recently, I've been debating with my conservative friends about the crisis on our southern border, and one of my friends sent me a link to your op ed on The Hill on the same subject. Your Peace helped make my point that due to the dangers of fental and migration en mass, we have an emergency the likes of which the US has not had to deal with before. Thanks for all you do. Keep up the good fight,

Shields High Well. Kent from oss original Saturday Squad. Thank you so much for being with me all these years, and I'm so glad that the piece I wrote for The Hill dot Com was able to help you make a sound argument on this issue. The border is in very bad shape right now. We do not have a secure border at all, and in fact, the laws are being exploited in order to make sure that we do not have an orderly We don't have the immigration system that we have been promised that's what's really going on.

We don't have the immigration system that the American people generally think that we do, and that should really concern everyone. That should be something that gets all people who care about the direction of this country in the future of this country paying much more at tension. Chris definitely a deal breaker if she is a Democrat in dating l ol, have a great weekend. Thanks. I don't know. I don't

know if I can agree with that. Sometimes the political passion turns into the other passion, you know, sometimes it's good to be talking to a democrat. I mean, I also work in an organization where there's a lot of Democrats around me at the Hill, so and I've become very close friends with a number of them. So I've I've learned to to get along with Democrats. I think it depends on what kind of democrat you know they're they're the Democrats that you can have conversations with the

Democrats you can't. If people really believe that the world's going to end in ten years from climate change, then I think it's really it is tough at that point to have a meaningful exchange with them. It is difficult to find a common ground there. But if somebody really believes that we should have a more Norwegian or Swedish style safety net than what we already have, and they believe in I don't know, free college, maybe I can.

I can at least talk to them about that. And these are ideas that have big downsides that most Democrats just pretend to not understand. But I can kind of, I can get there. I can at least have that chat with him. Richard, Right, Shields Hie Theater nine thousand must happen. It sounds amazing. I would love to see you with some Special Forces folks critique movies, or what about you with cop movies and some YPD folks? Are you with some CIA folks? Many options, keep making awesome things.

Shields him, you know, Richard, I love the idea, and I'm trying to get down to do an event with a former Special Operations guy in Florida where we're going to bring in another a marine and we're trying to do something kind of like what I laid out. It's just a question of scheduling it, but I do think

it'd be a lot of fun. To be fair on the MYPD side, I was never a cop I was never actually a police officer or detective, so my experience was very specific to working as a counter terrorism specialist in the Intelligence division. So it was really it was an analytic role. It was a lot of a lot of meetings, a lot of conversations with lawyers, stuff like that. But still would be cool and I'd love to do that.

We have to sit down with some of the old if I could get some of the crusty old detectives and sergeants that I know from the NYPDA to do that with like a cop show, that would be a lot of fun. But would have to edit it before and it would take a little production work. But I'm glad you liked the basic idea Autumn, right, Buck, love the show Autumn. You have fantastic taste in radio programming. I'm looking for good, historically accurate books to read. I

remember you talking about one that was on Cortes. What was it called? When I google books about Cortez, the top suggestion was books about Alexandria Ocasio Quartet is not sure I'd have the ability to hold my lunch down if I if I had to read that. Now, the book that I read, you know, which which I think that you will. You will enjoy is and I'm pulling up right now so I give you the exact title. I mean it is. The name of Cortes is in the name of the book, obviously, but it's uh yeah.

Conquistador Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma and the Last Stand of the Aztecs by Buddy Levy is the book that I read. It's a really good read. I mean, you will enjoy it. Cortes, You can make a case, and I think it's a strong case that Hernan Cortes was the most like like, beat the odds from a military campaign perspective, beat the

odds more than any other figure in history. I'm not saying that that's a definitive statement, but you could certainly make the case that what he did to show up with a few hundred guys and take on a massive empire with with millions of inhabitants and straight up conquer it is astonishing. And it took a lot more than just the guns and steel and horses that they showed up with, though of that was certainly very very helpful. Autumn.

I'm also a big fan of the of Roger Crowley, who does books on really the period of the Renaissance in the Mediterranean and the wars between Christian and Muslim states and the Christian Muslim world. That my favorite is Empire of the Seas. But he also wrote a book on the fall of content Toople that I've read. I'd really so if you go on Amazon, look up Roger Crowley. He's a British guy. He's written some really great books and very much enjoy those. Richard. Enjoy catching your show

whenever I can. I also want to let you know that I live in a neighboring community of South Bend and Mayor Pete Buddha Chik. I've heard you struggle to pronounce his name, and many in the media do, since we hear it all the time on our local news, I wanted to help you out. It should be pronounced Buddha, judge, Buddha judge. Okay, you can hear it. Pronounce the link on the right at the beginning of this video. All right, Buddha judge, Buddha judge. I can do that, all right.

I got that one. A lot of hard names to pronounce. It's Beto, not beeto, Buddha judge, not Buddha jig. Who else is Kamala not Kamala. There's a lot. There's a lot that you have to pay attention to. You know, it's a tricky business. I work in this media world. You know, it's difficult stuff. Tomas writes, Beeto, I see, I just did it, Beto Darnet buck code read yourself.

Beto is a valley girl before your time. Maybe no, Thomas, I know what a valley girl like tale Like, I mean, like whatever, because like I just want to go shopping and every place you go has valet. Yeah, I know what valley girls are. I grew up watching so many movies in the nineties, and in the nineties there was nothing cooler than California and Los Angeles specifically, like everyone wanted, you know, Beverly Hills nine O two and oh and

all that stuff. LA was the Promised Land. Now LA's nice, but a lot of traffic And I am not somebody who enjoys sitting around in a car and not moving fast, So I'm not sure that that's the move for me. We will do some more Role Call team coming up in just a moment. Double dose of role call is your way right now. It's not coming your way. It is here, Matthew. Democrats want to lower the voting age to sixteen because sixteen year old kids are so mature.

But Democrat, But Democrats, Democrats. We could start called, oh are you a Democrat? Democrats say guns sales should be raised from eighteen to twenty one because young adults are too immature. I say, put it on the same ballot. If you vote sixteen year olds are mature, then they get to vote and buy guns. We'll see, Matthew. What you have is called a principle, or you have consistency.

And liberals don't aspire to consistency. They embrace hypocrisy as long as it is on the pathway to power, because there's no way around that. It is an inconsistent thing to say that you should vote when you're sixteen, but you can't own a gun until you're twenty one. There's no And I will say it right now before some of you said, well, book, what about the drinking age. I believe the drinking age should be eighteen. I believe that eighteen is an adult. An adult is an adult

as an adult, eighteen is an adult. And I think that the drinking age being twenty one really allows for a kind of fetishization of it's a tough word to say, of drinking on college campuses, and it becomes this kind of naughty, oo cool thing to do. I also think that our country could probably have some really worthwhile conversations in general about alcohol across the board. I think that alcohol enjoyed the right way is a very nice thing. I like a glass of wine, as you know. I

like good tequila. But when I think back to the I think back to the way that things operated on the college campus that I was on, at least when I was a student, and it was just nuts. I mean, people were functioning alcoholics for four years, really drinking. I mean, if you're getting wasted four or five nights a week,

that's not normal. It's not good for you. And I would offer that there should be a much better, much better conversation for young people about how look, it slows you down, especially if you're really into being physical and active. It's terrible for you. And there's all kinds of stuff Drinking too much. I'm talking about not just drinking, drinking to excess. Anything to excess is bad. That's why you

call it excess. Although I don't know. Maybe the show suffers from an excess of awesome and we just have to accept that. Jim just want to drop a line saying I'm shields high. Well, Jim, I'm with you man. Thank you so much, appreciate you writing in good to talk to you. Much much obliged. Let's see here, Marina rights freedom dividend. If they're going to give out all

that money, why not just end income taxes. Besides, isn't the standard income deduction twelve thousand dollars that's got a play a role in the big picture where they're going with all this. For those who earn enough to file and take the deduction, consider that you're consider that your twelve thousand oss. Marina. Yeah, Marina. Look the freedom dividend, which Andrew Yang, whom I interviewed today at some length.

It's an idea that appeals to people. It's always though, when you start to get to the costs and how you'd enact this, that things get yes, more complicated, more difficult. It sounds great, give people money, they'll spend money. Everyone has some money. No one's going to be destitute anymore. But we do have a lot of social welfare programs in place. Already we have a trillion dollar well fair state, and yet we still have people in poverty in this country.

Poverty itself is a very interesting area of study for social scientists. Every society will always have people that are considered poor and that will be considered impoverished in some form, I think in many In many ways, the best thing you can hope for is the elimination of true poverty like subsistence living where people are dangerously close to dying a preventable disease on a regular basis, not having enough food to eat a dangerous level, not having a safe

place to live. Because the version, for example, of poverty in America is very different from what you'd get and say Bangladesh, our version of poverty, or in West Africa poverty that I have seen up close and personal myself, that is in a completely different league from what is considered poverty here in the United States. Brian rights, but keep up the great work and my business I tend to be in the Bahamas, I deal a lot of clients. I noticed a disturbing trend with regards to Chinese interests

in the country so very close to our shores. In twenty twelve, the Chinese came into Nassau with Chinese labor and built a soccer stadium as part of their stadium diplomacy program they do all over the world. Now they have built a deep water port sub base down there, a brand new secure marina with twenty foot high electrified fencing topped by razor wire and huge lights to eliminate

a massive concrete pad. There are two large barracks. My unknown friend tried to get close on his boat and was waived to leave immediately by a guard in a military uniform. China is prepping for war in twenty years. Sadly, I'm not joking. China builds port in the Bahamas. I gotta look into this interesting, Brian. Yeah, and China is taking the long view, and we are not in this country. And China wants to supplant us as the global hedgemon. And we think that China just to be friends. That's

not the case. And we're going to learn the hard way that long term planning beats short term handshaking any day of the week. Bob right, Oh, I used to work for the ncuble A, so need to jump in on your rant On College athletics. First of all, I believe nine of the NCAA revenue, which is really only from basketball football championship is outside the NCAA is distributed back out to the schools. The remainder is used to run all eighty seven championships and enforcement. As you can imagine,

D three women's water polo is not a moneymaker. Also keep them on the title nine factors in here, So any money you spend against men's sports, you have to spend equally in women's sports. Essentially, you can fund men's football and basketball and then twenty women's sports and you will have to drop all other men's sports to equal out. Sorry, need it to let you know, No, Bob, I know that.

I also though, just to have a this is a philosophical difference that I have with people who think that they should be changing admission standards to bring in athletes at schools. I disagree with that. I think that that should not be done. Then there's the broader conversation about does this actually make money for the schools? Usually it does not. But I'll have to leave that. Everybody. You've got some homework this week, and your homework. Have a

fantastic week. And really enjoy yourself. Rest, relax, come back on Monday ready for action. Until then, shield tie