Revisiting Democrat Delusion

Buck Sexton Show. This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, You're a great American. Again, the Buck Sexton Show begins. Analyst, Remember then, I never worked for Russia. And you know that answer better than anybody. I never worked for Russia. Not only did I never work for Russia. I think it's a disgrace that you even asked that question because it's a whole, big fat hoax.

It's just a hoax. Welcome to the Buck section Show, everybody. This is a crazy time in this country. It's in a sense, it's it's not new. But here we are dealing with the fact that we have libs who are so deluded and such a bunch of cry babies about what's going on in America that they really think that the president of the United States is working on behalf of Russia. I can't even conjure up how this, how

this makes any sense. I know that they always get this old man afford and why do people lie in Papadopolis? And it's it's like watching the guy from a beautiful mind, right, things on the wall, right, remember that with Russell Crowe. He's just writing all these things on the wall, and he thinks he's some secret agent man and he's got these crazy algorithms. Every time I ask a liberal, what

exactly do you think happened here? What's what's really the situation that is at the heart of all of these allegations and just this this frenzy that President Trump is somehow looking for a foreign power, an agent of a foreign power. You know what, what could have pushed people to think this? I get some jumbled Oh, you know, Papadopolis and Carter Page and the Trump Tower Moscow and Stormy Daniels' like wait, how did Stormy daniels Er gibberish?

It's just gibberish. It never adds up to anything. Let's let's just start for some some very clear and an irrefutable positions on this right. For one, the notion that Donald Trump would have in any way gone through an intermediary or asked anybody to help him win the election against Hillary Clinton, to put himself at that degree of risk for such preposterously low gain does not make sense.

No person would do this. Oh yeah, you're you're going to expose yourself to Russian Russian blackmail, to being found out by the liberal media that hates you, to possible prosecution, imprisonment indefinitely, the destruction of your reputation and character so that some of Podesta's emails can get out, so that there can be a more effective Russian Facebook ad buying campaign spend you know, a few hundred thousand dollars on this whole effort, all in all, across the board. That

just makes no sense. There's no reason. This would be like someone saying I think that this guy walked into the bank and robbed it, and I say, well, why do you think that as well? He's got a dollar in his bank account. I think he got it from the bank. I said, well, I don't think that robbing a bank for a dollar makes sense for anybody. So let's just look at motive here. There's no reason for President Trump to have, at any stage of this worked

with colluded with the Russians. It fundamentally makes no sense. It's a dumb idea. Now, Okay, they can go beyond that, and they can say, oh, but Buck, you don't understand Trump is so reckless and he will do anything, and they didn't know any better at all this stuff. And I say, okay, fine, Now let's assume, just for the sake of discussion that that is true. And really we're getting back to first principles here in the Russia collusion delusion.

Let's assume for a moment that that's true, that Trump would be willing to engage in this collusion scheme to win the election, which is insane, But let's just pretend. Then you have to convince me how it is possible that with the most intrusive and sophisticated surveillance apparatus on the planet, the United States intelligence community and US federal law enforcement, with all of its capabilities, which are effectively just it's an intelligence it's an intelligence arm of the

government that has to operate under laws. Although I'll note that once the FBI gets into the counter intelligence realm, it really does operate a lot like an m I five or one of these domestic intelligence agencies that's legal, but kind of quasi legal. It starts to operate in the gray areas a lot more, which clearly happened here.

So then you have to give it to me that, oh, with all of that surveillance here, we are going on two years into this thing, and the worst that they can come up with is that Manafort may have given some unspecified polling data to a Ukrainian not a Russian friend of his when he was running the campaign and Donald Trump Junior and Jared Kushner and Manafort met with a woman who said she had oppo research on Hillary

Clinton that she wanted to share. Neither of which are even vaguely criminal acts, not even a little bit, nothing criminal about either one of those things at all, full stop, period. That's the most that they can offer up. And I would note neither one of which would even raise any eyebrows had we not been conditioned by a hysterical left wing Democrat media apparatus to act in all things Russia

require some kind of nuclear ready sponse. I think I saw on Twitter today, you know, the Democrats in the span of about six years went from haham at Romney, the Soviet Union's done, the Cold War is over to oh my gosh, you need to invade Moscow tomorrow. These people are a joke, but it's unfortunately very unfunny because they're having really damage, a really damaging impact, and long

term ramifications. I think on this country. They are tearing apart at some of these institutions that we're supposed to be able to believe in, and you have people that are getting platforms to say crazy things. Carl Bernstein of Woodward and Bernstein fame just goes on CNN to speculate wildly about how Trump is essentially a Putin puppet play

clip four. We don't know the answers, but what we do know is that Donald Trump has tried to convince us that unless there is some kind of smoking gun, were recording of him in the room with Putin saying yes, Vladimer, I'll do you bidding. There's been quote no collusion, that's nonsense. What this counterintelligence investigation was about unprecedented the FBI. And this is not about the deep state. This is about the most serious counterintelligence people we have in the US

government saying, Oh my god. The president's words and actions lead us to conclude that somehow he has become a winning, unwinning or half winning pawn. Certainly in some regards to Vladimer Putin, he is not acted with Russia from the United States having a strength advantage with Russia. Rather, he has done what appears to be Putin's goals. He has helped everything stabilized the UN. I just want to Everything that he's saying is laughable, garbage, It's just crap. Notice

how he switches from there must be collusion too. He's doing Putin's bidding. That is a leap that is transforming the conversation from being about possible insidious dealings between President Trump and the Russians. Two, he's doing stuff that either the Democrats don't like or just doing stuff that Russia agrees is a good idea. Guess what yet, idiot Democrats. Sometimes Russia wants things to be done that are actually good. Does that and we agree with him. Does that mean

we shouldn't do them? For all the people are saying we're doing Putin's bidding by leaving Syria, Guess what we were doing Putin's bidding by bombing the you know what out of the Islamic State. Stop thinking in these stupid forced frameworks where everything that Trump dos is Russia. Oh, the will have lost it. They have lost it there

in the midst of a hysteria. New York Times report on Friday said that there was an investigation of Trump opened right after he fired Komi because there were some people in the FBI who thought that he must be doing the work of the Russians. Who does that sound like you? By the way, I'd be willing to bear that Andy McCabe fired for lying, fired for being a little partisan hack at the top of the FBI that

he was pushing this. This is not unprecedented in history that we have had an FBI that went rogue and that had become a major political player. In fact, if you look at most countries around the world, there's always a danger of the secret police, which is what our FBI really is, becoming too powerful and becoming, in its own eyes, a check on the regime. And then eventually, and as somebody who used to work at the CIA, I know quite a bit about this side of the coin. Eventually,

those secret police organizations often become the government. They supplant the government. But before they do that, they usually think of themselves as a necessary check on the executive's prerogatives. They think of themselves as guardians of the revolution, or guardians of the integrity of the state, or the film the blank people's right, the national identity of whatever the state may be. And then eventually they think, well, maybe we should just run this thing. We do have a

cabal of deep state operatives in this country. Some of them have been rooted out, but I don't think all

of them have. And what the New York Times broke on Friday, leaked to the Times, I would not was really, for those of us who are looking at this with open eyes, mere confirmation of what we have known for a very long time, that there are people in the government who decided that Donald Trump's victory in the presidential contest of twenty sixteen was unacceptable, untenable, and had to in some way, if not be entirely reversed, at least restrained,

and they used the power of the federal bureaucracy and the Department of Justice and the leeway that they have to open investigations to do so. No sane person could think that the firing of sanctimonious grandstander James Coomey was reasoned enough to start an FBI investigation of a sitting president of the United States. This is crazy. And then that brings me to just another point that I wanted

to add into it. The collusion fairy tale makes no sense that we have no smoking gun evidence of it to this day, given what they say about Trump and given all the resources against him, means that now this is like believing space aliens landed and took over the White House. I mean, this is just a fantasy. And then there's another level of this. How did the Democrats explain all of the lies and malfeasans from senior government

officials around this issue? You know, I always hear pal why did people lie about about their contacts with Russia? Why did people lie about what they said to the special counsel, you know, Papadopolis and Manafort, And I always want to respond, Okay, why did McCabe lie three times? About what he was doing in this process. Why did Lisa Page have to be exposed for being an anti Trump partisan in this way? Why did Peter Struck have to be fired? I mean you had Woodward there or Bernstein, sorry,

the other guy, Bernstein saying the top counterintelligence people. Yeah, the FBI's best counterintelligence men were on this, and Peter Struck is one of them. And if you don't think think that that guy has a problem, you're not paying attention. Drunk on their own power, because they know the power to investigate is the power to destroy, merely by leaking word of an investigation or just creating an investigation trail. They knew that they were taking a very powerful step

against administration. We are getting closer to the truth, but the left is getting even more desperate. We are now in a race against time whereby if they take the presidency in twenty twenty, we will never find out what really happened here because they're going to delay now in the Congress, They're going to delay as much as they can. But we're getting close. We're getting closer. I've got much more team, stay with me. In the midst of all the whining coming from the left, I mean, it's just

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all approved it numerous times. I mean, Chuck Schumer had his hand up every time this would come up. The Senators know this. They're only doing this because of the twenty twenty election. That's true of what's going on with the border. It's also true of the Russia hoax. Let me just put out there that this is politics. It is all politics, and people who pretend otherwise are being disingenuous. This is about Democrats refusing to accept that Hillary loss.

This is about Democrats refusing to accept that Donald Trump is president the United States and everything else fits in. Then everything else that we're talking about here is really just a question of how it plays into that overarching narrative. So you have to keep added mind, You have to have that in really the forefront of your mind as

you hear these these allegations. I mean you know. Meanwhile, you've got ABC's Jonathan carl saying the following on the George Stephanappolo Lupolis Show on Sunday that the Muller report is going to have, guess what, not a whole lot. It's essentially going to be when it comes to collusion, a nothing burger play too. This is all building up to the Muller Report and raising expectations of a bombshell report, and they've been expectations that have been building, of course

for over a year on this. But people who are closest to what Muller has been doing of interacted with the Special Counsel cautioned me that this report is almost certain to be anti climatic. That if you look at what the FBI was investigating in that New York Times report, look at what they were investigating, Mueller did not go

anywhere with that investigation. He has been writing his report in real time through these indictments, and we have seen nothing from Muller on the central question of was there any coordination collusion with the Russians in the effort to meddle in the elections, or was there even any knowledge on the part of the president or anybody in his campaign with what the Russians were doing. You see, this is what John Carl at ABC is trying to tell all the libs, not just in the media, but all

the libs at home or watching this. Your fantasy is not going to This Russia collusion fantasy is not going to play out the way you want. Or two guys, this is not going to end up with Donald Trump on tape talking to Putin about how it's so awesome that they hash podest his emails. But you listen to a lot of people and they make it sound like they think that's actually going to be the way this

thing plays out. They have completely and utterly lost all perspective here, and we need to be prepared for them to just get even crazier and uglier as this drags on. You now, are have you ever worked for Russia, mister president. I think it's the most insulting thing I've ever been asked. I think it's the most insulting article I've ever had written. And have you read the article. You'd see that they found absolutely nothing. But the headline of that article is

called the failing New York Times. For a reason. They've gotten me wrong. For three years. They've actually gotten me wrong for many years before that. But you look at what's going on. You know, I fired James Coney. I call him Lion James Comey because he was a terrible liar and he did a terrible job as the FBI director. Look at what happened with Hillary Clinton and the emails and the Hillary Clinton investigation, one of the biggest screw

ups that anybody's ever seen as an investigation. And what happened after I fired him, Andrew McKay, Peter struck his lover, Lisa Page. They did it, and you know they're all gone. Most of those people, many many people from the time, are you a rush? An agent? President has to answer that question? Is this is silly town stuff? I would note though, that there are there are a lot of Democrats.

You have to remember, there are a lot of Democrats for whom, even though they know intellectually I've spoken about this,

you won't hear many of them say this. But even though they know that this is just this is just insane, they justify to themselves because they think that the birth certificate controversy with Barack Obama right, the whole birth theory, which I was never I was never a subscriber to but the the BIRTHERER theory and Trump's role in that essentially justifies now any smear against this president, any smear. I would note though, that even the birth controversy didn't

suggest that Barack Obama was a traitor. I'm not saying it was okay or it was right, but I'm saying they really believe that the president of the United States, or they're at least saying that the president of the United States is guilty of treason. Meanwhile, we just had that guy or from maybe se say people he's talked to near the Special Council are saying that if you're hoping for there to be some big reveal at the

end of this investigation, you're going to be disappointed. But you see, what what I know is that it doesn't matter what comes out of the Muller probe. If the Muller probe does not have the goods that Democrats want, then guess what they will just say, Oh, we have to we have to continue Mueller's work. You see, he was stymied in some way, there was some he wasn't given the full resources. It doesn't matter. They'll be an excuse. I can't even tell you what the excuses because they'll

just make it up. It doesn't matter what the excuse is. They'll have some explanation about this. I mean, this is how we keep we've had. I feel like every month for the last year at least, we have to go through this cycle where it's, oh, it's some I'm gonna do something to end the mull probe. It's Trump gonna Eyer Rothenstein. They get all upset about this. You got Dick Durbin here talking about the incoming likely Attorney General,

Bill Barr, and Dick Durbin is expressing his concerns. Play eight. I'm worried about it. I mean, clearly he's a good lawyer, no question, But when it comes to this delicate political situation, the power of the president say whether this investigation is warranted. Bill Barr had better give us some ironclad, rock bottom assurances in terms of his independence and his willingness to step back and let Muller finish his job. Why Bill Barr was already the attorney general and no one seemed

to have any problem with it. Does every person who works the Department of Justice have to give a public oath of fealty to Robert Muller. Now is that? But by the way, with Democrats, the answers, yes, you have to swear allegiance to the Almighty Emperor Muller, the great lib hope for ending the Trump presidency. You must kneel before the Greatness of Muller. It's just these people are sick and they really have a problem. I mean, there's

something just fundamentally wrong with them on this. But I suppose they're so very freaked out at the notion of Trump winning in twenty twenty. I mean, they just can't handle it. You know, Lindsey Graham has already come out and said that Bill Barrard is gonna be fine. He's not gonna fire anybody played nine. I'm going to ask him, do you say any reason to fire mister Muller based on what you know now? For cause? Do you trust mister Muller to be fair to the president in the country.

Will you make sure he can finish his job if you get the report? Will you be as transparent as possible. I've asked him those questions, and I'm very comfortable with his answers. I've asked those questions of comfortable with the denser. It turns out Barr is actually friends with Muller. So this whole idea, this whole theory that there should be all this concern and oh my gosh, and what are we gonna do? And Muller and bla, it's just it's just nonsense. It's but we have to every month we

have to go through this again. We all have to pray before the altar of the Great Muller or else we're undermining democracy, undermining this country. I meanwhile, Democrats won't spend five billion dollars so that maybe we have some hope of having some decent security at our southern border. And they're now so dug in on this shutdown that everyone thinks that if anyone's gonna cave, it's going to be the Republicans. Will we'll see about about that. I

am going to the border, as you know. I am going to the border to see what's happening and to talk to frontline border patrol agents. You know. I heard today though on Fox that senior Board full officer said that to say that it's not a southern rises at our border is just disingenuous. And I think it's so interesting because this is where you really see the left wing propaganda and action. They'll they'll just repeat things that that anybody can can see or can tell for themselves

are false, without even the slightest compunction. They'll they'll just say stuff. There you go, Wait a second, there's no way that's true. It's not possible that that's the case. But they'll just keep saying it. Walls don't work. There's an example. Walls don't work. Pretty sure, walls work, pretty sure, pretty sure, a little bit, a little bit, pretty sure the walls work. But they would prefer to engage in this nonsense and to lie and lie and lie because

it serves their political needs. They don't care about their credibility. Whatever credibility they have, they're they're happy to throw it on a bonfire as long as it gets them the power that they think they need. But I I am very much looking forward getting some time, not just obviously to see what's going on the border with my own eyes, but to talk to border patrol. I'm hoping to get into a detention facility and see what the situation is there. I'm it's going to cover as much ground as I can.

I'll be there Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, so I'll be out there on the border for three days. We've got all kinds of meetings and field field visits set up, so I'll come back to you on Friday and I'll have a whole lot of information to share with you. Well, i'll be back on air before then. I'll certainly be on the show on Wednesday, so I don't think that i'll and I won't be on Thursday. I will be on Wednesday and tomorrow. We're trying to figure it out

on Friday. So Wednesday and Friday, I'm definitely gonna be on air. We'll probably have Raheem in on Thursday, and if I I will have a think holl And Hill filling in, so we've got If I'm not on air, you're gonna have great people on air this week. That so be sure that you tune in because we have

fantastic guest hosts, as you know. But I'm going because i want to get you ground truth that I don't just want to be some guy who sits in the belt inside the beltway here and talks to all my little sources and that stuff is useful and that's that's obviously good for the political discussions we have. But I'd like to go out and see some stuff. I'd like to get out there and put eyes on on target,

so to speak. So that will be very useful. But the the the border shutdown situation exactly the kind of there's exactly the kind of demagoguery that I had expected all along. Here you have Van Jones, of course, blaming Trump and everything about Trump for the shutdown over at the NAM playclip three. President Trump started twenty nineteen by probably dividing the country with more fear mongoring, more falsehoods, and now we are in the longest running government shut

down ever. And you know, the politics are ugly, but the human impact is even worse. The tip sheet off their website, but they had something up there where they were recommending that unpaid service members do stuff like this, have garage sale, babysit, walk dogs, house sit, or become mystery shoppers during the shutdown. I'm not making this stuff up. And as a result of this, everybody, all of us

are in danger. Now that's not true about us in danger, because eighty five percent of the federal government continues to work. I would just note that the fifteen percent that's not currently doing things or not getting paid, I should say, do we really think that every single government employee right now that we have on the payroll is entirely necessary for our safety in our existence? I also think it's it is exposing a mentality here that people who work

for the federal government have it. Look, nobody should be forced to work without pay. That's a specific thing to the federal government. But on the other side of it is that financial hardship for people who have jobs is nothing new in the prime sector. I know plenty of people. I know people in media who have driven a cab, driven an uber, done whatever they can do when things have gotten rough, you know, book advances or poultry websites pay crap money. For the most part. It's really hard

to scratch out a living in my business. I know plenty of people that have to do side gigs. I under somebody who was tutoring and didn't want to go to his real job because he was making more money tutoring for grad school students than he was actually at his gig. And media, you know, so you know, I understand that Van Jones wants to sneer at Trump and oh these are the suggestions they're putting up on the website. Yeah, sure, some of them maybe aren't going to help all that much.

But there's a critical problem here that's killing tens of thousands of people, the opioid epidemic that is fuel by our lack of security at our southern border. Lives are at stake if that means that people have to adapt for a few weeks financially. I'm not saying it's fair or it's nice, but at some point we have no choice. You know, are we going to have a country or not? Are we going to have sovereignty and borders or not.

This is the question that is posed right now, and we are going to find an answer one way or the other. I think we know we're Democrats down on this. I'm just here to say that we don't have to accept their nonsense. We don't have to accept their version of events here. We can stand and fight and make the case. And Trump is doing that and I think doing it effectively. Can you promise that the president will tell the truth tonight? We tell the truth, yes, Jim,

And can you promise that you will? Am I allowed to mentioned God to you. Now, well, Jim, I know that's a cheap make sure that goes viral. This is why, by the way, this is why I'm one of the only people around here who they even gives you the time of day you can hear and let me let me just let me get back in your face, because you're such a smart asthmas to the time, and I know you want this to go viral. I like Kelly an Comma thrown down with Jim Accosta CNI, think it's great,

good for her. I had a chance to go on on Fox to discuss this a little bit with Howie Kurtz. Very nice when to have me on, and I just want to share that this is what I got to say on Media Buzz about that exchange with I think everyone needs to understand what's really going on at CNN

Play six. Jim Acosta plays a very important role right now in our media discourse, and that is he makes it effectively impossible to continue this charade that you have certain network, certainly certain newspapers as objective, nonpartisan news sources. This is a joke. I mean CNN from an editorial perspective, not everybody there. They're a good journalists. They're just like everywhere else. But from a broad editorial perspective, CNN exists

to longer liberalism for its audience. Essentially, the audience thinks that they're getting objective news. They want to believe that, they think they're just getting the fact. But when you see a costive or something like this, not only is he not disciplined, he's effectively celebrated by the institution. That

was just a cheap shot. It was an attack. It was meant to undermine a senior ministration official interchange or dirty pool indeed, but that is I think the one the one good thing, you know, the one takeaway from Acostas Shenanigans that I have to say I'm I'm pleased about, is that people now have a better understanding of what's really going on in the media and what the real, the real game is here. They are not They are

just fundamentally not concerned with objective truthtelling. They are activists, they are partisans, and I think the more of the American people know that, the better. It's also important that we remember that as we enter this phase of just all out political trench warfare. I mean, there's there's reporting today that Adam Schiff over the Intelligence Committee wants to get the translator for trumpet Putin's private meeting to testify

in front of Congress. I'm sorry, but if there is such a thing as executive privilege and executive privacy, you would think the president should be able to have a discussion with a world leader that is not a matter of public record. Does everything that gets said to Trump through a translator at any meeting? Does that? Does that get to be blasted out to the press? Is every

is the president not allowed? You know, we've accepted the media accepted that diplomacy requires some secrecy or remember this from back when they used to like wiki leaks in the press, right, But we would say, hold on a second, diplomacy requires some degree of if not secrecy, at least you know, source protection and confidentiality. Right. You have to

have some ability to speak in confidence. The President can't speak the world leaders in confidence now because Adam Schiff is a punk and wants to try to embarrass him or whatever. People keep saying, why would Trump not walt the conversation with Russia to be out there because he knows that whatever he says to Putin, whatever where he says to this world leader that he has to talk to you, no choice. Really, they're going to find something

wrong with it. They're gonna blast him. Also, should you should be you should remind yourself, I should remind all of us. I guess that's what I'm doing now that that was an inartful way of saying this. The media is going to be a mouthpiece for this leftist deep state soft coupe going forward. You know, there's this leak of transcripts that CNN was reporting on about the discussion within the FBI to start this investigation right after Komi firing.

Play that clip, John, the transcripts obtained by CNN, Shamo, Yeah, that's right, John. So these transcripts really give us a window a look inside the process by which the FBI underwent the thinking that they certainly had into how to go about whether or not they were going to bring

this investigation open, this investigation into Donald Trump. Now, this new information obtained by CNN from transcripts of two FBI I officials who testified, two members of Congress who closed door interviews, and what it reveals that on one end, there was the idea that Trump fired the former FBI Director James Comey at the behest of Russia. And then on the other was the possibility that Trump was completely

innocent and was acting within the bounds of his executive authority. Now, so why is it that every time, First of all, the fact that this is leak just goes to show you that, you know, Chiff and these other Democrats are going to be leaking like mad going forward. But also why is it that we always hear about the investigation got started. We don't hear that there are other people in the FBI who are like, this is crazy, He's

totally innocent. Why are we gonna do this? That's right, because the deep state partisan hacks got their way because they were running things. Comey and McCabe been struck, and I'm sure they have some Confederates in there as well, some fellow plotters against this president. We are going into political warfare. We might as well know who the enemy is by now. Team, you've probably heard me talk about snippy dot com, which is a new social media site.

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deal with the oppression between all these different groups? And this, in no small measure contributes to a sense of grievance mongering that exists on the left. Now. Representative Steve King of Iowa has gotten himself into a whole lot of trouble once again for saying things that he or tweeting things, writing things, saying things all of the above that he

should not have. I think it's interesting, though, that when there is an opportunity for the left to really condemn incredibly repeated and vicious anti Semitic bigotry when it comes to Louis Farrakhan, they all of us udn't get a little bit mealy mouth. It's a little well. On the one hand, on the other hand, the Women's March is a thing. You've probably seen them. They're the ones that used to march around with the pink anatomically correct hats on.

They claim to represent all women. Meanwhile, if you're part of the fifty percent of women or so who are pro life, you are not only unrepresented by the Women's March, you are not welcome at the Women's March. That's right, the choice not to destroy your own offspring in the womb. Somehow, According to the progressive left and their intersectional identity politics, belief means you're not really a woman, or in some way your womanhood is subject to an additional scrutiny, if

not some degree of skepticism. Well, the Women's March is a thing that we should all take a longer look at, because there are some people who are associated with it, who really enjoy taking photographs with, appearing at public events with, and speaking on the same stage as Lewis Farakon, who is as clear and obvious and in many ways proud of his anti semitism as anyone could possibly be. And this guy says things like he's not anti Semite, he's

anti termite heat. Just when you were coming up with textbook anti semitism and bigotry, the stuff that Farakon says could go right in there, all right, And I don't think that's something that any serious person would would contest. Okay, Lewis Farrakon is an anti Semite, if there is such

a thing as an anti Semite. And Jamika Mallory and Bob Bland, who are two of the women who are the heads of the so called Women's March, they went on The View today where my friend and the former former host of the show, Megan McCain, decided to push her a bit because there is in the Women's March at least some real anti semitism, and it's worth asking the question why hasn't this been fully repudiated, Meaning that if the association that a conservative could have with any

other individual who is a white nationalist or a racist or a bad person is enough that that person should be asked to condemn the association, isn't that true of Libs as well? Shouldn't libs have to live by their own standards? We know the answer is no, because they don't want standards. But you understand what I'm saying, And to Megan's great credit to Tamika Mallory's well you can hear it for yourself. Here's how the exchange went. Yeah,

people interject really quickly. I would never be comfortable supporting someone who called I'm not anti semite and anti termite. It's the wicked Jews, the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism homosexuality. Actually spoke with the journalists from Tablet magazine who released an investigation report on your organization, and in part they allege that there is a lot of anti

semitism surrounding this march. Specifically, the report alleged that u Tamika and co founder Carmen Perez asserted the quote Jewish people had a history of exploiting black people and were proven to be leaders of the American slave trade. Now, a lot of people who a lot of people include me in this, think that you're using your organization as anti semitism masked and activism, and that you're using identity politics to shield yourself from critiques. You're talking about all

women being invited to that march on pro life. We were not invited. We were not allowed at that march. Right there. I'm a conservative woman. I also represent if you're talking about women, if you're talking about all women, including Jewish women as well, and conservative wisdom women. Now, Bob Bland went on to say, Bob Bland is a woman who was one of the heads of the Women's March. That's not true, and that pro life women are welcome in the women's March. And I'm sorry, but that's not true,

but she said it. Nonetheless, I had the what we call it the professional duty to interview miss Bland during the Kavanaugh hearing, and she came across as somebody who I'm not trying to be gliber funny. She came across it somewhat disturbed. I mean so as though she had problems coping with reality. She claimed that Kavanaugh's confirmation would result in millions of women dying. That was a quote, and I had to sit there and listen to it.

She also lied very brazenly about a position that Kavanaugh. She claimed that Kavanaugh held when it was not in fact his position. It was the position of somebody who was petitioning before the court, and he happened to be a judge when that was happening. Nonetheless, not an impressive intellectual to say the least. But back to Tamika Mallory here,

African American female. She's having this exchange with Megan McCain about Minister Ferikon and about race and anti Semitism, and Megan essentially is saying, look, you're using the fact that you are protected class being a female and being a minority. It seems to escape accountability for spending time with the guy who is clearly a dirtbag. And once again, Megan, I give her a high five from afar. I'll send her a text later and tell her thank you as well.

She it just hones in. She's you know, let's just make this really easy. You, Bob Bland and Timiker Mallory, You to women of the Women's March, representing progressive activism at its height, at its pinnacle. You know, that's what their brand really is. This is all about being a leftist who wants to make the country more accepting of one another, they say, But really it's just about pushing progressive left wing causes, anti life causes, jamming transgender ideology

and all the rest of it down everyone's throats. But with that, Megan says, Okay, let's make this really simple. Just condemn Lewis Farrakhan's words. Here is how that went. When Meghan said to Tamika Mallory on the View, just okay, we know what Louis Farrakhan has said, we know what he stands for. Will you condemn him now play. I don't speak for Jewish people, but I think I'm just confused these remarks are. I mean, it goes on death

to Israel over and over again. We did not make those You can't, but you're associating with a man who does what help look late. What I will say to you is that I don't agree with many of Minniester Farkon's statements that'simically about Jewish people. As I said, I don't agree with many of Minister Farikon's statements. To condemn them, I don't agree with these statements. At the end of the day, he won't condemn it. No, no, no, all.

To be very clear, it's not my language. It's not the way that I speak, it is not how I organize, and I think it is very clear over the twenty years of my own well. I would like to tell miss Mallory what is very clear is that she who condemn the remarks right. She can try to come up with as many different constructions of this as she wants, but the fact that matters. She's asked a straightforward question, will you condemn these remarks? And her response is I

would not use those words. That's not a condemnation of somebody who's calling Jewish people termites. That's not a condemnation at all. That's essentially a dodge that is trying to avoid the question. And I think that what you see here is that once again intersectionality inherently means that these different grievance groups, whether they're gender, racial, sexual orientation, nationality,

or whatever based. But these different grievance groups will inherently come to blows and consume one another because there is no real standard for who is in a position to adjudicate who is the most aggrieved, So who gets away

with kinds of comments and who doesn't? You know, the only thing they can all agree on is that white males are bad and need to be put in their place, and white male patriarchies destroy, destroying the world, destroying America, all of this, but beyond that, they can't figure out what the unifying principle is of what they all stand for, because what they stand for is being angry at people based upon their perceived treatment as a result of gender,

sexual orientation, skin color, and all the rest of it. This is where you see that this politics of intersectionality of I am first and foremost in society to be judged and will judge others based upon my identity group,

that is toxic. It is toxic, and it leads to this kind of incoherence where you have people who are claiming, as they did during this interview, to be all about healing and coming together and combating bigotry, and they can't even combat the bigotry in their own ranks because there are special and privileged positions within this hierarchy of identities that allow for greater latitude and leeway than any other person would have in saying things that are racist, defamatory, ugly,

anti semitic, whatever the case may be. There is no one single standard because all these standards based on intersectional belief have to be adjusted and readjusted in the moment, really based on the petty, short term needs of the movement. So he saw it all breakdown there, and the Women's March is obviously full of people who are really delusional. But that's perhaps a conversation for another time. Break. Your

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a person of color. And then I want to get from you which you want the country to hear about what Stephen King said. Well, first, let me just congratulate and thank my Republican leaders, folks like Kevin McCarthy, Janie Earns, Ted Cruz, Jeff Bush, Jason Chaffins, who've all spoken out loud and clear and rebuked the comments of Steve King. I think the House will handle its business. I have confidence that Kevin McCarthy will do the right thing, and we'll do it very quickly. So I look forward to

that outcome. But for me, it's not about the Republican Party. Steve King's comments are anathetical to what is in fact the American dream, and the durability of the American dream is the strength of the American spirit. And what he did was he struck against the American spirit. So he weakened the spirit. And when that happens, our nation is less compared petitive globally. I wanted you to hear from

Senator Scott there about Steve King's remarks. I didn't want to just talk to you about what happened on the View and Tamika Mallory and which is obviously heightened right now because of Steve King and that whole controversy without airing out what Steve King said, which was essentially, when did white supremacy and white nationalism become a bad thing? I forget the exact quote but it was something along those lines at actually here, of course, this is the

Buck Sexton Show. We are precise, thank you producer Mike. The New York Times quoted Steve King asking white nationalist, white supremacist Western civilization, how did that language become offensive? When someone does something like this. It ticks me off on multiple levels when someone says something like this who claims to be a Republican or a conservative, because it

makes the cause and the job of conservatism harder. He makes it harder for all of us now, which means that I'm obviously going to very vehemently oppose people who say things like this, because conservatism is all about an ideology of individual responsibility, intrinsic human worth and human dignity, and the respect that we all owe to each other as God's creatures and as human beings. We are all equal in the eyes of God. Without that, you don't

have conservatism. Without that, you got something else. I don't know what it is. And perhaps Steve King just incredibly poorly worded something incredibly poorly. I can't apparently word things well right now either. He essentially might have just said something that sounded terrible that he didn't intend to, but it sounded terrible, and so you got to call somebody

out for that. And I don't think he's walked it back at all, but I wanted to note there you had GOP senator and he's an African American, of course, a Senator Scott, and he's saying that this has no place. And he pointed out that a lot of the most prominent GEOP folks out there in Congress say this has no place, So don't let the media was saying, Oh, Republicans never condemn this stuff. Oh no, we condemn it

all the time. We condemn it. We don't like it, and we don't like the lies around situations like this either, where we are told, oh, conservatives have no problem with this bull crap. Now, with that said, I would like to move on for just a couple of moments here to the teacher's strike out in LA. As you know, I'm heading out to San Diego tonight. I will be there and coming to you, assuming I can figure out

the scheduling of things. I should be coming to you from the near the border tomorrow on radio at the normal time, So don't worry about that. Although I may have to have a pinch hitter if the logistics get too complicated, because I'm going to be going all over the place at the border and I'm looking forward to getting a lot of ground truth as well as spending some time in sixty five degree weather instead of twenty

five degree weather. That sounds particularly nice. But there's a teacher's strike that will be happening in Los Angeles, and I think that this is a good opportunity to point out that, you know, the teachers, so yeah, I'm not just knee jerk. Oh, you know the teachers. They want more money. Is is about no, No, the teachers have

a pretty good case for getting a pay raise. Not an ironclad case, but when you look at where they are Visa Vie, where they were fifteen or twenty years ago, and the pay increases over time, teachers I think are on some reasonable ground, especially in places like West Virginia where they were the forty nine out of fifty in terms of overall pay. You know, teachers should be, you know, well compensated as teachers, right, they should be well compensated

in the grand scheme of things. We can't pay them like investment bankers. Although investment bankers would tell you they can't get paid like Silicon Valley barons, but teachers overall have a decent point. The problem though in Los Angeles is where's all the money going, because there's a lot of money and they have, in fact, two billion dollars of funds have been set aside that the city of Los Angeles, of course, entirely run by Democrats. This is

an entirely the school district in Los Angeles. It's a Democrat owned and operated and run situation. Right. The Democrats are completely in charge. I don't think anybody would deny that. That's just the truth. The problem though, is that the money that they want to use for a teacher raise is allocated to retirees from the school system and their benefits.

You see, one part of the conversation when we we're talking about public sector unions that does not get accounted for is what are we paying for the previous workforce that we had. That's usually where unions get the sweetest deals because it's a lot easier to say we're going to give people great benefits in thirty years or twenty years when they retire, instead of we're going to give them a big pay raise today. So they tend to have a lot of major back end public sector expenses.

And the other place where there's a big problem is you could give all teachers This is courtesy my friend Inez Felter stepmen over at the Federalist. You could give all teachers an eleven percent raise if you would just indexed the increase in administrate of hiring meaning admin staff, to the rest of the school's growth. So if there's ten percent more students, you have ten percent more admin staff.

The truth is that the money in the teachers in the teaching systems of these major school districts like Los Angeles has gone to support personnel admin staff, a lot of whom are unnecessary and are just part of a giant Democrat jobs program. So you know, it's more complicated

than just teachers should get a raised. Should teachers get a raised, maybe they should get something of a raise, But they've also got to look at how they're going to fund their pension, how they're going to fund their healthcare benefits, and what about all this admin staff they have around. That's the part of this the public won't find out about, and that's why this will all just have end should be handled with you guessed it more raising of taxes, which will cause more middle class flight

from California. About some municipalities like San Francisco who have decided that it's okay for some non citizens to vote in local elections, I think there's a difference between municipal

and state and federal part of municipality. I'm not arguing forward or against it, but I will say, having been deputy city attorney, there's a very the granularity of what cities decide is so specific as to I think allow for people to be participants in the process without it somehow undermining our larger democratic ethic that says that you should be a citizen to be a part of the conversation. So in some cases you would be supportive of non citizens,

I wouldn't. I wouldn't oppose it. That's right there. He had gubernatorial hopeful for the state of Georgia, Stacey Abrams, Democrat, who had Oprah stumping for her, had Will Farrell. I think going door to door, knock knock it on folksdoors to get them to come out and vote for Stacey Abrams. There you ever speaking to Margaret Hoover, I guess on is that on a PBS and Margaret asks her about whether Stacy Abrams thinks that illegals should be able to

vote in local elections. Essentially, if you live in the city of Atlanta or New York, or Los Angeles, or you name it, and you are in illegal, should you have a say, as in an official legal say, as in being able to cast a ballot for whomever is going to run that city and whoever the police commissioner is going to be, an etc. Et cetera. You know who the district attorney is going to be. You look at this and you say to yourself, this should be

a really easy question. Right, should somebody who is not even legally allowed to be in the United States? Should that person be given the right to have an official legal vote that they can cast in an election on US soil. I would think the answer to anybody who is a believer in the rule of law and who wants to take our law seriously would say, and of course not. But you notice, Stacy Abrams here lets you

in on what the Democrats really think. Stacy Abrams is saying, Oh, well, I think it's really complicated, and I wouldn't necessarily oppose it.

That's Democrats speak for I know that I'll get a lot of heat if I tell you what I'm really thinking on this one, so I would rather take this non committal position of well, I'm just not sure right now, but I can kind of see how some people would want illegal aliens to be able to vote in elections for their local you know, local whatever, governor or not governor, mayor city council, all that kind of stuff. This is the future, my friends, This is where it's all heading.

And I'll just say this, does anyone really believe that if Democrats start city by city, they already have sanctuary city policies. So so we know that, and there are whole states now, like California that are effectively sanctuary states. We know that they don't really care what the federal laws with regard to immigration. They are not on board for helping the federal government in any way enforce those

laws other federal laws. Local government's all about helping, right, but immigration, no, they do not, They do not want to have any part in that. How long before we hear a similar case to be made. I mean, if you can make the case that somebody living in a city should have a say in how that city is run and governed, even if they are not legally, under the law of the land, allowed to be in that city. Why couldn't you say then about Congress and elected representatives

on Capitol Hill. Why can't you say it about Senate? Why can't you say it about the President. I know that people would say, oh, buck, but it's local law versus federal law. Into that I would say, yeah, but they don't like the federal law either, and they don't obviously buy into the principle that there's anything inherently wrong with being in this country illegally. And this is a really important philosophical difference that we need to understand in

this immigration debate. You see, the way that we've been told to approach this because of Democrat and media propaganda for a long time, is we all want to fix illegal immigration. We all want the laws to be enforced. We don't want open borders. It's just a question of how we get to better enforcement of immigration law and better processes in place for legal emots. That's what we've

been told. But what's really happened because of all the media stories about the dreamer valedictorians and all this stuff that they all the essentially pro illegal propaganda that's out there.

What's happened is that the Democrats have, over time and their base and the ideological left has been conditioned to think that there's really nothing at all that is wrong with illegal immigration, that essentially the only problem that anybody could ever have with legal immigration is rooted in some kind of racism or nativism, and it's not a bad thing. It's just as a thing that has to be managed properly. That now, management of a problem is different from enforcement

to stop a problem. Right, the Democrats have essentially decided as a party. And again they won't say this, but when you hear people like Stacey Abrams talking about it, it's really very clear, I think how they feel about this issue. But the Democrats have made a decision that there is no longer anything wrong with illegal aliens in the country, that there's no problem with it at just how do we how do we best manage integrating them

into society, registering them for votes, making them citizens. You know, And they haven't consulted most of the American people on this one. They've just decided that this is the right thing for them to do. And you'll see it first at the local level, and then it will expand and eventually there will be pushing for congressional legislation. And think about how much more powerful at that point the political

constituency for this will be. When you have millions and millions of about to be legalized, mostly Latino illegal aliens in the country. Do you think that a lot of politicians, if they think they're going to be the wrong side of this, will stand against it. I think the answer is most certainly no. I think then the momentum for

this will be stronger than it's ever been. So this is just Stacy Abrams is giving you a glimpse into the future in this country when eventually they will be openly advocating for illegal aliens to vote, not just in local elections, but they will eventually advocate for them to have the full rights of citizenship once they are amnestaded. I guarantee it. I guarantee it. That's why this promise, Oh, it's just amnesty. It won't lead to votes. This is

a lie. This is a lie, just like so many of the lies they told us an immigration for the last twenty or so years, thirty or so years, and it's just going to get worse. That's why Trump has to stand firm now bullying the me too movement against Is this the best demand can get it? Is it happening Billy as well? Problem we can't hide from harassment is taking off. It's been going on far too long.

We can't last it off. What I actually think she's trying to say, making the same old excuses, but something finally change allegations regarding sexual assault and sexual harassments once, but she says, and there will be no going back, because we we believe in the best in men. So you might be thinking, what is this weird commercial that is running on Buck show? That's actually a public service announcement, a public service announcement from Gillette, which I'm sure many

of you are familiar with. It is a subsidiary of Procter and Gamble. They make the razors and the shaving cream and all that stuff. And this is a a very clearly political stance or a cultural commentary PSA on toxic masculinity, which is now a subject that we're all supposed to talk about. I have many, many feelings about this, and it comes in the aftermath of the American psycho psychological association or whatever it's called putting out these guidelines

for dealing with toxic masculinity. Most of what people talk about as toxic masculinity is really just covered by the very sage advice. Don't be a huge jerk, don't be a bad person, don't abuse people, don't be predatory in your interactions with people. Don't use your power to leverage yourself onto people physically or otherwise in a way that makes them uncomfortable. This is all just stuff that anybody with a pretty good sense of ethics and decency doesn't

have to be told. But you see, just as it was only a matter of time before the me too movement which is mentioned in this ad, before the me too movement was weaponized for explicitly partisan political purposes, which is what we saw in the Kavanaugh hearing. I mean, the Kavanaugh hearing was the culmination of a lot of me too momentum that came from very legitimate cases, very very high profile true abusers being exposed. So there were good things there. I mean, that's that's to be sure, right.

I mean, you know, and any movement can be capable of some positive things along the way, But that doesn't mean that all things along the way should be excused, should be considered inherently positive because other things have been positive. Right, we can look at a whole bunch of different events

and political movement throughout history and understand this. And with this assault on what they call toxic masculinity, what you will see is, Okay, sure, I don't want to be a bully, a jerk, a sexual harasser, or a sexual assaulter. You know, you go through all this stuff, somebody who makes comments, you know, hey, tuts to somebody in the office and says, you know, make me a sandwich, and you know, stuff like that. Right, nobody, nobody wants to

be those things. And there's very good reasons why we shouldn't treat each other that way. But toxic masculinity is then a concept that's used for a whole lot more

things than just bad behavior. Toxic masculinity starts to now become a way to describe aggressive male behavior that can be very useful, right that you know you want, I mean, I would argue to you that you know, it is masculinity that inspires a guy who is at a bar or at a party to intervene when somebody who is weaker than somebody else is being picked on, or to intervene when a guy is harassing a woman, maybe grabbing at her, groping a woman that you know that the

guy who's the bystander doesn't even know he intervenes because he has a masculine impulse to do so. I mean, I think it is masculinity that makes a guy who is out with a lady feel the need to protect her physically and protect her honor and protect her her dignity along with his own. We used to call this chivalry, but now that that's a that's a term that's feels

so outdated we can't use it anymore. But also I would say, you know, toxic masculinity is now used as a term, a very broad term to and they use it intentionally in this way to conflate what are very

political stances with the criticism of toxic masculinity. What I mean is you can look at say gender norms, and now if you're if you want your child to dress as a boy at a young age, if it's a boy, instead of saying we're going to have you in gender neutral clothing, maybe that is if you're a father, your own impulse of toxic masculinity. The left would say, coming out right, maybe that desire to institute what you would see as traditional gender roles and gender feelings is somehow

connected to your own toxic masculinity. This is how this concept is being bandied about these days. And you know, it reminds me also of this piece I read in the Washington Post over the weekend that goes through it and talks about the new guidelines from the APA when it comes to dealing with men and boys, and it goes through all of these different, these different statistics about about homicide and about suicide, and you know, the truth

is that a lot of this is biologically driven. And they also for people that are so interested in science, they don't seem to have much care for looking at what does testosterone do versus what does estrogen do in the body, what psychological impact does testosterone have? And I'm not saying that this is determinative, meaning that because you have more or less testosterone, you're going to act in a certain way, and therefore it will either excuse or

entirely explain it. But the left is fascinated with gender differences until they're not right. They're fascinated with the gender spectrum and gender identity, but they have very little interest, it seems, in understanding the role that biochemistry plays in the way that we approach gender. And the fact of the matter is that testosterone manifests itself in differences that

are not only physical. They manifest themselves in differences in the psychology of individuals, and men are, because of our biology, more prone to be aggressive, more prone to approach situations in a certain way. This is just a reality that we're all aware of. But you know, the left likes to try and force us to unlearn common sense and replace it with what is politically fashionable at any point in time, and this idea of toxic masculinity as a problem that we have to tackle to say, I don't.

I think the problem we have in this country is that we are not rewarding and speaking up enough about men who are masculine in all the right ways, and that their sense of purpose and achievement and strength and dignity against all the odds, and their willingness to go and fight for what is good and what is right. We want to foster that in society. We do not

want to create a culture of past men. We do not want to create a culture where men think that they have to approach their day to day lives the way that traditionally or historically women have thought they should approach the day to day lives, because men and women are different, and that now is increasingly a revolutionary thing to say that there's a separation between men and women that are biology manifests itself indifferences that are real and observable.

And yet the science right now, at least from the shrink community, is increasingly pointed toward be less masculine, because too much masculinity is inherently a bad thing. That's not true destructive masculinity, which is separate and apart from anything that is necessarily masculine. Just acting poorly, unethically, badly, that's a bad thing. But we don't need psychologists to tell us that, do we. And we've known what is moral and what is right interactions with each other, with women,

with everybody for a very long time. It's not all about this toxic masculinity concept. And be on guard for how this is deployed in conversation by the left. Man, the left can always find something to whine about. Right now, it's wells don't work and Trump is a Russian agent. But we know that's not true, right, And we also know that maybe if the Left just drank some delicious Black Rifle coffee, they would learn to chill just a

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When you get a moment. It's a Parkland father's quest for accountability, and it tells the story of Andrew Pollock, whose daughter Meadow was among those who were viciously murdered Seventeen people killed, fourteen students in three adults during the eleven minutes of the park Parkland school shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School. Mister Pollock lost his daughter, and he has been aging something of a one man crusade

for accountability in this whole process. You see, he unlike the lionized Parkland students, which by that I mean just a handful really three of them, who are very progressive and who have been turned into celebrities by the media because they're willing to say things like the NRA is a terrorist organization. This David hog kid in a couple of his confederates. They say really inappropriate and indefensively stupid

and unfair things. But the NRA is the enemy. Gun owners are the bad guys, and the liberal left media loves that can't get enough of it. As I have said to you, and it's an important point, so I repeat it. Much of what is really opposition to guns in this country has turned into the left's hatred for gun owners. It really is about despising the people who own the guns, and it's a cultural marker. If you

own guns, you're the wrong kind of person. If you support the Second Amendment, you're the wrong kind of person. And there is a contempt that the left has for

people who own guns. Now you know David Hogg's name and some of the other names probably as well, because they were held up as exactly what should be done after a school shooting, which is demonize the NRA and gun owners and tell people who disagree on policy matters that they don't care about dead children and the victim's status of those kids, meaning the kids that are speaking out publicly about this is used not just as a

shield against criticism, but it then becomes weaponized. If you were to say that David Hogg is a smug punk, which he is, then people say, oh my gosh, he survived a tragedy. You're terrible, you're horrible person. Meanwhile, he's calling for boycotts against people and trying to ruin people's careers. Mister Pollock, however, takes a different approach to all of this.

He really looks at who is responsible here, meaning who could have done something differently so that all these lives would not have been lost, Who put in place policies that were so idiotic and so reckless that the people implementing those policies bear some degree of the responsibility for

the tragedy that happened. He's a father who lost his daughter to a murder, a mass murder in her high school, and he wants answers, and he gets far less attention in the media because the answers he's looking for really matter. He's not saying that people who own guns, the sixty million gun owners in this country, are the bad guys. He's not saying the Second Amendment is terrible and flawed.

He's saying, hold on a second, what could have been done differently so that lives here would have been saved, or perhaps no lives would have been lost? And he points his finger, of course, at the murderer. He says, the murderer, I blame the murder for fifty percent of what happened, mister Pollock says in this piece. But then he goes on to make a very compelling case that it's much more than just the murderer that should be held accountable here, not accountable for murder, but held to

account for their mistakes. Quote. Mister Pollock believes that political correctness killed Meadow. A prominent villain in his narrative is Robert Runs, who came to Broward from Chicago in twenty eleven. As a superintendent of the county's public schools, mister Runs introduced a program called Promise, a feel good acronym for preventing recidivism through opportunities, mentoring, interventions, support and education, under which students who commit crimes in public schools would no

longer be reported to the police by administrators. Under Promise, students would be evaluated and dealt with exclusively within the schools associated reform programs. Even felonies as severe as drug dealing, sexual assault, and bringing weapons to school could be lawfully kept from the police. End quote. This is a policy of covering up people who are a danger in the

school system. This was a few good, political correct lefty approach to school discipline, and the result was that people who were really a problem, people who were a threat to their fellow students, were being given second and third and fifteenth and thirtieth chances. Can't tell the cops if they bring weapons into school, can't give them a record because you see the record they have. Would then fall

into this idea of the school to prison pipeline. This is a social justice warrior phrase that's supposed to mean that because schools aren't doing enough in terms of discipline and life coaching and whatever, mentoring all these different things, that people become violent felons. They become dangerous, and so it's society's fault. It's not the felon's fault. Society put them in the school to prison pipeline. You see, Well, why does this have so much residence with the social

justice left. Oh, of course there's a racial angle to all of this. We are told that when you actually have school administrators reporting dangerous violent criminal behavior in schools, there's a disproportionate effect on minority students. Therefore the system must be racist, so we should just stop reporting these crimes. Here's a quote from the Peace Remember this is about the administrator for the school district that Parkland was in,

who came up with these policies. This guy Runsie quote saw that minority students were being referred to the police at higher rates than whites. Mister Pollock tells it. Rather than recognize that misbehavior can be the result of many complex problems outside of school or at home, the superintendent concluded the disparity was because teachers in schools were racist with no reporting, Now there's no crime. The school's data looks great. Problem solved, but a much worse problem was created.

No student has a criminal background as a result. So once you graduate from school and want to buy a gun, background checks are useless. Oh end quote. Look at the complexity here. Liberals like to bleat about background checks. Oh, that's going to solve it. If we just have more background checks, there won't be any more violence at schools. Meanwhile, there feel good do goodism policies that put social justice ahead of safety in the school and that think that

there must be something inherently. Look, the fact of the matter is that there are racial disparities under murder statutes too, Meaning there's a racial disparity for people convicted of murder. Does that mean that we stop enforcing laws about murder? That's just a fact. By the way, people can get all uncomfortable and get angry about that, it is a fact. So if there is a disparity in school discipline resulting in referrals to the police. Do we pretend that those

infractions that are actually criminal infractions are not happening. The answer in this school district in Florida was yes, pretend it's not happening. Pretend that there's no threat here. And oh, in this case, it means that some sickomaniac white kid. Because of this overall policy meant to deal with discriminatory racist practices of telling cops about criminal activity in the schools,

this psychotic white kid killed seventeen people. Mister Pollock quote describes the Broward County School District as ground zero for a horrible approach to school safety that's spread across America. In January twenty fourteen, the Obama administration issued guidelines to the nation's school boards directing them to adopt Promise like policies or risk a federal investigation and loss of funding. The report of the Trump's School Safety Commission, published December eighteenth,

recommended abolishing such programs. School boards won't be hounded anymore to put these policies in place, mister Pollock says, But there's nothing to stop a board from choosing to adopt promise, and Broward County has not abandoned it. So while, at least because the Obama administration was threatening schools to adopt these crazy policies that if they decided to deviate from,

they could lose funding. Obama was basically, through his Department of Education, saying, well, you don't want schools to have a disparate racial impact in their disciplinary policy. So if a kid brings a gun into school, don't tell the cops. Put them into a diversionary mentoring program. If a kid sexually assaults a fellow student, you know, don't tell the cops. Put them into a diversionary mentoring program. And no record,

by the way, no criminal records. So then when they do bad things later on, it's like, oh, where did this come from. It's just a way of scheming and gaming the stats to make school safety look better than it was. And this was top down from the Obama administration.

And you have to wonder how bad, how bad of an apple could get through this process, I mean, how rotten a kid because of this policy, because of the Obama administration's top down view of school safety, who could get through this Well, this is a description of the shooter himself Nicholas Cruz quote. In middle school, he was required to have a adult supervision at all times. In high school, he vandalized a bathroom, causing more than a

thousand dollars of damage. He racially abused black students and had fist fights with them. He carved swastikas on his desk. He hurled furniture across classrooms. He threw hard objects at other students, sometimes injuring them. He brought dead animals to school and often waived them before other students. He threatened to kill teachers and other students and shoot up the school. He wrote kill in his notebooks and spoke frequently about guns. He brought knives to school, and on one occasion, a

backpack full of bullets. Mister Pollock said after that the school banned him from bringing a backpack to school. But I ask you, if he's too dangerous to wear a backpack, why isn't he too dangerous to be in class with kids like my daughter? That is a damn good question, isn't it. See this father whose life will never be the same, who suffers heartbreak every day of losing his beautiful baby girl, His father wants to find out what

really went wrong here. Whose stupidity allowed Nicholas Cruz to go without the punitive justice that should have been visited upon him, well before any possibility of a mass shooting. What stupid federal level policies prevented the police from being more aware of what he was doing in school? And yes, the police were called dozens and dozens of times to

his home and they still couldn't do something. But at least there would have been a greater chance, at least there would have been some hope if the school expelled him, kept him out of the school, that this would not have happened. But you see, he's looking for real answers,

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Leave no stone unturned. You know, sometimes a writer puts something out there and I feel like, oh, okay, so this is just meant to troll people, and that's one way to get attention, and it's going to get a certain group of people all fired up, and that can be a very effective tactic. I'm not necessarily putting it putting it down. It depends on how it's done and what the topic is and all the rest of it.

I would just say, though, when people are celebrating their kids performances, if you tell them to tone it down a little bit. You may you may find yourself getting some pretty angry parents at you. But I agree with a general principle that has advanced by this one writer or national review. Although I can't speak about kids performances because I don't have any kids. Sarah shoot, or it might be shoot, I don't know, or Scott, could be any number of ways to say this name. Please stay seated.

And she writes that our participation award obsessed culture doesn't understand the true meaning of a standing ovation. And she goes in to say that at every children's performance in the K through twelve range, there's this understanding that at the end of whatever it is, everybody has to stand up and give a standing ovation. Look, I'm with her, and that standing oh, should be something where something's really fantastic. And I don't think that we do people favors, even

high schoolers. Look, little kids, I don't know, but even high schoolers, I don't know if we do them favors by making them think that everything they do is amazing. Applause of course, right support great, well done, standing ovation, But I leave this to the parenting experts in our audience, which as far as I'm concerned as everybody who has a kid, they know more about kids than I do.

I will say this, though, I have noticed that at the theater or at any kind of live performance, there is this inclination to go for the standing oh right away. And I got problems with this. Okay, we all know when something's really worthy of the standing ovation. Standing ovation needs to be. This is like mind blowing awesome, and I feel the need to get up on my feet because of it. Standing ovation is not supposed to be expected,

you know. But then again, I'm also somebody that has a problem with the expectation of a twenty percent tip at a restaurant. Twenty percent is supposed to be like if the service is really good, if the service is just kind of mediocre. I feel like it's supposed to be fifteen percent, maybe seventeen percent, But a twenty percent tip is supposed to be, you know, hey, great stuff. I have given twenty five percent tips before. If somebody does me a favor during the meal, it really does

something fantastic, catches something. Maybe the kitchen didn't like that dish has gluten in it, and even though they told me that it doesn't, stuff like that, you know, but there's an expectation that we're supposed to pretend that things are excellent that aren't. Service is excellent that isn't. A performance is excellent that isn't. And when you're at a performance and there's that whole standing oh moment, you know, yeah,

everyone stands up and does the whole clamping thing. If you are like me and you're sitting down, I don't want to look at the back of somebody who was clapping maniacally because of whatever's going on. I don't. I don't want to have to then stand just so I can see what's going on on stage. I want to see the curtain calls. I want to see. Now, I know this is a little bit of a get off my lawn segment, but you understand it's it's it's a

cultural thing that we should all agree upon. The standing ovation should be reserved for things that are truly excellent, not just for things that are like really really good or good enough. And you know, it's like I told somebody recently. I can't remember where I saw this on the internet, but it was parenting advice from I think it was a major league baseball player who said you know, gotta get your son to start giving you high fives early so he understands how the high five works. Get

some psyched and enthusiastic about everything. But once you've really trained in with that high five, you got to throw in a down low too slow because life ain't fair. And it's true, you know, I think of the some of the things that I've learned about you know, you always want to be you always want people to support you and to be there for you, because that takes into into account, especially for kids, the the whole learning process, right, you need people that are going to be telling you

keep going, keep going, not get discouraged. But I don't think it's a good thing to be told you're excellent when you're not. You know, I feel like I feel like I had a route awakening when I came out of college. Like, oh, I went to a good school and and you know, I had an ANS average at a good schools and I was a college kid or whatever. By the way, everybody everybody had like a A minus or a B plus everybody the whole school. That's what I didn't realize until later on in life. But then

even when I was waiting and get security clearance. I remember applying for all these jobs. It's like, yeah, man, there's there's hundreds, if not thousands, of grade schools full of kids that got great grades. You're not special. It's like, oh, good to know IB would have been better than knowing that freshman year instead of thinking I could graduate from college and just be special because I wasn't had to try to make myself special. And that came later on

in life and still working on that one. Um, we have some other making life special thoughts coming up here in the in the realm of Keto. Should you eat Keto? It's coming up. I am Hans, Am, I am Funds, and we just want Yeah. The truth is I could use little Hans and fronds in my life these days. I got back to the gym yesterday team for the first time in I don't even know three or four, five or months. Um, I managed to. Uh. I was just doing a little bit of closet rearranging and I

had a one of those things. I said, Oh, I forgot about that. That uh that suit that I can wear it in the summer. It's not really a winter suit, a summer suit. I was like, Oh, let me just I hope it's still fits, which whenever you think that to yourself usually it's because you know it doesn't fit. And yeah, I got into one of those battles. I'm like, yeah, I gotta get it around the waist, it's gotta get around the just gonna get on. He started, and he

suck in. Then you realize, well, I'm not gonna wear it sucking in, so I need to h Anyway, I'm getting after it now. I got back into the gym yesterday, squats, overhead bench, all all the all the meat, the meat and potatoes, basics and men. As I see here today, you would you would think that I just did like a you know, an iron man, I just did a triathlon or something in terms of how my body feels.

But no, it was like a thirty minute full body workout that I think you could probably put a fair amount of seventy five year old women through and they'd be fine. So yeah, anyway, I'm I'm committed though, I'm getting back into it. The one thing I'm thinking about, and if Jesse Kelly were here, he would mock me relentlessly for this, so we might have to have him come on. Just so you can make fun of me,

is I have reading about intermittent fasting does work. I've done that before and it some of you may have even noticed. It was a couple of years ago, and I just shredded down to probably dropped about twenty pounds and was pretty close to what I would say was my ideal. Wait, if any of you have the secret when it comes to keto and are there enough Keto foods to eat that you feel like you're happy? The one really sad thing that I had to do this weekend was I have quite a chocolate stash that I

have built up over recent months. I'm like, I just just a little, just a little bit, you know, just just a little taste, a little taste of the chocolate stash. And what I realized was my chocolate stash has turned into about three different bags of chocolate truffles, six different really high quality chocolate bars. I got some Valerna, I've got all this different stuff in there, and I finally just sealed it all up in one of those tougherware things.

I said, until you are back in summer's suit summer suit shape, you are you are only chocolate on weekends. I'm not gonna say I'm not eating any chocolate because that would just be a lie. But it would be only chocolate on weekends. But I'm sure a lot of you have your own New Year's resolutions. Maybe they're about, you know, getting into a you know, people say, don't say get back into shape. They don't. That's not the positive. But I think about it that you're going to just

build a stronger, healthier you, you know. I like that all I'm going to build a stronger, healthier me. So, you know, until I've reached the point where this is the single biggest radio slash podcast show in the world, I don't think I can afford to just like let it, let it go, you know, just sit and slap my big belly. It's huge bellies full of jelly. I can't do that. I can't do that. So yeah, I'll let you know how it goes. I'm pretty pretty confident that

I'll get lean and mean. So if you have any Keto thoughts though Facebook dot com, slash buck sex and let me know what your thoughts are. I know there're at least a few fitness experts in this audience, So fitness experts, tell me when you're getting back into it when you've been let's say, uh, not really getting after for a while. What do you recommend? Let me know and we'll be back with roll call in just a moment. Ain't no party like a Team Buck party, because a

Team Buck party don't stop. Yeah, we got Buck turned up to eleven. It's time for roll call. That's right, roll call, pure, unadulterated, the real thing, the real deal. Getting right to it, Lisa, what's up, Lisa? Lisa rights Buck? All the previous votes for Border Security and the Secure Offences Act, the twenty five billion dollars Schumer voted for last year. Where has all this money gone? Ard one program? Either you or sewn? There was funding at one time

for seven hundred miles of fence wall? Is there that much down there? What has been done with all that money? I'm not understanding why this is even still necessary at this point. And if there isn't that much, it has already been approved the past, or why can't he just finish what was started but not finished had to be funded, right? I just am not understanding. Shields high, Lisa. Well, Lisa, you raised some very good points here, and I don't

know if it was me or Seawan. It was probably both of us that talked about what's going on with funding for barriers for offense. Isn't it amazing how we have been told so many times in recent weeks the offense is crazy, barriers are insane. Man Like, why do you even want a barrier fence? Man Like, No, it's just nuts. And then when you do a little bit of research about the border, it turns out that there is already a lot of fencing, a couple of hundred

miles of barriers and fencing already at the border. So we got a two thousand mile border, and we got a lot of border that needs additional protection. And this is what they don't want to do, and that's why they're acting like there's no money for this. Of course, there's plenty of money for this. Schumer wanted to give

twenty five billion before. But remember the twenty five billion was tied to DACCA, and the whole purpose of DACA is to change the game forever such that Republicans will be a party that is in continuous opposition, never in power. That you'll have America become a one party state. It's pretty clear that's what will happen if you have continued waves of illegal immigration and also amnesty on top of it. People say, oh, why is that? Why do you assume

that illegal immigrants are going to Democrat. I don't think they're going to vote Democrat forever necessarily. But if you come to this country and you don't speak English, and you don't have skills to compete in the information economy, you're going to be working for wages. Real wage growth since nineteen fifty I believe has been stagnant, I mean real wages, and it's only going to get worse, as I've been discussing with you, because of automation and what

AI is going to do to jobs. And when you think about how retail and transportation, you put those two together, retail and transportation are a huge percentage of jobs that people making less than the household average household income are making, and you realize that those are jobs that might get automated out very easily, very soon. What do we do with all those people. I think ten percent of the workforce is in retail, which is pretty remarkable you think

about it. Karen writes, Hey, Buck, don't pay attention to the journos and the clown, Prince and Princess, Chuck and Nancy, all us real people want borders and border security. I call Chuck and Nancy's office and called for a wall. Here, here are the numbers. Give him a call. Well, thank you, Karen. Maybe I will give them a call. Give him a piece in my mind while I'm at it, Like, Yo, what's going on? Chuck and Nancy? Why are you so posed to borders? Come on, we all know that borders

are a good thing. Chuck and Nancy, let me tell you, if all of a sudden you thought that you could just wander onto Nancy's estate in Marin County, just outside of San Francisco, I'm sure all of a sudden she would be very interested in fences and borders and boundaries. But hypocrisy is a central characteristic and a central theme of the Democrat Party. So that's what we have to

deal with. Unfortunately, Kelvin rights Buck get a load of the supposed non unified mass media we speak of cramming this Russia collusion crap down our throats as if it was real or even new. I'm guessing they found out how popular wall still is and needed to discredit the President talk about beating a dead horse. Shields high. Calvin, Look, I agree. I think that this latest story that broke

has almost nothing new in it. I'm very skeptical of this story as something that people should think adds to the narrative at all. I mean, really, what you have is the FBI trying to excuse FBI prior conduct, and it's an organization that is in meshin and scandal. You know, I was in the CIA when black sites broke in the news. I was in the CIA when waterboarding was

going on. Let me tell you something. Nobody was walking around saying, well, this CIA, so everything they do is fine and we don't have to even think about it, and they're just perfect. Meanwhile, with the FBI, libs pretend like all of these powers they have fish and counterintelligence investigation authority and all this stuff, All of that is

just fine and dandy. There's no problem at all. There's no real concern that the FBI perhaps needed greater oversight, that the FBI may have stepped outside of its balance. You know, nobody wants to hear anything about that, do they. That's just because libs are full of it. They have no actual principles when it comes to law enforcement or intelligence. They just want what they want when they want it. Jay, Right,

Hey Buck. About your celiac issue, I read that distilled liquors, even ones derived from a grand containing gluten, are considered to be gluten free because the dissillation process supposedly removes the gluten proteins, although they still aren't allowed to label them as gluten free now. I've also read that a small number of gluten sensitive people still react to it nonetheless, while most do not, so the jury is out on

the issue of safe consumption for ciliac stuff. First, my question is whether you've ever tried whiskey after your celiac diagnosis to know if you personally react to them. It was just curious. I'm a Bourbon and Scotch fan have been to several distilleries. I'd love to send you some recommendations for good whiskey if you could partake in enjoying them.

Hence the question, have a great day, Shields High Well, Jay, the answer to what you've written out here, the answer to your question is yes, Yes, there are people that think that it is safe to drink grain based alcohol even if you have celia. To these and yes there are people say that they still react and they still

are sensitive enough that it's not okay for them. I do drink a bit of hard liquor from time to time, but just because I don't need to tempt fate, I tend to focus on tequila and mescal and only and potato based vodkas. I will have a really good scotch or really good whiskey, but tequila and mescal are what's really in my wheelhouse. I don't mess around too much with other alcohol O n wine, and I obviously cannot drink beer. As a ciliac sufferer, you absolutely cannot have beer.

I think I mentioned this, but they believe that celiac disease may have been a mutation, a genetic mutation for Western Europeans, intended to help them fight certain kinds of bacterial infection, and the body just made some mistakes in that process. Let me see here aries rights, oh, aries, going long here. Buck just want to say, if you were write about anything, and seldom your as it concerns music, but Aerosmith is the best American rock band in history.

See aries, And honestly, aren't they all American rock bands? They get houses in New York, in LA and made most of their money here. That's a that's a fair that's a fair point. That's a fair point. Aries they do. You know? This is like I always thought it was strange that the very lovely and very tall Maria Sharapova chose to always play for the Russian Federation in international tennis matches, even though she had been living in America and trained in America since I think she was five.

To me, that feels pretty American. But you know, people, I guess they choose what they want to choose. Daniel writes, you definitely need to step up your music analysis game. If you don't know or appreciate Tool, well, Daniel, I guess I'm I sound like kind of a tool. Then I didn't know this was a band that people really like. I don't know everything. I gotta make some I gotta make some time for some Tool. I guess I'll figure

that out. Virginia said, you said you're going to the walls on the border next week, why don't you take Jim Acosta with you and show him what he's missing in his reporting. Well, I would be happy to take mister Acosta along, but I don't think that he'd want to go for a ride along with me, especially because then how could he get away with all the shenanigans. Was it Instagram or Twitter or however he's putting that stuff out there of the video. Yeah, here I am

at the wall and things are really quiet here. I guess it's not quite the healthscape here of the border that the Republicans have been saying. Uh, it's almost like this big wall thing kind of works. Oh that guy, I swear, Harry. I'm a podcast listener, buck that has fallen behind. So you may have already covered this. If the USA had national healthcare and govern employees use the same program, RBG would have patted on the head and been told she's too old for her cancer treatment. Be

careful what you ask for, Lefty shields high, Harry. Well, you know, Harry, you know the truth is that these healthcare systems in countries like the UK, where people are all happy because I think, oh, it's socialist medicine and everything will be great. And the UK really is socialist medicine, I would know. I mean the UK, you have the National Health Service that is truly in control of hospitals, truly in control of the delivery system and the employees

and all aspects of healthcare. And there is something of a private market there, but it's it's small, as I understand it. People do have some private insurance, and you look, you can always find a medical professional that if you're willing to if you're willing to write a check, they'll treat you. But cancer survival rates in America are better

than they are in Europe. And I think that is because cancer is incredibly expensive to treat most of the time, and we don't have a rationing system in this country for it the way that they do in places like the UK. You know, I can tell you that if I had an ear infection, yeah, I'd rather be in Sweden or in the UK, and in America these days, if I had a life threatening illness, I take America

every time. Ninety nine times out of one hundred. You want to be in the US of A. Let's see, we have time for one more, James, right, Buck, Your position on littering is exactly on the nose. I was out in the neighborhood I live here in Puerto Rico and New Year's Eve, and I watched this guy I just met open and pack of cigarettes, tear off the cellophane and foil and throw it directly on the ground.

There was a trash barrel literally ten feet away. Shortly after that, I watched another person throw an empty beer can on the ground. Now, I'm not going to say that ruined my night or anything, but it bothered me more than I thought it would. The fact that it happened in Puerto Rico is not relevant. I'm just rubbing it into little since I'm a native New England or I know it's cold up there. Anyway, have fun the border, be safe, James, James, Littering is very much. I've said

this before, but littering is very much. Or rather, the trash on the streets of a place tells you a lot about how wealthy it is, how developed it is the state of its civil society. Advanced, wealthy countries do not have filthy streets. They do not have the same kind of trash on the streets that countries that are still either developing or third world I mean third world countries. One way you know you're in them is there's trash everywhere.

There's just trash everywhere you walk around. There's just garbage, like people have ripped open their garbage bags and just let it all out on the street everywhere. That's how you know you're in the third world. All right, team, that's gonna be it four today. I'm gonna be out at the border tomorrow. We should be good luck and safe passage my friends talking to you from San Diego. Woo speak to you then, Shields High. You're probably familiar with AARP. You are someone you know might already be

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