Special Counsel Nightmare Almost Over

much more coming up. Buck Sexton Remission, decoding the news and disseminating information with actionable intelligence, No mistake, American, You're a great American. Again, This is the bucks Sexton Show. At Puma CIA analysts, I can speak to three hours without a phone call. Try doing that sometimes. No, Andrew McCabe is not a psychiatrist. He's not an internal physician. Either is Rod Rosenstein. They knew the constitution constitutional limits

of the twenty fifth Amendment. It's an incapacitated president, Michae Woodrow Wilson maybe the last week of FDR. It's not a president you're having to disagree with. So what they're basically discussing is how to overthrow or aboard a presidency that was duly elected. Well, I think Andrew Bickabe has made a fool out of himself over the last couple of days. And he really looks to me like sort of a poor man's j Edgar Hoover's a. I think he's a disaster. And what he was trying to do

was terrible and he was caught. Anybody reading the IG report would say, how could a man like this be involved with the FBI. Welcome to the Buck Saxon Show. Everybody Big news today. The Muller pro according to CNN, is supposed to end sometime next week or the report, I should say that is the conclusion of the probe. That signals the conclusion. We'll be handed into the newly installed Attorney General next week bar the a G. And so this aligns with what I've been telling you here

for a while. I told you that I had heard that the probe was going to end within a matter of a few weeks, and now here we are. So I do believe this report, even though it comes from fake news CNN, that this is going to be wrapping up.

It also comes at a time when we have more certainty than ever before we should have more certainty than ever before that the actions taken at the top of the Department of Justice and the FBI by pro Hillary anti Trump partisans were appalling, absolutely appalling, that disgrace the offices of the men and women who who held them, that undermine the very institutions that they at least have

told us they sought to protect. There can be no justification for the behavior that we already know about, and I'm here to tell you that there's a lot we still don't know and need to know about just what happened here. You have people who have come forward to offer freely that they were considering what was effectively a coup against the president of the United States based on what what was the thing that the president did that was so terrible that McCabe and some of the others,

Rod Rosenstein offering to wear a wire? What was a thing that was done that was so terrible that a reasonable person, a government employee in good faith would have even considered this is There isn't one. They have got nothing firing James Comy. That is how self aware. I mean, the federal bureaucracy is like Skynet. Now they're willing to provoke a nuclear war because they think they're more important

than we are. That's how self important they are. They want a coup to happen because their dear leader at the Bureau got fired. My friends, we are going to enter a very frustrating period here. Soon it will be validation. To be sure, you and I will be able to go about our day very soon knowing that even with the bare knuckle tactics of the Muller Probe full of pro Hillary partisans looking to settle scores people who are obviously anti Trump in every way, they weren't able to

make the case against Trump. There was no collusion. You've known it all along. I've known it all along, and now there will at least be further validation of that that an oppositional force, with almost unlimited resources and whatever reach within the law it decides to have the Special

Counsel was unable to do it. And you are going to see as soon as this is announced, and it should be next week, you will see the most dishonest intellectual gymnastics, the most brazen garbage pedaled on TV you've ever seen in your whole life. It's going to be a dumpster fire. Of lies and misdirection and nothing to

see here. Let's just move on, folks. They're not even going to pause and say, you know, maybe the endless loop of stories about Russia collusion and all the fake news stories we ran that we had to then retract or correct, and maybe we've just been part of a of a hysteria of creating a mass delusion that has been really damaging to the functions of government. Maybe we've

been wrong all this time. The Mueller Special Counsel, which you know people celebrities, media figures on the left, and the so called objective journalists, they've been acting like Muller was some kind of saint who was going to deliver this country from the pits of hell that Donald Trump had brought us to. They're not going to change any of that opinion. Even when Mueller says, yeah, it turns out there was no collusion, turns out that didn't happen.

We can't prove it. There's nothing there. Collusion from the beginning was a silly idea that was cooked up by a bunch of hysterical pro Hillary anti Trump partisans. There was never a there there, and we are going to get in my opinion. We haven't seen the report yet. Yes, there's a there is a possibility of that eleventh hour bombshell or something. I don't know, but I kind of know.

Once this report is given the Attorney General, and whether he makes it public or not, there's no way if they had something on the president, they'd be able to keep that quiet. So we're gonna know, and even when it's out there, there will not be any adjustment whatsoever in the hysterics, in the nonsense from CNN and MSNBC, the Washington Post in New York Times. They still are going to claim that what's needed is further investigation of

the president. That all we've really found out is how how much more investigating there has to be, because these people are willing to pollute the law down to its very core. As long as they can weaponize the law enforcement bureaucracy and the congressional oversight processes against this president.

That's the plan. You're going to see an immediate switch, as though nothing has happened, as though there's no necessary evaluation that should take place of how crazy this whole stupid Trump Russia collusion narrative has been all along, and what a disgrace. The journalists that have been pushing it have been They're not going to stop and think about any of that. They're immediately going to transition into, well, what does the southern District of New York have on him?

What can we get on his tax returns, What can we do to investigate his children? Maybe some of his kids drank underage in high school or college or you know, that's where this is going to go. These people have no shame, They have no principles, they have no ethics.

They are pushing a narrative that goes to the very core not just of what they believe about this country, that there is an elite, that there is an establishment, that the Democrat Left is the only legitimate power structure that exists here, but that also goes to the core of what they the peddlers of this false anti Trump narrative, believe about themselves, which is that they have to have been right all along. They must be right all along.

Even if they can't prove there was any Russia collusion, they know it's there. Why because they believe it. Because ultimately, Russia collusion for the hysterical left has turned into a replacement religious belief they will never abandon it. So even though the Special Counsel is going to be ending soon, my friends, unfortunately, the Democrats hysteria is just going to find other outlets now and will continue. We got just small at updates. We've got a lot on the Democrat

candidates that are out there. Now, we're going to talk about Bernie Sanders so much show coming up. Team stay with me. The collections are down to about thirty percent of the target. That is about a two point three billion dollar drop in revenues. Two point three billion dollars. As a drop at this point in revenues is as serious as a heart attack. Assault encourages high income New

Yorkers to move to other states. And what you have to remember is even if a small number of high income taxpayers leave, it has a dramatic effect on this tax space. Tax the rich, Tax the rich, tax the rich. We did now, God forbid the rich leave. Nobody on the stands like Governor Cuomo that if you tax and tax and tax the rich, and tax and tax some more, eventually they get tired of paying the taxes and the tax You get the idea, Oh what a shock, New

York Higher taxes. People want to leave, people who can leave, people who it is easy for them to leave. The wealthy are particularly mobile, especially when it comes to establishing state residents in one place or another. The wealthy are the ones that are going to be the first to leave. By the way, the French dealt with this recently when they instituted a specific millionaires tax, But they haven't learned their lesson really either. They had millionaires in France who

are leaving and going to other countries in the EU. Well, there you go, trying to find other places, trying to find tax havens. Taxation is unfortunately the primary, the primary effort of the Democrats going into twenty twenty, you're going to hear a lot about this. Yeah, they're going to address these different things up with oh, it's about climate change, or it's about healthcare, or but really behind all of this,

there is going to be increases in taxation. The state wants more of your stuff, whether at the federal level or at the state level. If the Democrats are in charge, that's what's going to happen, and they don't learn the lessons of history. I still see people going on TV who are saying, well, under the Eisenhower administration, the tax

rate was ninety percent. They keep saying this, and the truth is that there was nobody in the Eisenhower administration that was paying ninety percent income taxes or during the administration not anymore. But there's nobody in that era that they can point to whoever even had to pay that rate. And with the lowering of rates thanks to Reagan, you had an explosion in growth in the economy and a booming stock market, and all of a sudden things had been for many, many years before that. But not only

the Democrats not students of history. Many of them are in fact rewriters of history. They go back and they change things around because at some point they've had too many failures with their plans for governance for this to seem like an accident. At some point it starts to feel like maybe they're doing this on purpose, maybe to borrow from Obama. Here, it's not about what's best for the economy. It's about what's fair in the eyes of

people that are obsessed with fairness. I saw a very interesting gropic today that I'd never seen before making the rounds on social media, and it was a social justice approach to the difference between equality and equity, and it was three people. I've never seen this before, this cartoon. Three people that were looking at look like a baseball game, and they're all of different heights. And equality, they say, is the people of different heights looking at the game.

Some of them can see it, some of them can't. Equity is putting people on different sized platforms so they can all see the game. And what I think is so interesting about this is that that it really shows you what the democrat position is here, which is that individuals should not be held responsible for their own decisions. Individuals should not be rewarded or punished by the market or by the state based upon what they choose to do.

We should seek for a society where everybody is the same, not that we are treated the same way by the law, not that we have the same rights, where we are the same This is not just a fool's errand it is dangerous. There will always be inequality in every society. There will always be people that make better decisions than others, that are luckier than others, don't. Our luck is a huge component of economic success. We have a lot of trust fund brats running around this country. Don't think I'm

not aware of it. Some of them are rather powerful. You have a lot of that going on. It's not fair, but it's never going to be fair. And the purpose of the state should not be the purpose of our government should not be trying to create a utopia here on earth. It should be what is the best form of governance based on the realities of human beings that we have seen play out again and again throughout history. How do we work within the constraints of people are imperfect,

people are self interested? What do we do with that? How do we motivate people to do good things and the best things that they can do on an individual basis and not just try to create this I mean again, is this radical equity you could call it? Where everyone is the same? You're you're gonna see more of this, I think emerging. Because the economy doing as well as as it has been under Trump and the country doing

as well as it has. The only place for the Democrats to go is we will give you more stuff if you let us take more stuff from other people. That's going to be a primary message. It's going to be very very important for Bernie Sanders, for Kamala Harris for a booker for Warren go down the line. It's also why Schultz talking about possibly running as a third party candidate was so horrifically offensive to the Democrat establishment, because he can't be out there saying you can't just

give free stuff to everybody. You can't just tax people into oblivion and think that that's not going to have negative consequences in many cases for the very people that you think you're trying to help. There's some stories pop it up now about again based going back to New York.

New York has problems. Yes, we know, Governor Cuomo, there are fast food workers now that New York City has a fifteen dollar minimum wage for fast food work workers, they're fast food workers that also want protections from what

they say are unfair firings. Well, let me just point out that the desire to fire fast food workers when they are all costing fifteen dollars an hour is elevated from what it would have been before because now they are more expensive employees, and more expensive employees who don't perform to the expectations of the employer. You're even more incentivized to get rid of them or to cut back

on their hour. So now they're looking to the state to intrude into the market and say that unless there's a and they're saying unless there's a good reason, it's going to be unless there's there's not going to be any reason that's acceptable short of like committing a felony on the job. They're going to try to make it

so you can't fire fast food. Mark it really hard and cumbersome and arduous to fire somebody in the fast food industry because they're concerned now that they are going to be layoffs, so they set the minimum wage at fifteen dollars, and then they want to combat the layoffs with government policy. They don't understand. This is a balloon. You can keep squeezing it, but the air goes somewhere. All Right, we have a whole lot. I gotta update

you on the the Jussi Smallette situation. It's getting worse for Jesse. As we here in the Freedom Hunt knew that it would. This guy, this guy is in trouble. But the situation for Smallette is getting worse. And we will also get into the latest on the craziness, the absolute craziness coming from from Democrats these days on TV about all about all things Trump. They've really just they have jumped the shark several times over. We have that and much more coming up. I don't know what he

was thinking. I don't know if he has a mental problem or whatever. But it's not looking good for him, you know what I'm saying. And and and it's it was. It took place in Chicago, dirty below and crime stops in his thirty below? Okay, and why would some Republicans that are Maga fans be watching Empire? He owes everybody an apology, He owes the black community apology, heals the gay community apology, because because it looks like he's lying.

I mean, and you know, when it first happened, I was like, Yo, we need to go get these dudes man, you know, because it's like you put a news over your net. Because nowadays, with all this racial sensitivity, it's like it's it's too sensitive. And so we reacted and we were ready to, you know, fight for this guy. And then his story started looking a little shady, you know what I mean, they started looking a little shady. I don't know, I think that the guy's career is done.

I think so. I think so. That was a comedian who was asked about this, and I think gave some pretty godfree Comedian Godfrey talking about the Smallett situation. Do we say smaller or Smolette. I'm not sure which it is. I've never heard the name Jessie before either. Not that I'm going to make fun of names or point out the peculiarity of names because Glasshouse and all that, But Jesse Smollett is now officially, I can tell you a suspect.

Chicago Police spokesman Anthony gugliel Me said that the Empire actor Jesse Smollett is officially a suspect and a criminal investigation for filing a false report, which is a class for felony. He is in a world to hurt my friends because, trust me, given all the sensitivity and all of the national attention on this story, it's fair to say that Chicago police would not take this step unless they were darn sure that they had something on this guy.

And I mean, look, it's not like this is a hard thing to figure out either, right, I mean, this is not a difficult It's not like we have to sit here and think for a long time. To come up with what probably went down here. I think we already know. I think that what we have been told largely is what has happened here, which is that this guy most likely hired these two individuals and engaged in this engaged in this hoax, another race hoax, racial incident, hoax,

of hate crime, fakery. It's very disturbing, and I do think you should be charged. I'm seeing some people in conservative land say, well, I feel bad for him and maybe his mental health issues. Let me share a different perspective here by John Cass, a Chicago Tribune reporter, and I would note that local Chicago media has done this

one right. They have covered this case. They have shown that, you know, local media because I think they realize they can't compete with feeding the audience the narrative whatever they want to hear. You know, they're never going to be able to do that the same way that the national outlets do. So. Better to be accurate, right, Better to be telling the people in your community what's true and

what facts you can present them. But John Cass writes the following the Chicago Tribune quote, something important has been lost in the embarrassing saga of Jesse Smollett, the tuna fish sandwich loving actor and anti Trump activist, and those muscular Nigerian brothers. And I suppose it's easy to lose what's important with all the panic and intersectional hatred and liberal identity politics gone bad in this Smallet story, what's been lost is this. I'm told that two dozen detectives

were assigned to the Smallet case. Can Chicago afford that with all the unsolved murders and shootings in this town? No, there were some eighteen people killed in Chicago after Smolette began telling his story in late January, that story in which he cast himself as the hero about having to fight off pro Trump racists. Now it turns out that the pro Trump racist who he says put a noose around his neck may actually be his friends, two muscular Nigerian brothers who may or may not have been paid

in this deal. Either way, his story is he fought them off even though he had a cell phone in one hand and a tuna sandwich in the other. Small It must be a certified badass because his sandwich survived, But two dozen detectives assigned to check out his story that he was a victim of a politically inspired pro Trump hate crime, a story unraveling by the second. Even in Chicago, a city known for its unending violence and political corruption, assigning two dozen detectives seems a bit overdone.

But Chicago has an abysmal homicide clearance rate of about seventeen percent. Chicago's detective ranks have been decimated by atrician and shortsighted management. There aren't enough detectives. Even so, two dozen detectives for Smallet just doesn't seem right. Make no mistake. He's not blaming the detectives here or the Chicago Police Department. They work for a politician. His name is Ram Emmanuel.

When Smallett told his amazing story about being a black guy attacked by racist Trump supporters and one of the coldest knights of the year, the media was all over. The national politicians were Oliver John John Cass here and

end quote there. John Cass of the Chicago Tribune is making a critical, critical point, and that is that this this case got more attention because of the politics involved, because of the nonsense narrative about horrific Trump supporters and they're evil hate crimes that are such a scourge and such a national panic, and all the all the triggered

libs are all worried about this all the time. More police resources were devoted to this obvious hoax of a story, then to actual murders, actual murders, including the murder recently of a one year old boy who was shot in the head. One year old boy a street gang was trying to shoot his mother and they shot the one year old boy. His name was Dejeon Irving. There weren't two dozen detectives a shine assigned to a Dejeun Irving's case.

And we want to tell me why this guy small at should be given a pass here, Why we shouldn't pay attention to the resources, to the wasted effort in time when there are real problems. I mean, Chicago has a gun violence epidemic. And now we find out that Smallett is a suspect in this. If they can prove this, and I believe they will be able to, they should punish him to the fullest extent of the law. My

expectation here I don't know yet. My expectation is that Jesse Smollett is going to have to take a plea bargain because otherwise he could face some pretty serious prison time. I also think that he should spend some time in prison. I'd have to look at what the statutory guidelines are. But I don't think this should be a slap on the resk situation. I don't think that this should be

treated like this is okay. Someone tell me how George Papadopolis deserves to go to prison for two weeks and this guy's Smallett for for what, by the way, lying about nothing, a non lie about a non crime. Jesse

Smollett should not go to prison for this. All the resources, all the time wasted, the cost of the taxpayers, and the disrespect shown to the families of dead children in Chicago who couldn't expect the same resources devoted to their children's cases because the Democrat politicians who control Chicago didn't see those murders as important as this small a hoax. That's what's really happening here. There's got to be a

case here, There ought to be a case here. We live in a time where what is it a competition? See how quickly you can destroy someone and how quickly you can destroy someone with a falsehood. I mean this is unbelievable. This rush to judgment, this rush to condemnation these boys, and that will be tagging these boys forever, no matter what happens in this lawsuit. Shameful. That tells you something about where the country is and where a lot of the media is. He's not only the apologies

to do it. Given the state of the social media and given what we have seen, something has to be done. I mean, I think that's what citizens, non lawyers like myself say. You cannot just have this system where you rush to judgment, destroy somebody and then pick up the pieces later. It's a big lesson civics and withholding judgment and the burden to proof, remember the whole business with Kavanaugh. Can we see where the proof is before we make

a judgment. Covington Catholic is suing coving Catholic student rather Nick Sandman, not the school, is suing the Washington Post for two hundred and fifty million dollars, which, interestingly enough, is what Jeff Bezos paid for the Washington Post same amount. I don't think that's an accident, in folks, that's what Bezos paid to buy the Post in twenty thirteen. This

lawsuit from Covington. Catholic is seeking fifty million dollars in compensation for the alleged damage done, and it wants an additional two hundred million dollars impunitive damages in order to punish the company for what it did. And you have, of course, the spokespeople for Washington posting they're gonna fight this, YadA YadA, the rest of it. Let me say this, I think I think that the Covington folks here have

a case. I spoke to Professor Dershowitz today about this, and he said, look, you know, these are not there's a different standard. These are not public figures. These are private citizens. And they didn't ask for this, they didn't want this, and there must be some standard. There must be some required due diligence for media organizations before they can destroy someone's life. I'm sorry, I think that there has to be a line drawn here if you are not a public figure, if you are somebody that is

a private citizen who is drawn into something like this. Yes, of course the media can write about it, but they have to do so with some sense of a possible liability. Otherwise they're in a position where they can be utterly reckless, do exactly what they did to these Cummington kids, drive all kinds of clicks and just later on say they're going to apologize. See, this is a big disconnect for

the media in this country. The mainstream likes to get things wrong, but get things wrong that are always feeding their base what they want, you know whatever, whether it's on the j Smollett case or any of these stories they like to tell their readership or to show their viewers. Yeah, yeah, the narrative that we give you all the time. Here's more of that. Here's more racism in America, Here's more white male patriarchy at work. Here's more Donald Trump as

a trade or whatever it may be. And then they think that they should get a pat on the back and thank you so much when they have to correct they're insanely false story. This is why they are fake news. They don't seem to either recognize or accept that by getting stories like this so incredibly wrong over and over again, people are going to not trust them. You know this, this is not if you would up. I was about

to do an analogy. Now I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go no analogy here, you understand what I'm saying. In any other profession, if you kept getting the if you kept getting it wrong and then correcting yourself, you would suffer consequences. Journalists seem to think that on big stories that they get wrong, there's no problem. And this is you know, enough, enough is enough. We need to

hold them accountable for what's going on here. Speaking of holding journalists accountable, some of you know that I have in the past talked about a certain CNN analyst, Oh, I know the whole crew over there at CNN, Gravid Gurgond. Gurg He's or he's been in politics for three hundred years. And he goes on shooting in and kind of just gurgling with Gurgon, kind of mutters things Niiction, Reagan, Ford administration, Shirish vanch and Ford and when Nixon Chino, And it's

always the same from this guy. It's just like our when I was just back from cheventy five and then eighty four and in White House and Nixon and decision making and you're like, Okay, what does that have to do with anything, Gergan and why are you gurgling? Um. He also decided to go following in Jake Tapper's footsteps.

Who Jake Tapper made a a very thinly veiled gay joke about anti gay remark about um roger Stone that maybe he would like prison he he he because there have been rumors about roger Stone and his sexuality that I've been out there in the media for a long time. Uh. You have have David Gergen, the senior statesman of many a CNN political panel, who thought that he would just just throw this little comment in the mix play fourteen. Rogerstown must also worry that if he goes there, he said,

you know he's seen something of a dandy. Well, he'd be physically safe, I will he will be subject to rape. I mean there must be a lot of things that are going through his mind. Oh my god, what you were if I gotten myself into? What the heck does that mean? He's something of a dandy and must be worried if he's going to be raped? What is g I mean, this is the guy who CNN turns to for we have a national security crisis. We need somebody to really just just speak to the nation from his

gravy toss, just go deep into that gravy toss. Well, gurgling gurgen urge World's gurge deep. The whales were very Remember when our yet and talked to Ted Kennedy about the wild You know, he says, what this guy comes up with, this is who the rest of America if we're if we're gonna treat the ann like a real journalistic enterprise, we're gonna act like this guy has something to offer that we should listen to. I canna tell you, you know, I increasingly now I judge people who watch

CNN not for comedic effect. I got questions. I got questions like, what do you think is going on here? I thought it was so interesting as an aside, that one of the Obama Obama bros from the Obama White House, I forget his name's he's one of the ones that does one of the he does a podcast that a lot of lefties listened to. He went on some some tirade on Twitter today about how Sarah Flores or Sarah Iszger rather who is um an acquaintance of mine, is

gonna be run. She was working at the Department of Justice, and before that she was a guest of mine on Real News many times. She's worked with Jeff Sessions, she's a conservative, she worked with Ted Cruz. I believe as well, she's going to be involved in campaign coverage for CNN twenty twenty. And you had this guy, Tommy Vtur that's his name, who's one of the pod save bros. You had him rip rip some tweet out there where he says, you know, CNN's credibility is at stake here, blah blah blah.

It's all upset about it. I'm like, is he an idiot? Does he really think that CNN is a nonpartisan enterprise? Does does anybody really believe that anymore? I have to ask this, who holds onto this? That's paying attention. It's a it's a fair question, one that doesn't have any any particularly inspiring answers. That's for sure. You know CNN is a dumpster fire of partisan hackery. But yeah, sure,

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training session. When Comey got fired, I said some mildly critical things about Comey and Andie McCabe. I was literally in an FBI car on my way to the event. McCabe told the car to drop me off because I criticized Comy mildly. He was so defensive about James Comy he actually canceled the training portion of a counter terrorism event, told the car let him out. That's Andy McCabe for you. And this is a whole reflection of the top leadership of the FBI. Protect James Comey at all costs. That's

the problem with blind loyalty. It's all coming out now. That little vignette that Ari Fleischer shared of Andy McCabe, that's a rise any of you. Did it surprise you that McCabe would act in such a disrespectful and just really childish fashion in order to show his just undying loyalty to Komey, who is a lanky clown show Okay, I mean Komi is a jerk, a jerk who put himself in the center of incredibly politically sensitive situations and did so knowingly and willfully and somehow always came out

on the Democrat side of things, all right. Hillary was the candidate of the establishment and the institutions of the bureaucracy, all right, Hillary was the status quo for people who think that they're really important in the government, and in the government that's there forever not the elected government. So they went with her their previous partisan affiliations. People say, oh, Republicans like Muller and Republican like Homey, that's nothing. Republicans

hate Trump as much as any leftists. In many cases, the never Trump Republicans hate Trump like nobody else. And that's what you had with McCabe. But never Trump Republican. But you have these stories that are starting to come out now, and we're really seeing that these individuals who held incredibly powerful roles in the government were whacko. They're not reasonable, they're not rational when it comes to Trump, the limits of their power, the importance of their role

in the government. They were drunk with power. They were maniacs. Really, I mean that McCabe's story that should should send a chill down your spine. My friends. This is a guy who is determining who the FBI, the eye of soroon of the federal government, would turn on at any given time. And you think that you think that the first time that his own personal anim came to bear was over James Comey, No way. This guy has been playing the partisan actor. He's been doing people dirty, as we say

in the law enforcement business for a long time. I assure you of it. I assure you of it. And you have this also national security lawyer. I forget what her role was. I think she might have been at the NSC or the one of these, one of these national security outfits, Samantha Vinograd from CNN. She goes on TV. You know, McCabe is obviously a whack as obviously a whack of do Vinograd CNN loves. CNN has gotten all these just these Hillary prototypes, these Hillary bots to go

on TV. You know these people and I don't mean because they're women. I mean, and you know, it's the guy the one of looks like Pajama Boy from the FBI, who was Comey's he was basically Comey's coffee boy. You know, he's on at CNN all the time now. And Vinograd, I don't really know her, but I've seen her pop up a few times. The Asha Rangappa, who makes a fool of herself publicly all that says idiotic things and c A end just collapsed for she teaches at Yale.

It doesn't mean anything teaches on counter terrorism or something there. I mean, it's all it's all nonsense. These people don't actually have any real knowledge. And you know, there's knowledge and there's judgment too, right, judgment is part of the application of knowledge. You can know some stuff but always make poor decisions and not be very useful as a teacher, not be very useful as a as an analyst. But here's CNN's Sam Vinograd again on this. These people are nuts,

They're wackos. Play seven. Is that investigation still ongoing? The CAPE has said that the president's moves to undercut Rush related investigations, to believe Ladimir Putin over his intelligence community to make personnel decisions based upon Russia related matters all

led to this investigation. Mkate would have laid that out before the Gang of Eight, But just in the past few days, the counterintelligence red flags are flying a lot higher than they did, arguably when this investigation was first launched.

So it is entirely possible, Kate that the Gang of Eight has been briefed on an ongoing investigation because that hasn't concluded, and that other members of the US government were briefed before, like the director of the CIA, Mike Pompey, who's now Secretary of State, and that this on investigation is continuing, and there is still a chance that Vladimir Putin is controlling the White House. Still a chance this woman's on TV held up as an expert. Still a

chance that Vladimir Putin is controlling the White House. I mean, is she a moron? I don't mean, I'm not trying to be mean. I actually is she just really not bright? I mean, there's still a chance that she's a space alien and we just haven't run the DNA testing to know that she's made to look and sound and talk rugye human, but she's really a space alien. There's a chance. Can you prove it? I can't prove it. This is how silly these people have become. This is how ridiculous

they are. And it's not just the people that are the analysts that are going on trying to magnify what the praetorian anti trumpsters we're doing and saying it's in their own words, Andy McCabe, I mean, the investigation by the Muller team is going to end next week. I've been telling you now for the last couple of weeks, it's about to end because I have good sources here in DC, and I knew that this was where this was heading. Those of you listen to the show know this.

So McCabe was asked if he thinks Trump is a Russian asset. And now understand, an asset is somebody who is wittingly or unwittingly in the control of a foreign power. So the only way that Trump could be an asset of the Russian government is if the Russians were straight up saying, hey, this is Vlad Putin do this thing

because I said so and he does it. Or if the Russians had put a senior person close to Trump or in Trump's orbit, who would give Trump, you know, their orders and Trump would you know, essentially a false flag situation, that would be an unwitting asset. Anyone who believes either one of those things about this president is an idiot, is an idiot, you know who believes it, or at least wants to keep open the door to it. And I'm not gonna say no A d one A don't.

I might and I might not. You know, this is where Andy McCabe is on this stuff. This is what he said when asked about this play clip for do you still believe the president could be a Russian asset? I think it's possible. I think that's why we started our investigation, and I'm really anxious to see where Director Muller concludes that it's possible. Huh No, it's not, you jerk. What a horrible thing to say. By the way, what a horrifically nasty, undermining, untrue smear. Make no mistake about it.

This is the former acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation smearing the president with the insinuation that he is a traitor, a traitor to the United States. This president, the president who loves America and is pro America and says America first, and all he wants to do is create prosperity and implement policies that will benefit all Americans, even the Americans too stupid to know that the things that he's trying to do are good for them and

are the right thing. That president is a traitor, maybe, you know, I mean this would be like this is like, you know, a journalist writing the story about somebody that is so and so a pedophile question Mark well, I put a question mark there, so I'm not I'm not saying this guy's a pedophile. I'm just saying maybe he's a pedophile because there's a question mark. Disgusting, unethical, immoral. These people should be shamed out of the public out

of the public square. These people should be treated with the ignominious disdain that they deserve. Instead, the media wants to lionize them. The media wants to treat them like they are truth tellers. No, they're nuts. Normal people could not believe the things that McCabe and Vinagrad and Rangapa and these others at CNN and elsewhere that they think and go on TV and say. Normal people could not believe this. Only people who are dishonest or stupid. I

don't have a third explanation. And I just want us all to remember this. When the mullarport drops and there is no collusion, and they all, all these people that wanted to be in the public the public eye, that want the attention on CNN, that want to do all this, they're going to scurry out of the light like cockroaches fleeing your flashlight in the basement. I don't know collusion. I know there's no collusion, and then they'll come right

back out. Then then the roaches will gather again, want to be right on it, you know, right in the spotlight on CNN. Then they'll want to gather again when it's time to talk about the Southern District of New York or the time some other investment Trump's tax returns. You know, we're supposed to believe them on that. I'd ask you this, why would these same media organizations and the same media analysts who were too dumb to figure

out that Jesse Smollett was a hoax? Why do we think that they're better and more trustworthy and more unbiased on the issue of Russia collusion. Does anyone want to take a shot at that one, a much more complicated, a much higher stake story. The answers, we shouldn't trust them on any of that. The answer is the media is never going to be the same, and that's a

good thing. You know. It's in politics and every campaign I've been onced of going back to nineteen eighty two, you're told that their opponent at X did why did zey and he's a terrible guy, did drugs, he's a criminal, And you have to vet this stuff because hardly ever is it true. But people make things up about people in politics. You would think the FBI would be immune

from that. At the top level. I think the FBI bought in on every worst scenario, worst case argument about Donald Trump, and they believe it the way a partisan believes and not the way a neutral fact finding a law enforcement officers shouldn't believe it. So I think they were driven by animus and it shows up in their in their tweets, I mean, in their emails that were

now disclosed. It shows up in their approach. For Andy McCabe to this day to say that he can't rule out that the president of the United States is a Russian asset, doesn't that tell you a lot about Andy McCabe's bad judgment. Ari Fleicher is absolutely correct, and he's really selling me more on the in my whole x

y axes of stupid versus dishonest. I think that increasingly some of these senior government figures, and the reason they're so nasty about this and they've dug in so deep, the reason McCabe and combing others, is they're actually not that smart. They did get fooled by some of this, some of it was driven by animus and just their

disdain for the president, but also they were fooled. I think I do think that in the early stages they believe that they were uncovering some international conspiracy between Trump and the Russians to essentially run this Manchurian candidate all the way up into the White House on behalf of the Kremlin. I think that some of them kind of believe that, as insane as that is, which really just

goes to they're not that smart. They're not that smart, I will tell you in a lot of these government agencies,

of the cream does not rise to the top. Some of the worst people in them, In fact, the most sociopathic, the nastiest bureaucratic, infighters, the ones who just play the internal politics the best and will throw their colleagues under the bus and will take credit that others are due, and all those are the people that often elevate themselves within a bureaucracy because excellence in a bureaucracy, I can tell you from having worked with the CIA, excellence is questionable.

Excellence is suspect. You don't want to go beyond what is expected of you in any role, because you're making the other people who just want to show up and do the minimum look bad. They don't like excellence. So the kind of people in that environment that rise are people like Andy McCabe, and they are very bitter the moment that they're confronted with this reality, the moment that they're funded with the prospect that much of what they believed about themselves they may be frauds. In a way.

They're not the guardians of the Republic that they pretend to be. They're just somebody shown up doing a job, and some of them don't do it nearly as ethically as they should. McCabe, for example, has fallen back on this, has fallen back on this storyline that the reason that there are inconsistencies, which is another way another way of saying someone's lying between his version of events and Coomey's version of events, is because you know, they were just

really stressed out playclip three. These comments about the twenty fifth Amendment and about wearing a wire have been a little bit distracting, but nevertheless, we were all operating under incredible stress. You know, you have to remember, Savannah, this came at an incredibly stressful time to be fair, it was an unbelievably stressful time. I can't even describe for you how many things must have been coursing through the

Deputy Attorney General's mind at that point. It is understandable he was an under an enormous amount of stress at the time. The point is the stress and the complexity of the issues that we were discussing at the time. I can't describe to you accurately enough the pressure and the chaos. So you can see that in those conditions, those incredibly stressful times, it was incredibly turbulent, incredibly stressful, and it was clear to me that that stress was

impacting the Deputy Attorney General. Incredibly stressful, so much stress. Oh my, how could we handle? This? Guy's the head of the FBI. When Coley gets fired, this is this is the best that he can do. I mean, he has the ability to ruin lives based on his discretion, and we're supposed to believe that he can't tell the truth, or rather, in addition to that, we're supposed to believe that he got a little too worked up because the stress, so he thought about a coup against the president of

the United States. Does he think that we're all imbeciles, or is he just a phony, a fraud and a loon. Stupid question. That is a stupid question, because I think it's both. This is who we're supposed to believe, This is who we're supposed to think is just fine, and we're supposed to think we should have trusted all this time. Look at the people that have left and are going out there making this case against Trump. Do you ever respect for any of them? Coomy, McCabe, Struck, Brannan Clapper.

Have any of them acquitted themselves as men of honor as as people of integrity? Do any of them look like they were non partisan actors in their jobs, that they were just about the mission first and about serving the president, whoever the president may be. They have not only disgraced themselves. I think they have done tremendous damage. Came Brandon Clapper, mcabe, the whole squad. They've done tremendous

damage to the institutions that they once led. Now future presidents would be foolish not to consider the political affiliation of the people that are the senior most advisors and decision makers from these agencies. They'd be foolish not to think about that, especially if they're a conservative, they're a Republican because they know that the deep Staters are of the state, and that means they're going to be Democrat leaning,

if not Democrat activists, if not hardcore lefties. This is very troubling for the future of how these organizations will interact with White Houses, and and I think that we should do it. We should really have a full accounting of this, and I'm hoping that there will be justice, but I'm not going to hold my breath. Abandoning the high speed rail entirely means we will have wasted billions and billions of dollars with nothing but broken promises, partially

fulfilled commitments, and lawsuits to show for it. With all due respect, I have no interest in sending back three and a half billion dollars of federal funding that was allocated to this project to President Donald Trump. So the

high speed rail dream in California is being abandoned. It's being abandoned because, as we mentioned earlier, I think this week, it is wildly over budget, it has dramatically underperformed, and it has run into all of the problems that you and I are quite aware come up when you're leading things like this to the government that in our current climate of environmentalist groups and activists and all kinds of regulation and just the Democrat Party running California as a

subsidiary of the DNC. I mean, the Democrats own California. It's a one party state that when they're in charge of something like this, even something that they are really passionate about, they do a bad job. They can't get it done, they can't make the numbers work. And I know for a lot of you're like, well, Buck, although we have a very very robust audience out in California, what's up, Callie, Thank you for listening to the Buck

Sexton Show. But this is I think for anybody who's being honest, this has to be an indicator of what our expectations should be when the government takes on massive projects that would be much better handled by the private sector or the market as free as we can make it. Right, the same people that will look at you now and say that we have a situation of healthcare that needs to be addressed by the government don't seem to understand.

Don't seem to understand that the government more involved in healthcare is going to make it more expensive and more inefficient because the incentive structure, and this really goes also to the heart of the problem we have with the rise of socialism in this country. The incentive structure is just wrong. Government does not have the same interest in creating a high speed rail as people that can do this and that will try to make a profit for themselves.

Often I'm not saying they have no incentive, right, the government's incentive is to do what it says it's going to do, or else payers get annoyed, and maybe some people get voted out. But it's a very inexact, a very murky accountability situation. Whereas if you're the investor, if you're the one putting money in the line, you want to get this rail system built, you want to make sure that it functions properly. You know, obviously you have a more acute sense of what your incentives are, and

that really matters. But California doesn't want to learn its lesson here. The rest of the country doesn't want to learn its lesson. They still like this myth that the government is effective and efficient and will do things better. I mean, the big lie about our healthcare system right now is that if we only gave more control to the government, we would get better healthcare and it would be a more efficient system, and that even though people would have to pay a lot more in taxes. That's

middle class folks. If you're listening to this and you make fortied one hundred twenty thousand dollars a year or thirty five to one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year, you're gonna pay a lot more in taxes with the Medicare for All program. Just wait. But they'd say, oh no, it'll be more effective, it'll be better. You'll save more on your healthcare costs than you'll pay out in taxes.

Don't believe them. They're wrong. But unfortunately they also never ever learn their lesson Bernie Sanders, speaking of socialism and government projects, Bernie Sanders, who run those so cuddly. He just wants to go around and give everybody free stuff, free school, free college, free healthcare. It's gonna be amazing. He's so in New York and yet he's so Vermont at the same time. It's very interesting. But Bernie Sanders, you may recall, because now we're being told, ooh, he's

a democratic socialist. He's not one of the scary socialists that puts too much control in government hands. He went to the Soviet Union in nineteen eighty eight. Not Russia, folks, the Soviet Union. He made a trip there and came back to the US effusive with his praise of the Soviet system. We're just talking about trains in California and the costs of the high speed train, and it's been

totally abandoned there. Guess what someone like Bernie Sanders is going to tell you, Oh, if only the government was running transportation, the government was running that transportation. For only the government was running transportation like they do in the Soviet Union, things would be much better. This is a flashback. This is the burn back in nineteen eighty eight when he returned state side talking about Soviet transportation play twenty one.

People here also were extremely impressed by their public transportation system. The stations themselves were absolutely beautiful, including many works of art, chandeliers, the beautiful. It was a very very effective system. Also, I was impressed by the youth programs that they have their palaces of culture for the young people, a whole variety of young of programs for young people and cultural programs which go fob yond what we knew in this country.

We went to a theater in Yaroslavl which was absolutely beautiful, had three separate stages where cultural programs are put on by professional actors and actresses, including a puppeteer area and the court. The highest price of the ticket that you can get was the equivalent of a dollar fifty. Bernie Sanders there, folks in the late eighties, almost at the fall of the Wall, talking about how great the Soviet Union's transportation system is and cultural programs. It's effectively a

Soviet propagandist here in the United States. That's what he was, That's what he's doing. So you can tell me that Bernie's philosophy has changed a lot and he's learned a lot since then. That was a long time ago. But how how many of you who were contemporaries of Bernie Sanders thought the Soviet Union was praiseworthy in so many ways and had great stuff that we should learn from.

I'm going to guess the answer is zero. I remember, during my time in the Middle East, on a couple of occasions, riding around in some Iraqi vehicles that were fraught. They were essentially old Soviet vehicles that because you know, the Soviets had sold them to Iraq. And I mean these things they looked like a bumper car from the eighties, but they were meant for a military transport, and they went about as fast and worked about as well as as a bumper car would have. I mean, it was

just a complete joke what these things were like. And the moment you start talking about consumer consumer products and vehicles and all of this, and you're gonna tell me the Soviet Union had it better. I just at what point is this not stupidity but malice. I leave that to you. And if that's not enough, Bernie Sanders, because he's so into the extreme equality of the Soviet Union,

which as we know, was actually deeply unequal. If you're a member of the Communist Party, you had access to different food, different healthcare, better housing, better everything than the rest of the population that was enslaved in misery. But Bernie around that same at that same speech that he gave there when he came back from missing Soviet Union in nineteen eighty eight, he went so far as to straight up praise I'm not making this up you'll hear

him praise breadlines. You know, breadlines are very very equal, very egalitarian play twenty two. You know, it's funny sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is because people are lining up for food. That's a good thing. In other countries, people don't line up for food. The rich gets a food and the poor staff to death. Now that's obviously, in the context of America and the West,

a lie. In fact, if you're going to talk about starvation, you should probably talk about the mass famine in the Soviet Union in the twentieth century, which was a feature, not a bug, of Soviet policy, starving people in Ukraine, starving the Coulocks, who are this independent farmer class. The liquidation of the Coulocks done partly through starvation and partly through the accesses of the secret police. I wonder if Bernie Sanders even knows that history, which is not contested,

This is not an opinion, this is all fact. I wonder if he knows if you're gonna talk about starvation in the twentieth century, you would have to look to China, to the Soviet Union, to communist states. He thinks that breadlines are this was Bernie Sanders himself saying it, I don't care. This was a long time ago. Anybody over the age of twelve should know that bread lines are a disaster, are the result of economic disaster and deprivation.

He thought that breadlines were something to be proud of. Breadlines were a good thing. Now. I understand that the argument is going to be that Bernie Sanders has learned a lot since then. But has he? Do we really think that Sanders and Occasio Cortes and others reject the root fallacies of collectivism and socialism as shown in the Soviet model, or do they just think that they'll do it better. The same ideas are good from the Soviet Union, but we'll do a better version of that stuff here,

that redistribution here, that collectivism here. Ocazio Cortes made an absolute imbecile of herself yesterday when she was applauding, cheering for the fact that they scared Amazon out of New York City. Five thousand jobs gone, All kinds of investment and productivity and commerce that would have gone on in the Long Island City area of Queens gone. She thinks this is to be praise. She thinks this is a cause for celebration. Why oh, because of fairness and stuff?

What because corporations and exploitation and we don't want that here in our city. That strikes me as again wildly ignorant, but so ignorant and so stupid that I give her the benefit of the doubt and think that there must be a healthy dose of malice in her analysis. I hope that some of the socialists that we see right now on the scene in America don't really believe some of what they say and are merely speaking to the left as demagogues. Right, the working definition we can always

use of debt of demagoguery or of demagogues. I think this is from Mankin is somebody who says things he knows to be untrue to a room full of people who he knows to be idiots. I hope the left is doing that on socialism. I'm not sure that they are. I think that there are true believers in their ranks now, and we have some of them on record, like Bernie Sanders, the most prominent of them, on record saying that breadlines show a more equal society than what we have in

the West. That's trumbling. It's not something we can ignore. It's not something that we should sweep under the rug, and we'll continue to follow this here on the show. We'll be right back. When I hear the name Tulsi Gabbard, I think of Assad apologist. I think of someone who comes back to United States and is spouting propaganda from Syria. You have said that the Syrian president Assad is not the enemy of the United States, yet he's used chemical

weapons against his own people three hundred times. That was a red line with President Obama. That is not our enemy. Thirteen million Syrians have been displaced. So when you say regime change is hurtful for the country, but gassing children isn't more hurtful, It's hard for me to understand where you come from a humanitarian standpoint. If you were to become president, or you're putting words in my mouth that I've never said. You did not say that Syrian president

Asad is not the enemy of the United States. Say it now. Clarify the issue here is how can we help alleviate the suffering of people just really one moment, is he an enemy of the United States. The enemy of the United States is someone who threatens our safety and our security. There is no disputing the fact that

Basha al Asad and Syria is a brutal dictator. Very interesting here, that was Megan McCain and Tulsi Gabbert, and I am sometimes accused of being too favorable to Tulsi for reasons that have nothing to do with politics, and I say these are false reasons. Similar to why Jesse Kelly, my friend who we should probably have on the show producer Mike, to talk about this one. Jesse Kelly is unusually open minded to a Kamela Harris presidency, not because

of her politics. He just likes He just likes Kamela. And people have said this about me with Tulsi. I've been getting a little heat over at the hillover on this one, and I reject that notion. I think she's correct here. I think that Tulsi Gabbert, as much as she's a left winger, and I'm sure we disagree on basically everything, her breaking from the orthodoxy on the Assad regime from the left and from the right is kind of refreshing. Yeah, it is Assad terrible. Absolutely, Assad is terrible.

Is Assad an enemy of the United States? Well that that is a question that we have to ask with a clarification, and I think her clarification is a necessary one. An enemy to me is somebody that is a threat to us. Is China an enemy of the United States, certainly over the long term, is the greatest threat we face. But what we say is China our enemy? We would

say that the Islamic State is our enemy. We would say that the Taliban is our enemy, although keep in mind we are negotiating with them, We are sitting down from them and across from them and trying to get a deal. Is Vladimir Putin our enemy or is he an opposing, opposing figure on the world stage. You know, it's not as simple as just declaring people to be enemies that we are not at war with, that we are not in a conflict with, and that you know,

we probably have to work with on certain issues. So I think that it's overly simplistic. I mean, I know that some of you're probably gonna disagree with me, but the fact of the matter is that the Assad regime is what we are going to allow to stay in place as the ruler or as the ruling body of Syria. There is no future that we can think of or that we are pushing for in which there is no Assad regime in Syria, because what's going to take its place?

And so if we sit down across from Assad and try to work out some kind of an agreement, are we then complicit in the horrific civil war that's happened there. You know, these are complicated questions, and I think that you know the exchange there where you had you had essentially a redo of the Mika Braginsky trying to nail down Tulsa Gabbert on whether Assad is an enemy. Tulsi Gabbard met with the opposition in Syria, met with the Assad regime, and she said she was there with Dennis Kucinich,

and she is now in all kinds of trouble. On the left, they're calling an Assad apologist. I've never heard her apologize for Assad. That's a different thing. You know, the left and the right in some areas have a little bit of cross over here with we don't want

any more regime change wars. We don't need any more of this going in and trying to, you know, change this country or that country and putting US troops in harm's way, sending arm men and women over there, to die to make their country, meaning the foreigners country better. It's not something we want to do anymore. Maybe it's time to break with some of this foreign policy echo chamber on Syria and elsewhere. Look, this is important stuff. When do you want to spot that burglar when he's

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power for the ruling class. The ruling class. You wouldn't have thought, maybe a few years ago, that a Republican president and in fact much of the Republican intelligentsia, or at least the Trump supporting intelligentsia, would call out the ruling class, and that a guy who is a billionaire and obviously was born essentially one hundred millionaire would have a voice that would resonate with people on this issue might come as a surprise, but when you dig into

it more, it actually makes perfect sense. There very much is a ruling class in this country, one that in the era of Trump, just because of the ability to get past political correctness, to get past all of this forced respect for certain institutions, Journalism among journalism very high on the list, perhaps top of the list, and we're able to really evaluate who these people are that think that they should be in charge in charge of media newsrooms,

the arts, the federal bureaucracy, the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, the universities. You go down the line and you say, why do we have to revere these people? Should we revere these people? The answer is we shouldn't, and we don't, or we shouldn't have to, we don't have to. And

that's relatively new. And I do think that there's a whole democratization of information component of this, essentially because we see these people acting like idiots on social media, because I can point to tweets from John Brennan, who was the CIA director, that showed that he's an imbecile without any judgment, without any credibility, especially when it comes to issues of politics that deal with the Trump administration. I don't have to be told whether or not this is

a guy that I should listen to a trust. I can see for myself that he's not somebody I should trust. He's a clown. And Victor Davis Hanson, who's one of my favorite, one of my favorite current living American columnists. I mean, he's definitely at the very top of the list.

He's top ten for sure, maybe even top five. Victor Davis Hansen is spot on with what we've seen, not just because of Trump's willingness to take it to the ruling class in this country, but more specifically, what we've seen from the ruling class in the government, the fourth branch of government, that is the bureaucracy. And I think that it's never it's never going to be the same,

which is a good thing. The truth has come out in ways now that are unavoidable, and it's caused a panic, a panic that has manifested itself in all these different people Struck and MacCabe and Coomy and you know, all the rest of them who hide behind this shield of oh, you're disrespecting our institutions, and no, we're questioning our institutions. And when we question some of these institutions, we find ourselves getting answers that are not reassuring, that do not

make us feel better about the situation. And that just means that we should dig more, that we should ask more questions. And also I think do quite a bit of as a nation reevaluating the value of some of these institutions and how they are constructed and who's in charge and what they're doing. Here. Here's VDH the man himself on this issue. Play nine. What really gets us

upset us being the American people. We have these sanctimonious boy scout, self righteous James Clapper, John Brennan, James Comby, Peter Struck, Andrew McCabe, and they feel that somehow they've got a rationale or prerogative to be divinities, and they can tell people when a president should go and when he should come, and what a court needs to know what he doesn't, when they can lead confidential information, when they can two hundred and forty five times under oath

a house intelligence to me, they don't know, and we can't do that us the people. But they've created a hierarchy or some type of cadre in Washington. They're like a praetorian guard where they're not subject to the limitations that we all enjoy as institutional limitations on what you can do. He's absolutely right. You have seen with Clapper, Brannan, Comey, Struck, McCabe, Sally Yates, this whole crew at the very top of

the government hierarchy. And keep in mind, not only do they have a lot of government power and the power to ruin people, the power to play in politics in a way that they're not supposed to, but is incredibly effective if they're willing to. They also will all take jobs in the private sector at their leisure, where they will make millions of dollars most likely. So they are elites in every sense, but they pose as protectors of the people. They pose as individuals who care not for themselves,

but care only about you and me. And what we have seen from this praetorian class is that they're liars, that they're self interested, that they're self motivated, and we would be foolish to ignore this. It's all so important to note that they are living under a different set of rules in their own minds, and this is problematic

for a whole bunch of reasons. One of them is that if they can get away with things that you and I can't, how will we ever be able to reform the institutions of our government that go after citizens if the people that are making those decisions don't have to live by those laws themselves. Remember, one of my favorite maxims here on the show is that a true

tyranny is not the equal application of draconian laws. It is the capricious application of laws based on political connections and favor and the whims of the mob or the whims of the powerful. It is that McCabe can lie under oath and somehow not face criminal charges. But George Papadopolis can lie about a non crime to the Special Council,

and he faced his prison time. That General Flynn could lie or perhaps misremember a conversation that he had with that was relayed to FBI agents, and then faced the ruination of his career, the destruction of his reputation, a reputation that involved thirty years of service in the military. So when people say, well, McCabe should get the benefit of the doubt, I say, hold on a second. I'm somebody that's all for the benefit of the doubt when warranted.

But I need someone to tell me why Andy McCabe, fired from the FBI for being a liar, should be given that benefit because of his service in the government, especially given all the other stuff we've learned about him recently that he thought that a coup against the president against President Trump was an acceptable idea. But then why didn't General Flynn get that benefit after his thirty some odd years of government service. I want someone to answer

that question for me. So the elites right now are unsettled and they're not used to that. They don't like the truth coming out, and they're trying to prevent it. And it is incumbent upon all of us to continue to just look at what is reality here, what's really happening, and who these people are. Should they be in charge, do they deserve to be in charge? Do we trust them? Should they have this power? We should keep asking those questions.

Here's a story that you would think would get a lot of media attention, but sure enough, there is something of a muted reaction to it. President Trump, the Trump administration has decided that they will launch a campaign, a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality. Now, at first glance, this should be one of those rare moments in contemporary American politics where all sides and both sides are cheering, you know, yelling huzzah, saying this is fantastic.

This is as straightforward a campaign of goodness and decency as that he could find anywhere. You put aside for a moment any feelings you may have about same sex or gay marriage, and just understand, this is about decriminalizing homosexuality. So this is you know, countries that exist that are out there where you can still be punished, even executed

for homosexual acts. That's barbaric and that's wrong. And the Trump administration is trying to lead the way on this, and in the campaign is supposed to be led by the US Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grinnell. I know Richard a bit from from working with him at Fox. And they're they're kicking this event off, or rather kicking off this campaign in Berlin. And you would think that perhaps the LGBT community would rally behind the Trump administration on this.

What could be more obviously on the side of the LGBT community than a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality. Now, did you even hear about this in the press? Would I would first put that out there. Have you seen, given the media's interests usually in any LGBT stories, have you seen this covered? Have you seen it heard it talked about? I'm guessing a large percentage of you, even though you who spent a lot of time reading the newspaper or online watching the news, haven't

seen or heard anything about this. And it's because one, as we know, the press is desire to harm Trump or to under mind or even downplay any of his successes outweighs their desire to let the Trump administration or support the Trump administration do good things that people will

know about. Right So, for most of the media, Trump and the administration's efforts to decriminalize homosexuality and countries around the world, which should have a tremendous effect of liberty and personal freedom on LGBT communities around the world, that desire is less important to the press than to make sure that people don't realize that Trump is, in many

ways the most LGBT friendly president of all time. In fact, Trump is the only president in history who stood on stage during his campaign held up a gay Pride flag and ran as somebody who was openly in favor of same sex marriage. You know, he was fine with gay marriage. In favor of gay marriage. Obama was not for everybody who likes to say, we'll look at with the Obama aministration.

Obama was pro traditional marriage largely I think as a as a political ploy to get black churches to support him, especially black churches in the South, to support him in his bid for the presidency, and then once he had secured enough support from for his second term, he was willing to say, Okay, well now we'll move on this.

But back to this campaign. Not only is the press a little muted in its enthusiasm about this, which I don't think is surprising to anybody, there's also an effort from the left, in fact, an effort from within the LGBT community to say that we should that this should not be celebrated as at all. This is a piece inout dot com, which is say focused publication from what I understand, and out dot com has this piece up. Trump's plan to decriminalize homosexuality is an old racist tactic.

Let me just read that headline to you again. This is in a left wing gay online publication and the title is Trump's plan to decriminalize homosexuality is an old racist tactic. Wow, let's unpack this for a moment, shall we.

The left, which views itself as on the vanguard always of LGBT and gay rights and transgender rights and all these different communities and subcommunities within the movement, they all of a sudden have a problem with the President trying to do something that any sane, reasonable person would say is good for the LGBT community. And here's why what are the most anti gay portions of the globe. Where is homosexuality illegal? Well, it's in Africa, the Middle East,

and the Caribbean. Okay that if you're looking for areas of the globe where you're going to have a particular focus on this, that's where you're going to find yourself. That's where the issue is going to be. So now you have Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, which are areas that are predominantly, not entirely, but predominantly non white, are going to come under scrutiny here as part of

this campaign. And what you're going to see on the left is also an aversion to this because the Muslim world, which is predominantly non white, not entirely, but predominantly non white, the Muslim world is the most anti gay portion of the world. Okay, there's more antique, and Iran specifically is a viciously anti gay country. The Iranian government's policies towards homosexuals is that they can put them to death. So this is where the left starts to run into the

usual incoherence. They're pro LGBT rights as long as it allows them to bash Christian conservatives in America they are then they're all about it, and they want to talk about transgender rights and transgenderism all the rest of it.

But the moment that you look at what's going on with the LGBT community and the rest of the world, all these other left wing constructs come into play, like colonialism, racism, anti anti Islam or Islamophobia, all of that is more important to the left than basic human rights and basic decency toward the gay community. And I just think that this should get a whole lot more attention because what you're seeing here is that the left does view all of its issues as part of this hierarchy. There are

no fundamental principles. Because if if treating people from the gay community, from the LGBT community as as human beings with basic decency is not more important to the left than trying to protect the sensibilities of the Muslim world, the Middle East, the Caribbean portions of the globe that are majority non white, then what are their fundamental principles?

You know, what do they really espouse If you're not able to join hands with this president on a movement to push for the removal of laws that stigmatize and even murder gay people around the world because there are regressive, backwards countries. I mean, let's just start to say, what's who are they going on here? I'm sorry, sorry, that Islam is, as was said by Sam Harris, correctly, the mother load of bad ideas from a liberals perspective on a global scale. But it is, unfortunately a fact. That

doesn't mean that all Muslims feel that way. Obviously, it doesn't mean that, you know, everybody from within the Islamic faith is guilty of believing these things or but if you're looking for one faith tradition that is particularly regressive when it comes to the LGBT community, among other things, it's Islam. So the Middle East is going to be a problem if you're trying to get rid of laws that criminalize homosexuality. This is just a fact. Also, portions

of Africa are going to be a problem. You know, there are some parts of the world where there are cultures that are more regressive and backwards than what we have here in the West or in a lot of other places around the world, not just the West. This is a fact. This is objective truth. So the left can you know, cry and wail and criticize as much as they want, what the Trump administration is doing is

a good thing. It is a kind thing, And if they were being principled on the left, they would understand that Trump pushing for the decriminalization globally of homosexuality is only a good thing for the LGBT community and there should not be any excuses made to undermine this movement. Team.

I know we're talking a moment ago about Trump's campaign to decriminalize homosexuality around the world and to encourage countries to have LGBT protections as a matter of law, and certainly to end discriminatory and vicious practices against the LGBT community. But transgenderism, the T in LGBT transgenderism is still very much at the forefront, at the vanguard of left wing activism.

And I would just share with you, you know, I had a an exchange today publicly that I'm I just wanted to share because it was one of these moments where I was at at kind of cross purposes. I have never heard of India More before, but India More is a a transgender actor um and and has you know, a pretty substantial online following, and India More tweeted out, So, Indian Moore was born a man and has become a

now under transgender logic, has become a woman. And uh and and he tweeted out or she tweeted, well, it's a he. But you know, I'm trying to be I'm trying to be considerate, right, But the Indian more is a man, that's an Indian war is a man. We can go back and forth on this as much as the Left wants to, but you know, objective reality is just that. But I also want to be polite to somebody. And if somebody really wants a pronoun to be a certain way, do I bend out of deference and politeness.

I mean, one of the knocks on me in this business, unfortunately, is that I am actually too polite, probably which I'm getting less polite as I get older, because some people need to tune up publicly sometimes. But anyway, back to India More. This individual tweeted out, if this is a quote, if a woman has a penis, her penis is a biological female penis. And I just have to note that this is the definition of false. This is as false as false gets right. Female anatomy is female anatomy. Male

anatomy is male anatomy. There is no such thing as one of them becoming the other. But what I see here is a race of falsehood and the demand that we all embrace falsehood as well. Now, I responded to this, I have questions, and then miss Moore or mister Moore, whichever one we're going to, I would also know that I could get banned from Twitter for misgendering and misgendering some people want to be some people in the Western world, I think in Canada now and among other places, they

want it to be a crime. So now they want to bring the force of law to make me lie about somebody else in order to protect their feelings. That's where we have headed as a society. But India, Moore responded to me, if you have questions, essentially, you know, I'm happy to answer them. And here's the thing. I don't have questions. A woman cannot have a a penis and a man cannot have a woman's anatomy. I don't have questions. I have questions about why we're supposed to

pretend that we don't know we know. That's my question. That's really where the discussion is I refuse to embrace the unreality of the transgender movement. And I mean, just to give you an idea of where this is going now, you had an LGBT organization announced that it was severing ties. This was just yesterday with Martina Navratolova because she made

comments about transgender athletes. This group, athlete Ally, which is a nonprofit to quote end rampant homophobia and transphobia in sport and to activate the athletic community to exercise their leadership to champion LGBTQ equality, said that they're no longer working with Martina Navratlova, who's one of the most famous same sex athletes of all time. Right, you know, same sex you know, gay athletes of all time, the same sex attractive, is what I meant to say. She she's

now kicked off the island, so to speak. She is now no longer welcome in the group, no longer welcome is part of the team here because she said that it is cheating to allow transgender women to compete in women's sporting events because of their physical advantages. She wrote, quote, a man can decide to be female, take hormones if

required by whatever sporting organization. Is concerned win everything in sight and perhaps earn a small fortune and then reverse his oh, she said, his decision and go back to making babies if he so desires. It's insane and it's cheating. I would not be happy to compete against her. It would not be fair. Mount n Avutoloova said, it's a world champion tennis player and she's gay, and she's not allowed to say this, folks. She's speaking the truth, all right.

Biology is real and biology wins on this one. Biology is fact. If I had been competing against women in college, I would have been a three sport All American. That's just a fact. And I was barely able to be on the crew team. So this is ridiculous, all right, ridiculous. I will not I will not be a part of this, of this movement to embrace falsehood. You know, I want to be polite to people. I want to be decent. I want to treat people with respect always, right, it

is an obligation on all of us. But I'm also not going to be forced to lie. And that's where we are heading with this transgender movement. Not even a choice anymore. We're going to be forced to lie and We're gonna have to make some very tough choices going forward. The show ain't over yet, folks. It's time for roll call. Indeed, it is a snowy roll call today, DC gets a light dusting of powder and thinks that some kind of

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You know, That's one thing about taking feedback from my respected and beloved audience is sometimes people disagree very strongly on what they like and don't like in the show. One example of that is the History Show. Not the history shows, but history segments within the show. I would get three or four people writing in at a time saying I love that segment you did on just that that history deep dive. That was maybe a couple of segments fifteen or twenty minutes or so, and I would

have somebody who's like, don't ever do that again. I come to you for daily news. I come to you for analysis of politics and what's going on in the world, not for what happened in the world a thousand years ago. So it's tough, you know, you got to try to gauge what the best usage of the time that we have together is. Because I take it very seriously. I do feel a very important obligation to make the best use of every moment that you give me. But thank

you for your feedback. My friend Aaron, right, it's I'm a little behind on your podcast. It's okay, Aaron. We could still be friends. But if you are enjoying punk, you should check out The Bastard Sons. They are a contemporary Southern punk band. My favorite song is Never Say Die. Also, I'm not sure if you can get into these classics, but bands like Dead Kennedy's Minority Threat, Bad Religion, Dead Milkman, Operation Ivy, Bouncing Souls, and No FX Whoa. It's a lot, Aaron.

Also some pretty good bands with female vocalists, Tsunami Bomb and Tilt. I could go on and on. You'll definitely be opposed to a lot of the political lyrics of these bands, but you should still check them out. Aaron, you are obviously an audio file. You're somebody that really likes listening to tunes, and I would just say, in terms of the politics of bands, I think everybody should take the perspective that you can appreciate the artists without

agreeing with the artist. If you know what I mean, you know you can you can feel Okay, here's a perfect example for me for let me just put this one out there. I think that Rage Against the Machine, for my money, is for workout purposes in the gym, probably the greatest band of all time for working out, not for listening to and just hanging out with obviously, but I think that Rage Against the Machine has probably the best catalog for workout purposes of anybody out there. Now.

People can disagree with me vehemently, that's fine. Obviously. Rage Against the Machine also has the politics of Ocasio Cortez mixed with Maduro and Karl Marx and Bernie Sanders all at once, right, I mean, Rage Against the machines. Politics are silly, but I don't care about their politics because I listen for the music. So when you can find an artist who also shares your beliefs, great, Yeah. I think that's that gives them a leg up. But I do think it's okay to separate out the music from

the person's political beliefs singing it. You know, I don't think I would have seen eye to eye with Jimmy Hendricks and all matters of politics, although we probably would have agreed on more stuff than some folks would realize. That's and I have no idea what Jimmy hendris because politics were that said, I mean, Jimmy is Jimmy, and you gotta love the music. Nolan writes Buck, we no longer need to point to Venezuela to communicate the harm

that socialism can cause. Amazon scrapping New York and the economic cost of that decision provides a snapshot of where these want to be communists will take the entire country. We need to highlight that and other homegrown socialist disasters

that do real, not theoretical damage to real Americans. Well, Nolan, I hope you appreciate that I try to do that On this show, I talk to you about Venezuela, but I also talked to you about Amazon, and I try to discuss the parts of the Venezuelan disaster that are applicable to what's going on here at home. It's not enough to just say that Venezuela's socialist. It's why has

Venezuela's socialist experiment imploded? And what are the fair points of comparison between Venezuela and the US and the American left and Ocasio Cortez and Bernie Sanders. It's not just about the talking points. Obviously. The huge advantage that I have here with you on this platform is I can spend real time on things that really matter. I don't have to constantly just flip through really quickly with a three or four minute conversation that's meant to just be

good TV and then run through the next topic. We can really dig deep, and I think that's why people keep coming back here. Now. Well, gosh, going on six seventy seven years on the air on this show, So Man time does fly? Joe Rights, Buck Shields. I you often ask if liberals, democrats are morons or liars. The answer, of course is usually they are both. Whether it's the absurd lie of Jesse Smont or the bald faced lies of Andrew McCabe. The outlandishness of the lie displays their

stupidity and the lie their moral vacuity. Well, Joe, nobody could ever say that you're minstin words. You obviously have no trouble owning the libs as they say, Kayla, Right, Ben Weingarten, Raheem and Michael Pelka are my favorite filling host great job shields high. Well, Kayla, you have fantastic taste. Those are all very very strong hosts in their own right, and they will all be repeat hosts here on the show,

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